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-092-2006-CANADA SPECIAL-Bon Cop Bad Cop
January 11, 2017 10:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBThis week we maple up the time machine and scoot back to 2006 with special bilingual guest Hunter Collins to catch the highest-grossing Canadian film until 2010: Bon Cop Bad Cop. It's super great if you are a bilingual person who has lived in both Toronto and Montreal and have a background in hockey controversies.
BGM-091-1932-Shanghai Express
January 04, 2017 10:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBThis week Meg is still outta town so Nigel Grinstead is pedaling the time bike as guest Meg and we're headed back to 1932 to have a look around and catch its highest-grossing movie Shanghai Express! We talk about aviation pioneers of both the baby losing and pioneering types, go over the time some mounties spent a month killing a snow terminator and then review a movie that is pretty much a real-time train ride with a real chill german lady: Shanghai Express with guest comedian Cathryn Naik...
BGM-090-1994-Star Trek: Generations TREK SPECIAL
December 28, 2016 10:00 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBThis week Meg is away so resident Star Treksman Will Noye and Dave egg nog drunked the Time Machine to 1994 to watch it's Star Trek movie: Star Trek: Generations, which looks good but ain't super great. Lotta jokes about costuming.
BGM-089-1998-HOLIDAY SPECIAL - Jack Frost
December 21, 2016 10:00 - 38 minutes - 35.4 MBThis week Dave and Meg fire up the Time machine and get so egg-nog drunk they crash it into 1998 and catch its holiday... thing called Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton as the voice of a George Clooney puppet who is also a dad and can snowboard because Harmonica snow Christmas Robert Baratheon with an earring. Happy Season everyone!
BGM-088-CHRISTMAS SKETCHTACULAR!
December 14, 2016 10:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MBThis week, we leave the time machine parked and let Dave play Radio for Christmas. Enjoy the clip, back next week with a movie show! Scheduling in December is nightmare!
BGM-087-1984-MEG BIRTHDAY SPECIAL - The Neverending Story
December 07, 2016 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week, it's Meg's Birthday so we took the time machine back to 1984 to check up on one of our childhood favourites: The Neverending Story. It holds up! Join us as we go over creepy book men, suspiciously well-stocked school attics and the sad horse thing... God the Horse thing...
BGM-086-1957-The Bridge on the River Kwai with Clare Belford
November 30, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 67.5 MBThis week we strap on some extra time rockets and head back to 1957 to have a look around and then watch its highest-grossing movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai with guest comedian Clare Belford. We go over trying to go to high school in Arkansas and Russian space tricks before going over maybe the best-made movie we've seen yet: The Bridge on the River Kwai.
BGM-085-2007-Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with Nile Séguin
November 23, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 74.5 MBThis week we took a time-fireplace back to 2007 to have a look around and watch it's second highest-grossing movie (for #1, see episode 083) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with resident Harry Potter consultant and comedian Nile Séguin. We go over a bummer year, delight over Scooter Libby's name and then watch a Wizard movie where death death death. Death. (It was great)
BGM-084-1994-The Shadow with Blayne Smith
November 16, 2016 10:00 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBThis week we invite Blayne Smith back to take another joyride in the time machine to watch another old-timey serial remake: The Shadow from 1994 with Alec Baldwin! We go over the radio show history and the insane remake that features a number of mind control suicides and a villain who travels by mailing himself.
BGM-083-2006-2007-Pirates of The Caribbean Dead Man's Chest and at World's End
November 09, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 82.6 MBThis week we pushed the time machine past all reasonable limits and made two stops, one in 2006 to look around and have a look at it's highest grossing movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. We talk the poo-salad of a year that is 2006 and try to talk about the movie... but felt for some awful, self-destructive reason that we should hop to 2007 to see Pirates of the Caribbean: at World's End. We did. We do not know why. It hurt us, but it made us strong? With Special guest comedi...
BGM-082-1961-One Hundred and One Dalmatians with Eric Andrews
November 02, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 76.3 MBThis week we penguin oiled up the Time valves and flew back to 1961 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: One Hundred and One Dalmatians with guest comedian Eric Andrews. We go over the first human in space, brave busrides, whoopsie nukes and on purpose enormous nukes, then go over the Disney's classic toned-down Taken remake with dogs.
BGM-081-1972-The Godfather with Marito Lopez
October 26, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 80 MBThis week we fire up the time machine for our last trip to the seventies to look around at 1972 and watch it's highest-grossing movie: The Godfather with guest comedian Marito Lopez.
BGM-080-1965-The Sound of Music
October 19, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 91.1 MBThis week, we crank the time machine back up and take a flight back to 1965 to have a look around and watch it's highest grossing movie: The Sound of Music with special guest, Comedian Cathryn Naiker.
BGM-SKETCHTACULAR-002
October 12, 2016 09:00 - 10 minutes - 10.1 MBThis week Canadian Thanksgiving done busted the time machine so bad we couldn't even record an episode, but worry not listeners, Dave is nothing if not totally willing to sit in his room alone and make really silly things. Enjoy the sketches: The Adventures of Phineas Blackwood: Gentleman Time Traveler, Artisan's Corner and Shitfaced Steve Sings the Hits.
BGM-079-1961-The Hustler- PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL!
October 05, 2016 19:13 - 53 minutes - 48.9 MBThis week, we invite our original Paul Newman guest Fraser Young to go over what Dave was sure was cool movie where cool Paul Newman plays cool pool and is cool. We talk about that, which makes up about a quarter of the movie, and then go over the dark tale of Bus Station drunks hidden inside the cool pool movie.
BGM-SKETCHTACULAR-001
September 28, 2016 09:00 - 3 minutes - 3.47 MBAfter being unable to nail down meg, Dave wrote and recorded a Sketch to send out to say sorry no episode! Enjoy "Donald Trump Debate School".
BGM-078-2004-Shrek 2
September 21, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.7 MBThis week, Meg Mackay returns and we hop back to 2004 to look around/wallow in its sadness then watch its highest-grossing movie: Shrek 2 with special guest Michael Kolberg.
BGM-077-1991-STAR TREK SPECIAL - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
September 14, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 60.4 MBThis week to honour the 50th anniversary of Star Trek Dave invites resident Trekspert Will Noye to continue our series of odd-numbered Star Trek reviews with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Shakespeare quoting Klingons, Sex in the City Vulcans and President of the Federation Pai Mei Red Foreman. It's all here!
BGM-076-1949-Samson and Delilah
September 07, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 68.5 MBThis week we let the time machine's hair grow out and zipped back to 1949 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Samson and Delilah with Guest Meg Ryan Horwood and special guest Lucy Gervais. We go over a soviet bomb, Mao Zedong, a hero cat and a stuck cow before going over the biblical epic about a longhair superman and his original bride's... sister? Bible times, check it out! As usual, check out our Tumblr for History notes.
BGM-075-1967-Gene Wilder Special-The Producers
August 31, 2016 09:00 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBThis week we rerouted the Time Machine to 1967 to catch the late Gene Wilder's big break into the movies: The Producers with guest comedians Alex Wood and Nigel Grinstead.
BGM-074-2014-The Expendables 3-CUSTOM MEG SPECIAL!
August 24, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 80.8 MBThis week, Meg Mackay is still on assignment in the middle east, so we rappelled down the time vortex to 2014 with returning guests Alison Dore and Shawn Hogan to catch one of Meg's Favorites: The Expendables 3. We have a ball going over a movie that has all the things, and then more things.
BGM-073-1997-Titanic with Kim Bethke and Mel Wood
August 17, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 90.4 MBThis week, we engage the throttle and hundreds of underpaid Irish stoke our time furnaces to head back to 1997, have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Titanic with special guests from the What's New in Snacks Podcast: Mel Wood and Kim Bethke. Check out our Tumblr for History Notes and Pictures
BGM-072-2012-The Avengers with the From Superheroes Podcast
August 10, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 102 MBThis week we throw on some time skates and hop back to 2012 to have a look around and watch its highest grossing movie: The Avengers with special guests Andrew Ivimey and Diana McCallum of the From Superheroes Podcast! We go over elections, a bunch of sci-fi and then recap a superhero classic: The Avengers.
BGM-071-1991-BAD MOVIE SPECIAL-Hudson Hawk
August 03, 2016 09:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis week, after having a good time in 1989 watching Tango & Cash, we decided to stop by 1991 on the way back to see another insane product of hubris: Bruce Willis' Hudson Hawk. Oh and Meg is moving to the Middle East for six weeks. Enjoy!
BGM-070-2005-Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with Nile Seguin
July 27, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 82.4 MBThis week we Grab a few ounces of Gillyweed and flip our time-turners several thousand times to swing back to 2005 to have a look around and watch its highest grossing movie Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire with comedian Nile Seguin
BGM-069-1948-Easter Parade with K. Trevor Wilson
July 20, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MBThis week we Polish the time prism and set back to 1948 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie with Comedian K. Trevor Wilson! The Letterkenny fella! We go over all the depressing things everyone did after finishing a war that should have taught us something, then go over the thoroughly good song and dance movie Easter Parade.
BGM-068-1938-You Can't Take it With You with Craig Fay
July 13, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 78.1 MBThis week Meg is away, so guest Meg Amanda Day is here to polish the time crystals and get us back to 1938 to have a look aroound and watch it's highest grossing movie: You Can't Take it With You with guest comedian Craig Fay.
BGM-067-1989-AWFUL MOVIE SPECIAL-Tango and Cash
July 06, 2016 09:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBThis week Meg and Dave take the time machine on a pleasure cruise to Christmas 1989 to watch it's hilarious flop and study in megalomaniacal macho Tango and Cash; wherein Kurt Russel and Sylvester Stallone play out a fever dream dad fantasy.
BGM-066-1967-The Jungle Book with Alison Dore
June 29, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBThis week we funneled seventeen tons of Kerosene per second into the time engines and checked out 1967 and its highest-grossing movie The Jungle Book with Special Guest Alison Dore! Check out our tumblr for historical photos and whatnots.
BGM-065-1987B-Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
June 22, 2016 09:00 - 48 minutes - 44 MBThis week, after still having no idea what the hell was up with 1987 after our last episode, Dave and Meg flew back this week to give the year another shot by watching the movie we assume would make all the money today: The Superhero one. So we watched Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. We go over Lex Luthor's useless nephew, A Love square that winds up in a sitcom, and the mechanics of hucking things into the sun.
BGM-064-1987-Three Men and a Baby with John Mostyn
June 15, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.6 MBThis week with special guest John Mostyn Dave lights the pilot and cranks the gauges on the time machine to pick up Meg in the Mesozoic era before stopping in 1987 on the way back to stop time assassins from killing us as babies and to look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Three Men and a Baby.
BGM-063-1986-Trek Special: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with Will Noye
June 08, 2016 15:06 - 39 minutes - 36 MBMeg fell out of the time machine again so Dave swung by and picked up Special guest Will Noye to continue our survey of even-numbered Star Trek films.
BGM-062-1992-Aladdin with Kat Angus
June 01, 2016 14:44 - 1 hour - 80.6 MBThis week we batten down the time hatches and make our way to 1992 to have a look around and watch it's highest-grossing movie Aladdin with special guest Kat Angus. We talk about the end of the cold war and such before going over the wearing pajamas and singing along classic: Aladdin.
BGM-061-1999-Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace with Julien Dionne
May 25, 2016 14:53 - 1 hour - 76.6 MBThis week we have a slow-talking child we found accidentally pilot the time machine back to 1999 to look around and watch it's highest grossing movie Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace with special guest Julien Dionne! We go over Kosovo, Y2K, some sad stuff and then push on through the somehow worse than we remembered Phantom Menace. Jar-Jar steps in poopy you see, and we are to take this as droll.
BGM-060-2014-Transformers: Age of Extinction with Sam Burns
May 18, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 75.4 MBThis week we leave the time machine in the garage and take the time bicycles on a little hop back to 2014 to have a look around and watch it's highest grossing movie Transformers: Age of Extinction with special guest Sam Burns. We go over Putin's plunders, the plane that were hard to find and then are assaulted in the brain by a movie where a giant truck robot shoots Fraser Crane then fights and rides a dinosaur that is also a robot.
BGM-059-1977-Paul Newman Special-Slap Shot with Ryan Horwood
May 11, 2016 09:00 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThis week we slip back to 1977 to watch Slap Shot at one of the only theatres not showing Star Wars with Special Guest Ryan Horwood. We go over the filthiest movie the show has yet done and decide 70s hockey was kinda awful to be in the middle of.
BGM-058-1942-Bambi with Shawn Hogan
May 04, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 63.2 MBThis week we armoured up the time machine and dodged messerschmitt fire to check out 1942 and it's highest grossing movie: Bambi. We learn about how everything was terrible, go over the craziest raid and then talk about the classic giant-eyed cute animal movie Bambi with comedian and returning guest Shawn Hogan.
BGM-057-2008-Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with Nigel Grinstead
April 27, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 69.3 MBThis week, as promised, we take a time uber back to 2008 with Indiana Jones guest Nigel Grinstead to for some reason subject ourselves to it's almost big gross movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. We also drank enough beer to sing more than usual.
BGM-056-1985-Back to the Future with Darren Springer
April 20, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 79.1 MBThis week we ignore the Brown time treaty of 2025 and fly our time machine smack-dab into 1985 to look around before watching its highest-grossing movie: Back to the Future with Darren Springer. We go over a horrifying plethora of plane crashes, a french mission against hippies and a tuna scandal before uncomfortably revisiting a cinematic... gem?
BGM-055-1967-Paul Newman Special-Cool Hand Luke with Kyle Hickey
April 13, 2016 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MBThis week we continue our examination of Paul Newman by going over the 1967 classic Cool Hand Luke with comedian Kyle Hickey. We talk about the gang of incomprehensible hicks that live through the least give-a-crap hero in the history of film.
BGM-054-1977-Star Wars with Ashley Moffatt
April 06, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBThis week we throw a hyperdrive on the time machine and zip back to 1977 to have a look around and watch its highest grossing movie Star Wars with special guest Ashley Moffatt. We go over disco, some looting, a real piece of work orange juice shill and then go over a movie about a whiny desert boy who... whines.
BGM-053-1954-Rear Window with Diana McCallum
March 30, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 74.2 MBThis 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 then go over the suprisingly kick-ass Rear Window with fromsuperheroes.com creator/writer Diana McCallum.
BGM-052-2010-Toy Story 3 Anniversary Show with Bobby Knauff
March 23, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 88.4 MBThis week we slap streamers on the time machine and pleasure cruise back to 2010 to look around and watch its highest grossing movie Toy Story 3 with 1st episode guest and comedian Bobby Knauff. We talk about oil spills, try to define the american tea party movement, fail, and then go over a movie that has a strawberry scented nihilist totalitarian bear in it. Check out our tumblr for history notes and pictures.
BGM-051-1980-Flash Gordon with Blayne Smith
March 16, 2016 09:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBThis week Meg sits in the pilot sac and launches the time machine into 1980 to catch her favorite movie: Flash Gordon with comedian Blayne Smith. We go over the pedigree of John Carter thrice removed and recap an assemblage of mescaline hallucinations scored by Queen.
BGM-050-1978-Grease with Jackie Kashian
March 09, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 88.8 MBThis week we elaborately dance about the time machine before getting in and slowly drag-racing our way back to 1978 to look around and watch the highest grossing movie: Grease with special guest Comedian/podcaster/nice person Jackie Kashian! We talk about a year that seems to have been mostly snowstorms, serial killers and an Australian Grocer prank then we go over a collection of the catchiest songs you've ever heard nestled within a surrealist high school nightmare. Oh and the dancing is ...
BGM-049-1966-Paul Newman Special- Harper
March 02, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 56.9 MBThis week we go galavanting in the time machine in search of Paul Newman movies and lasso the 1966 mystery Harper with Rob Mailloux
BGM-048-1983-Return of the Jedi with Shawn Hogan
February 24, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 85.3 MBThis 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 dirtbike desert bumhole epic Return of the Jedi with special guest Shawn Hogan.
BGM-047-2008-The Dark Knight with Andrew Ivimey
February 17, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBThis week we invite Andrew Ivimey from fromsuperheroes.com to growl ridiculously into the time vortex and stop off in 2008 to look around and watch the highest grossing movie: The Dark Knight. We talk about space, George "terrifically unpopular" Bush and the boring but shitty Harper moves before going into an excellent movie: The Dark Knight. Check out out tumblr for history notes and pictures
BGM-046-1960-Swiss Family Robinson with Allison Dore
February 10, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 98.6 MBThis week we crashed the time machine in 1960 trying to take pictures of Russia and wound up flying back on some Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine after having a look around and watching that year's highest grossing movie: Swiss Family Robinson. We talk about the right to a 15 cent slice of pie, the space dogs that didn't explode, the many Russians who did, and a guy getting abducted getting off the bus from work where you get to cheer for the kidnappers for a change. Then we talk about a mo...
BGM-045-2013-Frozen with Chantel Marostica
February 03, 2016 10:00 - 1 hour - 70.3 MBThis week we cheap out and coast on time fumes to 2013 to look around and watch the highest grossing movie Frozen with comedian Chantel Marostica. We go over the NSA looking at things, Pope swapping and Hadfield's mustache then go over a movie about an ice witch princess queen and her sister who is also a princess.