Two episodes back to back? You're goddamn right as we do the show's annual Christmas special with It's a Wonderful Life. It starts off fairly normally but at some point, we get to a discussion of Ricky Gervais so it falls into a usual standard for this show.

Looks like there's gonna be two episodes this week as the podcast looks through the history of Wallace & Gromit with a look at the shorts, the films and the work of Aardman as a whole.

One final directorial retrospective this year with a look at Robert Eggers career to tie into his upcoming adaptation of Nosferatu.

We only did a Disney film a couple of weeks ago but they just keep pumping out new films so we're looking at The Lion King (again) along with the two sequels and the 2019 remake.

One of the biggest gaps in podcast history is begin filled this week as we look at Lord of the Rings (but it's not the extended edition this week). We look at the history of the films coming to screen, Peter Jackson's career and, somehow and rather inexplicably, a comparison between Lord of the Rings, Spider-Man and Paddington 2.

There's a sequel to Moana coming out soon but it's already been covered on the show so I guess we're covering Mulan this week? There's no real justification beyond the fact that they're both Disney princess films but we talk about Disney in general and there's a special guest who turns up in the episode.

Gladiator II comes out soon so it's time to talk about the first Gladiator along with the career of Ridley Scott, the general gladiator genre and the similarities between the scores of Hans Zimmer.

Also, in the episode we discuss the similarities between the score of Gladiator and Pirates of the Caribbean so here's a comparison of the scores along with The Lion King 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4VaGGbVpRg

After a hectic and stressful week for some, there's some wholesome content this week with a discussion of the Paddington films to tie into the new film out soon. We look at the films and just the general output of Paul King.