The podcast where film-fans Allen Turing and Sol Harris take a weekly journey to Development Hell to discuss a film, then pitch their ideas for the sequel.
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It's time for our 2025 Halloween special! Just, uh... 28 days later. There's a reason for that. Can you work out what it is? It's extremely subtle.
Films covered in this episode:
28 Weeks Later
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 54%
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It's time for our 2025 Halloween special! Just, uh... 28 days later. There's a reason for that. Can you work out what it is? It's extremely subtle.
Films covered in this episode:
28 Days Later…
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%
Films covered in this episode:
Spectre
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 64%
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The boys are back with the penultimate James Bond movie (but for how long? Probably quite a while, honestly). It's finally time for Spectre (or SPECTRE?), in which Christoph Waltz amazes everyone with the shocking twist no one saw coming that he's playing Blofeld and James Bond finally finds love like he didn't already do that three movies ago. It's a real surprise of an episode where up is down, left is right and Calvin is the #1,000,000 James Bond fan on YouTube.
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Significantly upping the ante from last year's pornographic Valentine's Day special (which reviewed 1972's Deep Throat), this year the show is taking on a much more modern porn movie. Including Diminisodes and the intros for classic episode re-releases, Sol has told Allen about this movie in detail several times now. But does Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale live up to the hype?
Films covered in this episode:
Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 40%
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We did it! All five Indiana Jones movies reviewed for your listening pleasure.
Films covered in this episode:
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 74%
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If you like hearing people complain about things, this is the Indiana Jones episode for you!
Films covered in this episode:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 57%
Films covered in this episode:
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 90%
Films covered in this episode:
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%
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We want more Indie cred so we're doing all of them starting with Raiders.
Films covered in this episode:
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 84%
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Boobedy-boo, the Diminishing Returns boys are back with the other half of this year's Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards. Will the Oscar go to The Banshees of Inisherin, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Women Talking, Everything Everywhere All at Once (or one of the films from last episode)?
Films covered in this episode:
The Banshees of Inisherin
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%
Elvis
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 54%
Everything Everywhere All at Once
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 84%
Top Gun: Maverick
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 67%
Women Talking
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 55%
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%
Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 80%
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 90%
The Sea Beast
Allen: n/s
Calvin: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰
Overall score: 40%
Turning Red
Allen: n/s
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%
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We've finally done it. We've finally cut all pretenses and just covered an outright hardcore porn film for Valentine's Day. Hey, porn movies are still movies, guys.
Films covered in this episode:
Deep Throat
Allen: ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰
Sol: ½
Overall score: 30%
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Back so soon? It's review of the year time -- but with a twist!
Films covered in this episode:
Gremlins
Allen: ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 57%
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Diminishing Returns is back with a Patreon-voted horror selection. It's The Exorcist just in time for Halloween.
Films covered in this episode:
The Exorcist
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 74%
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Hey, Vern, have you heard about Diminishing Returns?
Films covered in this episode:
Ernest Goes to Camp
Allen: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ½
Overall score: 35%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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Let dey Skyfall! An dey crumbohl! James Bond is back and it's a big one.
Films covered in this episode:
Skyfall
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 77%
Guest: Calvin Dyson
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To get everyone into the Easter spirit, we're celebrating by watching a Patreon-selected bit of religious propaganda. This time, we're going back to the God's Not Dead franchise for the third entry in the series.
Films covered in this episode:
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: ½
Sol: ½
Overall score: 24%
Guests: The British Sitcom History Podcast
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The British Sitcom History Podcast is back for round three! This time, we're taking on the two movie spin-offs of controversial '60s sitcom Till Death Us Do Part -- Till Death Us Do Part (1968) and The Alf Garnett Saga (1972).
Films covered in this episode:
Till Death Us Do Part (1968)
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Gareth: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 60%
The Alf Garnett Saga
Allen: ✰
Gareth: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 37%
