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.

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With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of Long Cat Media for the theme music!

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=IRVHD7ZV1DW12uSw

Film 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-covenant

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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.

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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.

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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 here

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.