Brick vs Shaft (2019)

 

This week on the podcast the theme is movies where Richard Roundtree has a cameo. First is a detective noir film set in high school with Joseph Gordon Levitt, Brick. In the other corner is the fifth Shaft movie, but the third called Shaft, 2019's Shaft. 

Weird Science vs The Stepford Wives (1975)

This week the theme of the podcast is movies where men create women. First Wyatt and Gary use their computer to create a smoke show that has magical powers and bends to their every whim in Weird Science. Then, tackling misogyny in a very different way, we discuss 1975's The Stepford Wives where Joanna is forced by her husband to move away from her life in New York only to give up her very identity in this classic film.

Miller's Crossing vs Harlem Nights

 

This episode of the podcast has Gabriel Byrne starring in the gangster Coen Brothers Film that doesn't give you the high hat...Miller's Crossing. Then Eddie Murphy's passion project with Richard Pryor and Red Foxx gets a second look in Harlem Nights. We're doing films with underground gambling this week.

Cronos vs The Man From Earth

 

This week on the podcast the them is tales of immortality. First up: Guillermo Del Toro's feature film debut, Cronos. A grandfather comes to posses a device that will allow him to live forever. But as the blood lust builds you're left to wonder if it's worth the price. Then we cover the indie film The Man from Earth. A professor is leaving town, and reluctantly admits to his circle of friends that he has been alive since the days of the cavemen...which goes hand in hand with a shocking revelation.

The Fly II vs Road House 2 vs Dirty Dancing Havana Nights

 

For this edition of the Box Office Battle podcast we talk about classic movies from the eighties: The Fly, Road House, and Dirty Dancing. Then we discuss their sequels, and why they didn't live up to the originals. We also talk about the first two Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, and premier Ice Cast!

Cube vs Pi

 

Movies about math with geometric titles is the subject of the Box Office Battle podcast this week. First, people are trapped in a Cube in the movie, well uh...Cube. Then a mathematician goes too far down the rabbit hole and finds the name of God in numbers, and then has to poke his brain until he forgets it in the Darren Aronofsky classic Pi.

Gentlemen Broncos vs Naked Lunch

 

For this episode of Box Office Battle we pit two movies about writers against each other. First Jared Hess offers a story of a thirteen year old who gets his story adapted into an awful movie, and at the same time his story is ripped off in a best selling novel in Gentlemen Broncos. Then Cronenberg's avant guarde adaptation of the William S. Burrows classic, Naked Lunch.