It&apos;s been a little while but News & Reviews finally returns with a solid crop of reviews of the latest in films and TV series. We also round up some recent trailers and the Oscar nominations that were announced last week. We talk about noir thriller &apos;Nightmare Alley&apos;, video game adaptation adventure &apos;Uncharted&apos;, quiet drama &apos;Mass&apos;, recent George Clooney directed coming of age memoir &apos;The Tender Bar&apos; and puritanical horror &apos;The Last Thing Mary Saw&apos;. Andy also rounds up season 1 of both &apos;Reacher&apos; and &apos;The Book Of Boba Fett&apos;.

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News & Reviews: Nightmare Alley, Uncharted, Mass, Reacher, The Tender Bar & The Last Thing Mary Saw

As timely as ever we enter another year of this podcast with a spoiler review of a film which has been out for almost 2 months now, &apos;Spider-Man: No Way Home&apos;. We go into what worked for us, what didn&apos;t, character reveals and inciting incidents. We talk in depth about all aspects of the film so we do sound the spoiler porg pretty early on, but chances are you will have seen the film by this point if you&apos;re interested in watching it. 

Episode 163: Spider-Man: No Way Home Spoiler Review

To add more competitive elements to the podcast we&apos;ve looked to the world of sports for inspiration this week and come up with this, the first ever Dinosaur Man Draft!Andy and Alex assemble their teams from the rest of the releases due in 2022, from superhero blockbusters to ultra low budget horror movies we run through it all to build a roster of films to compete for financial and critical supremacy.

Episode 162: Dinosaur Man Draft 2022

Here it is folks, the magnum opus! The long awaited and prestigious Dinosaur Man awards for films of the year released in the UK in 2021. In what has become a long standing tradition we battle it out with our guest Paul Hudson to nominate and win in the 5 big categories. Listen in to find out which films are on the receiving end of some high praise this year! 

Episode 161: Films of 2021 Awards

We kick off the first News & Reviews of 2022 with reviews of four films from 2021, naturally. &apos;The Tragedy of Macbeth&apos; is the new Joel Coen adaptation of the Shakespeare play which has just hit Apple TV+ after a few weeks in cinemas, seen as an awards hopeful, will it prove divisive? &apos;Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain&apos; has finally come to the UK after being available for 6 months stateside, &apos;Malignant&apos; is the latest horror movie from James Wan and is quite something to experience, the less you know the better. Finally, we talk about a film which isn&apos;t even the most recent film in the MCU, &apos;Eternals&apos; is directed by Chloe Zhao and was seen as a big departure from standard Marvel formula by many. But do we like it?

News & Reviews: The Tragedy of Macbeth, Roadrunner, Malignant & Eternals

As awards season pulls into view we begin with a new kid on the block in our inaugural Game of the Year awards for games played in 2021 (although released in some cases half a decade ago). Andy doles out awards to a bunch of big and small names in the world of video games, Alex acts as the recapper of the year in videogame news whilst giving his opinion on the couple of games he actually played last year.

Episode 160: Dinosaur Man Game of the Year Awards 2021

As you may have guessed from the title, "It&apos;s Catchup Season Baby!". Alex and Andy have both been busy catching up with things missed earlier in the year over the festive period. Reviews include, and are limited to, comic book event &apos;Spider-Man: No Way Home&apos;, Oscar winner from 2021 &apos;Another Round&apos;, franchise reboot &apos;The Matrix Resurrections&apos;, awards hopeful &apos;King Richard&apos;, satirical comedy &apos;Don&apos;t Look Up&apos;, &apos;The Card Counter&apos;, Disney animation &apos;Encanto&apos;, &apos;CODA&apos;, &apos;Ron&apos;s Gone Wrong&apos;, &apos;Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City&apos;, &apos;The French Dispatch&apos; & &apos;Army of Thieves&apos; 

Episode 159: It's Catchup Season Baby!

Step into Christmas loyal listeners with us as your festive guides, it&apos;s the most wonderful time of the year and this is our festive treat to you. In keeping with the season we take a look at the connective tissue between heartwarming family drama &apos;Jack Frost&apos;, in which Michael Keaton plays a struggling blues musician who gets a second chance at a relationship with his son when he gets reincarnated as a sentient snowman, and &apos;Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman&apos; which is also about a reincarnated man just trying to live his life again as he did first time around. Astonishingly the films do share a surprising amount in common, do they also share the same quality level? Yes.

Episode 158: Jack Frost & Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

Welcome to this, the final News & Reviews of 2021. As we close out another year we have a less busy than usual slate of reviews, mainly due to the ongoing situation regarding the rise in cases of Covid in the UK.We do have reviews of awards frontrunner &apos;The Power Of The Dog&apos;, a brooding mood piece released on Netflix worldwide, &apos;Old&apos; which is the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan and Andy gives his thoughts on latest James Bond outing &apos;No Time To Die&apos;.

News & Reviews: The Power Of The Dog, Old & No Time To Die

With the impending release of Spider-Man: No Way Home this week, we decided to take a look at his most famous stable of villains, The Sinister Six.We cast multiverse versions of six villains previously featured in at least one of the Spider-Man feature films and justify our reasoning for some slightly strange casting decisions that are sure to annoy fanbases and possibly general audiences too, we also try to establish when notable action heroes were still relevant. 

Episode 157: Casting A Multiverse Sinister Six

In the penultimate News & Reviews of this year Alex brings you a bumper crop of new releases. From Netflix we have documentaries &apos;Procession&apos;, &apos;A Cop Movie&apos; and directorial debuts in Oscar hopefuls &apos;tick, tick...BOOM!&apos; and &apos;Passing&apos;, alongside this we have festive Aardman stop motion with &apos;Robin Robin&apos;.Elsewhere there&apos;s powerful drama &apos;Rose Plays Julie&apos;, satirical thriller &apos;The Beta Test&apos;, mother and child horror &apos;Son&apos; and MCU entertainment by way of &apos;Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings&apos;. 

News & Reviews: Procession, tick, tick...BOOM!, Rose Plays Julie, Robin Robin, The Beta Test, A Cop Movie, Passing, Son & Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Alex is joined once again by Paul in order to celebrate another significant milestone in the history of this podcast, it&apos;s Episode 400! We talk about the history of the podcast, the future, Fatboy Slim, Banksy and also review 2015&apos;s Science Fiction Mystery &apos;400 Days&apos;, which is no good at all.

Episode 155: Episode 400!

Bustin&apos; makes us feel good! With the imminent return of the Ghostbusters franchise proper with this weekend&apos;s release of the sequel &apos;Ghostbusters: Afterlife&apos;, Alex and Paul got to thinking about what pointless sequels to beloved properties they could pitch to try and cash in on the retro trends. Alex loses the spirit of his original film whilst Paul manages to make a young and trendy version that still retains original cast members. Both sound pretty horrible, but which is worse?

Episode 154: Retro Sequel Cash Grab!

Welcome back to the podcast, this week we&apos;ll be mostly reviewing movies that have come out anytime between a week ago and 10 months ago, a real diverse spread today. Paul joins the pod again to drop his reviews of sci fi epic &apos;Dune&apos;, long awaited and long delayed James Bond entry &apos;No Time To Die&apos;, comic book sequel &apos;Venom: Let There Be Carnage&apos; and Netflix&apos;s remake of the Danish thriller &apos;The Guilty&apos; which stars Jake Gyllenhaal. Alex takes part in reviewing the horror sequel &apos;Halloween Kills&apos;, the middle entry in the revived timeline of Michael Myers, he also reviews the documentary &apos;MLK/FBI&apos; from earlier ths year.

News & Reviews: Dune, No Time To Die, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Halloween Kills, The Guilty & MLK/FBI

Alex is joined by Paul again for a look ahead at what could be the latest revival of the slasher movie within the horror genre. We close out Shoctober by discussing the recently released &apos;Halloween Kills&apos;, the upcoming &apos;Scream&apos; and &apos;Texas Chainsaw Massacre&apos; and what this means for the future of a subgenre that rises to prominence every 20 years or so. Paul also proves his horror knowledge in a quiz segment that delves into box office, kill counts and much more besides. 

Episode 153: The Fourth Coming of the Slasher Movie

Andy Hughes and Alex Hudson host this weekly podcast covering all the biggest and freshest news stories in film, TV and gaming. Every Sunday sees the arrival of a News & Reviews episode where they talk all the latest movie news and review any releases they've seen that week.Tweet and follow @Dinosaurman15 or find our Facebook page and give it a like.

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