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I got a pretty fair idea that something doggone important is goin' on back there. Nick and Roger take three looks at nuclear war averted, or not, with 1964's Dr Strangelove and Fail Safe, then 1990's TV movie By Dawn's Early Light. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

More war, if peripherally, as we go back to old Ribbon of Memes favourites Huston and Bogart for 1951's The African Queen. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

The great Jacques Tourneur had a vision… that he didn't entirely get to use, in this adaptation of M R James' "Casting the Runes." Nick and Roger are excessively brash and American in 1957's Night of the Demon. The film is freely available from archive.org. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

We're back in the Second World War, in that genre of films that gradually shifted from near-documentary to fantasy. This time we're more at the fantasy end, with two films of Alistair MacLean's books, 1961's The Guns of Navarone and 1968's Where Eagles Dare. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

An open and shut case, the victim raped the man's wife and then the man shot him. But is it legally murder? Nick and Roger take a look at 1959's Anatomy of a Murder. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

We've previously talked about Knives Out and Glass Onion, and now Roger and Nick return for the third Benoit Blanc film, 2025's Wake Up Dead Man. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

The dame is lovely, and very dead. But that's just another day in the big city as Nick and Roger take a look at 1944's Laura. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

A forgotten classic, overrated, or (as usual) something in between? Roger and Nick go from surgery to jet car to concert stage in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take another dip into the barrel of Hammer with Christopher Lee in Wheatley's terribly serious tale of satanism, 1968's The Devil Rides Out. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick approach a horror classic from different angles as we take a look at 1980's The Shining. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger take a look at famed cinematic turkey Ishtar (1987), and at another film inspired by the Hope/Crosby Road To series, Spies Like Us (1985). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick blend cinematic apocalypse with cinematic disaster as we go back to what was at the time the most expensive film ever made, 1995's Waterworld. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger conclude our look into 1950s visions of nuclear apocalypse (for now) with World Without End (1956), Panic in Year Zero! (1962, but it feels very 1950s so we kept it in) and On the Beach (1959). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Roger and Nick haul on our lead BVDs and revisit several 1950s visions of nuclear apocalypse and its aftermath. This episode, Five](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043539) (1951) and The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download

Nick and Roger aren't going to face 1984's The Ice Pirates sober. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download