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We Needed Roads Podcast

We Needed Roads Podcast

Join Neil Gregory, David Llong, Jose Lopez Jr, Ben Davis & Marie Sztana as they delve into all the latest TV, film and geekery news, reviews and deep dives

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00:24:14

Hamnet Spoiler Special | We Needed Roads Podcast

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2026/02/02

This week on We Needed Roads, Neil and David sit down to talk about Hamnet… and immediately regret thinking this would be a normal, emotionally stable conversation.Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s devastating novel, Hamnet is a quiet, beautiful, grief-soaked gut punch — and yes, we spend most of this review adjacent to the kitchen as someone was clearly cutting onions We get into:Performances that absolutely ruin usThe power of silence, absence and lingering looksGrief, memory, love, and why this film

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00:30:38

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Spoiler Review | We...

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2026/01/26

Welcome back to We Needed Roads for the most metal film of 2026 so far!!! This is your no-holds-barred SPOILER SPECIAL for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — directed by Nia DaCosta, with Danny Boyle’s & Alex Garlands DNA still pulsing through every frame like the infection itself. If you haven’t seen the film yet, stop right now, because we are about to rip this thing open like Samson and a spine!We’re talking spine-ripping brutality, feral philosophy, Iron Maiden blaring over the end of

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00:44:57

Welcome to Derry Spoiler Special | We Needed Roads...

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2026/01/19

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, and this is your FULL SPOILER WARNING, because today we’re heading back to Derry… and nothing is safe. 🎈Neil, David and Luke dive headfirst into the storm drain of Welcome to Derry, HBO’s Stephen King–soaked return to the town that really should’ve been condemned decades ago. We’re turtles,, cursed history, nightmare fuel, and how this show plugs into the ever-expanding, deeply messed-up Stephen King verse.We break down what works, what absolutely doesn’t, how much

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01:11:18

What We've Been Watching | We Needed Roads Podcast

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2026/01/12

Alright folks, welcome back to We Needed Roads. This week Neil, David, Jose and Luke are catching up on everything they watched over the holidays – a wildly unhinged mix of Christmas classics, (regular classics) and they even escaped the Christmas cheer to make it to the cinema several times!We’re diving into stone-cold legends like Jaws (still perfect), Home Alone (way darker than you remember), The Muppet Christmas Carol (still untouchable, regardless of the calendar), Gremlins (NOT a kids film),

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02:36:42

THE BIGGEST TV & MOVIES OF 2026 — OUR CHAOTIC...

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2026/01/01

Happy New Year and welcome back to We Needed Roads — the podcast where the chat is nerdy, the swearing is plentiful, and research on release dates was definitely done.This week we’re diving head-first into all the major TV show and movies were excited about that are hopefully dropping in 2026. From superhero behemoths and prestige dramas to horror sequels, wild indies, new streaming experiments — we’re previewing it all with our usual hype & chaos!Featuring in this episode:🎬 Neil – watched

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01:52:00

Top 10 Films Of 2025 | The We Needed Roads Podcast

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2025/12/29

Hello and welcome back to the final We Needed Roads podcast of the year, our Top 10 Films of 2025 episode!And honestly, we’re lucky this recording still exists because friendships were tested.Neil championed small British indie films no one else had heard of, David flew the flag for horror like it was a religion, Marie championed exactly two films, and Jose… well… Jose knows what he did and has since been formally accused of lying on the podcast.There are rants. There is swearing. There are angry

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01:14:42

Top 10 Shows of 2025 l We Needed Roads Podcast

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2025/12/22

We watched an irresponsible amount of television in 2025, and now it’s time to shout about it.On this episode of The We Needed Roads Podcast, we count down our Top 10 TV & streaming shows of 2025 — from prestige TV to the smaller show only Neil tried to make us watch.Join Neil who likely watched more TV than his other 3 co-hosts combined, Marie who checked out if it wasn't gay enough and also only seemed to rewatch the same 3 shows all year, David who luckily avoided the horrors of toddler TV

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01:05:58

We Needed Roads Podcast 2nd Annual Christmas Movie...

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2025/12/15

Merry Christmas from everyone at the We Needed Roads Podcast!!!It’s a time for friends, family, peace on earth and goodwill to all men (except Jose). Join the We Needed Roads team as SantaGreggors hosts a wonderfully festive Christmas Movie Quiz where David, Marie, Jose & Luke compete to be the ultimate Christmas movie nerd.And just like a real family Christmas in this episode there will be swearing, shouting, accusations, storming off and Jose repeatedly being called a bag of dicks, for well

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00:53:29

Vox’s Rise, Huskerdust Heartbreak & Alastor’s Master...

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2025/11/24

It’s a happy day in Hell — because we’re diving deep into Hazbin Hotel Season 2.This season took everything fans loved and cranked it up. We got lore, emotions, wild twists, and songs that that are the good kind of tingle. Vox rises as an incredible villain, delivering some of the most , memorable and entertaining songs of the series. The music is top-tier — from emotional ballads to heavy metal bangers. And yes… Huskerdust fans are absolutely broken-hearted after the finale.Lucifer cements himself

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00:53:57

Has the Predator been 'Disneyfied' in...

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2025/11/17

We don't have time to bleed but we do have time to get into all the bloody spoilerific carnage (PG-13 carnage that is!) in Dan Tractenberg's 3rd Predator film, Predator Badlands.Join Neil, David & Jose as they hunt for answers in their full spoiler review of Badlands and ask questions like 'is this actually a Predator film?' & 'Have they turned the Predator into a Disney Princess?'We're only joking with those questions but some people honestly believe that and we

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00:55:58

End of line… for Tron’s box office hopes? A look at...

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2025/11/14

Tron has never been a massively successful franchise in terms of Box Office or critical acclaim, yet its always been a franchise that had amazing ideas that the 3 films have never delivered on.Join Neil & Jose as the delve into all 3 Tron films and look at what made the first two films cult hits and have such a hardcore fan base, but also why the films have never been able to be mainstream box office and critical successes?We also give our good, bad and WTF moments from the latest film Tron:

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01:03:58

Why Gen V Season 2 Doesn’t Work| We Needed Roads Podcast

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2025/11/10

Gen V Season 2 promised to keep the chaos, blood, and satire of The Boys alive — but somewhere along the way, it lost its edge. The We Needed Roads crew dives deep into their disappointment behind Prime Video’s latest superhero spin-off.From messy storylines and uneven character arcs to a waste of a good villain, we break down why Gen V feels like a fall from grace rather than a triumphant return. What happened to the sharp writing, the heart, and the outrageous fun that made Season 1 so special?We

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00:52:01

London Film Festival 2025 Highlights with guest Clare...

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2025/11/03

We finally covered a film festival...kind of, if not having seen any of the films is coverage? But thankfully we know someone that did attend the London International Film Festival this year, first time guest on the We Needed Roads Podcast film journalist and co-host of the W-rated Podcast Clare Ellen Hope.Neil sits down with Clare to find out all the films that we need to see when they come out on general release such as 00:00 - 06.45 - Intro06:45 - 10:40 - The History of Sound10:40 - 13:46 - Têtes

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00:44:19

Halloween Quiz: The Revenge | We Needed Roads Podcast

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2025/10/27

The We Needed Roads gang rises from the grave for our ultimate Halloween trivia showdown — joined by Luke from The Howdy Beans Podcast! Quizmaster David returns to haunt us with questions about classic horror movies, slasher villains and all things Halloween pop culture. But only one host will survive the night... or at least win bragging rights.Who will be crowned the Master of Horror Trivia? Will Neil finally get his horror movie redemption arc? Can Marie resist cursing out David? And most

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01:28:58

Peacemaker Season 2: An Unnecessary But Delightful...

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2025/10/20

James Gunn’s Peacemaker is back for Season 2 — and after the success of Superman, Gunn brings his signature chaos he created in season 1 into the new DCU.The We Needed Roads crew teams up with @TheHowdyBeansPodcast to break down the wild mix of action, comedy, and trauma that makes Peacemaker one of DC’s most unpredictable shows.John Cena’s Peacemaker continues to wrestle with his demons (predominately daddy issues), Freddie Stroma’s Vigilante once again steals every scene, and Danielle Brooks’

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01:26:35

Alien: Earth - Brilliant Sci-Fi Horror or Facehugging...

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2025/10/06

Alien: Earth crash-lands on FX and Hulu — the first Alien TV series from Noah Hawley, set two years before Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic.Starring Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, and Timothy Olyphant, this series brings the xenomorph terror home.But is Alien: Earth a bold new evolution for the franchise — or the worst idea since dressing a dog as a xenomorph? We break down the good, the bad, and the “because the plot said so”

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01:20:30

Adapt This Book Vol. 2 | We Needed Roads Podcast

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2025/09/28

So many books deserve love (and a Netflix, Prime Video, or HBO deal). The We Needed Roads crew and Luke from @TheHowdyBeansPodcast are back with five more books we want to see adapted for film or TV.Books we discuss in this episode:Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko — Young Adult Fantasy, Epic FictionHEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt — Horror, Dark Fantasy, ThrillerDungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman — Sci-Fi, Fantasy, LitRPGHow to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler — Fantasy Comedy, High

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00:44:30

The Girlfriend: Everybody Needs Therapy!

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2025/09/22

Prime Video’s The Girlfriend is a six-episode psychological thriller based on Michelle Frances’ novel. Starring Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke, the series follows a mother convinced her son’s new girlfriend isn’t who she claims to be….We break down the good, the bad, and the WTF of The Girlfriend — including spoilers, toxic mothers, control, and who is telling the truth. Is it a gripping psychological drama, or a shallow gold digging flop?Were you Team Cherry or Team Laura? Let us know in the

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00:47:23

We Needed Roads For...The Long Walk

We Needed Roads Podcast ·

2025/09/16

🎙️ Join Neil and David as they dive headfirst into all the spoilers from Francis Lawrence’s bold new take on Stephen King’s 1979 dystopian classic The Long Walk.From the novel’s huge influence on the dystopian genre, to the standout performances that bring the story to life, and the biggest changes from page to screen—we’ve got it covered.And the big question: how long do you think you’d last on the Walk? Drop your survival time in the comments!Follow us on socials for more film, tv and pop culture

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00:58:41

Murderbot: The Perfect Adaptation No One Saw | We...

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2025/09/08

Apple TV+’s Murderbot might just be the best sci-fi adaptation no one’s talking about. Based on Martha Wells’ cult-classic series The Murderbot Diaries. Alexander Skarsgård brings to life everyone’s favourite depressed & anxious robot —we all relate to way too much.Marie break down the biggest differences between the books and the show, while Neil and Jose give their unbiased thoughts on the series. We discuss what Apple TV+ nailed — and what could have been better.Whether you’re a longtime fan

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