We're back with our second-ever mailbag episode--BLAST ME ANYTHING! We take listener questions about our favorite movies, how the show got started, and much more!

NEXT EPISODE: We're finally spending some time with ol' Marty as we talk about 1985's AFTER HOURS.

0:00 Intro
1:52 Show & tell
8:27 Blast Me Anything

Alright, we made it to the end of our January 2024 retrospective and we’re closing it out with MADAME WEB. This movie is so weird. I don’t even know how to describe it.

MADAME WEB
DIRECTED BY: S.J. Clarkson
RELEASED: February 14, 2024
STARRING: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim
BUDGET: $100M
BOX OFFICE: $100.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $75M

NEXT EPISODE: We’re dipping into the mail bag for a special “BLAST ME ANYTHING” episode

0:00 Intro
2:44 Show & tell
7:56 This week's movie

We’re almost done with 2024. So close we can taste it. But first, it’s one of the year’s biggest misses in ARGYLLE.

ARGYLLE
DIRECTED BY: Matthew Vaughn
RELEASED: February 2, 2024
STARRING: Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Brian Cranston, Catherine O’Hara, Samuel L Jackson
BUDGET: $120M
BOX OFFICE: $96.2M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $100M

NEXT EPISODE: We wrap up the 2024 year in review with MADAME WEB

Show Notes:
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0:00 Intro
4:01 Show & tell
9:08 This week's movie

It’s megaloppin’ time! We continue our 2024 retrospective with one of the most bizarre movies we’ve ever covered—it’s MEGALOPOLIS

MEGALOPOLIS
RELEASED: September 27, 2024
DIRECTED BY: Francis Ford Coppola
STARRING: Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza, Jon Voigt
BUDGET: $120M
BOX OFFICE: $13.9M
EST. LOSS: All of it

NEXT EPISODE: Pull out your favorite checkered sweaters cuz we’re doing ARGYLLE

0:00 Intro
3:41 Show & tell
9:39 This week's movie

Did you know there was a BORDERLANDS movie? In 2024? Well there was. And we watched it because we love you.

BORDERLANDS
DIRECTED BY: Eli Roth
RELEASED: August 9, 2024
STARRING: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Ariana Greenblatt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black
BUDGET: $120M
BOX OFFICE: $33M
EST LOSS: All of it

NEXT EPISODE: Lord help us, we tackle MEGALOPOLIS.

0:00 Intro
3:05 Show & tell
8:21 This week's movie

More like Folie à Dud! We’re kicking off our 2024 retrospective with one of the biggest sequel failures in history, JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX.

0:00 Intro
2:46 Show & tell
7:26 This week's movie

JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
DIRECTED BY: Todd Phillips
RELEASED: October 4, 2024
STARRING: Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener
BUDGET: $200M
BOX OFFICE: $206.4M
EST LOSS: $110M

NEXT EPISODE: We keep the bad times rolling with another of 2024’s biggest bombs, BORDERLANDS

It’s one of the most expensive independent films ever made. It’s ambitious. But is it any good? We dig into CLOUD ATLAS to see what we find.

0:00 Intro
3:27 Show & tell
9:08 This week's movie

CLOUD ATLAS
RELEASED: October 26, 2012
DIRECTED BY: Lana Wachowski, Lily Wachowski, Tom Tykwer
STARRING: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Bae Doona, Hugo Weaving, James D’Arcy
BUDGET: $145M
BOX OFFICE: $130.5M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $100M

NEXT EPISODE: We begin our 2024 retrospective with the very expensive and very reviled Joker: Folie á Deux

With so much turmoil in the world, we picked a movie that didn’t have any frightening parallels to the real world. This is THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004).

THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
DIRECTED BY: Jonathan Demme
RELEASED: July 30th, 2004
STARRING: Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber, Meryl Streep, Jon Voigt, Kimberly Elise
BUDGET: $80M
BOX OFFICE: $96.1M
ESTIMATED LOSS: $40M

0:00 Intro
3:39 Show & tell
10:00 This week's movie

NEXT EPISODE: Let’s take a break from the real world with 2012’s CLOUD ATLAS