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409. Alien Covenant - All-ien 2024 (#---) Jan 28, 2025

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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.

408. Mulholland Drive (#---) Jan 26, 2025

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Charlene Lydon, 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, to mark the passing of the director, David Lynch's Mulholland Drive. Silencio. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

407. Heat - Commentary (#107) Jan 13, 2025

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Andy Melhuish, 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, a commentary on Michael Mann's Heat. Michael Mann's Los Angeles crime epic finds lives intersecting and overlapping in the City of Angels. At the heart of the story, career criminal Neil McCauley and driven detective Vincent Hanna find themselves on a collision course that leave countless lives shattered in their wake. At time of recording, it was ranked 107th on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

406. Training Day (#---) Jan 06, 2025

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Andy McCarroll, 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, Antoine Fuqua's Training Day. Jake Hoyt is a young officer training with the Los Angeles Police Department. He is assigned to the care of Detective Alonzo Harris. However, it quickly becomes clear that Hoyt has been thrown into a world that he doesn't fully understand, and that Harris is a very unconventional supervising officer. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

405. King Kong (#---) Dec 30, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest David Monaghan and Grace Duffy, 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, Peter Jackson's King Kong. Vaudeville performer Ann Darrow has just lost her steady gig. A chance encounter with veteran filmmaker Carl Denham presents a unique opportunity. If Denham can stay one step ahead of his investors, he might just make the greatest motion picture that the world has ever seen. Tricking his cast and crew on to a boat, Denham sets sail for adventure, charting a course to the most dangerous location shoot in the history of cinema, a mythical locale described in whispers as "Skull Island." Denham plans to make a star of the island's more iconic inhabitant: the King that they call Kong. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

404. Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (#---) Dec 23, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Luke Dunne and Alex Towers, 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, George Lucas' Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. A republic in decline finds itself slipping into fascism in the midst of a public dispute over trade tariffs. When Jedi Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are dispatched to resolve the Trade Federation blockade of the peaceful world of Naboo, they begin an epic adventure that will bring them to the sands of Tatooine, where Qui-Gon encounters a strange young boy that he is convinced as the power to bring balance to the force: Anakin Skywalker. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

403. Prometheus - All-ien 2024 (#---) Dec 16, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Niall Glynn, 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 Prometheus. Inspired by strange discoveries from around the globe, reclusive ageing billionaire Peter Weyland funds a journey into the deepest and darkest recesses of outspace. Led by Elizabeth Shaw, the Prometheus mission is intended to find not just new life, but also discover the origins of all life on Earth. However, when the scientific team arrive at their destination, they find something altogether more sinister waiting for them. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

402. Predators - All-ien 2024 (#---) Dec 09, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Ethan Shattock, 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, Nimród Antal's Predators. A group of killers from across the globe wake up to find themselves in a strange jungle with no memory of how they got there. They quickly discover that this is no ordinary jungle, and find themsleves being chased by no ordinary hunters. If any of the group is to survive, they'll have to rely on more than just their formidable skills - they'll have to count on each other. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

401. Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem - All-ien 2024 (#---) Dec 02, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn, Darren Mooney and Jess Dunne, this week with special guest Billie Jean Doheny, 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, the Brothers Strause's Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. The peaceful community of Gunnison in Colorado finds its idyllic existence interrupted when a strange extraterrestrial vessel comes crashing to Earth in the woods at the edge of town. The unusual ship is carrying a dangerous cargo, but it also brings other outsid visitors to town. It turns out that there's more than one sort of alien that the residents have to worry about. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best or worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

400. Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (#---) Nov 25, 2024

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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest Dean Buckley, 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 time, the GameBoy Advance Games Ecks vs. Sever and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever. Two of the best killers in the world find themselves thrown into conflict with one another, against the backdrop of Vancouver. Also, there are two famously good tie-in games available for the movie. At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

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