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The Dog Stars: magic Donkeys, plane porn and this year's biggest misfire?

Season 17, Ep. 15
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Popcorn Podcast head into the post-apocalyptic world of The Dog Stars where a virus wipes out humanity - and all whose left is film critic and celebrity interviewer Nick L'Barrow and Tim Iffland. Starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley and Josh Brolin, Ridley Scott's latest blockbuster has the internet divided from paid creator reviews to fans of the book. So is it any good? Tim and Nick discuss its book to screen adaptation and its major identity crisis, the films endless plane porn, and reveal that Jacob Eloridi's character Hig is in fact dressed by Mugatu's Derelict fashion range. All this and so much more.


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