Redshirt Cinema Club

Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast Bat-transmitting from the Batcave.That’s right, a few short episodes after our trip to Christopher Nolan’s Gotham City, we’re back with the Dark Knight thanks to Rob’s choice for pre-MCU superhero viewing. Which is… Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, featuring a rogue’s gallery of Catwoman, The Penguin, and some guy making a reverse power station? How dare they?Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshirtcinemaclub to receive two bonus episodes every month as well as our newsletter, The Civilian Observer.You can also follow us at x.com/redshirtcinema and get in touch at redshirtcinemaclub@gmail.com.Here's the schedule for our superhero season, leading to the first phase of the MCU...Superman (1978) - 24/8/26Batman Returns (1992) - 31/8/26BONUS - Pre-MCU Superhero Captains choice - 2/9/26Constantine (2005) - 7/9/26Iron Man (2008) -14/9/26BONUS - 16/9/26The Incredible Hulk (2008) - 21/9/26Iron Man 2 (2010) - 28/9/26BONUS - 30/9/26Thor (2011) - 5/10/26Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - 12/10/26BONUS - 14/10/26The Avengers - 19/10/26 

Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. We’re about to tackle the big one - the MCU. The biggest movies, the most fervent fandoms, opinions so divisive they could probably splint a continent in half and sink the entire West coast of America. Which, coincidentally, is Lex Luthor’s plan in Superman: The Movie - the film we’re watching today to kick off our three-part mini series of pre-MCU superhero flicks before we take on the main event. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a podcast.

Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. We’ve done it! We’ve watched ALL the Christopher Nolan films apartfromTheFollowing, and now we’re going full white guy podcast by RANKING THEM ALL. Will you agree with us? We don’t even agree with ourselves! Before we get to that however, it’s time to read out YOUR excellent opinions in our end of season mailbag special. Enjoy!

Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a podcast about fandom and watching movies with friends. Today, it’s Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s multi-award-winning 2023 biopic of the man who made the bomb. Best Picture. Best actor for Cillian Murphy, Best Director for Nolan himself. But can it win the less-prestigious but harder-to-obtain award for entertaining all three of the Redshirt Cinema Club hosts? Let’s find out!

The end of our Nolan series approaches, as you can tell by the fact we've reached a film that doesn't care about beginnings, or endings, or - more than one of us might argue - what happens in the middle, either.This week we're watching/have watched/will have been about to be watching Tenet, which is like a time-based counterpart to the globe-spanning, dream-plumbing action of Inception. Not content with simply folding Paris back upon itself, Tenet goes one further and folds all of reality, with a war of annihilation moving back along the timeline from the future and about to engulf the present.What does this mean? On the one hand, we sincerely have no idea. On the other, it means bullets that fire backwards, fight scenes between opponents moving in contrary directions through time, car chases where both cars pursue each other at the same time(s), and a final assault that's finished before it begins.Obviously, Bill and Ted would have had this wrapped up in 90 minutes. But what else do we make of Tenet? Join us to find out!

We’re nearing the end of our Nolan run now, and we’re heading for the stars - or at least a handful of uninhabitable planets and a wormhole or two - with 2014’s Interstellar. A movie less about space and rockets than it is about love, regret, parenthood and just how much of a dick Matt Damon can be if the script is right. Does it get the Redshirt seal of approval? Time to find out!