After two years of waiting, HOUSE OF THE DRAGON is back with season 3! Was it worth the wait?

More to the point, was there a battle on the water? In a sense, but more on that in the episode.

This week, we return to Westeros, dragons galore. Before we battle it out with that season premiere, however, we catch up on the latest updates to our Summer Movie Wager! Has Toy Story 5 met our expectations?

Plus, we get into something perhaps a little out of character for us… we talk sports! Specifically the FIFA WORLD CUP ‘26!

Yes, we’re here for the football (that’s right, we said football), and we discuss the tournament so far as we near the end of the group stage - and boy what a group stage!

All that and more, so sit back, relax and listen (or watch) our latest ep. Don’t forget to follow, like and subscribe wherever you find your pods, on youtube, and on social media! Don’t forget to leave a comment. Stay Tuned!

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:53 - Summer Box Office Update

00:04:45 - Fifa World Cup

00:24:39 - House of the Dragon Season 3 Episode 1 Review

The Summer Blockbuster Seasons is sadly over and so it is time we reveal who won in predicting the biggest movies of the summer. Inspired by Slash Film cast’s Summer Movie Wager, we predicted which summer box office movies would be in the top 10 and where EXACTLY they would be placed on the list. We made our bets earlier this year and now its time to find out the winner.

(SEE BELOW FOR THE DETAILS)

We also reviewed the House of the Dragon Episode 2 on HBO, and talked about the news of the week like Ben Kingsley’s character Trevor Slattery (Marvel Studios Iron Man 3 and Shang Chi) will be making an appearance in Wonder Man, House of the Dragon Co-Showrunner Miguel Sapocnik is leaving the show, the 79th Venice Film Festival opens, a new Lego Motorized Lighthouse, Harley Quinn Season 4 Renewed, House of the Dragon Renewed for Season 2, Blockbuster Tv Show on Netflix. Plus trailers on Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey, Love and Death (HBO Max), Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (Roku), White Noise, Tar, and The Son.

We also chat about what we’re into, like Mad Men Season 4, Welcome to Wrexham, This Fool, Mo, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent and 3000 Years of longing.

Here are the results of the Top 10 Summer Movies

Summer Season (for our Podcast) - Memorial Day - Labor Day Weekend

*at the time of our recording*

1. Top Gun: Maverick - $691m.
2. Jurassic World: Dominion - $374m.
3. Minions: Rise of Gru - $354m.
4. Thor: Love and Thunder - $336m.
5. Elvis - $147m.
6. Lightyear - $118m.
7. Nope - $117m.
8. Black Phone - $89m.
9. Where the Crawdads Sing - $81m.
10. Bullet Train - $78m.

POINT SCALE

13 Points - 1 or 10 Dead On

10 Points: 2-9 Dead On

7 Points: Pick was one rank away

5 Points: Pick was two ranks away

3 Points: If it was anywhere in the top 10

1 Point: For a “Dark Horse” Pick that made it in the top 10

This week the bambinos have a POWERFUL discussion and review on the progress of The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power thus far (Amazon Prime Video). Plus they give their initial thoughts on the latest from a galaxy far, far away - ANDOR, the latest Star Wars show on Disney Plus. Couple that with HUGH(ge) Wolverine news for The new Marvel Deadpool movie with Ryan Reynolds and The Last of Us trailer (HBO / Pedro Pascal) breakdown and you have yourself a packed episode!

This week: Miguel is back and kicking as we get into a BOATLOAD of news - discussing every little thing that happened at D23 with Disney Plus, Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar, as well as 74th Emmy Awards winners, along with the prize winners of the Venice film festival. We explore a slew of new trailers, including the first look at Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, whilst prying a shameful confession from La La Luis. But that’s not all! We go through all the news and gossip pouring from this year’s D23, with new adventures from Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm (Wakanda Forever, Wish, Indiana Jones 5), familiar stories from Disney (Snow White, Peter Pan and Wendy), odd prospects from Disney and Pixar (Mufasa, Inside Out 2) and some first looks of Star Wars Tales of the Jedi, Marvel Studios Secret Invasion, and the teaser trailer of the Disney latest live-action remake of The Little Mermaid!

We also talk about Nintendo Direct and the new reveal of GoldenEye, Playstation State of Play and news of God of War: Ragnarok.

And last, but certainly not least, we catch up on what we’ve been into as Miguel hits season 5 of Mad Men, Ed reads a book or two, and Luis finally completes God of War!

D23 Announcements

DISNEY

Little Mermaid (Halle Bailey)

Mufasa

Peter Pan and Wendy (Jude Law)

Snow White (Gal Gadot, Rachel Zegler)

Disenchanted (Amy Adams)

Hocus Pocus 2

Haunted Mansion

PIXAR

Elemental

Win or Lose

Elio

Inside Out 2

DISNEY ANIMATION

Iwaju

Strange World

Wish

LUCASFILM/ STAR WARS

Bad Batch Season 2

Tales of the Jedi

Skeleton Crew

Mandalorian Season 3

Ahsoka

Andor

Indiana Jones 5

Willow TV Series

MARVEL STUDIOS

Wakanda Forever

Ironheart

Antman and the Wasp: Quantummania

Werewolf by Night

Secret Invasion

Armor Wars

Loki Season 2

Echo

Daredevil: Born Again

Captain America: New World Order

Fantastic Four

Thunderbolts

The Marvels

With Marvel Studios Phase 4 Coming to an end with Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Kevin Fiege and everyone at Marvel Studios is prepping for Phase 5 and Phase 6 of the Multiverse Saga. A lot of the movies and Disney Plus shows were announced at San Diego Comic Con 2022 (SDCC) in Hall H.

We also talk about all the new trailer drops that happened in San Diego Comic Con 2022 (SDCC), trailers like The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, John Wick 4, Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Breaking, Guillermero Del Toro’s Pinocchio, Samaritan (Sylvester Stallone), Tales of the Walking Dead and Laal Singh Chaadha (The Forrest Gump Remake)

Marvel Phase 5

Antman and the Wasp: Quantumania (Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Michael Douglas, Michelle Pfeiffer)

Secret Invasion (Disney Plus) (Samuel L. Jackson)

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 (Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldana, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn, Will Poulter, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper)

Echo (Disney Plus)

Loki: Season 2 (Disney Plus) (Tom Hiddleston)

The Marvels (Brie Larson, Iman Vellani, Teyonah Parris)

Blade (Mahershala Ali)

Ironheart (Disney Plus) (Dominique Thorne)

Agatha: House of Harkness (Disney Plus) (Kathryn Hahn)

Daredevil: Born Again (Disney Plus) (Charlie Cox)

Captain America: New World Order (Anthony Mackie)

Thunderbolts

Marvel Phase 6

Fantastic Four

Avengers: The Kany Dynasty (Jonathan Majors)

Avengers: Secret Wars

It’s Reviewing TIME! Marvel has finally released Thor: Love and Thunder and the final episode of Ms. Marvel and we are ready to finally let out our feelings about them.

Aside from a quick story from Ed about his back pains, we talk about the 74th Emmy Nominations, the pain that Marvel VFX artists are going through, the new Captain America 4 director, chat some trailers, and review the Blockbuster Box Office Numbers.

Finally we talk about what we’re into. Miguel chats Mad Men and Netflix’s “How to Build a Sex Room”. Ed chats Good Luck To You about HBO’s The Baby, Good Luck To You Leo Grande and Last Night in Soho. Luis talks about Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness, Umbrella Academy, The Boys, the Aldous Snow Duology (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) and PopSockets Pop Puck.

Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel Studios) stars Chris Hemsworth, Tessa Thompson, Natalie Portman and Christian Bale. Directed by Taika Waititi.

Ms. Marvel (Marvel Studios) stars Iman Vellani, Aramais Knight, saagar Shaikh, Rish Shah, Zenobia Shroff, Mohan Kapur, Matt Lintz, Yasmeen Fletcher, Laith Naki, Azher Usman, Travina Springer and Nimra Bucha. Now available on Disney Plus

Stray: is an upcoming adventure game about a cat developed by BlueTwelve Studio and published by Annapurna Interactive. Will be available on Playstation (PS5, PS4) and Windows.

00:00 - Intro

01:14 - Ed’s Back Pain

05:01 - The Emmys

14:07 - Marvel VFX hates working with Marvel

23:22 - Captain America 4 Finds Director

26:02 - The Woman King

28:22 - Harley Quinn Season 3 Trailer (HBO Max)

28:39 - Stray

31:34 - Black Phone

31:51 - Bob’s Burgers The Movie

31:55 - Better Call Saul Season 6 Part 2 (AMC)

32:18 - The Gray Man

35:10 - Summer Blockbuster Update

41:28 - Thor: Love and Thunder (Marvel)

01:37:01 - God of War - Luis Update

01:42:11 - Mad Men

01:44:14 - Ms. Marvel Episode 6 - Season Finale (Disney Plus, Marvel)

01:57:27- The Baby (HBO)

01:59:20 - Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

02:03:22 - How to Build a Sex Room (Netflix)

02:04:27 - Good Luck To You, Leo Grande

02:05:33 - Leon the Professional

02:05:46 - Last Night in Soho

02:11:36 - Aldous Snow Duology (Forgetting Sarah Marshall & Get Him to the Greek)

02:14:34 - Assembled: The Making of Doctor Strange and The Multiverse of Madness

02:16:37 - The Umbrella Academy

02:18:01 - The Boys

02:19:40 - The Pop Puck

This week, Edward is flying solo for a short, sweet, and slightly unhinged one-man Punch Drunk Nerd episode!

First up, Netflix’s Beef is back for season 2 with a stacked cast including Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Cailee Spaeny, and Charles Melton — and honestly? It sounds messy in the best way possible.

Then I settle an ongoing group chat debate once and for all: which awards show actually carries more weight these days — the BAFTAs or the Oscars? That naturally spirals into some early Oscar predictions, possible surprise wins, and why the whole thing is still kind of a glorified popularity contest anyway.

After that, we get into a review of Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Bride starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale. Is it a bold, stylish reimagining of Bride of Frankenstein… or just a gorgeous movie full of half-baked ideas?

And before we wrap, I shout out The Secret Agent (one of the last Best Picture nominees on the watchlist) and gushes over Gorillaz’ new album The Mountain, including some standout tracks and why it might be their best since Plastic Beach.

All that and more on this week’s awkward-but-lovely solo episode of Punch Drunk Nerd.

00:00 - Intro

01:00 - Beef Season 2 Trailer

2:05 - BAFTA vs Oscars

15:42 - The Bride! Review

21:15 - Gorillaz New Album (The Mountain)

Things get messy in this episode.

We move through time and space as we talk about The Batman 2 Delay, James Gunn, Chat GPT and of course Robert Eggers Nosferatu (Lily - Rose Depp, Bill Skarsagård, Willem Dafoe, Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson, Aaron Taylor - Johnson)

Sorry for the sound, we were flying free and blind.