The Weekly Planet

It's time for another look at a comic book movie that you might not think is a comic book movie! We're tackling Bulletproof Monk from 2003, the Chow Yun-fat and Sean William Scott lead action comedy that we discover is completely servicable and forgettable as a movie about a magic scroll that gives you some magic. The fight scenes are okay! The cast chemistry is okay! And the story is okay! What more could you want from a movi...

It's big movie season and it's time for another big movie! The Fantastic Four: First Steps marks the fourth live action incarnation of the superhero family and there first appearance in the MCU. If you discount John Krasinski in Doctor Strange 2 and Chris Evans in Deadpool & Wolverine WHICH I DON'T. In addition to reviewing that we talk the news of the week including a new Judge Dredd movie, Netflix takes on Assa...

We're back with the next installment of our look at Comic Book Movies that people might not know are comic book movies! This week, the Pamela Anderson 1996 action vehicle Barb Wire. Based on the comic of the same name published under Dark Horse and Comics Greatest World it sees Barbara "The Wire" Kopetski facing a distopian nightmare future in the far flung future of 2017. And for a movie that isn't great it sure has it all. Fig...

Now that we’re between the big releases of Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps, it's time for another topic episode!  This time it’s best and worst legacy characters which at this point pretty much encompasses everything superhero character ever.  We also talk Fantastic Four news including its runtime and the removal John Malkovich’s Red Ghost, casting for the live action Legend of Zelda movie, a trailer for Stranger...

TIMECOP. Sorry I'm getting ahead of myself. Basically we like the idea of doing a series of videos on movies that you didn't realise were based on comic books. And in the first of four weeks we're taking a look at peak JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Timecop. A movie about a man who's both time and cop determined to stop financial criminality across the centuries whilst not really bothering with the actual ramifications. You can...

Big movie alert! Big movie is back! Superman 2025 is here to again reboot the DC Cinematic Universe after over a decade of very mixed results. Plus we talk the cancellation of a black Superman movie for being too woke, Dune 3 gets a new title, the Fantastic Four: First Steps embargo, Avengers: Doomsday third act woes, the Hot Wheels movie finds itself a director and more! Thanks for listening.

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Smallville did a hell of a job reinstablishing the origins of Clark Kent/Superman as well building it's own law that's become canon across other DC Universes including Superman in the DCU. Here we look at the pilot episode, a Christopher Reeve cameo episode plus the two hour series finale that wrapped up it's incredible 10 season run. Plus we get into the freak of the week trope, the lack of an actual Superman costume or apperanc...

It feels like that time again. The Jurassic Park/World franchise is back with Jurassic World Rebirth.  Plus we talk the first (negative) review of Superman 2025, Paul Walker is back from the dead for Fast & Furious: The Next One, X-Men confirms a director, the Blade MCU costumes ending up in Sinners, Indiana Jones getting a reboot, trailers for The Running Man, Project Hail Mary and The Odyssey, trouble for The Last of Us ...

The Superman extraveganzy bonanza continues with a look at Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman! Starting in 1993 and running for four seasons it achieved huge ratings over the majority of it's time before its eventual cancellation. Starring Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain and bringing sci-fi, romance and adventure to the small screen it's fondly remembered for a bunch of reasons some of which are almost certainly in this v...

Movies are big and real again! That's right, the director of Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski has teamed up with William Bradley Pitt (full name) for F1, this years movie that your dad will like. Plus we talk a new director for the James Bond franchise, The Batman II is moving also, the final trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Social Network Part II, Michael Bay returning to the Transformers franchise, a brief review of ...

2025 is quickly becomming the year of Superman with the DCU reboot courtesy of James Gunn. So over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at THREE classic Superman TV shows, starting with Adventures of Superman from 1952 starring George Reeves. It's a hell of a show propelled the character to new heights and lead to the increased populatiry of both Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane before tragically concluding with the passing o...

It’s been 23 years in the makes but the long awaited sequel to 28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later) is finally here! With Danny Boyle and Alex Garland returning some people are like ‘we hate this!’  Plus we talk John Bernthal’s The Punisher returning for Spider-Man: Brand New Day,  Tom Rhys Harries playing Clayface, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow retitled, James Gunn thinks superhero showdowns are stupid and his thoughts on t...

Just when we thought we was out, they pull us back in. To talk about Michael Crichton movies! This week it's John McTiernan's (director of Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Predator) The 13th Warrior. Considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time this Antonio Banderas action flick is certainly not up there with McTiernan's best but it's certainly not...the worst movie. Mason doesn't like it though if that means anyt...

Rom coms are back! That's right Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal are competing with the love of Dakota Johnson in Materlalists. Plus we talk the first Wonder Woman movie in the DCU, the final Superman trailer, the Superman sequal and the post credits. Plus the reactions to Mortal Kombat II, Max becomes HBO Max again and great expense and for no reason, Disney Sue Midjourney over AI and more! Thanks for listening

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It's Timeline time everyone! Because we're continuing our look at Michael Crichton's movie adaptations that arn't Jurassic Park. The year is 2003, Richard Donner (director of Superman: The Movie) decided to gather up Paul Walker, Gerry Butler, Frances O'Connor and Billy Connolly to do a big time travel to the year 1357 in order to run around a bit and cause of ruckus. Not the best Michael Crichton adaptation, some would even cons...

You're never going to believe this but it's time for another podcast. This week we cover the latest entry in the John Wick franchise, Ballerina. Plus we got all sorts of news including a confirmed Superman runtime, box office preditions of Fantastic Four: First Steps, trailers for Alien: Earth, Wicked: For Good and 007 First Light, the new White/Black Panther, Kathleen Kennedy's potential replacements and a whole lot more! Thanks ...

Ever heard of Jurassic Park? Michael Crichton’s greatest adaptation! Well get ready for another adaptation that’s not Congo, Sphere. A movie about aliens and time travel and Sphere’s and nightmares. Starring a young…ish Samuel L Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone it sank like a bloody stone at the box office due to poor reception and general disinterest in its blend of sci-fi and horror. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Gar...

Podcasts are back! The world might be ending but at least we still have new movies coming like Superman, The Fantastic Four and Skibidi Toilet. In this week's ep, we discuss the scuttlebutt about two of those films and their competing releases with James Gunn also weighing in on the debate. Plus another DC & Marvel crossover plus loads of trailers including Frankenstein, Happy Gilmore 2, Knives Out 3 and Stranger Things Season ...

Michael Crichton is probably most famous for penning the novel that would go on to became 1993's Jurassic Park and the subsequent Park/World sequels. And in light of that a whole lot of different attempts have been made to adapt his work some before, like Westworld and some after like Westworld. Over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at some of the lesser known and lesser successful adaptations, starting with 1995's...