Directed by Paul King and based on the extraordinary character at the center of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, magician, and chocolate-maker became the beloved Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) we know today. With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned
Happy last-podcast-before-Christmas! On this week’s Lore Olympus recap we were absolutely gobsmacked that a certain someone gave Apollo a verbal smack upside the head because it was the LAST person we expected. Merry Christmas to us! We finished up with a spoiler-free squee about Doctor Who (Elizabeth’s not caught up yet but Kathryn said the
Directed by Sam Fell, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget is the long-awaited continuation of the Chicken Run story. After successfully escaping from Tweedys’ farm in a daring and risky manner, Ginger (Thandiwe Newton) has discovered her ideal place – an idyllic island bird sanctuary where the entire flock can live in harmony, without any
I’m really happy to say that DesignerCon‘s final year in Anaheim (they move to Las Vegas in 2024) was a great one. It was definitely smaller than last year (possibly because a real estate convention bumped them out of their usual dates and the week before Christmas didn’t work for everybody) but still full of
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, The Boy and The Heron follows Mahito (Luca Padovan), a young 12-year-old boy, as he struggles to settle in a new town after his mother’s death. However, when a talking heron (Robert Pattinson) informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which
This week’s Night Vale episode is a perfect example of distilled weirdness, full of deadly nature walks, supermarket bonfires, and would you PLEASE stop PETTING THE WOLFMEN. GEORGE. After the recap we discuss the latest Doctor Who episodes: not that we’ve watched them but we’ve heard they’re doing well. (Other than one news article that
Directed by Takashi Yamazaki, Godzilla Minus One takes place in Postwar Japan which at its lowest point faces a new crisis in the form of a giant monster called Godzilla, who was baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. It has been 69 years since Godzilla made his first appearance in film and
Okay, not gonna lie, the latest two episodes of Lore Olympus that the Binary System Podcast team recaps are causing quite a lot of anxiety. Apollo’s plot to take over as ruler of Olympus is proving once again that Apollo will hurt anyone in order to get what he wants, and it’s stressful to imagine
Directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the book by Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes follows the story of eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) years before he becomes the tyrannical President of Panem. He is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a