The Weekly Planet

Welcome back to podcasting where this week we're getting into Severence Season 2 plus Apple's insane overspending on their streaming service with Sammy P. Plus we talk the rights to Jason Bourne up for grabs, The Mandalorian VS Grogu's low budget, trailers for The Toxic Avenger, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, Happy Gilmore 2, Materialists and Together, Netflix's battle with Marvel and...

It's time for peak The Punsiher everyone. In 2008 under the Marvel Knights brand Lionsgate attempted another Punisher rebooted with Ray Stevenson stepping into the role of Frank Castle. It wasn't recieved well at the time nor did it perform well at the box office despite, in hindsight, it being an incredible fun and gory time at the movies. Director Lexi Alexander managed to craft what feels like...

Movies are back and we don't mind telling you! Well not box office wise. Everything is bombing including Micky 17, Captain America: Brave New Bird and Black Bag which we talk about this week. Plus we discuss Netflix and the Russo Brothers latest 300 million dollar okay movie, The Electric State. And of course we get into the news of the week including John Wick 5, Sadie Sink joining Spider-Man 4,...

In 2004 Marvel took another shot at making a Punisher live action adaptation after the success of Spider-Man, X-Men & Daredevil (I guess?), the Thomas Jane in the lead role. Also acting as his Year One original story it pits him against John Travolta and a family of mobsters who had his entire extended family un-alived (that's for YouTube censorship) after Frank Castle acted out a truely...

Massive news for fans of movies and Disney Plus streaming series this week with the release of Mickey 17 and Daredevil: Born Again. We review both of those plus some of negative reactions they're getting. Plus all your latest news including those Avengers concept art leaks, cancelled Star Wars projects, more Amazon/James Bond shenanigans, an alarming Powerpuff Girls trailer, The Last of Us Part 2...

The first cinematic adaptation of The Punisher happened to be a little known action film from the late 80's staring Dolph Lundgren. Sure he was missing the signature white skull, black jumpsuit and white boots (disgraceful ommission) but there's a lot of core elements that have held up pretty well despite the limations of the era. SO COME WITH US as we journey through all the films in the...

You haven't seen Gollum anywhere, have you? Joining us in our search this week are Jackson Baly and Joel Zammit from Sanspants Radio to chat board games, lord of the rings and more fantasy movies! We've also got your regular serving of piping hot news including Kathleen Kennedy potentially leaving Star Wars, Andor season two's trailer, the Shrek 5 teaser, more annoying Warner Bros cancelletions...

Daredevil may not have gotten the sequel it probably I guess deserved but it did get a spin-off. ELEKTRA. 2005. Brought back to life using magic or a wish or something after being killed in Daredevil, Jennifer Garner returns to the role where this time she's an assassin who can sometimes see the future sometimes. This time she has to face The Hand and a bunch of henchpeople who are probably...

In HUGE industry news the creative rights of James Bond have gone to Amazon and MGM which certainly is...worth talking about. We get into that plus a review of The Monkey, three cancelled Marvel Disney Plus series, the Daredevil: Born Again release schedule, one of the teams behind Marvel Rivals get layed off, James Gunn potentially working with Zack Snyder and the Batman spin-off Clayface finds...

Daredevil 2003 came in the a wave of Marvel comic book success stories like Blade, Spider-Man and X-Men. Ben Affleck's Matt Murdoch however didn't manage to reach those same heights despite being a pretty solid action movie. For the time. How could it not with Michael Clarke Duncan as Kingpin, Colin Farrell in his first comic book villain role as Bullseye and Jennifer Garner as Elektra who...