Welcome to the Podcast Roundup for November 2022 – our favourites in the worlds of CultBox. Our picks this month, in no particular order, are… Acting for Others Presents… Miriam Margolyes and Sir Derek Jacobi In a new podcast, fundraising for theatre workers in need, two theatrical legends meet. Highlights include Jacobi’s mortifying Boris Karloff … >
The final part of the War for Cybertron trilogy arrives globally on 29th July. Netflix have revealed the trailer for Kingdom, promoting the final part of their current Transformers saga. Kingdom should conclude the storyline begun in War for Cybertron: Siege and Earthrise. Here’s the synopsis: “Having crash-landed on Earth, the Autobots and Decepticons are confronted … >
Get interactive at the cinema with Transformers: Age of Extinction and you could be off to Texas! To celebrate the UK release of Transformers: Age of Extinction, out now, Paramount Pictures has teamed up with Texas Tourism and Opodo to offer ODEON, Cineworld and Vue guests the trip of a life-time. If you’re heading to … >
Hollywood’s favourite hack Michael Bay returns to tarnish the childhood memories of Transformers fans once again, with Transformers: Age of Extinction. Bay’s third sequel to 2007’s Transformers does very little to appease fans and make up for past mistakes, instead preferring to further bastardise and cheapen the beloved 80’s cartoon franchise, anger and disappoint expectant … >
Transformers: Age of Extinction (cert 12A) is in cinemas everywhere from 5 July. > Read our review of the movie. To celebrate the release, we’ve got away a set of 12 Hasbro Power Attacker figures to give away to one of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow @CultBoxTV on Twitter and tweet … >
In this stressful modern age, everyone needs to take some time away from their jobs to unwind – even futuristic robots made from Lego that bare absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to any metamorphic automatons in another line of toys. Yet there doesn’t seem to be much of what David Cameron might woefully describe as ‘chillaxing’ … >
From the makers of Transformersi, action movie G.I. Joe: Retaliation is coming to cinemas this summer, starring Bruce Willis, Channing Tatum and Dwayne Johnson.
‘We kick them to the kerb unless they look like Mick Jagger…’ Life on the Starship Enterprise during James T. Kirk’s tenure at the helm was fraught with peril, the intrepid crew confronted by Klingons, Tribbles, dodgy sets, not-very-subtle deployment of stuntmen and an endless parade of redshirted extras being killed.
However, one thing that the captain, Spock, Uhura, Scotty and the rest of the gang knew how to do was how to relax. Here, soundtracked by Ke$ha’s ‘Tik Tok’, they go on a five-year mission to boldly party harder than anyone has partied before…
‘That slimy bugger…’ With the recession biting once again, Cassetteboy’s 2010 Daniel Craig-as-James Bond-sans-moolah cut-‘n’-paste is culturally relevant as ever. The scene where 007 gets hugely pissed and – inevitably – throws up into a sink is a thing of pleasure forever…
‘Get off the road!’ Where the inspiration for this came from, we’re struggling to fathom, but it works surprisingly well: the audio from a trailer for Lord of the Rings dubbed onto footage from the original Transformers TV movie. Optimus Prime as Gandalf is an obvious choice; Wreck-Gar as Gimli is more unexpected, but equally inspired…
‘Have you any idea how much Tiger Balm I’ve gone through every day on this stuff?’ In a frank, no-holds-barred interview, Daniel Radcliffe looks back on the eight Harry Potter movies and makes a stunning admission about his secret, double-life as a wizard, discussing his effect on women, his broom-burn, and the woeful lack of understanding Americans show for British sports…
‘Hahahahaha… what a funny joke…’ The best comedy series of the 1990s – oh yes it is … no, YOU shut up – was The Mary Whitehouse Experience, and it’s a continuing disappointment that rights issues and all manner of wrangles have prevented the television incarnation being released on DVD.
However, thanks to the ever-reliable combination of home taping, VHS-to-PC USB cables and YouTube, much of the series is available for shits and giggles. In ‘The Drinking Experience’, the Terminator struggles to negotiate his way around a pub toilet and Inspector Morse turns up at a crime scene looking rather tired and emotional….
Boxing films are back on our screens in a big way, with recent films such as The Fighter, starring Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale, and Tom Hardy’s Warrior suddenly making the sport sexy again.
Channel 4 have acquired the UK broadcast rights to ABC’s upcoming Charlie’s Angels series, with the show receiving its UK premiere on E4.