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39 years to go until the big day and Kneel Before Pod continues our annual coverage of Star Trek to celebrate. This year we cover Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The conversation covers Star Trek making the jump to the big screen, the potential loss of this sort of storytelling and pacing.
Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Angus Ballantine can be found on this very site and over on SoundCloud.
Show Notes
Reviews
Craig's reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Craig's review of Arrival
Podcasts
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 VI: The Undiscovered Country
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis
Misc
The Star Trek Into Darkness honest trailer
The Star Trek Into Darkness How It Should Have Ended
Music
Captain_Meatshield’s cover of the “First Contact” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation“ theme and his YouTube channel
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March 2024 is behind us and as usual, Kneel Before Pod covers the news and trailers contained within. The conversation covers quantity over quality, guaranteed hits and awards paydays.
Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Kat Kourbetti can be found on Twitter and elsewhere under here. Bo Nicholson's projects can be found on his Linktree. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter.
Show Notes
TV Reviews
Andrew's reviews of Titans
Movie Reviews
Craig's review of The Burning Season
Craig's review of Upgraded
Graeme’s review of Ghostbusters (2016)
Craig’s review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Craig’s review of Guardians of the Galaxy
Craig’s review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2
Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
Craig’s review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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 Madame Web
Craig's review of Wonder Woman
Craig’s review of Wonder Woman 1984
Craig’s review of The Suicide Squad
Craig’s review of The Batman
Craig’s review of The Flash
Craig’s review of Luck
Craig’s review of Tetris
Craig’s review of Mad Max: Fury Road
Craig’s review of Paddington
Craig’s review of Paddington 2
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 Top Gun: Maverick
Craig's review of Inside Out
Craig's review of Soul
Craig's review of Alien: Covenant
Craig's review of Blade Runner 2049
Craig's review of It Follows
Craig's review of Don't Breathe
Craig's review of Dunkirk
Podcasts
Craig's interview with The Burning Season cast and crew
Doctor Who 60th anniversary...and Christmas Specials
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
The Marvels
Venom
Madame Web
The Suicide Squad
The Batman
The Flash
Our Alien Day coverage
Jingle All The Way
Christmas Movie Writer's Room 2023
Misc
Miniminuteman
Worldcon
The Full Lid - Alasdair Stewart
The Functional Nerds podcast
Camestros Felapton
The "I'm Just Ken" Oscars performance
Arnie, Danny Devito and Michael Keaton at the Oscars
Trailers
Girls State
Arcadian
The Crow
I Saw The TV Glow
The Watched
The Strangers: Chapter 1
The Idea Of You
The Greatest Hits
The Wild Robot
Sugar
Sing Sing
Atlas
Fallout
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver
The Acolyte
Inside Out 2
Kaos
You Shall Not Sleep Tonight
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Alien: Romulus
The Penguin
Doctor Who
News
Marvel to take less risks and focus on guaranteed hits (rumour)
Venom 3 gets a title
Superman: Legacy title change
Wendell Pierce cast as Perry White in Superman
Live action Teen Titans movie in the works
Oscar winners
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron back in development
David Dastmalchian cast in Murderbot
Ming-Na Wen cast in Karate Kid
Joshua Jackson cast in Karate Kid
A Freaky Friday sequel in development
The Twilight reboot will be animated
Unfrosted: The Pop Tart Story
Christopher Nolan rumoured to direct a remake of The Prisoner
Arnie cast in The Man With The Bag
House of Guinness
Ari Aster’s Eddington cast
The Unknown
Popeye live action movie in development
Among Us animated series cast
Neve Campbell back for Scream 7
Poohniverse horror crossover announced
Music
Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the “Superman Theme” and his YouTube channel
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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
Craig's review of Logan
Craig's review of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Podcasts
Logan
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Craig's interview with John Semper Jr.
Misc
The Japanese intro
Music
Dave Deville's cover of the "X-Men theme" and his YouTube channel
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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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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 Lant

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
If you enjoyed what you heard here, please subscribe to Kneel Before Pod. If you have any feedback then we’d love to hear it. You can find us on Facebook ,Twitter and BlueSky. You can also make yourself known in the comments section below or you can join us on Discord.