DadFlicks

Films on Wax podcast supremo Charlie Brigden joins Rich to talk about the Big Daddy of Star Wars knock-offs/Mormon-inspired space operas, Battlestar Galactica. NB: Apologies for the sound quality; we were unable to fully remove an echo on Rich's track that becomes more prominent as the episode progresses, hence the delay in posting.

Star Wars writer and editor Chris Cerasi returns to DadFlicks to discuss tight pants and literary allusions in 1983's fantasy-sci-fi mash-up Krull, which he believes is more British than a cuppa tea.

Producer and screenwriting guru Henry Swindell - check out his own BBC podcasts at http://bbc.in/1qm8PoX - reveals hidden depths of He-Man knowledge in our sixth Star Copies episode, all about Cannon Films' 1987 Dolph Lundgren toys-come-to-life space opera Masters of the Universe. 

The Star Copy to end all Star Copies - Roger Corman's Battle Beyond The Stars has it all: John Boy Walton, Hannibal Smith from The A-Team, The Man From UNCLE, and a spaceship with breasts (no joke). Plus, a James Horner score that's MUCH better than the actual film. DadFlicks regulars Glyn Cannon and Michael Brett are the magnificent two who help Rich rediscover this Seven Samurai in Space cult marvel from 1980.

Oh my - the first Star Copy to get an unreserved thumbs up is the 1984 cult classic, even with its badly dated computer graphics. Regular guest Toby Weidmann joins Rich in an unexpected reverie for an 80s space gem. 

Telegraph journo turned British Library academic Ian Douglas plumbs the low culture stacks by revisiting his memories of 1983's Ivan Reitman-produced Canadian 3D space epic Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone. He soon realises some childhood movies are best left untainted by reviewing with adult eyes...

Rich and returning podder Dan Whitehead delve back into the VHS bin of their childhoods in the first of a brief spin-off run of DadFlicks focusing on 70s and 80s Star Wars rip-offs. This episode, before Disney actually owned the galaxy far, far away, they tried to make their own version with The Black Hole, the weird 1979 space trip that was Disney's most expensive film to date, their first PG-rated outing and their last trip solo trip to outer space adventure. Buckle up - this star voyage goes literally straight to Hell...

On the eve of its Blu-ray/DVD release, Star Wars author and DadFlicks regular Chris Cerasi returns to help Rich realise just how much they both really like The Force Awakens. Oh, and Rich loses his sh*t about Batman vs Superman. Again.

Friend of Dadflicks and playwright Glyn Cannon gets hairy about John Landis' American Werewolf in London, with a bit of Spectre-bashing for good measure.

That's right, DadFlicks lives! At least for one end-of-year round-up episode! So hear Adam and Rich list the best (and worst) films they saw in 2015, and get Rich's (non-spoiler) take of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which may or may not be the subject of our next episode... 

Abbie Burdess returns - no, not to do Groundhog Day again, geddit? - with total recall of Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Is it Jim Carrey, and for that matter Kate Winslet's best work? We think so. Also, Rich gets turned Inside Out by Pixar's latest, and apologies for the second episode in a row with sound problems. What can we say? We be hoomons. 

Inconceivable! Film journalist and Empire Podcast doyenne Helen O'Hara waxes rhapsodic about Rob Reiner and William Goldman's fairytale classic The Princess Bride. Also, everyone gives their opinion of Marvel's Ant-Man while Adam and Helen bully Rich over preferring Jurassic World to Mad Max: Fury Road.

BAFTA's Toby Weidmann makes it a trilogy of DadFlicks when he rides into Skype town to talk about Sergio Leone's classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western saga, the immortal Dollars Trilogy. That's A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - the trio of Italian-made oaters based on Japanese samurai movies filmed in Spain starring an American actor best known as Rowdy Yates on Rawhide. Oh, and that changed cinema history. Also, we get into why Rich is an idiot for not loving Mad Max: Fury Road. Nobody's perfect!  

We're 50! To celebrate, we get one half of London's best film quiz, The Bigger Boat Film Quiz - now 10 years old itself - to talk about a truly epic piece of work. We discuss Peter Jackson's adaptation of JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings as one masterpiece, and haggle over whether the Extended Edition or the Theatrical Cut is definitive. And LeeJay keeps annoying Rich by bringing up The Hobbit trilogy... Plus, Adam and Rich reveal their thoughts about Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron. Here's hoping we get to do another 50 episodes. Thanks to everyone who listens. 

DadFlicks abides as music maestro James Fortune finds out what happens when you, erm, foofoo a stranger in the bum when he talks about the Coen Brothers 1998 masterpiece The Big Lebowski. We're also joined by the literary smarts of previous guest Michael Brett who talks a lot about Raymond Chandler and the like, in the parlance of our time. Plus, Rich sees Furious 7 and remains as bemused as ever that Adam loves the franchise so much.

Would you like to play a game? Former Sky Movies and Odeon Magazine editor Cassie Whittell relives the heyday of early 80s hacker chic in John Badham's classic WarGames starring a young, fresh-faced Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy. It's a WOPR. Plus, Adam squees about Furious 7. A lot. 

Look up! Look down! Look out! DadFlicks is back! Film critic and writer Neil Smith returns to DadFlicks to talk Bond, James Bond. In particular George Lazenby in his one and only outing as 007, 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Fittingly, this one causes a proper skirmish between Bond fan Rich and Roger Moore fan Adam, with Neil the voice of espionage reason. Plus, we test Neil's knowledge of Bond songs and Bond quips. Shocking. Positively shocking.

It's time to stop fakin' and get some Bacon! Uber-geek Jayne Nelson returns to take us deep into pulpy subterranean comedy horror Tremors. Not only do we get big, burrowing beasts but also Kevin Bacon's best ever performance AND some subliminal stuff about it really being about Kev's marauding member (according to Adam, anyway). Plus, we discuss why Matthew Vaughn's The Kingsman is actually pretty cool indeed.

Happy New Year! After a little festive fiesta, we're back with a bumper Star Trek episode where the expansive brain of semiotics guru Alex Gordon goes boldy back where, let's be honest, many have been before and opens up the warp core heart of JJ Abrams' Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness reboots. Plus, our top 10s of 2014 and argie-bargies over Adam liking Interstellar and Rich tryinh to include Birdman even though he saw it in January...

We're on a knife edge as website guru Nicky Drake braves the shower to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's stabby masterpiece Psycho. Meanwhile, Rich reviews Big Hero 6 and The Imitation Game, and Adam's impersonation of Bernard Herrmann's famous score sounds like someone is gut-punching a baboon.