Spider-Dan And The Secret Bores

With the speed of a bird of prey, Mike & I are here with the first of our content from Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2026! Covering the very first film of the festival and one of the best! We discuss Richard Donner's Ladyhawke starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Rutger Hauer & Matthew Broderick. Be sure to subscribe & follow to Mike's Genuine Chit-Chat podcast for our next instalment from the festival as we will be alt...

*CONTENT WARNING! THIS PODCAST DISCUSSES ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION, CLAUSTROPHOBIA, DROWNING, PTSD & MORE…

*SPOILER WARNING FOR #ProjectHailMary

After opening with our announcement of joining #ForbiddenWorldsFilmFestival’s Press Team. Then Mike Burton & I take a deep dive into the making of  #JamesCameron’s #TheAbyss. A pioneering film that invented tech we still use to this day, however it almost came at a deadly cost. As what ...

Originally published via Patreon on 13/08/22

In association with  @FWFilmFestival  as warm for this year's event. I’m back with yet another public debut review of a comic book prequel to the original Highlander film! Join me as I discuss how I think they should handle a new trilogy of films, The Masamune Blade and The Kurgan never giving a fuck! #PrepareForPrattle

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Originally published via Patreon on 16/07/22

In association with @fwfilmfestival & as warm to this year’s event. Here is the public release of a review for 1 of 2 comic book prequels to the classic fantasy film #Highlander! Join me as I discuss dodgy accents, immortality & monks in #HighlanderTheAmericanDream… #PrepareForPrattle

Buy your tickets now for Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2026 before they run out! ⁠https://www.for...

Peter Parker: Spider-Man is back! But he is not in a good way as his personal life collapses, the exile #BenReilly returns. Causing him to retreat into an alter ego he calls ‘The Spider’ as he attempts to bury Parker and his pain. Can the emergence of Ben’s own alter ego #TheScarletSpider be enough to convince him to claw himself ‘Back From The Edge’ or will he need a little help from an old friend who has recently been #BornAgain ...

Happy Birthday to me! As I finally get talk to about one of my favourite director's #PaulVerhoeven through the lens of his least successful film #Showgirls in another #WrongDirection with Sarah Coyne as my dance partner! Can we find a even small redeeming feature in this camp calamity or is it beyond redemption? Grab your chips and get your nails done! As we discuss Paul's questionable choices, Elizabeth Berkley's un-er...

Tony, Tony & Spider-Dan’s coverage of the entire Marvel Comics’ 90’s Spider-Man: Clone Saga all begins here! As we flashback to The Original 70’s Clone Saga to see the birth of the most controversial Spider-Man character, Ben Reilly, his relationship with his “brother” Kaine and how conquers his trauma and abuse at the hands of The Jackal to become the hero he was always destined to be. Join as we discuss “The Jaggernaut”, rap/...

Tony is all revved up and ready to GO GO GO! As he returns to defend #TheWachowskiSisters’ 2008 live-action manga/anime adaptation of #SpeedRacer! But does this hyper-stylised and experimental film stall at the starting line or is it a Demon On Wheels? Join us as we discuss The Fonz, Ninjas and whether you can make a “cubist film?” #PrepareForPrattle 

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Originally published via Patreon on 13/01/24

#DannyBoyle & #AlexGarland have announced development of at least one more entry to the #28DaysLater franchise if not a new trilogy #28YearsLater! Since talking about these films is all the RAGE I thought I'd cover #28DaysLaterTheAftermath which serves as a prequel to both previous films! Join me as I discuss quarantine zones, The Infected attracted to smells & how is it possi...

JAC may have won the Guest V Host Poll but we are rollin' into 2026 My Way! On this podcast we ask who are our Top 5 Musicians Turned Actor Performances On Film? Which former songbirds or multi-instrumentalists gave such a transformative turn that it transcended everyone's expectations? Join myself and @IAmJACSMusings as we list our own memorable top 5's and discuss not having acting lessons, being better than the film ...

Tony Farina is here to release his Dick into The New Year to end Alter-Nativity Stories 2025! Does Warren Beatty's adaptation of comic strip character, Dick Tracy stand the test of time? Was the world ready for a colourful campy comic book movie this soon after Batman '89? How did it make all the money and win several Academy Awards but never received a sequel? Many questions that only our combined detective skills will unc...

He knows when you're sleeping and he knows when you're awake! @IAmJACSMusings gets in the sleigh with me again for another Clone Bores as we attempt to decipher which film will end up on the naughty list Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation or Tony Scott's Enemy Of The State? Join us as we discuss these two conspiratorial crimbo classics with talking points such as The Patriot Act, paranoid delusions and whether ...

We spoke about immortality & aging last week in the holly jolly Hook, this week Dan Burgess & I look at it from an entirely different perspective as we wind up the gears in #GuillermoDelToro's ancient alchemical device in his debut feature film the very merry #Cronos! What happens when an elderly doting grandfather becomes addicted to an insect's rejuvenating sting, but in doing so also develops a thirst for human b...

I intend to start #AlterNativityStories 2025 with a show of "good form" as I bring back The Sleaziest Sleaze Of The Seven Seas, Angry Andy Reviews along with Steven Spielberg, Peter Pan & Captain James Hook in a film hated by adults including Speilberg himself but adored by children #Hook (1991) is it still #Bangarang after all these years or does it deserve to go in #TheBooBox? Join us as we remember one of Robin Wil...

*CONTENT WARNING!! THIS PODCAST & FILMS FEATURE TOPICS SUCH AS ANIMAL CRUELTY, DEATH, DEBILITATING INJURY & VIVISECTION!

A much deeper and longer podcast than I was expecting given the violent subject matter, but no less beautiful than the films Maff has us covering this week. Not unlike nature herself. In the latest #CloneBores we compare #MartinRosen’s animated adaptations of #RichardAdam’s environmentalist novels #Watersh...

*CONTENT WARNING!! THIS PODCAST & FILMS FEATURE TOPICS SUCH AS SEXUAL VIOLENCE, POLICE BRUTALITY, RACISM & HOMOPHOBIA

When the law is "crazy?" Is vigilantism the only option left? Well get your high calibre pistols out as I indulge @danburgessphotography7663⁩ 's #DirtyHarry-style #DeathWish that he's been dying to share with the world! We take the law into their own hands to decide who will be the victoriou...

What is fact? What is fiction? Supposedly “the camera never lies” but is the person behind the camera being entirely honest? So many terrifying questions about media manipulation and so few actual truths…For the final entry in #ShockPhobiaFest 2025 I list my Top 5 Horror Mockumentary/Found Footage Films! Join me as I discuss Norwegian Mythology, Koreans beating The U.S. & the disturbing history of The Magdalene Laundries… #Prep...

This #ShockPhobiaFest its time for an after-death experience! As Spider-Dan resuscitates (for his sins) an old favourite from Joel Schumacher R.I.P. A group of brilliant med students (played by the hottest actors of their time) want to experience what its like to die and then be revived. In order to learn what lies beyond the world of the living, but as each one of them is brought back to life they learn that they brought something...

This #ShockPhobiaFest witness Monsters Unleashed! In the most family friendly manner ever. It's #Marvel V.S. #DC, as I compare both #Halloween-themed animated movies #Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem & #Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell. Join me as I discuss robotic wolf motorcycles, psychic suicides & a Gotham City so advanced teenagers don't know what mobile phones are... #PrepareForPrattle

For more Halloween-themed Dark Knight c...