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Our imaginary reboot of Doctor Who, created entirely from remakes of stories of the past, finds itself under the auspices of a new showrunner - and with a new Doctor in the form of Michelle Terry

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Simon Brett

Two films with aliens masquerading as human beings from either side of 1990, one being Abel Ferrara's take on (Invasion of the) Body Snatchers, and the other from the director of A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson and Dylan Rees

We mark the passing of founder member Dave Ball, by looking back at his time in Soft Cell alongside Marc Almond

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Eric Drass

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It's over half a century now since the Doctors' timelines first crossed in something resembling what we might know now as an "anniversary special", and certainly the lustre has come off The Three Doctors somewhat in those fifty-odd years - according to some reports at least. But how does it stand up five decades on? The randomiser has decided we take a look

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Austin Butler in a crime comedy from the director of Black Swan, Mother! and Requiem for a Dream? That couldn't possibly work... could it? (Warning: contains spoilers for major plot developments.)

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

In which we divide into teams in order to choose the Doctor Who story that is the most appropriate for its Halloween broadcast slot

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Doctor Who is back, and this time it's just for Christmas - or is it? We try to get to the bottom of yesterday's announcement countering the premature death notices for RTD's Doctor Who

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Simon Brett

An overview of the three films directed by the Monkeypaw Productions man: Get Out, Us and Nope

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

When we discovered that Zack Snyder and James Gunn, the two titans of DC, were both credited on the 2004 remake of George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, we just had to investigate. And then when we noticed that the creator of the Final Destination franchise had also been partly responsible for the remake of follow-up Day of the Dead four years later, we decided to watch that one too.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Richie Morgan and Dylan Rees

Ron Howard's latest is set among German colonists on the Galapagos Islands between the wars of the last century, with Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and Vanessa Kirby (not to mention Jude Law) falling out in the Equatorial sun. What could possibly go wrong?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

Philip Hinchcliffe might have suggested that Mary Whitehouse was "somewhat over-hysterical", but Barry Letts admitted that when she complained about Doctor Who, the viewing figures went up. So was the temptation in the mid-1970s to push the series too far in order to attract viewers? And how far is too far?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Ian Fleming's debut novel Casino Royale has been adapted for the screen three times, in wildly different versions. After having spoken about the other two, we decided it was time to take a look at the first, a live US TV play broadcast while the novel was barely off the press.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

The star of Four Weddings, the writer of Andor, Carrie from Sex and the City, the director of Seven Up! and Gene Hackman - not to mention produced by Elizabeth Hurley - is quite the line-up of talent. Can Extreme Measures live up to its promise?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

The randomiser brings us to Earth in 2164 (or so), exactly-ish two centuries in the future after a plague has wiped out the majority of the population of the planet and it's almost like WWII never stopped happening. But will the BBC manage to convey all this from the confines of a little TV studio?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

There's been a lot of love for the recent Tim Key comedy about a reclusive music fan who tries to get his favourite folk duo back together again. But what would we make of it?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

You'd think Doctor Who news might be a bit thin on the ground with no production currently underway nor very much likely to be any time soon. But the rumours and gossip just keep on coming.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Steve Hatcher

How will our current mascot Danny Dyer take, to starring in a more bucolic version of Doctor Who? Our reimagined history of the series enters its seventh season.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When we realised that the director of The Sword and the Sorcerer had also made the 1990 Captain America, we couldn't resist going back for another look at both

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

We travel back to the 1990s, before even The Curse of Fatal Death was a twinkle in Steven Moffat's eye, to look at some of the writer-for-hire and one-off projects he completed before he became a household name

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

The randomiser takes us to yet another isolated workplace in the 1960s, but will Victoria's screaming save the day, or is Fury from the Deep just a load of old gas?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

After Amazon MGM Studios announced Denis Villeneuve as the director who would take the helm of their first Bond movie, we decided to have a look back at his non-franchise English language movies to see if we could see why.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

It's seventy years since Nigel Kneale's most famous creation made his way from the small screen to the big, but how successful was the transfer to Quatermass at Hammer?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

In tribute to Robert Redford we've taken another look at the movie he and Dustin Hoffman, plus director Alan J. Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman, made about the Watergate break-in

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When does pushing the boundaries become going too far?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

The only way we could talk about what the title means, is to get heavily into spoiler territory - so if you haven't seen Together yet, then set this review aside until you have

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

It's Ryan's turn at the wheel of our fictional Doctor Who recreation, and he's here to pick up the idea of a Danny Dyer Doctor and imagine where that might lead the series... much impressionations ensue

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

Warning: if you haven't seen Weapons yet and are thinking of doing so, this review contains major spoilers to all of the film's big plot developments

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Having discovered a run of form in the latter half of the first season, would Torchwood stick the landing with its first series finale?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

How well would Liam Neeson perform following in the shoeprints of Leslie Nielsen? And could the revival of The Naked Gun live up to the gag-a-minute reputation of the original?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

How would you script edit the problematic stories of the past in order to deproblematise them, but without removing the problematic elements? Or: how do you fix a problem like The Talons of Weng-Chiang?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

Would the Graham Linehan of Doctor Who's first TV story take flight, and would our reviewers bewitched or be what-what-what?-ed?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

If you woke up on January 1st and persuaded yourself that what you needed most this year was a further instalment of I Know What You Did Last Summer, then bingo you're in luck. For everybody else, here's our review.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

There's a new Doctor aboard the TARDIS as we enter the fifth season of our imaginary Doctor Who remake - and Mark is here to explain the choice and talk through the stories we've selected for him to experience.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

Dan Jennings of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast joins us to review The Blow Monkeys' new album Birdsong, their first for Alan McGee and Youth's record label Creation Youth

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Dan Jennings

Creation Youth
Paul Weller Fan Podcast

There had already been three adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers by the time Disney's Hollywood Pictures went back to the source, and produced a version of Robert Heinlein's original alien parasite novel The Puppet Masters. Should they have left well alone?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees

The quotes coming out of Edinburgh this week might have made it feel like we're stuck in 1989 all over again (or is that 1985?), but this is a different century now - so what did we make of the idea that the TARDIS is "going nowhere"?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

In this edition we're pairing up a couple of very different but equally unlikely vampires; firstly there's David Niven's urbane and terribly British Count Dracula, and then Alicia Silverstone in an undead rematch with Amy Heckerling, her director on Clueless. What can possibly go right?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake

Our odyssey through the mid-range monster movies of the 1990s fetches up at The Relic, Timecop director Peter Hyams' museum-set variation on Alien. But would any of us remember the film for long enough to talk about it?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees

It's the fourth "season" of our imaginary Doctor Who reboot, and a surprise is about to be sprung

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

After a run of indelible, critically adored movies culminating in The Last Seduction, was it hubris on John Dahl's part to call his fourth Unforgettable?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake

After making a splash in his native Mexico with Cronos, Hollywood invited Guillermo del Toro to come and helm another in its cycle of mid-90s monster movies. The result was Mimic, but what do we think of it now?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher

Shakespeare might, according to the tenth Doctor, be the most human human being who ever lived - but that isn't going to stop the tenth Doctor himself from having a go.

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

It's thirty years since Natasha Henstridge made her film debut as the sexy alien who's looking for the perfect partner with whom to make beautiful human hybrid babies, but what does Species look like in 2025?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake, Simon Brett, Steve Hatcher and Dylan Rees

Our imaginary rebooted Doctor Who reaches its third season, showing that even after a misunderstanding about what the concept entails, interesting choices can still occur

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Steve Hatcher

Could Jurassic World: Rebirth live up to its name and breathe new life into the dinosaga?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson

Our now traditional seasonal quiz returns for a summer instalment, pitting our three teams' wits against some House of Games styled Doctor Who themed rounds as the grudge between two particular hosts deepens

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Steve Hatcher as Delta Free, Ryan Blake and Iain Martin as Thoros Belter, and Matt Barber and Luke Molloy as Terror Alpha

A round-up of some recent TV, starting with Murderbot, taking in Bookish, and finally some thoughts about Poker Face

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

It's doing great box office from mostly positive reviews, but what would our team make of the new Fantastic Four film - fourth time lucky?

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett

Our - fairly spoilery (especially in the latter case) - thoughts on two recent superhero pictures: James Gunn's revitalisation of Superman; and now arriving on streaming services, the MCU's new team Thunderbolts*

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Ryan Blake and Simon Brett

It's Season 2 of our own, rebooted Doctor Who, and someone else's turn to have a go at creating a themed series of episodes telling a compelling, coherent story out of the concept of only remaking the stories of the past

Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold