The Weekly Planet

James Acast

The Weekly Planet

A weekly TV, Film and Comics podcast featuring James Clement and Nick Mason

 41 people rated this podcast
The Weekly Planet

James Acast

The Weekly Planet

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The Weekly Planet

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The Weekly Planet

A weekly TV, Film and Comics podcast featuring James Clement and Nick Mason
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It's a HUGE news week for this episode let me tell you that. Starting with the further failings of Joker II, Christopher Nolan's WB deal, more details on Daredevil: Born Again and Spider-Man 4, a Gollum movie update, the reworking of the God of
John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982 we treated incredibly harshly upon it's initial release. Labelled disgusting and mean on arrival audiences gradually turned around on it with it becomming one of the greatest horror movies of all time. With
In this weeks episode we're having the absolute time of our lives reviewing Transformers One and Hellboy: That Crooked Bloke. Plus we get into the news of the week which includes but not exclusively early reactions to Captain America: Brave Bir
in 2013 Sam Raimi decided to try something a little out of his wheelhouse of horror or comic book movies and directed a Wizard of Oz prequel focusing on the great and powerful wizard. Starring James Franco (RIP), Michelle Williams, Milla Kunis
Those madmen and women over at Warner Brothers Discovery have done the impossible, a sequel to the 2019 billion dollar smash Joker. Joker: Folie à Deux continues the adventures of Arthur Fleck this time joined by Harleen "Lee" Quinzel in a stor
46 years after the original Wizard of Oz comes Disney's attempt at a sequel, Return to Oz. Whilst a huge cinematic bomb in 1985 the same year it arrived it's legacy endured by the generation of children it traumatised by putting Dorothy through
It's been four decades in the making but Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is final here. And we have some thoughts. ALSO WE'RE BACK. THE PODCAST IS BACK. We get into the news of the week including the passing of Maggie Smith & John Cassaday,
Beleive it or not The Wizard of Oz wasn't an immediate hit when it originally released in 1939. It was only in subsequent decades that it became the pop culture phenomenon which spawned multiple spin-offs, prequels and sequels like the upcomin
James & Maso's Time Crapsule! A bigsandwich.co bonus podcast where we rank a year's pop culture contributions and discover some forgotten gems. The regular podcast will also hopefully return next week. Thank you to everyone who came to any of t
In 2019 Lionsgate attempted the unimaginable, a reboot of the Hellboy franchise after the much beloved Guillermo del Toro and Ron Pearlman dead cancelled trilogy. With David Harbour stepping into the role and directed (sort of) by Neil Marshal
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weekly Planet movie commentary track. The main podcast is currently on a short break during the UK Tour but please enjoy some previously exclusive bigsandwich.co bonuses while we're away. Some tickets
Despite theo first Hellboy underperforming at the box office home DVD sales meant a sequel still moved forward resulting in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army in 2008. And the result is a film that's bigger, funnier and with more golden armies than eve
Welcome everyone! It's time for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (second Beetlejuice). Plus we talk the news of the week including the fate of MCU Blade and Armor Wars, Ian McKellen & Orlando Bloom returning to Middle Earth, Oceans 14, trailers for The
In 2004 Guillermo Del Toro brought us the cinematic introduction of Hellboy, a demonic entity summonded from hell but who fights for the forces of good. Played pitch perfectly by Rob Pearlman and joined by the likes of Doug Jones as Abe Sapien
Big news for fans of The Crow! There's a new The Crow movie. That's pretty much where the good news ends. We get stuck into that in addition to the box office predictions for Joker 2, new details on Jurassic Park 7/Jurassic World 4, trailers fo
What started as a fairly simple slasher premise (robot gets sent back from the future to kill the mother of the future saviour of mankind but also she gets sent a human protector whom also happens to be the childs father) very quickly evolved i
Hello everyone, welcome back to podcasting.  This week we’re talking the cancellation of The Acolyte, trailers of Lord of the Rings: The War Of Rohim and Megalopolis, Anaconda but again, James Spader returning to the MCU, how Robert Downey Jr r
The Terminator 1984 is an absolute all out sci-fi action classic. The brainchild of director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd it introduced the world to the titular Terminator as played by then rising star Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda
This week Alexei Toliopoulos joins us to talk the latest installment in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus. He also gives us some insight into the world of Megalopolis and his involvement in the film and it’s quite frankly incredible. Plus we
It's time to wrap up the Ellen Ripley Alien film series with a look at what's probably the weakest entry, Alien: Resurrection. Set two hundred years after the last and bring back Sigourney Weaver as a clone of the original Ripley it has all the
It’s D23 and also Borderlands the movie came out! So this week we’re talking all the big Disney reveals including Moana 2, Toy Story 5, Frozen 3, The Incredibles 3, Star Wars Skeleton Crew, The Mandalorian VS Grogu, Andor Season 2, Captain Amer
Opinions of Alien 3 are certainly divided. Off the back of the terrific first two entries expectations were high for the return of Ellen Ripley, Hicks and Newt but things didn't exactly turn out well for 66% of those characters. Taking things
M. Night Shyamalan is back with a brand new movie in Trap! And Robery Downey Jr is back to take a lot of money from Disney! We talk his and he Russo Brothers HUGE Marvel deal, the success of Deapool & Wolverine, red hot rumors for Avengers: Doo
There are very few sequels that are able to match the original or potentially surpass it. James Cameron's Aliens is one of those films. Arriving in 1986 seven years after the last it marks the return of Sigorney Weavers Ellen Ripley whom is awo
It's the biggest week of the year (for this podcast) with our review of Deadpool & Wolverine and San Diego Comic Con 2024 with the return of Robert Downey Jr as Doctor Doooooooooooom. Plus we talk news for Invincible Season 3 and 4 and more Th
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