About this podcast
The award nominated film podcast that does a bit of everything.
One of Esquire's 38 Best Comedy Podcasts Around.
Hosted by John Rain.
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Episodes
The newest 50 of 436 episodes
- SWEENEY 2 with Alison Dennison · 1 h 19 min · Season 8 Episode 59This week we’ll be hunting lags and stopping blags, while also stopping for the occasional stiffener and observing the art of flirting 70s style. Yes, it’s Sweeney 2 And…
- THE BOYS IN BLUE with Paul Litchfield · 1 h 17 min · Season 8 Episode 58This week we’ll be seeing what happens when you put the long arm into Little Botham. Will the results be part of the Cannon, or will they end up a major Balls up? Yes, it’s The…
- GHOSTWATCH with Simon Love · 1 h 20 min · Season 8 Episode 57Today we’ll be going live in order to find out what on earth possessed the BBC to make a show about a celebrity trapped in a house with a deranged maniac a full decade before…
- CARRY ON SCREAMING with Paul Litchfield and Dan Thomas · 1 h 14 min · Season 8 Episode 56Today we’ll be finding out what happens when you go hanging about in the woods at the wrong time. The toilet gets blocked, the wife goes hard and you lose a finger. Yes, it’s…
- THE LOST BOYS with Kate McCabe · 1 h 16 min · Season 8 Episode 55Today we’ll be heading to the Murder Capital of the world to find out just what happens when you CROSS the wrong youths. There’ll be flying, dying, Frogs and dogs as Santa Carla…
- A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET with Steve Hall · 1 h 30 min · Season 8 Episode 54Today we’ll be meeting the man of your dreams! Good news: He’s got a great sense of humour, has his own place, loves kids and adores fingering. Bad news: He’s bald, mean…
- FROM BEYOND with Dan Thomas and Dr. Dean Burnett · 1 h 16 min · Season 8 Episode 53Today we’ll be gathering all of our facilities and coming to our senses as we seek the ultimate in pleasure, gloop and bafflement. Yes, it’s From Beyond. Joining me to…
- 10 RILLINGTON PLACE with Karl Coppack · 1 h 24 min · Season 8 Episode 52Today we’ll be going back into the past in order to visit a genuine house of horrors. Yes, it’s 10 Rillington Place. Joining me to sort the fact from the fiction is Karl…
- NIGHT OF THE DEMON with Toby Hadoke · 1 h 24 min · Season 8 Episode 51Today we’ll be playing the deadliest game of pass the parcel ever, and wandering around in the woods in order to find out just what is coming from the trees. Yes, it’s Night of…
- EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas · 1 h 15 min · Season 8 Episode 50Today we’ll be finding out if too much exorcise is bad for you, and how you should never drink when you’re riding a locust. Yes, it’s Exorcist II: The Heretic. Joining me for a…
- FRIDAY THE 13th PART 3D with Tom Crowley · 1 h 43 min · Season 8 Episode 49Today we’ll be heading to Crystal Lake to find out just why you shouldn’t go into the woods when there are not one, but three dimensions of terror! Yes, it’s Friday the 13th…
- DRACULA AD 1972 with Ashley Blaker · 1 h 3 min · Season 8 Episode 48Welcome to another Halloween Special! Today we’ll be finding out if vampires hold a grudge after one hundred years, or if the stakes are just too low. Yes, it’s Dracula AD 1972…
- THE VAULT OF HORROR with Anna Savory · 1 h 1 min · Season 8 Episode 47Today we’ll be talking about the ART of dreams. So fix yourself a NEAT drink as you get ROPED in to hear all about the GRAVEST nightmares that hopefully don’t SUCK. Yes, it’s…
- RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE with Tom Neenan · 1 h 37 min · Season 8 Episode 45Today we’ll be heading behind the walls of Racoon City to find out why in this world of adventures not everyone is so keen to ride the nemesis. Yes, it’s Resident Evil…
- FRIGHT NIGHT with Dan Tetsell · 1 h 25 min · Season 8 Episode 45Today we’ll be grabbing our binoculars, blessing our water, spying on the neighbours and hoping they don’t get too cross as we aim to find out what big stiffs they are keeping…
- GIVE MY REGARDS TO BROAD STREET with Simon Love · 1 h 23 min · Season 8 Episode 44This week we’ll be going behind the scenes in the music industry to take a warts-and-all look at the day in the life of a proper pop star. We’ll meet Tom, Harry, and everyone…
- ROBOCOP 2 with Paul Litchfield · 1 h 19 min · Season 8 Episode 43This week we’ll be heading back to old Detroit to fight crime and corporate meddling. We’ll find out that the kids are not alright and just what really happens when the police go…
- THE LONE RANGER with Jack Bernhardt · 2 h 39 min · Season 8 Episode 42This week we’ll be going full Tonto, saddling up and heading back to the Old West to find out what happens when you have a dead crow in a silver mine, and end up with serious…
- DIE HARD 4 with Paul Gannon · 1 h 48 min · Season 8 Episode 41This week we’ll be going in through the back door in order to keep you in the dark and set off your waterworks. Yes, it’s DIE HARD 4.0, or LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD, depending on…
- GREASE with Simon Love · 1 h 31 min · Season 8 Episode 40This week we’ll be slicking back our hair, sewing ourselves into our trousers, and jumping behind the wheel of a massive car to head back to the happy days of 1958. A time when…
- COMMANDO with Ashley Blaker and Steve Hall · 1 h 11 min · Season 8 Episode 39This week we’ll be loading up on guns and bringing friends, in order to let off some steam and take part in the most extreme version of bring your daughter to work day. Yes…
- POINT BREAK with Kate McCabe · 1 h 35 min · Season 8 Episode 38This week we’ll hanging ten and catching tubes in order to put away a man so evil and malevolent that he will put lives at risk merely for the promise of an endless summer, no…
- ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK with Jim Maxwell · 1 h 19 min · Season 8 Episode 37This week we’ll be heading behind enemy lines to a future so dark and dystopian that a rich and powerful man doesn’t want to go on a pod. Yes, it’s Escape from New York. And…
- THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE with Toby Hadoke · 1 h 41 min · Season 8 Episode 36This week we’ll be joining the world on the brink of total flaming disaster and telling everyone it was hotter in 1976. Yes, it’s The Day the Earth Caught Fire Joining me to…
- LIMITLESS with Dr. Dean Burnett · 1 h 21 min · Season 8 Episode 35This week we’ll be popping pills and collecting skills as we find out just what someone would do in order to have a haircut. Yes, it’s Limitless And joining me to use 24% of…
- SMERSH HITS: SPIDER-MAN · 2 h 4 min · Season 8 Episode 34This week we’ll be going back to 2002 and dialling up the web to go on the hunt for the best swinger, and find out just who has been leaving sticky white stuff everywhere. Yes…
- STAR TREK: INSURRECTION with Paul Litchfield · 1 h 5 min · Season 8 Episode 33This week we’ll get Ba-Ku to where we once belonged in order to find out just who has been giving Geordi 20/20 vision, Worf long pubes, Picard a baby face, and Riker the absolute…
- FAST FIVE with David Hoare · 2 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 32Welcome to another FAST SPECIAL. This week we’ll be heading down to the sunny beaches of Rio to spend time with the family and maybe get a bit of Rock. Yes, it’s Fast Five…
- SMERSH ON SCREEN: THE ODYSSEY · 48 min · Season 8 Episode 31As part of a recent Snake Boys get-together, Tom Neenan and I had some time to sit down and chat about our thoughts on the new Christopher Nolan movie. We do drop a few spoilers…
- CARRY ON LOVING with Paul Litchfield and Dan Thomas · 1 h 27 min · Season 8 Episode 30This week we’ll be getting all Grubby as we put our long one in a hole in the wall and see what kind of Bliss we get when it comes out afterwards. Yes, it’s Carry On Loving And…
- ROCKY V with Paul Whitelaw · 1 h 15 min · Season 8 Episode 29This time we’ll be looking behind our ear for the will to live, packing up our stinky old jacket and hat, and heading back to the old neighbourhood to be thoroughly miserable for…
- RESIDENT EVIL with Tom Neenan · 1 h 43 min · Season 8 Episode 28This week we’ll be going back to the heady days of 2002. A more innocent time when you want a go on nemesis, nip out for a bite without getting cancelled, and Umbrella going…
- SMERSH HITS: SUPERGIRL (1984) with Johnny Candon · 1 h 58 min · Season 8 Episode 27This week we’ll be heading to Argo City to have a drink or two with Peter o Toole, and to find out if Superman’s cousin can save the day while he’s out. Yes, it’s Supergirl…
- X: THE UNKNOWN with Toby Hadoke · 1 h 25 min · Season 8 Episode 26This week we’ll be looking at an X that only lives to suck energy, spew hate and pump out bad waves, no not the popular edge lord website, it’s merely an old science fiction…
- TREMORS with David Hoare and Tom Crowley · 1 h 35 min · Season 8 Episode 25This week we’ll be looking for Perfection as we sit down and watch a film that really grabbed our attention, and made the ground move beneath our feet. Yes, it’s Tremors…
- SMERSH ON SCREEN: DISCLOSURE DAY with DAN THOMAS · 47 min · Season 8 Episode 24Dan Thomas and I are fans of Big Stevie Spielberg. We went to see this film. We weren't keen. We vent here. WE SPOIL IT. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN SWITCH OFF!! Hosted on Acast. See…
- BATMAN with Dan Thomas · 2 h 7 min · Season 8 Episode 23This week we’ll be stepping into the dark shadows of Gotham City in order to find out just what puts such a smile on the face of the citizens. Is it all that free money? Or…
- INNERSPACE with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas · 1 h 44 min · Season 8 Episode 22This week we’ll be defying convention and going out of our way to look for the beauty hidden inside a person, while also proving they have guts, seeing the world through their…
- THE SAINT with Steve Hall · 1 h 36 min · Season 8 Episode 21This week we’ll packing our dressing up kit and make up box as we head to Mother Russia in order to stop a despot giving cold fusion the cold shoulder. Yes, it’s The Saint…
- KING KONG (1976) with David K. Barnes · 2 h 10 min · Season 8 Episode 20This week we’ll be heading to the island and going ape! In order to find out just what happens when capitalism gets in the way of innocent love between a giant and a tiny lady…
- ROADHOUSE with Kate McCabe · 1 h 53 min · Season 8 Episode 19This week we’ll be putting on the finest MOR known to man, brushing up on our white-guy karate, and taking out the trash in order to prove that a small town of nice murderers is…
- JOHN CARTER with Jack Bernhardt · 2 h 6 min · Season 8 Episode 18This week we’ll be seeing red as we head back to the past in order to go to space and find out if a Mars a day keeps the sequels away. Yes, it’s John Carter And joining me to…
- NEIGHBORS with Paul Whitelaw · 1 h 15 min · Season 8 Episode 17This week we’ll be curtain twitching like there’s no tomorrow as we check out who’s just moved in next door, and sort of knock about for aimlessly for ninety minutes without…
- THE WICKER MAN with Martin Fitzgerald · 1 h 31 min · Season 8 Episode 16This week we’ll be heading to glorious Summerisle; a secluded paradise of rolling fields, welcoming harbours, and a thriving swinging culture that’s known to be fairly committed…
- SCARS OF DRACULA with Ashley Blaker · 1 h 2 min · Season 8 Episode 15This week we’ll be returning to Ye Olde Europe to find out who would Minder if Dracula killed their brother. Yes, it’s Scars of Dracula. And joining me to go batty for lashes…
- ALIEN: RESURRECTION with Dr. Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas · 1 h 41 min · Season 8 Episode 14The tagline reads: "It's been more than 200 years... The beginning has just started". Whatever that means, it's time for the Monday Night Movie Club to get together and head…
- ASYLUM with Anna Savory · 1 h 15 min · Season 8 Episode 13This week we’ll be getting seriously committed in order to solve a puzzle. Just what refreshes the parts you cannot reach? Who makes a suit that’s simply to die for? And who is…
- CLUB CLASSICS: UNDER SIEGE 2: DARK TERRITORY with Dean Burnett and Dan Thomas · 1 h 19 min · Season 8 Episode 12To celebrate the birthday of Steven Seagal, John takes Dan and Dean for a choo-choo ride and discovers a whole casey of trouble. A Monday Night Movie Club episode from Feb 20…
- I BOUGHT A VAMPIRE MOTORCYCLE with Simon Love · 1 h 41 min · Season 8 Episode 11This week in a bit of Boon for the show, we’ll test-driving a new hog - but not just any hog, this ride is possessed by a bit of a speed demon. It eats protocol droids for…
- The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We Talk About the JFK Assassination with Martin Fitzgerald · 1 h 21 min · Season 8 Episode 10In a very special episode I'm joined by Martin Fitzgerald to catch up on JFK again, and talk about his new book "The Umbrella Man and Other Stories: What We Talk About When We…
