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The Matt Signal Beyond – Episode 33: Plague

Plot summary: When the terrorist organisation, Kobra threaten to unleash a deadly virus in Gotham, Batman is forced to team up with Stalker.

The Superhero Pantheon: Giant-Sized Annual 2021 (Part 2)

Jerome and Brian decided to discuss all of the superhero properties that came out in the second half of 2021 across a two part giant-sized annual to end one year and begin anew in 2022.

This is part two, the first podcast of 2022 as they discuss Venom: Let There Be Carnage, What If…?, The Eternals, Spider-Man: No Way Home, and Hawkeye.

Marvel Mondays – Hawkeye: Season Review

What happens when you take everyone’s least favourite Avenger, give him his own show and a peppy sidekick? How about adding some popular elements from other big Marvel properties? Let’s review Hawkeye and find out!

The Matt Signal Beyond – Episode 32: Sneak Peek

Plot summary: A journalist with the ability to walk through walls obtains footage of Batman’s true identity and threatens to expose him to the world.

The Matt Signal Beyond – Episode 31: Armory

Plot summary: After getting laid off, a desperate weapons designer uses his military past to keep his family in finery by any means necessary.

There Will Be Movies – Episode 75: Beau Travail

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.

It took until our penultimate episode for us to finally dip our toes into World Cinema, but we figured we’d make up for it by closing the volume out with Claire Denis’ Beau Travail.

Obviously this sparks conversation about homosexuality, literature, foreign policy and what’s to come from your hosts in 2022.

The Superhero Pantheon: Giant-Sized Annual 2021 (Part 1)

Jerome and Brian decided to discuss all of the superhero properties that came out in the second half of 2021 across a two part giant-sized annual to end one year and begin anew in 2022.

This is part one, the last podcast of 2021 as they discuss Loki, Black Widow, The Suicide Squad, and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.

Marvel Mondays – Hawkeye: Episode 6

Plot summary: All roads lead to Eleanor’s Christmas Party as Clint, Kate, Yelena, Kazi, Maya and Kingpin make their moves.

Ranking The Matrix Films

Updated 12/26/21 to include Resurrections.

Everything about the world of The Matrix rules. Here is how I rank the five films.

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There Will Be Movies – Episode 74: All About My Mother

Ben Phillips & Matt Waters present 25 of their favourite movies from the 1990s.

It took us 23 episodes to finally step into the world of 90s World Cinema, with Pedro Almodóvar’s All About My Mother. Come for the discussion of gender and sexuality, stay for an in depth exploration of one of the host’s university degree.