How Sixties Italian Film Planet of the Vampires Influenced Alien
The 1979 summer edition of Cinefantastique magazine featured a scathing review of Alien, deeming it nothing but a melding of...
Time & franchises that don’t know when to die (Tanked Up 429)
https://youtu.be/FsXeJt4d8WU We're back for 2025, and rolling into our tenth year! We chat what we've played ver the winter break...
The Dark, Meta Ending I’m Hoping Squid Game Season 3 Delivers
In a dark and dramatic twist of irony, Squid Game, a blatant anti-capitalist parable, has become Netflix’s biggest commodity. As...
The Best and Worst of The X-Files Season 9
How do you end a show that has long since passed its end date? It’s a question Chris Carter and...
Why I Want Gladiator III Despite the Issues with Gladiator II
Gladiator II does what the worst sequels are guilty of and resets everything. It ignores the resolution of the original...
2024 End of the Year Bonanza – Tanked Up 428
https://youtu.be/GPH82xatjrI Join us for the end of 2024, as we run down our favourite games from the year. As a...
Black Christmas (2006) is a Hit-and-Miss Remake with Unexpected X-Files Connections
Watching Bob Clark’s 1974 original Black Christmas has become an annual tradition for me come December. It’s one of my...
Mouthwash Roulette (Tanked Up 427)
https://youtu.be/OamAX_lmCz4 Aadil and Lucy kick off the episode by discussing a new (ish) web puzzler and blowing Ben's mind with...
The Magic of Kermit in Gaming (Tanked Up 426)
https://youtu.be/oWgrs1dfeqY Lucy played “Gestalt: Cinder & Steam”. Ben attempted to play Tron Identity, unsuccessfully. We chat about FIFA: Ultimate Team,...
The Best and Worst of The X-Files Spin-off The Lone Gunmen
The Lone Gunmen strikes me as a show that the writers thought would be fun only for them to soon...
