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Better Than Super Mario Bros.
by Double Down Podcast Network
Delving into cinema's sewers and retrieving the biggest turds
Episodes
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Father of the Year
In this episode, our heroes get their teeth into masculinity, the point of women in films, 90's / 00s gross-out comedy movies, and Mark has to go away and think about his life.
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Joyful Noise
In this episode, we pay tribute to the legendary Dolly Parton with a look back at this less-than-legendary film - a rehashing of Sister Act 2 - featuring awful dubbing and the nebbish sidekick from Supergirl - that's set us all on course for a seat in Hell.
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Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
In this episode, Chris and Helen re-enter the Poohniverseand encounter narrative dissonance, questionable wigs, and the old ultra-violence.
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Iron Lung
In this episode, our intrepid heroes talk fidelity in multimedia adaptations, nonsensical plot devices, and the sometimes danger of expectations as they embark on an S Club-esque Greatest Hits tour, ending in an ocean of blood.
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S Club: Seeing Double
In this episode Chris and Helen take on a listener recommendation while Mark grapples with internet issues (and some rage)
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Winnie the Pooh - Blood and Honey II
In this episode, our heroes venture back to the 100 Acre Wood to talk Pooh-Sticks, meta-movies, and narrative choices. And, after 3 weeks of kids and no WiFi, Mark's Jack Torrence is showing...
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Daggers Inn
In this episode, Mark leaves Chris and Helen unsupervised as they talk about faking orgasms, bad accents, and why dunking your biscuit in another man's tea is akin to f*cking his wife...
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Willy's Wonderland
In this episode, Nic Cage squares off against possessed animatronics while locked inside a derelict theme-restaurant overnight. We talk physics, structural engineering, and just why Helen needed so much wine to get through the movie...
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Winnie the Pooh - Blood and Honey
In this episode, our intrepid trio venture into the woods and get a big surprise...
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Night Swim
In this episode, our heroes look at rubbish Captain America, ghosts, and an evil swimming pool. Yes, that's right. EVIL. SWIMMING. POOL.
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Dial Code Santa Claus / Deadly Games
In this episode, Chris and Helen look at the French precursor to Home Alone, but with murder and random diabetes.
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K-Pop Demon Hunters
In our most contentious episode to date, battle lines are drawn over one of the year's biggest films.
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Sharkula
In this episode, we go into the deep water with a rubber shark toy, a poor Count von Count impression, and a further example of why you should at least read the source material before trying a no-budget remake...
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Barbie: Video Game Hero
In this episode, Mark gets pulled away on dad duty as Chris and Helen take aim at "one of the better" Barbie adventures.
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War of the Worlds (2025)
In this episode, our heroes discuss genre, format, and why Ice Cube was not the right choice of lead for the world's longest ever advert.
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Mr Nanny
In this episode, we change the schedule to pay tribute to everyone's childhood hero (except Helen) and lookback at Hulk Hogan's toughest match up - an annoying kid and the girl who turned David Duchovny into a paedophile in Californication... Apologies for the audio quality - Mark's in desperate...
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Turbo Kid
In this episode, our heroes return with a trip to an 80s-infused, post-apocalyptic 90s wasteland. No, not Sheffield...
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SpaghettiMan
In this episode, the superhero genre may finally have gone too far...
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Attack of the Killer Donuts (2016. Dir. Scott Wheeler)
In this episode, our intrepid trio take on killer baked goods.
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Call Girl of Cthulu
In this episode, we sit back and watch as a mid-20s Virgin tries to get it on with a hooker - who just so happens to be the mother of apocalyptic spawn. Obviously...
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The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
In this episode, our heroes venture back to the 80s for a film considered to be one of the worst of all time. It's not good, granted, but is it really that bad?
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Infinite
Welcome back , listeners. In this episode, we talk reincarnation, technology and Marky Mark as we take a gander at a film for the sole reason that it was shot outside Mark's office...
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I Believe in Santa Claus
Ho, ho, ho! In this year’s seasonal special, our heroes settle in for a French festive fantasy film, featuring child abuse, casual racism, and sweat-shop elves. Isn’t that what everyone wants in a Christmas movie? Not Mark, apparently…
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Noah's Shark
In this episode, Mark and Helen are let loose as we find a film SO BAD that Chris taps out.
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Stormswept (1995. Dir. David I. Frazer)
To honour episode this being episode 69 (dudes), our intrepid trio try to break the recent run of abysmal films and tackle “erotic horror” Stormswept – from the director of […]
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Strippers vs. Werewolves (2012. Dir. Jonathan Glendening)
In this episode, our heroes check out a group of strippers who don’t strip, not fighting a gang of werewolves who don’t change into werewolves. Not exactly a Ronseal film, […]
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Ship of the Damned (2024. Dir. Steve Lawson)
In this episode, Chris took a nap and Mark fixed a broken office chair – both of which were preferable to watching Helen’s pick. And yes, we are planning an […]
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Codename: Dynastud (2018. DIr. Richard Griffin)
In this episode, Chris and Helen embark on a mission to save the world, one homosexual at a time.
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They Saved Hitler’s Brain (1968. Dir. David Bradley)
In this episode, Mark attempts to lower the bar with the red-headed stepchild of “The Madmen of Mandoras” and “The X Files”. And yes, it’s as bad as it sounds… […]
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Poltergay (2006. Dir. Eric Lavaine)
In this episode, Mark takes the night off as Chris and Helen bust out their best dance moves to the unmistakable sounds of Poltergay… Also, a rare apology… Up next, […]
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Bunny the Killer Thing (2015. Dir. Joonas Makkonen)
In this episode, our heroes face defeat because none of them took Finnish at school, Chris tries to find meaning in 50 percent of a film, and we pay tribute […]
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Death Race 2 (2010. Dir. Roel Reine)
In this episode, our intrepid trio travel back to Terminal Island for the sequel that’s a prequel that’s not really about anything, and even less makes sense. Confused? You will […]
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Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever (2002. Dir. Kaos)
Back for a new year, Helen kicks things off with the lowest-rated film on Rotten Tomatoes (with an aggregated score of 0%). Surely, a film featuring Puss in Boots, Darth […]
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A Karate Christmas Miracle (2019. Dir. Julie Kimmel)
In this festive offering, Chris, Mark and Helen relive their film school days as they look at what at least one of them describes as the worst film they’ve ever […]
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Transmutators (2023. Dir. Mark A. Reyes)
In this episode, our trio join intrepid warriors from the Philippines in battle against… something? When we work it out, we’ll tell you. No Transformers were harmed during the making […]
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Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004. Dir. Raja Gosnell)
In this episode, the gang rounds off spooky season with Scooby and the gang as they call back to some of their most mystifying adventures. Jinkies…
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Highlander II
In a first for this show, we talk smack about not one but two different movies as Chris, Helen and Mark watch two very different versions of the same film, […]
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In Fabric (2018. Dir. Peter Strickland)
In this episode, watch Mark struggle to keep up as Helen finally gets to do a whole show on fashion, tries to follow a missing narrative, and pick out themes […]
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Tammy and the T-Rex (1994. Dir. Stewart Raffill)
In this episode Mark and Helen are left unsupervised for far longer than is strictly appropriate as they take a look at 1994’s Tammy and the T-Rex
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Death Race (2008. Dir. Paul W.S. Anderson)
In this episode, battle lines are drawn as Chris, Mark and Helen disagree over the repugnant deployment of homophobia, car p0rn, and the three films we could’ve had instead of […]
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Coherence (2013. Dir. James Ward Byrkit)
In this episode, our heroes discuss high-concept metaphysics, the rules of the Dogme 95 movement, and art imitating life as one of our favourite sidekicks descends into an abyss of […]
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
To celebrate a half-century of pulling turds from the cinematic sewer, all for your listening pleasure, our intrepid brownwater surfers went ahead and picked up something truly special…
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Llamageddon
In this episode, our intrepid explorers take on furry eggs, a killer llama from outer space and the worst house party since Noel Edmonds disgraced British TV screens.
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Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter (2001. Dir. Lee Demarbre)
In this episode, the band’s back together in time for our Easter special (ish – the timing didn’t quite work for this to be at actual Easter…) featuring a Jesus-centric […]
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Simply Irresistible
With Mark still dealing with some of the shit aspects of life, Chris and Helen spent Valentine’s Day waxing-lyrical over an aimless rom-com about magic crustaceans, because nothing says I […]
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Overlord (2018. Dir. Julius Avery)
In this episode, Mark takes a well-earned if not completely mistimed break to deal with technical difficulties, Captain America 2.0 makes an early appearance, and D-Day gets a makeover, in […]
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Ginger Clown (2013. Dir. Balázs Hatvani)
We couldn’t decide which deserved more scorn – gingers or clowns – so for this year’s hallowe’en special, our intrepid trio smooshed them together to check out the film not […]
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Guardians (2017. Dir. Sarik Andreasyan)
In this episode, Helen and Mark battle through monsoons, the war in Ukraine and a dead old lady to cast an eye over Russia’s answer to The Avengers. While you’re […]
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2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus
In this episode, our intrepid sewer-spelunkers return with possibly the greatest atrocity to emerge from Germany. Well, almost…
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The VelociPastor (2018. Dir. Brendan Steere)
In this episode our intrepid trio cast a watchful eye over a film as bonkers as the title suggests – The VelociPastor.
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