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Box Office Battle

124 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 rating

Two movies go head to head for redemption. There can only be one.

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Check out Dipperz

October 04, 2021 21:45

  Check out the network’s new podcast Dipperz. There’s five episodes on the feed so far; here’s one of them. Episode #4 is $6.66 for the first minute, $.69 each additional minute as Sarah and Lauren take a dip into 1-900 mumbers*! Make sure you get your parents permission before listening.* In a time long ago, far away, before the internet, people used to pay to make a landline phone call for premium audio content. https://open.spotify.com/show/6LMXvqaGE3WsXHFhWMTuHB

Check our new podcast: Not Safe for Network

April 26, 2021 06:44

We launch the first episode of Not Safe for Network by talking about the controversy of Tom Bombadil, Disney screwing over creators from companies it's absorbed, and Mads Mikkelsen nearly ending his career before it took off. We go down a rabbit hole that starts with Wolverine tracking Freddie Mercury, and meanders through Rocket Robin Hood, until ending with a racist caricature voiced by Mel Blanc. Next we interview Brandon Kirchgasler and Anna Milburn who are creating The Significant Spid...

Fin

April 21, 2021 13:46

  Welcome to the end of the run. Zach Lachenbruch, Brandon Beardslee, Alex Biggs Small, and Karl Borneman reflect on the years of creating Box Office Battle. We talk about the matchups, personal battles, mistakes, and wonderful surprises that we ran across making our beloved podcast. And of course we talk about a lot of movies both amazing and tragically awful. Join us for our new podcast launching next week, Not Safe for Network. You can subscribe to it today.

Mirrormask vs Return to Oz (1985)

April 14, 2021 07:11

  This week's theme for the podcast is children escaping trauma through fantasy lands. First up is Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask, where a girl wishes to be the death of her mom, and then winds up in a fantastical world after her mom gets sick.  Next is Disney's follow up to The Wizard of Oz decades later, which follows Dorothy checking into a psych ward to get electroshock therapy in Return to Oz.

Reviews: My Octopus Teacher, Coming 2 America, One Night in Miami, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, I Care a Lot, Nomadland, and Godzilla vs Kong

April 07, 2021 14:44

  This week we talk about the Oscars a bit with reviews of My Octopus Teacher, One Night in Miami, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, and Nomadland. We also discuss Coming 2 America, I Care a Lot, and Godzilla vs Kong.

Zack Snyder's Justice League

March 31, 2021 05:59

  This week on Box Office Battle we cover all four hours of Zack Snyder's Justice League. Is it better than the original? Will it reopen the Snyderverse? Will Batman brandish guns like he's in Boondock Saints? The answers lie within the podcast.

Moon vs Predestination

March 24, 2021 06:28

  This episode of Box Office Battle centers on films where the main characters are all the same person. First Sam Rockwell is an astronaut who rescues someone and discovers that they're the same person in Moon. Then Sarah Snook/Ethan Hawke play a woman/man who is their own lover, mother, father, child, protagonist and killer in the time travel movie Predestination.

Brick vs Shaft (2019)

March 17, 2021 06:22

  This week on the podcast the theme is movies where Richard Roundtree has a cameo. First is a detective noir film set in high school with Joseph Gordon Levitt, Brick. In the other corner is the fifth Shaft movie, but the third called Shaft, 2019's Shaft. 

Weird Science vs The Stepford Wives (1975)

March 10, 2021 07:25

This week the theme of the podcast is movies where men create women. First Wyatt and Gary use their computer to create a smoke show that has magical powers and bends to their every whim in Weird Science. Then, tackling misogyny in a very different way, we discuss 1975's The Stepford Wives where Joanna is forced by her husband to move away from her life in New York only to give up her very identity in this classic film.

Miller's Crossing vs Harlem Nights

March 03, 2021 07:43

  This episode of the podcast has Gabriel Byrne starring in the gangster Coen Brothers Film that doesn't give you the high hat...Miller's Crossing. Then Eddie Murphy's passion project with Richard Pryor and Red Foxx gets a second look in Harlem Nights. We're doing films with underground gambling this week.

Cronos vs The Man From Earth

February 24, 2021 09:14

  This week on the podcast the them is tales of immortality. First up: Guillermo Del Toro's feature film debut, Cronos. A grandfather comes to posses a device that will allow him to live forever. But as the blood lust builds you're left to wonder if it's worth the price. Then we cover the indie film The Man from Earth. A professor is leaving town, and reluctantly admits to his circle of friends that he has been alive since the days of the cavemen...which goes hand in hand with a shocking re...

The Fly II vs Road House 2 vs Dirty Dancing Havana Nights

February 17, 2021 07:10

  For this edition of the Box Office Battle podcast we talk about classic movies from the eighties: The Fly, Road House, and Dirty Dancing. Then we discuss their sequels, and why they didn't live up to the originals. We also talk about the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, and premier Ice Cast!

Check out A Cosmic Void!

February 14, 2021 22:22

  Subscribe now to the new podcast, A Cosmic Void starring Alex Biggs Small and Jeremiah Perez! Here's a taste of one episode, there's more on the feed and many more to come. This episode is about the Alex Garland instant classic: Ex Machina. We dissect the movie going scene by scene uncovering the themes that run beneath. We discuss the feminist reading of this movie, the allusions to literature and history, and discuss the slightly ahead of it's time presentation of the danger of data min...

Cube vs Pi

February 10, 2021 08:16

  Movies about math with geometric titles is the subject of the Box Office Battle podcast this week. First, people are trapped in a Cube in the movie, well uh...Cube. Then a mathematician goes too far down the rabbit hole and finds the name of God in numbers, and then has to poke his brain until he forgets it in the Darren Aronofsky classic Pi.

Gentlemen Broncos vs Naked Lunch

February 03, 2021 07:03

  For this episode of Box Office Battle we pit two movies about writers against each other. First Jared Hess offers a story of a thirteen year old who gets his story adapted into an awful movie, and at the same time his story is ripped off in a best selling novel in Gentlemen Broncos. Then Cronenberg's avant guarde adaptation of the William S. Burrows classic, Naked Lunch.

Brigsby Bear vs Airborne (2012)

January 27, 2021 20:50

  This week on the podcast it's the films of Mark Hamill. A man is rescued from a bunker having been kidnapped his entire life. He's trying to adjust to reality, but all he wants to do is finish a movie his kidnappers made in Brigsby Bear. Then members of an aircraft battle a storm, hijackers, and a Chinese god in Airborne.

But I'm a Cheerleader vs Saved

January 20, 2021 17:02

  Natasha Lyonne plays a cheerleader who is forced to accept her sexual orientation when sent to a gay conversion camp and finds love in But I'm a Cheerleader. Then Jena Malone is a devout Christian who realizes the world isn't what she believed when she gets pregnant in Saved! This week the podcast is covering movies that have plots that involve gay conversion camps.

Rating influential superhero movies

January 13, 2021 07:26

  This episode of the podcast has Biggs and Karl going through the history of influential superhero movies and figuring out whether they are underrated, overrated, or properly rated.

Discussing Mank and Citizen Kane

January 06, 2021 19:53

This week the Box Office Battle podcast has guest Janalee Minton on to talk about everything you need to know about the classic movie you probably should have seen by now: Citizen Kane. Then, after doing all the homework for potential viewers, we review David Fincher’s new Netflix offering Mank.

Xmas Day movies: Wonder Woman and Soul

December 30, 2020 07:02

  This week on the Box Office Battle podcast we cover the two big movies to hit streamers on Christmas Day: Wonder Woman 1984 and Soul. 

Xmas action movies

December 28, 2020 06:30

  For this episode of Box Office Battle we talk about Christmas action movies: Cobra, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Fatman.

Reviews: Peppermint, The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Roald Dahl's The Witches

December 16, 2020 16:50

  For this helping of the Box Office Battle podcast we review the Jennifer Garner action flick Peppermint, the Aaron Sorkin courtroom drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, and the new Zemeckis family film Roald Dahl's The Witches. Plus we learn the differences between Jeannette Rankin and Jenette Goldstein, and how to count to twenty-eight!

Surrogates vs Death Race 2

December 09, 2020 17:13

  Bruce Willis plays a detective trapped in a world where nearly everyone has a robotic avatar in Surrogates. Then we see prison gladiator fights in a...car race movie(?) in the sequel that's a prequel to the reboot of a cult classic Death Race 2. Let's see the potential future with Ving Rhames movies.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping vs CB4

December 06, 2020 03:38

  We made it to the 100th episode! Andy Samberg plays a Justin Timberlake knock off, while JT plays a chef in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. Then Chris Rock pretends to be a gangster rapper to rocket to success while Charlie Murphy hunts him in CB4. Then we catch up with original host Zac and talk about filming in the Covid era, reflecting on the past, whether School of Rock is underrated as a Richard Linklater movie, and much more!

U Turn vs Halloween III

December 06, 2020 03:36

  The podcast is treading into movies where no one wins. First Sean Penn rolls into a small town and finds it impossible to leave in U Turn. Then an evil mask making company plots to turn people into bugs and robots to win an interdimensional war (all without Michael Myers) in Halloween III.

Shoot 'Em Up vs Machete Kills

November 25, 2020 19:38

  Clive Owen goes gun to gun with Paul Giamatti in the absurd action flick Shoot 'Em Up. Then Danny Trejo goes machete to iron mask in Machete Kills. It's action movies where the preferred method of killing is in the title!

Breaking news on Lorne Michaels

November 19, 2020 06:04

  The Box Office Battle podcast is breaking a huge story...Lorne Michaels will step down from Saturday Night Live. And we have his shortlist for his replacement.

Reviews: Hubie Halloween, Borat 2, Bill and Ted 3, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, The Jesus Rolls, and Scoob

November 04, 2020 22:32

  This week on Box Office Battle we frankenstein two recordings together to talk about newer releases to streaming. Including: Hubie Halloween, Borat 2, Bill and Ted Face the Music, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, The Jesus Rolls, and Scoob. Plus, we acknowledge the passing of legend. Sort of. 

House of 1000 Corpses vs House (1985)

October 28, 2020 19:38

  The podcast covers Horror movies with "house" in the title. First up is Rob Zombie's feature length directoral debut that was responsible for making horror movies more gory: House of 1000 Corpses. Then a man moves into his aunt's haunted house while struggling with a deadline, his missing child, his memories of Vietnam, and Norm Peterson in House.

Club Dread vs Jennifer's Body

October 21, 2020 20:20

  This week on the podcast Box Office Battle does horror follow ups to the creator's most successful movie that also bombed. First a Jimmy Buffet knockoff has an island getaway where partiers get offed one by one in Broken Lizard's Club Dread. Then Diablo Cody wrote the tale of a teenage girl who gets sacrificed. She returns as a succubus who murders young men and antagonizes her best friend in Jennifer's Body.

Society vs Cannibal Girls

October 14, 2020 16:33

  This week the Box Office Battle podcast delves into Horror movies where characters are ingested. First a kid feels out of place and fears he might be adopted. He finds out both feelings are true during a goopy melty orgy in Society. Then Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin face off against a town that for some reason props up some Cannibal Girls. The movies just keep getting worse.

Starcrash vs Bad Taste

October 07, 2020 21:41

The theme this week is truly awful movies that involve aliens. Starcrash is a Star Wars ripoff that makes no sense, but does have Caroline Monroe in leather bikini. Bad Taste is Peter Jackson's first movie features people tucking their brains back in and people eating vomit. It's going to be a long episode.

Almost Famous vs Empire Records

September 30, 2020 21:45

  The podcast for this week's theme is movies about fake musicians that are not about the musicians. First we delve into the Cameron Crow semi autobiographical film about a fifteen year old working for Rolling Stone magazine in Almost Famous. We contrast it with a bunch of teenagers navigating life and drama in Empire Records.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Four

September 24, 2020 23:16

We finish our Terry Gilliam miniseries by discussing Tideland, The Legend of Hallowdega, The Wholly Family, The Zero Theorem, and The Man Who Killed Don Quixote.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Three

September 16, 2020 23:34

  We continue our Terry Gilliam miniseries. This episode we rehash Twelve Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Brothers Grimm.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part Two

August 19, 2020 21:39

We continue to deep dive into Terry Gilliam's filmography by discussing his stone cold dystopian masterpiece Brazil, his over budget bomb (but cult classic) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and his first Hollywood film, as well as first Hollywood success, The Fisher King.

Terry Gilliam Career Retrospective: Part One

August 12, 2020 06:00

This is part one of a series we're doing discussing Terry Gilliam's work as a director. We discuss his beginnings in animation for Do Not Adjust Your Set, Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as his shorts Storytime and Miracle of Flight. Finally we get to his first features: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits, and The Meaning of Life.

Summer rerun: Zombie Nation (2004)

August 06, 2020 04:54

It's time for a summer rerun. So we return to 2014 when Biggs and Box Office Battle co-founder Zac reviewed Zombie Nation for the Reel Roulette podcast. Of the hundreds of podcasts in the NOT SAFE FOR netWORK history, this covers the craziest film we've ever reviewed.

Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam vs The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

July 30, 2020 00:35

A villain defeats the world two minutes into the movie and takes on a privileged white a-hole in Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam. Then a thousand year old man races the devil for five souls in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.

The Nice Guys vs Scream

July 22, 2020 21:55

A private eye and an enforcer join forces to find a missing girl and investigate the death of a porn star in 1970's LA in The Nice Guys. Then two teenage friends dress up silly and dispense trivia in the delightful Wes Craven romp Scream. The theme this week is buddy movies.

Blood Simple vs Johnny Dangersously

July 15, 2020 06:26

Blood Simple is the Coen Brothers' first film about a husband who decides to murder his wife. Then everything goes off the rails, as the Coen Brothers are wont to do. Johnny Dangerously Amy Heckerling's slapstick take on older gangster films starring Michael Keaton. This week it's subversive noir movies with people kicked in the junk.

Reviews: The King of Staten Island, Da 5 Bloods, and more!

July 10, 2020 00:09

We review Da 5 Bloods, The King of Staten Island, Mandy, Blood Machines, and look back at Dark Phoenix, and Shazam!

Roadhouse 66 vs Odd Thomas

July 08, 2020 22:42

A man picks up a drifter after his car is shot and then faces the shooter at pool, in a fight, and in a car race in Roadhouse 66. Then Odd Thomas can see dead people, Bodacks, and a future mall shooting in Odd Thomas. It's Willem Dafoe movies!

Event Horizon vs Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

June 24, 2020 18:23

A spaceship returns from hell, and wants to take it's new crew back to it in Event Horizon. Then two morons who will save the world with their music are killed by robots, go to hell, challenge the reaper, and fight back to save the future in Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey.

Crank: High Voltage vs Re-Animator

June 18, 2020 04:02

Crank: High Voltage is the tale of a man in search of his heart. Not a love interest, mind you, but his literal heart. And he'll kill anyone who gets in his way. Re-Animator is the story of Herbert West and miracle death cure. Well...maybe miracle is the wrong word. His nightmare cure. This week's theme is talking disembodied head flicks.

Truth, Trolls World Tour, Onward and more!

June 10, 2020 06:44

This week’s episode of Box Office Battle: Karl couldn’t make it so instead we review movies that we paid for on demand: Trolls World Tour, The Hunt, Onward, and Truth. And Brandon recounts his trip to the makeshift drive in to see The Goonies.

The Young Master vs Nothing But Trouble

May 27, 2020 06:31

Jackie Chan stars and directs a film where a martial arts student is trying to save his brother, and keep himself out of jail, in the 1980 kung-fu flick Young Master. Dan Akroyd and John Candy play a combined six parts in the unsettling comedy, Nothing But Trouble.

The Hidden Fortress vs John Carter (2012)

May 20, 2020 06:02

One of the most beautiful movies ever shot, The Hidden Fortress lost money and forced Akira Kurosawa to find funding outside the studio. John Carter is a 2012 film who's source material helped shape science fiction. It's a showdown of influences to Star Wars.

Mask vs The Elephant Man

May 13, 2020 21:20

Rocky Dennis deals with a bone disorder, an addict mom, pressures from school, and a terminal diagnosis in Peter Bogdanovich's Mask. John Merrick goes from exploitation at a freak show to exploitation by high society in David Lynch's The Elephant Man.

Addams Family Values vs Joe vs the Volcano

May 06, 2020 21:18

Fester is swept away by a widow maker, and children try to murder a baby in the upbeat Addams Family Values. Joe is throwing away his life, figuratively and literally in Joe vs the Volcano. It's a double feature of movies with Carol Kane and Nathan Lane.