The Countdown

It's September and while prestige TV may still be dropping things of interest, the blockbuster season at the theatre is certainly over, as evidenced by Paul scraping the bottom of the cinematic release barrel to review Afraid for you. It's Blumhouse and horror (supposedly) so Wayne was going nowhere near it - which turns out to be a very smart decision - instead opting to focus his attention on the beginning of the second season of Prime's The Rings of Power (a less smart call). Should you be heading to the cinemas or settling into the couch to watch TV this week? Hell, maybe getting out and going for a walk while listening to this episode is your best bet ... as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Afraid SPOILER-FILLED Review: 0:00 - 11:30 The Rings of Power Season 2 First 3 Eps LIGHT SPOILERS Discussion: 11:30 - 18:55 If you want more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - check out our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #487 The end (of the weekly show) is nigh! With only 14 episodes remaining, the boys return to a fan favourite format, the Top 10 Last 10), to countdown 10 of their most recently viewed films from worst to best, letting you know the point where they begin to recommend what they've seen. It's all thanks to the Cinereelists podcast for the idea, and to you fine folk for tuning in over the last (almost) 10 years. Find out what you should be seeing, and what you should be avoiding, as The Countdown continues ... Want more? Find heaps more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Zoe Kravitz makes her directorial debut in this stylish thriller that, well, certainly goes places. One of the lads is right on board with what she's serving up here, while the other is decidedly less so. So whose side are you on when it comes to Blinking Twice? Wayne or Paul's? Make your choice by listening to this one post-haste, as The Countdown continues... Time Stamps: Blink Twice NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 9:15 Blink Twice SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 9:15 - 24:05 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 24:05 - 24:35 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #486 In their first TV-centric episode in some time, Paul & Wayne take aim at those once good TV shows that unfortunately dropped the ball and turned to seed. In other words, they're counting down their Top 10 Shark Jumping TV Shows. Is there anything worse than The Fonz on skis and wearing his iconic leather jacket jumping over a shark? And which show jumped that shark harder: Dexter, GoT or The Walking Dead? Find out, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

It's been a lean 38 years if you're an Alien film franchise fan. From the disappointment of Alien 3 to the bamboozling direction Ridley Scott chose with the last two films, it's fair to say no old-school fan has been especially happy. So the question becomes, can Fede Alvarez do what many others before him could not and deliver a genuinely good Alien sequel? Paul and Wayne certainly hope so, and they were front and centre very early in this film's release to bring you their view on whether this is the beginning of a new dawn for the Alien franchise or if it is just more of the same hope-sucking drivel? Find out whether you should be purchasing your ticket to Alien: Romulus, as The Countdown continues... Time Stamps: Alien: Romulus NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 11:09 Alien: Romulus SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 11:09 - 29:57 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 29:57 - 30:57 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #485 Wayne loves the guy and he's the flavour of the month as the messiah Marvel promised, so the boys decide to count down the very best performances from one Robert Downey Jr. It takes about seventeen seconds for Wayne to debate the nature of this list, and only about five minutes more for Paul to reveal he's a bit down on the Downey and doesn't actually rate that many of his movies. Can Wayne cope with this revelation? Who won't have the film that won him an Academy Award on their list? And is this the last performance-related count down the show will ever do? Learn the answers to all those questions (and more!), as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

HOW?! How does a violent first person shooter role playing game get made into a film like this starring an Academy Award winning actress? And how do they drop $100 million plus on it? The boys unpack these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Borderlands NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 16:36 Borderlands SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 16:36 - 18:05 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 18:05 - 18:52 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #484 This week the lads are talking the very best prequel films that have been made. Now generally speaking, prequels are not exactly beloved, so listen in to hear what tenuous links the boys are making to justify their choices? Are the left field calls that Wayne makes actually prequels? And is there anything more certain that Paul having a Mad Max film on his list? Learn the answers to both of these questions and oh so much more, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Exploding heads, fists through chesty cavities, genitalia (of the female AND male type), profanity, kink and cake farting. If that sounds like an episode of The Countdown, you haven't been watching The Boys. But Wayne and Paul have, and they're to weigh in with their thoughts on the more-divisive fourth season of the massive Amazon Prime show. Does it hold up against the rest of the series? What is the most disturbing moment? And is the show finally playing for keeps? Learn the answers to these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #483 What's the discussion everyone who's a film buff has? If it's not "What's your favourite film?", it most certainly is "What film would you recommend everyone should see?". It's a truly tough question to answer, but fret no more, film buffs. Paul and Wayne have your backs this week, with 20 films (actually 18, there are two crossovers) that you can now say to people when you're asked that question. Of course, this list is fairly personal as the lads attempt to justify their choices, and the Ep goes in some fairly unpredictable directions, at one point even becoming a psycho-educational session about emotions. But don't let that put you off! Rest assured, this is still an Ep that Wayne is co-hosting so there will be plenty of crude references and borderline inappropriate humour. Which is to say, more of what you have come to expect, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

34 films deep the MCU fires off its only shot for 2024 by bringing in the R-rated Merc with a Mouth and combining him with a character who had one of the best send offs ever in Wolverine. Can two characters previously owned by 20th Century Fox resurrect the fortunes of the MCU and add to Disney's coffers? Or is this just the latest in a string of failures, even if Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman will have a few laughs along the way? Find out all that the boys think about the violence, the swears, the cameos and the metaness of it all in this review the size of Deadpool's ego, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Deadpool & Wolverine NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 13:34 Twisters SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 13:34 - 35:24 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 35:24 - 37:06 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #482 Music returns to the Countdown this week as Paul and Wayne square off over their favourite Pop songs of the 1980s! Wayne decides he should acknowledge his perspective on what constitutes Pop music is wrong (or, you know, decides to work within Paul's more specific parameters because it was Paul's birthday this last week), making for what should be a very pleasant and melodic episode. But no! It doesn't take long before Wayne is busting out some questionable choices, only for Wayne to lose it laughing at Paul's number one. So maybe the question shouldn't be who has the best list this week, but rather, who has the worst...? Find out for yourself, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Two shorter reviews for you this week, as Wayne checks out rom-com Fly Me to the Moon, while Paul goes dark with the serial killer horror, Longlegs, starring everyone's favourite, Nicolas Cage. Could there BE less in common between two films? Will Wayne be able to get past the 60s fashion in the rom-com to actually determine whether it's a good film or not? And will Paul be all about the shocking violence in his horror film? Find out which of these films is going to be more your speed, as The Countdown continues ... (Note: Wayne spoils the end of Fly Me to the Moon in his review, so please be warned!) Time Stamps: Fly Me to the Moon SPOILER-FILLED Review: 0:00 - 8:22 Longlegs SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 8:22 - 16:50 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #481 This week the boys give some love to Sony Pictures and their virtual armada of different production companies as they countdown the best ever films Sony has produced. Will Spider-Man films take up most every spot? Or are there a number of 80s classics for you to chew on? And has Wayne done proper research to ensure all the films on his list are actually co-produced (not just distributed) by Sony? There's only one way to find out, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Remember that natural disaster film from the mid-90s that had a flying cow? Well, Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers and Amblin Entertainment are hoping you recall only enough to want to see another film about a bevy of twisters laying waste to Oklahoma while people chase the things across many, many flat rolling plains, because this film literally has nothing else to do with the original. But does watching forces of nature wreak havoc while a bunch of people chase them around for various reasons a good film make? That's what Wayne and Paul are here to tell you, since for some odd reason, this very American film complete with more country music than even a diehard fan would care to hear has released internationally first. Find out if this one is worth your time as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Twisters NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 12:36 Twisters SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 12:36 - 24:45 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 24:45 - 25:37 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #480 Why celebrate one country's finest films when you can combine a whole bunch of them and talk the best films out of a particular continent? That's Wayne's thinking, at least. Or is it that he just hasn't seen enough films from Europe (outside of the UK)? Find out this week on the Countdown as Wayne goes "Scandi"-crazy, while Paul cannot believe his ears at some of his co-host's choices. Which seems more than fair until he suggests a film about mutating spiders attacking an apartment block is better than most everything else out of Europe. Find out who has lost the plot more effectively, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

The man who does not age is back after 30 years in one of the role that made him famous. Yes, Eddie Murphy is Axel F and he's in Beverly Hills casing trouble for very obvious criminals, even when the other police officers from the previous films seem to have no idea re what's happening right under their noses. Wayne is a big fan of the series; Paul less so. But are either of them blown away by the countless member-berries in this one? Or is Axel headed straight for an F grade? Find out as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Axel F NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 13:58 Axel F SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 13:58 - 22:50 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 22:50 - 23:10 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #479 This week the lads are all about those performers who are second-billed or lower and how they sometimes shine just a little more than the person with their name on top of the poster. In other words, this countdown is all about co-stars who stole the film (or, if you're Wayne, show). With little to no agreement on the parameters of what constitutes a co-star, this one is primed to be an old-fashioned banter-fest. Or have the boys matured somewhat as the podcast winds down toward Episode 500? Find out as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Shhhhh! The boys are back to review a film which they can't talk about for fear of being ripped apart by Death Angels. But is it as good as the previous two films that they both loved, which were also about being ripped apart by Death Angels, or does this one promise much and deliver little. Find out as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: A Quiet Place: Day One NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 13:53 A Quiet Place: Day One SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 13:53 - 24:23 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 24:23 - 24:35 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

No new episode this week as the John Farnham-esque farewell tour stalls for Paul to travel to the eastern states, so instead go back to where the banter between the boys reached an all new level as Wayne causes Paul to lose his mind with one of the most infamous choices in Countdown history. If you don't know the lore behind this episode, go in blind and "enjoy" what unfolds as the lads countdown their Top 10 War Films of all time circa October 2016 (and review Hacksaw Ridge along the way). Then tune back in next week for The Countdown (to 500) to continue ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Countdown #478 This week the boys get into listing films they were not at all interested in seeing, but when they somehow sat down to watch watch them (ie. were forced), they ended up loving what they saw. How and why this is the case forms the bulk of this week's episode, which is more than a little revealing about each of the guys ... Find out just how revealing - and hear one of the greatest "Got you!" jokes in the history of the show - as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

What does a Netflix rom-com about a guy pretending to be a hitman and the fifth film in a franchise about a reformed supervillain and his army of weird yellow minions have to do with each other? Well, Paul dislikes them both, so there's that ...Find out just how much you side with Wayne on all things Richard Linklater, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Despicable Me 4 NON-SPOILER Mini Review: 0:00 - 5:50 Hit Man NON-SPOILER Review: 5:50 - 15:17 Hit Man SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 15:17 - 21:03 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 21:03 - 23:23 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #477 The boys are in fine form this week as they examine the filmography of one cantankerous old man, aka Sir Ridley Scott (or, if you're Paul, just Ridley Scott). Drawing films from every decade that he's been making films, the lads debate whether he's a truly great film-maker or really more of an exceptional production designer who doesn't know how to edit the scripts he works on. Is Sir Scott capable of making a tight film? Will Paul offend Blade Runner fans the world over? And which recent guest host rates Prometheus as a better film than Alien? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown (to 500) continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

In a film which comes uncomfortably close to mirroring the flagging staying power of The Countdown itself, the boys are this week reviewing Will Slap Smith and Martin Lawrence as they Ride or Die in the fourth Bad Boys film. Wayne is surprisingly down on the film at review's beginning, while perhaps shockingly, Paul seems ready to defend what might fairly be described as a dumb action film. But will they occupy the same position by review's end? And can Wayne, for once, be prepared with his score for a film? Lean the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Bad Boys: Ride or Die NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 12:46 Bad Boys: Ride or Die SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 12:46 - 23:57 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 23:57 - 25:27 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #476 In the latest Top 10 Last 10, the boys mini-review almost 20 films for you - with most being recent releases - as they guide you on a journey of what to watch and what to absolutely skip ... ... as The Countdown (to 500) continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Guy Ritchie has hardly been on a roll of late, but he's back with a story line on paper which sounds like an absolute cracker: The Dirty Dozen by way of Inglorious Basterds and based on documented fact... How could it possibly go wrong? Well, let Paul and Wayne - who was so looking forward to this, he about cracked a sad when the film did not hit cinemas in Australia - tell you the multitude of ways that this film is a disappointment ... as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 11:31 The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 11:31 - 18:50 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 18:50 - 20:20 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #475 It's been a long time coming, but the Show v Show format returns this week as Paul and Wayne welcome Julio and Alex from The Contrarians podcast to do battle re a Top 10 topic. And that topic as nominated by The Contrarians is the Top 10 Memorable Moviegoing Experiences. As you can imagine, not everything memorable is positive. Nor is it always PG. So strap yourselves in for some outlandish stories involving everything from anger in the cinema to, well, unexpected most pleasure (make of that what you will). Whatever the reaction, this monster episode will be sure to remind you of some of your memorable experiences at the cinema/theatre, as The Countdown continues ... Please thank Julio and Alex for coming on the show by checking out their show, The Contrarians. Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

It's Paul's turn to get excited as the boys venture across the wasteland, braving marauding bands of cinema-goers, to see the brand new film set in the Mad Max universe, Furiosa! Can the film possibly live up to Paul's eternal love for Fury Road? Will Wayne get over a film's runtime for once in his life? And is this THE film to beat in 2024? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Furiosa NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 18:09 Furiosa SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 18:09 - 31:58 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 31:58 - 33:10 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #474 Choo-choo, everyone! And welcome to the first ever Countdown about trains. Specifically train-based films in honour of listener Ben and his father who recently passed away. Trains may not be square in the middle of the lads' wheel-house, but they make a pretty good fist of it, layering in enough inappropriate genitalia based humour to ensure that no-one will forget this is, after all, another episode of The Countdown. With just 26 episodes to go, find out whether Paul manages to crow-bar in another reference to John Farnham (and what he gets called for it), as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

The Apes are back and now 300 years later they run the joint. At least until one Ape group attacks another Ape group and apparently it all stems from, ironically, Apes being together strongly. (Or something.) Anyway, one of the boys doesn't much care for this continuation of the highly regarded Ape film trilogy from last decade, and the other claims to very much enjoy it. At least until you hear his score ... Find out who is whom and whether you should see what kind of wonderful day it is within this cinematic universe, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 12:04 Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 12:04 - 24:02 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 24:02 - 25:45 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #473 In this follow up to Episode 471, the lads get to their best ever travel experiences. Of course, in this ying to the other episode's yang, there is plenty of inappropriate humour, and way too many references to Wayne spanking the monkey. But if you're in the mood for some laughs amid ideas on where you should travel to in the world and what you should do once you're there, look no further ... Because where else can you come to for recommendations about Disneyland AND catch a story about Kenny Loggins' naked wedding? ... as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Despite a more apt title for this one being Boy Fails Studio, the boys went along to see this latest action spectacle, which promised to douse all and sundry with plenty of blood. But is it better than the box office return would have you believe? There's plenty of ways to find out, but only one of those involves a single button press if you're reading this ... as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Boy Kills World NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 9:49 Boy Kills World SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 9:49 - 19:55 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 19:55 - 20:48 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #472 Long time Patreon supporter and bona fide Chef, Ben Randall, joins The Countdown this week to lend some class and legitimacy to a topic he came up with - the Top 10 Food on Film Scenes. Now, full disclosure, Ben forgot he suggested Top 10 Food in Film OR TV Scenes, but so did Wayne, so Paul is left high and dry with one television scene, while the other two are chowing down on films exclusively. How many of the choices will feature gross out moments with food? Does anyone get to third base with a pie? And just how does the mind of a Chef work? Learn the answers to all these questions and oh so much more, as The Countdown continues ... Please thanks Chef Ben by checking out his food and Chef related podcast, In The Weeds. Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

It's Ry-Ry! It's Emily! It's a film based on a TV show from the early 80s! And it's Wayne's most anticipated film of the year! What could possibly go wrong? Well, for one, the boys incorrectly suggest Heather Locklear starred in that show when it was Heather Thomas, and for two, Wayne has apparently forgotten how to critically review something when he has (odd) affection for it. Find out how THAT goes, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: The Fall Guy NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 11:00 The Fall Guy SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 11:00 - 22:06 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 22:06 - 23:36 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #471 Okay, so this one starts out as one thing ... and ends up as half of it. With thanks to listener Andrew for the idea, the boys attempt to countdown their five and worst travel experiences. But by the 45 min mark of the worst stories, it becomes wildly apparent the episode is going to be well over two hours. So because no-one has time to listen to these two fools prattle on for that long inside one week (and also because Paul doesn't have time to edit that down from the 2.5 hour raw recording), the episode is halved and the guys talk just their five WORST travel experiences. Let the highly questionable subject matter begin, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

This week, two reviews for you because Wayne is too much of a wuss to see Abigail - the new horror film from Radio Silence - while Paul doesn't have enough time to sit through all the slow-mo in Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon (Hypen) Part Two (Colon) The Scargiver. Neither review has anything beyond the lightest of spoilers, but be aware things are mentioned that are plainly exposed in the trailer for Abigail. Beyond that, find out which film is worth your time and which one is not, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Abigail VERY LIGHT-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 10:23 Rebel Moon Part 2 SPOILER-FREE Review: 10:23 - 23:12 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #470 This week the guys decide to cement the upcoming end of the show by taking aim at all that has gone wrong with the MCU, especially over the last five years. Will you be like Julio and lose your mind to consider what the guys are suggesting here? Or will you be more like a Nicholas and be so ready for the lads to call out the MCU for all its faults that you're salivating reading this? The only way to find out is to listen in, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Englishman Alex Garland takes a stab at what a future North America at war with itself might look like, and the results are ... highly polarising. Join Paul and Wayne as they this unpack some of the uncomfortable truths Garland is playing with, while offering their spin on what one of the guys calls "the best film of 2024 so far..." Find out who that is and determine whether you agree with him, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Civil War NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 13:20 Civil War SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 13:20 - 23:20 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 23:20 - 24:23 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #469 This week on the show, the guys countdown the very best third films in any and all franchises. From the MCU to the Scary Movie Universe, most every big franchise gets a mention - and a couple of smaller ones, too - but which will the listeners ultimately crown the greatest "Threequel" of all time? Learn the answer to that question and so many more as the John Farnham-inspired goodbye tour of The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Dev Patel seems like an awesome guy. And when the John Wick style trailer dropped for his debut feature film, Monkey Man, people collectively lost their minds. Of course, than means Paul and Wayne were keen to be there front and centre to check this one and with thanks to Universal Pictures they got to do exactly that. Does The Dev deliver? Or will one of the lads come out critical guns blazing? Let's just say this one gets a might testy, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Monkey Man NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 8:51 Monkey Man SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 8:51 - 20:05 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 20:05 - 22:23 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #468 In the first Ep of the podcast equivalent of a John Farnham goodbye tour, the boys run through all the television they've been watching of late - ranking it from meh to great - recommending a number of shows for you all to check out to keep your entertainment on. From Billions to Three Body Problem, everything you need to know about "The Box" is right here! Do you listeners get the John Farnham reference? Is it in bad taste? Quick, check out the episode and then let the boys know, because there's 32 more weeks to ride or die with this joke, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

The fifth film in the Monsterverse hits cinema this week, and of course, Paul and Wayne are front and centre to report to you on whether you should see every punch, hit, bellow and roar on the biggest cinema screen you can. Will Wayne recognise this is the fifth film in the franchise that also incorporates the recent Apple TV series - that he liked! - Monarch: Legacy of Monsters? Can Paul get past his hatred for plot contrivances? And most importantly, does a film that eschews human characters to make Kong the protagonist work? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Godzilla x Kong NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 13:51 Godzilla x Kong SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 13:51 - 21:33 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 21:33 - 22:32 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #467 How can you tell Wayne chose this week's topic? Well he did, and Paul was fool enough to allow it to happen, so now we all must pay the price - as the lads reveal far too much about themselves and their views on dating as they name the movie characters they'd most like to marry. And stick around for the last 10 minutes of this Episode, as there's a big announcement about the future of the show all fans and occasional listeners alike need to check out. Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

The nostalgia is back as the Ghostbusters return to the cinema for the third time in the life of The Countdown, and Wayne, at least, is all kinds of excited. Can a film based so heavily on nostalgia for a time long forgotten succeed? Will audiences care about streams crossing the OG Ghostbusters with the new Spengler clan? And will Wayne become this franchise's most unlikely champion? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ,,, Time Stamps: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 12:10 Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 12:10 - 24:37 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 24:37 - 25:18 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #466 Music is a pretty important part of films, so Paul has been chafing at the bit for about 466 episodes now to do a Countdown on the very best film scores of all time. Wayme, however, balked at that idea and decided that individual tracks from a film's score would be an easier list to make. So here we be. How many tracks will Wayne choose that represent his lavender soft interior? Will Paul have any John Williams compositions on his list? And just many Hans Zimmer film scores will get the nod? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

What is a podcast to do when there are two significant things to review, but not enough time to watch them both? Well, how about divide and conquer, as Paul takes his daughter to see the latest film in the Kung Fu Panda series, while Wayne gets a bespoke suit on to watch Guy Ritchie's spin-off series to his own film of the same name, The Gentlemen. Will Po out geezer a cockney gangster? And can Guy Ritchie work in a hand to hand fight scene worthy of the Dragon Warrior? Learn the answer to neither of these questions, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Kung Fu Panda 4 MILD SPOILER-FILLED Review: 0:00 - 8:50 The Gentlemen EVEN MILDER SPOILER-FILLED Review: 8:50 - 20:56 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #465 It's Top 10 Last 10 time as the boys review ten of their most recent watches, ranking them from worst to best to aid you in choosing what next to watch! In this Ep they review everything from Oscar contenders to low budget Danish horrors, via misguided musical remakes and wrestling biographies. How many non-feature films will Wayne have on his list? And who has made better life choices when it comes to what they've been watching? Find out as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

Two reviews of brand new films this week - neither of which have made a positive impact in terms critics and audiences alike ... But what will Wayne think of the latest Amazon Prime Video comedy, Rocky Stanicky? And how will Paul respond to Jeff Wadlow's latest Blumhouse produced effort after he infamously defecated all over the bed with his last two films, Truth or Dare and Fantasy Island? Let's put it this way. Sensitive ears should not be permitted to listen to this powder-keg of an episode! Find out just how crazy things get, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Ricky Stanicky SPOILER-FILLED Review: 0:00 - 10:38 Imaginary SPOILER-FILLED Review: 10:38 - 25:02 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.

Countdown #464 The boys this week return to determining who is the superior actor/star/and all round person when they pit Matt Damon's filmography against Ben Affleck's. Though reportedly best friends through most of their lives, such sentiments mean nothing when the chance to be crowned the superior Hollywood star crops up on The Countdown. So expect nothing short of a bloodbath as Wayne gets behind Matt, while Paul has Ben's back. Who will triumph? Will Armageddon feature? And does Ben get any credit for having two of the more attractive Jennifer's on his CV? Learn the answers to all these questions and so much more, as The Countdown continues ... Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Head on over to Patreon to find out to have your topic covered on the show and see what extras you're missing.

After infamously and unpredictably "Negatroning" the first part of the Dune saga, Wayne is back to double down on his criticisms of all things Arrakis ... or is he? Has his Waynus seen the light? Will he apologise and retract his previous criticisms while acknowledging how amazing Dune: Part 2 is? And what about Paul? Is he as high on the second part of Paul Atreides' story? Or has his passion for Denis Villeneuve's epic sci-fi saga cooled to some degree? Learn the answers to all these questions and more, as The Countdown continues ... Time Stamps: Dune: Part 2 NON-SPOILER Review: 0:00 - 16:40 Dune: Part 2 SPOILER-FILLED Discussion: 16:40 - 33:52 Final Thoughts Including Potential Spoilers: 33:52 - 34:29 Check out the show's first draft of a website for your one-stop shop for all things related to The Countdown. But if you want more specific directions, find so many more Countdowns - all the way back to Episode 40! - on our Podbean site. Join The Countdown Podcast Listener Community on Facebook so you can interact more directly with Paul and Wayne and vote in the weekly poll for who has the best list! Want to hear a whole bunch of additional content? Head on over to Patreon to fond out how and see what you're missing.