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Tom Hanks Defence Force

Tom Hanks Defence Force

47 episodes

A film and TV podcast discussing the past, present and future of the film and TV world. Tom Hanks worshipers Alex and Jack have survived Death Star superlasers and asteroids the size of Texas to tackle its most pressing questions. Discussing everything from writing and audience influence, to technology and the studio system; the pair are joined by an exciting diversity of fellow fans and industry insiders, bringing fresh insight to the films and shows we love, hate and know surprisingly little about.

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Franchise Overkill? Not All Who Makes Sequels Are Lost

Published: Jan. 3, 2024, 12:59 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 37 seconds

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Back to the Future - Is Nostalgia the Saviour We've Not Been Waiting For?

Published: Nov. 20, 2023, 12:19 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 29 seconds

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What is the Future of BAFTA?

Published: May 31, 2023, 9:49 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 seconds

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Ad-Myersable: The Mad World Of What Halloween Almost Was

Published: Nov. 13, 2022, 11:01 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 15 seconds

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Amazon Spooky: The Treat Before Halloween

Published: Sept. 30, 2022, 12:19 p.m.
Duration: 10 minutes 6 seconds

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MergersBowl: The Tom Hanks Defence Force Take

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, 9:40 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 57 seconds

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T-Hanks For The Memories

Published: May 12, 2022, 7:34 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 45 seconds

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Episode 49: Mystery Pitch: Alfred Hitchcock's Lawnmower Massacre & I Know What You Did in 2005

Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 8:49 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 53 seconds

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Mystery Pitch: Alfred Hitchcock's Lawnmower Massacre & I Know What You Did in 2005

Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 8:49 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 53 seconds

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Episode 48: Horror - What Influences Us And Why We Keep Coming Back

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 6:19 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds

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Horror - What Influences Us And Why We Keep Coming Back

Published: Dec. 9, 2021, 6:19 p.m.
Duration: 4 minutes 28 seconds

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Batman Reimagined - What Nolan Brought to the Knight

Published: March 17, 2021, 11:46 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 7 seconds

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Episode 47: Batman Reimagined - What Nolan Brought to the Knight

Published: March 17, 2021, 11:46 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 49 seconds

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An Industry Reborn: What will cinema look like after Covid?

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 54 seconds

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Episode 46: An Industry Reborn: What will cinema look like after Covid?

Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 53 seconds

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Mystery Pitch: Bob Iger

Published: July 20, 2020, 12:01 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 9 seconds

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Would Joker have worked before 2019?

Published: July 6, 2020, 8:06 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 49 seconds

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Mystery Pitch: Film Industry

Published: May 4, 2020, 11:38 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 34 seconds

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Into The Hanksverse: What the Defence Force thought of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Published: April 14, 2020, 2:43 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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Late Night With Warhammer

Published: March 25, 2020, 1:42 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 8 seconds

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How We'd Make Our Perfect Star Wars Film

Published: March 22, 2020, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 49 seconds

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Mystery Pitch: Special Guest

Published: Feb. 21, 2020, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 33 seconds

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A Jazzier Age: What can we expect in the 20s?

Published: Feb. 19, 2020, 7:56 a.m.
Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds

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Film in the 10s: How did we rate it?

Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 9:37 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 26 seconds

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So what movies changed our brains in 2019?

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 8:07 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 19 seconds

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Christmas With The (Cr)Hanks

Published: Dec. 25, 2019, 12:15 a.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 21 seconds

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Mystery Pitch: Pot Luck

Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 8:42 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds

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Mystery Pitch Meets Spooky Season

Published: Oct. 10, 2019, 3:25 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 36 seconds

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It-Cast: The Return of Pennywise and the Infinite Power of Human Fear

Published: Oct. 4, 2019, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 35 seconds

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Mystery Pitch Hits The News

Published: Sept. 10, 2019, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 31 seconds

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Amazon's Lord of the Rings: What our Elf Eyes Would Like to See

Published: Aug. 15, 2019, 6:49 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 32 seconds

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The Fandom Menaced: 20 Years of The Phantom Menace in the UK

Published: July 15, 2019, 9:04 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 51 seconds

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Bank Robbers and Boo-Boos: A Mystery Pitch Episode

Published: July 8, 2019, 8:41 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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Slash of the Titans: An examination of the Slasher genre

Published: June 2, 2019, 8:59 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 33 seconds

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Bird Box Unleashed & Jamie Vardy's Party: A Mystery Pitch Episode

Published: April 16, 2019, 10:06 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 52 seconds

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Breaking the Wheel: Game of Thrones and Life Afterwards

Published: April 14, 2019, 10:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 41 seconds

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Four Hobbits & The Lord of the Rings: A Freestyle Episode

Published: April 7, 2019, 3:51 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 18 seconds

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Method Acting: Who does it and what effect does it have?

Published: March 25, 2019, 7:18 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 10 seconds

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Heavy Metal & Eric Andre (A Mystery Pitch Episode)

Published: March 8, 2019, 7:14 p.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 3 seconds

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Make Empathy Great Again: Are audiences losing sympathy?

Published: March 1, 2019, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 25 seconds

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Dr Streamlove: How I learned to stop worrying and love the DVD

Published: Feb. 24, 2019, 6:53 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 41 seconds

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The BAFTAs: Our predictions for 2019

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 55 seconds

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Joseph Stalin vs. Tyrannosaurs Rex & Chaos in the Kitchen (A Mystery Pitch Episode)

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, 8:51 p.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds

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Final Flashback: Will de-ageing technology bring the Ice Age for actors?

Published: Feb. 9, 2019, 2:13 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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Why 2018 was an amazing year for film: To 2019 and beyond...

Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 55 seconds

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Warhammer 40,000 & Stag Dos (A Mystery Pitch Episode)

Published: Dec. 29, 2018, 11:07 a.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds

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It's a Wonderful Hanks: How films stole Christmas

Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 11:24 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 51 seconds

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Brexit to the Future: How will leaving the EU effect the UK film industry?

Published: Dec. 23, 2018, 10:19 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds

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Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers: Yes, this film is real

Published: Dec. 10, 2018, 9:48 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 52 seconds

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The Fast and the Furious: Autonomous Drift

Published: Dec. 3, 2018, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds

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Cinema in the age of Trump

Published: Nov. 27, 2018, 6:55 a.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 52 seconds

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Streaming Services, Nostalgia and Spielberg

Published: Nov. 23, 2018, 7:19 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds

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The other Rogue One? - How we'd direct the cancelled Boba Fett film

Published: Nov. 19, 2018, 11:22 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 34 seconds

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Sausage Parties? - Is there a future for R-rated animation?

Published: Nov. 16, 2018, 1:58 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 34 seconds

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Superheroes, 3D and critics in the age of the internet

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 6 seconds

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The golden age of TV, Trump the movie, and films made entirely by AI

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 1 second

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Hereditary, Halloween, and the future of horror

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 2:35 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 36 seconds

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Mickeywood: How will the Disney-Fox merger change the film industry?

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 1:53 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 1 second

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From Tom Hanks With Love: How we'd make Bond 25

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 1:34 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 10 seconds

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What if: How our favourite films could've turned out

Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 18 seconds

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