MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: The Blob (1988)
Dan takes us to small town USA, to show us what happens when you don't clean your pipes.
2023-12-11 23:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Smersh Pod posts
2023. A year in summary.
*Ronnie Barker as Arkwright voice: It's been a funny old year, but a vital one.
Hello. How are you? All well?
Well, it's been slow going on the podcast front in 2023. Not got as many episodes out as I'd have liked as I had to write a book and drastically change my life, but all-in-all I'm happy with how it's gone. There's been some great episodes, and no...
2023-12-05 09:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostMONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: The Whole Nine Yards
Dean takes John and Dan to Canada, to show them that dentists have all the fun.
2023-11-27 22:28:27 +0000 UTC View PostMonday Night Movie Club: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
John takes Dan and Dean to meet his lovely friends, and they didn't like them. John was sad. :(
2023-11-15 22:45:52 +0000 UTC View PostOnwards
Tomorrow, November 9th 2023, my third book is officially released into the world, putting a cap on a tumultuous period of my life that began in 2019 with Thunderbook, and echoed all the way to today. These releases should have been coupled with excitement and joy, but each has been tainted with mildly shitty events. In 2019 my marriage ended, and I had to consider what I would do, and how I ...
2023-11-08 13:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: The Prophecy
John and Dan seek out some Christopher Walken flavoured angel delight.
2023-10-16 19:50:53 +0000 UTC View PostMONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: Omega Cop
We're back! After two months away, we've decided to finally emerge and talk about Omega Cop.
2023-10-09 21:14:31 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Update!
Hello Smershers!
Just a quick update from the land of Rain (which handily describes England right now).
Tomorrow I move in to my own place, and start a new life. With this comes poignant trepidation, mixed with excitement, and the weight of apprehension, it also brings no internet until October 3rd. Fuck's sake.
The good news is that once I am up and ru...
2023-09-20 16:35:47 +0000 UTC View PostSuperman III - Exclusive SUPERBOOK preview excerpt.
IF THE WORLD’S MOST POWERFUL COMPUTER CAN CONTROL EVEN SUPERMAN . . . NO ONE ON EARTH IS SAFE!
‘What do you go and see? Pictures, comedies mainly?’ legendary talk-show host Johnny Carson asks in his usual warm and charming drawl from behind his world-famous desk. It was 20 May 1981, and guest Richard Pryor, slouched in his chair, baseball cap perched on he...
2023-09-20 15:33:09 +0000 UTC View PostThe Total Joy Podcast 7
Ahoy-Joy! We're back with chats about cameos, Blackadder II, haircuts, and sequels! Along with usual skits, Beep Halfords, Monkey and Joe, and more! *From 2020.
2023-09-13 23:10:23 +0000 UTC View PostThe Total Joy Podcast - Episode 6
This week we chat Jolly, Legal-squatting, Tripods, and Eric Andre show titles! Join us for the usual skits and bits! *From 2020
2023-09-13 23:05:38 +0000 UTC View PostTotal Joy Podcast #5
From 2020. Gonch! Harvey Birdman! The Goodies! Plymouth!
2023-08-31 19:30:30 +0000 UTC View PostTotal Joy Podcast #4
From 2020! Swimming! What's Up Doc? Batman 1989! Dublin!
2023-08-31 19:26:15 +0000 UTC View Post30 Years Asleep! Kingmaker - Sleepwalking
Hello!
As a very excited fan, it was a genuine pleasure to chat to Myles Howell and John Andrew from Kingmaker, and reflect on 30 years since Sleepwalking was released.
We go track by track, and there are lanes of memories, ballrooms, broken boilers, and shared hatred.
30 Years Asleep
Dear Smersher,
If, like me, you were an indie-kid in the early 1990s, you doubtless had this album, or at least were aware of the singles "Ten Years Asleep" or "Queen Jane".
In 1993 I was 16 years old, and firmly ensconced in an art college. I had two bands that I loved more than others; Suede, and Kingmaker. Sleepwalking was an album that was always in my bag, and rarely out of my Walkma...
2023-08-01 11:08:48 +0000 UTC View PostMNMC: Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous
This week we’ll be saving the world, while naming ourselves after a toilet, and being trained by a Benny Hill character, yes it’s Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous (or Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins).
2023-07-24 21:30:17 +0000 UTC View PostNovember 4th - Superbook book signing!
Hello everyone!
I will be at Jam Bookshop (61a Hackney Rd London E2 7NX) on November 4th 2023 to sign some books, if you fancy popping in for a chat.
MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: Slipstream
Dan takes John and Dean to the future, to show them that wind can be dangerous, though largely inconsequential.
2023-07-10 21:49:40 +0000 UTC View PostMONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: GET SHORTY
We're back! We spend a bit of the pod moaning, but the majority praising a modern movie masterpiece!
2023-06-12 22:09:33 +0000 UTC View PostPatreon Update - June 2023
Hello dear Patreons,
I just wanted to send you a quick update telling you what's been going on, and what will happening in the future.
Firstly to explain why it's been quiet around these parts; I've just finished 2023-06-10 10:23:52 +0000 UTC View Post
SUPERBOOK: THE WORLD OF SUPERHEROES ACCORDING TO SMERSH POD
If you mention the word ‘superhero’ these days, everyone and their mum can tell you a potted history of it all, because they’ve sat through numerous phases, extended TV series, and animated side-specials of expansive character-development, culminating in extraordinary final chapters, with the screen literally stacked full of characters battling one another while your eyes bleed with excitement and spectacle.
But before 1997, people would generally only think of a few things: Chris...
2023-06-08 20:46:11 +0000 UTC View PostMONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: Broken Arrow
John, Dean and Dan are BACK, to find warheads, and talk about American character actor Bob Gunton's genitalia far too much. Lovely to be back!
2023-05-15 21:57:39 +0000 UTC View PostBond Begins
A piece about Dr. No that I wrote for Empire a few years ago
2023-04-29 12:29:14 +0000 UTC View PostCarry on Robin
A Robin Hood Carry On sketch I wrote for a JP Special.
2023-04-29 12:22:44 +0000 UTC View PostRenegade: A celebration
Few games in the 1980s were able to push the ZX Spectrum to breaking point. Many tried, but technology seldom achieved any kind of successful breakthrough. More often than not, the restrictive colour pallete of the Spectrum caused a bit of a mess and your eyes became lost in some sort of magic eye of monochrome vomit.
However, in 1986 Renegade succeeded where others had failed. Not only did you have a game that was lovely to look at, it was also great t...
2023-04-29 12:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostCarry On Arthur
A Carry On script I wrote for an old JP Special:
Carry On Arthur
The Round Table.
King Arthur (Sid James) calls the Knights to order. Sir Lancelot (Jim Dale) is sat next to him, Tristan (Charles Hawtry) and Percival (Harry H. Corbett) join them at the table.
Lancelot
I hereby call to order the first meeting of the Knights of the Round Table
Arthur
MONDAY NIGHT MOVIE CLUB: Suburban Commando
Dan takes Dean and John to the suburbs to meet Shep Ramsey, and save the world.
2023-04-03 22:02:55 +0000 UTC View PostWhat next for James Bond?
I’ve always said that Bond is the one franchise that is wholly devoted to living in denial. Denial that a supporting actor can be a good guy in one film, then the main villain in the next. Plots could be regularly repeated, but with the cunning twist of swapping sea for space. That’s before you get to the man himself; where he can be Sean Connery one minute, Timothy Dalton the next. The audience don’t care about continuity in a traditional sense. They’re just there to be swept away on...
2023-03-27 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post