The Popcorn Bucket Podcast
by Ben and Rob
Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast with Ben and Rob. Each week we will talk about at a film series (Franchise Fatigue?), film news (Pick ‘N Mix), or each put a standalone film on a given topic against each other (One Shot).
Episodes
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Purge Part Two
Hello and welcome to this patently political episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Halloween may be over for another year, but that doesn't mean that Ben and Rob are done Purging. They've joined the Ever After Podders to keep the party going for as long as possible. After all, who doesn't love...
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Purge Part One
Hello and welcome to this purgingly patriotic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! With All Hallow's Eve upon us, Ben and Rob have decided to dress up in their best slutty costumes, cover their car in fairy lights and go out looking for trouble by binging The Purge franchise. In this...
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Franchise Fatigue? : Freaky Friday Part Two
Hello and welcome to this freaky follow-up episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob explore the wider Freakverse and cast their eyes over three other versions of the classic body-swapping bonanza. There's the original 1976 one, the hard-to-find 1995 one and full-on musical…
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Franchise Fatigue? : Freaky Friday Part One
Hello and welcome to this fantabulously freaky episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Feeling fruitful, fantastic friends Fen and Fob felt focused on facilitating a fresh Franchise Fatigue? for feople to fenjoy. Fearing f...sod this. They've done Freaky Friday. This ep will concentrate on the two...
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Pick 'N Mix: 2026 Volume Two
Hello and Welcome to the second Pick and Mix episode of the year! This time, we talk about trailers for Ink, Street Fighter, Focker In Law, and Wild Horse 9 to name but four, and there are up to date reviews of Disclosure Day and Dolittle. Lastly, it is the significant matter of a significant...
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Pick ‘N Mix: 2026 Volume One
Hello and welcome to a Pick ‘N Mix episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! It is in fact, our first Pick ‘N Mix for a while (first one of 2026, fact fans!), in which we round up film trailers and news. This time, we are talking about trailers for Digger, Forgotten Island, Matchbox, Clayface…
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Franchise Fatigue? : Spider-Man : Part Five (Favourite Things and The Bucket List))
Hello and welcome to this colossally conclusive episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob bid farewell to all things Spider-Man (for now, at least) with a look over their favourite bits and things of the entire Spidey saga (with some mild Brand New Day spoilers to boot)....
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Franchise Fatigue? : Spider-Man : Part Four (Brand New Day)
Hello and welcome to this fantastically fresh episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! It's all led to this. Ben and Rob (like a billion dollars' worth of other people) have seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day and, by golly, they have some thoughts. For those of you who haven't managed to see the movie...
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The Odyssey (Pick 'N Mix Review)
Greetings weary travellers and welcome to this epically entrancing episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, The Random Popcorn Maker of Film Topics is on the blink, so Ben and Rob had to venture out to the cinema to see the latest Christopher Nolan epic, The Odyssey. Expect chat about...
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Franchise Fatigue? : Spider-Man : Part Three (The MCU Trilogy)
Hello and welcome to this greatly powerful episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In what we could consider the dawn before a Brand New Day, your feckless FOSs (Friends of Spider-Man) get to grips with Spidey's introduction into the mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe and the three sensational...
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Franchise Fatigue? : Spider-Man : Part Two (The Webb-Verse Films)
Hello and welcome to this wickedly wall-crawling episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Franchise knowers and pattern recognisers rejoice! After reviewing Raimi last week, it's time to weigh some Webb with the Amazing Spider-Man movies. Cards on the table time - Ben doesn't like these movies. Rob...
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Franchise Fatigue? : Spider-Man : Part One (The Raimi Trilogy)
Hello and welcome to this wonderfully webslinging episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In celebration of their 200th episode, Beamin' Ben Browne and "Reliable" Rob Benyer decided to tackle one of Ben's white whale franchises- the spectacular Spider-Man series! (*not to be confused with the...
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Franchise Fatigue? Alien Versus Predator Versus Alien Versus Predator
Hello and welcome to this Franchise Fatigue Round Up episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we have finished our journey from earth, through the stars, and back to earth again, through different eras, and through cities, jungles, and small town USA, as we round up our coverage of the...
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Franchise Fatigue? Alien Versus Predator
Hello and welcome to another Franchise Fatigue episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week we continue our space exploration into the worlds of the Alien and Predator films, by looking at the epic crossovers of Alien Versus Predator and Alien Versus Predator: Requiem. Do the films fit with…
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One Shot! Video Games Part 2
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time your hosts load another coin into the podcast arcade machine as we take another look at video game movies. Yes we have done this topic before, but the caveat in this new console generation is that the films in question...
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Project Hail Mary (Pick ‘N Mix Review)
Hello and welcome this absolute thumbs down episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at Project Hail Mary. Your hosts are long time fans of Ryan Gosling, and of space films in general, so sit back and enjoy (or spin around to create gravity) as we talk adverts, adaptations,...
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part Three : Prey (2022), Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) and Predator: Badlands (2025)
Hello and welcome to this fitfully feral episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! As their battle with the mighty Predator franchise draws to a close. Ben and Rob need their wits about them. The fight is nearly over, but the pair have a time-hopping trilogy to deal with first. Not only that, but…
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part Two : Predators (2010) and The Predator (2018)
Hello and welcome to this ham-fistededly hunting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! After braving the dense jungle thicket and the heat/crime waves of 1997's Los Angeles, Ben and Rob continue their Predator journey and transported to an alien game reserve before being unceremoniously dumped...
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One Shot! : Feel Good Films VI
Hello and welcome to this uncannily uplifting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Does your 2026 suck so far? Are you experiencing headaches, nausea, existential dread and pillow screaming? Drs. Ben and Rob are here with the perfect podscription - films to make you feel good! So, relax, cram...
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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
Hello and welcome this raging episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at a sequel to one of our favourite films of 2025, the fourth film in the complexly titled ‘28 ____s Later’ franchise. Please join us as we talk trains, dancing, and charity, as we go deep into rage…
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2026 Preview
Hello and welcome to a proudly prophetic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! With 2025 sent to the naughty step (because it knows what it did) Ben and Rob cast their eyes over the year of forthcoming attractions. Will 2026 be the new golden child or a case of the klumps? No, there's no real...
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A Cultural Review of 2025
Hello and welcome to the first episode of the new year! It has been quite a while since we graced your pod spaces, and we return by looking back at 2025, to ask, culturally, what made us jive in 2025? So please join us once again as we cast our cultural eyes not just over films, but we pick out…
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Predator Franchise : Part One : Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990)
Hello and welcome to this stealthily stalking episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! After surviving the Alien franchise, Ben and Rob got a taste for more extraterrestrial terror and found it shimmering in the jungle canopy. The Predator series is next on the Bucket List and your favourite sexual...
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One Shot! Films in Which the Villain Was Right
Hello and welcome to a positively diabolical One Shot episode, in which we take the side of the bad guys, and each pick a film, that isn’t connected to a sequel, spin off, or prequel, in which the bad guy is in the right. Contains dark green, a few trolley problems, and a brimful of 90s music...
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part Three Prometheus (2012), Alien: Covenant (2017) and Alien: Romulus (2024)
Hello and welcome to this powerfully Promethean episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob return to the Alien universe to tackle Prometheus, Covenant and Romulus. In podspace, no-one can hear you like and subscribe. Vids/Pods mentioned: "The 'Prometheus School of Running'...
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One Shot! Untrue True Stories
Hello and welcome to another One Shot episode, in which we take a topic and each choose a film that isn’t connected to a sequel, prequel, or spin off. This week, we stand in front of two podcasts, one always tells the truth, and the other always lies, as we look at films ‘based on a true story’.…
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Fantastic Four: First Steps (Franchise Fatigue?)
Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, we follow up on our recent look at the four Fantastic Four Films, by looking at the most recent iteration, Fantastic Four: First Steps (or FFFS, as all the cool kids are saying, FFS). Join your two podcast torch bearers as we marvel at…
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Franchise Fatigue? : Fantastic Four
Hello and welcome to this fittingly fantastic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In preparation for their First Steps, Ben and Rob revisit the filthy foursome of Fantastic Four films that have come before it. In this episode: Secret screams! Richie recollections! Disrespectful disrobings!…
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Pick 'N Mix : 2025, Volume III - SuperPitt: Snow White versus the Jurassic Mole Men
Hello and welcome to this humidly huffy episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, Ben and Rob delve once more into the grab bag of movie news, trailers and assorted bits n' bobs that make up one of their legendary Pick N' Mix episodes. As well as scientifically proven correct opinions,...
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28 Years Later (Franchise Fatigue?)
Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time we are raging about the recent legacy sequel to the 28 Time Periods later franchise, 28 Years Later. Join us as we reckon with our past, and talk all things 2002, shoe laces, and boots (and Boots). Our episode on 28 Days / Weeks Later…
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One Shot! Heist Movies
Hello and welcome to this absolute steal of an episode as we look at Heist films. You know the drill by now, we take the episode topic and each pick one film to talk about, that isn’t connected to a sequel, spin off, or prequel (so no Ocean’s films). So if we can nab your attention, listen in as...
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part Two Alien 3 (1992) and Alien: Resurrection (1997)
Hello and welcome to this salivatingly starbeastly episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob are rudely awoken from cryosleep, only to have their heads shaved and shoved into space prison. It somehow only gets worse from there. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat...
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast in which your hosts, Ben and Rob, have once again chosen to accept a Mission: Impossible film, as we look at The Final Reckoning. Now, if you’ve listened to the podcast before, you’ll know that we are big fans of the franchise, and have been looking...
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Pick ‘n Mix 2025 volume II: Havoc, Conclave, & Chicken Jockeys
Hello and welcome to the second Pick ‘n Mix of 2025! In this grab bag of goodies, we talk Havoc, Conclave, chickens, jockeys, and stunts. Plus Ben gets annoyed at Rob’s film choices, and Rob gets excited about popcorn buckets. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on…
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Alien Franchise : Part One Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)
Hello and welcome to this awesomely acidic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! To celebrate Alien Day (4/26) Ben and Rob are strapping on their flamethrowers and nervously shuffling through the corridors of the Alien franchise, starting with the first two entries. Thanks, as always, to…
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One Shot!: Movies from 1985
Hello and welcome to this naturally gnarly episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! As your dashing dudemeisters Ben and Rob are within spitting distance of the big Four-O, they decided to look at movies that will also be celebrating four decades on the planet. Expect totally tubular talk, composer...
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Franchise Fatigue? : The Mexico Trilogy
Hello and welcome to this murderously musical episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast!This time, Ben and Rob grab their suspiciously heavy guitar cases and hunt down Robert Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy, starting with El Mariachi, moving on to Desperado and finishing with a spicy Once Upon a Time in...
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Pick 'N Mix : 2025, Volume I
Hello and welcome to a happily haphazard episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this first momentous PnM episode of 2025, Ben and Rob get all loosey goosey with it and present a grab bag of movie morsels. There's trailer teardowns all the way from the Super to the Puppy Bowls. For all you...
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Franchise Fatigue? Enola Holmes 1 & 2
‘Tis Us! Hello and welcome to a delectably detectable Franchise Fatigue episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, we once again look for clues in Victorian London as we look at the Enola Holmes films, in a companion piece to our recent Sherlock episode. Expect skill, sleuthing, and…
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One Shot!: Romantic Films III
Hello and welcome to this ludicrously lovey-dovey episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Another Valentine's Day is upon us and that means that Ben and Rob must once more teach the world how to love again. Rather than online courses or one-to-one mentorship, they've chosen the laziest thing...
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Franchise Fatigue? : Sherlock Holmes and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Hello and welcome to this curious and cobblestoned episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob don deerstalkers and immediately cast them aside before being rocked by a slow motion explosion with the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films. Expect mystery, intrigue and, yes, frank...
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One Shot!: Feel Good Films V
Hello and welcome to this holistically wholesome episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! The start of any new year sucks, but this one especially so. However, don't abandon all hope, because your trusted movie physicians, Ben and Rob, are here with their annual sparring match over films that make...
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2025 Preview (aka Reasons to Stay Alive in 2025)
Hello and welcome to a hesitantly hopeful episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! As is dictated on the ancient Tablet of Podcast Prophecy, we spend the first month of a new calendar year getting all excited an' that for whatever exciting treats the fresh 365 days have to offer. There's chat about...
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A Cultural Review of 2024
Hello and welcome to the first episode of a fresh new year! And what better way to start off the proper space age sounding year of 2025, than by looking back at the recently completed 2024? As is traditional in our Cultural Review episodes (this year; 2024 - What Did We Adore?), we don’t just…
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One Shot!: Christmas Movies 2024
Hello and welcome to a wonderfully wintery episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, Ben and Rob return to tradition, embarking on their fourth Christmas head-to-head to find out who has the superior seasonal sense. They may be at odds with each other, but like nearly all Christmas…
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Franchise Fatigue? Home Alone 2 (lost in endless sequels)
Hello and welcome to a feverishly festive Franchise Fatigue episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, due to no demand whatsoever, we return to the Home Alone series, to finish what we started last year, as we look at the (at time of podcasting and writing), most recent three films in the...
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Pick ‘N Mix: Christmas Television Special
Hello and welcome to terrifically tinsel themed television episode! This week, in what may have been a long time coming, we eschew our usual focus on feature films, and instead turn our attention to the small screen, as we look at our favourite festive television episodes. Expect carols, several...
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One Shot!: Movies from 2004
Hello and welcome to this guardedly Gallic edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob turn back the clock twenty years and attempt to best each other with their pick from the cinematic landscape of 2004. Contains: 1 Moustachioed Misnomer 2 Vintage 2004 Choices 2 Truants...
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Franchise Fatigue ? : The Incredibles
Hello and welcome to this spectacularly super episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob squeeze into skintight bodysuits to hang with the Incredibles movies. Expect nerdy nostalgia, scientific meme analysis, the lukewarmest hot takes and moustachioed lamentations. You can...
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Pick 'N Mix : Volume X, 2024
Hello and welcome to another mirthfully merge-riffic Pick 'n Mix episode! This week, we're looking back at September and October to peruse over the best of both months' movie offerings. Expect trailer talk, fandom frustrations and nudity negativity as Ben and Rob dance like nobody's watching and...
About this show
Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast with Ben and Rob. Each week we will talk about at a film series (Franchise Fatigue?), film news (Pick ‘N Mix), or each put a standalone film on a given topic against each other (One Shot).
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Ben and Rob