Mar 24, 2020

eXistenZ vs Videodrome

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.

Mar 16, 2020

Strange Brew vs Beerfest

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.

Mar 9, 2020

Hamlet 2 vs Adaptation

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.

Mar 2, 2020

Freaks (1932) vs Freaky Friday (2003)

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.