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It's our favourite time of year! Or, maybe just Joyce's favourite time of year. Regardless, Matt and Joyce are back to make their Oscar picks and talk about some of the contenders. Will Oscar voters see things our way? We'll find out! 

Better late than never, Joyce and Matt return to review Star Wars Rise of Skywalker. Critics hated it, fans who hated Last Jedi loved it, but where do the Watchmen sit on this one-month-late to the party review? Cue your favourite Ben Solo shoulder shrug, grab your force-teleported lightsabre and set your expectations to stunned (wait, wrong franchise?) as Watchmen rap about the wars.

What a better way for the Watch-men to end the year with the season finale of The Watchmen! Matt and Joyce review the last episode of Watchmen, their favourite moments in the season and look forward to a new year of more nerdy movies and shows. Happy holidays!

Disney+ has launched and with it, The Mandalorian. How does this latest iteration of Star Wars compare to the movies? What's the Star Wars universe like without the characters that movie goers are so familiar with? And, do Matt and Joyce talk about how cute Baby Yoda is all episode? Listen and find out! 

The brand new Watchmen TV series has been out for a few weeks on HBO now. Who watches the Watchmen? Why,the Watch-men, of course! Joyce and Matt chat about the early episodes and reflect a bit on how the show connects with the graphic novel. 

Now that we’ve talked about the Jokers, it’s time to talk about JOKER the movie starring Joaquin Phoenix. Matt is back (or was he?) with Matt and Joyce to try figure out what was real and what wasn't in the latest and darkest re-telling of Joker. 

Special guest Matt joins the Watch-Men to talk about the jokers throughout the years. Could there be a Jared Leto Joker without Heath Ledger? Or Jack Nicholson without Cesar Romero? The Matts and Joyce discuss all the Jokers leading up to the latest Joaquin Phoenix iteration. Listen and share with us who your favourite Joker is! 

Since Jon Snow rode off into the sunset with Tormund (spoilers?) there's been a void once filled with fantasy spectacle and relationship drama. Thanks to Amazon Prime's Carnival Row, our lives are once again full of political intrigue and a jam packed cast led by Orlando Bloom* and Cara Delevingne. Guest Jill joins Matt and Joyce to talk about this new victorian steampunk series and whether or not it will (or should) fill the gap that Game of Thrones left in the genre. *You may know him from another little fantasy genre movie called Lord of the rings and appearances in the Hobbit trilogy but we don't talk about that.

Stranger Things 3 is out on Netflix with even more nostalgic wacky 80s adventures, Russian mysteries and an extra gory monster. Our Stranger Things correspondent Paul returns to share his thoughts on this latest season and how it compares to its previous chapters. Was it worth the wait into the summer? Will the monsters get scared away by the increasing teenage angst? Listen and find out!

Quentin Tarentino’s 10th film takes us back to the time Bryan Adams got his first real six string: the summer of ’69! Following the story of a struggling actor and his stuntman, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood takes a peak at a time in Hollywood when things went all helter skelter. We bring in special guest Stephanie to chat about a movie that is without a doubt stylish and well produced, but not without issues.

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and Joyce and Matt feel fine … because we’re reviewing Amazon Prime’s Good Omens! Is it an angelic masterpiece? Fiendishly good? Or just bad as hell? We talk about the show, the book and struggle a bit to pronounce Gaiman. It’s a real biblical affair on this week’s Watch-men podcast.

Comic-Con has comic-come and comic-gone, and all that’s left are the trailers and nostalgia. We go over a few of the biggest trailers (see below for a list) and also chat about the MCU’s fourth phase.

Spider-man’s back! Now that Endgame has, uh, ended, and Tony Stark is [SPOILERS] RIP, how will our friendly neighborhood Spider-man manage to keep spinning webs without a mentor? By going to Europe, apparently! Our spider-correspondent Matt joins regular Watch-men hosts Joyce and Matt swing through Venice, Prague and London to decide whether or not Jake Gyllenhaal is superhero material, if Peter Parker is the new Iron-Man and where Marvel and superhero movies will go from here.

Undeterred by the fact that the previous iteration of Dark Phoenix Saga, X-Men: Last Stand, was a colossal failure that practically killed the X-Men franchise, 20th Century Fox brings back Last Stand writer Simon Kinberg so he can write, direct and produce a new version of the same story. Can Kinberg prove that Last Stand was a fluke? Does Dark Phoenix finally elevate the X-Men franchise? Lol nope! It bad. Worse than X-Men Apocalypse even. So bad we don’t even know how we filled a whole episode talking about it. Ah well, at least the news section has some interesting stuff. Watch-men!

Blessed with a Wizard’s powers to review movies every time they say the name “Watch-men!”, Joyce and Matt take on the light-hearted DCEU flick Shazam! Does is it indeed stand out as a not-terrible DCEU movie? Was it a missed opportunity to not license the Destiny’s Child song, “Say My Name?” And why is it that some DC cities are fiction and others are real like Philadelphia? Are there no rules? I mean, come on!

Wondering what to watch this summer? There's a lot! In this episode, Matt recounts the horrors of Chernobyl (both in real life and on HBO) and we run down a list of anticipated summer blockbusters for you to consider. Will they be good? Only time (and our review) will tell!

Joyce and Matt go to a far away land where the CGI camels and caravans roam to review Disney's latest live-action remake: Aladdin! We talk about our what it means to have a diverse cast in an otherwise orientalist story, how we felt about all the acting, singing and dancing, and, of course, whether or not we liked Will Smith's version of the genie. Prepare your wishes and hop on your magic carpet for this week's Watch-men podcast.

Our resident Game of Thrones Subject Matter Expert, Tori, guests as Joyce and Matt wrap-up their Game of Thrones season 8 coverage with a deep dive into the finale. Were we as enraged as the rest of the internet? What's missing from the show that could be different in the books? And how did Robyn Arryn turn into such a hottie? We answer these questions and more on this episode of the Watch-men podcast.

It's the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones and...what just happened?! Just when we thought we couldn't be more mad and/or confused about events and character arcs in an episode, The Bells happened. Matt and Joyce attempt to break down the episode, but really, it's just a joint therapy session at this point. Did you enjoy it? Let us know!

Our heroes and anti-heroes prevented the Long Night only to barely survive the latest episode of Game of Thrones. Matt and Joyce are pretty grumpy about this episode. Listen to the latest episode about why this episode made everyone mad (and let us know if you're mad too! @watchmenpodcast)