Film Club Lite 86: The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)

There's been a lot of love for the recent Tim Key comedy about a reclusive music fan who tries to get his favourite folk duo back together again. But what would we make of it? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

You'd think Doctor Who news might be a bit thin on the ground with no production currently underway nor very much likely to be any time soon. But the rumours and gossip just keep on coming. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Ryan Blake, Mark Donaldson and Steve Hatcher

How will our current mascot Danny Dyer take, to starring in a more bucolic version of Doctor Who? Our reimagined history of the series enters its seventh season. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When we realised that the director of The Sword and the Sorcerer had also made the 1990 Captain America, we couldn't resist going back for another look at both Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

We travel back to the 1990s, before even The Curse of Fatal Death was a twinkle in Steven Moffat's eye, to look at some of the writer-for-hire and one-off projects he completed before he became a household name Presented by J.R. Southall, with Dylan Rees

The randomiser takes us to yet another isolated workplace in the 1960s, but will Victoria's screaming save the day, or is Fury from the Deep just a load of old gas? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Ryan Blake

After Amazon MGM Studios announced Denis Villeneuve as the director who would take the helm of their first Bond movie, we decided to have a look back at his non-franchise English language movies to see if we could see why. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

It's seventy years since Nigel Kneale's most famous creation made his way from the small screen to the big, but how successful was the transfer to Quatermass at Hammer? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

In tribute to Robert Redford we've taken another look at the movie he and Dustin Hoffman, plus director Alan J. Pakula and screenwriter William Goldman, made about the Watergate break-in Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

When does pushing the boundaries become going too far? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Ryan Blake