Commentary Club (Hypnogoria)

It's cult film time again and it's back to the 1980s for a touching tale of a boy and an alien... But not all aliens are friendly! Yes, we are revisiting at the cult sci-fi horror flick Xtro!

In this episode we begin a rewatch of a classic alternative comedy - The Young Ones starring Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Chris Ryan and Alexei Sayle.

"We're Young Ones. Bachelor boys! Crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists!"

In this episode, we reach the final ever episode of The Young Ones - term has finished, their courses ended, what will the boys do now...

In this show we are revisiting one of the early classics of cinema, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920). Starring Conrad Veidt, this silent German Expressionist masterpiece is a genuine piece of movie history and has just celebrated its one hundredth birthday!

In this episode we find Blackadder in charge of a concert party and having trouble with his leading lady Georgina and a slug balancing act...

To get us in the mood for some 1980s horror, we take a rambling trip back to November 1982 to sample the music in the charts the week Creepshow was released! 

In this minisode we kick off a fresh batch of Blackadders, with the opening episode of the third series Dish and Dishonesty, and meet the new addition to the show, nice but dim Prince George played by Hugh Laurie!

This time round we are looking at cult favourite Clue from 1985 - the first movie based on a board game! Featuring an all-star cast including Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and Leslie Anne Warren.

In this episode we reach the grand finale of the Blackadder II saga! There's been a spate of kidnappings which prove to be just the first stage of a cunning plan from evil Prince Ludwig the Indestructible played by Hugh Laurie!

In this just before Christmas special, we revisit a modern festive favourite Arthur Christmas from Aardman Animations, featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighty and Imelda Stanton to name but a few!

It's cult film time again, in this podcast we are doing the most culty cult movie of all time - it's time to throw open the switches on the Sonic Oscillator, and step up the Reactor Power Input three more points, as we revisit The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1974)! Sing lips!

For our crap movie selection, we are watching an all-star cast go to hell in a hand-basket in Judd Apatow's pandemic misfire The Bubble (2022)

We are back in cult film territory and back to the films of Tim Burton too - this time for his 1990s SF comedy Mars Attacks! Ack! Ack! Ack! 

It's Valentine's Day and so we thought we'd go for something from the heart... Well, The Hellbound Heart at any rate! Yes, in this massively inappropriate special, we revisit classic British horror movie, Hellraiser, created by the great Clive Barker. Uncle Frank gets a puzzle box, Cenobites ensue...

In the first episode for new year, Teresa and Jim return to tackle a favourite cult movie - the 2010 horror comedy Tucker & Dale Vs Evil

In this festive minisode, we take a trip to the benighted town of Royston Vasey for the League of Gentlemen Christmas Special from 2000

For our cult movie this time, we have Army of Darkness (1992) the third and final part of the Evil Dead trilogy!

In space, no one can hear you eat ice cream! Get your kotton kandy ready and join Teresa and Jim for a viewing of the kult kollision of SF, horror and komedy that is Killer Klowns from Outer Space! 

In a special show, we revisit an early classic from the late great Roger Corman - Not of the Earth (1957)

It's classic film time again, and we heading back to the 1980s to revisit the fantastic world of The Dark Crystal, a dream collaboration between Jim Henson and Brian Froud.

This week we revisit a classic from 1990, the mind-bending sci-fi action epic Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, directed by Paul Verhoeven, and with special make-up effects from the legendary Rob Bottin.

Thanks to a random search involving the word "egg", we've ended up with a kaiju movie from 1970 - giant radioactive turtle Gamera takes on grumpy devil dinosaur Jiger!

It's cult film time again, and we are voyaging back to the dawn of the video game era to revisit Disney's visionary virtual adventure Tron!

For our New Year special, we take a ride on Terror Train, a 1980 slasher set on New Year's Eve! It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, featuring magician David Copperfield, and was the directorial debut of Roger Spottiswood!

Sean Connery as a dragon? Of course it's a classic! Revisiting the 1996 fantasy movie starring Dennis Quaid, Dina Mayer, David Thewlis, Pete Postlethwaite, and Julie Christie!

Beware! It's crap film time again! And this week we are experiencing the low budget terrors of Ice Spiders, a Scifi Channel movie from 2006!

Before we plunge into the era of the video nasty next week, we stop off to sample some of the biggest hits from 1983! Warning! May contain a small outbreak of Kajagoogoo and high levels of Jed!

For our classic film selection this time, it was Teresa's pick which will bring us such cinematic firsts as a frog riding a bicycle! Yes it's The Muppet Movie (1979), the first big screen outing for everyone's fuzzy friends!  

In this show, for our crap film selection, we attempt to get festive with the alleged rom com A Very British Christmas (2019) which at least was filmed in the beautiful Yorkshire town of Knaresborough!

It's crap film time again, and we have a movie about undead wildlife - Zombeavers (2014)! Yes, a film about zombie beavers... Does hilarity ensue?

For our classic film selection for this December, we revisit a seasonal favourite, the original Die Hard(1988) the film that made Bruce Willis a mega star and maybe the best action movie ever made!

In this episode Blackadder attempts to out-do Sir Walter Really, I mean, Raleigh, with a sea voyage of his own. Unfortunately Captain Redbeard Rum (the legendary Tom Baker in fully barking mad mode) turns out to be both legless and clueless!

Der-der-der-dum! Click! Click!
It's cult movie time again, and we're going back to the 1990s. It's Teresa's pick and so we are paying a visit to The Addams Family, the comedy horror directed by Barry Sonnenfeld based on the famous cartoons by Charles Addams and the cult 1960s TV show.

It's cult film time again, in this podcast we go back to 1980s to revisit Ridley Scott's Legend, a dark fairy tale starring Tom Cruise, Mia Sara and Tim Curry, with creatures conjured up by effects maestro Rob Bottin.

In this episode Prince George is skint and so Blackadder tries his hand at being a dandy highwayman. Plus we have guest stars Warren Clarke and the great Miranda Richardson!

As Teresa had never seen the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special - dubbed the worst two hours of television ever - we thought it would be a fun idea to watch it as a festive special...

It's classic film time again, and in this show we set sail with one of the greatest heroes of them all! We accompany the legendary Sinbad on a fantastic adventure masterminded by of the true geniuses of cinema, Ray Harryhausen!

For our Christmas special this year, we are revisiting a much loved modern classic, a fuzzy felt incarnation of a famous festive tale by Charles Dickens. Yes, we are doing The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

This time we are doing one of the kings of cult movies - George A Romero's zombie masterpiece - Dawn of the Dead! And what's more, we are looking at the longest version - the Cannes Cut - for full fat zombie apocalypse action! 

"It's the old Punch and Judy man! But he must be five hundred... seven hundred years old!" 

We watch the fourth episode of The Box of Delights - The Spider in the Web, more scrobbling sends Kay to search for Abner's headquarters 

In this episode it's cult movie time once more and Jim has picked Drop Dead Fred, the 1991 comedy starring Rik Mayall and Phoebe Cates. Is it a charming comic fantasy about having an imaginary friend or a psychodrama about nightmares and trauma? We open the wine and find out...

As a prelude to our Shaun of the Dead episode, we thought it would be fun to revisit the Spaced episode where Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg first encountered zombies! 

For our classic movie we are keeping on the theme of bad Santas and revisiting the marvellous Dutch comedy horror Sint (2010) in which an undead Sinterklaas - the Dutch version of St. Nick - terrorises Amsterdam!

It's classic movie time again, and in these podcast we chatting along to one of the all-time great horror comedies Shaun of the Dead! Making his feature debut, director Edgar Wright pits Simon Pegg and Nick Frost against the ravening dead in the world's first zom-rom-com!

It's crap movie time and we are looking at a legendarily shoddy movie - a 1980s Italian Dawn of the Dead knock-off which you may know as Zombie Creeping Flesh AKA Virus AKA Zombie 3 AKA Hell of the Living Dead AKA Night of the Zombies AKA That Bloody Terrible Film

For our hundredth episode we revisit one of the greatest science fiction films of all time - the original Planet of the Apes (1969) starring Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowell. 

For our classic movie for December we have gone for new festive favourite Klaus, a 2019 animated feature giving us a truly magical alternative take on the origins of Santa Claus.

It's crap movie time again, and we experience notorious bad movie Shakma which sees Roddy McDowell and assorted students being menaced by a killer baboon!

In this episode, for Jim's pick of a classic movie to chat over, we are playing with Gizmo and dodging Stripe in the Joe Dante/Steven Spielberg Christmas creature caper Gremlins!

In this episode, George lands up in hospital tended by Nurse Fletcher Brown, played by guest star Miranda Richardson. However there is also allegedly a German spy for Blackadder to winkle out...

George Lucas making a big screen adaptation of a cult Marvel comics character? What could go wrong? Well, just about everything... as Teresa and Jim discover in this episode!

For our Christmas special this year we have a real classic - the celebrated comedy take on A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray and Karen Allen - Scrooged (1988)!

In this minisode we delve into the terrifying world of UK Public Information Films, beginning with the infamous Apaches from 1977 which attempted to warn children about the dangers of mucking about on farms and traumatised a generation!

Once again we return to The Storyteller for another two tales beside the fire, although in a somewhat *ahem* more festive mood than usual... This time we are revisiting The Three Ravens and Sapsorrow

For our classic movie this time we are watching a hugely important film, a massive influence on modern science fiction and the grandfather of Hammer horror - yes, it's The Quatermass Xperiment (AKA The Creeping Unknown in the US) from 1955.

For our cult movie selection, we are sticking with kaiju movies, and revisiting Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995), the first movie in of the Heisei series for Godzilla's great rival monster!

It's crap film time again, and we embark on our most gruelling challenge yet - Roland Emmerich's disaster (in every sense of the word)movie 2012 which confusing came out in 2009. Very strong language and pizza recipes ensue...

We return to the world of glorious television for another episode of some vintage Blackadder! In the second ever episode of this classic comedy, the Black Adder finds himself betrothed to be married...

We return to the League of Gentlemen with Series 1 episode 5 - Love Comes To Royston Vasey, which sounds delightful but completely isn't! But it does feature classic appearances from failed rock star Les McQueen and Mick the cave tour guide... 

For a little Easter extra surprise, we couldn't resist going back to another movie from the late great Stuart Gordon. And we picked that dream teaming of Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, HP Lovecraft and two dozen gallons of blood - yes, it's the splatastic Reanimator (1985)!

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at the final two episodes from the little known second season. Here we have two classic tales of heroes versus famous monsters - Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus and the Gorgons! 

As an extra spooky treat, and as a lead-in to our Hallowe'en special, we thought we'd take a look back at the faux documentary Curse of The Blair Witch!

In this special podcast we pay tribute to the late great Terry Jones with a look back at Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

After recording our Rollerball episode we thought it would be a good idea to sample some vintage Top of the Pops, and hence we pit June 1977 against July 1978! 

It's crap film time again, and this week we're joining Liam Neeson on a mission to punch winter itself in the chops! Yes, we are doing The Ice Road (2021).

WARNING - A very very sweary and angry episode ensues....  

It's cult movie time again, and we take a look at the under appreciated Dredd (2012) starring Karl Urban - which was at last a proper movie incarnation of the classic lawman of the future Judge Dredd from legendary comic 2000 AD!

In this episode, the boys hire a home video recorder and are eager to sample the ghoulish world of video nasties! 

Once again we are going back to the 1980s for a classic movie! This time is the celebrated horror comedy Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton and starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder!

Welcome to the Commentary Club! In this infocast, we'll tell you all about this new show! 

We reach the very last episode of Blackadder Goes Forth, a rightly celebrated final episode of a legendary series! 

It's cult film time again, and this time we are back to the 1980s for a slice of dystopian sci-fi satire! Yes it's Brazil, the strange retro-future nightmare from the mind of Terry Gilliam

We watch the sixth episode of The Box of Delights - Leave Us Not Little, Nor Yet Dark, which sees the final struggle for the Box between Kay Harker and Abner Brown

For our traditional wildly inappropriate movie for Valentine's Day this year, we picked a romantic comedy... from Tommy Wirkola, director of the Dead Snow films! The Trip (2021) has Noomi Rapace and Aksel Hennie as a couple off for a romantic break where they plan to kill each other! 

In the next of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the sixth and final episode of The Black Adder - the tragic tale of the Black Seal! The most cunning plan and the most evil men in England plot to take the crown... Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

It's classic film time again, and this week we are revisiting Willow from 1988, the fantasy epic from George Lucas and Ron Howard, starring Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer and Joanne Whalley.

We return to our rewatch of the League of Gentlemen with Series 1 episode 3 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey! Featuring the death by compressed air, an egregious interview role play, and something nasty, but certainly local, dug up on the site of New Road... 

In the first of our staying in comedy shows, we look at the very first episode of The Black Adder - The Foretelling!

In another special show, we revisit another movie from the late great Roger Corman - The Terror (1963) a gothic fever dream which stars Boris Karloff and a very young Jack Nicholson!

For our traditional wildly inappropriate Valentine's Day special, we have a movie whose title translates as "Of Death, Of Love". Yes, it's Italian cult classic Dellamorte Dellamore AKA Cemetery Man, directed by Michele Soavi and starring Rupert Everett

It's Valentine's Day once again, and so in the spirit of St. Skeletor, we proudly present another massively inappropriate movie and revisit that seminal slasher from 1981 My Bloody Valentine

As we are travelling back to the 1970s for our Duel episode next week, we thought we stop off and sample some vintage 1970s rock! 

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at two episodes from the little known second season. In this series, Michael Gambon takes on the mantle of the Storyteller to recount tales from Greek myth.  And in this episode, we watch the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and the legend of Orpheus. 

Welcome to our first Christmas special! In this especially festive episode Teresa and Jim take a look the 1984 version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, starring George C Scott, David Warner, Frank Finlay, Edward Woodward and Angela Pleasance!

In a new mini season of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the first episode of Blackadder II, in which we catch up with Blackadder, Percy and Baldrick in Tudor times, where merry England is ruled by Queen Elizabeth I (played Miranda Richardson),aided by her stalwart advisor Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry) and long-serving Nursie (Patsy Byrne). In this episode, romance is in the air and we have a guest appearance from the late great Rik Mayall as Lord Flashheart!

For our traditionally highly inappropriate Valentine's Day special, we are watching the 2009 remake of My Bloody Valentine starring Jenson Ackles and Jaime King, numerous pickaxes, and roughly sixty gallons of blood... 

Welcome to a special Commentary Club in which we are indulging ourselves something rotten with a joint favorite film - the classic Dr Terror's House of Horrors, the first anthology horror movie from Amicus! Five tales of terror starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle, Alan 'Fluff' Freeman and many many more! 

For our traditional inappropriate Valentine's Day special, a classic anthology horror from Amicus - The House That Dripped Blood - a movie that delivers four tales of terror and features an all-star cast - Peter Cushing, Denholm Elliot, Christopher Lee, Ingrid Pitt and Jon Pertwee! 

We celebrate Easter this year with an 1980s British scifi horror about eggs and rebirth... sort of...  Yes, we are doing Norman J Warren's infamous alien shocker - Inseminoid (1981)

This year we've plumped for a film that is both an adaptation of one of the classic Halloween stories and a tribute to classic horror movies! The Headless Horseman rides again in Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999)!

Join us on an epic adventure across Africa with some Hollywood's brightest stars as we revisit a true classic - The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and directed by John Huston.

It's cult movie time again, and this time we are looking at one of the best horror comedies of recent years - What We Do in the Shadows a mockumentary created by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement exploring the shows world of the undead in present day New Zealand!

For our traditional Hallowe'en special, we watch a modern Hallowe'en favourite - Hocus Pocus (1993) starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as three Salem witches from 1693 resurrected to wreak havoc in the modern age!

Once again we return to Jim Henson's The Storyteller, this time for the final story from the fireside, the tale of The Heartless Giant

For our crap film choice this time, we endure an frankly appalling live-action travesty of a beloved cartoon - Inspector Gadget starring Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett

In this episode, the boys are skint and what's worse Vyvan is pregnant! Things are so desperate Neil has to become a police man! 

In this show we revisit one of the greatest comedies of all time - Some Like It Hot (1959) starring Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis, directed by Billy Wilder.

It's crap move time again and we venture into the highly dubious cinematic genre of movies based on theme park rides, and for added peril, it's also a late period Eddie Murphy move to boot! Yes, it's Disney's The Haunted Mansion (2003)!

For our classic film selection we go back the 1980s for the legendary collaboration between George Lucas and Steven Spielberg - the very first Indiana Jones adventure - Raiders of the Lost Ark!