Episodes
6 days ago
X-Men '97 Primer (264)
6 days ago
6 days ago
X-Men '97's release on Disney+ is imminent so we revisit the first three episodes of the 90s X-Men cartoon. The conversation covers our thoughts on the revival, themes in the original show and whether it still holds up.
Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Andrew’s work can be found on this site and on the Starburst website.
Show Notes
Reviews
Podcasts
Misc
Music
- Dave Deville's cover of the "X-Men theme" and his YouTube channel
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Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Interview with The Burning Season Cast and Crew
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Saturday Mar 09, 2024
Recently, Craig had the opportunity to talk to writer/actor Jonas Chernick, actor Sara Canning, actor Christian Meer and director Sean Garrity about their new film The Burning Season which recently enjoyed its international premiere at the 2024 Glasgow Film Festival. The conversation covers writing and playing potentially unlikeable characters, telling a story in reverse and the joy of filming outdoors.
Show Notes
- Jonas' IMDb
- Jonas' website
- Jonas' Twitter
- Sara's IMDb
- Sara's Twitter
- Sara's Instagram
- Christian's IMDb
- Sean's IMDb
- Craig's previous interview with Jonas
- The referenced story of artist Tom Thomson's death
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Monday Mar 04, 2024
February 2024 News Round-Up (263)
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
February is over but not before dropping a lot of news and trailers to fuel our monthly discussion. The conversation covers learning the wrong lessons, unnecessary follow-ups, and too many Draculas
Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Andrew’s work can be found on this site and on the Starburst website.
Show Notes
TV Reviews
- Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard
- Star Trek: Discovery season 3
- Star Trek: Discovery season 4
- Craig’s review of Crisis on Earth-X Night 1 and Night 2
- Craig’s reviews of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”
Movie Reviews
- Craig's review of Madame Web
- Craig's review of Upgraded
- Craig's review of Monolith
- Craig's review of Marmalade
- Craig's review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Craig's review of Superman: Man of Tomorrow
- Craig’s review of Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
- Craig's review of Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes and Huntsmen, Part Two
- Craig’s review of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Craig's review of Independence Day: Resurgence
- Craig's review of The Tomorrow War
- Craig's review of Tenet
- Craig's review of Ex Machina
- Craig's review of Big Hero 6
- Craig's review of Deadpool
- Craig's review of Deadpool 2
- Craig's review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
- Craig's review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
- Craig's review of War for the Planet of the Apes
- Craig’s review of Sonic The Hedgehog
- Craig’s review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Dominion
- Craig’s review of A Quiet Place
- Craig’s review of A Quiet Place Part II
- Craig’s review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Craig’s review of Godzilla
- Craig’s review of Kong: Skull Island
- Craig’s review of Godzilla Vs. Kong
- Craig’s review of Dune Part One
- Craig’s review of The Martian
- Craig’s review of Bohemian Rhapsody
- Craig’s review of Bumblebee
- Craig’s review of Totally Killer
- Craig’s review of Prey
- Craig’s review of It Follows
- Craig’s review of Moana
- Craig’s review of The New Mutants
- Craig’s review of Morbius
- Craig’s review of Begin Again
- Craig’s review of Tetris
- Craig’s review of Dracula Untold
- Craig’s review of Power Rangers
- Craig’s review of The Matrix: Resurrections
- Craig’s review of Batman: V Superman: Dawn of Justice
- Graeme's review of Gods of Egypt
Podcasts
- Madame Web
- Craig's interview with Alessandro Miro
- Craig’s interview with Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester and Butch Lukic for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Craig’s interview with Nolan North for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Time Travel on TV
- Star Trek: Picard season 1
- Star Trek: Picard season 2
- Star Trek: Picard season 3
- Star Trek: Discovery season 3
- Star Trek: Discovery season 4
- Bumblebee
- Pacific Rim
- "Crisis on Earth-X"
- “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – first podcast and second podcast
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – first podcast and second podcast
- Power Rangers (2017)
- Prometheus
- Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice
Trailers
- The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
- Palm Royale
- Knuckles
- Wicked
- Twisters
- Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
- Scoop
- Longlegs
- Tarot
- IF
- Challengers
- The Spiderwick Chronicles
- Boy Kills World
- Borderlands
- Irish Wish
- Damsel
- Moana 2
- The Fall Guy
- Drive Away Dolls
- Civil War
- The Girls on the Bus
- A Quiet Place: Day One
- Star Trek: Discovery
- Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire
- Deadpool & Wolverine
- Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part II
- X-Men ‘97
News
- Silk: Spider Society writer's room scrapped
- Fantastic Four casting confirmed
- Avengers: The Kang Dynasty title dropped
- Milly Alcock cast as Supergirl
- Section 31 casting confirmed
- Jim Carrey returns as Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3
- Tim Burton to direct remake of Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman
- Time Cut coming to Netflix
- Luc Besson to direct Dracula: A Love Tale
- Emma Stone in talks for Yorgos Lanthimos’ Save the Green Planet remake
- Will Smith to star in Sugar Bandits
- Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal and Chris Evans in talks for Celine Song’s Materialists
- Donnie Yen starring in Kung Fu movie adaptation
- Bryce Dallas Howard and Orlando Bloom leading Deep Cover
- Suits: LA casts Stephen Amell in the lead
- Bewitched reboot in development
- Ridley Scott to direct Bee Gees biopic
- Sam Mendes to direct four Beatles movies
- New Evil Dead spinoff movie in the works
- Travis Knight to direct Masters of the Universe live-action film
- Ben Wang cast in new Karate Kid film
- American Psycho remake in the works
- Dan Trachtenberg to make new Predator movie
- Casting for Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die
- David Katzenberg to direct Ferris Bueller’s Day Off spinoff Sam and Victor’s Day Off
- Gareth Edwards to direct new Jurassic Park movie
- Cola Wars movie in the works
Misc
Music
- Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the “Jurassic Park theme” and his YouTube channel
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Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Madame Web (262)
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
Sunday Feb 25, 2024
The SPUMM continues with Madame Web and Kneel Before Pod couldn't resist breaking down this fascinating entry into the superhero canon. Our conversation covers worldbuilding, Spider-Man as the messiah and the state of the film industry.
Craig McKenzie 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 and periodically on Lave Radio.
Darren Mooney's words can be read on 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.
Show Notes
Reviews
- Craig's review of Madame Web
- Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
- Craig's reviews of Secret Invasion
- Craig’s review of Eternals
- Craig's review of Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Craig's review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse Of Madness
- Craig’s review of Thor: Love and Thunder
- Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
- Craig’s review of The Marvels
- Craig's review of Venom
- Craig's review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Craig's review of Morbius
- Craig's review of Fant4stic
- Craig's review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Craig's review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Craig's review of Suicide Squad
- Craig's review of Wonder Woman
- Craig's review of Wonder Woman 1984
- Craig's review of The Flash
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Dominion
- Craig's review of Nerve
- Craig's review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Craig's review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
- Craig's review of Terminator Genisys
- Craig's review of Dracula Untold
- Craig's review of Power Rangers (2017)
- Graeme's review of Gods of Egypt
Podcasts
- Eternals
- Secret Invasion
- Eternals
- Spider-Man: No Way Home
- Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
- The Marvels
- Venom
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
- Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
- Suicide Squad
- Wonder Woman
- The Flash
- Power Rangers (2017)
Misc
- Dakota Johnson's MTV interview
- Dakota Johnson's Huffington Post interview
- The referenced Defector article
- The referenced Hollywood Reporter article about Madame Web's box office
- The Key and Peele Gremlins 2 sketch
- The Silk: Spider Society changes
Music
- annapantsu's cover of "Toxic" and her YouTube channel
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Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Interview with Alessandro Miro
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Wednesday Feb 14, 2024
Recently, Craig had the chance to talk to Alessandro Miro, the actor playing Hunter Fosterini in Puppy Love. The conversation covers representation, working to the pace of a TV show production and dealing with being cut.
Show Notes
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Monday Feb 05, 2024
January 2024 News Round-Up (261)
Monday Feb 05, 2024
Monday Feb 05, 2024
The longest month of the year is finally over. It contained a long list of news and trailers to mull over. Join us for a bumper episode where we discuss the Oscar nominations, attractive movie/TV actors and whether it's Netlix's responsibility to feed the hungry.
Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Welcome to Bo Nicholson. His projects can be found on his Linktree. Aaron Billingham can be found on this very site. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter.
Show Notes
TV Reviews
- Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
- Craig’s reviews of The Winchesters
- Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Prodigy
- Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard
Movie Reviews
- Craig's review of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Craig’s review of Sonic The Hedgehog
- Craig’s review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Dominion
- Craig’s review of A Quiet Place
- Craig’s review of A Quiet Place Part II
- Angus’ review of The Fate of the Furious
- Craig’s review of Fast & Furious 9
- Graeme’s review of Ghostbusters (2016)
- Craig’s review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
- Craig’s review of Mortal Kombat
- Craig’s review of Uncharted
- Graeme’s review of Happy Death Day
- Craig’s review of Happy Death Day 2 U
- Craig’s review of Star Trek Beyond
- Craig’s review of Shazam!
- Craig’s review of Shazam: Fury of the Gods
- Craig’s review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- Craig’s review of Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
- Craig’s review of Aladdin
- Craig’s review of Thor: Ragnarok
- Craig’s review of Eternals
- Craig’s review of Thor: Love and Thunder
- Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
- Craig’s review of The Marvels
- Craig’s review of Warcraft: The Beginning
- Craig’s review of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
- Craig’s review of Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
- Craig’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie
- Graeme’s review of Happy Death Day
- Craig’s review of Happy Death Day 2U
- Craig's review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E
- Graeme's review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
- Craig's review of Southpaw
- Craig's review of Point Break
- Craig's review of Boyhood
- Craig's review of Whiplash
- Craig's review of A Monster Calls
- Craig's review of Spectre
- Craig's review of Pixels
- Craig's review of The Danish Girl
- Craig's review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Craig's review of Snowpiercer
- Craig's review of The Shape of Water
- Craig's review of How To Train Your Dragon 2
- Craig's review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
- Craig's review of the Martian
- Craig's review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
- Craig's review of The Giver
Podcasts
- The 200th podcast
- Craig's interview with Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester and Butch Lukic for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Craig's interview with Nolan North for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- Craig’s interview with Katherine McNamara
- Craig’s interview with Troy Baker
- WandaVision
- Star Trek (2009)
- Star Trek Into Darkness
- Star Trek Beyond
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – first podcast and second podcast
- Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
- Thor: Ragnarok
- Eternals
- Thor: Love and Thunder
- Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
- The Marvels
- Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
- Star Trek: Picard season 1
- Star Trek: Picard season 2
- Star Trek: Picard season 3
- Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers
- Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
Trailers
- The First Omen
- Mickey’s Mouse Trap
- Lisa Frankenstein
- Abigail
- Air Force One Down
- The Gentlemen
- Road House
- Constellation
- Upgraded
- Hit Man
- Tuesday
- Stopmotion
- Immaculate
- Ripley
- Avatar: The Last Airbender
- Ricky Stanicky
- Monkey Man
- Spaceman
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
- Arcane
- 3 Body Problem
News
- Steven Yeun no longer starring in Thunderbolts
- John Ridley scrapped Marvel series
- Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow potential casting
- Star Trek origin story movie in the works
- A Star Trek: Picard movie script in the works
- The Mandalorian and Grogu movie announced
- Ahsoka season 2 confirmed
- Millie Gibson leaving Doctor Who to be succeeded by Varada Sethu
- Oscar Nominations
- The Avengers reboot in the works
- Alice Lowe’s Timestalker
- John Krasinski and Natalie Portman to star in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth
- Christopher Landon in talks to direct Werewolf movie Big Bad
- Jenna Ortega in talks to join Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun
- Honey Don’t
- Paul Mescal to play Shakespeare I'm Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet
- Jacob Elordi replacing Andrew Garfield in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
- Gerard Butler reprising his role in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon
- 28 Years Later in the works
- The Last of Us season 2 casting
- Kate McKinnon and Jemaine Clement cast in Minecraft
- Until Dawn movie adaptation in the works
- Mortal Kombat 2 casting
- Julia Garner joins Leigh Whanell’s Wolf Man
- Gillian Anderson joins Tron: Ares
- Our Little Secret
- Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell & Jack Lowden join Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper
- David Koepp writing new Jurassic World movie
- Fast 11 will go “back to basics”
- Jennifer Lopez to produce Bob the Builder movie
Misc
- The referenced video analysing Arcane's animation
- The Chinese 3 Body Problem adaptation
- Sam Witwer talking about Star Wars continuity
- The Uncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion
- The College Humour The Sims trailer
- The college Humour Minesweeper trailer
- Aubrey Plaza and Jenna Ortega presenting an award
- Millie Gibson's Letterboxd
- Craig's "Grief and the Multiverse" article comparing Happy Death Day 2 U and Avengers: Endgame
Music
- Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the “Jurassic Park theme” and his YouTube channel
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Monday Jan 29, 2024
Doctor Who 60th anniversary...and Christmas Specials (260)
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Monday Jan 29, 2024
Doctor Who recently celebrated its 60th anniversary and began a new era with the 2023 Christmas special. Kneel Before Pod breaks this down with special guest Darren Mooney. The conversation covers bringing back fan-favourite actors and showrunners, the show's future and debates about canon.
Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter.
Welcome to Darren Mooney. His words can be found on 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.
Show Notes
TV Reviews
- Craig’s review of Doctor Who – “The Star Beast”
- Craig’s review of Doctor Who – “Wild Blue Yonder”
- Craig’s review of Doctor Who – “The Giggle
- Craig’s Doctor Who reviews
Movie Reviews
Podcasts
Misc
Music
- Tardis71’s cover of the “Doctor Who theme” and their YouTube channel
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Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Interview With Nolan North
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Wednesday Jan 24, 2024
Recently, Craig had the pleasure of talking to Nolan North, the voice of Hal Jordan aka Green Lantern in the latest DC animated movie Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1. The conversation covers researching a role, finding a character's voice and attending Scottish weddings.
Show Notes
- Craig's review of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- The trailer for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2
- Nolan's Twitter
- Nolan's Instagram
- Nolan's IMDb
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Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Interview with Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester and Butch Lukic
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Sunday Jan 21, 2024
Recently, Craig had the pleasure of talking to Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester and Butch Lukic; writer, director and supervising producer respectively on the latest DC animated movie Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1. The conversation covers their approach to adapting a massive event, finding the emotional core and teases for the remaining two parts.
Show Notes
- Craig's review of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
- The trailer for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 2
- Jeff's IMDb
- Jeff's Twitter
- Jim's IMDb
- Jim's Twitter
- Butch's IMDb
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Friday Jan 05, 2024
Interview with John Billingsley
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Friday Jan 05, 2024
Recently, Craig had the pleasure of talking to John Billingsley, most famous for playing Doctor Phlox on Star Trek Enterprise. The conversation covers being part of the Star Trek family, his experience of being a character actor and the charities he supports.
Show Notes
- John's IMDb
- John's Twitter
- John's Instagram
- The Delta Flyers PANCAN episode
- The Hollywood Food Coalition website
- The Trek Talks website
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