This week we wonder how Nolan made a $250 million movie that looks like The Odyssey, while Moana 2 cost the same amount and looks like… Moana 2.
‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’ Officially Surges to No. 1 as Instant Digital Hit in Just 24 Hours Whoopi Goldberg Slams Transphobic Critics of Elliot Page’s Casting in ‘The Odyssey’: ‘Then Don’t Go See It… Why Do You Care Who’s Cast in It?’ ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Is Officially Too Popular ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Breaks New Record 6 Months Before It Hits Theaters First Photos: “Blade Runner 2099” TV Series Blade Runner 2099 Teaser Disney Officially Confirms the End of ‘The Mandalorian’
If you’re looking for Luke we promise he really does show up, eventually! Lots of James Bond talk this week, plus some rare Star Wars whinging.
Gary Busey sentenced to two years probation for groping - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/gary-busey-pleads-guilty-groping Kimmel is back - https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-fully-back-abc-tv-nexstar-sinclair-1236530517/ Costco will no longer sell Xboxes - https://www.thegamer.com/costco-retailer-xbox-series-x-s-microsoft-gaming-no-longer-sold-confirmation/ Next Bond will be an unknown actor, casting after Dune Part Three is done - https://deadline.com/2025/09/james-bond-cast-unknown-british-actor-denis-villeneuve-dune-1236554375/ Spider-man got bashed - https://www.darkhorizons.com/tom-holland-injured-on-spider-man-set/ I take issue with this headline about Predator: Badlands - https://www.darkhorizons.com/predator-badlands-wont-have-a-xenomorph/ The Mandalorian and Grogu trailer - https://www.darkhorizons.com/first-trailer-the-mandalorian-grogu/
You don’t own this podcast
The Great Circle - https://www.darkhorizons.com/indiana-jones-the-great-circle-game-trailer/ Ubisoft owns your games - https://kotaku.com/ubisoft-prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-subscription-1851167602 Disney Presents: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu: The Movie - https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/the-mandalorian-star-wars-movie-directed-by-jon-favreau-1234941832/
Matt is currently scouring the woods around Starbucks looking for Alec
Alec Baldwin facing charges
Wizards walk it back, a bit
Jerry talks about Acq Inc
Xboxeos
Red Letter Media raise $80k for charity
Vin Diesel will not be starring in an Avatar
Dan’s being very quiet this week.
PAX East enforcer contracts COVID at PAX and dies Xbox Live was very very down Blade Runner RPG No more Moon Knight? Obiwan trailer Netflix not doing great?
It took 40 years but we’re finally discussing sport with each other. None of seem like the same sports which is a shame, but hopefully you’ll be interested in one of them. If not we still discuss the usual film, game and sexy celeb news.
Obi-wan was too dark? Lindelof is making a Star War? Christopher Lloyd is still around Stop testing yourselves incorrectly Paul Wesley is Kirk Alexandria D’Addario is a hot witch D&D is back in gold
A short biology lesson this week, followed by the usual banter about movies (some artsy fartsy movies this week), news and… Boba Fett.
Joe said the word He also said no Fight Club has a less happy ending again Bring on the Schumacher cut Douglas Trumble has died Village Roadshow want their money
Matt and Dan are new dads, which explains why they keep bringing their daughters to paleontologists and podiatrists and wondering why they aren’t getting adequate pediatric healthcare.
Links:Babylon 5 reboot Ridley Scott making Gladiator 2 Mace Windu comic might be racist? The internet may have cost Lucy Lawless a Star Wars role George Lucas finally gets his own figurine Mandalorian season 3 begins filming
Have you ever realised that you’re pronouncing something wrong because you read it that way as a child? Can you even pronounce a made up fantasy word “wrong”? These are the deep existential questions we ask and don’t really answer very well on this weeks episode.
Cyberpunk Multiplayer?
Head of CD Projekt apologises
Lucasfilm Games is back!
Bethesdiana Jones
Ubisoft Star Wars!
Fallen Order - now in technicolour
The Snyder Cut is still not sure what it is
Happy holidays dear listeners! We’ve got our top picks of things for the year, plus some news and a few rants just to make your Christmas a bit special.
Hope you all have a great holiday, we’ll see you next week as usual.
Tom Cruise is pissed
Cyberpunk gets pulled by Sony
There is a pretty severe Cyberpunk bug
Jeremy Bulloch has died
The Book of Boba Fett
Dan’s finally got an Xbox coming to him and Luke’s got a bone to pick with another Xbox gamer.
Mando spin off?
RIP Quibi
Warner movies to release on HBO Max
Peter Dinkage is the Toxic Avenger
Your PS5 might be cat food
Twin Galaxies goes on the offensive
Hugh Keays-Byrne is geek of the week
One of us is now an Xbox hall of famer!
How Guybrush got his name
The Queens Gambit is a record breaker
Jeans Guy has been removed
David Prowse has died
We’re keeping it old school with lots of Star Wars news and banter this week! But don’t worry, that’s not all we discuss. It is a lot of it though.
Photos of the Star Wars hotel
Fox told George the prequels would suck
Disney won’t pay up
Apple reduces their cut for small businesses
Wonder Woman 1984 is coming
Cyberpunk is out there
It’s Xbox Series X week and Luke is so excited he forgot to hit record! Luckily we’ve learned our lessons over the years and there are backups in place for such things.
Nothing happened at Ubisoft
Kanye admits defeat
Moral Failure
The worst Chris is cast
Luke’s got an announcement! And too many Xboxes.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition
Avengers not assembling
Tenet is coming
Castle Rock is going
Alex Trebek is gone
We bid farewell to an icon of the silver screen. His wit, charm and open hand will be missed, but I realised while editing that a very important part of the process has been missed. We’ll come back to this next week, I assure you…
RIP Sean “Slaps” Connery
Cyberpunk delayed
No Man’s Sky getting prettier
Dan’s locked in a room with nothing but his laptop and a leaky bottle of soy milk while Matt and Luke are stuck out here with the rest of you. Who’s got it worse?
Robert Pattinson tests positive for Covid 19The Rock has Covid 19Mando season two in October 2020John Boyega not a fan of Disney
Keanu not aware that The Matrix was exclusively about being trans
Ridley Scott not super impressed by Epic’s 1984 parody
Hollywood has been listening to our little podcast again so Luke gets a question from last week answered. There are some DC trailers and things to discuss this week, plus we watched a bit of TV and played some video games. Oh and guess who shows up again? (No it’s not Terry)Olivia Wilde is directing a Marvel movie, maybe Spider-Woman
Tenet reviews are here
Lawrence Fishburne not invited to be in Matrix 4Probably because his character is dead
Luke’s done his homework but he’s come back with some unexpected results.
Night City Wire Episode 2Dr Disrespect is back
Luke’s house might be smart, but is it smart enough to know whether it’s ok to shoot down a drone? If it listens to this week’s episode it might be.
Man faces felony charges for shooting a drone Taika Waititi is making a Star War Katee Sackhoff is in a Star War Timothy Olyphant is also in a Star War
We’ve been playing a lot of video games and watching a lot of stuff since we can’t go outside anymore!
Luke has been beaten to market yet again Johnny Depp is allowed to sue for defamation Borderlands has love crafted Michael Biehn joins Mando Disney closed indefinitely Thai king quarantines in style Bull fighters demand bail out We’re almost out of condoms Naked man crashes class Ice skating rinks used as temp morgues No more comics Pigs gotta get fed
This week Dan has a sexy story and Gwyneth Paltrow has released a candle that smells like… well you’ll have to listen to find out. Significantly less Star Wars news than usual this week since we’re not sure we even like it anymore.
Baby Nigel Freddie and Carrie? It’s not KFC Hamm violin Hamm zither
Happy New Year!
Wrap up your 2019 and kick off your 2020 with this week’s episode!
Belle Delphine was the top celebrity on PornHub in 2019Cats gets patched Orlando Jones won’t be in season 3 of American Gods You DO want Avatar sequels, says James Cameron That kiss was removed in the Singaporean release of Rise of Skywalker Mando Season 2 is coming We almost did get more Rose Baby Luke is coming The writer of Rise of Skywalker wishes it was two movies The Snyder Cut is still a think people are talking about
This episode is 99% Rise of Skywalker spoiler discussion and 1% jokes about Rian Johnson giving us a hand job, so if you haven’t seen the movie, yet, don’t care about the movie, or don’t wanna hear us talking about it for an hour then maybe skip this one? But come back next week pretty please because we’ll miss you!
Oh and happy holidays! We forgot to say that in the episode because of all the Star Wars.
