Nick and Alastair enter the state-of-Marvel discourse like a glowing missile of relevance as they review both The Marvels and Loki season 2!

But first, Nick’s listened to Buffy-sequelling audio drama Slayers, while Alastair’s seen Oscar-contending murder movie The Killer.

After which, it’s time to get stuck into the hot stuff, as they talk about The Marvels (14:55, post-credits mega-spoilers from 25:29) and whether it deserves the buckets of bile thrown at it.

And finally, a similar chat for Loki season 2 (33:38, ending spoilers from 39:30), covering both whether it’s any good and what (if anything) it might all mean.

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Back to regular business for Nick and Alastair this fortnight, as they cover the final series of their beloved haunted-house sitcom Ghosts, plus scifi future-house movie Foe.

But before that, Alastair’s thrilled to see the arrival of Oscar movie season with Killers of the Flower Moon, while Nick’s finishing off old business with the final season of Netflix’s Sex Education.

After all that, they enter the hilarious afterlife of Ghosts (12:10) for the fifth and final time. Will the characters’ already-ended lives change forever? And does it matter either way?

Lastly, a trip to the climate apocalypse with bleak domestic scifi drama Foe (23:42), hoping neither one of us has been replaced by a robot.

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It’s our double-centennial episode! And to mark this frankly unnecessary amount of podcasting, we recommend more of our all-time favourites, with Nick bringing popular comic series Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye and Alastair supplying cult movie The Royal Tenenbaums.

But first, Nick’s finally completed his year-long mission to watch all of Justified and 2023 comeback show Justified: City Primeval, while Alastair’s headed out on his annual pilgrimage to London Film Festival where he saw movies like The Zone of Interest, Molli and Max in the Future and many more.

All that dealt with, it’s time to get stuck into Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye (15:08), the one piece of transforming-robot media Nick likes, featuring a group of misfit Transformers on an accident-prone journey across space. Will Alastair be able to tell all the similar-looking mechs apart?

And lastly, we cover The Royal Tenenbaums (32:52), a major work in Alastair’s personal cinematic journey. Will this be the one that finally makes Nick shut up and love Wes Anderson?

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A robot rampage this fortnight, as Nick and Alastair tackle new scifi movie The Creator and latest Star Wars streaming show Ahsoka.

But first, Alastair’s enjoying the nostalgic doublehit of Roald Dahl and Wes Anderson in The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (and other stories) on Netflix, while Nick’s back with the latest update on Only Murders In The Building, his favourite murder-podcast-TV-show.

After which, they weld themselves up and head into the dark future in The Creator (11:40), ready to finally all have our big questions about AI answered.

Before finally enjoying a less stressful robot-filled world in Star Wars: Ahsoka (24:33).

And oh yeah – aren’t they getting to quite a large episode number here?

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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair do battle with romance itself in Love Everlasting, and the horrifying scale of capitalism itself in How To Blow Up A Pipeline. Heavy stuff.

But first, they’ve also caught up on their streaming series, as Nick’s seen Heartstopper and Alastair’s done Foundation.

After which, it’s time to read the first volume of Love Everlasting (12:43), the surreal romance-fantasy puzzle comic by Tom King and Elsa Charretier.

Last of all, they learn some important lessons about terrorism with 2022 movie How To Blow Up A Pipeline (23:34).

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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair return to the hellish kitchen of The Bear for its second season, then descend into a more literal underworld in Damn Them All.

But first, Alastair’s sticking with the monstrous angle in What We Do In The Shadows season 4, while Nick’s in more scholarly territory with Poisoned Chalice by Pádraig Ó Méalóid, a book chronicling a longrunning legal saga (about comics).

After all that, they gird their loins and dive into the kitchen of The Bear (14:14), only to find it’s… maybe a little less stressful than they remember it? (Also there are a few unlabelled spoilers in this review, sorry.)

But don’t worry, new comic Damn Them All (31:44) by Simon Spurrier and Charlie Adlard is exactly as demonic as you’d expect.

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This fortnight, Nick and Alastair ascend to the heavenly heights of Good Omens 2, then plunge into the dirty underworld of spies in Old Dog.

But first, Nick’s still listening to bands from his teens with the new Hives album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, while Alastair’s seen The Last Waltz outside the Barbican. (With a cameo from Nick’s Barbie opinions.)

And then they ascend to the afterlife and bicker like an old married couple with Good Omens 2 (12:27, including full ending spoilers from 23:01), testing the very limits of hot actor chemistry.

Lastly, time to go underground with Old Dog (29:55), the new spy-fi comic from Declan Shalvey, but don’t worry, there’s no risk of our heroes learning any new tricks.

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It’s the return of the Netflix movie double-bill this fortnight, with They Cloned Tyrone and Extraction 2.

But first, Alastair’s seen new wine-battle show Drops of God, while Nick’s once again in retro territory with new Blur album The Ballad of Darren.

After which, our heroes sign on for the conspiracy in blaxploitation scifi comedy They Cloned Tyrone (12:08).

And lastly, time to heroically blow up some vehicles and slaughter hundreds with Chris Hemsworth in Extraction 2 (23:47).

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A change to the advertised programme, as Nick and Alastair both made it to the cinema to watch burning-hot new movie Oppenheimer, as well as sneaking through latest Marvel mini-series Secret Invasion.

But first, Nick’s reading long-standing cops/capes comic Powers by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, while Alastair’s filling in the other half of the Barbenheimer meme for us with Barbie.

From which they move right onto the nuclear dawn in Oppenheimer (13:29), Christopher Nolan’s new biopic about nuclear bombcraft which looks like one of the big releases of the year.

And at the opposite end of the spectrum, they also saw Secret Invasion (28:32), the latest Marvel Disney+ event finally giving Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury some spotlight.

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Nick and Alastair go deep down this fortnight, delving into the criminal underworld (kinda) with Nimona, then plunging literally underground with Silo season 1.

But first, Alastair’s watched the latest film in his beloved Mission Impossible franchise (surely you’ve read his epic retrospective article?), while Nick’s staying up in the light with Abbot Elementary.

And then it’s time to get ambiguously not-evil with Nimona (15:09), Netflix’s movie adaptation of the devious graphic novel by ND Stevenson.

Lastly, they study the dark secrets of Silo (24:54), the hit Apple TV series. But are our heroes about to go unusually against the media consensus?

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