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Send us a textIn our new episode Neil, Marie & Jose are joined by a first time guest to the show film critic Cassie Hager as they talk all things TV & Film.In the What we've been watching section - Cassie - Here/Fraiser Reboot S2 Part 2Neil - The Devils Hour S2/The Penguin/HereticJose - Uglies/Altered Carbon S2Reviews25:31 - Rivals S137:05 - Nightbitch44:26 - Sweetpea S149:48 - Wolfs54:58 - Interview With The Vampire66:45 - Smile 278:25 - The FranchiseInteract with us on our soci...
Published 11/18/24
Send us a textIn our new episode Neil, Marie & Jose are joined by a first time guest to the show film critic Cassie Hager as they talk all things TV & FilmIn the What we've been watching section - Cassie - Here/Fraiser Reboot S2 Part 2Neil - The Devils Hour S2/The Penguin/HereticJose - Uglies/Altered Carbon S2Reviews25.31 - Rivals S137.05 - Nightbitch44.26 - Sweetpea S149.48 - Wolfs54.58 - Interview With The Vampire66.45 - Smile 278.25 - The FranchiseSupport the showInteract with...
Published 11/06/24
Send us a textFeel free to play along with Colin Robinson, Wednesday Adams, some kind of Man-With Bat lights on him and a man who might be a magician or some kind of pimp!Yes, our resident horror fan David has devised a horror movie quiz episode for Neil (who has a good knowledge of horror) and Jose and Marie who do not and rarely watch horror films!Let the chaos commence!Support the showInteract with us on our socialsSubscribe to our Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzjUgHJLyR...
Published 10/31/24
Send us a textJoin Neil & Marie for an episode that is finally under 2 hours as they discuss the following 00.00 - 05.50 - Intro05.50 - 07.29 - Invincible Season 3 Teaser Trailer Review07.29 - 09.16 - Silo thoughts 09.16 - 15.46 - Star Trek Lower Decks/General Trek Chat!15.46 - 17.41 - The Orville chat17.41 - 20.05 - The Rings of Power Season 2 Review20.05 - 21.40 - Tulsa King Season 2 Chat21.40 - 23.17 - Sweetpea Episode 1 review23.17 - Sherwood Season 1 brief thoughts&nb...
Published 10/22/24
Send us a textStrap in, go to the bathroom and get the snacks folks as we spend almost 3 hours going through a veritable treasure trove of wrongly (and occasionally rightly) cancelled TV shows.Neil is joined by Ben, David, Jose & Marie as we read out listeners comments from Twitter, give our honourable mentions and then delve into our combined Top 10 Cancelled TV Shows of All Time And remember this is our 2nd ever Video episode as well which you can view with added graphics and fun o...
Published 10/05/24
Send us a textIt's our historic first VIDEO episode of We Needed Roads that definitely wasn't planned but as it was the first time we were able to assemble the full We Needed Roads crew of myself (Neil), David, Ben, Jose & Marie, and it was a genuinely funny episode we thought why not make it into our first Video episode!Here are the timestamps Cold Open - 00.00 - 04.15Intro - 04.15 - 08.29The Old Man - 08.29 - 11.15Upgrade - 11.15 - 16.18Ramsays Kitchen Nightmares - 16.18 - 22.59The...
Published 09/18/24
Send us a textI'm joined by Jose & Marie as we talk the recent round of period fantasy cancellations including My Lady Jane & Renegade NellWe catch up what we've been watching including Time Bandits, Promising Young Woman, Abbot Elementary, Bad Monkey & UnstableA non-spoiler review of The Decameron on NetflixAnd in our spoiler section we throughly spoil The Umbrella Academy's final season and belatedly go through House of the Dragon S200.00 - 03.14 - Intro3.14 - My Lady Jane Cance...
Published 09/08/24
Send us a textIn this episode I'm joined by our very our J-train Jose Lopez and our own Victoria Neuman Marie Stanza who will make your head explode if you don't recycle as we take a belated but spoiler filled dive deep into The Boys Season 4 and give our predictions on where we think the final season will end.Will it follow along with the graphic novels ending or continue to veer away from the original story?Support the showInteract with us on our socialsView this episode on our Youtube Chan...
Published 09/04/24
Send us a textOn this packed episode of the We Needed Roads podcast I'm joined by Jose & first time guest Aaron Gillingham as we do a summer movie round up with non-spoiler reviews of Irelands best International language entry for the 2025 Oscars Kneecap, Eli Roths video game adaptation Borderlands, M Night Shyamalan's Trap, Daisy Ridleys The Young Woman & The Sea & Lee Issac Chungs TwistersAaron gives us his top 3 films from this years Fright Fest, and we all delve into Fed...
Published 08/31/24
Send us a textYES JEFF!!!In this episode I'm joined by Chefs Jose & Marie as we serve up a full menu run through of all things The Bear S3, from an episode by episode run through, to where we predicted S3 would go in from our S2 special, to where we think S4 will go and how the show will ultimately end!Support the showInteract with us on our socialsView this episode on our Youtube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzjUgHJLyR4UL5SHcMx0GYwhttps://twitter.com/NeededRoads (run by Neil)h...
Published 08/19/24
Send us a textDo or do not there is no trying as Neil, Ben & Jose dive into all things The AcolyteSupport the showInteract with us on our socialshttps://twitter.com/NeededRoads (run by Neil)https://www.instagram.com/weneededroads (run by David)Fund our quest for a superyachtOur Merch store is open at...https://hawkr.live/weneededroadspodcast/storehttps://www.buymeacoffee.com/WeneededroadsAnd leave us comments and 5 star reviews at...https://open.spotify.com/show/0E31ucDQy7Ha5PRdtahAjbhttp...
Published 08/12/24
Send us a textHi and welcome to episode 104 of The We Needed Roads Podcast where we dive baby knife first into one of the years biggest films Deadpool & Wolverine!For such a big film we assemble our own podcast Avengers as Neil is joined by Ben-Pool, David 'Llongerine', our very own sugar bear Peter AKA Jose Lopez Jr and our special guest Marvel Jesus himself and a man who knows a thing or two about comic book movies Mr Rob Stewart from The Stew World Order Podcast.You find the Stew World...
Published 08/02/24
Send us a Text Message.In a somewhat chaotic episode Neil is joined by Ben, Jose and our guest punk rock filmmaker Josh Roush as they took a look at the Gladiator 2, Captain America:Brave New World & Bando Stone & The New World trailers. Only one of those trailers doesn't have a rhino in it!!!In our reviews we chat...MaXXXineAtlasAxel FThe HoldoversHitmanLong LegsShout outs to Don from 'Am I on The Air' and the guys at 'Cage Fighting Pod' for there answers!TimecodesIntro - 00.00...
Published 07/22/24
Send us a Text Message.In a bumper mostly TV (and two film) catch up Neil, Jose and Marie talkSnack Shack (to buy on streaming)Ghosts concert movie Rite Here Rite Now (in cinemas)Bodkin (Netflix)Obitaury (Netflix)Kin (BBC/RTE)The Regime (Apple TV+)Manhunt (Apple TV+)Spoiler Section The Artful Dodger (Disney+)House of the Dragon S2 EP 1 (Sky Atlantic/Now TV)The Acolyte EP 1-4 (Disney+)The Boys S4 EP 1 (Prime Video)With thanks to @nexttotheaisle on TwitterTime Stamps 00.00 - 09.15 - S...
Published 07/01/24
Send us a Text Message.What better way to start our 2nd century of episodes than a Season 2 spoiler special on Disney+ Superhero comedy Extraordinary as Neil, Jose & Marie breakdown Season 2 of the show and we have our first actor interview on the We Needed Roads Podcast as Neil chats to Magnet Girl Megan herself Olivia Marcus who takes us through her career so far, what her influences are, what her dream role would be and what it is like working on a show like Extraordinary Time Sta...
Published 06/24/24
Send us a Text Message.Great Scott!!! Yes, we overran a little bit on our 100th episode recording (on the greatest film of all time) as we realised 4 and a half hours might be a little much for one episode! So this episode continues from midway through our rewatch before we then get onto the legacy of the film and look at some of the best pop culture references the film has ingrained in our culture Now we need to back up because we don't have enough road to get up to 88 miles per h...
Published 06/17/24
Send us a Text Message.Well it's finally here! Somehow we've made it too 100 episodes of We Needed Roads and I'm Neil & I'm joined by the full We Needed Roads team of David, Jose & Ben as we take a dive so deep into Neil & Bens favourite film Back to the Future that just like the VHS release of the film the episode says 'to be continued' because we talked for over 4 and a half hours about the film and therefore had to be split it into 2 episodes As its our 100th ep we'd...
Published 06/09/24
Send us a Text Message.Hi and welcome to Vault 99 for a special spoiler episode on one of my favourite shows of the year so far Prime Videos Fallout.My names Neil and I will be your vault overseer today and I’m joined by everyones favourite wasteland wanderer Ben-Ghoul. From the brotherhood of evil goatees we have initiate Lopez! We have child of the atom and deathclaw enthusiast David! And our special guest wasteland wanderer this episode has been making her way from Philly all t...
Published 05/27/24
Send us a Text Message.Join Neil, David & Jose for all the roundhouse kicks to the face (yet, sadly no throat ripping!) as we delve into all the spoilerly goodness for Doug Limans reboot of the 80s Swayze starrer Roadhouse, then because we had to roundhouse kick Jose in the face (okay, he hadn't seen it!) a very tired Neil & David make the mistake of trying to unravel Netflix's 3 Body Problem. Was it a chaotic review or an inspired piece of planning to create the same level of confusi...
Published 05/20/24
Send us a Text Message.In another bumper episode Neil, Jose & David talk Dunk and Egg casting news, and Trailer reactions to MaXXXine, Joker 2, Speak No Evil, Hitman, Hundreds of Beavers & Trap and in what we've been watching the guys review Renegade Nell, Civil War, The First Omen, Monkey Man, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare & Immaculate 03.04 - Dunk & Egg - What is Dunk & Egg?08.40 - MaXXXine Trailer Reaction - David reckons Elizabeth Debicki will be the...
Published 05/06/24
Send us a Text Message.In a seemingly packed but actually quite short episode for a change the WNR crew catch each other up on what they've been watching in a spoiler free roundup with Neil rewatching Community & Netflix's fantasy film Damsel on TV, and catching Drive Away Dolls & Godzilla X Kong at the cinema! Jose talks Blown Away/Car Masters:Rags to Riches/Brooklyn 99 Rewatch/Invincible S2 & X-Men 97.If David ever goes missing its because he watched Forensics:The Real CSI on BB...
Published 04/21/24
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In a bumper episode Neil, Jose, Ben & David round up all the latest casting and trailer reaction news!
00.00 - 04.10 - Intro
04.10 - 17.30 - Aaron Taylor Johnson Bond rumours, how do they restart the franchise & who will the new director & bond girls be?
17.30 - 18.22 - Jose's Marvel minute as he expresses his love for Captain America:The Winter Solider on its 10th Birthday
18.22 - 26.23 - Night With The Devil Trailer reaction/ AI controversy / Ghost...
Published 04/15/24
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Neil & Ben are joined by two special guests Sarah from Popcorn Chat & Marie from 2 Girls 1 Reusable Cup Podcast as they delve into a breakdown of Netflix's 14 episode adaptation of David Nicholls 2009 novel One Day starring Leo Woodhall as Dexter and Ambika Mod as Emma.
We talk about THAT spoiler in depth, the shows amazing soundtrack and most importantly 'What does Emma see in Dex other than his...
Published 04/08/24
In a very special episode Neil and Ben are joined by Punk Rock filmmaker Josh Roush all the way from SmodCastle cinemas in New Jersey.
We talk about how we all got into the punk scene and what came first punk rock or filmmaking? We talk films that have the punk ethos about them like Clerks, El Mariachi, Trainspotting, Fight Club, Rivers Edge, Green Room and Live Freaky, Die Freaky.
Josh tells us about his start in Hollywood after moving from Ohio, how he met and worked for Kevin Smith &...
Published 04/01/24