Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guest 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, Haruo Sotozaki’s Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tsuzumi Yashiki-hen.
Four episodes of the anime series Demon Slayer that have been stitched together as an omnibus collection to broadcast on Fuji TV in the lead-up to the network television premiere of the Demon Slayer feature film, Mugen Train. These are the eleventh through fourteenth episodes of the show’s first season.
At time of recording, it was ranked 221st on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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435. Star Trek Into Darkness (#—)
Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This week, JJ Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness.
Captain James T. Kirk has been in command of the USS Enterprise for a year. In that time, he has not lost a single service man. Kirk is angling for the hottest new assignment – a five year mission of exploration into uncharted territory – when a terrorist attack masterminded by a rogue Starfleet Security Officer throws everything that Kirk thinks he knows into doubt.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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