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Labyrinth (1986)
This week we’re losing ourselves again in the delightful maze of 80s fantasy, with Jim Henson’s extraordinary Labyrinth (which, like our very own Rob, turns 40 this year...) Think of it less like a museum of childhood traumas, and more like
Mailbag IV: The NeverEnding Illness
We're back! Sort of. After a week's hiatus we're crawling out from the darkness of our plague cave with this impromptu mailbag episode - which we've decided is a good thing as there were LOTS of wonderful emails to get through. Thanks for y
Willow (1988)
A new season begins, and we transition from our favourite genre (sci-fi) into our other favourite genre (fantasy) quicker than turning the corner in Waterstones' basement. Moving from Star Wars into 1988's Willow felt like the most natural
Somehow, Mailbag Returned - Star Wars correspondence and rankings!
...of course it did. We've completed Star Wars (shut up, Ewok movies) and that can only mean one thing - an episode dedicated to listener thoughts about the series, the discussions we've had about it, and tangents that have their own root s
Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
We conclude our Star Wars season with 2019's The Rise of Skywalker, J.J. Abrams' second stab at the franchise having kicked off the sequel trilogy with The Force Awakens 4 years prior. Where the latter was an exercise in replaying familiar
Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi (2017)
The Last Jedi is almost certainly the most divisive Star Wars movie ever made. A brave attempt by writer/director Rian Johnson to subvert audience expectations and take the franchise in a new direction, it's a film that impressed critics wi
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015)
"This will begin to make things right." As first lines go, this is powerful stuff. An acknowledgement that what came before wasn't up to scratch. A promise that what you're about to see will bring back the old magic. But does The Force Awak
The Green Knight (2021)
The second episode of our mid-season Star Wars break sees Dave finally get his wish of making Rob watch The Green Knight - a dark fantasy retelling of a 14th-century chivalric romance directed by David Lowery and starring Dev Patel. This is
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005)
In a change to our scheduled programming, this week Rob has forced Dave to watch Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, the straight-to-DVD movie sequel to one of the greatest videogames of all time. When it released in 2005 this was an explos
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
We've reached the end of the prequel trilogy with 2005's Revenge of the Sith, a relentless 2.5-hour explosion of lightsabre duels, Palatine one-liners and, well, actual explosions. A film many consider the best of a bad bunch, has the 21 ye
Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
So this week we're watching Attack of the Clones. Can we be honest? It feels like we're beset on all sides by inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. And - as Mace Windows might have said in a previous life - we're trying, li
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)
It's 2026 already? TRY SPINNING OUT ABOUT THE PASSING OF TIME, THAT'S A GOOD TRICK Join us as we mark this new phase in our enduring existential terror with a rewatch of a film only babies and idiots like - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Ac
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
It's the concluding chapter of the original Star Wars trilogy this week, as we tackle Return of the Jedi. If you're over 35 this was probably your favourite Star Wars movie as a kid - an action-filled romp across a forest moon, Tatooine and
Mail Bag End II - Here At The End Of All 2025 Things
Welcome to an end of year mailbag special looking back over Redshirt Cinema Club's 2025. What a year it's been! David Lynch, The Matrix, Jurassic Park, 1991, Indiana Jones, [Alien Earth I guess], John CarpeNNter - we have been on a cinemati
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
This week we're all enjoying The Empire Strikes Back - Dave's favourite Star Wars film. Rob's favourite Star Wars film. Not Nath's though, but he does still like it. You could describe Empire as the beginning of Star Wars as a 'franchise' -
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)
A long time ago in an office in Bath... we said we'd do a series on Star Wars. Finally, here it is. We start where it all began, with 1977's A New Hope (or simply 'Star Wars' as it was known back then). An un-assuming sci-fi adventure with
Star Wars: An Introduction - Memories and Mailbag
It's happening - we're about to watch Star Wars on Redshirt Cinema Club, and there will be no-one to stop us this time. Before we rewatch and discuss the first movie, we take a moment to discuss our personal histories with Star Wars, and re
Brazil (1985)
We conclude our 1985 season with Nath's pick, Terry Gilliam's absurdist dark comedy Brazil, a disturbing vision of what the world might be like if capitalism squeezed every last shred of humanity out of society. Brazil tells us that world w
The Black Cauldron (1985)
We're continuing our 1985 season this week with Walt Disney oddity, The Black Cauldron. Caught between the classic early decades of Disney animation and the studio's 1990s resurgence, The Black Cauldron is an unusually dark (and unusually B
Back To The Future (1985)
Back To The Future! Our 1985 season begins in earnest this week with Dave's pick of the year, Robert Zemeckis' layered, heartfelt time-travelling adventure (although do go and listen to our Goonies bonus episode if you can...) BTTF is a per
Mailbag & Our Top 1985 Movie Picks
We're taking a long overdue look inside the Redshirt Cinema Club mailbag this week (please keep emailing us, we do read them, promise) before kicking off our new mini season by each selecting our favourite movie of 1985, in celebration of t
John Carpenter - The Thing (1982)
Man is the warmest place to hide this week, as our John Carpenter mini-season comes to a spectacular, gushing climax with 1982’s The Thing. Is Jed the dog the best dog actor ever? Could speaking Norwegian have solved this whole business in
John Carpenter - Escape From New York (1981)
Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast about smoking, apparently. In the distant future of the year 1997, Manhattan has become a super prison, the president of the USA has crash landed inside, and only one man has tight
John Carpenter - Halloween (1978)
Halloween has come early, which is only fair as two of us are coming very late to Halloween, John Carpenter's genre-setting 1978 teen slasher classic. The adults are all busy at boring grown-up parties, the teens are constantly on the phone
John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
Welcome to Los Angeles in 1976, setting for John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13, a tale of bad gangs, good guys, and a tragically mishandled ice cream order. This is America and Hollywood as we remember it growing up - a scary, magnetic
John Carpenter - Dark Star (1974)
A new dawn! A new day! A new Dark Star! Welcome to a brand new series on Redshirt Cinema Club, as we embark upon a vaguely Halloween-timed viewing of the early films of John Carpenter. There are so many reasons this run of films fits with w
Alien: Earth - Episode 8 'The Real Monsters'
We've reached the finale of Alien: Earth! This week we discuss episode 8, 'The Real Monsters'. The journey has ended, and have we been walking in a circle this whole time? The hybrid kids use soft(ware) power to launch a coup, we finally ge
Alien: Earth - Episode 7 'Emergence'
This week - episode 7 of Alien: Earth, 'Emergence'. Things are happening, Fletch - many of them bad, especially for any humans remaining on the Neverland island complex in possession of a moral compass. Slightly and Smee become body smuggle
Alien: Earth - Episode 6 'The Fly'
After the brilliant episode 5 we return to Neverland for Alien: Earth episode 6 as events ramp up for the season finale. Wendy is transfixed by a now-adolescent Xenomorph, Slightly is desperate for a human to get face-hugged and that sheep
Alien: Earth - Episode 5 'In Space, No One...'
Episode 5 of Alien: Earth takes us back to the beginning. We wondered when we'd see the crew of the Maginot again and here they are, revealed in all their flawed, incompetent glory. An episode that details how we got from the first 10 minut
