This week's big question is: if a tree falls in the woods, are you banging your own mum? But before that: Avengers Infinity War (whole bunch of spoilers, including a spoiler for which Avenger Nathan is in love with), and Netflix series The Rain. Infinity War trailer, if you haven't already seen it Vanity Fair longread on Kevin Feige's reign over Ma…

Sarah and Nathan saw Mary Stuart at the Theatre Royal in Bath, and Nathan saw a lot of films on a plane - some of which were good, some of which were not terrible, and some of which were made by Ridley Scott. Plus, Age of Answers! More about Mary Stuart That incredible Tonya Harding profile Caroline Criado Perez explains why she campaigned for a st…

Don't say we didn't warn you. Ready Player One is really, really bad, so it sucks to be Sarah who only got to see that this week. Better times for Nath who also saw Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark with live soundtrack, meaning that we can delve into the mysteries of good Spielberg vs poor Spielberg. There's no Age of Answers this week…

Why is the new Lara Croft movie like a plastic cup? Can a family annihilating demigod achieve character development? And just how should a person be? All these questions and more (including the ones you put to us in Age of Answers via the email below) WILL be answered in this amazing episode of The Mispronounced Item. The trailer for Tomb Raider if…

We're back from Seattle, and here we are with the aural equivalent of your neighbours coming over with the slides from their holiday. This week: things we learned in Seattle (mostly about aircraft, please trust us that this is very interesting), Annihilation the book and the film, Ursula Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness, and (of course) THE AGE …

We went to see Flight of the Conchords! It was great! We listened to loads of Britpop on the way! It was... variable! We watched Murder on the Orient Express! It was exactly what we hoped for! And Nathan has been playing Burnout Paradise Remastered! It has been consuming! Plus, we answer a long overdue question in the Age of Answers. No Mispronounc…

Apologies for being a day late on this due to Nath being ill. Still, we're here now with thoughts on Black Panther (MANY SPOILERS, you have been warned) and You Were Never Really Here (about which we try to say as little as humanly possible, leading to a pretty weird section TBH where we talk about Britpop for ages for some reason), plus The Age of…

We watched Mute. We thought it couldn't be as bad as people said, but it is if anything much, much worse. So bad that Sarah argues it should have been more like Mr Bean, and actually has a point. Maximum spoilers here so avoid if you want to watch Mute (but you don't want to watch Mute). Plus a quick rattle through a novel inspired by the life of s…

Here's the Great Lost Episode from last year! And by "Great" we mean "Really Quite Long", but for EXCELLENT REASONS, mostly relating to the brilliance of Get Out, here discussed extensively (and with spoilers all the way). We originally recorded this in March 2017, but it's OK because we were right about basically everything. Some links: Get Out ha…

"It's the intellectual equivalent of separate beds!" says Nathan, meaning he's watched a film that Sarah hasn't and Sarah has read a book he hasn't this week. Cloverfield, Shirley Jackson, and dietary advice for dogs, let's go. The Cloverfield Paradox is on Netflix now (if you're avoiding spoilers, skip 00:03:00-00:22:00 of this podcast). Treat you…

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Somehow we manage not to wang on further about Hamilton this week though that may change due to popular demand (i.e. if someone asks, which they already have, thank you Deya on Twitter). This week! Walking sims are great, humanity is terrible, and comedians are chatty. The games we talk about are What Remains of Edith Finch, Oxenfree, Crossing Soul…

We went to see Hamilton! It was predictably amazing! Plus a bit about Star Trek. See Hamilton if you can, but definitely definitely listen to the cast recording on Spotify. Read Helen Lewis's article about Hamilton. Watch Star Trek: Discovery on Netflix.By The Mispronounced Item

The fun twist this week is that we've been doing completely different things, making for some classic repartee along the lines of "what are you talking about?" and "I don't understand". Dark is on Netflix; Sarah is going to watch it and you should too Red Oaks is on Amazon Prime Ian Leslie's article on the golden age of television is a great explan…

Well it's been ages, hasn't it? Let's try to make this thing more regular. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is on general release now. Watch the trailer here. The Shining is obviously still in print and you should buy it from your favourite book shop. Read the amazing story of Antony Burgess's pettiness at The Wrap. The games books Nathan …

What's in the drawer? It's the mystery of whether Nathan's sexuality was formed by a Two Ronnies sketch! Open if you dare. Testosterone Rex by Cordelia Fine is out now from Icon; Sarah's review for the Guardian is here The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen was published in 2003 and is still in print because there is no God The Power by Naom…

Last week's good intentions to focus on the positive come awry as Sarah and Nathan talk about war (it's bad), Sherlock (pretty bad also), and why Sarah is biased against American fiction. You, unlike Nathan, can watch Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? on BBC iPlayer and read Sarah's New Statesman column about the programme Sarah's review of Innocen…

2016 is gone but we are back! With a new theme tune! And we've put together a list of everything worth redeeming from the smoking trashpile of last year. Sarah picks books by Sarah Perry (above left) and Susan Faludi, and albums by Carly Rae Jepsen and Angel Olsen; Nathan takes on film and games, with props for Hunt for the Wilderpeople (above cent…

Things have taken a turn for the really quite bad, haven't they? Join us in our search for ten reasons not to worry even though everything is terrible. Nathan's been revisiting Red Dead Redemption, Sarah's been reviewing Susan Faludi's memoir of her father's life and gender transition, and there are some superb new stings to feed your misery. "Seam…

You know how much fun hearing about other people's holidays is? Well listen to us talk about our holiday for a whole hour. Los Angeles! Disneyland! Yosemite! San Francisco! All the things we did and you didn't! Plus, Sarah on why The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry might be the novel of the year, and Nath's amazing behind-the-scenes revelations about …

Strap yourself in for NO FUN AT ALL in this edition of The Mispronounced Item where we talk about male violence, male violence, and fire. We've watched claustrophobic Oscar contender Room (spoilers ahoy), Sarah reminisces about the horrible time she tried to read all the Red Riding books in one go, and Nathan's been playing new PS4 game Firewatch. …

This is a farrago. We try to have a serious chat about Netflix series Making a Murderer and the rise and rise of the true crime genre (mentions to this excellent critical response from the New Yorker, this NYT portrait of a special victims unit, and Leslie Jamison's essay on the West Memphis Three compiled in The Empathy Exams). But it starts to go…

Join us this week as Nathan talks seemingly endlessly about Star Wars - no, not even the new one, but about the prequel trilogy, digital effects, and the curse of the 1990s. Sarah has been reading Jonathan Bate's biography of Ted Hughes, a very sharp look at a titanic talent and an utter bastard, and Sarah has also reviewed Samantha Hunt's new nove…

Let's just pick up where we left off and pretend we haven't ghosted you for months, yeah? We've assidiously rated THE WHOLE OF 2015 so we can talk at you about the actual best bits. We've got the best games, the best books, and the best films. (Not to give anything away on that last one, but there are a lot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens spoilers …

OH MY GOD WHERE HAVE WE BEEN? HOW HAVE YOU COPED WITHOUT US? Top domestic chat this week about Nathan's sunglasses, which he has lost. While we've been away, Nath's been writing about YouTuber KSI: is he the worst thing that has ever happened or quite good? Sarah has been writing about new novella Grief is the Thing with Feathers, inspired by Ted H…

What did we do on our holiday? Well we went all gooey about Henry Cavill in The Man from Uncle, we thrilled to The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins, and we didn't do any writing (because we were on holiday, duh) but Sarah's review of new Bond novel Trigger Mortis has just been published and she wrote about Anthony Horowitz's much-criticised comme…

This week: Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy pushes humanity off a cliff (and frankly we deserve it), Justified lays down the law, and why people who say your A-levels don't matter are big smug liars. No pod next week as we're on holiday, but to be honest once you've heard Sarah's weird Gael García Bernal fantasy, you'll have had enough of us for…

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