Big Gross Movies
244 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsComedians Dave Atkinson and Meg Mackay invite hilarious guests to go back in time to study the popular culture and history of a year and then watch the highest grossing movie of that year to try and find out why it was that year's Big Gross Movie.
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BGM-302-1979-Time After Time with Rebecca Reeds
January 23, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 82 MBThis week we stayed over in 1979 from last week but left New York and checked out San Francisco with guest Rebecca Reeds before going over a movie with an amazing pitch that is all over the place bananas: Time After Time! Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner do a movie with an insane plot and play it so straight you
BGM-301-1979-The Warriors with Shawn Hogan
January 16, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 66.5 MBThis week we throw the agenda out the time machine window for Season 3! Dave and Meg and special guest Shawn Hogan go over why Movie New York AKA actual New York in the seventies was like that before gawking at it in 1979s youths punching epic The Warriors!
BGM-279-1987-The Running Man
January 09, 2019 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.7 MBContent Warning: This movie is real sexual assaulty in a few ways and we talk about 'em. This week we're back from our holiday carb binges and we wanted to do a meta thing and watch a movie from the year we were born set in the year we... are in. So we watched 1987s The Running Man! We go over how close it got, our favorite murder clown from the TV and Jesse Ventura's wig being on wrong.
BGM-278-Holiday Beethoven Bonus feat. Bryn Pottie!
December 19, 2018 10:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBThis week the holidays ate our time so it's a bonus episode! We made too much podcast the week we watched Beethoven so here it is now for your holiday listening. See you after I bring my Dad his 10 pounds of Christmas Bacon! Not a euphemism, literally 10 pounds of bacon.
BGM-277-1997-The Jackal MEG BIRTHDAY SPECIAL with Vance Banzo!
December 12, 2018 10:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBThis week it's Meg's Birthday so favourite guest Vance Banzo is here to watch a forgotten action movie from the latter half of the nineties to celebrate the miracle of Meg's life and her besting of the sea for another year in their lifelong struggle. Under the influence of Cake we go over Bruce Willis' many wigs, everyone's bad accents and shooting your movie in what seems like a whole buncha places.
BGM-276-1992-Beethoven with Bryn Pottie
December 05, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 76.4 MBThis week we mess around with the format again with Friend of the Show Bryn Pottie and watch the classic 1992 dog movie Beethoven! We go over the evil vet's evil plan, which is quite evil you see, marvel at the lady marmalade organ lady and criticize Bonnie Hunt's wifery.
BGM-275-1999-Toy Story 2 with Bobby Knauff
November 28, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBThis week, we bring back our very first guest to give a test-drive to the new season 3 format, so we went back to 1999 to have a look at Toy Story 2 to figure out why it's gross with Bobby Knauff. Consumerism and emotional button-pushing, turns out.
BGM-274-1962-How the West was Won with Dylan Gott
November 21, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 63.3 MBThis week, we crank up the time machine and head back to 1962 to have another look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie How the West was Won with special guest Dylan Gott! We go over how Canada did a socialism and everything was fine before trudging through a technical feat about... like rivers I guess?
BGM-273-Some Stand-up from Dave
November 14, 2018 10:00 - 8 minutes - 7.96 MBThis week, we drop off the time machine to get an oil change and instead play you a clip of your co-host Dave's act from a couple months ago! We'll be back next week with our usual history/movie oddities.
BGM-272-2009-Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with Bryn Pottie
November 07, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 64.6 MBThis week we head back to 2009 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince with guest Bryn Pottie, we go over a both very slick and very bumbly crime from '09 before tturning our attention to a movie that
BGM-271-1976-A Star is Born with Karen Geier
October 31, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBThis week we pack up a case of Jack Daniels and head back to 1976 to have a look around and watch it's second highest-grossing movie A Star is Born with special guest Karen Geier! We go over the tale of a cool but also awful bank robbery before wading into the boozy swamp of Streisand that is A Star is Born.
BGM-270-2015-The Last Witch Hunter-DIESEL HUBRIS SPECIAL
October 24, 2018 09:00 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBThis week we decided to jump ship from our regular examinations of Sylvester Stallone's hubris to have a look at Vin Diesel's hubris instead so we swung back to 2015 to catch the passion project loosely based on his D&D Campaign: The Last Witch Hunter. We talk about how talking about D&D to any outside person is inadvisable, and go over the insane ramblings of a megalomaniacal nerd that really, really doesn't like ladies.
BGM-269-1973-The Sting with Brian Ward
October 17, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.1 MBThis week we run a scam on the time machine to swing us back to 1973 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie The Sting with special guest Brian Ward! We go over a crazy helicopter situation from '73 and then enjoy a classic movie starring Paul Newman's eyes and Robert Shaw's limp.
BGM-268-1993-Hard Target-Action Movie Special!
October 10, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 60.5 MBThis week we veer offcourse on the way to 1970 and crash-land in 1993 and figured why not watch something with kicking, so we go over the Jean-Claude Van Damme John Woo movie featuring uncle Brimley and the snakefire man we found because of a google image result of JCVD biting a snake.
BGM-267-1956-Around the World in 80 Days with Nigel Grinstead
October 03, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThis week we get back in the time seats and head back to 1956 to have a look around and watch its second-highest grossing movie: Around the World in 80 Days with guest Nigel Grinstead! We go over Elvis' middle part movements and their effect and then go over the weirdest britishest awful things we've seen!
BGM-266-1995-Assassins Stallone Hubris Special!
September 26, 2018 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week we got the time machine stuck in a ditch in 1995 so decided to watch another Stallone movie to really get to the bottom of this thing so we watched Assassins! We go over the five or six plots this movie paws at and try to figure what on earth happened and sympathize with the wachowskis desire to get their names off this turd.
BGM-265-1995-Judge Dredd-Stallone Hubris Special!
September 19, 2018 15:48 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MBThis week we get ourselves together after the hiatus and take a joyride back to 1995 to continue our study of Stallone's hubris with Judge Dredd! Clones that don't look like clones! Microwave clones that look like ice mummies! Et Cetera!
BGM-264-1983-Return of the Jedi Again with Shawn Hogan
September 12, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 86.3 MBThis week Meg got a chance to do a cool thing, so we continue our busy streak and we're running another episode from waaaay back, we'll have fresh stuff soon as we can! This week we throw a few adorable tiny bear... things into the time furnace and fly our machine back to 1983 to have a glance around and see it's highest grossing movie Return of the Jedi! We talk about the world nearly exploding a few times, an italian man who has 105 problems and then review the little bear hover di...
BGM-263-1954-Rear Window Again with Diana McCallum!
September 05, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBDue to a Mom saying so, we couldn't get a shiny new episode recorded for you, so we went to the vault and got out one of our polished gems from way back! We'll be back as soon as we can get more than an hour in the same room. This week we underestimate the yield of our time machine's nuclear engine and blast into 1954 to look around and watch its highest grossing movie: Rear Window. We talk about supreme court decisions of some import, a giant explosion that sorta created Godzilla and the...
BGM-262-1976-Rocky Again with Alex Wood
August 29, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 77.7 MBThis week your heroic hosts' frail forms have failed us all and we couldn't record an episode, so we went to the vault and brought out Episode 4 from when our mortal husks were not so dry and mouldy! This episode we pedal the time machine into the morass of disco and flags that is 1976 and its Big Gross Movie: Rocky. With our special guest Alex Wood we talk the Turkey maneuvre, Mick and the Chicken-leg scourge and the emotional dams that are hats.
BGM-261-1955-Oklahoma! with Bryn Pottie
August 22, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.7 MBThis week we crank up the time machine and head back to 1955 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie: Oklahoma! We go over the tale of a French guy with awful busted up legs who caused a riot somehow and then go over the truly boring and terrible Oklahoma! Cowboys! Farmers! An entire plot based around a decision that is very, very clear from start!
BGM-260-2008-Kung Fu Panda with Vance Banzo
August 15, 2018 09:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBThis week we're back to take a trip back to 2008 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: Kung Fu Panda with special guest Vance Banzo! We talk about Iraq and the hero who emerged from there in 2008 and then recap a movie that is what is says it is and nothing more!
BGM-259-1963-Cleopatra Again with Ted Morris!
August 08, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBThis week we dusted off one of our finest episodes because we went on vacation and couldn't be bothered to record an episode so we dress up the time machine in Gold and head to 1963 to look around and watch its big gross movie: Cleopatra. We talk about the Birmingham campaign, Kennedy things, and then talk about the four hour money fire that is Cleopatra. With special guest Ted Morris.
BGM-258-1991-Oscar-Stallone Hubris Special!
August 01, 2018 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.5 MBThis week we carry on with the Summer Special series with a trip back to 1991 to catch Sylvester Stallone make a mistake called Oscar! We try to figure out what went wrong and come up Sly, featuring worst actor lady, Tim Curry the elocution robot, Spartacus SlapDaddy and Marisa Thomei for some reason.
BGM-257-2013-White House Down
July 25, 2018 09:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBThis week, we slide back to 2013 to catch one of its white house die hards White House Down starring President Jamie Foxx Obama and Channing Tatum McLane and James Woods as himself! It's... not that bad!
BGM-256-2011-Transformers: Dark of the Moon with Alan Shane Lewis
July 18, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBThis week we turn the time machine into whatever kind of truck that pays us money and head back to 2011 to watch its second highest grossing movie Transformers: Dark of the Moon with guest Alan Shane Lewis! In our history deep-dive we go over a real jerk's hidey-house before losing our minds for your entertainment watching the awful robot movie!
BGM-255-1968-Funny Girl with Cathryn Naiker
July 11, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBThis week Cathryn Naiker is back in the time machine for a trip to 1968 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie: Funny Girl! We go over a crazy rich guy who did a crazy rich guy thing before marveling at Ms. Streisand and Sexy vampire Omar Sharif.
BGM-254-1995-Fist of the North Star
July 04, 2018 09:00 - 51 minutes - 47.3 MBThis week we're joyriding back to 1995 to watch one of the best bad movies we've ever seen. It has it all, Clint Howard shoving old ladies, a guy with straps holding his brains in, a conflict over the only girlfriend in the land, and never forget: so. much. punching.
BGM-253-1978-Superman with Allison Dore
June 27, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 89.4 MBThis week Allison Dore is back with us for a trip to 1978 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie Superman! We go over the story of Charlie the teen-marrier before being enormously disappointed with Superman.
BGM-252-1991-Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
June 20, 2018 09:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBThis week we had to get an episode in a hurry so we barreled back to 1991 and watched our new favorite movie Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey! We go over robot doubles, death, George Carlin and fascist Fred the villain man.
BGM-251-1961-West Side Story with Christophe Davidson
June 13, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBThis week, we spin up the time machine and head back to 1961 to have a look around and watch the second highest-grossing movie: West Side Story with Christophe Davidson! We go over a sneaky cold war spy ring led by a Russian pretending to be Gord the Gumball salesman before diving into a classic musical about street gangs, racism and lateral violence! Also love I guess.
BGM-250-1984-The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension-WEIRD MOVIE SPECIAL
June 06, 2018 09:00 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MBThis week, Meg is back from her assignment so to celebrate we're doing a Weird movie special! We go back to 1984 to have a look at The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, an insane fever dream of a movie with a closing sequence you should watch on youtube.
BGM-249-1989-Star Trek V: The Final Frontier with Will Noye
May 30, 2018 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBThis week, Meg is on assignment so Will Noye is back to watch another Star Trek Movie! We warp back to 1989 to catch Star Trek V: The Final Frontier AKA the one Shatner directed AKA the one where they shoot a photon torpedo at God Almighty. Lotsa fun!
BGM-248-2012-Skyfall with Nigel Grinstead
May 23, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThis week we have a boyish Q outfit us with well-tailored timesuits and head back to 2012 to have another look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie Skyfall with resident special guest Nigel Grinstead! We go into the history of Canada's most famous old-timey torture prison and then go over an unnecessarily gorgeous batman movie starring James Bond!
BGM-247-2006-The Da Vinci Code with Alan Shane Lewis
May 16, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 70 MBThis week, we take a jump back to 2006 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: The Da Vinci Code with special guest Alan Shane Lewis! We go over a crazy 2006 robbery and the robber who robbed it before being upset at the something something Jesus haircut movie.
BGM-246-1954-White Christmas with Bryn Pottie
May 09, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 68.8 MBThis week, we crash back to 1954 to have another look around and watch it's second highest-grossing movie White Christmas with special guest Bryn Pottie! First we tell the tale of Saint Fred who helped and then move on to not being very impressed with Bing Crosby at all.
BGM-245-1997-Con Air BAD MOVIE SPECIAL!
May 02, 2018 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBThis week, after pondering Face/Off in a previous show, we head back to 1997 and went to the theatre next to the one we were seeing that in, avoided paradoxes, and caught the other Movie Nicholas Cage was in that month: Con Air! It's absolutely ants in the pants crazy.
BGM-244-2003-Finding Nemo with Dan Galea
April 25, 2018 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis week, we flood the bilge-tanks on the time machine and head back to 20003 to have a look around and watch its second highest grossing movie: Finding Nemo with special guest Dan Galea! We go over why an old lady got to drink for free (it was for killing Nazis) and then talk about Pixar's charming fish-themed emotional manipulation experiment!
BGM-243-1992-The Bodyguard with Clare Belford
April 18, 2018 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.1 MBThis week we load up the time machine with tasty treats for our trip back to 1992 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: The Bodyguard with special guest Clare Belford. First we talk about space punching people and 1980 Chevy Malibus and then we pick apart the dumb movie that lets you see Whitney Houston be amazing a few times in between a weird buncha stuff with swords and bombs.
BGM-242-1987-Masters of the Universe BAD MOVIE SPECIAL
April 11, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBThis week, we had some stuff come up so it's a BAD MOVIE SPECIAL! Dave and Meg go over 1987s weird bad silly cannon films masterpiece: Masters of the Universe. Masks! Other Masks! Courtney Cox? Buddy from Voyager? Yes, those things.
BGM-241-2014-John Wick 3rd anniversary special!
April 04, 2018 09:00 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MBThis week, to celebrate three years of Big Gross Movies we torture Meg by watching her most hated of Dad movies: John Wick. We invent the John Wick Game, go over the trials of evil Russian Santa.
BGM-240-1981-On Golden Pond with Hunter Collins
March 28, 2018 09:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBThis week we zip back to 1981 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie On Golden Pond! First we go over an incident involving the Queen, a Horse from Saskatchewan and big hats before quickly summing up a movie where nothing happens for a very long time and then you're done.
BGM-239-2015-Jurassic World with NIgel Grinstead
March 21, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBThis week we take our shortest hop back to 2015 to go over a military pillow fight gone awry and check out the second highest-grossing movie of 2015 Jurassic World with special guest Nigel Grinstead!
BGM-238-1993-Mrs Doubtfire with Rebecca Reeds
March 14, 2018 09:00 - 1 hour - 61 MBThis week we head back to 1993, this time to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie Mrs. Doubtfire with special guest comedian Rebecca Reeds, we go over a pizza empire's blimp-based folly and then realize that Sally Field was right and should have full custody of them kids.
BGM-237-1987-Fatal Attraction with Jess Williams
March 07, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 62.5 MBThis week we fire up the time machine and head back to 1987 once again, this time to catch the number two movie: Fatal Attraction with Special guest Jess Williams! We go over the tale of a teen who hated his new school sooooooo much he got Interpol involved, then try to pick ourselves back up after being shattered by the offensive yet still tense as can be tale of a guy screwing up and also a scary supernatural witch his wife has to shoot at the end.
BGM-236-1985-Commando
February 28, 2018 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.4 MBThis week, we take a joyride back to 1985 to have some fun and watch the classic action movie Commando! We go over the shootiest, explodingest, dumbest fun you can imagine that, it turns out, some people seem to think is a documentary.
BGM-235-2013-Iron Man 3 with Andrew Ivimey
February 21, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 74.9 MBThis week, we take a quick skip back to 2013 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie Iron Man 3 with special guest Andrew Ivimey! We co over a rock punching Russia in the face before recapping a movie about Tony Snark, the jerk who learned nothing.
BGM-234-1997-Face/Off BAD MOVIE SPECIAL!
February 14, 2018 10:00 - 55 minutes - 50.9 MBThis week it's a BAD MOVIE SPECIAL! Meg and Dave get sideways and swerve our way though the vortex back to 1997 to watch Face/Off because we deserved it. We go over Gun wizardry, how early to suspect a face-switch situation, space prison etiquette and many other insane delights.
BGM-233-1985-Rambo: First Blood Part II with Dylan Gott
February 07, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 59.9 MBThis week we crank up the Delorean and head back to 1985 to have a look around and watch its second-highest-grossing movie Rambo: First Blood Part II with special guest Dylan Gott! We go over a slight change to bubbled cocaine water that drove everyone fully mad in '85 and then recount to you the purest, dumbest, greatest action movie there is.
BGM-232-1979-Kramer vs. Kramer with Mike Balazo
January 31, 2018 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBThis week we moonrake our way back to 1979 to look around and check out its second highest-grossing movie Kramer Vs. Kramer! with our guest Mike Balazo we go over a whimsical escape from an authoritarian nightmare and then go over a movie about a boy and his son and his ex-wife and how family court is no fun.