Fizzy Bum Gang. The film event of the year is here. To mark the occasion we will be embarking on an odyssey-like journey in this weeks episode, using the full hour to discuss both Chistopher Nolan’s and Homer’s the Odyssey.

With the whole world Homermaxxing we decided it was appropriate that we too dance the Homeric beat, using the film to ask what about the text has endured to remain so ripe for adaptation. With ancient themes of ‘Nostos’ to contemporary interpretations of the Pyrrhic Victory - what can one of humanities oldest texts tell us about the collective human experience?

We will be examining with arrow like precision the good and bad from the film and it’s deviations from the source material. The cyclopean spectacle, woefully written women, far right Trojan horsing, IMAX elitism, the reanimation of practical effects, poor pu ...