Nov 29, 2024
We take a look at a film which started life as a student project essentially remaking parts of 28 Days Later - or The Day of the Triffids - but which proved such a calling card for its director, he went on to work on movies like The Martian and Alien: Covenant
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees
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Nov 27, 2024
We ask if Doctor Who has become a cultural phoenix, destined to rise again from its own ashes every time it burns itself out - and whether that makes it a story that keeps being retold, or keeps being added to
Presented by Matt Barber, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall
Nov 25, 2024
There's a new Gladiator in town, so what better time to take a look at where it came from, in our review of Ridley Scott's first go around the amphitheatres of ancient Rome
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Nov 22, 2024
After our review of The Ninth Gate, based on - or maybe inspired by - Arturo Pérez-Reverte's novel The Dumas Club, we decided to take a look at an earlier adaptation of another of his novels The Flanders Panel, which Jim McBride filmed as Uncovered with Kate Beckinsale in only her second big screen outing
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Nov 20, 2024
Having covered the first BBC adaptation of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids in our Apocalypse UK mini-strand, it would have been remiss of us not to talk about the one that followed in 2009
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jim Cameron and Dylan Rees