We go MIFFING again, pulling focus on works from the 2026 Melbourne International Film Fesitval we've seen, including: CHRONOVISOR, REPLICA, MUM-I'M ALIEN PREGNANT, CROCODILE, GHOST IN THE CELL, and YESTERDAY ISLAND.
Further inspired by Nolan's ODYSSEY we voyage to Director Mario Camerini's 1954 movie Ulysses, and check out trailers and Hall H announcements from the San Diego Comic Convention, 2026.
We take the scenic route Homer through the Greek Islands with Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY and a goatskin full of other screen adaptations of the iconic epic poem.
As is our annual tradition (since 1994), we scry the screen of the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival with the Zero-G Genre Filter. See Zero-G's Facebook page for written film pick lists. https://www.facebook.com/ZeroGRadio/
We bravely wade out into Season 1 of the comedy/horror series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE +) and shout "Booray! Ollywood" with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda's new entry in the DESPICABLE ME/MINIONS saga MINIONS…
We listen to Matt Dinniman's audiobook DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL (Also in print as an ACE BOOK, from PENGUIN), and seek "Truth, Justice, Whatever" with Director Craig Gillespie's new D.C.U movie, SUPERGIRL.
We go sailing some more through three decades of the TOY STORY toy box, with a googly eye to Director Andrew Stanton's newest entry in the saga, TOY STORY 5, now before us…
Winter chills with Curry Barker's "Be careful what you wish for" movie OBSESSION (in cinemas now), Genki Kawamura's liminally loopy EXIT 8 (streaming for rent or purchase), and Kane Parsons' limitlessly liminal BACKROOMS.
Probing questions asked of occupants of interplanetary craft with Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY, who you gonna call in DISPATCH the superhero workplace game (ADHOC STUDIOS) and we farewell genre author Jane Yolen.
Noir Way? YES Way for SPIDER-NOIR (AMAZON PRIME), genre pics from ABC CLASSIC'S ALL TIME GREATEST 100, and we farewell British Actor, Singer and Musician Anthony Stewart Head.
Ewe knew we would flock to director Kyle Balda's anthropomorphic fantasy movie THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, and also drive into the John Griffin created science fiction (?) horror series, FROM (Streaming on STAN).
Come what may, in May (new content streaming and at the cinema) plus we look at horror comedy series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE TV) and Yorgos Lanthimos adapts a South Korean black comedy alien…
We swing by the SPIDER-MAN NOIR series trailer (AMAZON PRIME), glove up with the 2026 revival series of SCRUBS (DISNEY+), preview FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2026, recite Ian McEwan's Science Fiction novel WHAT…
Nasty nuptials with Haley Z. Boston's SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (NETFLIX) and Richard Schenkman's long-lived JEROME BIXBY'S THE MAN FROM EARTH & THE MAN FROM EARTH: HOLOCENE (AMAZON PRIME)
MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS comic book assembles 800 issues, ARTEMIS II and the first manned trip to the Moon in fifty years, set sail on the Grand Line for ONE PIECE SEASON 2, live…
Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's PROJECT HAIL MARY movie adaptation kicks goals, the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S ART OF THE SCORE: JAMES HORNER concert, and genre highlights of this year's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL.
Watson today's episode? Rob Lloyd's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL, show HOLMES UNBOUND: THE LOST CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, no stylish-yet-afordable-boots for the Buffy Reboot, Oscar genre gongs and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concert…
After a flyover of small and large screen genre, Shailee Thompson explains HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN DATES (ATRIA IMPRINT OF SIMON SHUSTER - 2026), and we chill out with two…
Today, we look at Streaming drops, the latest episode of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (PARAMOUNT +), dino rage with Luke Sparke's PRIMITIVE WAR (NETFLIX), engage Victoria Mahoney's THE OLD GUARD II (NETFLIX) and…
We cast no shade on GODZILLA MINUS ONE streaming in B&W (NETFLIX), find that there can be only two with a tale of an immortal warrior in Keanu Reeves and China Miéville's THE…
Today we overfly the M.C.U for 2026, appreciate the latest IRON MAN comic (MARVEL COMICS), light the lights on the new MUPPET SHOW special (DISNEY+), audit STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (DISNEY+) and farewell…
We contract Christina Sweeney-Baird's pandemic novel, THE END OF MEN (2021 HARPERCOLLINS), an overview of the 2025 MCU, and we wonder at Marvel's Wonder Man (DISNEY+)
We midsummarise the genre gems of Melbourne's MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL, chat with David Innes, co-creator of genre play BEV AND MYRT AND THE SCROLL OF DOOM (MIDSUMMA), get plucky with AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS…
In our first show for 2025 we get on the walkies and take a last bicycle ride with the STRANGER THINGS finale (NETFLIX), "See" AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, haunt the BBC GHOSTS (Various…
In our last episode for 2025 we get Upside of the final season of the Duffer Bothers' STRANGER THINGS, and weaponize Zach Cregger's horror movie WEAPONS.
In our penultimate 2025 show we go WICKED FOR GOOD with Jon M. Chu's new film, and play the SPOOKY DOORWAY/RAW FURY video game THE SEANCE OF BLAKE MANOR.
Today we're crimped beneath the high seas with Co-Director/Writer/Production Designer Adam Browne and Shan't-ist Samuel Thomas-Holland, from the production BLADDERWRACK.
We loop around Nicholas Clifford’s time travel comedy ONE MORE SHOT (STAN), enter the anime warzone of 86: EIGHTY SIX (CRUNCHYROLL), wonder at MARVEL'S WONDERMAN trailer, and more!