This fortnight, a classic combination of creatives with The Nevers, a new TV show created by Joss Whedon (10:28), and Army of the Dead, a new movie from Zack Snyder (28:30).
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Relentless robots and never-ending Netflix this fortnight, as we do Love, Death & Robots season 2 (9:35) and The Mitchells Vs The Machines (26:31).
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This fortnight, we celebrate Alastair's successful Oscar predictions by covering 2021's best picture Nomadland (11:15), then catch back up with the X-Men line in Way of X #1. (22:57)
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Inevitably, it's time to unveil our opinions of The Falcon & The Winter Soldier (12:18, with spoilers from 19:45), followed by some talk about scifi romcom Palm Springs (36:13, with... yet more spoilers from 39:37).
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This fortnight, we're so far back into superhero media, you'd think it was 2019, with Wonder Woman 1984 (14:37) and Invincible (31:50, spoilers from 39:15).
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With a sense of internet duty, Nick and Alastair sit down to watch Zack Snyder's Justice League, aka The Snyder Cut (11:13), before stopping to quickly take in Pacific Rim: The Black (29:53).
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This fortnight, at long last, time to get our WandaVision thoughts out there (14:38), along with Tribes of Europa on Netflix (39:48) - be warned, spoilers all over the place in both sections.
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This fortnight, back to the Netflix movie coalface with Space Sweepers (11:01) and The Dig (26:40).
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Happy fifth birthday! It's our birthday, and to celebrate, we're voyaging into beautiful indulgence by recommending each other some classics. First, Nick suggests the first volume of Alan Moore's classic Swamp Thing run (9:47), then Alastair adds Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 movie North by Northwest (27:55).
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Nick and Alastair return to the blasted wasteland of 2020 to cover some leftover culture - last superhero movie standing The New Mutants (13:52) and scifi sitcom spinoff Star Trek: Lower Decks (25:04).
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This fortnight, we polish off Star Trek: Discovery season 3 (10:24, with full spoilers from 22:50) and enjoy Netfllix movie-play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (38:21).
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A week into 2021, it's time to exorcise the ghosts of that dark year, with our 2020 retrospective! But first, some up-to-the-minute content with a quick review of the new Doctor Who special (10:21), before we lunge into our detailed breakdowns of last year in film (19:46) and TV (47:38).
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Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas, the season is upon us (to a limited pandemical extent) and we're reviewing the Lego Star Wars Holiday Special (12:19), with some bonus spoilerific chat about that Mandalorian finale and the many recent spin-off announcements (19:45), and Euphoria: Trouble Don't Last Always (37:02), a bonus semi-festive episode of the troubled teen drama.
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This fortnight, it's time to reach out and touch the Star Wars zeitgeist with The Mandalorian (13:36), then dive into the buzzy world of indie comics with Redfork (25:28), plus some other TKO comics earlier on.
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This fortnight, we cover Pegg/Frost ghost-hunting horror-comedy Truth Seekers (10:52) and Netflix Greek mythology anime Blood of Zeus (23:29).
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This fortnight, we top and tail the telly, with the opening 4 episodes of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 (9:07) and the second half of The Boys season 2 (26:21, with total spoilers).
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This fortnight, Nick & Alastair renew their Aaron Sorkin sorktificates with The Trial of the Chicago Seven (11:44, ending spoilers from 27:34), then make a token nod to Halloween with Lovecraft Country (31:25).
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This fortnight, it's time to talk about the devil all the time, and also The Devil All The Time on Netflix (12:47), followed by the first issue of Department of Truth from Image Comics (24:13).
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This fortnight, it's back to work at the Netflix coalface with Enola Holmes (10:28) and Teenage Bounty Hunters (23:50, with mid-way twist spoilers from 36:44 and full-bodied ending ones from 40:15).
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Another fortnight, another streaming television festival, with the first half of The Boys season 2 (10:26), plus the entire of Biohackers season 1 on Netflix (28:14).
And yes, you can still back Nick's new comic And It Snowed on Kickstarter for two more weeks: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickbryan/and-it-snowed
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This fortnight, we're back on our all-Netflix diet with Project Power (13:26) and Transformers: War For Cybertron (29:50).
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We're back on the streaming TV hard this week, with The Umbrella Academy season 2 (11:07) and Muppets Now (33:20).
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This fortnight, we dig into the past with some recommendations - Alastair's brought classic kid-killing movie Battle Royale (13:52), while Nick's zooming in on contemplative spy comic Zero (29:36).
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This episode, we take our long awaited journey into Netflix loopy scifi show Dark (13:28), starting with some general chat with broad season 1-2 spoilers and then (at around 27:09) veering into hardcore season 3 ending details. You have been warned.
And then we top it off with a little look at new Netflix comics-adapted action movie The Old Guard (43:15).
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This fortnight, Nick & Alastair cover Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods (14:21) and the first two issues of madcap comic series The Ludocrats (32:11). Try as they might, there is not much underlying theme here.
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