Box Office Battle
124 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTwo movies go head to head for redemption. There can only be one.
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Jedi Master's Degree season one
May 05, 2020 03:04Jedi Master's Degree is a podcast that will introduce you to the world of Star Wars, or bolster what you already know. All nineteen episodes of season one are available now! This episode is about the book that was the backdoor pilot to The Empire Strikes Back.
CBGB vs Vampire's Kiss
April 29, 2020 06:11CBGB is a movie about the dumpy owner of the famous club that broke many huge bands like The Talking Heads and The Ramones. Vampire's Kiss is about 90 minutes of Nicholas Cage losing his mind. Cage Rage was never louder.
Audition vs Mother (2009)
April 22, 2020 14:52Audition is about a widower holding an audition to find a new wife. It slowly dawns on him that she's a killer. Oh, and someone eats vomit. Mother is a Bong Joon-ho movie about a mom proclaiming her son's innocence, and she'll go to any lengths to prove it.
Ranking director roomates
April 15, 2020 18:27This week we're quarantined, so we're breaking from the usual formula. Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, and George Lucas were all roommates. We rank them based off of their top five, along with other nonsense.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension vs Italian Spiderman
April 08, 2020 06:16An adventurer/neurosurgeon/rock star finds out that aliens have infiltrated society and battles them in Buckaroo Banzai. Then a shotgun toting obese superhero who's worse than the villain saves(?) the day in Italian Spiderman. It's superheros...sort of!
Feeling Minnesota vs Impostor
April 06, 2020 04:59Feeling Minnesota is about a woman forced to marry a man, so she bangs his brother and runs off with him. And Impostor tells the tale of a man who may be an alien robot with a bomb built inside him. It's the films of Vincent D'Onofrio.
eXistenZ vs Videodrome
March 25, 2020 06:02A woman gets shot with a tooth gun and...well...hold on. A man develops a vagina stomach that takes betamax tapes and programs him to...never mind. We're doing eXistenZ and Videodrome. That's right: the movies of David Cronenberg.
Strange Brew vs Beerfest
March 16, 2020 18:10Max Von Sydow will stop at nothing to control a brewery and his only foil is Bob and Doug McKenzie in Strange Brew. Then the Wolfhouse brothers must win a drinking competition or lose a beer recipe forever in Beerfest. It's movies about making beer.
Hamlet 2 vs Adaptation
March 09, 2020 13:30Two movies about adapting source material with Katherine Keener for Box Office Battle this week. First, a failed actor writes a sequel to Hamlet and turns his town inside out in Hamlet 2. Then Charlie Kaufman writes himself into his adaptation of an unfilmable novel in Adaptation.
Freaks (1932) vs Freaky Friday (2003)
March 02, 2020 07:05Box Office Battle covers the most opposite movies with the word "Freak" in the title. Freaks happens when trapeze artists try to murder sideshow artists. Freaky Friday happens when teenagers and mothers find magic fortune cookies. There can be only one.
Miles Ahead vs Walk Hard
February 24, 2020 14:45Two fake music biopics this week. Don Cheadle plays a coked out Miles Davis who will stop at nothing to get his stolen album back in Miles Ahead. Then John C. Reilly plays a coked out Dewey Cox who stop at nothing to get his second wife back in Walk Hard.
Reviews: Atlantics, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Downsizing, and Gone in 60 seconds
February 17, 2020 16:28This week we do our final reviews episode covering the Oscar snubbed Atlantics, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, Downsizing, and the 2000 version of Gone in 60 seconds.
Oscar reaction: Believable, Bad@$$ or Bull$#i+
February 10, 2020 09:32The Box Office Battle crew goes through all the winners of the 2020 Academy Awards and determines who was deserving of an Oscar, and who was not.
Oscar predications and reviews of Birds of Prey, The Cave, and Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl)
February 08, 2020 09:06Biggs reviews Birds of Prey, Best documentary nominee The Cave, and documentary short nominee Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl). Plus he breaks down who will win in every category of the 2020 Academy Awards.
Reviews: Ad Astra, The Lighthouse, Honeyland, and more Oscar movies
February 06, 2020 03:48Biggs reviews Ad Astra, The Lighthouse. Documentaries The Edge of Democracy, For Sama, and Honeyland are examined. And kids movies are represented too with The Missing Link, How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, Klaus, and Maleficent.
Reviews: 1917, Little Women, The Two Popes, and animated/documentary/live action shorts
February 03, 2020 14:27Oscar nominated films on the podcast today. We review the Roger Deacon flex 1917, the talkie drama The Two Popes, and the Greta Gerwig adaptation of Little Women. Plus we review nominees for animated shorts, documentary shorts, and live action shorts.
The Last Dragon vs Dragon the Bruce Lee Story
February 03, 2020 14:26Leroy Green is trying to attain the next level while avoiding fighting Sho-Nuff in The Last Dragon. And Bruce Lee's life is fit into a Bruce Lee style movie in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Also we review Judy, Harriet, Richard Jewell, and Bombshell.
The Room vs Four Rooms
January 21, 2020 01:22We find out who exactly is tearing Johnny apart in the 2003 "classic" film The Room. Then Mayhem fills a hotel with a hapless bellhop trying to pick up the pieces in the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez directed Four Rooms. It's a podcast about rooms.
Reviews: I Lost My Body, Jumanji: The Next Level, The Laundromat, and Uncut Gems
January 13, 2020 07:00This week on the review edition of Box Office Battle we review the french animated film I Lost My Body, a sequel to a remake in Jumanji: The Next Level, a Netflix Steven Soderbergh movie The Laundromat, and the Safdie Brothers' new flick Uncut Gems.
Baxter vs Alligator
January 06, 2020 08:13Two killer animal movies this week. A dog murders his way to a Neo-Nazi owner to find the discipline he desires in Baxter. And then an Alligator, flushed into the sewers feeding off of growth hormone injected dogs, leads to a city wide massacre in Alligator.
Reviews: Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker
December 30, 2019 19:00Zac and Connor Lachenbruch rejoin Box Office Battle as we drunkenly debate whether The Rise of Skywalker is any good. Plus we rank the episodes by quality and title, find out about George Lucas's sex life, gush over Baby Yoda, and more!
Star Wars Holiday Special vs Krampus
December 25, 2019 05:22Santa's counterpart teaches a family to fear Christmas in Krampus. It's nemesis is the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special! This episode marks the return of original host Zac Lachenbruch, along with NOT SAFE FOR netWORK legend Connor Lachenbruch.
Reviews: Marriage Story, The Irishman, A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood, and Knives Out
December 22, 2019 02:15This week we review Noah Baumbach's divorce movie, Marriage Story. We discuss Martin Scorsese's latest epic, The Irishman. Tom Hanks puts on the red sweater for A Wonderful Day in the Neighborhood. And an all-star cast anchors Knives Out.
Blood Sucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh vs Bubba Ho-Tep
December 09, 2019 07:09A cult murders people in a movie that contains neither blood sucking, nor pharaohs in Blood Sucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh. Then Elvis and JFK battle a mummy in a retirement home in Bubba Ho-Tep.
Reviews: Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Ford v Ferrari, Bikram: Yogi Guru Predator, and Parasite
December 02, 2019 22:03For the bonus episode of Box Office Battle this week we review Iron Sky: The Coming Race, Ford v Ferrari, Bikram: Yogi Guru, Predator, and Parasite.
Waterworld vs Runaway Train
November 25, 2019 14:04Kevin Costner is a gilled mutant who uses woman for currency in a water world named...well...Waterworld. Jon Voight and Eric Roberts get on a runaway train heading down the track. And that runaway train's never coming back in...Runaway Train.
Reviews: One Child Nation, The Apollo, Jojo Rabbit, and The King
November 18, 2019 13:55For the bonus episode of Box Office Battle this week we review Jojo Rabbit and talk about it's Oscar potential. Amazon's One Child Nation and HBO's The Apollo are explored. And Netflix's The King is discussed as is Robert Patterson's upcoming turn as Batman.
The Warriors vs Willow
November 11, 2019 17:44A gang must battle across New York to get to safety in The Warriors. A dwarf must battle across Andowyne to get a baby to safety in Willow. The comparisons end there. Join us for the first movie debate between man and machine.
Reviews: Truth, The Addams Family, Zombieland Double Tap, and Dolemite is My Name
November 04, 2019 21:25 - 30.3 MBWelcome to the new bonus episodes of Box Office Battle. In this edition we review Truth, The Addams Family, Zombieland Double Tap, and Dolemite is My Name.
Little Shop of Horrors vs Lady Frankenstein
October 21, 2019 15:04At the Little Shop of Horrors a plant will grow...as long it's fed people. Lady Frankenstein is an irresistible creature with an insatiable lust for the dead. Plus we review In the Tall Grass, Joker, and El Camino.
Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) vs Weekend at Bernie's
October 08, 2019 02:09Dick and Jane can't hold onto jobs, so they rob everyone else in Fun with Dick and Jane. A dead man becomes a puppet for...reasons in Weekend at Bernie's. Also American Factory, Between Two Ferns and 3 From Hell are reviewed.
Josie and the Pussycats vs The Doom Generation
September 23, 2019 07:40We pit Parker Posey movies against each other. Josie and the Pussycats finds a band battling brainwashing and Carson Daly. And teenagers murder and screw across America in The Doom Generation. Plus we review It Chapter 2.
Back to School vs Swamp Thing
September 09, 2019 14:54Season three finally launches with the movies of Adrienne Barbeau. Rodney Dangerfield buys his way into college in Back to School. A man's transformed into a thing in the swamp in...umm..Swamp Thing. Finally we review the french film La Grande Classe.
Tremors vs Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
September 05, 2019 03:26Giant creatures eat find people through vibrations in the ground and then devour them in Tremors. Then a cop has his death faked, is forced to undergo plastic surgery, and learn impossible martial arts in order to protect America in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. We're doing a double dose of Fred Ward.
Big Trouble vs X-Men Last Stand
August 21, 2015 23:58Stories of cops, criminals, kids, and others intersect in the comedic movie: Big Trouble. Mutants are given the choice of taking a pill and losing their powers, or fighting humans (I guess). Also, there's a mutant who becomes a more dangerous mutant whilst being entangle in a love triangle (I guess) in X-Men The Last Stand. Ben Foster(?) gets the Box Office treatment this episode.
Raising Cain vs Bronson
August 06, 2015 04:16A man with multiple personalities (John Lithgow) steals as many children as he can to traumatize them into have multiple personalities themselves in Raising Cain. A man will stop at nothing to be famous, even being incarcerated well beyond his original sentence. Tom Hardy stars in Bronson. Which movie will win? Hell, which personality will win?
Dylan Dog Dead of Night vs Scott Pilgrim Vs the World
June 17, 2015 07:37Brandon Routh gets a double feature, and lucky for all of us neither movie is Superman Returns. First Routh is a detective in a monster movie noir: Dylan Dog Dead of Night. Then Scott Pilgrim must face the League of Seven Evil Exes in Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World.
Kung Fury vs John Wick
June 02, 2015 19:22Kung Fury answers the question: what happens when a cop from Miami in 1985 goes back in time to kill Hitler? He finds friendships with dinosaurs, vikings, and the Norse God of Thunder of course. John Wick is the tale of a retired hitman who loses it when the mob kills his dog. Today we explore two balls out action movies to decide who will make it up to Mount Valhalla.
She Devils of the SS vs Rapture Palooza
May 20, 2015 06:46A lot of naked women join the Nazi party and try to keep moral up anyway they can in the grindhouse feature: She Devils of the SS. The evil facing it involves the Antichrist taking over the world (perched in Seattle), and deciding he's going to get down with Anna Kendrick in Rapture Palooza.
The Avengers vs The Avengers: Age of Ultron
May 06, 2015 05:38Today we break from the formula to pit The Avengers against (out in theaters right now) The Avengers Age of Ultron. You already know what these movies are, so let's just say that one is better, and we're going to get to the bottom of it.
Sudden Death vs MacGruber
April 15, 2015 07:23Jean Claude Van Dam is trying to disarm many bombs from exploding, and fights a penguin mascot in Sudden Death. Will Forte and Kristen Wiig can't seem to disarm even one bomb, and fights with a celery stalk up his @$$ in MacGruber. The movies of Powers Booth face off tonight, and only one can survive.
Mystery Team vs. Safety Not Guaranteed
March 18, 2015 07:39Aubrey Plaza movies face off today. First, a group of teenagers a-la The Hardy Boys try to solve a crime in Mystery Team. Then a curious ad on Craig's List that's attempting to find a partner for time travel leads to an hilarious adventure in Safety Not Guaranteed.
Zapped! vs The Shining
March 04, 2015 07:00Today we cover Stephen King inspired movies featuring Scatman Crothers. Scott Baio is a high school student who gains the ability of telekinesis and uses it as any of us would: to undress girls in public in the teen comedy Zapped! Then Jack Nicholson moves his family into haunted hotel and decides to kill them when he gets bored in the Kubrick masterpiece The Shining.
Big Trouble in Little China vs The Thing vs Miracle
February 25, 2015 20:30Today: a Kurt Russell-off! First a trucker (Russell) and Kim Catrall fights wizards and creatures in the "classic" Big Trouble in Little China. Then a group of scientists in Antartica (Russell, Wilford Brimley, Keith David, and others) battle a shape-shifting alien and paranoia in The Thing. Finally Kurt Russell coaches the 1980 USA hockey team in the biopic about The Miracle on Ice--Miracle. Aaron Donaldson guest stars as our judge.
Jersey Girl vs. Zack and Miri
February 25, 2015 20:28This week we have two under-appreciated films of Kevin Smith. Ben Affleck loses his wife, and has to raise his daughter with only the help of his father (George Carlin). But perhaps the most difficult thing for him is to put aside his old life for the new one in Jersey Girl. Seth Rogan and Elizabeth Banks play best friends who consummate their relationship while making a self produced internet video (you know the kind) in Zack and Miri.
Gremlins vs. Die Hard
February 25, 2015 20:25Hoyt Axtin obtains a mogwai that comes with three rules. He gives it to his son who doesn't hesitate to break all of them. Zack Galliger and Phoebe Cates star in Gremlins. Then Bruce Willis crawls through air ducts and broken glass just to find true love in Die Hard. It's two underrated holiday classics squaring off today.
Fast Break vs. Amazing Grace and Chuck
February 04, 2015 10:42Gabe Caplan plays a hard on his luck coach who takes four street ballers from New York to college in Nevada and turns the basketball world upside down in Fast Break. Chuck is a child who decides that he won't play baseball again until nuclear weapons are disarmed. Amazing Grace is the Boston Celtic who gives Chuck's movement traction. Gregory Peck plays the president who must deal with these two and the Russian Premier in Amazing Grace and Chuck. Only one film will sit atop the standings.
Celtic Pride vs. Little Giants
February 04, 2015 10:20Two die hard Celtic fans kidnap the star player of the Utah Jazz the night before Game Seven in Celtic Pride. Two brothers coach against each other for the right for their teams to play Pee Wee football in Little Giants. Only one movie will score enough points.
The Walking Wounded vs. Just Say Yes
January 14, 2015 09:07The men of Shooting the Show take over hosting duties this week and debate albums: The Walking Wounded vs. Just Say Yes. A winner will be chosen. Editing will be done. Paper airplanes will be thrown. Enjoy.
Return of the Killer Tomatoes vs. Burn After Reading
December 17, 2014 18:03A mad scientist creates tomatoes that turn into people with the sound of certain songs. This could reignite the tomato war from ten years ago. George Clooney stars in Return of the Killer Tomatoes. Then a lot of stupid people do stupid things the Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading. It's a George Clooney tour de force.