# Tom Hanks Defence Force

A podcast by Tom Hanks Defence Force. A film and TV podcast discussing the past, present and future of the film and TV world. Tom Hanks worshipers Alex and Jack have survived Death Star superlasers and asteroids the size of Texas to tackle its most pressing questions. Discussing everything from writing and audience influence, to technology and the studio system; the pair are joined by an exciting diversity of fellow fans and industry insiders, bringing fresh insight to the films and shows we love, hate and know surprisingly little about.

Feed: https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

## Latest episodes

- [Mystery Pitch - Creating New TV Shows About Films](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/f93682ecadd1) (2026-03-16, 41 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2026-03-16T08_56_25-07_00.mp3
- [What if The Lord of the Rings was a Horror?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/688eb74694ab) (2025-11-17, 72 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2025-11-17T04_17_54-08_00.mp3
- [How Will The Simpsons End?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/a685f5cce074) (2024-12-28, 50 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2024-12-28T06_12_05-08_00.mp3
- [Horror Remakes: What could and should be reimagined?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/486457eb65dd) (2024-11-28, 45 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2024-11-28T09_02_43-08_00.mp3
- [Mystery Pitch: Wedding Season](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/1e3fa14def0b) (2024-07-15, 42 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2024-07-15T09_18_04-07_00.mp3
- [Franchise Overkill? Not All Who Makes Sequels Are Lost](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/4fe652fa38c9) (2024-01-03, 52 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2024-01-03T04_59_49-08_00.mp3
- [Back to the Future - Is Nostalgia the Saviour We've Not Been Waiting For?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/946f3e58c38d) (2023-11-20, 62 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2023-11-20T04_19_09-08_00.mp3
- [What is the Future of BAFTA?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/753c06780a47) (2023-05-31, 61 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2023-05-31T14_49_30-07_00.mp3
- [Ad-Myersable: The Mad World Of What Halloween Almost Was](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/d9567fafabb5) (2022-11-13, 51 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2022-11-13T15_01_22-08_00.mp3
- [Amazon Spooky: The Treat Before Halloween](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/468a42929eef) (2022-09-30, 11 min): audio https://www.podomatic.com/e/podcasts/tomhanksdefenceforce/episodes/2022-09-30T05_19_15-07_00.mp3
- [MergersBowl: The Tom Hanks Defence Force Take](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/696cf11545e5) (2022-09-01, 55 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2022-09-01T14_40_31-07_00.mp3?_=1662068443.16259837
- [T-Hanks For The Memories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/68ec790a5e7f) (2022-05-12, 28 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2022-05-12T12_34_22-07_00.mp3?_=1652384089.16101316
- [Mystery Pitch: Alfred Hitchcock's Lawnmower Massacre & I Know What You Did in 2005](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/f133fa7b6f23) (2022-02-21, 55 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2022-02-21T00_49_46-08_00.mp3?_=1645433408.15971496
- [Horror - What Influences Us And Why We Keep Coming Back](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/63eb04d78926) (2021-12-09, 5 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2021-12-09T10_19_24-08_00.mp3?_=1639073994.15859192
- [Batman Reimagined - What Nolan Brought to the Knight](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/46fb667e1d4d) (2021-03-17, 91 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2021-03-17T04_46_35-07_00.mp3?_=1615981605.15414076
- [An Industry Reborn: What will cinema look like after Covid?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/3a38a2ea3700) (2020-12-20, 64 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-12-20T04_54_00-08_00.mp3?_=1608468844.15249651
- [Mystery Pitch: Bob Iger](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/72ea8fdda057) (2020-07-20, 51 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-07-20T05_01_51-07_00.mp3?_=1595246518.14961834
- [Would Joker have worked before 2019?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/c6ad85a30a43) (2020-07-06, 27 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-07-06T13_06_07-07_00.mp3?_=1594066058.14934367
- [Mystery Pitch: Film Industry](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/ae1f2c34aea5) (2020-05-04, 37 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-05-04T04_38_55-07_00.mp3?_=1588592349.14794877
- [Into The Hanksverse: What the Defence Force thought of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/3dccf0f67d83) (2020-04-14, 30 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-04-14T07_43_58-07_00.mp3?_=1586875463.14744986
- [Late Night With Warhammer](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/fc5372e89d1e) (2020-03-25, 53 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-03-25T06_42_26-07_00.mp3?_=1585143765.14692259
- [How We'd Make Our Perfect Star Wars Film](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/a5b815d58bee) (2020-03-22, 40 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-03-22T09_29_06-07_00.mp3?_=1584903863.14683549
- [Mystery Pitch: Special Guest](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/6b5fdd4d34dd) (2020-02-21, 35 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-02-21T05_05_35-08_00.mp3?_=1582290349.14621660
- [A Jazzier Age: What can we expect in the 20s?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/9bd84f634dd2) (2020-02-19, 14 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-02-18T23_56_44-08_00.mp3?_=1582099029.14617270
- [Film in the 10s: How did we rate it?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/d59b81a8c4e6) (2020-02-09, 54 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-02-09T13_37_26-08_00.mp3?_=1581284292.14598147
- [So what movies changed our brains in 2019?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/58afe74d50a5) (2020-01-20, 37 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2020-01-20T00_07_21-08_00.mp3?_=1579507658.14559910
- [Christmas With The (Cr)Hanks](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/c0e76cee0a4d) (2019-12-25, 43 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-12-24T16_15_20-08_00.mp3?_=1577232969.14518950
- [Mystery Pitch: Pot Luck](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/3cda421d084d) (2019-11-24, 28 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-11-24T12_42_46-08_00.mp3?_=1574628182.14465551
- [Mystery Pitch Meets Spooky Season](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/8a4e25c7ee50) (2019-10-10, 51 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-10-10T08_25_12-07_00.mp3?_=1570721118.14379867
- [It-Cast: The Return of Pennywise and the Infinite Power of Human Fear](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/81f47b502a3a) (2019-10-04, 52 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-10-04T04_26_05-07_00.mp3?_=1570188379.14367982
- [Mystery Pitch Hits The News](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/5f9034fc6ade) (2019-09-10, 42 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-09-10T15_04_52-07_00.mp3?_=1568153100.14323084
- [Amazon's Lord of the Rings: What our Elf Eyes Would Like to See](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/359913ea1ab0) (2019-08-15, 42 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-08-14T23_49_48-07_00.mp3?_=1565851799.14276658
- [The Fandom Menaced: 20 Years of The Phantom Menace in the UK](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/2a9f45e72ba1) (2019-07-15, 42 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-07-15T14_04_21-07_00.mp3?_=1563224665.14222248
- [Bank Robbers and Boo-Boos: A Mystery Pitch Episode](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/3225c25e78d6) (2019-07-08, 30 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-07-08T01_41_07-07_00.mp3?_=1562575272.14191742
- [Slash of the Titans: An examination of the Slasher genre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/c75b7ec961b8) (2019-06-02, 65 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-06-02T01_59_17-07_00.mp3?_=1559465976.13926611
- [Bird Box Unleashed & Jamie Vardy's Party: A Mystery Pitch Episode](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/a5790f3f8f70) (2019-04-16, 37 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-04-16T15_06_47-07_00.mp3?_=1555452412.13559244
- [Breaking the Wheel: Game of Thrones and Life Afterwards](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/60aff09ccd2d) (2019-04-14, 62 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-04-14T15_48_55-07_00.mp3?_=1555282153.13555292
- [Four Hobbits & The Lord of the Rings: A Freestyle Episode](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1442587820/c23e0cb073bd) (2019-04-07, 40 min): audio https://tomhanksdefenceforce.podomatic.com/enclosure/2019-04-07T08_51_09-07_00.mp3?_=1554652281.13531989

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