In the Just The Thing 2024 Christmas Special, Joel and Chris are joined by Matt O'Dwyer and Peter Regan as they attempt to unwrap Tim Burton's Batman Returns and imagine what might happen if the shapeshifting creature from John Carpent...

Joel and Chris are joined by Geraint D'Arcy, Associate Professor and Head of Media at UEA, where the three originally met as students in the late 90s. Geraint was also the star of Chris and Joel's short film, Bad Day, often referenced on the po...

It's a Just The Thing first as Joel and Chris finally welcome a guest who actually worked on the film they're talking about: John Jessup, Joel's father!For most of his life John has been an award-winning advertising creative, but when he wa...

Joel and Chris try to decipher Richard Kelly's 2006 puzzle of a film the only way they know how... by adding the creature from The Thing. Will the addition of a shapeshifting, parasitic alien help to make sense of this sprawling, apocalyptic sa...

Joel and Chris take on the totally not controversial and not at all divisive Star Wars entry, The Last Jedi. Directed by Rian Johnson, they discuss how this film went from critics' darling to most-hated movie of the century, and consider why th...

Joel and Chris are delighted to be joined by author and folk horror enthusiast Kit Whitfield to put The Thing into the 1999 found footage movie, The Blair Witch Project.Overrated? Underrated? Just about accurately rated? Our extensive discu...

Season 4 of Just The Thing begins, and Joel and Chris try to fix the 2023 Haunted Mansion by putting John Carpenter's The Thing into it!The Haunted Mansion is a well-loved theme park ride, but why is it so difficult to turn into a movie? Th...

A quick catch-up episode to let you know that Just The Thing will be returning for Season 4 on Tuesday 6th August.

Chris and Joel wrap up their Kurt Russell season by putting The Thing into Escape from L.A.They started in New York and they're ending in La La Land! (Not the musical.) Is this the last good John Carpenter film, or was that the one befo...

Joel and Chris are joined by filmmaker Ross Boyask (I Am Vengeance: Retaliation) to help put The Thing into the Fast and Furious universe.Why did they come in at number 7? Family. And because it's the first one Kurt Russell is in! ...

Joel and Chris continue their Kurt Russell season by putting the creature from John Carpenter's The Thing into the 1993 western, Tombstone!Is this a revisionist or reconstructionist Western? Why does it have such an amazing cast list? Who h...

Joel and Chris have brought the brilliant Andrea Regan back to discuss the other film that Kurt Russell said every boat owner has on VHS: Overboard! And put The Thing into it.Cult misstep? Weird classic? Problematic flop? We throw this film...

Joel and Chris are back and it's time to talk about one of the two films that Kurt Russell said every boat owner has on VHS: Captain Ron! And put The Thing into it.Cult classic? Weird misstep? Secret early version of Fight Club? We dive dee...

Joel and Chris invite regular guests Alex and Matt to their 2023 Christmas special, and because it's Kurt Russell season they're all going to watch The Christmas Chronicles and put The Thing in there!Joel realises Die Hard and Home Alon...

Joel and Chris are joined by Quentin Tarantino buffs Alex and Katy to discuss how to put The Thing into Death Proof, Tarantino's grimily ironic grindhouse tribute. Joel pitches his UK version of Grindhouse, 'National Film Theatre'.&nbs...

 Joel and Chris are joined by author Peter Regan to discuss Big Trouble in Little China! ...and put The Thing into it.For our 25th episode we look at the third part of the Russell/Carpenter collaboration pentagon. Is this film now ...

Joel and Chris are thrilled to be joined by Dan from the brilliant movie podcast Shoot the Hostage to discuss Dark Blue, an underseen, possibly underrated corrupt cop drama starring Kurt Russell. Then they put The Thing into it. Ob...

Joel and Chris are joined by Matt O'Dwyer as they try to understand the ridiculous intensity of 1989's Tango & Cash! And then put The Thing into it. Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone wisecrack their way through the ultimate disti...

How has it taken Chris and Joel this long to tackle a Steven Seagal film? Of course, 1996's Executive Decision is really more of a Kurt Russell film, but there's plenty of Seagal talk to be had in this episode, just before they add The...

Joel and Chris examine the first John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration: the 1979 Elvis biopic!We discuss the controversies and ask the big questions: Did Elvis fake the moon landing? Did his mum die from being given a novelty Christmas ...

Chris and Joel start Season 3's Kurt Russell odyssey by discussing Escape From New York! And then putting The Thing into it.A cult classic, and the first non-Thing John Carpenter film they've covered, featuring Russell's star-making perform...

Joel and Chris discuss Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One! SPOILER WARNING as in this bonus episode before the next season we do our own stunts, and by stunts we mean talking about this surprisingly strange film. 

Joel and Chris celebrate their one-year podcast anniversary with a discussion on all they've learned from the movies of 1982!Do we deliver an incisive definitive answer as to why The Thing flopped in that year? Maybe? Do we take a look at t...

Joel and Chris discuss Steven Lisberger's ground-breaking sci-fi epic Tron, and then try to put the creature from John Carpenter's The Thing into it.Cult masterpiece or weird experiment? Or both? And did they cast Dan Shor because he was ea...

Get ready for a Just The Thing like you've never heard before, as Joel and Chris discuss Wayne Wang's documentary-style indie detective film Chan is Missing, and then try to put John Carpenter's The Thing into it!Joel and Chris get very per...