Episode #178: Hamlet (1990)

James, Joe and Rhys return to take a look at David Fincher's 1999 classic, FIGHT CLUB: the satire, the masculinity debate, whether it accidentally empowered the wrong audience, and where it lands in Fincher's career.. But before that, we speedrun recent viewing: Lanterns, X-Men '97, Strange New Worlds' Muppet episode (and what's really wrong with Star Trek right now)., Reality Bites (for peak-90s Gen X vibes), D23 X-Men casting reactions (Professor X, Mister Sinister, and where this movie might be heading) and a quick Doomsday trailer take. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rhys, James and Joe are back, and shining the spotlist on Celine Song's 2025 rom-com (or maybe just rom-dram) movie, MATERIALISTS. But alongside that we've also got plenty of other chat, including BACKROOMS, DISCLOSURE DAY, WIDOW'S BAY, and more! We also take a look at the DIGGER trailer, and discuss leaked promo art of AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY because, true to form, nothing happened for four months and then a few days after we recorded an episode, they dropped the trailer. We'll get to it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James, Joe and Rhys take a look at Louis Malle's 1981 movie MY DINNER WITH ANDRE - as well as thoughts on the likes of The Secret Agent, the new Game of Thrones show, Iron Lung and Small Prophets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe, James and Rhys return for our annual look back over everything we covered (and watched more broadly) in 2025. Which of us somehow chose three horror movies as their top three of the year despite not being a horror fan? Will William Shakespeare make it into the Hall of Fame? And is anything this year actually enjoyably bad enough to award this year's Howard T. Duck? All that and more, plus (at the very end) our pick for next month's episode. See if you can guess what it's going to be! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe, James and Rhys take a look at Franco Zeffirelli's 1990 movie, HAMLET, based on the Shakespeare play of the same name and starring, er, Mel Gibson. ALSO: Pluribus, Murderbot, Radiohead (!?) and more!You can get this episode ad-free by signing up at http://patreon.com/cinematicuniverseNOTE: We recorded this before the shocking death of Rob Reiner. Suffice to say we're all horrified, and expect to talk about his work and our collective love of it on a future episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rhys, James and Joe return to look at the latest movie news and catch up with Kathryn Bigelow's vampire western, Near Dark - is it the best vampire movie from 1987?We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our next movie (revealed in this episode, and let me tell you: it is an ODD shout even by Joe's standards) before we're back for our regular roundup of the year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James, Rhys and Joe return to look at the genre-defining murder-game satire, BATTLE ROYALE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe, James & Rhys take a deep(ish) dive on both extreme ends of the zombie franchise - George A Romero's originator of the genre, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and Danny Boyle's post-Brexit zombie sequel, 28 YEARS LATER. All this, plus: Ironheart, The Phoenician Scheme, The Rehearsal, and more!Our next movie on the Patreon ( http://patreon.com/cinematicuniverse ) will be - of course - James Gunn's SUPERMAN, which we are expecting to record tomorrow, so you should hear it in just a few days. We'll also be doing FANTASTIC FOUR after that, and our next main episode is going to be BATTLE ROYALE. So plenty to look forward to!If you've seen Night of the Living Dead or 28 Years Later, let us know what you thought in the comments! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rhys, James and Joe take a look at Ryan Coogler's 2025 movie, SINNERS. As soon as we can agree who's hosing the episode. This is an all-Sinners episode because it was recorded soon after our Ghost Dog chat AND there's a lot in this movie to think about. That said, to be completely honest if you don't like talk about spitting I would probably skip this one.You can hear this and many other episodes ad-free on our Patreon! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rhys, James and Joe take a look at Jim Jarmusch's 1999 fusion of crime & samurai genres, Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.