This week’s show tackles faith, the nature of reality and how to pronounce director’s names – all areas that we’re pretty confident we’ll have sorted out by the time we finish our review of Ava DuVernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time” where we find out if
Animation is serious business so this week we scrutinise the trailers for Ralph Breaks The Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 and BallMastrz: 9009 through the lenses of our stop-motion microscopes. After that we dissect Crunchyroll’s Anime Awards for 2017 as we really want to know why
We begin this episode with the shocking revelation that schools are teaching children to not only read classic literature, but to understand it as well. The surprises continue when we discover a surprising inclusion in an Indian children’s book about inspirational leaders, and that Beatrix
We like to cover the full spectrum of cinema on this show, and any episode which begins with a Palme d’Or winner and ends with an infamously campy teen incest melodrama certainly qualifies. The former is our Film of the Week – Ruben Östlund’s “The
Confusion reigns this week as the alcohol flows (for one of us anyway), wigs are glued and Reboot gets a reboot. In other news, Sega and Paramount pictures pick up the gauntlet thrown by Nintendo and announce a Sonic the Hedgehog feature film, and Kumo
Kicking things off is the news that there’s a new fantasy sheriff in town – or there will be soon as Discworld’s Ankh-Morpork City Watch are getting their own TV series (which makes us very, very happy). After that we discover that someone else has
Keyframe rides again, and this time we’ve got a new of our conga line as we parade through multi-sensory theme park attractions, Bob Marley’s music, samurai bunnies and a new animated feature set on Hawaii during Halloween that has a suitably cringe-worthy name (see if
After a decent hiatus for showbiz purposes, our infamous books, arts and culture podcast returns with all of the panache of a drunken screening of a Carry On movie. Kicking off the news for 2018 is Grr Martin’s hint that the long-awaited The Winds of
Now that we’ve got the good and bad of 2017 out of the way we have to resume normal service … for a given value of normal that is! This week we cast our eyes (which are admittedly in various states of working order), over
We’ve kicked arse, so now it’s time for the second half of our look back at anime in 2017 and the better things that were released during the year. Get ready to take some names because it’s time for the good stuff! Tune in to