The Popcorn Bucket Podcast

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 Alien, Predator, and Aliens V Predators films.Join us as we look at designs, teams, and our dream cinematic match ups by way of toys, puddings, sacrifices, and 90s BBC sitcoms, to work out what our definitive Popcorn Bucket Podcast Popcorn Bucket List of the Alien versus Predator versus Aliens versus Predators mega franchise.With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

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 the wider Alien Predator universe? They have a great tagline (Whoever Wins, Earth Loses), but do the films live up to that potential? Can your hosts find anything positive to say?Next time, we will round off the whole of the Aliens and Predator franchises!Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 have to actually be based on video games (the last time we did this, not so much).Expect problematic product placement, moaning about Minecraft, and general gabbing about video games.Spoilers!The films discussed are:UnchartedPrince of PersiaWith thanks as always to Lawrence Owen for the theme music!

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, and the live action Moana film.Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 this is the last stop before they careen headlong into the AvP miasma and face down the challenge of the final Ultra Mega Bucket List ranking of both the Alien and Predator franchises combined. Will our brave, muscular heroes survive and what will be left of them? (Wrong series Ben, edit this before the episode goes up, you berk)Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social

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 back on Earth. Expect chat about missing trailer dopeness, problematic portrayals and several weird Toy Story links. This ep is one beautiful motherf...Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social

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 this up your earholes and then get up super early the next morning to book an appointment on the phone like that makes any goddamn sense in 2026.Spoilers!Films discussed are:BooksmartThe Full MontyYou can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky or via email [email protected] thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

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 filled infected and dystopian survivors. Get your iodine and tickets at the ready!Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 reason why we're shouting out Eddie Murphy movies. Sometimes you just have to write to keep yourself entertained, y'know?Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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 the podcasts, books, music, and games that we enjoyed from the last year. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads https://www.instagram.com/popcornbucketpod/With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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 Ty-rannosauruses are just the slabs of rippling beefcake to take it on.Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social

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 references.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.The films we look at are:Cabin in the Woods Wish

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' Misconception" - https://youtu.be/QY-8DDUriWc?si=IRVHD7ZV1DW12uSwFilm Stories Podcast: "Prometheus (2012) and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005)" - https://filmstories.co.uk/podcast/podcast-prometheus-2012-and-wallace-gromit-the-curse-of-the-were-rabbit-2005/Verbal Diorama - "Prometheus & Alien: Covenant" - https://verbaldiorama.com/episode/prometheus-alien-covenantThanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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’.So please listen, and please forgive any embellishments and liberties taken.

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 The Things that happen in this movie, make spoilers visible, and fantastically stretch jokes too thinly.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

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!Thing specificity!Blood, Honey and more! Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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, expect impromptu reviews of Jurassic World Rebirth, F1 the Movie, Snow White and that hot new superhero offering Superman...and the Mole Men. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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 (when we were but young podcasters) can be found hereYou can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

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 Ben plots another clause, and like all good heist films there is a twist, in Rob doesn’t go for the obvious Nolan related choice.You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawrence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.Spoilers!Our choices are Inside Man 1, and The Town.

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 Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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 forward to seeing this for a long time. There are heavy spoilers throughout, and also the return of a long forgotten feature, in-depth discussion of popcorn buckets, and a nice bit of alliteration. So secure yourself to the wing of a plane, take a nice cool dip in a submarine, and enjoy! Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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 confusion and slammin' soundtracks. Gag us with a spoon.Spoilers!Films discussed are:Remo Williams: The Adventure BeginsCommandoYou can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Bluesky or via email [email protected] thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

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 Mexico chaser.Expect attempts at speaking Spanish, fanboying and vague memories of induction classes and obscure PlayStation games.Ben would also like to apologise for his mic stand failing about 20 minutes in and subsequently sounding like he's about 20 miles away from the microphone. He is extremely sorry and handsome.Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music.Please follow us on:Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.socialGoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: ⁠www.thepopcornbucket.com⁠

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 thirsty types who hang on their every word, there are some fresh, hot recoBendations for your delectation. Plus, some impromptu reviews for The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Paddington in Peru, Captain America: Brave New World and the Jack Black Gulliver's Travels for some godforsaken reason.Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

‘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 derring do, and that’s just from your hosts!Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod.With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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 possible and have suggested a few romantic movies that might possibly get you in the mood for love (or at the very least make you less hateful).Spoilers!Films discussed are:PricelessCrazy, Stupid, Love.You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod,Bluesky or via email [email protected] thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

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 discussion of ejaculation and refrigeration as we revisit 221b Baker Street and tranquilize our household pets. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social GoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at: www.thepopcornbucket.com https://youtu.be/6fRsreqo8tA?si=5y2geiOPyOKp3rXA

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 them (and hopefully you) get a heaping helping of the warm fuzzies. If niceness is infectious, their two picks are riddled with it. Tasty! Spoilers! Films discussed are: The Peanut Butter Falcon Once You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Bluesky or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

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 forthcoming TV that has us on tenterhooks, books that have us breathless, games that have us going gaga and, of course, films that have us frothing at the mouth. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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 stick with our usual topic of film, but take on books, music, games, and podcasts. Is this episode a return to form? Maybe. But that phrase is used. A lot. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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 fights, they'll calm down once they've eaten an ungodly amount of food and passed out in front of the TV. May your holidays be happy and your families be tolerable! Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

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 cinematic universe of Christmas child misplacing. The short version; your two ghosts of Christmas past (as this was recorded in 2023), watched Home Alones 4 through 6 so you don’t have to. The real question is, will we be able to keep our Christmas joy throughout? Or will it be lost amongst a snowstorm of Lego traps and extra spicy gingerbread cookies?Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod.With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 British tv institutions, and Ross Kemp’s A Christmas Carol (which, it turns out, is available on YouTube).Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod.With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

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 Skipping School Made from 100% recycled jokes. Films Chosen (Spoilers!) Click to show Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind A Very Long Engagement You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music Check out Long Cat Media's Mockery Manor board game Kickstarter at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/longcatmedia/mockery-manor-the-murder-mystery-game

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 support Rob's self-described "pathetic" moustache and donate to Movember here - https://uk.movember.com/mospace/15267127 Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Bluesky @popcornbucket.bsky.social GoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at:www.thepopcornbucket.com

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 podcast like nobody's listening. Links: Superfan Focus Groups - https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/star-wars-lord-of-the-rings-bridgerton-toxic-fans-hollywood-response-1236166736/ Ben Travis "Audiences Can't Keep Up With Streaming Shows" - https://www.empireonline.com/tv/features/cancelled-streaming-series-audiences-cant-keep-up/ R S Benedict "Everyone is Beautiful and No One is Horny" - https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/ Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbucketpd. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music

Hello and welcome to this totally terrifying edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this third installment of their annual battle, Ben and Rob once again must face their fears and confront the things that go bump in the night as both trembling twits reach for a creepy cudgel to beat the other with. Everyone knows that horror franchises only get really good after the third part and this podcast is no exception. Happy Halloween you precious pumpkins! You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Sod off Elon) @popcornbucketpd, or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

Hello and welcome to this gloriously govern-mental edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob have shrewdly observed that everything's got a bit political of late. Not ones to want to fall behind the zeitgeist, B & R slap on some slogan badges, pick up their placards and Google what politics is before each chooses to platform their own slice of cinematic political perfection. You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Sod off Elon) @popcornbucketpd, or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

Hello and welcome to this specially skilled episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob hunt down the Taken trilogy! Join them as they traverse the murky waters of Divorced Dad-dom, round the Cape of Xenophobia before hitting the open waters of Geri-action. If you don't listen to this episode, we will find you and we will...tell you we completely understand and wish you a good day. Also, sincere apologies for the sound quality and Ben's raspy voice. We had some technical gremlins and Ben was getting over a nasty bug that unfortunately made him sound like a gremlin. Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter @popcornbucketpd, GoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at:www.thepopcornbucket.com

Hello and welcome to this resplendently rancid edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob have to choose a film that has a "Rotten" rating on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes and make a case that their movie was maybe mistakenly maligned. Join your favourite garden gnomes as they cavort through the compost to pick out some tasty morsels from the heap. It's good to be bad sometimes. You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Sod off Elon) @popcornbucketpd, or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

Hello and welcome to this certifiably squeaky episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob scrabble up the nearest nut-filled tree to get to grips with the Alvin and the Chipmunks movies! Expect plenty of pitch perfect puns, a smattering of sulky cynicism and dollops of disbelief. Plus, a healthy discussion about which movie is the Least Chipmunk! (This joke only works if people know the Least Chipmunk is a species of chipmunk, maybe go for something a bit less niche Ben?) Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Choke on it, Muskrat) @popcornbucketpd, GoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at:www.thepopcornbucket.com

Hello and welcome to another positively punctual Pick 'n Mix episode! This week, we're looking back at all August had to offer. Along with the usual trailer chat, Ben and Rob wade into the subject of cancelled movies about cancelled people, The Acolyte being canned and the bizarre case of the marketing for Megalopolis "I listen to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast every week! It's the absolute tits!" - Pauline Kael Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbucketpd. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music

Hello and welcome to this loquacious legacy episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your fave fishes-out-of-water ditch their mundane everyday experiences for the alluring artificiality of Beverly Hills as they take a look at the mighty Beverly Hills Cop series. With an episode that hits like a banana up the tailpipe, your podbois have a lot to say for themselves. Ben lands many a diss on a certain director, whereas Rob stumbles out of the gate by turning up to the wrong police academy entirely. Now if they could just get that infuriatingly catchy (or should that be crazy?) theme out of their heads... Thanks, as always, to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for our theme music. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Suck it, Musk) @popcornbucketpd, GoodPods @PopcornBucket or visit us at:www.thepopcornbucket.com

Hello and welcome to this (slightly) historical episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast, as we take a look at two films that were released in 2014. Using a tried a tested One Shot scenario of ‘films that might be very slightly older than you think’, we reminisce of times (and hats) past, talk about AI, and learn about different ways of studying flowers and photographs. All this and more! Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbucketpd. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

Hello and welcome to a slightly delayed Pick n Mix episode! This time we are wrapping up July 2024, with an attempt at bringing a correct order to things, film trailers, and some of Ben’s toilet humour. Plus at one point is all gets a bit inside baseball. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbucketpd. With thanks as always to Lawrence Owen of Longcat Media for the theme music!

Hello and welcome to this comically claw-some edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob have actually been to the cinema and have decided to take a stab at relevancy with their thoughts on Deadpool and Wolverine. Two old frenemies tearing chunks out of each other...yeah, you know where this joke is going. LFG! You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Choke on it, Elmo) @popcornbucketpd, or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music

Hello and welcome to another Franchise Fatigue episode! This time, your couple of Jack Stones put themselves together and look at The Lego Movie and its sequel (which definitely was made, people of Google). There are Lego puns aplenty, and a Genuinely Good Idea. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @PopcornBucketPod. With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music.

Hello and welcome to this skilfully spun edition of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob bring their favourite spin-off movies to the table, possibly to battle them like Beyblades. This week, your podbois seem to be on the same wavelength and have come prepared. You know that awesome trope where two old foes fight and match each other move for move, each countering what the other can throw at them? This is nothing like that. This is more akin to an old married couple who've heard everything the other has to say and sit in a stony silence, the sense of resentment ever building. You can find us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter (Sod off Elon) @popcornbucketpd, or via email [email protected] With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of longcatmedia.com for the theme music