Box Office Battle

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

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CBGB 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 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.

This 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.

An 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 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.

A 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.

Max 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.

Two 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.

Box 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.

Two 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.

This 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.

The 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.