Box Office Battle

 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!

 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.

 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!

 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.

 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!

 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.

 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. 

 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.

 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.

 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.

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.

 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.