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The Weekly Planet
The Weekly Planet covers all things movies, TV shows and comics. Often considered the first and worst podcast on the Planet Broadcasting Network.
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Episodes
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558 The Best & Worst of 2024 Awards
All the stars are here for the annual Weekly Planet awards episode! We've got everything from best movie, worst hair and most normal man to get through plus…
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557 Superman Trailer & Mufasa
We’re back for the second to last episode of the year! We’re talking all the big news including James Gunn’s 2025 Super Superman, The Roker loving the result…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2003 The Lord of the Rings trilogy came to it's stunning conclusion with The Return of the King. Everything has been building to this moment, Aragorn…
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556 Kraven the Hunter
It's ever escalating tragic news for SPUMM (the Sony Pictures Universe of Marvel Movies) with the release of Kraven the Hunter, another unsurprising critical…
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555 Creature Commandos & Skeleton Crew
We’re fast approaching the end of the year but the red hot movie news will absolutely not stop! This week we talk Sony’s desperate attempt to drum up any…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers - Caravan Of Garbage
A mere year after the first entry in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy came The Two Towers, not simply a rehash of what came before but a vastly different…
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554 Moana 2
Woah there! It's podcast time everyone which is good because we're ready to talk about Moana 2. Plus we get into news of the next Fast & Furious chapter…
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553 Wicked! Part 1
The musical is back! No thanks to Joker: Folie à Deux but to Wicked: Part 1. We get right into that plus news of James Gunn introducing Batman into the DCU…
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings - Caravan Of Garbage
2001 kicked of the start of a remarkable trilogy of films, live action adaptations of The Lord of the Rings beginning with The Fellowship of the Ring. From…
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552 Glad2ator & The Penguin
Heeeeeey get this! We're talking Gladiator 2, the follow up to the 2000 Ridley Scott classic plus a probably all too brief chat about The Penguin. Plus we talk…
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Noah - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2014 Darren Aronofsky hit us with the Russell Crowe lead biblical epic Noah. A bold and accurate(?) retelling of the classic Old Testament tale of one man…
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551 Red One & Big MCU Trailers!
Merry Christmas everyone because it's Red One week, the latest movie from both Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Chris Evans. Plus we talk news of a Joker tv…
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Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World - Caravan Of Garbage
We're back to continue on our Rusty Crowe His-Trilogy, a peak into three Russell Crowe historical epics. This week it's 2003's Master and Commander: The Far…
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550 Agatha All Along & Here
Welcome back to this brand new and good podcast. Agatha All Along has wrapped up so we review that along with Robert Zemeckis' Here. Plus we talk the news of…
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Gladiator - Caravan Of Garbage
In the year 2000 Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe successfully brought swords and sandals cinema back to the big screen with Gladiator! An epic tale drenched in…
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549 Venom: The Last Dance
Eddie Brock/Venom is back in the latest SPUMM (Sony Pictures Universe Of Marvel Movies) to grace our screens in the biggest year of SPUMM ever. Plus we talk…
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The Thing but 2011 - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2011 Universal had the absolute audacity to release a prequel to John's Carpenter's The Thing telling the story of the Norwegian camp we briefly saw in the…
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548 Krypto the Superdog & Trailers Galore!
It's a HUGE news week for this episode let me tell you that. Starting with the further failings of Joker II, Christopher Nolan's WB deal, more details on…
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The Thing - Caravan Of Garbage
John Carpenter's The Thing from 1982 we treated incredibly harshly upon it's initial release. Labelled disgusting and mean on arrival audiences gradually…
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547 Transformers One & Hellboy: The Crooked Man
In this weeks episode we're having the absolute time of our lives reviewing Transformers One and Hellboy: That Crooked Bloke. Plus we get into the news of the…
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Oz the Great and Powerful - Caravan Of Garbage
in 2013 Sam Raimi decided to try something a little out of his wheelhouse of horror or comic book movies and directed a Wizard of Oz prequel focusing on the…
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546 Joker: Folie à Deux
Those madmen and women over at Warner Brothers Discovery have done the impossible, a sequel to the 2019 billion dollar smash Joker. Joker: Folie à Deux…
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Return to Oz - Caravan Of Garbage
46 years after the original Wizard of Oz comes Disney's attempt at a sequel, Return to Oz. Whilst a huge cinematic bomb in 1985 the same year it arrived it's…
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545 Megalopolis (mega-FLOP-olis)
It's been four decades in the making but Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is final here. And we have some thoughts. ALSO WE'RE BACK. THE PODCAST IS BACK. We…
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The Wizard of Oz - Caravan Of Garbage
Beleive it or not The Wizard of Oz wasn't an immediate hit when it originally released in 1939. It was only in subsequent decades that it became the pop…
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Pop Culture in 2005 - James & Maso's Time Crapsule
James & Maso's Time Crapsule! A bigsandwich.co bonus podcast where we rank a year's pop culture contributions and discover some forgotten gems. The regular…
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Hellboy 2019 - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2019 Lionsgate attempted the unimaginable, a reboot of the Hellboy franchise after the much beloved Guillermo del Toro and Ron Pearlman dead cancelled…
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Morbius - The Weekly Planet Movie Commentary Track
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weekly Planet movie commentary track. The main podcast is currently on a short break during the UK Tour but please…
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Caravan Of Garbage
Despite theo first Hellboy underperforming at the box office home DVD sales meant a sequel still moved forward resulting in Hellboy 2: The Golden Army in 2008…
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544 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice & Joker 2 First Reactions
Welcome everyone! It's time for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (second Beetlejuice). Plus we talk the news of the week including the fate of MCU Blade and Armor Wars…
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Hellboy - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2004 Guillermo Del Toro brought us the cinematic introduction of Hellboy, a demonic entity summonded from hell but who fights for the forces of good. Played…
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543 The Crow & Gambit Returns
Big news for fans of The Crow! There's a new The Crow movie. That's pretty much where the good news ends. We get stuck into that in addition to the box office…
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day - Caravan Of Garbage
What started as a fairly simple slasher premise (robot gets sent back from the future to kill the mother of the future saviour of mankind but also she gets…
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542 The Acolyte Cancelled & Blink Twice
Hello everyone, welcome back to podcasting. This week we’re talking the cancellation of The Acolyte, trailers of Lord of the Rings: The War Of Rohim and…
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The Terminator - Caravan Of Garbage
The Terminator 1984 is an absolute all out sci-fi action classic. The brainchild of director James Cameron and producer Gale Anne Hurd it introduced the world…
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541 Alien: Romulus (with Alexei Toliopoulos)
This week Alexei Toliopoulos joins us to talk the latest installment in the Alien franchise, Alien: Romulus. He also gives us some insight into the world of…
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Alien: Resurrection - Caravan Of Garbage
It's time to wrap up the Ellen Ripley Alien film series with a look at what's probably the weakest entry, Alien: Resurrection. Set two hundred years after the…
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540 Borderlands & D23 Round-Up (Marvel, Star Wars, Tron: Ares)
It’s D23 and also Borderlands the movie came out! So this week we’re talking all the big Disney reveals including Moana 2, Toy Story 5, Frozen 3, The…
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Alien 3 - Caravan Of Garbage
Opinions of Alien 3 are certainly divided. Off the back of the terrific first two entries expectations were high for the return of Ellen Ripley, Hicks and Newt…
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539 Trap! And Big MCU Rumors
M. Night Shyamalan is back with a brand new movie in Trap! And Robery Downey Jr is back to take a lot of money from Disney! We talk his and he Russo Brothers…
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Aliens - Caravan Of Garbage
There are very few sequels that are able to match the original or potentially surpass it. James Cameron's Aliens is one of those films. Arriving in 1986 seven…
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538 Deadpool & Wolverine and SDCC 2024
It's the biggest week of the year (for this podcast) with our review of Deadpool & Wolverine and San Diego Comic Con 2024 with the return of Robert Downey Jr…
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Alien - Caravan Of Garbage
Alien 1979 is a beautiful combination of sci-fi and horror which has rarely been replicated since. With Ridley Scott's direction, HR Giger's unique visual…
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537 The Acolyte, The Boys & Longlegs
This week in the lead up to Deadpool & Wolverine we talk about something unrelated, The Boys Season 4 and The Acolyte. We also the return of Marvel to Comic…
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Logan - Caravan Of Garbage
We're finishing off the Wolverine Trilogy with what's considered it's strongest entry, Logan. A reflection on aging, loss, grief, parenthood and what it means…
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536 Twisters & Despicable Me 4 (with Sanspants Radio)
This week we're talking two big movies with both the legacy sequel Twisters and Despicable Me 4 with the help of Jackson Bailey and Joel Duscher from Sanspants…
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The Wolverine - Caravan Of Garbage
We've hit the middle child of the Wolverine trilogy with 2013's The Wolverine! Acting as a redemption arc for both the character and the response to X-Men…
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535 Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F & Inside Out 2 (with Bron Lewis)
Huge episode this week with reviews of both Inside Out 2 (with Bron Lewis and Claire Tonti stopping by) and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Plus we get into the…
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Caravan Of Garbage
With Hugh Jackman returning as Logan in Deadpool & Wolverine we've decided to take a look at the Wolverine Trilogy, starting with the first and the worst X-Men…
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534 A Quiet Place: Day One
Alright shhh and settle down everybody it's time for A Quiet Place Prequel. But in the lead up to tha there's also the news of the week, including a tonne of…
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Kick-Ass 2 - Caravan Of Garbage
Due to the moderate success of the first Kick-Ass a sequel was greenlit almost immediately titled Kick-Ass 2. With most of the characters returning (despite…
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533 Blade Troubles & Immaculate, Abigail, Sting
Welcome back everyone! This week we talk the timeline of Blade's development, the passing of Donald Sutherland, Batman potentially losing its director, a…
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Kick-Ass - Caravan Of Garbage
In 2010 we got the second live action Mark Millar comic adaptation in Kick-Ass. Set in the "real world" where superheros only exist in fiction it follows Dave…
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532 The Boys Season 4 Premiere
June marks the release of the first three episodes of The Boys Season 4! And on the lead up to talking about that we discuss, the MCU Blade reboot losing…
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Assassin's Creed - Caravan Of Garbage
Assassin's Creed 2016 is Ubisofts second attempt to bring one of their beloved video game franchises to the screen. And the results were yet again...lacking…
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531 Hit Man & The Acolyte
It's not every day that Netflix release a good movie but they have with Richard Linklater's Hit Man starring Glen Powell and Adria Arjona. In addition to…
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Warcraft - Caravan Of Garbage
WAR. And craft. Well I've never heard of such a thing but regardless let's get into the 2016 Warcraft film adaptation directed by Duncan Jones. Acting as an…
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530 The Most Insane Hollywood Development Deals
This week we get into all those wild Hollywood development deals that appear to go nowhere. From JJ Abrams' 250 million deal with WB to however much money…
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - Caravan Of Garbage
It's time for move bad movies that did badly at the box office video game edition! This week, 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time starring one Jacob…
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529 Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
It's time to go Beyond Thunderdome but also before Fury Road with the latest in film in the Mad Max story, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. But before that we talk…