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Diminishing Returns

Comedy

The podcast where film-fans, Sol Harris and Allen Turing, take a guest on a journey to Development Hell to discuss a film, then pitch their ideas for the sequel.

Location:

United Kingdom

Description:

The podcast where film-fans, Sol Harris and Allen Turing, take a guest on a journey to Development Hell to discuss a film, then pitch their ideas for the sequel.

Language:

English


Episodes
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299 - Podcast of Horror VIII.III: 28 Years Later...

1/12/2026
Just in time for the release of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, the 2025 Diminishing Returns Halloween special finally enters completion. This time, we're discussing borderline high-fantasy epic 28 Years Later. Was it worth the wait?

Duration:02:16:42

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298 - Podcast of Horror VIII.II: 28 Weeks Later

12/12/2025
Rejoice! We decided to cut the wait time between this and our previous episode by 26 weeks. This time, we're looking at the middle chapter of the 28 Days Later franchise: a film that asks the question: "Is a stellar opening sequence enough to buoy an entire feature film?"

Duration:01:21:55

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297 - Halloween Special: 28 Days Later...

11/27/2025
It's time for our 2025 Halloween special! Just, uh... 28 days later. There's a reason for that. Can you work out what it is? It's extremely subtle.

Duration:01:42:33

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296 - Spectre

1/29/2025
The boys are back with the penultimate James Bond movie (but for how long? Probably quite a while, honestly). It's finally time for Spectre (or SPECTRE?), in which Christoph Waltz amazes everyone with the shocking twist no one saw coming that he's playing Blofeld and James Bond finally finds love like he didn't already do that three movies ago. It's a real surprise of an episode where up is down, left is right and Calvin is the #1,000,000 James Bond fan on YouTube.

Duration:02:11:53

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295 - Valentine's Day Special: Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale

2/11/2024
Significantly upping the ante from last year's pornographic Valentine's Day special (which reviewed 1972's Deep Throat), this year the show is taking on a much more modern porn movie. Including Diminisodes and the intros for classic episode re-releases, Sol has told Allen about this movie in detail several times now. But does Sugar Babies: A Cautionary Tale live up to the hype?

Duration:01:38:45

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294 - Review of the Year 2023

12/25/2023
Merry Christmas! Chicken bucket!

Duration:01:45:34

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293 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

8/13/2023
We did it! All five Indiana Jones movies reviewed for your listening pleasure.

Duration:01:16:56

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292 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

7/30/2023
If you like hearing people complain about things, this is the Indiana Jones episode for you!

Duration:01:15:07

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291 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

7/16/2023
More like Indiana Jones and the Third Crusade.

Duration:01:04:07

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290 - Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

7/2/2023
Two of five.

Duration:00:47:14

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289 - Raiders of the Lost Ark

6/19/2023
We want more Indie cred so we're doing all of them starting with Raiders.

Duration:01:13:45

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288 - Oscars 2023: Part II

3/5/2023
Boobedy-boo, the Diminishing Returns boys are back with the other half of this year's Best Picture nominees at the Academy Awards. Will the Oscar go to The Banshees of Inisherin, Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis, Women Talking, Everything Everywhere All at Once (or one of the films from last episode)?

Duration:01:53:19

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287 - Oscars 2023

2/26/2023
It's the annual Diminishing Returns Oscars extravaganza -- and Calvin has seen a record number of this year's Best Picture nominees! Listen for the gang's thoughts on All Quiet on the Western Front, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans, Tar, Triangle of Sadness and more!

Duration:01:37:52

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286 - Valentine's Day Special: Deep Throat

2/12/2023
We've finally done it. We've finally cut all pretenses and just covered an outright hardcore porn film for Valentine's Day. Hey, porn movies are still movies, guys.

Duration:01:31:57

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285 - Review of the Year 2022

12/25/2022
Back so soon? It's review of the year time -- but with a twist!

Duration:00:59:40

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284 - Christmas Special: Gremlins

12/18/2022
Diminishing Returns is home for Christmas!

Duration:01:05:04

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283 - Podcast of Horror VII: The Exorcist

10/30/2022
Diminishing Returns is back with a Patreon-voted horror selection. It's The Exorcist just in time for Halloween.

Duration:01:04:34

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282 - Season One Finale

5/15/2022
Big news, Dim fans.

Duration:00:28:37

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281 - Ernest Goes to Camp

5/1/2022
Hey, Vern, have you heard about Diminishing Returns?

Duration:01:06:32

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280 - Skyfall (with Calvin Dyson)

4/17/2022
Let dey Skyfall! An dey crumbohl! James Bond is back and it's a big one.

Duration:01:22:06