Screenland with Brian Lloyd

DIGG BABY DIGG.Yes, I was gone for a while. Yes, I'm very sorry about that. Yes, I explained it and apologised for it in the first five minutes of this episode. I'm back, let's not talk about why or for how long, because we have to talk about 'DIGGER'. From the get-go, you should know that I am discussing everything about this movie. Yes, I am specifically talking about the big spoiler-twist-whatever that's been left out of the promotion and marketing for 'DIGGER'. So if you want a spoiler-free experience watching 'DIGGER', do not listen to this episode until after. You've been warned.

THAT'S A LOT OF TITLES AND NOT A LOT OF SPACE. OK, so we're continuing our streak of episodes arriving in a timely fashion with a no-holds-barred, knockdown, stomped-out review of CAPITALISM VS. ACME VS. LOONEY TUNES VS. WARNER BROS. in 'Coyote Vs. Acme', we're taking on psycho-sexual trauma and '80s slashers in 'Teenage S*x and Death At Camp Miasma', and we're ranting about generative AI (again) in 'Stop! That! Train!', and if that wasn't enough, I saw the first episode of 'Lanterns' and decided to wax lyrical for a few minutes about late '90s high-concept TV drama 'Early Edition'.GET ON IT!

A TALE OF TWO MOVIES, AND ONE TV SHOW I AM EMBARRASSED TO ADMIT I LIKE. We're back at it, gang. On this week's show, we delve into the mystery of Eli Roth as a film director, producer and general goober who has fallen a$$-backward into a career, and discuss his latest bowl of utter tripe, the AI slop-ridden 'Ice Cream Man'. It's not all terrible news, however. Matt Johnson's excellent bildungsroman of Anthony Bourdain's early life hits Irish cinemas, with Dominic Sessa and his non-iPhone face continuing to shine. We're also discussing 'Reacher', a show I am embarrassed to admit how much I enjoy.It's all good, clean fun, folks. Have at it.

NOT THE ONLY MAN TO GET STICKY HANDS FROM THE WEB.We're back this week with a brand-new episode reviewing 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' which, honestly, is it? Is it really? This is the NINTH standalone 'Spider-Man' movie. Come on now. It's hardly brand new. It's not even new. It's old hat, right? Filled with cobwebs, even? OH HERE WE GO. Anyway, it's a review of that and me going through the eight best movies I've seen so far this year. Not arsed listening through? Well, fine. My number 8 was 'Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie', and my number 4 choice was 'Obsession'. There. That's all you're getting, you cheap bastard. See if you get this kind of banter from Richard Brody, asshole.

ITHACA OR BUST.Yes, after a two-week odyssey across everyone else's podcast and the South of France where it was nearly 40 degrees, I have returned home to find my house in disarray and my podcast being supplanted by other suitors. Or something. Whatever. I finally got to see 'The Odyssey' last night in the Irish Film Institute in glorious 70mm and this is my 39-minute glazing of what I saw. It was incredible. A genuine sensory experience of the foundations of storytelling, an indictment of our current world order told through Greek mythology, a whopper of a score by Ludwig Goransson, and just all the BS surrounding it too. Nothing is left out. I covered it all. Get on it.

TRUTH. JUSTICE. WHATEVER.On this week's episode, 2FM / The George's Conor Behan lands on Screenland to talk 'Supergirl', the latest in James Gunn's reimagined and reinvigorated DC-iverse with Milly Alcock in the cape. Does it have the appeal to reach wide audiences? Is that even a thing anymore? Does it live up to the imagined hype? Was there even hype about this, to begin with? Elsewhere, Conor takes us into the rich and vibrant world of 'RuPaul's Drag Race', going from the early '90s TV successes through to the rise of the show that's now even got its own movie in 'Stop! That! Train!' which sees numerous drag queens star in an homage to '70s disaster movies ala 'Airplane!'. You can follow Conor on Instagram at @itsconorbehan and you can hear him on 2FM and hear him spinning the decks at The George this weekend and every weekend.