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-231-1969-Midnight Cowboy with Alex Wood
January 24, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 60 MBThis week we swing back to 1969 to have a look around and go over its second highest-grossing movie: Midnight Cowboy with special guest Alex Wood! Meg does the research this week and we look at the Stonewall Riots before going over a masterpiece that is also bleaker than a Russian novel being read to you by a dying child.
BGM-230-1974-Blazing Saddles with Ian MacIntyre
January 17, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 58 MBThis week we head back to 1974 to have a look around and go over its second highest grossing movie Blazing Saddles with special guest Ian MacIntyre! We go over a 70s space station built and staffed by uncles before going over a movie's whose last third forgives it's slow start.
BGM-229-1999-The Sixth Sense with Griffin Toplitsky
January 10, 2018 10:00 - 1 hour - 76 MBThis week, we take the time-bus back to 1999 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: The Sixth Sense with special guest Griffin Toplitsky! We go over this kid who shattered an industry one time and then remember why M. Night Shamalan is and lose our stuffs over Toni Collette.
BGM-228-1993-Cliffhanger STALLONE HUBRIS SPECIAL
January 03, 2018 17:34 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBThis week, filled to the brim with Christmas Cheeses, Dave and Meg head back to 1993 to continue our series of in-depth analyses of Sylvester Stallone being absolutely certain he pooped gold for about ten years there with Cliffhanger! Stalactite Cool Runnings Murder anyone? How about two Canadian Podcasters losing their minds over nobody wearing the right coats or gloves? It's all here!
BGM-227-1983-Terms of Endearment with Sam Burns
December 27, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.1 MBThis week, Dave and Meg load up on various leftover nogs and head back to 1983 to watch it's second highest-grossing movie: Terms of Endearment with guest comedian Sam Burns! We do a Canada Corner first half and go over a deadly toilet fire and a guy who landed a dead 767 on a racetrack before diving into a movie about a gin witch, her problematic daughter and the daughter's flappy husband who is actually full-on named Flap. Good times!
BGM-226-2003-Love Actually Christmas Special!
December 20, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBThis week it's a Christmas Special! So we're watching Love Actually, that British classic where everything is problematic but you love everyone in it so whatever! We go over it all in time for when you half watch it in a day drunk this Christmas!
BGM-225-1988-Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with Allison Dore!
December 13, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 73 MBThis week, Dave and Guest Meg Allison Dore Make a quick hop to 1988 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? We go over the first guy to reach the north pole and peel away at an onion of why he's terrible before going over a movie that is somehow both good and no fun.
BGM-224-1991-Adventures in Dinosaur City with Jess Williams
December 06, 2017 10:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThis week it's Meg's Birthday so it's another Meg Birthday Special! we watch her childhood favorite, the 1991 made for TV movie Adventures in Dinosaur City and go over unsettling puppets, unsettling sexuality, unsettling longshorts, and have a great time with this baffling work of cinematic... film.
BGM-223-1982-The Dark Crystal
November 29, 2017 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis week it's a Meg Remembers Special! After we recorded last week's episode Dave and Meg each recapped a favorite movie from memory that the other hadn't seen. Dave's didn't record right, but Meg's did, so this week Meg is going over The Dark Crystal! Being sick of the hero's journey in a hero's journey, everything being puppets, and the meaning of the bird people and whatnot.
BGM-222-1997-The Lost World: Jurassic Park with Nigel Grinstead
November 22, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBThis week, we attach unnecessary chairs to the sides of the time machine and dino-safari back to 1997 to have a look around and watch its second-highest grossing movie The Lost World Jurassic Park with guest comedian Nigel Grinstead! we first talk about a weird bug kid that invents Pokémon and whoopsie-doops caused a buncha seizures, then go over Spielberg's big good bad confusing simple mess featuring dinosaurs.
BGM-221-1967-The Graduate with Selby Nixon
November 15, 2017 10:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week we grease up the time axles and head back to 1967 to have a look around and then watch its second highest-grossing movie: The Graduate with guest Selby Nixon. We go over the life of a stupid nazi and then watch a movie that's amazingly made and yet still bleeeeeeak.
BGM-220-1953-From Here to Eternity with Jennifer McAuliffe
November 08, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 65.7 MBThis week, we just throw some nuclear whatever in the tank and head back to the radioactive everything year of 1953 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie From Here to Eternity with guest comedian Jennifer McAuliffe! We go over a bit of history about a lot of wives, then recap the best made movie about not very much at all 1953 has to offer.
BGM-219-1994-The Specialist STALLONE HUBRIS SPECIAL
November 01, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBThis week, Meg and Dave take a Stallone Hubris joyride to 1994 to watch the incredibly goodbad The Specialist. Sylvester Stallone IS Ray Quick, a bomb man who knows James Woods, also a Bomb Man. Then Sharon Stone is also there, but look out, because explosions! We go over feeling bad for Sharon Stone, Eric Roberts' traumatizing pants and more!
BGM-218-1975-The Rocky Horror Picture Show with Rebecca Reeds
October 25, 2017 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBThis week we cover the time machine in boas and fishnets and head back to 1975 and... I guess ever since to watch it's technically 2nd highest grossing movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show with guest comedian Rebecca Reeds! We go over Tim Curry, pube prevalence and just how great everybody's legs are.
BGM-217-1980-9 to 5 with Amanda Day
October 18, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThis week, we waxed up the time skis and glided back to 1980 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: 9 to 5 with guest comedian Amanda Day! We go over this one time some dudes drilled a hole that made a lake eat an island before we take a look at old-timey bridesmaids with Dolly Parton in it: 9 to 5.
BGM-216-2000-Gladiator with Diana McCallum
October 11, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBThis week, we throw a few thousand AOL Cds into the time furnace and head back to 2000 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: Gladiator with special guest Diana McCallum! We first go over a stupid racist submarine and then parse the game of thrones WWE tale featuring dream wheat that is Gladiator.
BGM-215-1972-The Poseidon Adventure with Clare Belford
October 04, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBThis week, we take on ballast so we don't tip over on the way and fly the time machine to 1972 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: The Poseidon Adventure with comedian Clare Belford! We first go over a man made of badass who flew to the moon and then go over a disaster movie that has a fat lady (her words), Gene Hackman as a priest who hates god, Ernest Borgnine as a cop who hates everything, and Leslie Nielsen as not a funny character, which is weird.
BGM-214-1964-Mary Poppins with Nour Hadidi
September 27, 2017 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week, Meg is on assignment on the East Coast, so to handle her time paddle, Guest Meg Ryan Horwood is here to help us back to 1964 again to have a look around and watch it's third highest-grossing movie Mary Poppins with guest Comedian Nour Hadidi! We go over a stoned busride of odd importance before going over the very long, very odd tale of an all-powerful wind witch who teaches a bank guy to not be such a stiff jerk.
BGM-213-1958-PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL-Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
September 20, 2017 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.7 MBThis week, we set the time machine to piercing gaze seeking and shoot back to 1958 for yet another Paul Newman Special! We watch Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a movie based on a play by Tennessee Williams, writer of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and mostly those. We go over the worst children in Cinema, Why Gooper can't catch a break, and the fact that a character's actual oft-spoken name is Gooper.
BGM-212-2001-The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with Blayne Smith
September 13, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBThis week, we make a shire-leaf run to 2001 in the time machine to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring with comedian Blayne Smith! We go over a fellow and his plane ride then go over the tale of a stoned wizard who finds out his dealer has the one ring to rule them all.
BGM-211-1950-All About Eve with Bryn Pottie
September 06, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBThis week we load the time parlour with gin and smokes and head back to 1950 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie All About Eve with comedian Bryn Pottie. We go over the slapstick stealing of a magic rock before talking about a stalker movie about classy folks insulting each other slyly with the skill of gods.
BGM-210-1982-Tootsie with Nigel Grinstead
August 30, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 61.7 MBThis week we throw a wig on the time machine and zip back to 1982 to have a look around and see its second highest-grossing movie: Tootsie with comedian Nigel Grinstead. We go over some background on that time a guy tried to kill the pope with a bayonet, then go over the endless tomfoolery of Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie.
BGM-209-2005-Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
August 23, 2017 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBThis week, after subjecting ourselves to 2007 and Spider Man 3, we swung the time machine around, picked up Actor/Comedian Vance Banzo and went straight to 2005 to hurt ourselves and watch it number 2 grossing movie: Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. We go over an old baby lady, the time a hankie stopped George W Bush from exploding and then get angry as we try to go over a real big mess Georgie made.
BGM-208-2007-Spider Man 3 BAD MOVIE SPECIAL
August 16, 2017 09:00 - 45 minutes - 41.3 MBThis week, we crumble under the awful world and escape in the time machine to 2007 to catch an awful movie that's still better than engaging with reality, Spider Man 3! We go over ancient child lockets, money cancer, and Peter Parker's murder pants.
BGM-207-1996-Twister
August 09, 2017 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.5 MBThis week, we stoke up a good head of time steam and head back to 1996, this time to watch its 2nd highest-grossing movie: Twister with special guest Ted Morris! We go over some 1996 and Devon Sawa-related gems before plowing headlong into whatever the hell twister is! Steaks not Stakes! (Aren't we clever?)
BGM-206-1989-Batman
August 02, 2017 09:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBThis week, we strap many guns to the time machine and fly strategically past the moon on our way back to 1989 to watch it's second highest-grossing movie: Batman with special guest Ryan Horwood! We go over a 1989 beer-related nationwide pub crawl before diving into the reason there are still batman movies at all: Tim Burton's weird-ass joker movie featuring tiny Batman.
BGM-205-1977-Smokey and the Bandit
July 26, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThis week, we jump the time machine over a bridge and head back to 1977 to watch it's second highest-grossing movie Smokey and the Bandit with comedian Dylan Gott! We go over a pardon, a book king, and the hillbilliest dern thing you ever did (garbled)!
BGM-204-1990-Home Alone
July 19, 2017 09:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBThis week, the curse is broken as Dave, Meg and guest comedian Craig Fay fire up the time machine to head back to 1990 to talk about Russian McDonald's and that year's number two Big Gross Movie: Home Alone! Mostly we marvel at how fragile we are as we squirmed more at falling on ice than being set on fire.
BGM-203-1986-Crocodile Dundee
July 12, 2017 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThis week we hit the redial button on the time Machine for our 5th trip to 1986, this time to see it's big number two movie "Crocodile" Dundee (it's his nickname, you see) with guest comedian Sara Hennesey! We go over what train accidents, Maine and cocaine can do to a fella and then go over a movie made of setups for Paul Hogan to look cool in.
BGM-202-1991-Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
July 05, 2017 09:00 - 57 minutes - 52.4 MBThis week we saddle up our time horses and head back to 1991 to have another look around and see its number two movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves with comedian Shawn Hogan. We go over art thieves and a 1991 dutch art heist before going over a stunningly beautiful mess featuring Alan Rickman just going BANANAS.
BGM-201-1995-Die Hard With a Vengeance
June 28, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBThis week, we start season of number twos and head back to 1995 to look into this one time Canada almost wasn't and then watch the Number 2 highest-grossing movie: Die Hard: With A Vengeance with Guest Meg Ryan Horwood and fwriter/co-host of the I Hate it but I Love it Podcast Jocelyn Geddie. We go over the undying asshole John McClane, Jeremy Irons' onesie and other delights.
BGM-111-The Rise of the Number Twos
June 21, 2017 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.4 MBWe're back! Dave and Meg have been away because their frail bodies failed them, but thanks to modern science they're back on their feet to go over all our favorite number ones and let you know how the show is gonna work now that we're moving on to the second highest grossing movies and revisiting years. It's fun! We're back! And so on.
BGM-110-1992-Stop or my Mom Will Shoot!
May 17, 2017 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThis week Meg is on assignment so Will Noye is in her timeseat for a trip to 1992 to continue in our series of Sylvester Stallone Hubris specials, but little did we know Stop or My Mom Will Shoot would work as well as it did. It's dumb, it's bad, but wow everyone came to play. Also we go insane.
BGM-109-2011-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
May 10, 2017 11:55 - 1 hour - 81.6 MBThis week we park the time machine and hop in a memory sink to get back to 2011, have a look around and go over its highest grossing movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 with habitual Potter guest Nile Séguin! We go over uprisings, earthquakes, spaceships and new heroes before diving back into the magical school where no-one should logically survive.
BGM-108-1966-The Bible: In The Beginning
May 03, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 68 MBThis week, we switch the time machine to RCS to stop the spin Armstrong style before Heading back to 1966 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie The Bible: In The Beginning which yes, is real and yes, is exactly what you think it is! We go over the Gemini spacemen, Vietnam as an extension of President Johnson's underpants tackle and then yell about this ridiculous movie.
BGM-107-1993-Demolition Man + THE RETURN OF MEG
April 26, 2017 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBThis week, Meg's back from flying a special assignment through time and space so we took a nice pleasure cruise to 1993 to catch another in our series of Stallone hubris pictures: Demolition Man! We go over sexist seashells, Hunka-Chunka, and Wesley Snipes as one of the weirdest and most wonderfully dumb villains in film.
BGM-106-1961-Paris Blues- PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL
April 19, 2017 09:00 - 57 minutes - 52.9 MBThis week, we continue our ongoing obsession with everything Paul Newman ever did and watch his 1961 excuse for a vacation movie: Paris Blues with special guest Allison Dore! We go over why Ram Bowen (Paul Newman) is terrible and why Sidney Poitier decidedly isn't, parse out Gypsy the Cokehead guitar player and marvel at Louis Armstrong being Louis Armstrong.
BGM-105-1956-The Ten Commandments
April 12, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBThis week, Dave and guest Meg Will Noye leave a time-machine jumpseat open for Elijah and head back to 1956 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments with our special guest Amanda Day! We go over Russia calling out their ex-leader, how awful Alabama was and a year of comically awful Canadian plane crashes before going over the almost four-hour epic about Passover, during Passover! L'Chaim!
BGM-104-1928-The Singing Fool
April 05, 2017 09:00 - 58 minutes - 53.2 MBThis week, Meg is on assignment so Kat Angus is guest Megging for our trip to 1928 to have a look around and watch the highest-grossing movie The Singing Fool with special guest Nigel Grinstead. We go over whoopsie-doops antibiotic discoveries, pregnancy tests before the stick you pee on and then watch the most horrid thing we've sat through thus far for your entertainment.
BGM-103-1986-Cobra BAD MOVIE SPECIAL
March 29, 2017 09:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBThis week Meg is away so we revisited one of the finest auteurs in bad cinema and checked out 1986s Cobra starring Sylvester Stallone, his ego, and some actors I guess. With Special guest Craig Fay Dave goes over one of the laziest, uncooked movies ever made that is still somehow watchable.
BGM-102-1937-Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
March 22, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 79.6 MBThis week we unwisely fill the time machine with hydrogen and float back to 1937 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with special guest Lucy Gervais! We go over Mae West's cheeky puppet innuendos, an air disaster, several other disasters and then chew through the obviously problematic but wicked pretty cartoon made by moustaches, amphetamines and aaaaaaall the cigarettes.
BGM-101-2003-Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
March 15, 2017 09:00 - 1 hour - 73.5 MBThis week we pack our aluminium time tubes with yellow cake and fly on back to 2003 to have a look around and then review it's highest-grossing movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. With special guest Blayne Smith we go over the unfortunate events of 2003 and then tussle with Tolkien, Meg's hatred of B-list Hobbits and the fat-shaming of Samwise Gamgee.
BGM-100-1996-100th Episode Special-Star Trek: First Contact
March 08, 2017 10:00 - 45 minutes - 41.6 MBThis week to celebrate our hundredth episode we got nostalgic and maybe self-indulgent and invited guest comedian Alex Wood to time vortex thingie back to 1996 and review the movie Dave and Meg conceived the show over: Star Trek First Contact. We sing, we laugh, we posit old-timey borgs and just generally have a grand time. Thanks for listening.
BGM-099-1940-Rebecca
March 01, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThis week we armour up the time machine and slide back to 1940 to have a llok at the war and catch the highest-grossing movie: Rebecca with special guest Ben Beauchemin. We go over a very disconcerting winning streak for Hitler and chat about the crazy drunkard who went against him and then review a movie that switches protagonists halfway through and features a used car salesman/cousin/love interest?
BGM-098-1956-PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL-Somebody Up There Likes Me
February 22, 2017 10:00 - 40 minutes - 37 MBThis week we invite frequent time flyer Ryan Horwood back to take a trip to 1956 to catch this podcast's favorite actor in his boxing movie: Somebody Up There Likes Me. We go over the movie and are amazed to find Paul Newman can make old filmed play black and white boxing nonsense watchable as all hell.
BGM-097-1950-King Solomon's Mines
February 15, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 78.2 MBThis week we saddle up a time elephant and safari our way back to 1950 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: King Solomon's Mines with special guest Jennifer McAuliffe. We go over the Korean and Cold wars because we have to, then go over a tale of some people who wanted to go somewhere and then did and there were lots of animals and that's it, really.
BGM-096-1934-Viva Villa!
February 08, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 70.2 MBThis week Meg is back pulling time levers to get us back to 1934 to have a look around and watch it's highest-grossing movie: Viva Villa! with special guest, writer and tweetist Karen Geier. We go over the dirt stormy criminal shooty child exploiting nightmare of 1934, then ponder the layers of wrong and bad that make up Viva Villa!
BGM-095-1952-The Greatest Show on Earth
February 01, 2017 13:52 - 1 hour - 79.7 MBThis week, Meg is on assignment so Shawn Hogan is here to reload the time rods and bring us back to 1952 to find out what it was like and watch its highest grossing movie: The Greatest Show on Earth! With special guest Lukas Stark the mystery entertainer we go over the awful, awful year of dead kings and smog clouds before going over an ode to the deceased Ringling brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, which should have closed good riddance. This movie is a horrific clown show that almost ...
BGM-094-1964B-Goldfinger
January 25, 2017 10:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis week, Meg's away so 1964 guest Ryan Horwood and I flew back to catch the second highest-grossing movie of 1964, the misogynist masterpiece that needs a long talk about consent while serving prison time: Goldfinger. Marvel as James Bond is drunk, terrible at his job, and repeatedly captured! Also he's a sex criminal.
BGM-093-1986-PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL-The Color of Money
January 18, 2017 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBThis week Guest Meg Sam Burns and Special guest Rebecca Reeds man the time pumps on a trip to 1986 to see our Podcast's hero's academy award winning performance in Martin Scorcese's pool movie sequel The Color of Money. Tiny Tom Cruise spazzes out like six times. It's Great.