Fin

 

Welcome to the end of the run. Zach Lachenbruch, Brandon Beardslee, Alex Biggs Small, and Karl Borneman reflect on the years of creating Box Office Battle. We talk about the matchups, personal battles, mistakes, and wonderful surprises that we ran across making our beloved podcast. And of course we talk about a lot of movies both amazing and tragically awful. Join us for our new podcast launching next week, Not Safe for Network. You can subscribe to it today.

Mirrormask vs Return to Oz (1985)

 

This week's theme for the podcast is children escaping trauma through fantasy lands. First up is Dave McKean and Neil Gaiman's Mirrormask, where a girl wishes to be the death of her mom, and then winds up in a fantastical world after her mom gets sick.  Next is Disney's follow up to The Wizard of Oz decades later, which follows Dorothy checking into a psych ward to get electroshock therapy in Return to Oz.

Reviews: My Octopus Teacher, Coming 2 America, One Night in Miami, Minari, Judas and the Black Messiah, I Care a Lot, Nomadland, and Godzilla vs Kong

 

This week we talk about the Oscars a bit with reviews of My Octopus Teacher, One Night in Miami, Judas and the Black Messiah, Minari, and Nomadland. We also discuss Coming 2 America, I Care a Lot, and Godzilla vs Kong.