Film Club Extra: I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)
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If you woke up on January 1st and persuaded yourself that what you needed most this year was a further instalment of I Know What You Did Last Summer, then bingo you're in luck. For everybody else, here's our review. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake
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Blue Box 185: Resurrection Who 5. The Firemaker
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There's a new Doctor aboard the TARDIS as we enter the fifth season of our imaginary Doctor Who remake - and Mark is here to explain the choice and talk through the stories we've selected for him to experience. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson
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Music Club Extra 09: The Blow Monkeys: Birdsong
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Dan Jennings of the Paul Weller Fan Podcast joins us to review The Blow Monkeys' new album Birdsong, their first for Alan McGee and Youth's record label Creation Youth Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Dan Jennings
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Film Club Lite 84: The Puppet Masters (1994)
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There had already been three adaptations of Jack Finney's The Body Snatchers by the time Disney's Hollywood Pictures went back to the source, and produced a version of Robert Heinlein's original alien parasite novel The Puppet Masters. Should they have left well alone? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake and Dylan Rees
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Blue Box 184: Who News: Chronic Hysteretics
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The quotes coming out of Edinburgh this week might have made it feel like we're stuck in 1989 all over again (or is that 1985?), but this is a different century now - so what did we make of the idea that the TARDIS is "going nowhere"? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Film Club Duets 32: Vampira (1974) and Vamps (2012)
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In this edition we're pairing up a couple of very different but equally unlikely vampires; firstly there's David Niven's urbane and terribly British Count Dracula, and then Alicia Silverstone in an undead rematch with Amy Heckerling, her director on Clueless. What can possibly go right? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Ryan Blake
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Film Club Lite 83: The Relic (1997)
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Our odyssey through the mid-range monster movies of the 1990s fetches up at The Relic, Timecop director Peter Hyams' museum-set variation on Alien. But would any of us remember the film for long enough to talk about it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake, Simon Brett and Dylan Rees
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Blue Box 183: Resurrection Who 4. The Return
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It's the fourth "season" of our imaginary Doctor Who reboot, and a surprise is about to be sprung Presented by J.R. Southall, with Mark Donaldson
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Film Club Lite 82: Unforgettable (1996)
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After a run of indelible, critically adored movies culminating in The Last Seduction, was it hubris on John Dahl's part to call his fourth Unforgettable? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Ryan Blake
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Film Club Lite 81: Mimic (1997)
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After making a splash in his native Mexico with Cronos, Hollywood invited Guillermo del Toro to come and helm another in its cycle of mid-90s monster movies. The result was Mimic, but what do we think of it now? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Simon Brett and Steve Hatcher
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Original cover art by Andy Lambert