The Weekly Planet

Mel Gibson is out and Tom Hardy is in! Mad Max finally returned after a 30 year hiatus with Fury Road. This time around he's tangled himself up with Immortan Joe, a warlord of the wastelands on a vengeful quest to retrieve his stolen brides from Charlize Theron's Furiosa. And it turns out it's a pre...

After much anticipation we finally have a chance to wrap up the Zack Snyder's Rebel Moon saga (for now) with Part Two: The Scargiver. We also talk the news of the week including trailers for Transformers One and Trap, Tarantino cancels his final movie, casting of Shadow The Hedgehog plus Ma & Pa...

Mel Gibsons run as Mad Max Rockatansky ended with Beyond Thunderdome in 1985. Set 15 years after the last it's often considered the weakest of the original trilogy but it's not without it's moments. Including the inclusion of Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, a bungee cord death match, a tribe of lost c...

Cinema Con 2024 brought us details and enthusiastic descriptions of multiple upcoming movies including Deadpool & Wolverine, Captain America: Brave New World, Thunderbolts Asterix, Transformers One and a trailer for Joker Folie à Deux. Plus we talk the potential return of Robert Downey Jr to Iro...

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior allowed director George Miller to take the concepts and character from the 1979 original and really put the boot in. That meant a bigger myth, bigger stunts, bigger men, more butts cut out of leather trousers. And the result was a lot of the iconic imagery we know of the...

I tells you what it is all happening this week with news concerning The Fantastic Four, new release dates for TronL Ares and The Mandalorian VS Grogu, Disney's Indiana Jones big loss, Bob Igers big win, an Avengelyne movie goes ahead, Dune III news, The Matrix 5 and more! Including our review of Dev...

Before there was Max Fury Road there was two other Mad Max movies and then the original Mad Max movie from 1979. The directorial debut of George Miller and the first feature film from Melvin Gibson it gave the Australian film industry the kick in the arse it needed with it's influence the world ove...

Another week another movie about a giant lizard fighting a giant monkey but then those two team up to fight a different giant monkey. Tale as old as time. But before we review Godzilla x Kong we have to talk the news of the week including Star Trek 4 maybe happening again, a Ghostbusters animated se...

We're going back to where it all began, the original King Kong movie from 1933. It's influence is still felt to this very day with it's unique story, amazing use of stop motion coupled with rear projection and a symphonic score to accompany the iconic imagery. It's easy to see why it became an inst...

James' greatest enemy, Ghostbusters, has returned in the form of a Frozen Empire. But is it more of the same or something new for the Sony Ghost Corps Ghostbusters IP/content farm? Before that though we talk the news of the week with some big Disney business drama, the future of AI in film along wi...