This fortnight, both Nick and Alastair see their favourite teenage culture return in terrifying forms, with the new Dune adaptation and Venom: Let There Be Carnage. Which one has aged better?
But first up, they check in with Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, and Alastair gives you his annual update from London Film Festival, now back in real physical space.
And at last, time to enter the desert of Alastair’s childhood dreams with Dune (10:43), the 2021 adaptation directed by Denis Villeneuve. Which got its sequel announced since Nick and Alastair recorded the episode and said it hadn’t – good news for moviegoers, less so for our heroes not sounding like suckers on the pod.
After that, the oily wasteland of Nick’s teenage years also rears its toothy head in Venom: Let There Be Carnage (25:46), although it may not have much in common with the comics he read when he was thirteen. But is that such a bad thing?
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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair control their liquid intake and sit down for lengthy new Bond film No Time To Die, then return to Marvel’s multiverse with What If…?
Lastly, Nick and Alastair return to Marvel’s speculative indulgence event What If…? (32:03), chat about how the rest of the season played out and each reveal their top 3 episodes.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair tackle the popular film genre of movies beginning with G which came out in America a while ago – it’s The Green Knight and Gunpowder Milkshake.
Lastly, Karen Gillan goes on a stylish crime spree in Gunpower Milkshake (
The superhero movie resurrection continues with Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, then Nick and Alastair take things down a notch with Netflix’s The Chair.
Lastly, they return to their golden years in academia with Netflix’s The Chair (27:04), including expert commentary and exciting news about David Duchovny.
This fortnight, reality itself is crumbling as Nick and Alastair cover games-come-t0-life movie Free Guy and Marvel’s multiverse-humping animated series What If…?
Lastly, a look at the opening episodes of What If…? (25:16), the latest show from Marvel/Disney+, showing us how our lives could’ve been different if Peggy Carter became Captain America, or if Nick & Alastair never started this podcast. (That one is coming up in season 1 episode 11.)
Another all-Netflix fortnight, as Nick and Alastair take flight with Blood Red Sky, then travel the land with Masters of the Universe: Revelation.
Lastly, Nick and Alastair turn up fashionably late to another hot cultural issue by finally watching Masters of the Universe: Revelation (23:09). They last a full few minutes without spoiling the ending of the first episode.
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair return to big-name supercinema with The Suicide Squad, before reminding themselves of the inside world with Biohackers season 2.
And in a short flashback to the pandemic world, Nick and Alastair return to the bizarre world of Biohackers (21:49) to see if the second season can live up to the first.
rything from beginning to end, just like they do at parties.
From one extreme to another this fortnight, as Nick and Alastair chill out with new Pixar movie Luca, then freak out into a numb depression thanks to Inside by Bo Burnham.
However, they can definitely agree the last year was a bummer, and that Bo Burnham captured that glum vibe with his hit musical comedy special Inside (25:13).
This fortnight, Nick and Alastair take a walking tour of the local streaming services with Netflix’s Sweet Tooth and Amazon’s Solos.
Last of all, it’s Solos (30:08), a show which begs all kind of questions about exactly what Amazon think of their own talking products.
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