This week in a special Post-Christmas, Pre-NYE celebratory podcast, join Simon Foster and Dan Barrett as they offer reviews of A Real Pain and Laid, along with their top 5 movies and shows in 2024.

In our big show before Christmas, Simon checks out prequel Mufasa, Dan is ready to explode with volcanic Netflix drama La Palma, then there's a quick look at Netflix's Carry On and Max's James Gunn superhero adjacent cartoon Creature Commandos.

Then, because it's Christmas, the podcast winds out with some Christmas chatter.

It's our week before the week before Christmas episode, which as we all know if the most meaningful of them all.

This week on the podcast we look at the film everyone is too embarrassed to buy a ticket to: Kraven The Hunter. There's also the quietly excellent Steven Moffatt series Douglas Is Cancelled. And hen there's Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow's new Netflix comedy No Good Deed.

A HUGE week for us on the podcast. Simon embraces his inner 10 year-old and blasts off with the new kiddie Star Wars show The Skeleton Crew. Dan remains the mature-minded co-host and looks at spy thrillers Black Doves on Netflix and Paramount+'s The Agency.

Each week on the podcast TV critic Dan Barrett and film critic Simon Foster bicker and argue about the movies and shows they have watched. This week:

• Heretic (in cinemas now)
• Get Millie Black (Streaming on Max in the US, Binge in Australia)
• Your Monster (in cinemas now)
• It's Florida, Man (Streaming on Max in the US, Binge in Australia)

A big week on the podcast with the inevitable smash hit Wicked (in cinemas), new Ted Danson sitcom Man on The Inside (Netflix), Goodrich (in cinemas), Blitz (Apple TV+).

Hold the line!  Stay with me!  If you find yourself on a podcast, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled.  For you are reviewing Gladiator 2 and new Disney+ series Say Nothing in Elysium, and you’re already dead!  Brothers, what we do in life… echoes in eternity.

Who says Hollywood is creatively bankrupt? In cinemas we have The Rock and whichever Chris it was that played Captain America teaming up with a bear to rescue Santa. And then on TV we have remakes of your grandad's fave show Matlock and that film & book he loved in the 70s: The Day of The Jackal.

Recorded at the crack of dawn, Dan and Simon talk about Jason Reitman's Saturday Night, new Fox 'drama' Rescue H-Surf, Robert Zemeckis' Here, and more.

The main reviews this week are new Netflix show Territory and the new Kate Winslet film Lee (which is in cinemas now). We also have some thoughts on Netflix's Woman of The Hour, Apple TV+'s Before, and the CBS/Paramount+ sitcom Poppas House.

This week on the podcast:

• Dan rips into The Office Australia (Prime Video)
• Simon offers thoughts on Memoir of a Snail, the latest animated film from Adam Elliot (In cinemas now)
• He AIn’t Heavy (in cinemas now)