This week we got a special visit from creative powerhouse Kudi Maradzika. We go through how she put the successful Netflix show "Bad Influencer" together with her collaborators, her other exciting upcoming projects, and all the films she has loved across her life.

But like all episodes, we start with a good chat about some of the biggest entertainment news of the past week,

Bad Influencer | Netflix

Kudi Maradzika | Instagram

Hey did you guys see…

F1 director’s Miami Vice reboot

Showmax is shutting down

Quentin Tarantino goes to the West End

Netflix buys Ben Affleck’s AI company

DC’s Lanterns trailer

People are mad at Timothée Chalamet

Teyana Taylor & PTA might make One Battle spinoff

Monsters Inc. 3 is happening

What we’ve been watching

The Bride | In Theaters

Recommended Film & Series

The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Foundation

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

The Fifth Element

The Shawshank Redemption

Arrival

Interstellar

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Russell does a shift with Gad, but we then get a visit by one of our favourite customers Chizembi. We talk about the latest in film and entertainment news.

Hey did you guys see…

Paramount now set to buy Warner Bros. in our continuing march toward dystopia.

Most HBO shows are no longer on Showmax or DSTV

A new Lord of the Rings game (of some sort) is in the works

Pokémon turns 30

The BAFTA Incident (isn’t a Robert Ludlum novel)

What we’ve been watching

Industry | Showmax

Paradise | Disney+

Scrubs | Disney +

Drive to Survive | Netflix

Hoppers | In Theaters from 6 Mar.

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Russell does a shift with Graeme and Cole. We talk the latest in film and entertainment news like...

Hey did you guys see…

The passing of Robert Duvall

The 2026 BAFTA winners

If there was any lingering doubt that the internet is full of morons, this will end it

Those toys have a 5th story to tell

Ruffalo v. Cameron in this week's edition of What the Hell is Going On?

The Mandalorian and Grogu is a bad title for a movie

What we have been watching

Wonder Man | Disney +

What we will be watching

Project Hail Mary | 20 March

The Drama | 3 April

Over Your Dead Body | 24 April

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Russell does a shift with Graeme, but then get a visit from one of our favourite customers Claudia. We chat about the latest film and entertainment news of the last week, and the films and TV shows we have been enjoying at the moment. Two filmmakers have returned with films, one is a great return to form, one not so much. And with the recent passing of actor James van der Beek, Russell remembers one film he was in that deserves to be preserved.

Hey did you guys see…

Spider-man + Nic Cage + Fedora = Spider Noir

Zazie Beetz is going to kill you

The passing of James Van Der Beek… F#*k cancer

Ryan Gosling gets small and angular

John Wick gets pixelated

The next James Bond is… a video game

Scrubs is back (in February!)

ByteDance bit off more than they could chew

What we’ve been watching

Ella McCay | Disney +

Send Help | In Theaters

“Wuthering Heights” | At The Bioscope

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This week Russell is back and does a shift with Graeme and Perrin. We talk the latest in film and entertainment news like the recent Superbowl trailers, thoughts on the Michael Jackson biopic, our review of Die My Love, and Elvis Presley In Concert, and lots, lots more!

Hey did you guys see….

Kristen Stewart bought a theater

The Super Bowl trailers & a Tarantino spin-off

A24 is going on a massacre (in Texas)

Darren Aronofsky's AI series. Yuck

Michael Jackson gets a biopic featuring no original ideas

PTA won the DGA

Sean Baker’s next film, with Michelle Yeoh

What we’ve been watching

Die My Love | The Bioscope

EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert

Queer Eye

Pole to Pole with Will Smith

The Muppet Show

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This week at The Video Store we got a special visit from producer and past guest Luke Rous to discuss why the South African film industry is in crisis, and what can be done to save it. But before that Cole and Graeme chat about Sam Mendes’ Beatles biopics, the passing of the great Catherine O’Hara, Steven Spielberg’s Grammy win and lots more.

Save SA Film Jobs Petition

Save SA Film Jobs Back a Buddy

Hey did you guys see…

First look at the Beatles

Alec Baldwin is bad at chess

Fast Forever is the name of a real movie

Melania documentary makes more money than it should have

The first trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2

The passing of Catherine O’Hara

Steven Spielberg joins the EGOT club

Recommended Films & Series

Mad Men

The Pitt

Bad Influencer

Plur1bus

Better Call Saul

Rental Family

Hamnet

The Mighty Nein

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This week at the Video Store Perrin, Gad and Graeme run the store while Russell is away. We talk about the 2026 Oscar Nominations, trailers for Masters of the Universe and Maul: Shadow Lord & Gad and Perrin then go off on a Pokemon tangent!

Hey did you guys see…

The trailer for Lee Cronin’s The Mummy

A guy climbed a building… Live!

He-man and his pink shirt are back

Darth Maul gets his own TV show

Kathleen Kennedy steps down as head of Lucasfilm

The 2026 Oscar Nominations

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This week Russell did a shift with Cole, but were then joined by the incomparable Brett De Groot. Always a good laugh, Brett is a renowned theatre producer, director and performer, and his previous visits have been some of our most listened to episodes! We talk through the latest film and entertainment news this week, along with a deeper look into films like "28 Years later: The Bone Temple", Oscar darling "Hamnet" and "The Rip" on Netflix. All this and lots, lots more!

Hey did you guys see…

Queer Eye ending with season 10

Zootopia 2 is (Hollywood’s) biggest animated movie ever

CATS at Montecasino

Zoe Saldaña is the highest grossing actor of all time

8th time is the charm for Paranormal Activity

What we’ve been watching

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple | In Theaters

Hamnet | In Theaters 30 January

The Rip | Netflix

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