Jack, Darren and Jesse breakdown the Mortal Kombat movie to figure out if it's so bad that it's actually kinda good?

Is Mortal Kombat a Knock-Out?

Jack and Darren discuss Citizen Kane, Paddington 2 and the weird cultural obsession with Rotten Tomatoes.

Paddington 2 is Objectively Better Than Citizen Kane

Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Peter McGann, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This week, Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant.

The colony ship Covenant is on its way to a new home world when a freak accident knocks the ship off course. However, while conducting repairs, the crew pick up a strange distress call from an alien planet that seems too good to be true. Seeing a potential opportunity, the crew decide to explore this strange new world. There, they find horrors beyond imagining.

At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes

409. Alien Covenant - All-ien 2024 (#---)

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and with special guests Marianne Cassidy and Luke Dunne, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.

This time, Bryan Singer and Dexter Fletcher's Bohemian Rhapsody.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 123rd best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

The 250

105. Bohemian Rhapsody - This Just In (#123)

A weekly podcast looking at the best and worst films of all-time, as voted for by IMDB users.

New episodes typically on a Saturday, 6pm GMT.

409. Alien Covenant - All-ien 2024 (#---)

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