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It is a very special episode on the podcast this week as Dan and Simon go crazy for a new Spider-Man animated film - could it be a Best Picture film? The two also talk about a new Netflix film with a very saucy title.

This week’s reviews:


Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
The Year I Started Masturbating
Deadloch
The Boogeyman

Intermission:

Dan and Simon discuss highpoints of masturbation on the screen.

This week on the podcast Dan gets his cranky pants on about just about every show and movie discussed on the podcast. And then in the Intermission Dan and Simon ask what shows need to be put out of their misery and ended ASAP.

Up for review:


The Little Mermaid (In cinemas now)
Gremlins: Secrets of The Mogwai (Max in the US, Binge in Aus)
FUBAR (Netflix)
American Born Chinese (Disney+)
Renfield (In cinemas now)

This week Simon takes a bold stance against reviewing Fast X. And Dan says ‘Good for you, pal”.

But then they actually do review some films and TV.


The Mother (Netflix)
High Desert (Apple TV+)
Limbo (In cinemas now)
Platonic (Apple TV+)

There’s our weekly Intermission segment where we ask what families we’d follow in a Family Stallone style reality show. And then Simon starts betraying the entire premise of the segment by pitching reality shows about foreign embassies.

Oh, and there’s also mentions of Smurfs at some stage.

Expect a lot of discussion around Muppets this week on the podcast. So, so much discussion.

Reviews include:


The Muppets Mayhem (Disney+)
Hypnotic (in cinemas now)
City On Fire (Apple TV+)
Still: A Michael J Fox Story (Apple TV+)

It’s a monster week for reviews this week with one especially huge Marvel movie at the cinema and some very big titles debuting on TV. Just two notes for this episode that I (co-host Dan Barrett) think are hugely worth making mention of:

1. We review both the TV show Slip and the movie Beau is Afraid. Both involve Zoe Lister Jones and somehow Dan neglects to mention this fact during the podcast. What a fool.

2. The review for Beau Is Afraid does involve some minor-ish spoilers. So, keep that in mind. The film is a few weeks into release, so if it sounds interesting, perhaps go see it pretty soon.

This week Dan and Simon review:


Bupkis (Peacock in the US, Binge in Australia)
Guardians of The Galaxy vol 3 (In cinemas now)
Silo (Apple TV+)
Olga (In cinemas now)
Slip (Roku Channel in the US, Binge on Australia)
Beau Is Afraid (In cinemas now)

Dan and Simon (that’d be co-host Simon Foster) also discuss the WGA strike - what do the writers want and how will the strike impact what we see?

This week on the podcast, Dan and Simon roll up their sleeves and get busy with the reviews:


Ghosted (Apple TV+)
Mrs Davis (Peacock in the US, Stan in Australia)
80 For Brady (In cinemas now)
Fatal Attraction (Paramount+)
The Diplomat

In this week’s intermission, Dan and Simon go on to consider beloved movies from the past with a very specific idea they wanted to put forth and how well does it hold up today.