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)

This week on the podcast we offer terrible opinions on:

• The Apprentice (in cinemas now)
• Disclaimer (Apple TV+)
• Terrifier 3 (in cinemas now)
• Greedy People (in cinemas now)
• Hellboy: The Crooked Man (in cinemas in Australia, VOD internationally)
• And more.

It is a whole new Screen Watching podcast. We’re keeping it shorter and just cramming a whole bunch of thoughts on what you might be watching this week.

Is the new Francis Ford Coppola film Megalopolis as absolutely bonkers as they say? Dan and Simon braved a late night first screening at IMAX in Sydney to offer some 12:30am thoughts.

Also this week:

• Wolfs (Apple TV+)
• Paris Has Fallen (SBS On Demand in Australia, and on a mix of other services internationally including Prime Video)

Oh, and also, Dan and Simon discuss the very future of this podcast as they get set to embark upon their new podcast project.

Riddle me this! What do you get when you give a The Batman (2022) supporting character his own 8-episode HBO drama?

This week on the podcast, Dan and Simon talk about the movie tie-in show The Penguin. But they also discuss new Demi Moore film The Substance, the new animated feature Transformers One, and new Netflix feature His Three Daughters.

Oh, yeah... they also talk about the dull-as Emmy Awards.

Join us this week for Simon Foster's review of Netflix's surprise hit Rebel Ridge.

Also, Dan Barrett takes a look at TV documentaries about TV shows with After Baywatch and Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos. He calls one of them 'honest'. Which one, you'll never guess. But the very fact this is a question suggests you will probably guess. And even if you are simple and can't, there's a 50/50 chance.

NOTE: It is bad marketing to call one's listeners 'simple.' Dan should know better than to have written that.

This week Dan and Simon went to the movies together and watched Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Does it live up to the hype? Do we wish Beetlejuice had just gone Hawaiian after all?

But that isn’t all for this week’s show. We also discuss:

• English Teacher (Hulu/Disney+)
• The Deliverance (Netflix)
• Terminator Zero (Netflix)
• Single White Female (online store rental)

And we do the usual birthday quiz and this week in history games.