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TPToA Podcast 427 – Nacho Libre

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2025/10/29

Nacho LibreIs this your Lucha Libre inspired high flying, wrestling based adventure comedy film? NO! ... it's NACHO comedy film! not... your... nacho. get it? Ugh. From the mind of Director Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite, Minecraft) comes the story of Ignacio; friar, cook, and secret lucha wrestler. Jack Black stars in this 2006 comedy. And with the unnecessary fart noise of Nacho Libre ringing in our ears, we bid a fond farewell to wrestle-tober; a month where we all learned something and that

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TPToA Podcast 424 – The Wrestler

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2025/10/12

The WrestlerDespite his failing health and rapidly diminishing fame, Randy "The Ram" Robinson (Mickey Rourke) continues to eke out a career as a professional wrestler... partially due to financial hardship and partially in an attempt to hold on to the success of his heyday. Is his world improved by the quest to find love and redemption in the arms of Marisa Tomei's "aging" exotic dancer? Or will he find an emotional sanctuary with his estranged daughter (Evan Rachel Wood)? It's from the same

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1:08:54

TPToA Podcast 422 – Eddington

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2025/09/18

EddingtonDivisive, challenging, disquieting; all adjectives that have been placed upon Ari Aster's previous works Hereditary, Midsommar and Beau is Afraid. It's good then that his latest work Eddington continues to encompass these and many more adjectives in its two and half hour running time. Like every film at the moment is stars Pedro Pascal, but unlike every film it also stars Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone. A tale of misinformation and miscommunication set in the height of the pre-vaccinated

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TPToA Podcast 421 – Red Sonja (2025)

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2025/09/12

Red SonjaIt's been an age since we've seen Red Sonja... a Hyborian Age in fact! Since the characters creation in 1934, her adaption to comics in 1973 and the first film's release in 1985, she has caught the minds of innumerable great creators, artists and storytellers. She has also shown up in this film. After 2008's aborted Robert Rodriguez helmed version which was to star Rose McGowan, it's been a long time between drinks for the OG beautiful barbarian. it's obviously harder to get actors

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TPToA Podcast 420 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds...

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2025/09/03

Strange New Worlds: Season 3It’s time to beam back on board the Enterprise as we check back in on Strange New Worlds for season 3 of their 5 year mission… We have had musical episodes, Cartoon crossovers and classic characters aplenty, so now we are 3 seasons deep, are they still boldly going? Or have they taken the wrong turn at Tau-ceti? The entire bridge crew is on board for this review, with Captain Dion scraping klingons off the starboard bow, Science office Peta stoically raising a quizzical

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TPToA Podcast 419 – TV Round-Up! Alien: Earth &...

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2025/08/28

Alien: Earth & Peacemaker S2We're cracking the whip again for another episode of TPToA's TV round-up! This time we're rounding up superheroes (or superhero-adjacent guys) and Xenomorphs! It's Alien: Earth and the second Season of Peacemaker! In the new DCU no-one can hear you scream, but they can judge your dancing. Alien: Earth is the new ongoing series from Noah Hawley (Legion, Fargo) and it follows a crashed spaceship spilling forth it's deadly cargo of alien threats. Peacemaker season 2 is

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1:28:45

TPToA Podcast 414 – Superman

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2025/07/17

Superman (2025)Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it another confused entry into the DC Extended Universe pantheon of super hero films?! No!!! This is something else entirely! James Gunn (Peacemaker, Guardians of the Galaxy) takes on the D.C. Universe with Superman and is clearly building something new and different… but crucially; is it any good? It’s made a butt-tonne of cash, and out-scored the Snyder-verse it is taking over from, but does it have a beating heart? There's some

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TPToA Podcast 413 – Jurassic World Rebirth

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2025/07/11

Jurassic World: RebirthFor a franchise that started with a single book and then a begrudging sequel, the fact that we are now 7 Films, two sub-titles, two Netflix animated shows and numerous games deep, tells us a lot about the state of the entertainment industry... (rather than the quality of that first book.) We have moved past the Jurassic park, beyond even the Jurassic World... we are now living in a post Jurassic planet. So if this film a true rebirth of a franchise, or the should this egg

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TPToA Podcast 412 – M3GAN 2.0

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2025/07/07

M3gan 2.0 The B1tc# is B@ck is not the tagline for this movie... but it could very easily have been. After the surprise hit that was the first M3gan, Blumhouse have done what they do best, and that is turn around a moderately budgeted sequel in a surprisingly quick time. Does this make for an excellent film that expands the original property and deepens the lore and background of the character? No. Does is make for an energetic romp that features not one but two murderous cyborgs with dead,

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TPToA Podcast 409 – Mountainhead

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2025/06/13

MountainheadIn this episode we check in with the billionaire class and see how they are doing! Turns out: Not great. With Mountainhead; the new film by Jesse Armstrong, we take a fly on the wall peek into the lives of 4 tech bros who have infinitely more money than sense, and somehow even less emotional intelligence that either. It's a tough watch and feels a little too close to current events at times. but we made sure to give it a rigorous once over. We also check out Predator: Killer of Killers

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TPToA Podcast 408 – Andor S1-S2 & Rogue One

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2025/06/05

Andor and Rogue One9 Years ago (BBY?) Rogue One was released and a lot of people enjoyed the darker, more serious take on the Star Wars universe. However it felt like an outlier, and for many it didn't fit in with everything else in that galaxy Far Far away. 3 years ago Andor was released. It was show many thought was unnecessary, exploring the backstory of a secondary character many hadn't really embraced. "nobody asked for this" was a regular comment. Oh how that attitude was to change upon it's

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TPToA Podcast 407 – Batman Ninja Vs. Yakuza League

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2025/05/30

Batman Ninja Vs Yakuza LeagueWhen it came out in 2018, Batman Ninja may not have been our cup of green tea, in fact it was definitely NOT. But is this sequel many years in the making, more to our tastes? Or has it gone off like sushi in the sun? It's Batman as a Ninja, with his Bat-boys in tow, going up against not the Justice League, but the Yakuza League... yes Yakuza League. It's much easier if you don't try to have it make sense. Just let the weird wash over you... This one was Quinny's

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TPToA Podcast 406 – Perfect Blue

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2025/05/22

Perfect BlueAni-May continues on and this time we are looking back nearly 30 years to the classic psychological thriller that introduced the western world to the intricacies of Japanese Idol culture and unhealthy parasocial fandom in that sub-culture, all through the singular vision of the acclaimed director Satoshi Kon. Based loosely on the novel Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis by writer Yoshikazu Takeuchi, this film explores the trauma of sexual assault, the fear and uncertainty of dealing

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TPToA Podcast 402 – TV Roundup Part 1! Reacher,...

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2025/04/17

Sinners, Reacher, Invincible and Severance.We are doing our best to keep ahead of all the amazing TV releases out there at the moment, and seemingly we're failing pretty miserably occasionally. So in an effort to make up ground, we are doing two TV roundups of what's hot on the box. This week is Reacher Season 3, Invincible Season 3 and the second huge season of Severance. But as we had to move the show to accomodate a screening, we have also included a special bonus review of the film we saw;

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TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A...

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2025/04/10

A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and A More!16 years ago in 2009 a game developer called Markus "Notch" Persson started seeing blocks in a game called Infiniminer... this sparked his imagination and he began to create blocks everywhere... everything in blocky shapes. simple colours and perfectly cuboid construction pieces. In 2011 his cave based game came fully to fruition and the world was introduced to Minecraft. 14 years later that game has had millions of players, and it's now a major feature

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TPToA Podcast 400 – Guilty Viewing Omissions

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2025/04/07

Guilty Viewing Omissions We have hit a milestone that we never expected to achieve; 400 shows! thats a LOT of podcasting folks, a metric tonne of it in fact! So how do we choose to celebrate this momentous achievement? We watched our guiltiest cinema sins! That's right those films or series' that we had never got around to watching; The films that will automatically make all your friends say "Oh my god, you haven't seen X?!?!" What better way to celebrate than with shame! For Quinny it was the 1965

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TPToA Podcast 399 – The Electric State

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2025/03/19

The Electric StateSimon Stålenhag may not be a household name, but his incredibly distinctive art has inspired hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. His books, "Tales from the Loop", "Labyrinth", "Things from the Flood" and "Sunset at Zero Point" as well as the novel basis for this film "The Electric State" have garnered a passionate fanbase and one of these books has already been loosely adapted into the @amazonprime series “Tales from the Loop”. That brings us to this new big

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TPToA Podcast 398 – Mickey 17

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2025/03/13

Mickey 17The novel this film was based on; Mickey 7 was being written by Edward Ashton, at almost exactly same time as the film back in 2021. Director Bong Joon Ho saw an opportunity and ran with it to create something pertinent, meaningful and as always, very weird... What remains then to answer is why the film version has solidly 10 more Mickeys!? Why do we need SO many more Mickeys? Robert Pattinson is Mickey 1-17 and in fact Mickey 18 as well... and his life...lives are the subject of this

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1:15:47

TPToA Podcast 397 – 97th Academy Awards Recap

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2025/03/07

97th Academy Awards RecapThe 2025 Awards season has closed out, much the same way that liberty has died; with thunderous applause and too much Timothee Chalomet. We watched a bunch of the Awards favourites ahead of the Oscars, saw some of the Emmy's missed the SAGs and the BAFTAs and then came back together for the 97th Academy awards of whatever... and discussed them AND the Razzies in this fullsome podcast! All 4 hosts are in for this and nobody announced the wrong film when opening the

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TPToA Podcast 391 – Season 2’s! Silo, Shrinking &...

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2025/01/24

Season 2'sOur month of “S” shows continues with a bunch of stupenduos second seasons, from Silo to Shrinking with some Squid Game on the side! Often the sophomore season brings a show unstuck, so let’s see how these second timers stand up to the serious scrutiny! Will Squid Game stick the landing? Does Silo slow to a slugs pace? Is Shrinking simply starting to soar? Stick around to find out! Our hosts this week are Shrinking-violet Dion, entirely un-Siloed Jill, and the red-light/green-light

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