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This week shark-fanatic Kate Hearn picks the theme of sea monsters, starting with the biggest, baddest great white shark around - Bruce himself - in Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) SPOILERS INCLUDED. We look at the characterisations, the performances, the context, the legacy and the trivia. Then, from the same director as Titanic and Avatar (according to the DVD) we have Piranha II: The Spawning (1981) which we all struggle to be nice about but do extract a few choice moments. Finally, George P. Cosmatos turns a lot of De Laurentis money into a mashup of other people’s movies in Leviathan (1989) with a great cast, crew, special effects, composer, writers - none of whom seem to have brought anything original. Also: The Meg (2018). Lips and assholes. Martha’s Vineyard? Martha! We compare scars. Joe goes off on Pan & Scan *again*. We discover the hill that Dee will die on: “This is what happens…”. Boop the snoot. “As the money goes up, the art goes down.” Do police boats have sirens? Getting jiggy in a dinghy. Sexism at the bottom of the ocean. Shooting dry for wet. WTF sharks?! Harbinger Down (2015). We play a game of “Wait, seriously?”