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 and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Deirdre Molumby and Graham Day, 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, Chris Sanders' and Dean DeBlois' How to Train Your Dragon.

On the island of Berk, the Viking settlers have found themselves engaged in a war against dragons spanning literal generations. Hiccup, the son of the town chieftain, struggles to find his place in a community that doesn't value his unique strengths and attributes - he wonders whether he will even be manly enough to hunt and kill dragons. However, a chance encounter with a fallen dragon named Toothless leads Hiccup to question everything that he thinks he knows about dragons.

At time of recording, it was ranked 198th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes

420. How to Train Your Dragon - Ani-May 2025 (#198)

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.

420. How to Train Your Dragon - Ani-May 2025 (#198)

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