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TPToA Podcast 426 – Fighting With My Family
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Fighting With My Family It’s week 3 of Wrestle-tober and finally… FINALLY we are heading BACK… into more fun territory! If ya SMELLLLLLL what this podcast…. Is cookin’ It’s glitz and glam! It’s the WWE! It’s Florence Pugh! It’s the Rock! It’s Stephen Merchant and his weird moustache! It’s Fighting with my Family! The mostly true story of WWE Britis…
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The Iron Claw The Von Erich family has been a staple of the wrestling world for decades, and their legacy (and possible curse) form the backbone of this intense drama. The Iron Claw: It’s another laugh-a-minute episode of Wrestling related fun and games for Wrestle-tober! (Thanks Jill!) Come for the muscle-bound men in tight pants. Stay for the int…
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The Wrestler Despite 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 o…
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TPToA Podcast 423 – Cult Cinema: Megaforce (1982)
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Megaforce From the deepest darkest corners of the 1980s comes a film that most will never have heard of… And for pretty good reason: it’s ridiculously cheesy, utterly misogynistic, completely ridiculous and it may well be the reason camping chain Kathmandu is going out of business: because its just THAT camp! But it’s Dion’s cult cinema choice, and…
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Eddington Divisive, 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, b…
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TPToA Podcast 421 – Red Sonja (2025)
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Red Sonja It’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 …
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TPToA Podcast 420 – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3
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Strange New Worlds: Season 3 It’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 ent…
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TPToA Podcast 419 – TV Round-Up! Alien: Earth & Peacemaker Season 2
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Alien: Earth & Peacemaker S2 We’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…
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TPToA Podcast 418 – TV Round-Up! Twisted Metal Season 2 & Chief of War
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Twisted Metal and Chief of War The big Summer blockbuster season is slowing down and now we’re heading back into the realm of prestige TV coming slowly back to our screens… or maybe, if not prestige, then genre adjacent and hopefully fun. So in the first of our TV roundups for this season we’re looking at Season 2 of the surprise romp Twisted Metal…
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Weapons Kids are creepy right? We can all agree on that? Well, you know whats even creepier? When there are meant to be kids and they aren’t there. Or even worse… there’s just one. Weapons is the new horror from Zach Cregger starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Alden Ehrenreich, whose first break out hit Barbarian scared the hell out of us… and g…
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TPToA Podcast 416 – K-Pop Demon Hunters
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K-Pop Demon Hunters K-Pop Demon Hunters sounds like a joke title, but this action packed adventure/romance/musical/ martial arts action film… is really something different! The surprise animated hit of the year which has been not only smashing streaming video records (thats Netflix for ya), but also demolishing the music charts (Golden hitting no. …
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TPToA Podcast 415 – Fantastic Four: First Steps
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Fantastic Four: First Steps Is this, the 4th attempt at bringing the Marvel Universe‘s “First Family” to the big screen actually as fantastic as it purports to be? Well, we have finally settled on a look and feel that best suits the classic super hero squad: and it’s ‘60s Retro-futurism all the way for one and all!!! It’s a whole new universe of Ma…
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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 cruciall…
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TPToA Podcast 413 – Jurassic World Rebirth
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Jurassic World: Rebirth For 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, …
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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 deep…
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TPToA Podcast 411 – The Last 28 Years of Us (The Last of Us S2 & 28 Years Later)
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The Last 28 Years of Us The last 28 years (or there abouts) of zombie films have really changed the face of the genre. With the introduction of fast zombies, and then the addition of different zombie types; like Rage monsters, infected, fungus monsters, behemoths, clickers, alphas, etc… we have come a long way from the barely threatening shambling …
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Murderbot This weeks comfort watch sci-fi sit-com; Murderbot follows a self-hacking security android (a “SecUnit”) named Murderbot who has gained free will but prefers to keep it secret while watching media. The series, based on the boooks “The Murderbot Diaries” by Martha Wells explores Murderbot’s reluctant journey as it navigates dangerous situa…
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Mountainhead In 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…
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TPToA Podcast 408 – Andor S1-S2 & Rogue One
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Andor and Rogue One 9 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 ba…
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TPToA Podcast 407 – Batman Ninja Vs. Yakuza League
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Batman Ninja Vs Yakuza League When 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 Yaku…
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Perfect Blue Ani-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…
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TPToA Podcast 405 – The Rose of Versailles
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The Rose of Versailles (2025 film) It’s Ani-May folks, and the first anime film out of the blocks for this month is Jill‘s choice, a feature length re-interpretation of the groundbreaking Shojo Manga (and then Anime series) The Rose of Versailles. Is the modern take as beautiful as the original Manga? Does it feel as opulent as the 1979 Anime? List…
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Thunderbolts* Marvel has been pretty hit and miss of late, It’s TV has been great but some of the films have felt a little under-cooked. We have had a new Captain America film which some thought flew too close to the sun so now it’s time for the B-team lineup to take centre stage. Will this NEW film AVENGE the sacred timeline? Will it be a bolt of …
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TPToA Podcast 403 – TV Roundup Part 2! Daredevil, Yellowjackets & Andor
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Daredevil, Yellowjackets and Andor S2 It’s TV time again folks! We’re back after our break, checking out Yellowjackets, Daredevil: Born Again, and the first look at Andor Season 2. Will Disney’s refreshed take on Daredevil unleash our worst angels. Are the ladies in Yellowjackets still probably mostly mentally unwell? Or are the actual demons in th…
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TPToA Podcast 402 – TV Roundup Part 1! Reacher, Invincible, Severance + Sinners
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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…
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TPToA Podcast 401 – Film Frenzy! A Minecraft Movie, A Working Man and More
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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 …
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TPToA Podcast 400 – Guilty Viewing Omissions
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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 …
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TPToA Podcast 399 – The Electric State
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The Electric State Simon 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 passiona…
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Mickey 17 The 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!?…
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TPToA Podcast 397 – 97th Academy Awards Recap
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97th Academy Awards Recap The 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……
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TPToA Podcast 209 – The Falcon And The Winter Soldier and Zack Snyder’s Justice League too!
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Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, yes, actually… kind of. It’s a man dressed as a bird, with a strap-on plane? And there beside him is his buddy the metal-armed cybernetic bad-ass with a memory problem. Check out our take on the first episode of ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier‘ (now streaming on Disney+). If that’s not enou…
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