Kneel Before Pod – Details, episodes & analysis

March is behind us and the news cycle continued as always so we break it down. The conversation covers Henry Cavill not being James Bond, non announcements and half naked influencers.

Featuring

• Craig McKenzie – here on Kneel Before Blog and on We Are Starfleet (Film Stories podcast network)
• Izaak Stoakes can be found on Twitter, BlueSky or Instagram
• Bo Nicholson’s projects can be found on his Linktree.

Show Notes

TV Reviews

• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1

Movie Reviews

• Craig’s review of Superman
• Craig's review of The Martian
• Craig's review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Craig's review of Black Panther
• Craig's review of The Fantastic Four: First Steps
• Craig’s review of Morbius
• Craig's review of The Flash
• Craig's review of Assassin's Creed
• Craig's review of Begin Again
• Craig's review of Sing Street
• Craig's review of A Quiet Place
• Craig's review of A Quiet Place Part II
• Craig's review of A Million Ways to Die in the West
• Craig's review of Sonic the Hedgehog
• Craig's review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Craig's review of Ready Player One
• Craig's review of The Jungle Book
• Graeme's review of Baywatch

Podcasts

• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1
• Superman
• Black Panther
• The Fantastic Four: First Steps
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Homecoming
• Spider-Man: Far From Home
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Flash
• Ready Player One

Trailers

• Scary Movie
• Toy Story 5
• In the Grey
• Pressure
• Over Your Dead Body
• The Devil Wears Prada 2
• Michael
• Power Ballad
• Disclosure Day
• Lanterns
• Dune: Part Three
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4 title announcement
• Spider-Noir
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day
• Moana

News

• The 2026 Oscar winners
• Aaron Pierre’s John Stewart to appear in Man of Tomorrow
• Old thought lost Doctor Who episodes found
• Buffy The Vampire Slayer revival not moving forward at Hulu
• Firefly animated series in development
• Kate Winslet joins Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
• Callie Cooke joins Keanu Reeves in time loop movie
• Live action Scooby Doo series casting
• Livvy Dunne joins Baywatch reboot
• Family Guy spinoff Stewie gets 2 season order
• A Quiet Place Part 3 confirmed
• Drew Goddard to direct the next The Matrix movie
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Christopher McQuarrie teaming up for King Conan
• Daisy Edgar-Jones joins Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow movie adaptation
• Final Fast & Furious movie titled Fast Forever
• Assassin’s Creed TV series setting and time period confirmed
• The Last of Us season 3 casting
• Life is Strange casting

Misc

• Bo Burnham's Jeff Bezos songs
• The "Always Hold Onto Smallville" podcast

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Spider-Man Homecoming opening fanfare” “The Spider-Man Homecoming theme” and his YouTube channel

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has completed its first season so Kneel Before Pod takes the class and breaks it down in immense detail. The conversation covers expanding the Star Trek universe, fanservice and whether to go full Riverdale.

Featuring

• Craig McKenzie – here on Kneel Before Blog and on We Are Starfleet (Film Stories podcast network)
• Darren Mooney - words can be read Second Wind Group or his website and his voice can be heard on The 250 podcast or Dublin’s Q102 radio station. He can also be found on Twitter and BlueSky.

Show Notes

TV Reviews

• Craig's reviews of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season 1
• Craig's review of Star Trek: Discovery
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Prodigy season 1
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard
• Craig’s reviews of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law
• Craig’s reviews of Marvel’s Inhumans

Movie Reviews

• Craig’s review of Star Trek: Section 31
• Craig’s review of Superman

Podcasts

• Star Trek: Discovery first episodes
• Star Trek: Discovery season 1 – part 1 and part 2
• Star Trek: Discovery season 2 – part 1 and part 2
• Star Trek: Discovery season 3
• Star Trek: Discovery season 4
• Star Trek: Discovery first episodes
• Star Trek: Discovery season 1 – part 1 and part 2
• Star Trek: Discovery season 2 – part 1 and part 2
• Star Trek: Discovery season 3
• Star Trek: Discovery season 4
• Star Trek: Discovery season 5
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
• Star Trek: Picard season 1
• Star Trek: Picard season 2
• Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Craig's interview with Jeff Teravainen

• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• Superman
• Marvel’s Inhumans – first podcast and second podcast

Misc

• The referenced N+1 second screening article
• The referenced video where Kerrice Brooks spoke to Avery Brooks
• The D-Con Chamber episode featuring Paul Giamatti
• The D-Con Chamber episodes featuring Michael Dorn - first and second
• Paul Giamatti's The Chinwag podcast

Music

• L’Orchestra Cinematique’s cover of the “Star Trek: The Original Series theme” and their YouTube channel

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Spooky season is in full swing and Kneel Before Pod resurrects the Halloween special. This year we compare and contrast John Carpenter's 1978 classic Halloween with its 2007 remake by Rob Zombie. We discuss setting the standard, directorial artistry and being scared.

• Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the Film Stories podcast network.
• Angus Ballantine can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud.

• Craig's review of Halloween (2018)
• Craig's review of Halloween Kills
• Craig's review of A Quiet Place
• Craig's review of A Quiet Place Part II

• The Halloween video game teaser

• KOSmusic's cover of the “Halloween theme" and their YouTube channel.

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Another month has been and gone so there needs to be a reflective discussion. The conversation covers lightsabers all the time, too-soon remakes and recycling IP.

Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Chris can also be found on a Sunday between 12 and 2pm GMT live on Black Diamond FM. Izaak can be found on his Twitter or on his website.

• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Craig’s reviews of Superman & Lois season 3
• Craig’s review of The Flash season 9
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Discovery
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
• Craig’s reviews of Ms. Marvel
• Craig's reviews of Krypton

• Craig's review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Craig's review of Captain Marvel
• Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
• Craig's review of Logan
• Craig's review of Luck
• Craig’s review of Tetris
• Craig’s review of Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
• Craig’s review of Fall
• Craig's review of Searching
• Craig’s review of Power Rangers
• Craig’s review of Morbius
• Craig's review of Godzilla
• Craig's review of Kong: Skull Island
• Craig's review of Godzilla Vs. Kong
• Craig’s review of The Batman
• Craig’s review of Shazam!
• Craig’s review of Shazam: Fury of the Gods
• Craig’s review of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

• Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• WandaVision
• Ms. Marvel
• Captain Marvel
• Time Travel on TV
• Craig's interview with Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One director Kerry Shawcross
• Craig's interview with Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One writer Meghan Fitzmartin
• Craig's interview with Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen Part One actor Chandler Riggs
• Superman & Lois season 1
• Superman & Lois season 2
• Craig’s interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham actor Patrick Fabian
• Craig’s interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham writer Jace Ricci
• Craig’s interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham director Sam Liu
• Craig’s interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham actor David Giuntoli
• Power Rangers (2017)
• Prometheus
• Star Trek: Discovery season 4
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• The Batman
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Logan
• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

• Barbie
• Extraction 2
• Asteroid City
• The Artifice Girl
• Elemental
• Fubar
• The Continental
• Hypnotic
• The Boogeyman
• The Muppets Mayhem
• Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai
• Last Voyage of the Demeter
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• Ahsoka
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
• Resident Evil: Death Island
• Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
• Fast X
• My Adventures With Superman
• Harry Potter
• The Penguin
• Blue Beetle
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Secret Invasion
• The Marvels

• Harry Potter reboot
• Mia Goth cast in Blade
• Deadpool 3 returning cast
• Creature Commandos casting
• Star Wars Celebration announcements
• Starfleet Academy series confirmed
• Section 31 movie confirmed
• Galaxy Quest TV series
• Pokémon Detective Pikachu sequel lands director
• Shrek 5 in development
• Paddington in Peru to begin filming in July
• Twilight reboot in the works as a TV series
• Lilo and Stitch casting
• Moana live action remake
• Animated Stranger Things
• Scream team working on Universal monster movie
• Melissa Barrera joins Universal monster movie
• X-Files reboot
• Maude Vs. Maude
• Amazon developing new versions of MGM IP

• Lave Radio

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“ and his YouTube channel
• 331Erock's cover of the "Indiana Jones Theme" and his YouTube channel

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Alien Day is once again upon us and Kneel Before Pod completes their journey through the Alien franchise with Alien: Covenant. The conversation covers the Xenomorph life cycle, fanservice and dumb ways to die.

Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Angus can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud. Natalie can be found on this site or under her own website showcasing her own projects

• Craig’s review of Alien: Covenant
• Craig's review of Passengers
• Craig's review of Pacific Rim: Uprising
• Craig's review of Prey

• Our previous Alien Day coverage
• Legion
• Pacific Rim: Uprising

• Deleted scenes

• Marc Papeghin’s cover of the “Prometheus theme” and his YouTube channel

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Recently Craig had the pleasure of talking to Kerry Shawcross, director of the latest DC animated movie Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen: Part 1. The discussion covers smashing worlds together, adapting to directing a feature-length story and working on dream projects.

• Kerry's Twitter
• Kerry's IMDb page

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Recently Craig had the pleasure of talking to Chandler Riggs; the voice of Superman in the latest DC animated movie Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen: Part 1. The discussion covers owning the character, breaking into voice acting and playing an adult in a teenager's body.

• Chandler's Twitter
• Chandler's IMDb page

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Recently Craig had the pleasure of talking to Meghan Fitzmartin; writer of the latest DC animated movie Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen: Part 1. The discussion covers crossing-over properties, respecting the audience and writing the anime Justice League

• Meghan's Twitter
• Meghan's IMDb page
• Craig's review of Justice Society: World War II

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Only 40 years remain until First Contact Day so Kneel Before Pod continues the grand tradition of celebratory discussion by covering Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. The conversation covers historical context, swan songs, weighty themes and whether Spock was the villain.

Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Angus can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud. Natalie can be found on this site or on her own website showcasing her own projects.

• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard
• Craig’s review of Star Trek Beyond
• Craig's review of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek: Generations
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek: Nemesis

• The referenced planetary.org article

• Captain_Meatshield’s cover of the “First Contact” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation“ theme and his YouTube channel

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Another month has gone by but it wasn't without a lot of news and trailers. The conversation covers Nepo Babies, A.I. scripts and who would play us in the Quentin Tarantino biopic

Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Angus can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud. Chris can also be found on a Sunday between 12 and 2pm GMT live on Black Diamond FM.

• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Craig's reviews of Superman & Lois season 3
• Craig’s review of The Flash season 9
• Craig’s reviews of The Winchesters
• Craig's reviews of Star Trek: Discovery
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Prodigy
• Craig's reviews of What If...?
• Craig’s reviews of She-Hulk: Attorney At Law

• Craig's review of Shazam: Fury of the Gods
• Craig's review of Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
• Craig's review of Tetris
• Craig's review of Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
• Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
• Craig's review of Prey
• Craig's review of Jungle Cruise
• Craig's review of Passengers
• Craig's review of Power Rangers
• Craig’s review of John Wick
• Craig’s review of John Wick: Chapter 2
• Craig’s review of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
• Craig’s review of Legion of Super-Heroes
• Craig’s review of Ready Player One
• Craig's review of Pan
• Craig's review of Lightyear
• Craig's review of The Disaster Artist
• Craig's review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Craig's review of TMNT: Out of the Shadows
• Craig’s review of 10 Cloverfield Lane
• Craig’s review of The Suicide Squad
• Craig’s review of Black Adam
• Craig's review of Top Gun: Maverick
• Craig's review of Creed
• Craig's review of The Big Short
• Craig’s review of Fall
• Craig's review of Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
• Craig's review of 47 Meters Down
• Craig's review of San Andreas
• Graeme's review of Ghostbusters
• Craig's review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Angus’ review of The Fate of the Furious
• Craig’s review of Fast & Furious 9

• Craig's interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham actor Patrick Fabian
• Craig's interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham writer Jace Ricci
• Craig's interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham director Sam Liu
• Craig's interview with Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham actor David Giuntoli
• Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Star Trek: Discovery season 4
• Star Trek: Picard season 1
• Star Trek: Picard season 2
• What If...?
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
• The Suicide Squad
• Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
• Power Rangers (2017)
• Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker
• Legion
• Ready Player One
• Craig's interview with Troy Baker

• No Hard Feelings
• Haunted Mansion
• Citadel
• Ghosted
• Mrs. Davis
• The Little Mermaid
• Peter Pan & Wendy
• Elemental
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
• Silo
• Power Rangers: Once and Always

• Jon Bernthal returning as the Punisher in Daredevil: Born Again
• Sandrine Holt cast as Vanessa Fisk in Daredevil: Born Again
• Jessica Jones rumoured to appear in Daredevil: Born Again
• Steven Yeun cast in Thunderbolts
• Kahhori to be introduced in What If…?
• Liv Tyler to return in Captain America: New World Order
• Batman: Caped Crusader moves to Amazon
• James Gunn directing Superman: Legacy
• The Rock shuts down Black Adam/Shazam cameos
• The Daniels working on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew
• Kevin Fiege and Patty Jenkins Star Wars films no longer in the works
• Star Trek: Discovery to end with fifth season
• Michael B. Jordan spearheading Creed-Verse at Amazon
• Bryan Cogman appointed as showrunner of Disney+ Zorro series
• Questlove to direct live action Aristocats
• Average Height, Average Build
• Vertigo remake
• Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel casting
• Guillermo Del Toro directing The Buried Giant
• Andrew Garfield and Mia Goth cast in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
• Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh cast in We Live in Time
• Bob Odenkirk to star in remake of The Room
• Barry Keoghan in talks to star in Gladiator sequel
• Denzel Washington cast in Gladiator sequel
• Sequel to Fall in the works
• Kate McKinnon joins The Blink of an Eye
• The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power adds more cast
• Warner Brothers planning new The Lord of the Rings movies
• Aaron Taylor Johnson cast in Nosferatu
• Daisy Edgar Jones cast in Twisters