ISS
The Black Dog Podcast
This week Jim dives into cloud gaming, Elton walks into a shop, Darren plays a game where he is repeatedly killed by trees and Lee drinks some Mauritian rum. After that theres a brief bit of feedback for Contact before we head off to the final entry of our sad space people in space movie, I.S.S. where we ask such questions as what else we could have been doing rather than watching this and does it make Godzilla sad. Media Discussed This Week Amazon Luna Cloud Gaming - Amazon Prime The Trees Hate You - Steam / XBox Forever Winter - Steam Knock at the Cabin - Amazon Prime / VOD / Channel 4...
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Contact (1997)
The Black Dog Podcast
Welcome to an EPIC length episode as Jim builds a fence and is mightily disturbed by a coffee table, Darren appreciates some Doom Patrol and Lee has a back to basics nature experience with his family that is less singing around a camp fire and more Burt Reynolds in Deliverance. Then after some Midnight Sky feedback its on to this weeks film. The third in the spaceman / space daddy issues season as Jodie Foster clashes with science, faith and a very big Sky satellite dish set up to make Contact. Media discussed this week History of 80s Horror - Shudder The Coffee Table -...
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The Midnight Sky
The Black Dog Podcast
Welcome back, this week Jim hunts Dust Bunnies, Elton enters pothole city, Darren has a problem with Rogue Trooper's knitted vest and Lee pays £8 for a pint in an empty pub. After which we move on to a grim (but scientifically shambolic) future where everythings gone to hell but at least we can still sing to Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline... The Netflix apocalyptic prestige movie The Midnight Sky. Media Discussed This Week Dust Bunny - Amazon Prime / VOD The Bride! - VOD Hammers 4 sided triangle - Cinema Equidistant Atomfall - All game platforms Fallout 4 - All game platforms The Boys Season...
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Ad Astra
The Black Dog Podcast
This week Jim goes down the allotment and does unspeakable things with a sweet potato. Elton watches a unique take on couples therapy with Together, Darren reveals what we already knew about him playing Star Trek Voyager (see episode 257 for details) and Lee gleefully enjoys Rachel McAdams torturing a tech bro on an island in Sam Raimis Get Help. Then after some Primer feedback which is almost as confusing as the original film we move on to this weeks film and the start of SPAAAAACE season. Brad Pitt looks out a window and narrates being sad in space in Ad Astra. Oh and do enjoy an on air...
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Primer
The Black Dog Podcast
MY BRAIN HURTS!
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Biggles Adventures In Time
The Black Dog Podcast
This week Jim dives into Last One Laughing as well as enjoying some Classic Album Reviews, Darren and Lee discuss Project Hail Mary and Elton? Well lets just say he has a bathroom mishap Then after some quick feedback its time to smoke me a kipper skipper (not available in TV dinner form) as we try to definitively locate the comma in the film Biggles, adventure in time... Or is it Biggles Adventure, in time? Either way its the Biggles film... Media Discussed This Week Classic Album Reviews - YouTube Last one laughing - Amazon Prime Project Hail Mary - Theatrical Release Biggles...
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
The Black Dog Podcast
This week Jim returns from illness to remind us that the retro game Dungeon Keeper still exists, Elton goes on a Alex Garland trip watching Civil War (not currently a documentary) and 28 Years Later. Darren sends everyone down a retro gaming rabbit hole digging through MyAbandonWare and also regrets watching the TV show Falling Skies, while Lee (also disappearing down the retro game hole, visits Birmingham and digs into some nostalga bait with the relaunched series of Scrubs. After that the guys realise its getting late and plough on to this weeks review. The "anarchic" time travel anti AI,...
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Timecrimes
The Black Dog Podcast
This week, Jim is struck down by the flu so unfortunately there is no adult in the room as Elton is thankful for having a bone in his head, Darren does, but doesn't, but does watch Game of Thrones back to back, or does he? And Lee who was laid up with the lurgy last week watches what can only be described as a slew of "We have this movie at home..." timu remakes of Die Hard, John Wick/Pirates of the Caribean and Catch Me If You Can. After that its on to this weeks film... A small budget Spanish time travel thriller Timecrimes... Ladies and gents start your watches! The countdown to explaining...
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Warfare
The Black Dog Podcast
This week Jim gets some good news... and some bad... but mainly good. Elton plays a game called Paddle which may involve using a... Paddle. Darren, gets an achy side and decides he wants to shill for Chris Packham. And Lee catches up with Veep and the BBC show of the moment Small Prophets After that its WAR! And as we know war is hell... and rather loud.... as we review Alex Garlands Warfare Media Discussed This Week Small Prophets - BBC / BBC iPlayer Veep - HBO / Sky / NowTV Warfare - Amazon Prime
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Young Sherlock Holmes
The Black Dog Podcast
The game is afoot as we rush into this weeks episode as Darren tries very very hard to convince us all he went to see The Housemaid for the plot (he also reads Playboy for the articles) while Lee watches Predator: Badlands, Crime 101 aka Timu Heat and in a moment of blind Valentines day induced terror and panic tries to make a Victoria sponge while missing ingredents, equipment and basic skills... After which icing sugar based disasters leads us on to this weeks film... A ground breaking moment in CGi history and a painfully 80s movie, the guys don their deer stalkers and stride off...
info_outlineNo Jim this week, but we do have Elton discovering GAMEboys in his garage and fighting off Seagulls again. Darren has a family gathering, checks out Lightyear and finds he's hit his limit on Taika Waititis ubiquitousness. While Lee gets new glasses, goes to a light festival and has the true festival experience as a bunch of women poo outside his tent and then the whole place is hit by a major storm.
After all of that its on to a nice summer solstice festival for a bit of cultural exchange as we watch MidSommar