[School of Everything Else 2024]Our years-long journey through the DC Animated Universe comes to a close, and it is both melancholy as we say goodbye to Kevin Conroy and at the same time wildly enthusiastic for some of the very best episodes a
[School of Everything Else 2024]The DC Animated Universe marathon reaches its Avengers phase, as the established animated Batman and Superman from their own Animated Series' which had already crossed over, team up with Wally West's Flash (who
[School of Movies 2024]This is an idea for a new kind of show that I've been developing. It just so happens to coincide with a period where my voice has been wrecked from illness and I'm trying to limit talking for long stretches so that my vo
[School of Everything Else 2024]The conclusion (for now) to this series of shows on the triumphant return of Star Trek.Season 2 slaloms between unsettling and dark episodes which would feel more at home in Discovery if they weren't so persona
[School of Movies 2024]Is this the last true swashbuckler of the 20th Century? It's certainly the Zorro movie so great, and so wildly successful in all of its aims that there hasn't really been a landmark big screen appearance since then (that
[School of Everything Else 2024]This is one of two commissioned podcasts on the first two seasons of the best Star Trek shows in decades. Refreshingly lacking in cynicism and tapping into the Kennedy-era energy of exploration and endeavour wit
[School of Movies 2024]The late 2010s. It is a period of civil war. The vast Empire of Disney has released four of its five first Star Wars movies, to mixed reception. Critically and financially, The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi have done v
[School of Everything Else 2024]This was originally going to be an After School Club episode, but a combination of the community discourse regarding the X-Men, and an extremely well-timed trailer drop for the '97 reboot, AND a horrendous cold
[School of Everything Else 2024]The infamous animated series with a theme tune you can hear just by looking at stills of it, finally gets a well-deserved podcast. We actually recorded this several years back, to coincide with the launch of the
[School of Everything Else 2024]We initially started watching this 2017 Paramount TV series just for some back-story context on a pair of commissioned podcasts we have upcoming on the first two seasons of the sister show about the crew of the
[School of Movies 2024]It's always a risk, setting a sci-fi dystopian movie only a few years from filming. You're going to make predictions about how the world might look and operate, with new technology or sociological and political upheaval
[School of Movies 2024]After decades of very patchy sequels and spinoffs to the 1987 sci-fi classic, Predator, we finally get one that is not only worthy of, but in many ways surpasses its stealthy action-beefcake-slasher source.So far we've
[School of Everything Else 2024]This is one we have been planning and looking forward to for a long, long, LONG time. One of the most significant indie video games of all time, and for our child, maybe their favourite forever (up against Minec
[School of Everything Else 2024]Part 6 of 6We come to it at last. The final episodes of one of the greatest animated shows ever gifted to TV. And we pulled out all the stops this time, because it's bittersweet to say goodbye again. Originall
[School of Everything Else 2024]Part 4 of 6Back in early 2020 (pre-pandemic even) just as Disney+ had launched, making this show super-accessible to everyone at last, we recorded three podcasts on the first season. Now we are finally back to
[School of Movies 2023]This is one of the hardest episodes we have ever had to record.I'm not dealing in hyperbole when I describe the shockwave that rippled through our house when we found out that without the slightest warning Chadwick Bose
[School of Movies 2023]One of only FOUR movies directed by the all-too-soon-departed anime darling Satoshi Kon (along with Perfect Blue, Millennium Actress and Paprika), this is by far and away his most heartfelt, funny, camp and soulful tale,
[School of Everything Else 2020]Part 3 of 6The third of three shows on Season 1 of Gravity Falls. Season 2 will be covered in 2021.We round off the first batch of episodes with a showcase of villainy, as a crazed piglet who holds small-town
[School of Everything Else 2020]Part 2 of 6The second of three shows on Season 1 of Gravity Falls. Season 2 will be covered in 2021.We return to one of the best animated series' to grace the TV screen. A rich, hilarious, fast-paced puzzle-bo
[School of Everything Else 2020]Part 1 of 6Throughout the year we will be releasing episodes covering one of our very favourite animated shows, now available worldwide on Disney+ which is why we waited until now. Most people haven't seen this
[School of Movies 2023]If you love Love Actually this show is for you.If you hate Love Actually this show is for you.If you consider Love Actually to be kind of a mixed bag and there's actors and/or scenarios in there that you really like an
[School of Everything Else 2023]The first global blockbuster hit in this long-running series from Squaresoft. As we noted before, the excellent Final Fantasies IV, V and VI were not released in Europe (neither were I, II or III) until long aft
[School of Movies 2023]Arguably director Hayao Miyazaki's finest hour, and by extension the peak of composer Joe Hisaishi and for Studio Ghibli in general. This one is almost too easy to either sing the praises of, or to dismiss because it was
[School of Everything Else 2023]This is the good stuff. Look no further than the 2012-2013 one-season 3D animated show for the absolute best Green Lantern experience. Co-Created Giancarlo Volpe of Avatar and Bruce Timm, one of the key figures
[Digital Gonzo 2013]This is a special, re-edited, re-release of a classic episode of Digital Gonzo. Back in 2013 we talked all about Green Lantern, under the impression that Warner Bros. & DC had big plans for superheroes over the next decade.