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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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TPToA Podcast 359 – Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

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2024/05/09

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Once more we return to a post apocalyptic landscape filled with danger and uncertainty, though this time its not irradiated and the verdant green jungles are spilling over with life! We are returning to the Planet of the Apes for the beginning of possibly a whole new trilogy, set hundreds of years after the death of Caesar (Andy Serkis), this new story follows Noa (Owen Teague) a young Ape whose journey will bring him in contact with a speaking human, Raka; a

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1:09:17

TPToA Podcast 356 – Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

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2024/04/10

Godzilla X Kong : The New EmpireMonkey back to punch more Lizard! Only now Lizard upstairs, monkey downstairs, so monkey punch other monkeys instead. Other monkeys are bad monkeys. Monkey need Lizard to help punch other monkeys oh and other lizard. in end all monkeys punch all lizards and all monkeys punch all other monkeys. Humans are there too. Dan Stevens is also in this film and he is transcendent of all "monkey punch lizard" discourse... he is on a different level of cinematic reality

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TPToA Podcast 353 – The New Look

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2024/03/21

Chanel, Dior, Lagerfeld, Givenchy, Gaultier, darling. Names, names, names! Specifically, let's focus on Dior and Chanel in Apple TV+'s new series "The New Look". Christian Dior is a much-loved fashion icon, and this series opens up his portfolio and explores how French fashion houses, and names, names, NAMES survived during World War II, and what became of them in post-war Europe. Ben Mendelsohn's somewhat fragile Christian Dior is set against Juliette Binoche's exquisitely murky Coco Chanel,

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TPToA Podcast 531 – Dune: Part 2 (2024)

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2024/03/06

If you know what the: Bene Gesserit, Muad'dib, Mahdi, Fedaykin, Kwisatz Haderach, Mentats, Panoplia Propheticus, Qadis as-Salaf, Sadu and Shai-Hulud are... Then you're probably well and truly prepared for DUNE Part 2. But if that word salad made less sense than Weird Al's Dada poetry, then you may be needing to gird your loins for some LORE HEAVY SCI-FI.In this podcast Jill is our own Benny Jesuit Mother figure, Dion is our erstwhile Moe Sizlak Haderach, and Quinny is still just a Shy Hulud with a

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TPToA Podcast 349 – Madame Web

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2024/02/21

We are rebranding ourselves for one show only to The Periodic Table of Awful. "Why?" We hear you ask? To discuss this absolute car wreck of a film!!! Madame Web; the newest entry into Sony's Spider-man adjacent universe of questionable choices, has been receiving the lowest scores of any super hero movie since Catwoman, even eclipsing the mighty Morbius. What is it then that makes it SO bad? Well Strap in folks, because we're stealing ambulances and driving through walls in an effort to unpack what

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TPToA Podcast 348 – Mr. & Mrs. Smith

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2024/02/15

Two strangers land jobs with a spy agency that offers them a life of espionage, wealth, and travel. The catch: these new identities are in an arranged marriage. Sounds familiar? well, it's been a TV series before in 1996 with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello and a Film in 2006 with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. What new insights can Donald Glover and Maya Erskine bring us? What does marriage and spying look like in 2024? Tune in and find out!Old married Johns (spies) Dion and Quinny are on the

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1:13:16

TPToA Podcast 347 – Argylle

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2024/02/07

Matthew Vaughn returns to the world of spies and international intrigue with Argylle, but this time it’s less about "all the Kings Men" and more “Yass, literary queen!”. Best selling author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous parallel world drawn from her own books. But instead of her super-spy Argylle (Henry Cavill), it’s Schlubby-spy Aiden (Sam Rockwell). Oh and there’s a cat. In a bag. Best not let that one out… Dion and Quinny are helicoptering

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TPToA Podcast 346 – David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived

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2024/02/01

In 2009, during the filming of the 7th Harry Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double David Holmes, broke his neck on one of the combat stunts. This doco looks into Davids life, his recovery and the people who surrounded him on his journey. There’s no JK here just a story of friendship and perseverance and hope. Catch a Nimbus 5000 with us and let’s enjoy a brighter side of the Wizardless World. Jill, Peta are doing the truly cunning stunt of being sensible and excellent reviewers. Meanwhile

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TPToA Podcast 345 – Echo

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2024/01/25

This week we are returning to the Marvel Universe on the small screen with the first “Marvel Spotlight” series: Echo. The return of Alaqua Cox as the titular Echo, also brings back Vincent D'Onofrio as The Kingpin and even a splash of Charlie Cox as Daredevil too! join us to talk through this multifaceted series, in whatever language you prefer! This podcast, our street level heroes include the badass street-fighter; Jill, the mysterious private investigator Peta, the less annoying Iron Fist;

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TPToA Podcast 344 – Saltburn

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2024/01/18

If "The Talented Mr Ripley" had worn it's kink on it's sleeve a little louder, this may have been the film we got; In Saltburn Barry Keoghan's Oliver Quick is taken under the golden wing of aristocratic fuck-boy Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). The clashing class divide of Oliver in their mansion proving a tasty little frisson of excitement for the old-money Catton family. But nothing is quite what it seems here, and as an audience, we are unprepared for what is to come. Dion, Quinny, Jill and Peta are

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TPToA Podcast 343 – Doctor Who – The 2023 Specials

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2024/01/11

The Doctor is back for 2023...Both of them? It's time to jump in the TARDIS and fly back to the heady days of yore, November 2023, so we can experience the joy of weekly Doctor Who once more and look back on the 60th Anniversary specials: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle. Then we'll get festive with Ncuti Gatwa's newly minted Dr in the Christmas special: The Church on Ruby Road! It's 2024 and the crew is back with the bi-generated Gallifreyan hive minds of Quinny and Dion joined by

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TPToA Podcast 342 – Holiday Movie Special!

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2023/12/20

Deck your baubles, shine your halls and get ready to make your Yuletide (and apparel) super gay! it's the annual Christmas/holiday movie special and this year we are looking at a selection of recent releases that may or may not give you some Christmas cheer! The films looked at in this episode include Ex-Mas, Christmess, Journey to Bethlehem, Christmas Eve, Family Switch, and for something completely different, "A Disturbance in the Force"! (trailers below) Dion, Peta Jill and Quinny are all

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TPToA Podcast 341 – Bottoms

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2023/12/15

In this podcast we can conclusively decide who is the power bottom, who is the messy top and who is the swing. About movies! always about movies! Its a LGBTIQA+ teen high school comedy with a bunch of unexpected twists and turns. But is it actually any good? Listen in and find out! It's Dion, Jill and Peta for this show as quinny got caught up his usual weekly fight club session. Unpopular best friends PJ and Josie start a high school fight club to meet girls and lose their virginity. They soon

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TPToA Podcast 340 – Godzilla Minus One

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2023/12/07

Its Kaiju time...AGAIN!!! Get ready to destroy some cities, this time its back to Tokyo in the 1940s! In this Japanese language epic we see the rise of Godzilla in the late 1940s. This human lead drama is set against the backdrop of Post-war Japan; a country living in the shadow of the atomic destruction wrought upon it. Our not-so kamikaze crew for this show is Dion, Pethra, Jirru and the Kaiju himself, Quinzilla! Also HUGE shout out to Jill for her beautiful Japanese introduction! Feeling as if

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TPToA Podcast 339 – Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

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2023/11/30

It's typical isn't it? You wait years for some good Kaiju action where the giant, ancient radioactive lizard stomps some poor unsuspecting city, and then two come along at once! Ahead of next week's review of Godzilla Minus 1, we are checking out the next entry into Legendary Pictures MonsterVerse; a shared cinematic story-world that now comprises 2 Godzilla films, a Kong film, a crossover film, an animated series and now a live action TV show tying it all together. All of this happening ahead of

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TPToA Podcast 338 – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of...

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2023/11/28

The prequel to the tetralogy in the same universe, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might just be the longest title we've seen in a while, but fear not, this movie is also... long. Set 65 years before the original The Hunger Games book-which-had-movies-about-it, this was actually one book (sorry Jill) which seems to have been stretched out to make a very long movie. Don't fear about getting confused, because there's plenty of nods to the future series, like that cool dude President

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1:13:49

TPToA Podcast 337 – The Marvels

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2023/11/15

Its time for us to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for this 33rd film in the epic ongoing experiment in cohesive world building and aggressive audience engagement tactics. We now check back in with three badass women whose stories have encompassed a broad spectrum of the marvel universe, Captain Marvel who has been the intergalactic "peacekeeper" dropping in occasionally to Deus the heck of some Machinas in a number of stories, Monica Rambeau whose brush with scarlet-witchy Hex magic in

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TPToA Podcast 336 – A Haunting in Venice

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2023/11/08

In this weeks podcast we check out the latest in the Agatha Christie inspired, Hercule Poirot mysteries that follows on from "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Death on the Nile." Is the brilliant Belgian in finest form here or is he heading out to pasture, in this horror-inflected spook-fest that managed to keep the halloween vibes going for just a little bit longer. Dion, Peta Jill and Quinny are your usual suspects and each will have a 5 to 10 minute long expositi...i mean interrogation scene

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TPToA Podcast 335 – Halloween Spook-Cuterie Board

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2023/11/01

This weeks spook-tacular halloween special is a plastic pumpkin themed bucket chock full of tasty horrific treats and sadly the occasional nasty trick too. We decided to cover as much ground as possible and have watched an absolute tonne of Horror or horror adjacent movies and TV this month so you can scare yourselves silly. The Terrifying Team was Dion Lasso, Bat-Jill, Cat-Peta and Quinn-Chi! The timecode list of these candied cinematic treats are as follows: 14:50 Last Voyage of the

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