186 Alien: Covenant & The Venom Solo Movie

186 Alien: Covenant & The Venom Solo Movie

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Best of The Weekly Planet 2025

It’s our yearly best of the year clip show episode! And in honour of all the BIG MOVIE that came out in 2025, we’ve got the biggest and longest episode ever. We’re in hell so we might as well. Hopefully including all your fave characters like Austin Powers, Groglet, Rogue Trooper ...  Show more

X-Men (2000) - The Weekly Planet Movie Commentary Track

Hello everybody and welcome to another free bonus thing while the main podcast is on break until Feb 2nd! This week, we're getting ready for another Avengers: Doomsday teaser by revisiting the first X-Men movie and debut of some specific actors/characters who may or may not be re ...  Show more

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