0:02

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0:04

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0:06

odds, overcame slavers and

0:09

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0:12

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1:02

and welcome to the IGN UK

1:04

podcast. It's time for our big

1:06

look ahead at everything coming out

1:08

in 2024, all the games, TV,

1:11

and films that you may or may not

1:13

be excited for. Do you know what I'm

1:15

excited for, though? Matt Perzlow, you're back. Oh,

1:17

hello. I've missed you. You've missed

1:19

me. Wow. Yeah. I've

1:22

only been away for, what, like two weeks? Is he back for the audience?

1:24

Or how long has it been since you've been on a podcast? Oh,

1:26

I don't know. Were you on the games one? I was.

1:29

What was that? Two weeks? It's

1:31

probably about a month now. Wow. Matt,

1:33

we haven't spoken about this yet, but I

1:35

hear that you and one, Gavin Murphy, were

1:37

the exact same flight to Minnesota? That

1:40

is an odd coincidence. Yeah, yeah. I was

1:42

on a flight out, and it not only

1:44

turned out that he was in the airport

1:46

with me, but then it turned

1:48

out he was in the seat behind me. Oh, the seat?

1:51

Oh, yeah. That's even weird. And I did

1:53

say to him, I was like, I did know that you

1:55

were both going there around the same time and then never

1:57

pieced it together. I

2:00

suppose they probably only have like one flight a

2:02

day to Minnesota from London I guess it's not

2:04

that many of them. But yeah it was then

2:06

a case of sort of like then meeting up

2:08

again in the immigration queue and because Gavin behind

2:10

me was like oh I saw you watch X,

2:13

Y and Z let's have a chat about X,

2:15

Y and Z. There

2:17

you go what a lovely little

2:19

coincidence. Do you know some

2:21

of the stuff you didn't watch or play though is all

2:23

the stuff we're gonna talk about here because it's not out

2:25

yet I'd imagine so unless it was a time traveling plane.

2:29

Sorry I want to interrupt this. Matt

2:32

were you on a virgin flight? It wasn't it was

2:34

a Delta. I like it. I've got a virgin flight

2:36

in a couple of weeks and I want to know

2:38

what films are on there. I

2:41

wish that it's one of those

2:43

things where you can book through Virgin but it's

2:45

always operated by Delta to Minnesota. In

2:48

Catch Up they'll probably have all the Oscar nominees I think.

2:50

Catch up with a couple of those. All the films we're

2:52

not allowed to watch at home. That's

2:54

our watch. There we go. There we go.

2:57

I've only like to talk about Grot. It's not

2:59

Grot. I just mean like things that you can't

3:01

do that on a plane. You can't be that

3:03

boring. Let anyone has

3:05

watched Grot on a plane. I'm not

3:08

letting you start this podcast. We're keeping this track going.

3:10

We've got a lot to get through here. A

3:13

frankly exhaustive list of all the stuff coming out

3:15

this year or potentially going on here. Oh

3:18

I get on with it. Yeah let's do it. First let's

3:21

talk about the games first. A

3:24

lot of games looking to come out this year.

3:26

I mean it doesn't look like it might. You

3:28

know last year was a particularly outstanding year for

3:31

new games right. But this year I think there's

3:33

some good looking ones but maybe a lot hasn't

3:35

been revealed yet. I don't know.

3:37

It's looking a little emptier but there is some good stuff. So let's

3:40

start with I mean literally today

3:42

I think Prince of Purge the Lost Crown is

3:44

out so it's hardly an upcoming one. But Dale

3:47

you've been playing quite a bit of it and you

3:49

like it. Yeah I really like it. Yeah. I'm

3:52

surprised as well how dense it is

3:54

as well. Like obviously when this first

3:56

got announced there's like a tinge of

3:58

disappointment. in the air because it was

4:00

a 2D Metro-Ovenia Prince

4:02

of Persia. I

4:05

did not share in that sentiment. I always thought it

4:07

looked pretty cool. Matt, you got to go and play

4:09

it and you came back saying

4:11

you thought it was pretty good. Yeah, yeah.

4:13

And I like wholeheartedly agree.

4:15

I will say it is

4:18

Metroid-ass Metroidvania. It's the most video

4:20

gamey video game that come out

4:22

this year, which obviously is at

4:24

the very start. But yeah, it's

4:26

so mechanical heavy, right? Yeah. But

4:28

I would say it's, if you're

4:30

a fan of that genre and

4:32

I am, like I usually try

4:34

to play them every now and

4:36

again, it's really good fun.

4:38

And I think it feels fluid, it feels

4:41

fast, like getting around

4:43

it's always exciting. That Metro-Ovenia thing of always

4:45

seeing the thing that you can interact with,

4:48

but knowing that you can't do it yet. And then

4:50

when you get that tool and then you get to

4:52

go back there, that always like ticks a box for

4:54

me. I don't know why it's really satisfying. It wasn't

4:56

really on my radar, but everyone seems to be loving

4:58

it so much that I feel like I'm going to

5:00

need to play it at some point.

5:02

I will say it's huge. Like, so I am,

5:05

I think there's a tracker and I think I'm at

5:07

like 45% right now, but I feel like I've been

5:09

playing it for at least 10 hours so far. And

5:11

like, this is like in terms

5:13

of Metroidvania length, like it feels like a

5:15

huge one. And obviously you have that world

5:17

map where you know, you're walking from

5:20

area to area and you expand out as you go.

5:22

It is massive where I'm at. So much so that

5:24

it's quite daunting sometimes when I could see an I-card

5:26

all the way on the other side of the map

5:28

and I'm like, Jesus, that's going to take me ages

5:31

to get there. I've seen quite a few Hollow Knight

5:33

comparisons, which I wasn't expecting. And I do think Hollow

5:35

Knight is fantastic. It really reminds me,

5:37

did you ever play Guacamelee? Yes.

5:39

And again, just the Metro-Ovenia, right? So that's

5:41

obvious why they're comparable, but it really reminds

5:44

me of that in terms of how the

5:46

combat works as well. Like it is very

5:48

action heavy as well as platforming and puzzle

5:50

heavy. And it really reminds me of

5:52

that. Like Guacamelee had a lot of that, obviously doing

5:54

wrestling moves and stuff. But yeah, I

5:57

would say if you like to Guacamelee and you like to play, then you can

5:59

do it. like Metrovenus in general, this is definitely worth having

6:01

a look at. I also think

6:03

kind of like in the limited that I play,

6:05

because I played it at preview and have also

6:08

played probably about the first three hours of the

6:10

main build, it's

6:12

definitely got the difficulty kind

6:14

of like ramp that Hollow

6:16

Knight has. It's got some

6:19

relatively challenging bosses and when the

6:21

platforming gets tricky, it really does

6:23

get tricky. So I think

6:25

if you've got the patience for that and the

6:27

determination to get through it, I do think

6:29

it's a good example of this. They do

6:31

have great accessibility options though as well. So

6:33

I'm playing it on normal, but

6:36

I did, there was this area where I was

6:38

really struggling to get through a platforming section and

6:40

then it popped up with a prompt saying, oh,

6:42

you can actually create portals that zip you from

6:44

one past these puzzles. And not that I

6:46

wasn't like initially thinking, oh, I'm going to use

6:48

this, but I did was curious or how it

6:50

works. I turned it on and it just

6:52

like you create support, it just zips you straight past that puzzle

6:55

onto the other side of it. And I'm like,

6:57

yeah, I wouldn't use this all the time. But if you're

6:59

going around at the end, like trying to get around places

7:01

quick, this could be like really handy. And also if you're

7:03

struggling with it and you just want to carry on with

7:05

the game, it's there for you as well. There

7:07

we go. You can, that's not even upcoming this year.

7:10

You can play that now. There's a free demo as

7:12

well. I think you can check out if you're interested.

7:15

We've got also got in January, we've got the last

7:17

as part two remastered. We all love the last as

7:20

part two, probably play again at

7:22

some point. Looking forward to checking out the

7:24

new stuff as well. Like

7:26

a Dragon Infinite Wealth is also this month. I

7:28

can't, I know I'm going to, so

7:31

I recently finished Like a Dragon. Yakuza's

7:34

Like a Dragon on the game out three years ago, the

7:36

first turn based one. And it

7:38

took me three years to get through it all in the

7:40

end because it would be a game I'd always come back

7:42

to when I wasn't playing any other games. And I absolutely

7:44

loved it. So yeah, I know this one is going to

7:47

be a game I'll probably love again. And

7:49

you know, it'll probably take me the whole year

7:51

to finish it because these are dense games. But

7:53

yeah, this one has a whole Animal Crossing sim

7:55

in it. So God knows how much time we're

7:58

going to lose on that. Animal

8:00

Crossing sim as in it

8:03

has an island you can go to where you build

8:05

a whole resort and everything. It

8:08

looks ridiculous. These

8:10

games are known for their extensive mini games

8:13

that are essentially games of in games. They're

8:15

hardly mini games but yeah, this one looks

8:17

ridiculous. I've never played like a Yakuza game

8:19

or like a Dragon. But I am fascinated

8:21

by the churn. This

8:23

one's in Hawaii. How fast they

8:25

turn these games around and how dense they

8:27

are in terms of gameplay mechanics. They must

8:29

have so many people working on those games.

8:32

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I'm sure we'll talk

8:34

about it in a couple weeks but yeah,

8:36

I can't. It's just looks

8:38

so much fun. Also, January,

8:41

Tekken 8 is out. We're not

8:43

really the three of us anyway aren't

8:45

huge fighting game fans necessarily, but I did

8:47

grow up on Tekken. I just I

8:50

can't see myself jumping back in. I don't

8:52

know about you guys. I like fighting games

8:54

but I've in my age now I've sort

8:56

of resigned myself to I just play the

8:58

Mortal Kombat now really like so I've like

9:01

Street Fighter's passed me by a little bit and yeah

9:04

Tekken probably the same. I was the same as you

9:06

in PS1 and PS2. I play Tekken

9:09

Loads but yeah, I don't know if I'll be

9:11

going to this to be honest. I

9:13

have never played a single second of a Tekken

9:15

game. Whoa. Oh,

9:17

well, maybe this is your year.

9:21

February, I'll probably jump into Persona 3 reload just

9:23

because I love Persona 3, but I did only

9:25

play it last year when they put them out

9:27

on Switch. So I don't know if I need

9:29

to play the remake again so soon, but if

9:31

you haven't played a Persona game before then

9:33

this could be you know, it's a good one to jump in

9:35

on because it's a little bit simpler a

9:37

little bit more streamlined than four or five and

9:39

I say a little bit shorter. It's still like

9:41

a 60 70 hour game. There's not

9:44

100. Very, very good. If you're

9:46

into that. February Suicide

9:48

Squad, I say February, I think if

9:50

you get early access, it's 30th of

9:52

January. So the Suicide

9:54

Squad Kill Justice League is a game

9:56

that's recently been previewed by people. I haven't played it

9:59

yet. Not being

10:01

greeted in the most shining of lights,

10:03

we can say. They

10:06

do actually lift the alpha on the technical,

10:09

the DNA, the NDA on the technical alpha

10:11

that happened recently. I know Matt, you played

10:13

a bit of that, so you could give

10:15

some very brief thoughts if you wanted on

10:17

the Suicide Squad game. I thought it was

10:19

bad. Oh no. I

10:22

really, like, with

10:24

him, I so badly want this game to be good

10:26

just because I love Rock Steady so much. But

10:29

like, I cannot believe

10:32

the trajectory from Arkham

10:35

Knight, one of my favourite

10:37

games, particularly of that

10:39

generation, down to this. A

10:41

game where, so I played the entirety of what

10:43

was available in that alpha, and

10:46

basically all I did was shoot monsters

10:49

with guns. And that is not really

10:51

what I expect out of a comic

10:53

book based thing. Like, none

10:55

of the characters, each of the characters do

10:57

have kind of like their own unique kind

10:59

of spin. But ultimately that's

11:01

more about kind of movement and

11:03

their occasional melee. It is mostly

11:05

a game about shooting things with big guns. And

11:08

it felt very arcade fronted, and

11:10

it was just like, go

11:13

to this area and shoot X amount of

11:15

monsters until you could progress to the next

11:17

area to shoot X amount of monsters. I

11:20

really genuinely think this is... Obviously

11:23

it's a small section I've seen, but

11:25

that small section I thought was actively

11:27

bad, not just disappointing. Yeah. Well,

11:30

there we go. We'll see in a few weeks when

11:32

there have been a lot of people who are like,

11:34

maybe when you pay it from

11:36

the start, build your own character, build a thing,

11:38

it could be bad. All of those stats in

11:40

that game look horrible. There's already been lots of

11:42

jokes made about the state of that HUD and

11:44

that UI, just the amount of stuff there. Five

11:47

different currencies in the game. The gun

11:49

thing is fascinating to me because a

11:52

common complaint everyone's saying is like, all you do

11:54

is just shoot and things. It's like, well, you

11:56

could describe lots of games like that and you

11:58

don't have that complaint there. But I think it's

12:01

the... expectation that you come into this with right

12:03

the fact that well they're super well the Arkham

12:05

games are so varied in what you're doing and

12:07

how you do it right and they mix up

12:09

and yeah okay there's a there's a Riddler trophy

12:11

to solve over here then now I'm gonna do

12:13

a stalking stealth mission now I'm

12:15

doing you know out and out brawling combat

12:18

not one see you yeah just mowing

12:20

down people with Gatling yeah I was

12:22

definitely like there's some Riddler elements

12:24

in that game as you'd expect at least

12:26

what I got to play and there is

12:29

very different activities but they felt a lot

12:31

like the way that destiny puts its activities

12:34

together which is it's all about shooting waves

12:36

of enemies and if

12:38

I'm playing as King shark yeah what I

12:40

want to do is go around and beat

12:42

things up and chomp their heads off if

12:44

I'm playing Harley Quinn I want to be

12:46

hitting things with the biggest mallet possible if

12:48

I'm you know playing as Captain Boomerang I

12:50

want the boomerang to be my main thing

12:53

and it just isn't the case here they

12:55

all use some of the

12:57

ugliest guns I've ever seen in a

12:59

video game they're so badly designs

13:01

like yeah it's not yeah

13:04

I want to have so badly be optimistic

13:06

yeah but every time I see us get

13:08

my own but what we're

13:10

only a few weeks away now so we'll

13:12

find out soon what the complete package is like

13:14

um hell divers 2

13:17

is also February one of like PlayStation's

13:19

exclusives for this year did you

13:21

guys play much hell divers one all but

13:23

also I don't think it massively aren't they two

13:26

very differently designed out to very the yes the

13:28

first one was like a top-down this one's behind

13:31

the shoulder third person one co-op she

13:33

aware you're but it's kind of a little

13:35

bit Starship troopers right yeah yeah I might

13:38

give it a go I can't sound overly

13:40

excited if it turns

13:42

up on PlayStation Plus it's absolutely something I'll play

13:45

but it's not necessarily something I'm gonna seek out

13:48

no no no no banishes

13:50

ghosts of New England England sorry

13:52

not New England yeah can't speak

13:54

now banishes ghosts of New Eden

13:58

is a game coming out in February which me

14:00

and Matt you've both seen and

14:02

I proved it for you, it was

14:04

pretty cool, a little bit of God of War there, a little bit

14:06

of Witcher there, kind of some good third

14:09

person action cross with like don't

14:11

nod sort of like choice based storytelling

14:14

and it seemed like it would it

14:16

seemed, I wouldn't say I think this is going to be an amazing game

14:18

but it looked like one of those pretty good

14:21

like seven out of ten games that people

14:23

at the end of the year would go

14:25

oh you should check this out. I think

14:27

if you liked Vampyr or Vampire however you

14:29

pronounce their kind of a weirder more actiony

14:31

kind of focused game that they had, this

14:34

felt like it was a step up over

14:36

that and potentially kind of more what

14:39

that should have been ideally in terms

14:41

of a better balance of combat that

14:43

actually felt like it could be good

14:45

and the narrative stuff. It's one

14:48

I'll check out, I don't know if I'll tell you

14:50

that because February's looking absolutely packed at the moment, might

14:52

be one that I check out later in the year

14:54

but I'm always up for a third person story

14:57

driven action game so I'll give it

14:59

a look. Do you like PlayStation games

15:02

Simon? I do like PlayStation

15:04

games yes. Skull

15:08

and Bones is February, finally is

15:11

it though? I

15:13

can't imagine if they delayed it again.

15:16

Is it six, seven delays? Six delays

15:18

so far. Oh my lord.

15:20

I just don't think this is

15:23

for me, I'm sure it'll be one of

15:25

those Ubisoft games you know like For Honor

15:27

and the crew has like there's always like

15:29

a million people playing it and you've never

15:31

met any of them. Yeah I don't know, I'm

15:33

always like very I don't know skeptical of those

15:35

when you hear those things. Obviously they are, they're

15:37

supporting them right so they must have a client

15:39

base there but yeah like you said

15:41

you never meet anyone, I've literally never met anyone

15:44

in my life who plays For Honor. I

15:47

mean if you don't, it's kind of

15:49

the black Assassin's Creed black flag spin-off

15:51

pirate ship game where you're going around

15:53

being a pirate. You'll

15:55

remember it from its announcement in 2017. And

16:00

when I give it a go... ...and when it looked completely

16:02

different in 2018... I'll probably give it a go just out

16:05

of interest to say I played Skull and Bones. You know

16:07

what I mean? But, I don't know. I

16:09

can't say I'm overly enthralled by the

16:11

prospects of it. Yeah,

16:13

there we go. Pacific Drive does look interesting

16:15

though. You guys look quite good, right? Yeah, I

16:17

really like the look of this. It's got a

16:19

vibe. Survival horror

16:22

car driving game? It's got

16:25

like a synthwave retro futuristic

16:27

aesthetic, right? The car is

16:30

very... The DeLorean from

16:32

Back to the Future. But it

16:34

has almost a stranger things-ish horror vibe to

16:36

the world that you're driving through. Horror of

16:39

the world, sort of. Yeah, yeah, I know.

16:41

And obviously see that. Yeah,

16:43

I'm going to check this out. It's...

16:45

Yeah, it just looks intriguing. You

16:48

going to check this one out though? You look

16:50

a bit horror. You look a bit of a

16:53

driver. You're the main driver. I genuinely think with

16:55

this game, like, I could either love it or

16:58

hate it. Like, I don't

17:00

know. Something about it or... I'm very

17:02

cautious about it. But I am

17:04

intrigued, so I definitely want to check it out.

17:06

But I do worry that I might hate it.

17:08

It's got like a slightly immersive

17:11

simmish look to it in the fact that it's

17:13

all in first person. You... I think part of

17:15

it is going to be actually maintaining and looking

17:17

after the car in the way that... Jalopy,

17:20

if you remember Jalopy, which is the game

17:22

about travelling across Europe. I think

17:24

it was in an old banger that you'd have to

17:26

maintain and repair. It looks like it

17:28

might have a bit of that to it. And that appeals

17:30

to me in a weird way. I'm

17:33

going to check it out again. So many games. I'll try

17:35

and check it all out. I think one... All

17:38

three of us definitely will be checking out his Final

17:40

Fantasy 7. Nah. You

17:43

know, not interested in that one. Decided

17:45

I'm done now. We remake with... It

17:47

looks decent. Yeah, I'm very excited. You

17:49

two are the big Final Fantasy fans

17:52

here. Whereas I am a

17:54

relative newcomer. But I love the part... I

17:57

love part one so much that... Yeah,

17:59

just can't... with this. Now finally I've never

18:01

played the intermission stuff so I'm gonna

18:03

do that in the run up just to get

18:05

my more just get in tune back with the

18:08

combat I think than anything. Yeah maybe that's a

18:10

good shot I was gonna say don't bother but

18:12

if you want to do I get yourself back

18:14

into the swing of things although say that it'll

18:16

be so heavily tutorialized at the start of Rebirth.

18:18

You'd think so but yeah you must be quite

18:20

excited. I think it's a

18:22

more excited not necessarily for the game

18:25

that that was

18:27

and like the game it's trying to replicate but for

18:29

what the game where the game could go considering

18:31

what they did at the end of remake it's

18:33

now it's like yes you know you're gonna get

18:35

to revisit all that you're

18:38

gonna get to see like modern versions of the things

18:40

you remember as a kid but now it's like what's

18:42

actually gonna happen in them what's like that is

18:44

filling me with a lot of intrigue and hopefully

18:46

it's good it's gonna be long I

18:49

know that I bet you it's gonna be like 80 hour

18:51

game. Yeah I think they've said that

18:53

you can finish it in 40 but I

18:55

think the actual game is supposed to be

18:57

kind of like 80 hours because obviously we're

18:59

finally out in the open world. Final Fantasy

19:01

7 traditionally is obviously technically an open world

19:03

and that it has an overworld but there's

19:05

not a lot to do well there's nothing

19:08

to do in that overworld other than fight

19:10

enemies until you go to locations

19:12

so it'll be interesting to see how

19:14

they've transformed the overworld into an actual

19:16

open world I'm very intrigued about that

19:19

but a lot of a lot

19:21

of my interest is it

19:23

will be the adaptation of arguably the most

19:26

interesting part of the original game it's got

19:28

all of the kind of big beats are

19:30

gonna be in this section including

19:32

meeting my favorite character Sid I love Sid

19:35

so much and we'll get to have hopefully

19:38

all of the Rocket Town stuff and palm

19:40

being hit by a bus okay

19:43

I can't wait for that this is all new to

19:45

me so I you're

19:48

gonna really like the

19:50

gold sauce it's

19:52

a big theme part I don't know what that

19:54

I don't know what you're trying to say about

19:56

me it looked colorful it's a theme part with

19:59

with like loads and loads of minigames.

20:01

Okay, yeah. What's the, in

20:04

the first part, what's the town you go to

20:07

before the Bumble, the Beast, what's that place? Wall

20:09

Market. So that was my favourite part

20:11

of the part one. So

20:13

if it's like that, then I'll put it there.

20:16

There's a haunted house hotel. There's like a big,

20:18

there's a theatre stage where they put on a

20:20

play. I'm into it. There's that big mad house

20:22

you're fighting it again. I

20:25

mean, that's just like a regular enemy that popped up

20:27

in the original. So now they've made it a pop

20:29

battle in this. But yeah, although I've definitely have like

20:31

a, oh, there is a battle arena, isn't there in,

20:34

in gold source? Yeah. That's where you get the, some

20:36

of your ultimate limo breaks like level four limo

20:39

breaks as well. So I'm just looking forward to

20:41

spending lots and lots of time with Aerith. I

20:43

mean, you're going to spend a lot of time

20:45

with this game for sure. Yeah. I'm sure nothing

20:47

bad will happen. There

20:50

we go. Looking further

20:52

ahead, we've got in March, princess

20:55

peach showtime. It's looking quite quiet for

20:57

Nintendo, but for reasons we might talk

21:00

about a little bit later about what

21:02

might be coming this year. But

21:05

it's anyone I, I watched a trailer for

21:07

princess peach showtime. I was like, I'm not sure this

21:09

is, you know, I like Nintendo, but it looks a

21:11

little bit, I don't know. I don't

21:13

want to say basic, but I was watching.

21:15

I was like, it's a little boring.

21:17

Is that fair to say? Yeah. Is it

21:19

like it was a, it's a

21:22

platformer though, right? Like, yeah. And you change

21:24

costumes and you get different abilities. Perfect. It

21:26

might be a little bit of like a

21:28

little, like a media molecule sort of game

21:30

or a sack boy sort of game. Yeah. And

21:32

I mean the level, the level layouts and stuff

21:35

look like kind of rudimentary. I'm not too excited

21:37

for this one, but you know,

21:39

as I say, we'll talk a bit more about

21:41

Nintendo in a little bit alone in the dark.

21:44

Anyone, anyone? I've got my

21:46

eye on it, but yeah, exactly. I, I

21:49

saw a bunch of it at games com

21:51

not last year, but the year before. And

21:54

what they were saying about it has me

21:56

like interested, but then since then the

21:58

more that I kind of seen it, I think this

22:00

has the chance of falling

22:03

flat. I mean game David Harbour

22:05

and Jodie Comer those are two

22:08

Quite like reasonably well-known names and especially on Jodie

22:10

Comer's but I think like a fantastic actress I

22:12

don't know what don't know how much they've paid

22:15

her to do this Well, that's another part that

22:17

concerns me though the desperation of that move potentially

22:19

like yes It could be they just want really

22:21

good at it or it could be we need

22:23

faces in this to sell this game You

22:27

know, I don't have really a historic connection

22:29

to the alone and the dark series. So

22:31

I know yeah I'm sure people enjoy

22:33

it last year was a great year for horror. So

22:35

following up on that is gonna be hard Dragons

22:39

dogma 2 is in March. I know this is

22:41

one a lot of people are

22:44

very excited for a lot of people have a lot like

22:46

almost like a cult following for the first one, right and

22:48

I Can't I'm

22:51

sure it'd be good and I'm Kind

22:53

of all play it but every time I look at the

22:55

game plan, right? This looks I don't know I know a

22:58

lot of people like kind of sight To

23:00

you for lack of a better word the jankyness of

23:02

it is what they love But I watch it. I

23:05

might this doesn't look fun. I

23:07

don't know maybe I'm yeah, maybe I'm wrong

23:09

I think part of it almost comes from

23:11

I've never finished the original dragons don't buy

23:14

but I've played a good share of them

23:17

And it does look like dragons dogma

23:19

2 is more of that game from

23:21

what I understand in development was kind

23:23

of almost Compromised a bit and they

23:25

couldn't do everything they wanted and it

23:27

feels like more than necessarily a true

23:29

sequel This is almost we've now finally

23:31

got the ability to fulfill the original

23:34

design document in its entirety So

23:36

a lot of it does look very similar to the

23:38

original game in the way that

23:41

It doesn't necessarily look like a more polished version

23:43

of the original game is just a better graphics

23:45

version So it does have a lot of that

23:47

jank. I do find that quite

23:50

endearing in its own way and the kind of

23:53

Slightly choppy climbing all over a cyclops to

23:55

stab it in the eye seven times still

23:57

appeals to me the kind of jumping on

23:59

the back of birds and hanging

24:01

off kind of flying dragons and all the monster

24:03

stuff is what appeals to me there's

24:06

a lot of kind of it Elden

24:08

Ring I think had a lot of

24:10

dragons dog mat in it and and

24:12

so therefore the kind of combination there

24:15

appeals to me and so yeah

24:17

this is one of the ones that I have

24:19

got got more than one eye on for this

24:21

year nice and

24:23

we also got rise the Ronin coming out

24:25

March another big open world action

24:29

RPG I mean so I look like

24:31

actually an RPG to me

24:33

it looks like ghosts of Tsushima actually

24:35

made by Japanese people there

24:37

we go it's from Team Ninja who have

24:40

done the neo games right and I'm not sure

24:42

if this I haven't really been pay much attention

24:45

is it this isn't really a Souls like in

24:47

any way is it Isis more Assassin's Creed yeah

24:49

I think yeah it's curious because

24:52

I don't know if you guys feel like this but I

24:54

feel like this one's slightly going under the radar a little bit

24:56

for what effectively could be like

24:58

a huge release you know but

25:01

I've not really thought about it much until

25:03

recently yeah it's a PlayStation 5 exclusive isn't

25:05

it and maybe you might

25:08

find that Sony ramps up the marketing

25:10

significantly kind of next month in February

25:12

to get ready for it but

25:14

it does feel like it could be one of

25:16

those that that really does strike out of nowhere

25:18

or a bit like because their

25:21

previous game was Wollong wasn't it which

25:24

again very much kind of just went under the

25:26

radar and there were a few diehards that went

25:28

for it but otherwise that game really

25:30

didn't get much attention at all it would be a

25:32

shame because this one does look like it it

25:35

could appeal to a much more mainstream audience

25:37

yeah in terms of release dates we know

25:40

that's kind of it for the early part of the year we

25:42

have to zip ahead for a couple more August blacksmith wukong you

25:45

played this at gamescom this year Matt and came

25:48

away thinking this could be brilliant right yeah so

25:50

long as the we didn't get to play a

25:52

lot of the exploration side of it it was

25:54

almost entirely a boss rush kind of demo situation

25:58

those bosses were fantastic if the rest

26:00

of the game which I would imagine is quite

26:02

a substantial amount of it because it won't just

26:04

be bosses with the exploration and the character design

26:06

and the leveling up and all of that. If

26:08

that is as good as the bosses then I

26:10

think this is as good a souls like as

26:12

you could get. I'm very excited

26:14

for this one it looks fantastic. I'm worried that

26:17

you came away saying this is absolutely nailed. I

26:19

want to get through it and I want to

26:21

see it all because it looks like there's some

26:23

dixie beautiful things to be seen in this game

26:25

and I don't want to be stuck on the

26:27

third boss. I feel like

26:29

Eldarring has prepared me for games like this now. If I

26:32

can do Sekiro and I've done every single

26:35

boss in Sekiro completely authentically no thing. If

26:37

I can do that you can do back

26:39

there. I know I can. It's more whether

26:42

other things will come out and I'm like I don't have time

26:44

to dedicate to this. I've recently actually been

26:46

thinking a lot about going back to Sekiro but every

26:48

time I think about it I'm like I

26:51

know I'll play it for four hours get into

26:53

the swing of it and then get distracted by

26:55

work games and then lose all my rhythm again.

26:58

And Space Marine 2. It's shaped up to be

27:01

a good year for Matt

27:03

September is Space Marine 2's release date.

27:06

Again you played it thought it was great. Looks cracking.

27:09

Yeah there we go if you want to get a

27:11

big old sword out and a big old gun

27:13

out and just absolutely demolish thousands of enemies. That's

27:16

the game for you this year I think. Here's

27:19

just a few that we think are coming this

27:21

year that don't have release dates. So my favorite

27:24

or my favorite my most anticipated. We don't know if it's

27:26

coming out this year but we're going to hear a

27:28

lot more about it next week is the Indiana Jones game.

27:31

That is my most anticipated I think.

27:34

I'm hoping because they're revealed they're doing a

27:36

full gameplay reveal now that this could be

27:38

like an October November sort of game. Don't

27:42

have any intel on that but I'm just

27:44

more hoping than anything. Obviously I love Indiana

27:46

Jones more than most things in this world

27:49

I think despite thinking the last few films

27:51

are actually quite bad. How did you get

27:53

around to seeing it? A Darl Destiny. Someone

27:56

hasn't listened to last week's pop song. Sorry. I

27:59

went to see I was so disappointed.

28:01

I thought it was arguably worse

28:03

than Crystal Skull at times. Oh

28:05

really? Yeah. But

28:07

anyway, the Indiana Jones game I'm very

28:10

excited for. Machine games, known for

28:12

knowing how to kill a lot of Nazis in the

28:14

Wolfenstern games. That is something that

28:16

Indiana Jones is quite good at, as well as

28:18

being a big old archaeologist man.

28:21

I have no doubt still, we

28:23

don't really know anything about this game yet, right? We don't

28:25

know how it's really going to play. I think

28:28

they're proving they know

28:30

how to get the action side of

28:32

it down with the shooting mechanics. They're

28:34

like up there with best-in-class stuff. But

28:36

like, how do they approach

28:38

the puzzle side, which is what I want from

28:40

an Indiana Jones game, and the actual feeling like

28:43

you're on an adventure. Basically the uncharted stuff. How

28:45

are they going to mix that into a machine

28:47

games game? Well, have they ever done

28:49

a... Not that we know it's

28:51

a third-person game, but have they ever done a

28:53

third-person game before as well? I feel like they

28:55

would suffer massive backlash if

28:58

they made it a first-person game as

29:00

well. Particularly with some of what we've

29:02

seen recently, particularly Avatar has had a

29:04

lot of backlash for being first-person. The

29:08

general appetite of audiences at the moment, at

29:10

least from what we're seeing from our audiences,

29:12

that people want third-person games. I

29:15

think it will be first-person. First-person,

29:17

yeah. I think

29:20

they are going to get shit for that. But you

29:23

never know, they might come out with an amazing trailer and no one

29:25

cares. But all the biggest games in the

29:27

world right now are third-person, and the audience has been conditioned

29:29

for that, so that's the way. And when you've got a

29:32

character like Indiana Jones in your game, you

29:34

kind of want to see him when you're playing

29:36

him. But maybe that's the way of getting away

29:38

with not having to get Harrison Ford in and

29:41

scan him and DA him. That is a big

29:43

question for me, is the voice, like, are they

29:45

getting an impersonator? Have they got Harrison Ford? Have

29:47

they gone a completely different way

29:49

of it and done the James Bond thing of like, this

29:52

is a different Indiana Jones. I don't know. Who

29:54

knows? We'll learn a lot more next week

29:57

at this Xbox. I do think it's probably going to

29:59

come out this year. year because they've pre-announced that

30:01

you're gonna find out information. Normally when it's something

30:03

that's not come out this year they wouldn't pronounce

30:05

it they would just drop a trailer or a

30:07

quick clip. The fact that they're telling you we

30:09

all gonna find out more means you're gonna get

30:11

something at least a few minutes of meaty explanation

30:14

of what this game is which makes me think

30:16

it's probably coming this year. Well another game. They

30:18

need to do it for financial reasons. Who knows.

30:21

Another game being shown in that stream. Data

30:23

for this year is Avowed. We don't know

30:25

when it's coming this year but it's Sidion's new RPG

30:27

which when it was first revealed

30:29

everyone was very excited for a very cool reveal

30:32

trailer. Then they did last summer they did a

30:34

more like almost gameplay trailer for it and it

30:36

wasn't quite what people were expecting but I still

30:38

think it looks like that good not

30:40

quite you know Elder Scrolls level fantasy RPG

30:42

but that mid tier one that Obsidian do

30:44

quite well with like the Outer Worlds sort

30:46

of stuff. I'll give it a go. I

30:49

don't know how you guys feel. I

30:51

never... I'll give it a go.

30:54

I never finished the Outer Worlds.

30:56

I didn't love it. I

30:59

liked enough of what it was going for but I always go back

31:01

to kind of when

31:03

Obsidian were kind of in their earlier days

31:06

they obviously did Fallout New Vegas which was

31:08

is arguably the best out of the Fallout

31:10

games it's really really well written. They also

31:12

did the sequel to Bioware's Night's The Old

31:14

Republic. They did Night's The Old Republic 2.

31:16

That game quite buggy but also better than

31:18

the original Night's The Republic. They are very

31:20

good at this sort of stuff. Outer

31:24

Worlds wasn't entirely my jam but

31:26

maybe this is my jam.

31:29

It's set in the Pillars of Eternity universe which is

31:31

pretty good and

31:34

yeah like maybe maybe this one is is

31:36

the one that sparks off and we haven't had

31:38

an Elder Scrolls game for ages and

31:40

so there is a bit of that appetite to pull

31:43

into. Absolutely. Also

31:45

in that stream, Hellblade 2. Oh yeah.

31:48

That game never went out. I

31:51

mean it looks stunning. I never finished

31:53

the first one. For some reason I didn't get

31:55

on with it. I feel like I need to

31:57

give it another go because I should love that.

32:00

that game I think like when you look

32:02

at it's got like that is my sort of

32:04

game but it didn't click with me for

32:06

some reason I can't put my finger on it I want to

32:08

give it another go because I kind of

32:10

want to be excited for this one so I do

32:12

think it looks very good but yeah

32:14

I'm not at this point

32:16

I'm not overly excited for it but I

32:19

do know a lot of people are heavily

32:21

anticipating it's revealed in 2019 so it's been

32:23

five years it's been a long time yeah

32:25

that that one's coming this year I imagine

32:27

next week we may well see a release

32:29

date for that come through let's

32:32

do a let's do a speed round for some other

32:34

games coming this year so we've got flintlock siege of

32:36

dawn which I thought was gonna come out last year

32:38

we've got that's cut that game's been quiet for over

32:40

a year now Matt I know you're looking for yeah

32:42

I think Kepler said that they're announcing more stuff about

32:44

it this year I think it's coming this year and

32:46

I hope it's really good because the demo that I

32:48

saw at games com in 2019 was it looked

32:52

really good yeah there we go plucky

32:55

the plucky squire is a game we saw at games

32:57

com last year looks very

32:59

nice if you're looking for like

33:01

a it's an action almost action

33:03

platformer game that's setting a comic

33:05

storybook a child's storybook and it

33:07

looks very nice that one's on

33:09

my radar Silent Hill 2 looks

33:12

like it could be coming this year the remake could

33:16

be another good year for horror I mean this

33:18

is if you put down

33:20

for me what is the scariest game of all

33:22

time this is up there with the likes of

33:25

PT for me but yeah would

33:27

do I need to put do I feel a great

33:29

need to play again no but will I probably see

33:31

how it turns out as well because not

33:33

off to the best start with their Konami's

33:35

like resurgence I know it's not them like

33:38

making it but no I think I have

33:40

a little bit more faith

33:42

in Bloober than most people but

33:45

we'll see we'll see how this one turns

33:47

out another remake metal gear solid 3 snake

33:49

eater I didn't think would be coming this

33:51

year but there was news last week

33:53

that it was like coming this

33:55

year it is the I think it's

33:57

the 20th or 20th anniversary

34:00

of Metal Gear Solid 3 later this year so

34:02

that would make sense maybe if it dropped then.

34:07

This is one of my favourite games ever and

34:09

I am quite wary of it but they're remaking

34:11

it. It seems like it's quite a straightforward remake

34:13

from everything we've seen of it. I think it's

34:15

going to be the game

34:18

with better graphics. It's

34:20

whether they managed to carry over that charm

34:22

and quirkiness. I imagine they will. I'm going

34:24

to say I thought that the last trailer

34:26

that they did which was barely a trailer

34:29

was more just like a tech showcase. It's

34:31

slightly disappointing because it looked pretty but yeah

34:33

like you just said Matt it is the

34:35

same game. What you want out of this

34:37

remake is you want it to be Metal

34:39

Gear 5, that mechanical kind of structure but

34:42

set in the setting with the storyline of

34:44

Metal Gear 3. I want the like

34:47

the the jungly area to be an actual

34:49

jungle. Not just a bunch of cells that

34:51

you move to. It's understandably what

34:53

it was in the original because of the limitations

34:55

but now I feel like we'll be on that.

34:57

You want it to be like the Phantom Pen,

34:59

this huge open area and it's definitely not going

35:01

to be. Stalker

35:04

2, one I can't bring myself

35:06

personally to get too excited about. It's not my

35:08

cup of tea but I don't

35:10

know when this is coming out this year but I

35:13

don't know you played it a bit didn't you

35:15

Matt? It was very janky game. I think it's

35:17

going to be further out than we maybe expect it

35:19

to be. Yeah we might have

35:22

to. Oh we'll talk about that one when

35:24

we know more about it I think. Star

35:26

Wars Outlaws, it was very close to being

35:28

my most anticipated with Indiana Jones I think.

35:30

A slight Lucasfilm, sue me. If

35:34

this is what it promises to be and

35:36

it's almost like GTA Star Wars slash watchdogs

35:39

then it's just going to be very fun by the looks of it.

35:41

I think it's going to be good fun. My

35:44

slight concern is it's going to

35:46

be not

35:49

maybe what we expected, not as much as good as

35:51

we hope it's going to be. I think like the

35:54

Avatar game kind of illustrated a

35:56

good fun game but ultimately forgettable and

35:58

moving on. that maybe it

36:00

might be that as well like it's not they haven't

36:03

got maybe the the naughty dog rock star charm that

36:05

they can bring to these sort of things i think

36:07

from the reveal and the trailer and the gameplay it

36:09

already Showed me it has a lot more

36:12

The writing was a lot more bubbly and a

36:14

lot more charm to it than avatars does i

36:16

think that's just the world of avatar? Doesn't lend

36:18

itself to that like star wars does does it

36:20

like if you you know you could

36:23

so easily it's kind of what we saw in that gameplay

36:25

like Almost do red dead

36:27

in space of like You're essentially

36:29

playing as a smuggler of like a sort of

36:31

roguish cowboy character Like you can have a lot

36:33

of fun in that I think it just feels

36:35

like the mission design is so important like what

36:37

sort of conceits and ideas they come up with

36:39

And if they just default to ubisoft Star

36:42

a line, you know Then it could be

36:44

not as fun as we hope That

36:47

that that demo I think demonstrated some confidence in

36:49

it in that what they showed us was a

36:51

mission, right? It was a miniature mission, but we

36:53

got to see an element of how the stealth

36:55

works how the escalation system works We got all

36:57

of that that is promising and that looks a

36:59

lot better to me than anything that was in

37:01

avatar But

37:04

yeah, I think the we all know what

37:06

ubisoft Games have been like over

37:08

the past kind of like five or six years There's

37:10

been a lot of that kind

37:12

of repetition and kind of sticking

37:15

to the like a base formula

37:17

that always works Never actually

37:19

fails but becomes very stale very

37:21

quickly I mean just Being

37:24

able to seamlessly fly into space as well.

37:26

It's just very yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I've got

37:28

my It's like I do hope it's

37:30

really good This could be the one that

37:32

breaks them old. Yeah, it's like open world, you know, and hopefully

37:34

it is i'm just you know, like Cautiously

37:36

optimistic. Yeah, i'm hoping for watchdogs 2 in space

37:39

as well. And I love watchdogs Well, my my

37:41

hope is is that you know, they won't be

37:43

looking at they will be looking at jedi survivor

37:45

now But obviously they couldn't have for most of

37:47

its development But um even while

37:50

i'm not the biggest fan of fallen order

37:52

that still at least was doing something interesting

37:54

with star wars It wasn't fully successful, but

37:56

it was interesting and my hope is they

37:58

were looking at what ea we're doing

38:00

and Respawn we're doing with Star Wars and thinking

38:02

what can we do that's our own take? Exactly.

38:07

So a couple more games to get

38:09

free before we move on. But uh

38:11

Metaphor Re-Fantasia uh is

38:13

one for me. The new RPG from

38:15

Atlas, the creator of Persona,

38:17

not creator of Persona, Hashino from recent

38:20

Persona games is leading

38:22

this one and yeah

38:24

it's like fantasy Persona basically

38:26

and I'm all in I'll lose 120

38:28

hours to it. It has all

38:31

that Persona style from what we've seen. I'm

38:33

just yeah we're not

38:35

getting Persona 6 anytime soon so this will have to

38:37

do. So yeah come

38:40

with me play Metaphor. I

38:42

will admit the name is just terrible.

38:44

Oh yeah. Metaphor Re-Fantasia is just there

38:47

is a terrible name but you know

38:49

maybe it'll really mean something incredible once you

38:51

play it. Who knows. Vampire

38:54

The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 is that finally

38:56

coming out this year Matthew firstly? I

39:00

couldn't tell you Simon. There's been

39:02

several trailers now though which does

39:04

suggest that they think it's coming

39:06

out this year. Yeah. I

39:08

didn't play the first one but this one just

39:11

the amount of in the

39:13

way to word I don't know I just find this this

39:15

game and it's the way it's

39:17

been made just intriguing. I'm more

39:20

intrigued by it than wanting to play

39:22

it. Yeah yeah the original is obviously kind of

39:24

like a cult classic and very very jank but

39:26

has a huge amount of kind of love put

39:28

into it and is very very interesting. This

39:32

one feels maybe a little safer than

39:34

that but I like the setting. It

39:36

obviously has an immersive sim element

39:39

to it as well as the RPG stuff so

39:41

I have an eye on it because I've

39:43

not really seen enough of it to tell

39:45

you anymore. Will we

39:48

play Judas this year? Ken Levine's new game.

39:50

I hope so. Everybody hopes

39:52

so. Yeah. I don't think we will. No.

39:54

You don't think we will? I think we might. I

39:57

don't know. I'm basing on nothing. We've seen one

39:59

trailer. a long time ago. But

40:02

it must have been making this for years. It

40:04

must be close, surely. I don't know. We

40:06

don't really know what it is. It just looked a bit bioshocky, right? And

40:10

that's what we want. There's all the murmurings of

40:12

what his vision for a game was that had

40:14

been going on for years, right? Whether

40:16

there's actually... Is that? I don't know. Yeah, my

40:18

memory of what that vision was, it was to

40:20

do with kind of making stories almost like Lego

40:22

bricks. So you'd be able to have all your

40:24

story was broken down into your components and how

40:27

the player would play would dictate how the story

40:29

was built around them, which meant that you could

40:31

replay it over and over and those bricks would

40:33

be done in a different way. That

40:35

sounds incredibly complicated to R&D,

40:38

then prototype, then perfect,

40:41

and actually get built. And also from

40:43

what I've heard of stories that can

40:45

live in the past, he's not someone

40:47

to necessarily compromise vision. And also he

40:49

changes his mind frequently as well from the

40:52

story. So I can imagine this being in

40:54

some sort of... Like maybe they're

40:56

confident right now that they're going to release it

40:58

this year, but then things changing and yeah, I

41:00

don't know. I'm hopeful. Who knows? We

41:02

probably won't. We'll see more of it this year, I'm

41:04

sure. But we'll play it as another question. Same

41:06

with Hades too. I don't know if that'll be out

41:09

even in early access later this year, but I'm

41:11

going forward to it. Just give me more Hades,

41:13

basically. Hades was fantastic. I want

41:15

more Hades. Eldon

41:17

Ring DLC, Matt. We'll be playing that

41:19

this year, won't we? I would definitely

41:21

be playing it last year. Yeah, I

41:24

think this year's a good shot and this is

41:26

my most anticipated game of the year, even though

41:28

it's DLC. So I guess it's for many people.

41:30

That was Cyberpunk last year, right? But

41:33

yeah, more Eldon Ring and FromSoft's

41:36

DLCs tend to be big, chunky,

41:38

meaningful additions to the game. And

41:41

that's exactly what I expect of Shadow of the

41:43

O'Tree. I'm going to have to relearn

41:45

that game because they've probably absolutely nerfed my build I

41:47

had or something. I'm just going to be useless.

41:49

Were you a Hothrost Stomp guy? I was

41:51

for a while, but then they nerfed that

41:53

before I finished playing. So I did have

41:55

to realize I was just very heavy, like

41:58

Dex swordplay stuff. I

42:00

mean that's a lot of similar to what I

42:02

do. I'm a big Dex guy. That's still the

42:04

last time I played it Which is a few

42:06

months ago now, but it was still pretty viable

42:09

Good good. Good. Yeah, I will

42:11

definitely be playing this last up

42:13

for games. I said Nintendo

42:15

are quiet Switch 2 must

42:18

be coming this year. I or whatever it is whether

42:20

it's called the switch to is probably not when you

42:22

know, which Can you remember? When

42:25

they announced the switch for how long it

42:27

was before it released in

42:29

my head It was only a few months. It

42:31

wasn't long switch. I I think Summer

42:34

late summer maybe we could

42:36

get it I don't know like we

42:38

need a new like super Mario wonder having

42:40

a fun time with it, but we need

42:42

a new 3d Mario Please oh it like

42:44

no doubt in my mind that this new

42:46

device will launch with a new 3d Yeah,

42:48

I think they've been sitting on this for

42:51

a couple years Yeah, I read and probably

42:53

breath of the world and tears the kingdom

42:55

like remastered or whatever. They want to

42:57

call it like deluxe Also,

43:00

Mario Kart 9 is in the works or we surprised if

43:02

that was with within a year of

43:04

that coming out as well I mean that's a

43:06

system seller, isn't there? You know a new

43:09

3d Mario a new Mario

43:11

heart with all new tracks and all new like,

43:13

you know and Chinese elder Yeah, yeah, you're kind

43:15

of winning there I said switch was unveiled on

43:18

October 20th and then it came out on March

43:20

3rd, so there's five months in between Yeah

43:24

Feels like it could happen feels like you know summer

43:27

announcement with a you know Winter time

43:29

or and you know like everyone's probably expecting a

43:31

switch to just like a more powerful one No,

43:33

Nintendo will be something completely different and wacky and

43:35

they'll risk everything That's

43:38

why I generally think we'll dictate the

43:40

software line up like like

43:42

if if it is something crazy They've

43:44

changed control schemes for that They will

43:47

absolutely have the flagship games that celebrate

43:49

those new features if it's

43:51

more power then it could be Yeah,

43:53

it could just be a new tears of kingdom

43:56

upgraded I

43:58

have a feeling that it will be I think

44:01

it's gonna be, you know, for lack of a better

44:03

term, the super switch because They

44:05

really burnt themselves bad with the Wii U

44:07

right going from this one of the most

44:10

successful consoles of all time one of the

44:12

most accessible consoles of all time to a

44:15

Thing that even I didn't know what they were

44:17

announcing when I was watching it on stage and

44:19

I was a games journalist So

44:22

I think they'll have learned their lesson. The

44:24

switch is one of the is is is

44:27

a Phenomenon in itself. They

44:29

will I think it will be switched

44:31

to and you could also argue that

44:33

they have positive lessons from it Iterating

44:36

on hardware in the past with the Game

44:38

Boy the Game Boy Advance the DS to

44:41

the 3ds and the DS light and stuff

44:43

Like just adding that extra some

44:45

extra element. That's a sellable feature, but

44:47

still maintaining the core functionality Yeah,

44:50

well that's all the Game

44:52

stuff we're gonna go through. What was

44:54

your most anti-pemos at start was? I think

44:57

so. So was although I do I am

44:59

like pretty confident This is not based on

45:01

anything that there'll be Resident Evil 9 or

45:03

whatever. They call it will probably be this

45:05

year It definitely announced it because village came

45:07

out in like 2021 I

45:09

think so it's about three years and Capcom

45:11

are nothing but proficient in release and Resident

45:13

Evil games So I feel like 9 is

45:15

next on the docket. I mean, they've

45:17

got Resident Evil 5 remake, but you feel like the next big

45:21

New entry also what they're gonna call it

45:23

how they're gonna get Ix into

45:25

the title crucifix is up for

45:27

grabs I guess There'll

45:30

be something but yeah that if that gets announced

45:32

this year that obviously that big site especially considering

45:35

how they left village Definitely feels like

45:37

they're due Refresh.

45:40

Yeah, I'm excited to see where if they

45:42

stick with first person or whether it's a

45:44

return to third person whether it's a Like

45:47

a soft reset on the universe again

45:49

like seven sort of was yeah, or

45:51

whether this is gonna be packed full

45:53

of Wesker And well, if you remember

45:56

the end of village as well, it

45:58

was very sort of a false circle

46:00

like the story beats of how they wrapped up this

46:02

went back to the original first Resident Evil and sort

46:04

of wrapped the whole story up yeah it's definitely felt

46:06

like they were just drawing a line for it and

46:08

now like we can still maintain

46:11

that continuity but we moved to a different

46:13

part of the world or a different time

46:15

period and have you tell a new story

46:17

there yeah it's exciting to see what the fuck was. Smashing

46:19

if they're just like they're looking at Alone in the Dark coming

46:21

out and they're like I screw you we're gonna do Resident Evil

46:23

1940. I I

46:25

would love that though I mean I know it'd be a

46:28

nucky Alone in the Dark I think that's gonna have

46:30

its own problems anyway but I

46:32

feel like yeah like revisiting like the

46:34

origins of all these virus stuff but

46:36

from a different perspective in a different

46:38

time period would be awesome yeah

46:41

you know and we means we wouldn't end up maybe not

46:43

end up in a secret lab at the end of the

46:45

game as well yeah whatever it is like I over

46:48

the last kind of five or six years my

46:50

love for Resident Evil is really matured and like

46:52

I really am into it at this point so

46:55

I think I'll be as long as it's

46:57

not six or yeah I'm not I'm not

46:59

big on five either but whatever they've been

47:01

doing recently if it's if it's something that

47:03

iterates on that I'll be fully sold well

47:05

it's an exciting time as well for Resident

47:07

Evil fans because it's almost like they've

47:09

got to point out where the track is not laid

47:11

out in front of them because even with five and

47:13

six remakes if they decide to do that and Code

47:16

Veronica they have to rethink them yeah they can't just

47:18

do what they did with two and four which although

47:20

you know they've added new elements are basically the same

47:22

story really five and

47:24

six six especially would desperately need a rethink

47:26

so it's interesting to see what they come

47:28

up with okay it wouldn't be the idea

47:30

in UK podcast about a few minutes and

47:32

resident evil chance spring through the I'm actually

47:35

what you're excited for and

47:37

you're excited it's fine what are you excited for

47:39

though I gen underscore UK feedback at I gen

47:41

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47:43

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50:17

TV. Last year was a fantastic

50:19

year for TV. This year I

50:22

was looking through not actually a ton of things

50:24

we know are coming this year, but there

50:26

are a few interesting things starting out with

50:29

the new series of True Detective Night Country. That

50:32

starts as soon as this weekend and from

50:34

everything I've heard, people are going mad for

50:36

it. A lot of murders going on. Looks

50:38

very good. I mean they know what they're

50:40

doing right again.

50:50

Jodie Foster and Evoking Silence of

50:52

the Lambs. I'm very

50:54

excited for this. Season 1

50:56

is a near perfect season of television I

50:58

think. 2 obviously not fantastic. 3

51:01

I do think is fantastic.

51:04

They're taking a good break on this in

51:06

True Detective this back. I'm

51:09

sure we'll talk about that maybe even next week

51:11

once the first episode has dropped and we can

51:13

say what you think. Later in

51:15

January, one for me and all the

51:17

dads out there as well, Masters of

51:19

the Air, the new in the series,

51:21

the new Spielberg and Hanks World War

51:24

II series following on from Band of

51:26

Brothers and the Pacific. This one's all

51:28

about the Air Force. I

51:31

don't know too much about the real life story of these people

51:33

because I've avoided it because I want to enjoy the show. Starring

51:36

Austin Butler, Barry Keogan. Good

51:38

bunch of people in there. I'm sure all

51:41

the dads out there will enjoy it. You're

51:44

a dad now. Are you going to get into this stuff? I

51:46

don't know. You must like Band of Brothers,

51:48

right? Yeah, I enjoyed

51:50

it but I never had the

51:52

obsession with it that a lot

51:54

of people had. I don't

51:57

know. Maybe. I think I'll see what people think

51:59

of it first. and then maybe just watch

52:01

it. It's all gonna be on Apple TV.

52:03

It's a more unusual situation for them to

52:05

be in terms of setting, right, because the

52:09

Pacific and Band of Brothers are set on

52:11

the ground where there's obviously a lot of

52:13

intense combat, and not to say that air

52:15

combat is not intense, but from a visual

52:17

design, it's not having gore spread all over

52:19

the place or the interesting kind of ground

52:21

tactics and moving up and stuff. So it'll

52:23

be interesting to see what sort

52:26

of a show it is. Yeah, yeah, I'm

52:28

intrigued. February, the TV series

52:30

of Mr. and Mrs. Smith is coming

52:32

out. Starring Donald

52:35

Glover and Maya Erskine,

52:37

who is the voice actor of The

52:39

Samurai and Blue Eye Samurai. The

52:42

trailer for this looks very fun. The amount of

52:44

guest stars they have in this as well, like

52:46

Paul Dano popping up, John Turturro, loads

52:49

of people. This is coming out on

52:51

Prime Video. It's not

52:53

quite a straight adaptation of the film, Mr.

52:55

and Mrs. Smith, with Brad Pitt and Angelina

52:57

Jolie, but a different twist on it. But

53:02

it looks, I don't know, it looks like

53:04

it could be fun. I trust most things

53:06

Donald Glover gets involved with have a level

53:09

of quality to them. So I'm hopeful, it

53:11

looks fun. There you go, Dallas

53:13

of Shokshu, a sight new to watch. I generally

53:15

didn't know that was coming. And I always like,

53:19

you gotta feel skeptical about these sort of

53:21

things, right? But like the cast, they have

53:24

to put their names, these things. So it's

53:26

usually a good sign of maybe there's some

53:28

quality. Yeah, I'm excited. I'm

53:30

into it. I think this

53:32

is the, originally it was gonna be Donald Glover

53:34

and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, but she had to drop out

53:36

for, I don't know why, but that would have

53:38

been amazing. I'm sure this will still be amazing.

53:41

Also in February, the last ever season of Kirby and

53:43

Fuse Nothing is coming out. I

53:46

can't wait, but also I'll be sad because

53:48

no more Larry David, but I

53:50

hope it, I hope they get out on a

53:53

bank because it's been a mostly consistent show for

53:55

I think nine seasons now, but they also had

53:57

a couple of little lulls. I just hope this

53:59

is, like a banging season to go out on.

54:01

Feels like this has been coming for a long time

54:04

like... He's not a

54:06

young man. Yeah but did they not say they

54:08

were going to cancel it like several years ago

54:10

as well? I don't know. But I kind of

54:13

drifted away from it but every time I go back and

54:15

watch episode I still enjoy it. It's so funny. It's up

54:17

there with like my favourite ever shows at this point I

54:19

think. I'm going to get you to

54:21

watch it one day Matt. You'll love it. One day. One

54:23

day. March. The three

54:26

body problem on Netflix

54:28

from the creators of Game of Thrones.

54:30

Benny Orf and Vice. I watched

54:32

the trailer for this because it came out a couple of days ago. Definitely

54:35

looks like Netflix taking a big budget swing

54:38

on a series. I'm hoping probably for a Game

54:40

of Thrones sort of thing. I

54:42

don't know a lot about... Apparently these are really big

54:45

selling like novels. I don't know. This is

54:47

the first I ever heard of them. But

54:50

they're fucking colossal. I

54:52

can remember book talk is a thing that I

54:54

see a lot on TikTok. People discussing what they've

54:57

been reading and this has always

54:59

been a massive kind of go-to book

55:01

for people. Yeah isn't

55:03

it about... So this is sci-fi.

55:05

It's not fantasy just because Benny Orf and

55:08

Vice are involved. It's about people

55:10

living the past, present and future science to

55:12

do if that's some sort of sci-fi element.

55:14

I'm not entirely sure. I've kept away

55:16

from it and quite on. I do like to read

55:19

but I'm not the biggest reader. So I've

55:21

not read this. I will almost

55:23

certainly watch the show. I

55:26

still like Benny Orf and Vice even though I know that

55:28

a lot of people got very angry with them. It was

55:30

phenomenal. Yeah. It was incredible.

55:34

They rushed the last season but mostly

55:36

an incredible television show. Yeah I'd take

55:38

more of the former stuff than the

55:40

latter but that was I'd say that was brilliant. So

55:43

I've got some hope that this will be pretty good.

55:45

They really want you to know it's by the

55:48

Game of Friends page don't they because like John

55:50

Bradley's and Lee on Cullingham's in it as well.

55:52

Making sure Game of Friends are alumna in it

55:54

too. It's like yeah I'm definitely gonna

55:56

check it out. I don't know much about it at all. I'm

55:58

just looking at the Wikipedia. coming

56:01

in March on that flex April we're getting

56:03

the fallout TV show everything

56:05

I've seen of this looks right it

56:08

looks like it they're doing fallout well we'll

56:10

see like when we actually watch it what

56:12

the actual we don't

56:14

really know what the drive of the story is

56:16

yet yeah I do worry it's gonna be more

56:18

halo than last of us I

56:21

don't know I feel like maybe

56:23

I'll be somewhere in between I don't know I what I

56:25

liked is that it seemed to have a

56:28

bit of the weirdness and a bit of

56:30

the like humor that fall I think it

56:32

could easily have been just a dark show

56:34

yeah but they've actually remembered that fallout is

56:36

actually very funny and weird and there seems

56:38

to be quite a bit of that in

56:40

there yeah it doesn't look as like I

56:42

wanted a little bit of the fucked up

56:44

weird that's in the original games where

56:47

this is very full out for which in

56:49

its own way was almost like a soft reset of

56:51

fallout it kind of took a bit of the grime

56:53

out of it but

56:56

everything that was in that trailer kind of worked

56:59

for me like I was like yeah

57:01

this looks like a show that is

57:03

done good it's I I'm not as

57:05

worried about the halo effect purely because

57:08

it's Amazon who seems to put a

57:10

lot more money into their shows than

57:12

Paramount do the parent halo was really

57:14

cheap and really felt like knockabout cosplay

57:17

stuff I didn't quite get that

57:19

from this I did think

57:21

it looked a little bit cheap but I

57:23

also think fallout sort of in general the

57:25

art style like the way people dress in

57:27

that world and then how to make those

57:29

fault those fault suits look not a little bit

57:31

cheap I think but even like the Brotherhood of

57:33

Steel out there's like kind of like I thought

57:36

they look like but they look like the game

57:38

you know and then they are being faithful to

57:40

it it's just what's in the

57:42

game is yeah I don't know I generally

57:44

don't know how this is no

57:46

idea how this is gonna be received I'm

57:49

hopeful summer house

57:51

of the dragon season to you

57:55

like a dragon thing yeah it's coming mate

57:57

like it's not apparently it's coming yeah they

57:59

just another a locked in date. They

58:01

said early summer and they've changed it

58:03

to like just summer now which means

58:06

August probably. Yes

58:08

very excited. When they released the trailer I

58:10

went back and re-watched the first season again

58:12

and then I reread the book again. I

58:14

just love it. So you know what's coming

58:16

are we in for some without spoiling anything

58:18

we're in for some good stuff? Oh yeah.

58:21

I like the first season but I did think it

58:24

was a whole season of set up right mostly. Yeah

58:26

kind of but then that's how

58:28

it really sort of lands in this

58:31

season I guess because we've spent so much time

58:33

seeing what could have happened with this family how they

58:35

could have all just got along and

58:38

now they're now in the Civil War and

58:40

it's it gets very very mucky. I'm sure

58:42

there's gonna be some mucky stuff in this

58:44

show. Oh so I remember when I read

58:46

the book and after again after watching the

58:48

show and I remember one little bit and

58:50

I remember looking away I was like this

58:52

bit is gonna be the end of the

58:54

first episode guarantee and I know what the

58:56

episode title is called so it's definitely that.

58:59

It's a proper shocking moment. It's like a

59:01

red wedding sort of level moment and I

59:04

think the end of the first episode is

59:06

gonna be phenomenal people gonna be talking. Okay

59:09

the tease is there. Is there

59:11

gonna be plenty more Damon because

59:13

I think Matt Smith is phenomenal

59:15

as Damon. Damon, yeah Damon's in

59:17

it. He's like he's almost like

59:20

the key general commander of that

59:22

side of the war. He's very

59:24

good at being horrible isn't he?

59:26

Yeah. Also in autumn the Penguin

59:28

TV show I don't know how I thought

59:30

about this I really liked the Batman a

59:32

lot the 2020 film. When I watched

59:36

that though I didn't go god do you know

59:38

I need more of more of Colin Farrell's Penguin

59:40

as a TV show. I assume

59:43

it's gonna be like almost like a

59:45

crime show. I'm imagining almost like Bulldog

59:47

Empire in Gotham. That's the highest this

59:49

could be but I'm just

59:51

confused a bit about what this is. Am

59:53

I the only person who's not interested in

59:55

other stories from Gotham? Don't

59:57

have the Batman. Yeah like I just think that's a I

1:00:00

feel like they've tried this a few times and obviously it

1:00:02

all depends on how well it's written. If it's

1:00:04

a really well-written show then you forget all that. But the

1:00:07

idea of doing a show in Gotham and Batman

1:00:09

and all. Yeah, I think you can do it

1:00:11

for maybe one-offs and stuff. Like, I still think

1:00:13

Joker is a very good film. And the actors

1:00:16

know Batman in all really. True. True. But Penguin,

1:00:18

I don't... They're just making a

1:00:20

crime drama in Gotham, aren't they really? It's going

1:00:22

to be a mafia film, like a mafia series.

1:00:24

But I don't know. I think the main thing

1:00:26

I really liked about the Batman, aside

1:00:29

from it being a genuinely brilliant film, is

1:00:32

that it was a return to the Christopher Nolan

1:00:34

style of making a Batman film in that it

1:00:37

is just what it is. And then it gets two

1:00:40

sequels and then you've got a lovely trilogy. I

1:00:42

don't need everything to be a universe.

1:00:44

I don't need all of this nonsense

1:00:46

spin-off on the side. And

1:00:49

I really hoped that the Reeves bit of

1:00:51

Batman was going to be the Nolan-style stuff

1:00:53

again. And it turns out that it's not.

1:00:56

Feels a bit like lacking a bit of class,

1:00:58

doesn't it? Yeah. It's a prestigious

1:01:01

short film series that you're making and then the

1:01:04

money men step in and how do we

1:01:06

make this thing dry? Yeah.

1:01:08

That's all we know dated-wise. But here's a

1:01:10

few others that might be coming this year,

1:01:13

or are coming this year. We just don't know when. Devil

1:01:15

May Cry animated series is coming

1:01:17

to Netflix from the creators of Castlevania. That

1:01:20

will, I'm sure, be

1:01:23

enjoyed by a lot of people. There you

1:01:25

go. The Acolyte is the Star

1:01:27

Wars show we're getting this year. Very

1:01:29

missed. Like, we really still don't know a lot about this.

1:01:33

But does sound maybe it would be a little

1:01:35

bit on the darker side. I don't know. I'm

1:01:37

hoping for more of the Andor side

1:01:39

of things. Sadly, we aren't getting Andor season two

1:01:41

this year. That's not till next year. The Acolyte

1:01:44

is the Old Republic one. Is

1:01:46

it that? The one starring your

1:01:48

squid game lad in. Yes. I

1:01:50

think that's that. Yeah. I'm

1:01:53

intrigued. More intrigued. We don't know a lot about it.

1:01:55

With that, the other ones. I

1:01:58

still haven't watched this so. I do

1:02:00

actually hear quite good things about Soka, but

1:02:03

I never had the connection to that character So I didn't

1:02:05

go for it. I might catch up on that some point.

1:02:08

Next up is my most anticipated TV

1:02:11

show of the year which has been I feel like

1:02:13

has been coming for a while is The Sympathiser Do

1:02:15

you guys know about The Sympathiser? It

1:02:18

is Park Chan Wook doing a HBO

1:02:20

and A24 series, which is enough to

1:02:22

make my skin Just

1:02:25

bump up in all goosebumps Robert

1:02:27

Downey Jr. is starring in this As

1:02:30

a man who just seems to play lots of different

1:02:33

roles He's sort of a spy if you

1:02:35

don't know this is based on the book called

1:02:37

The Sympathiser, which is about a Member

1:02:40

is set in the in the

1:02:42

Vietnam War and it's about

1:02:44

a North Vietnamese plant in The

1:02:47

South Vietnamese army who's forced to flee to

1:02:49

the US at the end of the war

1:02:51

and it's kind of about him

1:02:54

kind of struggling with this new life and

1:02:56

it's like a lot of spy work going

1:02:58

on and Yeah, if you watch the trailer

1:03:00

for this Robert Downey Jr. Just in a

1:03:03

load of ridiculous different disguises It looks like

1:03:05

it'll be very fun. It's kind of it's

1:03:07

like a dark comedy drama But yeah, Park

1:03:09

Chan Wook his visual style is

1:03:12

up there with with any ones So

1:03:14

yeah, I cannot wait for that

1:03:16

one. That's my most anticipated TV The

1:03:20

Final season of you Dale you used to come

1:03:22

into an end We go

1:03:24

that we all know is terrible. I've

1:03:27

never really watch it I mean, I've seen I

1:03:29

thought you did watch it My wife watched it

1:03:31

and I would walk past and see odd little

1:03:33

my I've seen every episode despite whenever I watch

1:03:35

again What am I doing? I?

1:03:37

remember my over in the third was it

1:03:40

the third season the most recent one and

1:03:42

I asked I was like What do you

1:03:44

think of watch fingers? She's like she even

1:03:46

she was like it's gone off the deep

1:03:48

end It's like it's gone really shit now.

1:03:50

She's oh, yeah, it's absurd. It's so weird

1:03:52

and yeah quite annoying But watch it all

1:03:56

We might get squid game season 2 at the end of

1:03:58

this year. I'm very I'm just

1:04:00

wondering what they're going to do with it because the whole conceit

1:04:03

of Squid Game, they can't just run it back, can

1:04:05

they? What is it supposed to be

1:04:07

about the game makers? Yeah, I

1:04:10

just obviously the story was written

1:04:12

as a story that had an end. And

1:04:14

I think the creator even said at the time when it came

1:04:16

out, it's like, oh, I never planned for a sequel or anything.

1:04:18

And then obviously it was so

1:04:20

successful. He's kind of been forced into writing

1:04:22

more, I think. Never felt good. That's where

1:04:24

I worry. Yeah. But, you know, first season

1:04:27

was very good. So, you know,

1:04:29

who am I to tell? I know 100% get

1:04:31

a season two of the reality show version because

1:04:33

they've built all those sets already. Yeah,

1:04:35

you can't waste that money. We don't know if that's coming.

1:04:39

They haven't said it is, but the final

1:04:41

season, Stranger Things maybe at the end of

1:04:43

this year, I think. And they only started

1:04:45

filming it, though. Yeah, you never know. Given

1:04:48

my whole year could have it. They might

1:04:50

they'll probably do the whole two part thing,

1:04:52

right, of dropping six. And then another I

1:04:54

wouldn't be surprised if that's next year, considering

1:04:56

the visual effects demand. Mm

1:04:59

hmm. Now, neither would I. Same with Severance

1:05:01

season two. Maybe we'll get that layer

1:05:03

in here. You see Apple TV dropped

1:05:05

a little hit. They just posted a

1:05:07

picture of a still

1:05:09

of the show with like no context,

1:05:11

which obviously just winding people up probably.

1:05:13

But it's been what? A

1:05:15

couple of years now since the season. Didn't

1:05:18

Ben Stiller say something about it recently? I

1:05:21

feel like he said they're working on it

1:05:23

or something. But it seems like it's still

1:05:25

in production. However, not one is

1:05:27

like Stranger Things that is heavily reliant on a

1:05:30

special effects you imagine. So you never

1:05:32

know. I'm hopeful we'll get some of that later

1:05:34

this year. We don't know. So,

1:05:37

yeah, any TV there that jumped out to you

1:05:39

guys that you're looking forward to? I think Severance

1:05:41

is basically my favorite thing of about the last

1:05:43

five or six years. So if that comes back,

1:05:46

absolutely that. But in terms of things

1:05:48

that are guaranteed, it's literally the thing that's coming out

1:05:50

next the end of the week, basically. So to detective

1:05:52

for me. And

1:05:55

I'm guessing House of the Dragon for Dale. Yeah, House

1:05:57

of the Dragon, but also Severance as well. I think

1:05:59

it's like. that was to come out this

1:06:01

year I would be extremely excited. Everyone get

1:06:03

on the sympathiser train with me. And

1:06:06

what about the Last of

1:06:08

Us series too? Have they officially said that next year?

1:06:10

I think they'll be making that this year. I think

1:06:13

they said it's next year. I

1:06:15

think it's 2020. It's usually when they've announced like key cast

1:06:17

members like they announced Abby the other day right? I think

1:06:20

filming is starting right now so we'll

1:06:22

see. See

1:06:25

where they go with that. I'm very intrigued to see

1:06:27

how they approach the next

1:06:29

part of that story. Let's go

1:06:31

on to films. I've got loads of

1:06:33

films here. I can't mention them all because

1:06:35

we will be here forever. But what

1:06:38

will we talk about? I've got poor

1:06:40

things and the holdovers are finally coming to the

1:06:42

UK this week and next. They've been out in

1:06:44

America for ages. I've already seen poor things. Oh

1:06:47

you've been in the US. I'm gonna go

1:06:49

see that very soon I think. Did you

1:06:51

enjoy it? Very good. Yeah it's very very

1:06:53

good. It is much weirder than

1:06:55

I think I expect. And that's even from

1:06:57

a Jorgis Lanthamos thing. But

1:07:00

it's got kind of that weird fairy

1:07:02

tale kind of vibe to it. Almost

1:07:04

kind of you know Barry Sonnefeld kind

1:07:07

of style that he uses for Adam's

1:07:09

family in the series of unfortunate events. It's

1:07:11

got that kind of staged vibe to it

1:07:14

but with Emma Stone

1:07:16

as a weird childlike Frankenstein

1:07:18

thing on a journey of

1:07:21

sexual liberation. In the

1:07:23

curse she is doing some unbelievable act

1:07:25

as ever. I've watched the first two

1:07:27

episodes. It's very good. Last

1:07:30

episode of that I think is right now. Anyway

1:07:32

yeah the holdovers

1:07:35

I want to watch as well which looks very

1:07:38

good. Weird to say it's kind of like

1:07:40

Christmas film but we're getting it in the

1:07:42

middle of January. So that's Oscar Bate releases

1:07:45

for you isn't it. We always get them in January.

1:07:48

But it came out in America like two

1:07:50

months ago. What's going on. The

1:07:52

Zone of Interest is coming out in

1:07:55

February. This is Jonathan Glazer's new film

1:07:57

who made Sexy Beast and Under the

1:07:59

Skid. in, among others. This

1:08:02

is a, I'm seeing this

1:08:04

next week actually, so I can give some thoughts

1:08:06

on it next week maybe, but

1:08:10

it's about the family that lived

1:08:12

next to Auschwitz and tried to

1:08:15

live a happy family life whilst

1:08:17

also working at Auschwitz. It's meant

1:08:19

to be unbelievably good obviously,

1:08:22

quite tough, I'll just have to matter. But

1:08:24

yeah, I'm seeing that next week so I'll give

1:08:27

some more developed thoughts once I've seen it. But

1:08:29

Jonathan Glaser only made four films in like 25

1:08:31

years, but when he does make them, they

1:08:34

are very good. So I look forward to that.

1:08:36

Argyle, does this

1:08:39

look fun? The new Henry Cavill

1:08:42

spy film within a spy film

1:08:44

film? It looks

1:08:46

fun. Whether it's good or not.

1:08:48

Matthew Form is very up and down to

1:08:50

me. He can be very good. He's been

1:08:52

on the down for a couple of films

1:08:54

recently. I don't know if you've even got

1:08:57

through the Kingsman. I only

1:08:59

got through it and I didn't watch

1:09:01

that one. It's got like one fun

1:09:03

twist kind of like midway through where

1:09:05

someone dies, but aside from

1:09:07

that, I think it does. It

1:09:10

has big Kingsman energy this, doesn't it? And I do

1:09:13

like the first Kingsman. I do think it's very good.

1:09:15

That sounds great. But

1:09:17

yeah, it's about, is it

1:09:21

Bryce Dallas Howard? Character is a novelist who

1:09:23

writes spy novels, but then characters and things

1:09:25

from her spy novels start happening in real

1:09:27

life. It's like that film that came out,

1:09:29

was it last year or two years ago

1:09:31

with Shannon Tatum in? Remember when

1:09:33

it was with Sandra Bullock? The Lost City?

1:09:35

Oh yeah. Yeah, the Lost City. So you

1:09:37

can see really, she was a writer and

1:09:40

he was like an actor portraying the character

1:09:42

or something. I actually think the kind of

1:09:44

like weird mystery that they've meta built around

1:09:46

the film is more interesting than the film

1:09:48

itself in that they have

1:09:50

said that the film is

1:09:53

based on the novel by Ellie Conway. But

1:09:55

Ellie Conway is the character in the film

1:09:57

played by Bryce Dallas Howard. So

1:09:59

now everybody's like. Well, who's written

1:10:01

who is Ellie Conway in real life

1:10:03

and people have decided that it's Taylor

1:10:05

Swift Of

1:10:07

course there is a massive conspiracy that Taylor Swift

1:10:09

is the writer when it is very clearly They've

1:10:12

just got a ghost writer to write

1:10:14

a novel so they can pretend that

1:10:17

the film is based on the novel

1:10:24

Does not have time to be right a novel if

1:10:26

you see how much storage you did She's too busy

1:10:28

flying around and going to different football games Exactly

1:10:31

and I'll watch that as well February

1:10:34

also who's excited for Madam Webb

1:10:38

I went to see Oh

1:10:41

anyone but you don't go see that film by the way it

1:10:43

fucking sucks And then beforehand they

1:10:45

showed the trailer for Madam Webb and I leaned over to her if

1:10:47

I was like this Well,

1:10:50

what's the line about spy This

1:10:54

person knew my mom when she was in

1:10:56

the Amazon researchers fighters just before she died

1:11:01

It does look bad Yeah,

1:11:05

I think more than like

1:11:07

craving which I'm sure we'll get to later looks

1:11:09

just looks Garbage dogshit. This

1:11:11

looks like the sort of garbage dogshit that

1:11:14

I could probably have a bit of a

1:11:16

laugh at I think

1:11:18

there's some really weird like like dark

1:11:20

spider-man and Dakota

1:11:22

Johnson doing a very very terrible job

1:11:24

by the look of it with defending

1:11:27

people with a Manhole cover she

1:11:29

can be a very good actress. She

1:11:32

makes some bizarre decisions constantly cast in

1:11:34

terrible project Yeah, I don't know what's

1:11:36

well Like do you

1:11:38

guys think Sydney Sweeney is pretty good a new for you.

1:11:41

I've never seen you for you I do

1:11:43

actually think she can act cuz she is shite in

1:11:45

that film I just said anyone but you and she'll

1:11:48

be and she'll be shite and madam I have to

1:11:50

know what you're good at right this time some people

1:11:52

can do come with these I love Glen Powell that

1:11:54

I love it. I'm good. Yeah, he's

1:11:56

okay in that film But it's just the right is

1:11:58

really draggy. He's seen everybody want some. Yes I

1:12:01

love that film. I love it as well. He's

1:12:03

so good. I love anything Glenn Powell's with. He's

1:12:05

in a couple more things coming up this year

1:12:07

that we'll talk about. Drive

1:12:09

Away Dolls. Do you guys know about Drive Away

1:12:11

Dolls? Ethan Coen's new film,

1:12:13

not a Coen Brothers film. Oh

1:12:16

I have heard of it. Just Ethan Coen. It stars

1:12:18

Margaret Qually. It's kind

1:12:21

of like a road trip film I think that

1:12:23

has a bit of crime to it. Seems

1:12:25

very Coen Brothers. I'm into

1:12:27

it. Only an hour and 20 minutes long. That's what I

1:12:29

like to hear. Lovely. I'm

1:12:31

getting into light. Don't get me wrong. I do

1:12:33

love my long films but recently I've been loving

1:12:35

the odd hour 20 film, hour and a half.

1:12:37

Nothing sells a film to watch on Netflix more

1:12:40

to me than when I see it says 90

1:12:42

minutes long. I'm like yeah. Alright let's give it

1:12:44

a shot. Do you know what won't be 90

1:12:46

minutes long? June part 2. I don't know

1:12:48

if we do know how long it is but that's surely

1:12:50

going to be 2 and a half to 3 hours. Well

1:12:55

it's coming in March. Well as we have to say apart

1:12:57

from if you've seen the trailers for this it just looks

1:12:59

funny. I haven't watched the trailers yet because I

1:13:01

just know I want to watch it and that's how I

1:13:03

don't need to watch the trailers. Yeah fair enough. You don't

1:13:05

need to but it just does just

1:13:07

look stunning. When I was in the cinema the

1:13:09

other week I think it was I went to

1:13:11

see maybe Godzilla minus one and the trailer. Oh

1:13:13

that's good isn't it? Oh fucking incredible film. Absolutely

1:13:15

banger. But the trailer for June came on. I

1:13:18

had to shut my eyes and put my fingers

1:13:20

in my ears. Like I don't want to see

1:13:22

Amy. It's one of my favourite books. I love

1:13:24

the story. I don't want to see what the

1:13:26

vision is in the final bit. Erm I

1:13:29

don't think it'd be that spoiled. Denny knows what

1:13:31

he's doing. I like

1:13:33

the fact that Matt you put your fingers in your ears because

1:13:35

you know the bass you just couldn't contend with it. See what

1:13:37

your fingers feel like when you hear them. Yeah

1:13:39

basically. They've added Christopher Walken, Austin

1:13:42

Butler, Florence Pugh. It's just ugh.

1:13:46

Christopher Walken is like the god

1:13:48

emperor. Like what a choice. So

1:13:50

good. Austin Butler being a weirder.

1:13:52

I think he's a good weirder. Erm

1:13:56

Mickey 17 was scheduled

1:13:58

to come out in March but it's now 1 day. This

1:14:00

is Bongjoon who's Hoe's new film. This

1:14:02

is one with Robert Pattinson in yeah,

1:14:05

and I think I briefly mentioned last week

1:14:07

Almost sounds like it's a roguelike So this

1:14:09

is like you're kind of born

1:14:11

like this is Mickey 17 as

1:14:13

if there's been 16 before him I

1:14:16

know we don't know much more about Probably

1:14:23

probably less action more sci-fi drama

1:14:25

I imagine but yeah see

1:14:27

his follow-up to parasite which won everything And is

1:14:29

one of the best ones ever made if you

1:14:31

ask me Road

1:14:34

house the remake of Road house

1:14:36

starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Are we

1:14:38

into this? I don't know a lot of people don't

1:14:40

know this film is coming. I never thought it was not to be fair

1:14:44

Jake Gyllenhaal has got absolutely ripped again So

1:14:48

people enjoy that Just

1:14:50

wanted to mention there's a remake of Road House

1:14:53

coming out that no one knows about it's just

1:14:55

bizarre. It's an X UFC middleweight fighter There

1:14:58

we go March

1:15:02

also Ghostbusters frozen Empire I thought

1:15:06

the Most recent Ghostbusters. Okay.

1:15:09

I didn't think it was like it got

1:15:11

it got an absolute like panning the final

1:15:13

You guys is us? I

1:15:17

think the conceit is good I like the fact that they

1:15:20

didn't just make another Ghostbusters movie set in New York

1:15:22

Oh look where they're based this time Kunis

1:15:25

and I'm all about anything carry kunie

1:15:27

days. I thought it was okay, especially Like

1:15:31

it got like people giving like one and two. So

1:15:33

I if it was that bad It's a it's perfectly

1:15:35

fine film and then especially Like

1:15:37

people often forget if you're like 11 or something watching

1:15:39

that you have a great time I think that would

1:15:42

say because a lot of it is reliant on knowledge

1:15:44

of the history of Ghostbusters I don't know if it

1:15:46

was so I thought they did well bring in the

1:15:48

kids in and make it like a new But

1:15:51

they're all the kids are the kids are related

1:15:53

and then then it's all the stuff with well

1:15:55

You know the characters that return towards the end.

1:15:57

Yeah, I don't know. I felt like you

1:16:00

could still have fun with it. I'm

1:16:03

not really excited for this film but you know, it could

1:16:05

be good, looks like New York's freezing over so

1:16:07

see what happens there. Maybe V goes back,

1:16:09

who knows? I mean that is my big problem with the Ghost Path

1:16:12

series is that they just keep going back

1:16:15

to the well all the time with the

1:16:17

same kind of ideas and they probably will

1:16:19

just bring back a villain again. Stay

1:16:22

Puft. But they brought them back in the first one

1:16:24

then they'll stay Puft. Just do something with it. I

1:16:27

like Paul Rudd, I like Carrie Keene, you know, have a

1:16:29

bit of fun. Love Lies

1:16:31

Bleeding is that a mark?

1:16:33

I feel this just cracking. I love the film

1:16:35

of this. The new film from Rose Glass who

1:16:38

directed Saint Maud which is a film I didn't

1:16:40

actually love in the end. I

1:16:42

liked a lot of what it was going for but

1:16:44

I didn't ultimately end up really liking it. But starring

1:16:47

Kristen Stewart and

1:16:50

I deliberately really haven't looked at what the plot of

1:16:52

this film is but from the trailer it looks like

1:16:55

it could be quite interesting. It's

1:16:57

got kind of like grimy 80s

1:17:00

kind of revenge thriller vibes but

1:17:03

also I think there's an element

1:17:05

of supernatural body horror in it because

1:17:08

there's some ripping muscles and Hulk-like undulation.

1:17:10

I think there's going to be some... Yeah

1:17:13

and Ed Harris with an incredible haircut

1:17:15

if you haven't seen this. He's

1:17:17

giving me kind of like Carradine and Kill

1:17:19

Bill kind of vibes from it. I get that.

1:17:22

I'm into this. In terms of the plot

1:17:24

summary all it says on IMDb is

1:17:26

A romance filled by ego design the American

1:17:28

dream. There

1:17:30

we go. Keep

1:17:32

them coming A24. Keep them coming. April,

1:17:36

challenges. This was like

1:17:38

one of my most fantastic films of last

1:17:41

year but it never came out because of

1:17:43

the strike. This is Luca Guadadino's new... It

1:17:47

looks like it's a love triangle tennis

1:17:49

film starring Zendaya. It

1:17:52

looks so good. I re-watched Call Me By Your Name a

1:17:54

couple weeks ago and I've just forgot how incredible that film

1:17:56

is. Yeah really into

1:17:59

this. there in a is

1:18:01

like a tennis star who

1:18:03

gets in yeah it's an I

1:18:05

love triangle with Mike Feist from West Side

1:18:07

Story so he was very good I'm into

1:18:09

this big time Civil

1:18:11

War Alex Garland's new

1:18:13

film with cast

1:18:16

and dance looks good it's about a I mean

1:18:18

this with the upcoming US

1:18:20

election it's gonna be a great year for US politics

1:18:22

if you if you enjoy following all of that but

1:18:24

this film is set in

1:18:26

a fictionalized near future where there's a

1:18:28

big old new Civil War going on

1:18:30

in America and it

1:18:33

looks interesting to me from someone from an outsider I'm sure

1:18:35

I'm sure Americans all think about

1:18:37

this film very differently but Alex

1:18:39

Garland to me doesn't always

1:18:41

hit but it's always interesting

1:18:44

at least when he when he does

1:18:46

something so yeah I'm into this Pablo Escobar

1:18:48

in it as well has

1:18:50

it? Wagamora and

1:18:53

it's got old Jesse Plemons if you've watched the trailer

1:18:55

for this it looks like he's gonna pop up and

1:18:58

steal steal the show for a bit again I'll

1:19:02

skip a couple we haven't got time to go through all

1:19:04

these I've got such a big list of films here John

1:19:06

Krasinski's new film Ith coming May

1:19:08

imaginary friends starring Ryan Reynolds

1:19:11

I hate the trailer for this I think yeah

1:19:13

I wasn't in I wasn't into it but like

1:19:15

just John Krasinski I like so much and I

1:19:18

think the quiet place a quiet place is so

1:19:20

good I was like oh this is what you've

1:19:22

done next you've put Ryan Reynolds in a film

1:19:24

with made like a rubbish

1:19:26

Barney the dinosaur yeah but there's a

1:19:28

quiet place coming out this year as

1:19:31

well yeah he's not involved in it

1:19:34

no I don't think he is but

1:19:38

yeah this one there didn't look great just like

1:19:40

there's a new Planet of the Apes films coming

1:19:42

out but it's nothing to do with the last

1:19:44

trilogy which are great well it is to do

1:19:46

with the last trilogy and that it is a

1:19:49

sequel to them but it's set 300

1:19:51

years later to obviously get

1:19:53

more of the original 60s Planet of the

1:19:55

Apes vibe going on like the Apes can

1:19:57

talk they ride the horses they are the

1:19:59

masters of the planet now but

1:20:02

without Reeves involved I'm

1:20:05

much more skeptical. I'm

1:20:08

not too hopeful about that one. May

1:20:10

though we are getting Furiosa, the

1:20:13

new Mad Max prequel set. I think a

1:20:15

couple of decades before Mad Max Furio Road

1:20:17

with Anya Taylor Joy as a younger Furiosa,

1:20:20

I mean if it's another really long car chase

1:20:23

I don't think it will be this time around

1:20:25

but even if it was that I'd be seated

1:20:27

and ready. It's my

1:20:29

one big rigger in life, it's not that. It's

1:20:31

a big rigger of mine as I never saw

1:20:33

Furio Road in the cinema. Really? I saw it

1:20:35

in this downline. I've seen it at home loads

1:20:37

of times but I've never saw it in the

1:20:39

cinema. I've only ever seen it in the cinema.

1:20:41

I've never watched it since. It's like that's a

1:20:44

perfect preservation. I'm hoping before this maybe they do,

1:20:46

some cinemas will do a re-release of it so

1:20:48

I can go see it in

1:20:50

the cinema but yeah if it's anything

1:20:52

like that we're in for a good

1:20:54

time aren't we? Ballerina in June is

1:20:56

the John Wick spin-off starring Ana Darnas.

1:21:00

Could be good. I sort of think John Wick's had its

1:21:02

run and I really do like

1:21:04

John Wick as a series. I've had some really

1:21:06

good times with it but I feel like it's

1:21:08

done now. I mean

1:21:11

honestly if I'm being honest I felt like I

1:21:13

only ever needed the first film. I

1:21:15

love two. Two is my favourite so I'm feeling that we've

1:21:17

got at least two of them. I do really love the

1:21:19

last half an hour of four but the first two hours

1:21:21

I can say will leave. I liked it but I did

1:21:24

find it a bit sort of like just

1:21:27

too much. It's too much of the same

1:21:29

all the time and I got a bit

1:21:31

repetitive for me. I really

1:21:33

felt that a bit when he kept falling down the

1:21:35

stairs. I'm like oh just fucking get up. Just get

1:21:37

to the top come on. We

1:21:40

are running long enough so I'm going to skip

1:21:42

through a few. Like you said A Quiet Place

1:21:44

Day One is coming out but isn't

1:21:47

unfolding. Krasinski.

1:21:50

Emily Blunt is in it though I think. I

1:21:52

still haven't seen part two. I really should because

1:21:54

I did really like part one. I did like

1:21:56

it a lot but ultimately I did find it

1:21:59

quite forget about it. I think as well

1:22:01

because I don't really think I've never gone really

1:22:03

back and watched it whereas I went back and

1:22:05

watched first One several times. I just don't think

1:22:07

this needs to be a franchise It was a

1:22:09

phenomenal one-off and not and many horrors should just

1:22:11

be phenomenal one. Oh, yeah We

1:22:13

don't need sequels to everything which leads me

1:22:15

on to twisters a sequel to twist Which

1:22:19

I would I otherwise wouldn't

1:22:21

be interested in except

1:22:23

starring Clem Powell and also

1:22:26

Directed by Lee Isaac Chun who died

1:22:29

who directed Minari. It's just a bizarre

1:22:31

like this is his next film Maybe

1:22:35

they do sound really interesting to it, but

1:22:37

I don't know if this is a sequel

1:22:39

or a reboot slash remake I'm not sure

1:22:42

but I don't know if anyone was crying

1:22:44

out for a new twister film But look

1:22:47

we're getting the storm chasers are coming back

1:22:49

to a remake of some gun cuz who

1:22:51

had any attachment to that original film how

1:22:54

day No, I

1:22:56

don't Deadpool

1:22:58

3 in July the only Marvel film hmm coming

1:23:00

out next year There's a lot of me had

1:23:02

one Marvel film in the eyes. I've got a

1:23:05

lot of high hopes for this You know, I

1:23:07

think like a lot of the Marvel films and

1:23:09

TV shows are just not interested me I have

1:23:11

no interest in watching echo even if it's great.

1:23:13

I just said get myself interested

1:23:15

in those shows anymore but I think

1:23:17

the I Think

1:23:20

the metacometer of it all is going to

1:23:22

be interesting to see how weird they go

1:23:24

with it and how silly and how much

1:23:27

X-men stuff they really do in this. I

1:23:29

I started seeing either Deadpool one or

1:23:31

two. So I Don't know.

1:23:33

I think I'm intrigued to see what they do with the whole

1:23:35

Wolverine thing. Yeah. Yeah August

1:23:38

also getting the borderlands fill with

1:23:41

cake lunch Yeah

1:23:46

Weird selection of people in that film. I

1:23:48

don't you know, I enjoy playing

1:23:50

board lands like the actual gunplay in front of

1:23:52

it I do actually quite enjoy it But I

1:23:54

don't enjoy the world and the writing and the

1:23:56

characters and this is what you're gonna get from

1:23:59

the film So I It's not gonna be

1:24:01

for me, I don't think. Jack Black

1:24:03

own Claptrap sounds like, no, I don't

1:24:05

want to hear that. Is

1:24:07

that actually the cult? That's

1:24:10

what it says on I'm the Music Cast.

1:24:12

Of course it is. Yeah. I

1:24:15

don't know. Who knows? Alien Romulus in

1:24:17

August, the new Alien film. I'm

1:24:20

into it. Good name. And

1:24:22

look, Ridley Scott approves it, not that he's always

1:24:25

a great seal of quality for everything. I'm

1:24:28

interested in that new Alien film. And also,

1:24:30

like you mentioned, August Craven, the Hunter. How

1:24:33

bad does that look? I

1:24:36

mean, will it even make it? You've

1:24:38

got to think at this point they're so invested in it, they have to release

1:24:40

it, right? But you just

1:24:42

feel like with these Sony films, they

1:24:44

can't be getting a good return on these things. Like

1:24:46

with Morbius and then with Madam Webb as well, you

1:24:49

feel like that would die in a card. In

1:24:51

November we've also got Venom 3. And I do

1:24:53

actually know Venom does have some supporters. I still

1:24:55

not watch them. But

1:24:58

yeah, Venom 3 is happening. It

1:25:00

is baffling that the same studio

1:25:02

is putting out the Spiderverse films.

1:25:04

Yeah. Like the producing team

1:25:06

that are in charge of Spider-Man at Sony

1:25:09

are able to, you know, in animation, put

1:25:11

out some of the best comic book work

1:25:13

that has ever been put to screen. And

1:25:16

yet in their live action, they're putting out

1:25:18

some of the truly worst stinkers ever. Venom

1:25:21

makes a lot of money though. So that's why they're doing it. Oh,

1:25:23

it's horrible. September,

1:25:25

Beetlejuice 2 is coming

1:25:28

with Michael Kean. They're coming back to play Beetlejuice

1:25:30

again. We'll see how that goes. We

1:25:33

are really are revisiting everything, aren't we? But

1:25:36

this could work. Who knows? Who knows?

1:25:38

A film I'm really intrigued by in

1:25:40

September is a film called Wolves, which

1:25:44

is directed by Jon Watts, who is

1:25:46

the director of the Spider-Man trilogy for

1:25:48

the MCU. This is a

1:25:50

film starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as

1:25:54

two professional fixers who find themselves hired for the

1:25:56

same job. Just sounds like it could be very

1:25:58

fun. Clooney and Pitt back together. Bit of

1:26:00

Oceans 11. 5 to it.

1:26:03

I'm into it. So I thought a film that

1:26:05

would have been made 20 years ago that we

1:26:07

don't often get anymore. Which I kind

1:26:09

of had to sound like an old man.

1:26:11

Bring back those sort of films. What else

1:26:15

we got? Joker 2. Joker Foley

1:26:17

O'Dyr. It's coming in October. A musical with

1:26:19

Lady Gaga in this time around as Harley

1:26:21

Quinn. I big into it. I still really

1:26:23

like Joker. It's a very good film. And

1:26:26

this one seems like

1:26:28

I'm going mad with it. So go mad with

1:26:30

it. Why not? It's still Top Phillips right as

1:26:32

well. Yeah. Yeah. But he's doing a musical this

1:26:35

time. That's interesting. I'm much more intrigued by the

1:26:37

mad. I didn't think that film ever needed a

1:26:39

sequel. But the fact that this is just such

1:26:41

a weird concept. I'm intrigued by it. Yeah. We've

1:26:46

also got the new Paddington film. Paddington

1:26:48

in Peru in November. More Paddington. Always

1:26:50

good. But it's not poor King is it?

1:26:53

He's not directed but I do think he's

1:26:55

involved. I do think he's lending a hand.

1:26:57

But yeah. I still haven't

1:26:59

seen Wonka. Have you seen Wonky? Yeah. It's

1:27:01

good fun. It wasn't as weird

1:27:03

and dark as Roldar normally would be.

1:27:06

And so it didn't feel like an authentic Wonka prequel

1:27:08

for lack of a better term. But it's good fun.

1:27:11

I want to see it. Coming up at the end

1:27:14

of the year we've also got Wicked Part 1.

1:27:16

Which I'm sure will absolutely make millions

1:27:18

and millions and millions of dollars. Ariana

1:27:20

Grande making that film debut

1:27:22

I think. November 2. Gladiator

1:27:25

2. Here we go.

1:27:27

I actually forgot. Last week I said

1:27:29

Barry Kieger's in this. He actually dropped out. I lied.

1:27:31

He's not in it anymore. He was going to be

1:27:33

in it. But we've still got Paul Mezcal as the

1:27:36

young man grown up in a gladiator 2. Oh

1:27:40

is that what it is? Is it directed all over

1:27:42

his son? Yeah. He's grown

1:27:44

up. Not his son. The Emperor's.

1:27:49

The son

1:27:52

of the... I

1:27:54

forgot the name. The characters in Gladiator. Everyone knows

1:27:56

the young boy in that film. He's grown up

1:27:58

in his Paul Mezcal now. I'm

1:28:02

hopeful, I'm hopeful. But

1:28:04

who knows? I need to re-watch that. I only ever watched

1:28:06

it when it first came out. So it's been 20 years

1:28:08

since I've seen that film. I

1:28:10

love, love, love Claudia. And

1:28:12

December has also moved faster, The

1:28:15

Lion King, which

1:28:18

just intrigues me. Because

1:28:20

I probably won't watch it, but Barry Jenkins

1:28:23

of Moonlight fame is directing it. It's similar

1:28:25

to the Minari director directing Twisters. So why

1:28:27

are you, maybe he has a deep connection

1:28:29

to The Lion King. I don't know, but

1:28:31

it's an interesting choice to make.

1:28:33

I hated that live action Lion King, so

1:28:36

not that excited for this. There we go.

1:28:38

The last film we have a date for,

1:28:40

before I mention a couple of others, in

1:28:43

December, on Christmas Day, Robert Eggers

1:28:45

is releasing his Nosferatu film. What

1:28:48

a move. Christmas Day, here's my

1:28:50

vampire film. Robert

1:28:52

Eggers is just one of the

1:28:54

most exciting directors around, I think. You

1:28:57

know it's going to be quite unsettling, probably. Yeah,

1:28:59

if I've got the same sort of tone and

1:29:01

style as like the Norseman, then yeah, I'm very

1:29:04

into it. Yeah, the cast,

1:29:06

it's got Bill Skarsgard, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas

1:29:09

Holt. It's got some people who can

1:29:11

be a bit weird and a bit

1:29:13

creepy. So, I mean, I

1:29:16

think Willem Dafoe plays like a vampire hunter in

1:29:18

this film. So that's what you want, isn't it

1:29:20

really? That is what you want. That's

1:29:23

all the ones we have dates for. I was going to mention a

1:29:25

couple others, but we don't know when they're coming. Havoc

1:29:29

is the new film from

1:29:31

Gareth Evans of the Raid

1:29:33

fame, stars Tom Hardy, and

1:29:36

looks like it could be very good. We just don't

1:29:38

really know much about it yet,

1:29:40

apart from it's an action film that should come

1:29:43

out at some point soon. Hitman,

1:29:46

another Glen Powell film. He's

1:29:48

getting around, isn't he?

1:29:50

It's Hitman, two words. I

1:29:53

thought you were about to say there was another

1:29:55

terrible Hitman out of Hitman. No,

1:29:57

no, no. The new Richard Linkley film and Richard Linkley, I

1:29:59

reckon. like one of my like top five

1:30:01

directors I absolutely love pretty much anything

1:30:04

he does and he knows how to work with Glen Powell

1:30:06

and does it a lot it's it's I

1:30:08

think a lot of people already seen this film it

1:30:10

came out at some festivals lost it was even at

1:30:12

the London Film Festival thing a few months ago but

1:30:14

I can't wait to see this film Glen

1:30:16

Powell is about a hitman it's a

1:30:19

action comedy film about a hitman so

1:30:23

I'm sure it'd be very fun Maxine

1:30:25

the third film in the X

1:30:27

and Pearl trilogy you guys

1:30:30

didn't like X I really didn't like it

1:30:32

I do want to watch Pearl I liked

1:30:35

X didn't love it I really liked

1:30:37

Pearl I thought Pearl was

1:30:39

fantastic so I'm now I'm before to Maxine

1:30:41

which is the sequel

1:30:44

to X is me again yep she's

1:30:47

playing her character from Pearl

1:30:50

I believe no from X sorry in

1:30:52

this one go it gets

1:30:54

a little confusing I'm gonna mention

1:30:56

Megalopolis Francis Ford Coppola's upcoming

1:30:58

film the one he's been trying to make for

1:31:00

ages no one would give him the money of

1:31:02

it for it so he's self-financed it all himself

1:31:05

it could be an absolute mess but this

1:31:08

is the man who's made the Godfather

1:31:10

films and Apokites now so how can you really

1:31:12

doubt him he has also made some not very

1:31:14

good films but you know

1:31:18

it's a epic science fiction

1:31:20

drama starring Adam Driver and Forrest

1:31:23

Whitaker so you know I'm

1:31:25

hopeful I'm hopeful please be good Francis

1:31:27

please be good and

1:31:30

you guys familiar with Mother Mary the

1:31:33

new film from David Lurie of the

1:31:35

Green Knight fame it

1:31:38

just sounds quite good it's got Anne Hathaway, Hunter

1:31:40

Shafer and Michaela Colan it looks like

1:31:43

it's gonna be a musical drama of

1:31:45

some sort it could

1:31:47

be fun and two

1:31:50

more Joseph Kaczynski's Formula

1:31:52

One film with Brad Pitt in it his

1:31:54

follow-up to Top Gun Maverick they've been filming

1:31:56

this at actual Formula One races like putting

1:31:58

Brad Pitt in it the cars using

1:32:01

similar like filming techniques they did with Top

1:32:03

Gun Maverick to get cameras in the cars

1:32:05

and around them so I'm sure you

1:32:08

know at least it will be like stunning to look

1:32:10

out like Top Gun Maverick was so I'm very excited

1:32:13

for that and also my last

1:32:15

one is a film called Polaris from

1:32:18

Lynne Ramsey who is

1:32:20

a fantastic director starring Joaquin Phoenix

1:32:23

and Rooney Mara it's a horror

1:32:25

set in 19th century Alaska where

1:32:27

and all it says is an

1:32:29

ice photographer meets the devil so

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there you go I hope

1:32:35

they have a lovely time there we go I'm sure

1:32:37

it'll be I'm sure it will be very

1:32:40

very good that's everything a lot of

1:32:42

things I even skipped some good year

1:32:44

for film is what I'm saying so please

1:32:46

be excited let us know IGN on school

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you can feedback at ign.com

1:32:51

about what you're

1:32:53

most looking forward to this year what what jumped

1:32:55

out for you guys there film wise anything uh

1:32:58

June I guess is one of the June

1:33:00

of Furiosa are the big ones you didn't

1:33:02

mention Abigail which is the new horror from

1:33:05

Radio Silence who the Radio Auld team and

1:33:07

uh and screamed but I saw the trailer

1:33:09

for that yesterday it's Giancarlo Esposito asked a

1:33:11

bunch of people to go and kidnap a

1:33:13

girl and the kidnap does

1:33:15

not go well for them okay it looks

1:33:17

really fun I've not heard of

1:33:19

that one so thank you for putting it on

1:33:21

my radar what about you

1:33:24

that's a long list of films that is

1:33:26

like overwhelming almost like there's a lot to

1:33:28

choose from I guess the scene what they

1:33:31

do with Alien with Romulus like is probably

1:33:33

my most what what I'm intrigued about the most I

1:33:35

don't know if I'll have the best time with it

1:33:37

though not Craven uh

1:33:40

no sorry yeah I meant to say Craven the Hunter all-time

1:33:43

classic go hashtag team Craven

1:33:46

there we go that's that's the uh that's the

1:33:48

title of it probably won't

1:33:50

be but uh there we go uh we've

1:33:53

already gone long enough this week we will read some

1:33:55

of your feedback next week though do not worry

1:33:58

a lot of things look I

1:34:01

hope you enjoyed the podcast. What

1:34:04

music are we going for though? I haven't even thought about that. What

1:34:06

are you thinking? Anything? Jumping

1:34:09

out to anyone? What did you end up

1:34:11

playing last week? I didn't listen back to it. A

1:34:13

bit of Flo Rida. I want

1:34:15

Murder on the Dance Floor to be at the

1:34:17

end of a podcast. Why

1:34:19

not play it now? Why not? Yeah,

1:34:21

let's do it now. Okay.

1:34:24

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1:35:12

He's trying to put two dozen oysters in a

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