TV & Film
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As Jonathan Harvey's new play Our Lady of Blundellsands opens at the Everyman, Shaun Ponsonby revisits his forgotten sitcom, Beautiful People. ...
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RuPaul's Drag Race UK kicks off this week, we want to know who you think will sashay away with the crown. ...
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Vicky Pea takes a look at the new documentary Best Before Death by Paul Duane. ...
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How the late career masterpiece turned into a major misstep for Quentin. Yes, there will be spoilers....
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A queer, Liverpool-based horror podcast, you say? Shaun Ponsonby speaks to Jon Larkin and Stephen Moore from Screaming Queenz. ...
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Gentlemen, start your engines, the first ever RuPaul's Drag Race UK Line Up is here!...
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As Steve Coogan returns to our screens as the insufferable Alan Partridge, Alan Parry looks back fondly at one of his less remembered characters, Tommy Saxondale. ...
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With the release of the much anticipated biopic Stan and Ollie, Shaun Ponsonby revisits ten of Laurel and Hardy’s classic films. ...
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Matt Mak reviews the UK exclusive extended version of Betty: They Say I'm Different – the new biopic on pioneering Queen of Funk, Betty Davis....
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With Paul Verhoeven's infamous trash classic heading to the Output Gallery, Shaun Ponsonby asks whether Showgirls is a truly bad film, or simply misunderstood. ...
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A new biopic has been made on the life and music of this 1970s Funk icon – and it's coming to Liverpool for one night only on Monday 6th August 2018....
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Exploring the effect of Section 28, Shaun Ponsonby heads to The Reeds for a much needed LGBT history lesson. ...
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As the latest Star Wars movie makes its way to home media, Bruce McAdam deconstructs the film and analyses the controversy surrounding it. ...
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Christy Smyth brings this battle of two TV titans to a close, with Black Museum and Tempting Fate getting it on in the final round. ...
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Created by Dawn French, and written by a formidable writing team of twin sisters, Alan Parry remembers a largely forgotten sitcom that should be ranked as one of the fine...
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As Christy Smyth gets to the business end of both Black Mirror and Inside No. 9 it’s almost level pegging. Up next it’s Metalhead vs. And The Winner Is…...
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Continuing his look at two incredibly popular anthology series, Christy Smyth explored Black Mirror’s Hang The DJ and Inside No. 9’s To Have And To Hold....
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Christy Smyth returns with round three of Black Mirror vs. Inside No. 9 to pit Crocodile against Once Removed. ...
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Continuing his weekly breakdowns of Black Mirror and Inside No. 9, Christy Smyth compares Arkangel and Bernie Clifton’s Dressing Room. Spoiler alert....
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As Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror and BBC Two’s Inside No. 9 return to our screens, Christy Smyth pits each episode against each other. Spoiler alert. ...
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Planet Slop welcomes back Snips’ Dave Wain for an almost nearly festive Christmas movie guide. ...
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As Cartoon Network hits a golden age, Christy Smyth winds down our week-long celebration by asking why British animation is so far behind America. ...
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As John Waters prepares to make his sole UK appearance in Liverpool, Shaun Ponsonby commemorates the 20th anniversary of the classic Simpsons episode Homer’s Phobia...
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Animania turns towards the East as Craig O’Reilly & Laura Coppin pick their Ghibli favourites. ...
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Continuing our week-long celebration of all things animated, Laura Coppin challenges the long held belief that cartoons are primarily made for children. ...
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As the first ever animated feature film celebrates its 80th anniversary this week, Planet Slop present Animania – a week long celebration of cartoons throughout the...
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Ahead of The League of Gentlemen’s TV return and UK tour, Alan Parry looks at the legacy of one of British comedy’s darkest gems. ...
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As Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi is unleashed, Bruce McAdam takes an in-depth look at the franchise under Disney. ...
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Planet Slop offer a spoiler free review straight from the red carpet of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. ...
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In the second in his series of imagined backstage stories from terrible TV shows, Shaun Ponsonby travels back to 1983 for an erotic, romantic epic set in the early days o...
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Ahead of the big screen adaption of The Disaster Artist, Shaun Ponsonby explores the cult classic film on which it is based and asks why this particular bomb resonates wi...
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With the release of his new film The Killing of a Sacred Deer, we take a look at the films of Yorgos Lanthimos with a guest piece by Michael Fowler from Picturehouse at F...
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The Death Of Stalin gets the Planet Slop Film Club treatment in our second collaborate review. ...
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Slop’s Vicky Pea teams up with Snips’ Dave Wain to bring you a spooky selection of seriously shocking Halloween films. ...
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Planet Slop welcomes you to our inaugural edition of the Film Club, first up in our firing line, Blade Runner 2049. ...
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Gentlemen start your engines, and may the best woman win! Shaun Ponsonby sees something in Drag Race that he doesn't get from any other reality contest. ...
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In the first of his short stories based on the backstage antics of bland TV shows, Shaun Ponsonby imagines the events surrounding The One’s Show’s Christmas p...
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As the BBC announce Jodie Whittaker as the first Time Lady, Sean Broadhurst argues that the change is not only canon, but central to the show. ...
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George A. Romero, the Godfather of the Dead, has died after a short battle with cancer. ...
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As Steven Speilberg looks into rebooting Animaniacs, Shaun Ponsonby pays tribute to one of his most beloved cartoons....
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Returning like Twin Peaks on a different network, Shaun Ponsonby finds the all-new Cosmic Slop closer to Alien: Covenant....
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When the No Homer’s Club exhibition came to Constellations, Shaun Ponsonby made a perfectly cromulent argument....