For our classic film selection we go back the 1980s for the legendary collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg - the very first Indiana Jones adventure - Raiders of the Lost Ark! 

Did you know there was a Titanic II? In this podcast we wish we didn't, as we tackle this dubious 2010 mockbuster pretend sequel from The Asylum! 

For our classic movie selection, we are watching classic 1980s comedy Big starring Tom Hanks

In this episode we reach the grand finale of the Blackadder II saga! There's been a spate of kidnappings which prove to be just the first stage of a cunning plan from evil Prince Ludwig the Indestructible played by Hugh Laurie!

There is no Dana, there is only Zuul! In this podcast we go back to 1984 for classic comedy horror Ghostbusters, starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver and Gozer the Traveller!

In this episode Blackadder has the twin problems of a drinking contest with Lord Melchett and his Puritan Aunt Whiteadder coming for tea... But on the upside, we learn of Merlin the Happy Pig and there's a lovely song about a goblin!

It's crap film time again and we endure Patient Zero, starring Matt Smith, Natalie Dormer and Stanley Tucci. A movie that was shelved for years before leaking out onto home video, and in this podcast we discover why, and attempt to work out what went wrong

In this episode we delve into true cult territory with a classic 1970s giallo - The Case of the Bloody Iris, a twisted thriller with a mystery killer stalking the dream team of beautiful Edwige Fenech and super suave George Hilton! And wrapped up inside this commentary there's also a handy beginner's guide to giallo too!

In this episode Blackadder is strapped for cash and owes money to the infamous baby eating Bishop of Bath and Wells. And if that wasn't enough, the Queen's in the mood for some practical jokes...

This episode we look at the classic Universal movie The Old Dark House. Directed by James Whale this gothic black comedy stars Boris Karloff, Charles Laughton, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Lilian Bond, Ernest Thesiger, and Raymond Massey.

In this episode Blackadder attempts to out-do Sir Walter Really, I mean, Raleigh, with a sea voyage of his own. Unfortunately Captain Redbeard Rum (the legendary Tom Baker in fully barking mad mode) turns out to be both legless and clueless!

In this episode we look at one of the legendary bad films - Italian Star Wars knock-off Starcrash (1979)! Is it really as bad as folks claim? What was the late great Christopher Plummer doing in there? Is that really an early sighting of the Hoff? At any rate, it does have Caroline Munroe in a space bikini! So join us in a voyage to the haunted stars and Time will flow once more and everything will explode!

NOTE - this a corrected version of this episode! 

In this episode we find Lord Blackadder being given the job of overseeing the execution of traitors at the Tower of London. However his plans to get *ahem* ahead go awry...

We celebrate Easter this year with an 1980s British scifi horror about eggs and rebirth... sort of...  Yes, we are doing Norman J Warren's infamous alien shocker - Inseminoid (1981)

It's Valentine's Day once again, and so in the spirit of St. Skeletor, we proudly present another massively inappropriate movie and revisit that seminal slasher from 1981 My Bloody Valentine

In a new mini season of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the first episode of Blackadder II, in which we catch up with Blackadder, Percy and Baldrick in Tudor times, where merry England is ruled by Queen Elizabeth I (played Miranda Richardson),aided by her stalwart advisor Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry) and long-serving Nursie (Patsy Byrne). In this episode, romance is in the air and we have a guest appearance from the late great Rik Mayall as Lord Flashheart!

This time round we are looking at cult favourite Clue from 1985 - the first movie based on a board game! Featuring an all-star cast including Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and Leslie Anne Warren.

In this podcast we go back to 1962 for a classic fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Killer! A magical tale based on British folklore starring Kerwin Matthews and Torin Thatcher, directed Nathan Juran, and with creature FX by Jim Danforth.

For our Christmas special this year we have a real classic - the celebrated comedy take on A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray and Karen Allen - Scrooged (1988)!

In this show we are venturing in the worrying world of low budget Christmas horror, with Canadian anthology Unholy Night (2018) will festive frights ensure or just Yuletide yawns?

We have a festive visit to Mr Ebenezer Blackadder for Blackadder's Christmas Carol! First aired back on 23rd December 1988, this classic Yuletide comedy special features an all-star cast which includes Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Miriam Margolyes, and Jim Broadbent!

'Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams.... Yes, it's cult film time again, in this podcast we go back to 1993 for the cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, written by Tim Burton, directed by Henry Selick and featuring music by Danny Elfman!

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at the final two episodes from the little known second season. Here we have two classic tales of heroes versus famous monsters - Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus and the Gorgons! 

Join us on an epic adventure across Africa with some Hollywood's brightest stars as we revisit a true classic - The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and directed by John Huston.

We celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a new Irish scifi comedy - Apocalypse Clown! When a mysterious cosmic event destroys all electronics and the  world plunges into chaos, will a bunch of failed clowns be our saviours? 

This year, for the spookiest night of the year, we are revisiting John Carpenter's classic horror movie - Halloween (1978) - the film that brought us the Shape, AKA Michael Myers! 

It's crap film time again, and we have a movie about undead wildlife - Zombeavers (2014)! Yes, a film about zombie beavers... Does hilarity ensue?

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at two episodes from the little known second season. In this series, Michael Gambon takes on the mantle of the Storyteller to recount tales from Greek myth.  And in this episode, we watch the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and the legend of Orpheus. 

In this episode we take a trip to Delos for the holiday of the future! Yes, we are revisiting Michael Crichton's first tale of a futuristic theme park gone bad Westworld - the seminal science fiction meets Western movie starring Yul Brynner as the unstoppable android Gunslinger!

For our classic movie this time we are watching a hugely important film, a massive influence on modern science fiction and the grandfather of Hammer horror - yes, it's The Quatermass Xperiment (AKA The Creeping Unknown in the US) from 1955.

As a tribute to the late great John Saxon we settle to watch one of his most celebrated movies - the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (1973), in which Mr Saxon, an actual real-life black belt, co-starred with the legendary Bruce Lee! 

In this show we take a look at one of the most infamous rubbish films of all time Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978). Is this a terrible movie made by morons or actually an ahead-of-its-time spoof? 

In the next of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the sixth and final episode of The Black Adder - the tragic tale of the Black Seal! The most cunning plan and the most evil men in England plot to take the crown... Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

It's cult movie time again, and this time we are looking at one of the best horror comedies of recent years - What We Do in the Shadows a mockumentary created by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement exploring the shows world of the undead in present day New Zealand!

In the fifth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, strange omens and dark forces are abroad in the kingdom of The Black Adder, and the dreaded Witchsmeller Pursuivant cometh! Folk horror vibes, bloody milk and dire warnings about the fruit of the carrot tree ensue... Plus watch out for a cameo from Satan himself!

For our crap movie selection, we are watching an all-star cast go to hell in a hand-basket in Judd Apatow's pandemic misfire The Bubble (2022)

In the fourth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - Born to be King! It's St. Leonard's Day and cunning plans and woeful variety acts ensue...

It's crap film time again, and this time we have gone for one of the worst movies of all-time - Robot Monster from 1953! Shot in four days and in 3D, see an incredible alien invader, the Ro-Man - which looks suspiciously like a gorilla in a space helmet - fart about with a bubble machine while pestering the last surviving humans on earth!

As we enjoyed it so much last time, we pay tribute again to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, with another two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies! In this episode we are watching are Kung Fu Capers from Series 7 and Saturday Night Grease from Series 8!

We are back in cult film territory and back to the films of Tim Burton too - this time for his 1990s SF comedy Mars Attacks! Ack! Ack! Ack! 

In the third of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - The Archbishop! Has the King finally found a use for his other son... you know, the slimy one?

Once again we are going back to the 1980s for a classic movie! This time is the celebrated horror comedy Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder!

As a tribute to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, we celebrate his life and works with a rewatch of two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies. The episodes we are watching are Lighthouse Keeping Loonies and the awarding winning Kitten Kong!

It's crap film time again, and we embark on our most gruelling challenge yet - Roland Emmerich's disaster (in every sense of the word)movie 2012 which confusing came out in 2009. Very strong language and pizza recipes ensue...

For a little Easter extra surprise, we couldn't resist going back to another movie from the late great Stuart Gordon. And we picked that dream teaming of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, HP Lovecraft and two dozen gallons of blood - yes, it's the splatastic Reanimator (1985)!

We return to the world of glorious television for another episode of some vintage Blackadder! In the second ever episode of this classic comedy, the Black Adder finds himself betrothed to be married...

For our traditional wildly inappropriate movie for Valentine's Day this year, we picked a romantic comedy... from Tommy Wirkola, director of the Dead Snow films! The Trip (2021) has Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie as a couple off for a romantic break where they plan to kill each other! 

Our cult movie is From Beyond (1986) - a classic adaptation of a story by HP Lovecraft from the late great Stuart Gordon. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton and Ken Foree, cult 1980s horror doesn't get any better than this! 

In the first of our staying in comedy shows, we look at the very first episode of The Black Adder - The Foretelling!

In this show we are revisiting one of the early classics of cinema, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920). Starring Conrad Veidt, this silent German Expressionist masterpiece is a genuine piece of movie history and has just celebrated its one hundredth birthday!