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The Popcorn Bucket Podcast

Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast with Ben and Rob. Each week we will talk about at a film series (Franchise Fatigue?), film news (Pick ‘N Mix), or each put a standalone film on a given topic against each other (One Shot).

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

00:36:11

Project Hail Mary (Pick ‘N Mix Review)

The Popcorn Bucket Podcast ·

2026/03/30

Hello and welcome this absolute thumbs down episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at Project Hail Mary.Your hosts are long time fans of Ryan Gosling, and of space films in general, so sit back and enjoy (or spin around to create gravity) as we talk adverts, adaptations, and the live action Moana film.Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to

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01:15:07

Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part...

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2026/03/24

Hello and welcome to this fitfully feral episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!As their battle with the mighty Predator franchise draws to a close. Ben and Rob need their wits about them. The fight is nearly over, but the pair have a time-hopping trilogy to deal with first. Not only that, but this is the last stop before they careen headlong into the AvP miasma and face down the challenge of the final Ultra Mega Bucket List ranking of both the Alien and Predator franchises combined. Will our brave,

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01:00:17

Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part...

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2026/03/07

Hello and welcome to this ham-fistededly hunting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!After braving the dense jungle thicket and the heat/crime waves of 1997's Los Angeles, Ben and Rob continue their Predator journey and transported to an alien game reserve before being unceremoniously dumped back on Earth. Expect chat about missing trailer dopeness, problematic portrayals and several weird Toy Story links. This ep is one beautiful motherf...Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media

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00:48:19

One Shot! : Feel Good Films VI

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2026/02/28

Hello and welcome to this uncannily uplifting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!Does your 2026 suck so far? Are you experiencing headaches, nausea, existential dread and pillow screaming? Drs. Ben and Rob are here with the perfect podscription - films to make you feel good! So, relax, cram this up your earholes and then get up super early the next morning to book an appointment on the phone like that makes any goddamn sense in 2026.Spoilers!Films discussed are:BooksmartThe Full MontyYou can find

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00:45:12

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

The Popcorn Bucket Podcast ·

2026/02/21

Hello and welcome this raging episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at a sequel to one of our favourite films of 2025, the fourth film in the complexly titled ‘28 ____s Later’ franchise.Please join us as we talk trains, dancing, and charity, as we go deep into rage filled infected and dystopian survivors. Get your iodine and tickets at the ready!Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads

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01:21:11

2026 Preview

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2026/02/04

Hello and welcome to a proudly prophetic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!With 2025 sent to the naughty step (because it knows what it did) Ben and Rob cast their eyes over the year of forthcoming attractions. Will 2026 be the new golden child or a case of the klumps? No, there's no real reason why we're shouting out Eddie Murphy movies. Sometimes you just have to write to keep yourself entertained, y'know?Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your

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01:47:45

A Cultural Review of 2025

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2026/01/26

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the new year!It has been quite a while since we graced your pod spaces, and we return by looking back at 2025, to ask, culturally, what made us jive in 2025?So please join us once again as we cast our cultural eyes not just over films, but we pick out the podcasts, books, music, and games that we enjoyed from the last year. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads

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00:45:33

Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part...

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2025/10/21

Hello and welcome to this stealthily stalking episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!After surviving the Alien franchise, Ben and Rob got a taste for more extraterrestrial terror and found it shimmering in the jungle canopy. The Predator series is next on the Bucket List and your favourite sexual Ty-rannosauruses are just the slabs of rippling beefcake to take it on.Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky

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01:05:46

One Shot! Films in Which the Villain Was Right

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2025/10/08

Hello and welcome to a positively diabolical One Shot episode, in which we take the side of the bad guys, and each pick a film, that isn’t connected to a sequel, spin off, or prequel, in which the bad guy is in the right.Contains dark green, a few trolley problems, and a brimful of 90s music references.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.The films we look at are:Cabin in the Woods Wish

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01:23:13

Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part Three...

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2025/09/28

Hello and welcome to this powerfully Promethean episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This time, Ben and Rob return to the Alien universe to tackle Prometheus, Covenant and Romulus. In podspace, no-one can hear you like and subscribe.Vids/Pods mentioned:"The 'Prometheus School of Running' Misconception" - https://youtu.be/QY-8DDUriWc?si=IRVHD7ZV1DW12uSwFilm Stories Podcast: "Prometheus (2012) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)" -

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01:12:43

One Shot! Untrue True Stories

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2025/09/15

Hello and welcome to another One Shot episode, in which we take a topic and each choose a film that isn’t connected to a sequel, prequel, or spin off.This week, we stand in front of two podcasts, one always tells the truth, and the other always lies, as we look at films ‘based on a true story’.So please listen, and please forgive any embellishments and liberties taken.

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01:04:55

Fantastic Four: First Steps (Franchise Fatigue?)

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2025/08/10

Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This time, we follow up on our recent look at the four Fantastic Four Films, by looking at the most recent iteration, Fantastic Four: First Steps (or FFFS, as all the cool kids are saying, FFS). Join your two podcast torch bearers as we marvel at The Things that happen in this movie, make spoilers visible, and fantastically stretch jokes too thinly.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of

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01:45:30

Franchise Fatigue? : Fantastic Four

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2025/08/03

Hello and welcome to this fittingly fantastic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!In preparation for their First Steps, Ben and Rob revisit the filthy foursome of Fantastic Four films that have come before it. In this episode: Secret screams!Richie recollections!Disrespectful disrobings!Thing specificity!Blood, Honey and more! Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods

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01:02:04

Pick 'N Mix : 2025, Volume III - SuperPitt: Snow...

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2025/07/22

Hello and welcome to this humidly huffy episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This week, Ben and Rob delve once more into the grab bag of movie news, trailers and assorted bits n' bobs that make up one of their legendary Pick N' Mix episodes.As well as scientifically proven correct opinions, expect impromptu reviews of Jurassic World Rebirth, F1 the Movie, Snow White and that hot new superhero offering Superman...and the Mole Men. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme

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01:08:37

28 Years Later (Franchise Fatigue?)

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2025/07/10

Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This time we are raging about the recent legacy sequel to the 28 Time Periods later franchise, 28 Years Later.Join us as we reckon with our past, and talk all things 2002, shoe laces, and boots (and Boots). Our episode on 28 Days / Weeks Later (when we were but young podcasters) can be found hereYou can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

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00:57:49

One Shot! Heist Movies

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2025/06/26

Hello and welcome to this absolute steal of an episode as we look at Heist films.You know the drill by now, we take the episode topic and each pick one film to talk about, that isn’t connected to a sequel, spin off, or prequel (so no Ocean’s films).So if we can nab your attention, listen in as Ben plots another clause, and like all good heist films there is a twist, in Rob doesn’t go for the obvious Nolan related choice.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as

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01:16:11

Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part Two...

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2025/06/16

Hello and welcome to this salivatingly starbeastly episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This time, Ben and Rob are rudely awoken from cryosleep, only to have their heads shaved and shoved into space prison. It somehow only gets worse from there.Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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01:10:19

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

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2025/06/03

Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast in which your hosts, Ben and Rob, have once again chosen to accept a Mission: Impossible film, as we look at The Final Reckoning.Now, if you’ve listened to the podcast before, you’ll know that we are big fans of the franchise, and have been looking forward to seeing this for a long time. There are heavy spoilers throughout, and also the return of a long forgotten feature, in-depth discussion of popcorn buckets, and a nice bit of alliteration. So secure

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01:07:54

Pick ‘n Mix 2025 volume II: Havoc, Conclave, &...

The Popcorn Bucket Podcast ·

2025/05/08

Hello and welcome to the second Pick ‘n Mix of 2025! In this grab bag of goodies, we talk Havoc, Conclave, chickens, jockeys, and stunts.Plus Ben gets annoyed at Rob’s film choices, and Rob gets excited about popcorn buckets.Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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01:18:40

Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part One...

The Popcorn Bucket Podcast ·

2025/04/26

Hello and welcome to this awesomely acidic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!To celebrate Alien Day (4/26) Ben and Rob are strapping on their flamethrowers and nervously shuffling through the corridors of the Alien franchise, starting with the first two entries. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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