Commentary Club

"She's been present at the birth of every Gojirasaurus in this facility!" In this show we sample a film from the infamous Asylum, the home of the mock-buster! And tonight's movie is the suspiciously titled Triassic World (2018) - a tale of genetically engineered dinosaurs on the loose funnily enough...

"Don't look at me. I'll turn into stone!" Medusa sat there or somethin'" In this episode we follow the fortunes of the hapless but volatile Geoff, who leaves the safety(?) of Royston Vasey to seek his fortune in London as a stand-up comedian...

"She doesn't fit in either. Why can't we all not fit in together?" For our cult movie this time, we have a dramatic comedy - a tale of misfits, music, and coming of age - Metal Lords (2022) ! Let's rawwwwwkkkk!!!   

We return to Royston Vasey where the boys from the League are very much channelling their love of Amicus movies to deliver an exceedingly dark tale concerning the less than affable Lance who runs the Joke Shop...

"There is more evil around us here than I have ever encountered before" For our classic film, we are revisiting the 1959 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, made by Hammer Films in full-on gothic horror mode, starring Peter Cushing as Sherlock Holmes and André Morell as Watson. Co-starring Christopher Lee, Marla Landi, and John Le Mesurier. 

In this episode, we take a look a low budget comedy horror film that turns Popeye into a murderous mutant maniac! It's enough to put you off your spinach!

In this episode we crack open the third series of the League of Gentlemen, and revisit old characters in a new in-depth format! In this opening episode we have the ballad of Pauline and Mickey... 

"I don't care what they say, we have to tape this!" In this episode, we experience the horrors of REC, the 2007 found footage shocker from Spain that terrified the world.

In this episode we reach the apocalyptic grand finale of the second series of the League of Gentlemen! Royston Vasey will never be the same again!

For our Easter special this year, we watch infamous bad movie Night of the Lepus (1972), in which a surprisingly good cast - Stuart Whitman, Rory Calhoun, Janet Leigh and DeForest Kelley - are terrorised by a plague of less than convincing giant mutant rabbits!

In this show we travel back to 1996 and revisit the original Scream, Wes Craven's ground-breaking meta-horror movie starring Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courteney Cox, David Arquette, Rose MacGowan and Matthew Lillard! 

In this podcast, we take a look at a notoriously bad modern movie - the teen rom com The Kissing Booth (2018) starring Joey King, Jacob Elordi, and Joel Courtney - and discover if it really deserves a place on the Worst Movies lists...

Welcome to our annual Valentine's Day Special, and this year for a change it's not a wildly inappropriate movie but a bona fide classic - Groundhog Day (1993) starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Scooter the groundhog as seer of seers, prognosticator of all prognosticators, Punxsutawney Phil!

We reach the penultimate episode in our rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen, in which the town is riddled with a mystery plague and the Creme Brulee reunion does not go as planned... 

It's cult film time again and so we are watching a movie from the dawn of the Swinging Sixties starring Britain's answer to Godzilla! London's landmarks beware for here comes the marvellous monster mayhem of Gorgo (1961) !

We continue our rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen, with the fourth episode of the second series - Death in Royston Vasey.

For our Christmas special this year we are watching a fantasy comedy horror adventure from Finland, Rare Exports (2010) a tale uncovering a dark folkloric side to Santa!

In this show we revisit classic 1980s comedy The Naked Gun, the spin-off movie from the cult comedy TV show Police Squad! starring Leslie Nielson and Priscilla Barnes! 

For our first show for December, we are watching a Christmas movie which happens to be one of the greatest bad movies ever made, the frankly bewildering Santa Claus Conquers the Martians from 1964!

In this show we swallow the red pill and take a trip back to 1999 and revisit the original Matrix starring Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Lawrence Fishburne, Hugo Weaver, and loads of 1s and 0s!

We continue our rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen, with Episode 3 - A Plague on Royston Vasey featuring mystery nosebleeds, a showdown between Pauline and Ross and a very unusual card game...

In this show we are watching one of the great classics of 1950s science fiction, interstellar monster movie It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958), the movie that later was a direct inspiration for Alien (1979)! 

It's time for our Halloween special and we are visiting one of cinema's most famous haunted houses with a rewatch of The Amityville Horror (1979) starring Margot Kidder, James Brolin and Rod Steiger.

We continue our rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen,  with Episode 2 - Lust for  Royston Vasey featuring a school trip with Herr Lipp and multiple mysterious nosebleeds...

We continue our rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen,  with Episode 2 - Lust for  Royston Vasey featuring a school trip with Herr Lipp and multiple mysterious nosebleeds...

In this episode, we set sail for a crap movie, and wind up aboard Death Ship (1980),  an odd mix of ghosts and maritime mayhem!

For our cult film selection we revisit, or should that be reanimate, seminal 1980s comedy horror Return of the Living Dead, directed and scripted by Dan O'Bannon! 

We are back, and a covering a classic movie movie about a mad car that drives itself and misbehaves! No, not Christine! Herbie, in his first movie, The Love Bug (1969)

Another release of a previously for Patreons only episode - a commentary for Hammer's The Satanic Rites of Dracula, which sees the final battle between Van Helsing and the Count! Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones and Joanna Lumley!

This week we have another release of a previously only for Patreons episode - a commentary for Hammer classic in which the Count is undead and well and undying in Swinging London - Dracula AD 1972! Starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham and Caroline Munroe

This week we have a special release of a previously only for Patreons episode - a commentary for the classic magic fantasy from Disney, Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971), featuring witchcraft vs nazis - what more do you want?

We begin a rewatch of the second series of the League of Gentlemen, starting with Episode 1 - Destination: Royston Vasey - where we will meet new characters, fresh horrors, and a new dark saga begins...

This week we look at the little seen 1987 sci-fi flop Time Guardian, which features Carrie Fisher and Dean Stockwell doing their level best to minimise their involvement in this dreck.

We watch the episode 6 of the first series of the League of Gentlemen - Escape From Royston Vase - the thrilling grand finale of the New Road saga! 

This week we revisit The Thing - the 1982 John Carpenter remake that initially flopped badly at the box office, but has since been reappreciated as a masterful exercise in suspense, paranoia and alien body horror!

We return to the League of Gentlemen with Series 1 episode 5 - Love Comes To Royston Vasey, which sounds delightful but completely isn't! But it does feature classic appearances from failed rock star Les McQueen and Mick the cave tour guide... 

To celebrate that special day of the year when everyone pretends to Irish and drinks too much, we are watching in famous cult classic Leprechaun 4: In Space starring the legendary Warwick Davis and Guy Siner from British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!

This week we revisit a classic from 1990, the mind-bending sci-fi action epic Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone, directed by Paul Verhoeven, and with special make-up effects from the legendary Rob Bottin.

We return to our rewatch of the League of Gentlemen with Series 1 episode 4 - The Beast of Royston Vasey! Featuring a curious autopsy, a visit to Luigi's restaurant, and the first appearance of incompetent theatre group Legz Akimbo...

This week it is a (possibly) crap movie, obscure slasher Tourist Trap (1979) starring Chuck Connors, Tanya Roberts, and a load of dummies... No, literally, a load of dummies! 

For our traditionally highly inappropriate Valentine's Day special, we are watching the 2009 remake of My Bloody Valentine starring Jenson Ackles and Jaime King, numerous pickaxes, and roughly sixty gallons of blood... 

We return to our rewatch of the League of Gentlemen with Series 1 episode 3 - Nightmare in Royston Vasey! Featuring the death by compressed air, an egregious interview role play, and something nasty, but certainly local, dug up on the site of New Road... 

We return with one of the all-time great cult movies - Dark Star (1974). Written by Dan O'Bannon and the first movie directed by John Carpenter, this student film became a cult film and huge influence on science fiction

We watch the sixth episode of The Box of Delights - Leave Us Not Little, Nor Yet Dark, which sees the final struggle for the Box between Kay Harker and Abner Brown

For our Christmas special this year we are going back to 1947 to revisit The Bishop's Wife, a charming celestial comedy set at Yuletide starring Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young.

"You want the past? Oh I'll send you back... Back, back where you will never be found!"  We watch the fifth episode of The Box of Delights - Beware of Yesterday, in which Kay takes a perilous journey into the past.

For our classic film selection for this December, we revisit a seasonal favourite, the original Die Hard(1988) the film that made Bruce Willis a mega star and maybe the best action movie ever made!

"It's the old Punch and Judy man! But he must be five hundred... seven hundred years old!"  We watch the fourth episode of The Box of Delights - The Spider in the Web, more scrobbling sends Kay to search for Abner's headquarters 

In this show, for our crap film selection, we attempt to get festive with the alleged rom com A Very British Christmas (2019) which at least was filmed in the beautiful Yorkshire town of Knaresborough!

"They know I can look after myself. I've generally got a pistol or two on me and I'm a dead shot with both hands." We watch the third episode of The Box of Delights - In Darkest Cellars Underneath, in which Abner escalates his search for the box...