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Episode 321: In the Mood for Love

Released 27 August 2025

For this episode, we watched the Wong Kar-wai’s modern classic In the Mood for Lov…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 320: Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek’s kinoapparatom)

Released 30 July 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1929 experimental Sov…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 319: Vertigo

Released 25 June 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1958 Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo starring James Stewart and Ki…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 318: Tokyo Story

Released 28 May 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1953 Japanese classic Tokyo Story, directed by Yasujirō Ozu f…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 317. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Released 30 April 2025

Today we watched two contrasting episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We k…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 316: Oscars 2025

Released 3 March 2025

For this episode, we quickly recapped the 97th Academy Awards which were broadcast in the UK …

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman

Released 12 February 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 …

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025

Released 23 January 2025.

For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awa…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX)

First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch.

We lost David Ly…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 96: Oppenheimer

Released 18 December 2024

For this episode, we watched the 2023 Best Picture winner Oppenheimer written and directed…

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Tom's new book is out now wherever books are sold.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Red-Dwarf-Discovering-TV-1988-1993/dp/1399034944

https://www.waterstones.com/book/red-dwarf-discovering-the-tv-series/tom…

Twenty years, 16 postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Jessica Regan

Episode 312. Star Trek The Next Generation: Chain of Command

Released 1 May 2024

Today we watched the two-part story “Chain of Command”, th…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Garrett Millerick

Episode 311. Star Trek (TOS): This Side of Paradise

Released 24 April 2024

“This Side of Paradise” is the 24th episode of the first sea…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Joy Wilkinson

Episode 310. Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever

Released 17 April 2024

Today we watched “The City on the Edge of Forever”, the 28th…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Dan Starkey

Episode 309. Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark

Released 10 April 2024

“The Devil in the Dark” is the 25th episode of the original Star Trek, f…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Andy Stanton

Episode 308. Star Trek The Next Generation: Tapestry

Released 3 April 2024

“Tapestry” is the 15th episode in TNG’s excellent sixth season, f…

Best Pick with Tom Salinsky and special guest Natalie Bochenski

Episode 307. Star Trek (TOS): The Enemy Within

Released 27 March 2024

“The Enemy Within” is the fifth episode of the first season of St…

Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

The Oscars 2024

Released 12 March 2024

Following an unsuccessful attempt to record an episode immediately following the transmission of the …