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.

Brigsby Bear vs Airborne (2012)

 

This week on the podcast it's the films of Mark Hamill. A man is rescued from a bunker having been kidnapped his entire life. He's trying to adjust to reality, but all he wants to do is finish a movie his kidnappers made in Brigsby Bear. Then members of an aircraft battle a storm, hijackers, and a Chinese god in Airborne.

But I'm a Cheerleader vs Saved

 

Natasha Lyonne plays a cheerleader who is forced to accept her sexual orientation when sent to a gay conversion camp and finds love in But I'm a Cheerleader. Then Jena Malone is a devout Christian who realizes the world isn't what she believed when she gets pregnant in Saved! This week the podcast is covering movies that have plots that involve gay conversion camps.

Rating influential superhero movies

 

This episode of the podcast has Biggs and Karl going through the history of influential superhero movies and figuring out whether they are underrated, overrated, or properly rated.