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- They're kicking off Diminisodes with a follow up to their recent Mary Poppins episode. Does Mary Poppins Returns live up to the original film?
- Laurel? And Hardy? In the same movie? You betcha. Does it work? Listen and find out.
- They did Unbreakable. They did Split. Now they're doing Glass.
- We thought we'd have a chat about all those movie trailers they played during the Super Bowl.
- Joe Cornballs is finally at it again. And is it good? We'll see.
- To complement this year's Oscars episode, they discuss Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which is nominated for three awards at this year's Oscars.
- The most "Allen" film ever made is here: Fighting with My Family starring The Rock AND Vince Vaughn. So, is it any good?
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeSol recommends two recent zombie movies to Allen (and the listeners). One is the Japanese, ultra-low-budget One Cut of the Dead and the other is the French-but-English-language The Night Eats the World.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeA great big grab-bag of film discussion, but mostly dealing with that James Cameron-y Robert Rodriguez thing in the cinemas.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeAllen didn't like Fighting with My Family, but now Sol's seen it, too. Does he agree or does he put Allen in a choke-hold and show him what The Rock is cooking?
- Following on from a look at Stephen Merchant's Fighting with My Family, they turn to Ricky Gervais' new Netflix project: After Life.
- Sol and Allen have watched every episode of The Good Place. Have you? Who cares; listen to them talk about it.
- Sol and Calvin tell Allen which film won what at the 2019 Oscars and all the post-show discussion that comes with it.
- This isn't tying into any of their recent episodes, but they still figured it was worth covering.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeHere's a grab-bag episode of things they've been to see recently. Allen went to see Only Fools and Horses: The Musical, whereas Sol watched Hello, Dolly. and The Five Deadly Venoms.
- It's the follow-up to their Incredible Hulk episode. First, they waste lots of time touching on James Gunn being re-hired to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, then they discuss Captain Marvel like they were supposed to.
- A follow-up to their recent episode, taking aim at Tim Burton's latest Disney remake.
- Seeing as one of the first ever Diminisodes was a review of Bohemian Rhapsody, we figured we had to cover Rocketman, its spiritual successor, too.
- What better way to cap off your Easter celebrations than this? Easter is basically just a story about God burying Jesus in his own magic, resurrecting cemetery, after all.
- Boy oh (Hell)boy.
- Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Diminsode on Spider-Man.
- Take a peak(achu) at this new Diminisode covering the new Pokemon movie.
- What, they've done another Aladdin? The Fresh Prince of Ali?
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeCalvin and Allen recently attended Secret Cinema's Casino Royale experience and role-played as secret agents - hear their audio diary from the day, itself.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIn their continued sorry-for-not-putting-up-a-Diminisode-for-nearly-a-month apology tour, they bring you another belated assortment of discussion with no real topic or purpose.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeThe latest in their current glut of Diminisode goodness: 13 minutes of titanic proportions.
- The X-Men are back for one last mainline film and - yeah. They guess it's probably a good thing there won't be any more of them.
- Men in Black, Men in Black II, Men in Black 3, Men in Black Thor.
- It's taken them 5 weeks to find the time to edit this one - but it took them 9 years to make Toy Story 4 and hopefully this episode is less unsatisfying.
- Remember how they asked you for Q&A questions? Well, here are some Q&A answers.
- Let's not beat around the bush, it's certainly not THE Lion King, but here, you can hear their thoughts on A Lion King (2019).
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeHere's a cheeky, little speedy bonus with some surprises, equal parts Jason Statham and The Rock and some fun audio clips. Stupid, dumb fun.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeThey're just keeping the goods coming, aren't they?
- Another classic episode of Sol Recommends Zombies on Diminishing Returns: Diminisodes. Oh, and some other bits and pieces.
- Recorded so long ago, they've completely forgotten which arbitrary selection of films they discussed in this one.
- A little tidbit of an episode to tide you over while they get our crap together to bring you the likes of Once Upon a Time - in Hollywood and It: Chapter Two.
- Double Tap or Double Crap? Find out the verdict, now.
- Now THIS is the Diminisode the people have been waiting for: their look at the Downton Abbey movie.
- Is it as good/bad as everyone's saying?
- This year's Oscar noms are in. What do they make of them?
- It's here.
- Doo-doo-doo-doo.
- They're slap bang in the middle of a Diminisode spree. Here's one about Rambo.
- It's one of those rare situations where Calvin's actually been to the cinema - well, Daniel Craig is in it, after all.
- Ow. Charlie.
- They're working overtime to get the next main episode ready.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeHappy Christmas, guys.
- In which Diminishing Returns venture into the unKNOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN INTO THE UNKOWWWWWWWWNNNNNNNNNNNNN INTO THE UNKNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN
- What hath God wrought?
- No lockdown can stop us from providing their Patrons with quality content!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
- Calvin joins them for another round of questions sent in by listeners. This one covers everything from directors they like and don't like to their thoughts on HBO's Chernobyl and Netflix's BoJack Horseman.
- Perhaps their most anticipated follow-up Diminisode of all time?
- Whatchagonnadoo?.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeTake a time-machine to way back when theatres were still open and people were still enjoying gathering in huge, compact crowds to watch things like Back to the Future: The Musical.
- More.
- Uh oh. Kevin Smith is at it again.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeThis was promised back in August 2019, but Allen only just got round to putting the edit together so here it is: an interview with Carol Allen, who you may have seen commenting on the Diminishing Returns Facebook page from time to time.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeAs promised in episode 200 of the main show, here's Judey's final round of questions that we didn't have time for during the main record.
- It's another Diminisode(TM) from Diminishing Returns. This time, Sol and Allen are following up the tangent about Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, from the recent second Rocky episode. Is it any good? No? Well, how bad is it?
- Still hungry for Tolkien content after their Lord of the Rings Trilogy episodes? Well, as promised, here's the first of their Diminisodes covering the earlier, animated efforts to bring Middle Earth to the screen.
- Remember how simple life was back when films like this were coming out in the cinema? Back when cinemas existed? Well, this one barely came out in any cinemas, to be honest.
- Gotta go incredibly slowly if you're talking about Allen's attitude towards getting round to seeing the Sonic the Hedgehog movie.
- It's another Diminisode - this time, looking at recent critical and commercial failure Holmes and Watson.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeWhen they finally get round to covering The Hobbit trilogy, they'll also do a Diminisode on the old, animated Rankin/Bass The Hobbit and you'll have an entire trilogy of Lord of the Rings Diminisodes to listen to.
- Basically just 20 minutes of Sol and Allen laughing.
- Sol's mother and stepdad have never ever seen a single one of the many films set within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, so he figured he'd start them off with the highest-grossing and, therefore, most mainstream entry, Avengers: Endgame.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeSeeing as they won't be covering Venom in their next Review of the Year episode, they figured they'd put out a little mini-review because why the hell not?
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIt's the start of a new series of Diminisodes, chronicling Sol's obsession with making film lists. The first ties into their recent Christopher Nolan Season.
- The upcoming review of the year episode will be their biggest yet - so big, in fact, that there was nowhere to fit this tangent of Sol's current (and very much a work in progress) top 10 films of the year.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeSorry if you hate Sol's Lists (Gareth) because here's another one. Tying into this week's Bill and Ted episode of Diminishing Returns, they're taking a look at Sol's time-travel movie list.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeThe first edition of Sol's Lists recorded and the last one released (for now - though there may be more in the future - rest assured that the next Diminisode will not be about Sol's lists).
- They're joined by Conor Murray for the first edition of a new Diminishing Returns quiz: Whose List Is It Anyway?
- It's one of those incredibly rare and elusive 2020 new release review Diminisodes. Yes, taking on Bill and Ted Face the Music.
- Huh, well, maybe these new release Diminisodes aren't quite so rare after all. This one is an exclusive, early review of Train to Busan sequel Peninsula, due for release in the UK in November and elsewhere at other times probably.
- Sol was sent an early copy of Tremors: Shrieker Island to review so here are his thoughts along with a catch-up about his thoughts on Tremors: A Cold Day in Hell.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeSol has seen a lot of films covered on the show since recording episodes where he hadn't seen them. This is his chance to influence the show's ratings.
- Whose Line Is It Anyway? returns as Allen heads off against Calvin with a Calvin-themed selection of lists.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIt's 'a' SpongeBob Movie; certainly not 'the' SpongeBob Movie.
- Scott Chambers - remember him? - joins them for a round of Whose List Is It Anyway?.
- Calvin joins the show for a special edition of Whose List Is It Anyway? with Allen taking on the role of quiz-master.
- Allen and Sol have the 'rona.
- Like so many others, they watched Soul over Christmas. Here's what they thought.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeA special, themed edition, featuring the favourite film lists of people involved in making British sitcoms.
- Allen, Sol and Calvin go to Sporcle.
- Allen hasn't watched WandaVision, but he tries to keep up with Sol and Calvin's discussion, all the same.
- The 2021 Oscar nominations were announced yesterday. Allen opted to place bets during the recording session to liven things up.
- Gareth Allen joins the show for a Coming to America episode reunion. Did the sequel live up to their lukewarm hype?
- Ironically enough, this Zack Snyder's Justice League Diminisode is about a quarter of the length of the actual Diminishing Returns Justice League episode, despite the movie being so much longer. Boom. Roasted.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeSol and Allen are joined by Calvin Dyson to play a special quiz game: Die Another Day Your Cards Right.
- Allen and Sol weigh in on last night's Oscars ceremony. There were upsets but they're certainly not upset about them.
- As promised, Calvin joins the show to follow up their recent The Wicker Man episode with a whole Diminisode dedicated to the 2006 Nicolas Cage remake.
- One of the most common questions the show gets is what films they think are over and/or under rated. That's basically what this Diminisode is all about.
- To celebrate the re-release of their classic Independence Day episode, here's a Diminisode where Calvin and Sol finally weigh in on their thoughts about Resurgence, five years after they were originally supposed to.
- Diminishing Returns finally get round to playing with Allen's Christmas present, six months later.
- The most anticipated media event of the century is finally here: the debut episode of The Crispcast.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIt's another tie-in. Celebrating the re-release of the classic Diminishing Returns "Absolutely Fabulous" episode, they present a poorly structured crossover with The British Sitcom History Podcast.
- Just like "Allen's Quiz Box", but Sol's.
- Sol takes you on a countdown of his top 25 film themes of all time.
- It's double Star Trek day. To celebrate the re-release of their classic Star Trek episode, here's a tie-in Diminisode. This one is a really fun celebrity-audio-based quiz.
- Ooh, friend. Bonus episode friend of the flagship show friend. Annoying bit from the series in question friend.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeJapanese Bond enlists the help of Definitely-Not-Racist Liam Neeson to travel to Twitter HQ after he's cancelled following a problematic Tweet.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeDid you miss them reviewing new releases? Well, good news because Allen is finally pulling his finger out and watching some of his backlog from the last six months.
- Nonor Murray's back for their thoughts on Another Quiet Place.
- That's right: Keanuvember is all-encompassing.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIt's a Keanupalooza.
- Keanuvember is over. That means they're getting back to contemporary movie reviews (again).
- More like JeBron Lames.
- In which Sol and Allen accidentally summon Candyman by saying the title of the film several times.
- A bonus Diminisode for Christmas. Enjoy.
- In which Allen has an inexplicable but fairly in-character change of heart.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeStart 2022 off right with this long-awaited Diminisode.
- A lot of discussion, here.
- Mmm, sexy bonus Diminisodes.
- It's the big one.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIn the episode of the Diminishing Returns podcast focused on The Mummy, Sol spoke about his love of a particular scene from one of Universal's classic The Mummy movies: The Mummy's Curse. He wanted to share the scene with you.
- Going back to where it all started.
- They had to see out the trilogy.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeIt's an audio chaser. Listen to this month's classic episode, listen to this.
- This one also doubles as a third time-capsule episode.
- The first (of potentially many) live Diminisodes. Do you like The Batman? Do you hate The Batman? Then this episode is for you.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeListen and find out if you're a true '90s kid.
- Everyone is here.
- Topical as ever.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeDoctor Strange, Strange, get up now.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeThe first of three audio commentaries looking at their own work. Starting with Calvin's short film "The Bride of Vernon".
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeTheir first feature commentary, looking at Sol's producorial debut. Watch along with Finding Fatimah (or just listen and imagine the film in your head).
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeLet's hear about some freakin' Nicolas CAAAAAAAAAAGE.
- Ba-na-na.
- 2017–Podcast EpisodeLike how Marvel put out a couple of movies in between Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, they've put out a couple of episodes between "Introspection Collection" episodes. But here they are, returning, with part III.
- It's titled Thor: Love and Thunder, but for some reason, they also talk about Elvis and Minions: The Rise of Gru.
- To build a little bit of hype ahead of the next classic Diminishing Returns episode re-release (it's their excellent Harry Potter episode), here's a little Diminisode where they chat about who should be cast in the Harry Potter remake.