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TPToA Podcast 390 – Saturday Night

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2025/01/16

Saturday NightIn the 90 minutes leading up to the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, producer Lorne Michaels battles against a swathe of challenges to get the unknown and untested conceptual nightmare of a show onto TV at 11:30pm. Personalities, egos, creative differences and unloved muppets are just the start of the challenges that they face. Welcome back to The Periodic Table of Awesome for 2025 folks, in this live unscripted production, the Role of Dion will be played by Chevy

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1:10:03

TPToA Podcast 389 – Christmas Thirst Traps

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2024/12/19

Christmas Thirst TrapsWhile we're getting ready to unwrap presents, it looks like we've gotten a bit thirsty and are ready to unwrap something else! Whether it's ugly-sweater beefcake, or Mrs Clause adjacent Cheesecake, we're down for it. By the end of the show we're actually talking about the comparative sexiness of Animated demi-gods and Anti-hero hedgehogs. It's a wild ride, thats for sure. In the show we look at a bunch of movies including: Red One Hot Frosty The Merry Gentlemen A Nonsense

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1:01:42

TPToA Podcast 387 – End of Year Wrap Up

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2024/12/08

End of Year Wrap UpAs we come screeching into the final corner to end the race of 2024, our tyres smoking, our bodywork hanging by a thread, and fire spitting from the engine bay, lets have a look at whats on in this silly season! in the show we talk about: Dune Prophecy Nosferatu Gladiator 2 It's a smaller show tonight with Dion and Jill guiding the car towards the finish line! Hopefully their stunt driving skills are strong! https://youtu.be/BJTwXZ5uwYM A huge thank you to all our weird

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1:08:25

TPToA Podcast 384 – The Franchise

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2024/11/14

The FranchiseIn a world overrun by huge budget Super-hero blockbuster movies... one man will stand up for what he believes in... One man will hold back the tide of oncoming disaster... that man is... The Assistant Director. This week we check out the new comedy series; The Franchise on HBO, taking a critical look at the sausage factory of grand-scale Superhero cinematic universe films. Is it funny? You best tune in and find out. The whole crew is on set for this one, Dion is setting up the pyro

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1:04:59

TPToA Podcast 382 – Halloween Hecate a Spook-cuterie...

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2024/10/30

Halloween Hecate!It’s the creepiest of seasons Ghouls, Boils and non-binary foils! So it’s time to get a little eerie with your favourite podcast ghosts with the most! We scoured the darkest corners of the internet for all the best monster-ific content to be served up on our charspookerie board of delights! And for this Halloween that serve includes Smile 2, Salem's Lot, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, The First Omen, Hysteria, and I Saw The TV Glow. It's Undead Dion, Ghost-hunter Quinny and the Jill of

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1:09:26

TPToA Podcast 380 – The Substance

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2024/10/17

The SubstanceHave you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You should try this new product, The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. It generates another you. A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you. And there’s only one rule: You share time. One week for you. One week for the new you. Seven days each. A perfect balance. Easy. Right? If you respect the balance… what could possibly go wrong? Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley take on this incredibly incisive

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1:09:49

TPToA Podcast 379 – Wolfs

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2024/10/02

Wolfs Wolfs is the grammatically problematic new Apple TV movie starring the charisma power duo of Brad Pitt and George Clooney. They take on the role of "fixers" who have been called to deal with a dead young man in a high profile D.A.'s expensive hotel room. Hilarity ensues. The whole team is back for this one though lets be honest due to Covid, Jill's viewing of the film may have been entirely in another state of consciousness. ;) Synopsis Two rival fixers cross paths when they're both called

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1:11:44

TPToA Podcast 378 – Magical Menagerie Show-Cuterie

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2024/09/26

Magical Menagerie - Show-Cuterie!This week we are calming down from all our international travels and interstate excursions... our Movie Premieres, interviews and general excitingness... This week we are plonking ourselves firmly on the couch and checking out the new TV that has dropped into our streaming services in a "Magical Menagerie" of Witches, Wizards, Goblins and Gangsters as well as the occasional Penguin. We are sharing our thoughts on three high profile premium format spinoff shows that

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1:11:54

TPToA Podcast 376 – Speak No Evil

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2024/09/12

Speak No EvilIn this US Blumhouse remake of Speak No Evil, (a blisteringly fast-turnaround of the Danish original film from 2022 of the same name) James McAvoy, Aisling Franciosi, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy learn the true meaning of making new friends as an adult: abject horror. Parenting, social niceties, politeness and vicious murder and death all play their part in this extremely well thought out "Elevated Horror". the real question comes in when we explore how necessary it might be,

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TPToA Podcast 273 – Sunny (Apple TV+)

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2024/08/21

SunnyIn a future where our closest personal assistants are cutesy robots with giant heads, how do we cope if they decide they don't like us? Rashida Jones stars in Sunny this stylish and bizarre Apple TV sci-fi series which clashes robotics, grief, the Yakuza and '60s Japanese pop music into a fusion nobody was expecting. The whole crew is on board for this one, wether they be cute Japanese robots, miserable alcoholics or morally questionable Yakuza folks... Synopsis Suzie, an American woman

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1:08:59

TPToA Podcast 372 – Alien: Romulus

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2024/08/15

Alien: RomulusWe are now 9 films deep into the Alien cinematic franchise (if you include the AVP films, which we do) and we are really getting to the point where marrying the lore of the early films to the later ones has become a full time job. Well, let us introduce you to Alien: Romulus, the hardest worker in that full time job... Who along with their spiritual sibling, the game Alien: Isolation, and Alien: Covenant they are the heavy lifters of the Alien Lore wheelbarrow. It's not all just

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1:07:10

TPToA Podcast 371 – Time Bandits (2024)

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2024/08/08

Time BanditsWe are turning back time to 1981 and at the same time it’s 2024 (in fact we're jumping all around the timeline, and all over the magical map)! In 1981 Time Bandits was a Terry Gilliam film nominally aimed at kids with a stacked cast and a deeply weird premise. Time Bandits in 2024 is an Apple TV original series directed by Taika Waititi with a deeply weird cast and a stacked premise. Is it actually any good? Let’s find out together shall we? Synopsis Young history buff Kevin (Kal-el

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TPToA Podcast 370 – Deadpool and Wolverine

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2024/08/01

Deadpool and WolverineIt's the culmination of the Deadpool trilogy. It's the wrap up of 24 years of X-men films and FOX owned superheroes, plus it's the gentle nudging of the Mutant agenda into the 616 cinematic universe... and it's the ONLY MARVEL Movie coming out this year. It was always going to be huge! We just didn't know HOW huge. Huge Jackman that is! Sorry. It's the biggest summer blockbuster this year and its more chock-o-block with references and cameos and in jokes than one of our

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1:08:20

TPToA Podcast 368 – Twisters

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2024/07/18

TwistersBeware, you are entering The Suck Zone! Following cold on the heels of the original movie; Twister, 28 years later we are ready to get blown away by Twisters: the sequel that feels more like a straight remake than a true follow on from the story. But who cares right? Big wind goes swoosh! Hillbillies go "Yee-Haw!", and little budget line goes up... The whole team is in the house for this one, but Peta has taken the twister by the tail and lead us into a rewatch of the original film as

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1:01:45

TPToA Podcast 365 – Jim Henson: Ideas Man

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2024/06/20

Jim Henson: Ideas ManIn this review we have three muppets on display, though at least two of them are being poorly puppeteered, and one may in fact be a feral, or maybe even a "Feeble". they are talking about the new Disney plus doco exploring the life and times of Jim Henson the creative powerhouse behind some of the most enduring and beloved characters of our time. Dion is away, but Quinny, Jill and Peta are playing the music and lighting the lights on this muppet show

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TPToA Podcast 364 – Sugar (Apple TV+)

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2024/06/13

Sugar"A genre-bending contemporary take on the private detective story set in Los Angeles," this week's review follows John Sugar, a private investigator recruited by a wealthy movie producer to investigate the disappearance of his granddaughter. As simple as the premise sounds, in the world of John Sugar everything is definitely not what it seems. The show is a smaller more intimate affair this week, with half the team either boarding or disembarking from planes as we record. So its Quinny and

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1:13:40

TPToA Podcast 363 – Atlas

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2024/06/05

ATLASIn March 2014 a game was released, a game in which a lone pilot would fight a futuristic war both inside and outside of an AI driven Mech suit. That game was called Titanfall. This is not that game. This is a netflix movie called Atlas; a film about a lone pilot in an AI driven Mech Suit fighting a futuristic war, both in and out of the suit. It's totally different. The mech suits are filled this week with DION, and QUINNY as the AI guidance systems and Jill and Peta the competent but angry

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1:14:14

TPToA Podcast 362 – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

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2024/05/29

FuriosaIf you know “who run barter town” and why he is the Nightrider cruising at the speed of fright!… if you remember Lord Humungus; The Warrior of the Wasteland; The Ayatollah of Rock and Rolla! Then you may be Shiny and Chrome enough to fang it into our return to the wasteland and our review of Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Our war party is composed of two warlords, in Dr Dion-mentus and Immortan Quinn, While Preatorian Jill is up front driving the War Rig like she's stolen it! As the world fell,

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1:12:28

TPToA Podcast 361 – Shogun

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2024/05/23

ShogunThis weeks review is not of the '80s 5 part serial based on James Clavell's seminal book, Shogun... but in fact the 2024 10 part serial based on James Clavell's seminal book, Shogun... just for clarity. It is the fictionalised semi historical story of John Blackthorne, a navigator/pilot who winds up in Japan and rises through the ranks of the Shogunate in a time of incredible upheaval. It also includes some extraordinary swearing and blood and guts. In this kabuki-like episode the part of

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1:07:39

TPToA Podcast 360 – Dead Boy Detectives

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2024/05/15

Dead Boy Detectives One bright day in the middle of the night, to dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other. Or in this case, they started a detective agency, found a friendly psychic, a kawaii otaku and a badass butcher! They then had adventures in the Sandman adjacent universe of the Dead Boy Detectives! following on from an appearance in Doom Patrol this newly recast and reimagined story now nestles neatly in the Netflix fold. The

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