Similarly, I tend to mix up 'presents' and 'porcupines'. Christmas is always interesting. (AKA an intro to episode four of ‘The Film Show’)

Rather appropriately, in this, our fourth edition, we break the fourth wall by bringing in views outside of our own. Whereas previously we tended to chat amongst ourselves without really acknowledging listeners, from this edition onwards, we incorporate their reviews of the Film Club film that I asked for via Facebook. However, it transpires that most people confuse the words ‘review’ and ‘description’, hence the majority of the offerings we got were merely concise synopsises which, although well done, were not particularly useful in aiding discussion. It would almost have been better of them to send us pictures of Spiderman, because then at least we’d have something cool to put on our bedroom walls.

Also introduced in this episode is Producer Alex. Well, technically he’d appeared or been referenced in all the previous shows albeit briefly, but here he is a major contributor. Unfortunately, most of his airtime in this edition seems to involve him being distracted, abused, or, shall we say, touched, in some way or another.  Not only that, but Chris and James, for probably no reason other than boredom, repeatedly off-air tweet him spoilers (but not, presumably, BRUCE WILLIS IS A GHOST, because that’s long since been established). Despite their encouragements for others to do the same, I have ensured that this does not happen, thus saving Alex from a lifetime of random twists being revealed, by removing his Twitter handle from the edited podcast.

One moniker of his that I have kept in however is his alleged middle name, Danger. The origins of this aren’t needlessly complicated (I can confirm there will be no films released detailing its backstory); it was simply how he’d identified himself on a social network profile, and I kept referring to him as such long after he’d since dropped it. Why? Well, partly because I thought it had a nice ring to it, and partly because I wanted him to hear how silly it sounded. Honestly, it would be like me identifying myself as Brendan Maverick Way (Incidentally, M is my middle initial, thus allowing me to legitimately call myself BMW, but that’s not what it stands for).

Speaking of mavericks, it seems that James’ suggestion that our next Film Club film be Executive Decision is not actually that mad. Having looked it up out of curiosity, it turns out to be a genuine 1996 action film starring Kurt Russell. This discovery in fact directly inspired a round in the pilot of my other podcast, and indeed, the title is in one of the questions.

CORRECTIONS

‘Batman is Batman’ is not what ‘all you need to know about Batman’. You also need to know that he gets quite testy if you mention parents...

You can’t exhaust Spiderman – that’s another of his lesser-known powers.

“We” did not give Colin Firth an honorary degree – obviously here we’re referring to our university. We only award fake Oscars.