Best Forgotten Movies!

Gareth and Andy are taking a dive into Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the animated film about a sunken ancient city that ironically sunk the Disney animation department. But is this swashbuckler a rip-roaring adventure or have Disney ripped the heart out of their renaissance? Listen on to find out!

In the latest episode, Gareth and Andy are taking a very, very slow ride on the Starship Enterprise as we join Kirk, Spock, Bones, and crew on their search to find the fabled clitoris. That’s right, we’re discussing Star Trek The Motion Picture. But is this a triumphant return to Starfleet, or are these two of the longest hours of our life that we’ll never get back?

After a brief hiatus (and then a further 12 months off podcasting) Popcorn Digest is back! And in this latest episode, we’re puzzling over not one but two adaptions of Clive Barker’s The Hellhound Heart as we look at both 1987 and 2022’s HELLRAISER. But do we find delight in these grotesque depictions of love and death or is the battle of the Hellraisers about as pleasurable as a colonoscopy performed by Edward Scissorhands? Prepare yourself for delightful suffering!

Like Palpatine from Star Wars, the dead are alive (somehow) as we’re spending time with patient zero of the sexually transmitted disease, James Bond. That’s right, we’re back to review SPECTRE, a 007 adventure with too many plot points surrounding the quality of James Bond’s Ring. But is spectre a success or a spectacular failure? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are joined by writer/ director M.K Rhodes (The Gulf of Silence) for an all-together spooky episode of the show as we ask some of the big questions. Questions such as ‘are we alone in the universe?', ‘have we secretly made contact with intelligent alien life?’ and finally ‘why did no one stop Chris Carter after six seasons!’. That’s right, we’re watching The X-Files: Fight the Future.   But do we find the truth out there? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are back and taking on prosthetically enhanced mobsters as they review Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990), a cartoonish hard-boiled noir featuring a lot of dicks and plenty of rubber. But do we find a lot to love about Warren Beatty's dick caper? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy return once more to draw their swords against Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Studios. The story follows Bilbo Baggins, a Shire-Hobbit who finds a magic ring that allows him to disappear... for large portions of the plot. But is this middle-earth fantasy an epic triumph or does it crash and burn in a fury of dragon flame? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are stuck at the airport for the second of their Christmas specials, as they spend some time with the world's unluckiest action hero. That's right, we're reviewing Die Hard 2 (Die Harder?). But is this a Christmas well spent? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are spending this holiday season in perpetual darkness, as they travel to Gotham City for the first of our Christmas specials. That's right, we're flying high with Tim Burton's Batman Returns; a packed to the walls sequel starring Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman and, of course, Michael Keaton as Sir. Not Appearing in the Movie. But is it a worthy follow up? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are staring down the barrel at Quantum of Solace, another international espionage adventure starring everyone’s favourite sex pest, James Bond. But is Quantum of Solace a rip-roaring ride or does it get bond wrong? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are donning their masks to prepare themselves for a face-melting good time with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. But is this Halloween film a shapeless mess? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are joined by special guest Aidan Belizaire, to unravel the creature feature that is Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy (2017), the first epic monster movie in Universal’s Dark Universe. If you don't know what Universal's Dark Universe is, well it's a collection of cross-media monster-movie related films, tv shows, books and video games that in a uniquely bold creative choice for a cinematic universe consists of just one film. But is this Tom Cruise starring horror-blockbuster too much for us to take? Listen on to find out. 

Gareth and Andy are back with the last of our Best Forgotten Movies Lost Episodes. And this time we're jacking into a world of well-choreographed fight scenes, mind-bending philosophies and tear-inducing disappointment. No, we're not talking about a night out with the in-laws but The Wachowski's The Matrix Sequels!

Gareth and Andy return for the second part of their Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker special. But do we find ourselves one with the force or, like a Sith with diarrhoea, do we find the hate flowing through us? Listen on to find out. 

This week Gareth and Andy are executing order 66- that's episode 66- as we turn our ion cannons on Star Wars Episode IX: Electric Boogaloo. But is this sequel a star too far for a dying franchise or have we unfairly treated this space adventure like fresh bantha poodoo? Listen to part one of this two-part Star Wars special to find out! 

This week Gareth and Andy are boarding the cruise ship of H.P Lovecraft's dreams as we take a plunge with Stephen Sommers' Deep Rising, a film named after an impending bowel movement. But is this creature-feature too much for us to digest? Listen on to find out!

Pierce Brosnan lures children and simple folk into his basement with the promise of a good time in (legally not) Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man; a film so bad the man behind Dreamcatcher had his name forcibly removed from the title. But do Gareth and Andy find this 90's virtual-reality thriller virtually unwatchable? Listen on to find out. 

Gareth and Andy are back and they've got worms! That's right, we're reviewing Ron Underwood's Land Jaws... I mean Tremors! But have we unearthed a B-Movie classic worthy of its cult status or is this a bad mother-humper that deserves to be buried? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are joined by special guest Aidan Belizaire, for first of our new topic-based episodes. And what better topic for these three 30-something men to discuss than animated kid's films? No, honestly. This week we'll be discussing Disney's live-action remakes, from 101 Dalmatians and Aladdin to The Lion King and Mulan. But are there diamonds in the rough of this creatively bankrupt cinematic trend? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy return for a Bird based double-bill as we spend an episode talking about a couple of memorable peckers! One film is a thriller by the master of suspense, littered with scenes so iconic they’ve come to define the genre, and the other is The Birds! But do either of these films soar? Listen on to find out...