The Magnificently Huge Podcast

In our ongoing series of movies from the early 2000’s that Brian had never seen, we’ve got the solid directorial debut of Joe Cornish from 2011 - Attack the Block. It’s an alien invasion movie set in a council estate in South London, with a bunch of kids fighting off space monsters run amok for 90 minutes. And it is flippin’ great! It’s the movie that put John Boyega on the map before all that Star Wars junk, and also features Jodie (The 13th Doctor Who) Whittaker, and Nick (Everything by Edgar Wright) Frost. So give it a go, you won’t be sorry! Probably. More than likely. Whatever… Attack the Block! 7:12 - (It’s been a while) 6:10 - Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 12:10 - Fast X (2023) 19:20 - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) 24:25 (insert clip from SNL that eric mentions) 26:15 - Renfield (2023) 33:10 - Attack the Block (2011)

What do Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Corman, Yellowstone, Dungeons & Dragons, and Duran Duran have in common? Other than they’re all discussed on this episode, absolutely nothing! This week we dig into the obscure 1963 schlock horror film that launched Coppola’s career: “Dementia 13”. Good luck to us all. 3:30 - Duran Duran (live) 16:45 - Yellowstone (Peacock) 21:20 - Poker Face (Peacock) 24:00 - The Traitors (Peacock) 27:10 - Fool’s Paradise (2023) 32:25 - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 37:55 - Dementia 13 (1963)

Ahoy, maties, and ARRRRRRRRRR! It’s our look back at arguably the best movie ever made based on a theme park ride… Walt Disney’s 2003 popcorner, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. And hey, it’s turning 20, so there’s also that! Honestly, this movie is pure fun, and we still can’t decipher how that is even possible for a movie based on a very niche Disneyland ride. But there it is. The cast is stellar, Gore Verbinski hits his directing stride, and thus, a bloated franchise was born! Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for us… 0:00 - Intros 7:25 - Love and Rockets! (live) 16:20 - Goth Week: Cruel World Fest 2023, The Sisters of Mercy, and The Cure (live) 26:00 - John Wick Chapter 4 33:00 - Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) Here’s the video Eric wants you to watch; https://youtu.be/0T0nDZqujVw

“You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with.” ― George Carlin 5:30 - The Other Two (seasons 2 and 3) 9:00 - Seal and The Buggles (live) 13:30 - New trailers for The Flash and Dune 2 and Asteroid City (2023) 18:15 - Star Trek: Picard (season 3) 22:35 - Magnum Force (1973) 29:50 - My Cousin Vinny (1992)

Streaming movies are dead. Don’t believe me? To prove it, we decided to each pick our favorite new streaming service film - and we all rolled snake eyes. At least we have a theory why. What’s that theory? Well duh, that’s why you need to listen to the show! 3:20 - NYT The Ballad of Deep Fake Drake (podcast) 9:25 - Stanley Cup playoffs 14:30 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 22:40 - Direct to Streaming Movies 31:00 - AKA (Netflix) 37:00 - Prey (Hulu) 38:30 - Quasi (Hulu) 46:30 - Honey Boy (Amazon)

Does anyone remember the 1990 Bill Murray comedy called Quick Change? Because if you speak to any casual film-watcher about it, they’ll just ask “what’s that?” For the uninitiated, Quick Change is a reasonably funny, if imperfect, heist comedy that Bill Murray made in between Ghostbusters 2 and What About Bob? He produced and co-directed it, to boot, which makes it sort of a vanity project. Plus, it had a very strong supporting cast of established names like Geena Davis, Randy Quaid and Jason Robards. And in July of 1990 it came and went like a fart in the wind, becoming a very weird career blindspot for Murray. Your MagHuge crew all saw it opening weekend, and we have vague memories of being entertained… but Quick Change is mostly a hazy memory now, asking to be rekindled as a reminder that it even exists at all. Enjoy. 5:15 - Yellowstone spinoffs: 1883 and 1923 14:30 - Tetris (Apple, 2023) 20:00 - Schmigadoon! (Season 2: Schmicago) 23:20 - Death Wish (1974) 33:30 - Quick Change (1990)

For some reason Brian, the guy who goes to all the new movies all the time, also has some inexcusable holes in his cinematic history. This week we rectify yet another of his oversights as we use the show to get him to see 2012’s Dredd, starring Karl Urban. 6:10 - The Mandalorian (Season 3) 9:40 - Star Trek and Klingons 12:30 - Picard (Season 3) 17:55 - Renfield (2023) 23:00 - Dredd (2012)

This week we look at movies you would not believe aren’t based on comic books. They have all of the color, all of the action, but they’re ORIGINAL for Christ’s sake. What a novel idea! 3:15 - Trump Indictment 10:35 - Weird History Food (YouTube) 17:35 - Muse and Evanescence (Live) 23:30 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) 29:1 5 - The Mandalorian (Season 3, Disney+) 36:30 - Movies NOT based on comic books

Movies based on TV shows weren’t really a big thing until they got supercharged in the 90’s, once studios ran out of ideas. That’s the whole magilla this go-round. From movies that were continuations of a popular series, to faithful re-creations that hewed to the original, to the ironic comedies that had some fun… we got it all right here in this podcast. Literally dozens of shows and movies pulled from literally minutes of online searching to bring you as many adaptations as we could fit in under 30 minutes…the good, the bad and the downright stupid! 3:50 - Depeche Mode (Live) 18:15 - The Highwayman (NBC, 1987) 28:55 - John Wick Chapter 4 (2023) 34:15 - The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) vs. Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022) 39:54 - Movies based on TV shows

The 90s were a time of burnout, nihilism, and everything else we love about 20-something GenX. In that spirit, we present another mid-90s cyberpunk downer in the form of Strange Days, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis and Angela Bassett. Jack in (or whatever your preferred type of jack may be) and join us reliving bad memories of a movie where people relive other people’s bad memories! 4:00 - The Consultant (Amazon) 8:30 - The King’s Man (2021) 14:00 - Hello tomorrow! (Apple TV+) 18:30 - Babylon (2022) 27:55 - The Avengers (1960’s series) 45:20 - Strange Days (1995) Here’s the conversation between Ralph Fiennes and Christoph Waltz https://youtu.be/zU_m1QTfSXk

Our big dumb exploration of Frat Pack Cinema of the 2000's continues with a look back at the '04 sports-comedy classic, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a wacky dodgeball movie starring Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller…but really, why would you? Easily one of our top picks from the Naughty Aughties, this is one that shouldn't work but ends up out-classing most of the competition. And it gave us all THE OCHO! 3:00 - NYT The Daily Podcast: A.O. Scott is quitting film criticism 4:27 edit out eric 6:20 - Star Trek Online 10:50 - Picard (season 3) 14:20 - Shock Waves (1977) 19:55 - Hansel and Gretl Witch Hunters (2013) 23:20 - Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023) 29:30 - Dodgeball (2004)

In 1986, Sylvester Stallone was arguably the biggest star on the planet. Rocky, Rambo, Rhinestone… well, forget Rhinestone, but those other two killed it at the box office. So how to follow that kind of iconic success? Why not make an ultraviolet cop movie with good ol’ Cannon Films called Cobra? It’s an unbelievably mindless and blatant riff on the better (if equally proto-fascist) Dirty Harry about a rogue cop who takes the law into his own hands and kills a bunch of whack-a-doodle domestic terrorists after they go on a murder rampage in his city. Sure, there might be an actual story buried in there somewhere, but who cares? We get car chases, gun fights, explosions and Stallone dropping one-liners like he’s Schwarzenegger or something. Cobra may be a cult classic now, but watching it again is like seeing a parody of every 80s tough guy flick cranked to 11.

How do you start an intro about a band like the great and powerful DEVO? Like that. Just like that. Like what I just did right there. Once you get through that though, you need to talk about how they’re the inspiration behind so much techno, punk rock, art rock, and just smart assery of Generation X. If you’ve never listened to anything other than their one enormous hit, let us introduce you to the magic of DEVO. Playlists (best we could do with what they offer): Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/episode-256-devo-suburban-robots-to-monitor-reality/pl.u-j17Dfdqvb15 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6mguR3LJPCmzmtAQLi8G9i?si=cc149d2a5ff14eaf 0:00 - Intros 4:20 - Knock At the Cabin (2023) 9:58 - Cocaine Bear (2023) 15:50 - The 'Burbs, Wayne’s World, Real Genius 21:44 - DEVO 28:25 - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! (1978) Satisfaction Uncontrollable Urge (also Dev2.0 version) Jocko Homo Gut Feeling / Slap Your Mammy Mongoloid 39:47 - Duty Now for the Future (1979) Smart Patrol / Mr DNA The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise Devo Corporate Anthem Wiggly World 46:39 Freedom of Choice (1980) Freedom of Choice Girl U Want Mr B’s Ballroom 52:50 - New Traditionalists (1981) Workin’ In A Coal Mine (beautiful world target ad and swiffer whip it) Through Being Cool Jerkin’ Back ‘n’ Forth (live) Going Under Toni Basil - Be Stiff 59:17 - Oh, No! It’s Devo! (1982) Out of Sync That’s Good Speed Racer Explosions 1:04:48 - Shout (1984) Dare to be Stupid Are You Experienced? Here to Go 1:07:12 - Total Devo Baby Doll in Swedish Some Things Never Change 1:09:34 - Now It Can Be Told: DEVO at the Palace 1988 Jocko Homo It Doesn’t Matter To Me 1:02:51 - Smooth Noodle Maps (1990) Post Post-Modern Man 1:13:20 - Hardcore DEVO Theme From Doctor Detroit I Need A Chick 1:15:30 Something for Everybody (2010) Fresh Step Up Later Is Now What We Do Don’t Shoot (I’m a Man) Watch Us Work It

What if Robert Downey Jr, Sally Field, Elizabeth Shue, Whoopi Goldberg, Carrie Fisher, and Kevin Kline made a movie and everyone forgot it? Did you remember Soapdish? We’re betting your reaction was something on the order of “Oh yeah, huh. That was a movie I guess.” We pull this 1991 comedy out of the drawer and give it a spin. See what we think! See if you agree! Also, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Because movies. And The Last of Us. Because clickbait. 0:00 - Intros 3:00 - Salvage One (1979) 8:00 - The Last of Us (HBO) 12:30 - Star Trek Picard (Paramount+) 21:00 - Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James 25:50 - Marc Maron From Bleak to Dark (HBO) 28:15 - Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) 35:30 - Soap Dish (1991)

Are you ready for another Lost VHS Classic, kids? Well you’re in luck, because today we’re gonna have a go at the 1982 Steve Martin/Carl Reiner comedy, The Man With Two Brains! What is The Man With Two Brains, you ask? Well, we’ve seen it and we still aren’t entirely sure. On the surface it is a send-up of 50’s B-movie horror/suspense tropes about a mad scientist, a gold-digging femme fatale, and a brain-swap machine. If you have no idea what any of that means, it’s cool. Just know this is another wacky romp from the team that brought you The Jerk! It’s Kathleen Turner’s follow up to her breakout role in Body Heat! It’s Merv Griffin as… Merv Griffin! And it’s 100% niche cinema, which is why you should listen! Into the mud, scum queen! 4:04 - Muppets Benoit Blanc Rainbow Connection 5:45 - I Know That Voice 10:15 - Justin Roiland is out of Rick and Morty and everything else. Also Hogwarts Legacy 16:55 - Perpetual Grace LTD 19:55 - War of the Worlds and other shows that shouldn’t have kept going 22:05 - The Peripheral 23:45 - Cunk on Earth 26:30 - Dead to Me 28:45 - Star Trek Strange New World 34:15 - The Man With Two Brains (1983)

This week we watch your Dad’s favorite movie. Back before the Internet let us talk to our favorite introverts, conspiracy theorists and secessionists, men watched movies about men doing manly things with other men in a man’s world… but Fight Club was a splash of cold water that said, “Wake up - you’re living a lie.” This week we dig into why this film still works, why it was ahead of its time in some of the worst ways, and some of the odder theories behind what this film really means. 0:00 - Intros 7:45 - The Wandering Earth 2 14:20 - Neil Hamburger stand up comedy 17:20 - Snowball Express (1972) 22:15 - Legend of Vox Machina 29:30 - Fight Club (1999)

From the Better Late Than Never File comes our look back at Season 3 of the greatest show on television, The Boys! It may have taken 6 months for all of us to finally watch it, but so what? We've got jobs and stuff, ya losers! What matters is we've seen it, we loved it, and now we'll yammer on about Butcher, Homelander, Soldier Boy, and the rest of the gang in all their violent, bloody, psychologically damaged glory! It's a spot-on satire of our modern age, and we're damn well here for it. 3:40 - Mel Brooks History of the World Part II 6:40 - The Pale Blue Eye (Netflix) 10:15 - Willow (Disney+) 15:05 - White Noise (Netflix) 23:00 - The Umbrella Academy Season 3 26:40 - Hunters (Amazon) 29:45 - War of the Worlds (2019 series) 33:50 - The Boys: Season 3 (Amazon)

Do you remember Video Stores? We sure do - because we’re old as F@%$. They used to be everywhere, a ubiquitous strip mall fixture purveying all manner of niche movie titles in every genre, rented in a format known as a “videocassette” tape that you could take home and play in your VCR machine. This was back in the 80s and 90s when physical media was how we consumed our entertainment, when giant homogeneous corporations finally squeezed out the Mom ‘N Pop stores and killed all the joy in life with nothing but New Releases. But their hubris would be their undoing, as a Jetson-like future of streaming technology and à la carte on-demand choice finally became reality and killed the scrappy video store for good. Once a bustling weekend hub of every neighborhood, the video store is now a faded legend of the distant past. And we salute them all. 5:30 - Mayor of Kingstown (Paramount+) 9:35 - Star Trek Voyager 15:00 - Paddington (2014) 19:55 - The Fabelmans (2022) 24:30 - The Last of Sheila (1973) 28:45 - The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 32:30 - Digital Killed the Video Store

Excelsior, bitches! Recently, Eric tried to binge-watch ALL of Marvel Phase 4 - a 2-year chunk of movies and TV shows. Then, to make it seem like there was a reason for this insanity, he pitched it as a show. We go through all 50 hours & 21 minutes of it - in an episode that, as we recorded it, felt only slightly longer. 0:00 - Intros 8:56 - WandaVision (2021) 12:10 - The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021) 15:30 - Loki season 1 (2021) 19:05 - Black Widow (2021) 21:50 - What If...? (2021) 25:20 - Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) 30:55 - Eternals (2021) 35:07 - Hawkeye (2021) 38:25 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) 41:35 - Moon Knight (2022) 44:45 - Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 48:25 - Ms. Marvel (2022) 51:55 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) 55:08 - She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) 58:15 - Werewolf by Night (2022) 59:55 - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) 1:03:38 - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022)

Daniel Craig’s now-iconic movie detective Benoit Blanc is back in the latest mystery bonbon from writer-director Rian Johnson, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. This one, as you may have deduced from the title, is the sequel to 2019’s equally fun deconstruction of classic whodunits, Knives Out. Again stacked with an impeccable cast, Johnson’s latest is another razor-sharp, eat-the-rich satire cocooned inside an affectionate homage to the likes of Agatha Christie. Or the board game Clue. Or perhaps The Beatles? There’s a LOT going on here, and we get to it in our very SPOILERIFIC review. As Benoit Blanc says so concisely in the movie, It’s just dumb! 0:00 - Intros 4:20 - God of War: Ragnarok 7:25 - High on Life 13:55 - Grand Theft Auto 4 19:07 - Star Trek Timelines 20:21 - Petticoat Junction 25:10 - Derry Girls 30:19 - Glass Onion SPOILER conversation

It’s that time of year again, where we take a long amount of time off and let things slide. That means we have a LOT of new stuff to talk about! Movies, TV shows, concerts, plays… we did a lot of stuff in the last weeks of 2022, and it’s time to dish. Check out what we checked out - it’s a freshitstravaganza! 0:00 - Intros 6:00 - Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 17:00 - Black Adam (2022) 22:50 - White Noise (2023) 30:50 - Rick and Morty season 6 35:15 - Violent Night (2022) 40:00 - 1899 (Netflix) 43:50 - Fleishman is in Trouble 47:30 - Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio 54:20 - Willow 1:02:00 - Moulin Rouge! (touring) 1:06:15 - To Kill a Mockingbird 1:12:00 - Daredevil Link to the SNL Avatar “Papyrus” sketch: https://youtu.be/jVhlJNJopOQ

Christmas music is evergreen, and so is this episode from Black Friday of 2017. Once again, Brian subjects the rest of the MagHuge crew (and you!) to his insane taste in christmas music! Click the link to play the home game! Here's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl | 0:00 - Introductions | 2:50 - The Punisher | 4:03 - Hockey Music | 6:55 - The Punisher again, and the other Marvel Netflix shows | 12:57 - Murder on the Orient Express | 14:57 - The Good Place | 18:10 - Thanksgiving plans | 22:52 - Butter Day | 26:16 - Black Friday | 32:19 - When should the Christmas decorations go up? | 33:20 - Christmas Music! | Clips: | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | Rush Coil - O Holy Night | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / Beside - Change the Beat | Tyler Bates - The Punisher | Stompin Tom Connors - The Hockey Song | Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody | Rick and Morty - True Level | Imagine Dragons - Believer | Theme from “The Good Place” | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Thousand Foot Krutch - Jingle Bell Rock | KJ-52 - It's Christmas Time | Joseph Spence - Santa Claus Is Comin to Town | Run-DMC - Christmas In Hollis | Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You | Otis Redding - White Christmas | Mannheim Steamroller - Deck The Halls | Mannheim Steamroller - Carol of the Bells | Woody Phillips - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy | Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary | Bing Crosby - White Christmas | Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters - Mele Kalikimaka | John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over) | Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmas Time | Ringo remembers Christmas 1979 | No Doubt - Oi To The World | Shonen Knife - Space Christmas | The Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland | The Cocteau Twins - Frosty The Snowman | Justin Bieber ft. Busta Rhymes - Drummer Boy

What could possibly make the perennial Charles Dickens holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” even better? Why, add The Muppets, of course! And it’s right there in the friggin’ title! We end 2022 with a Bah Humbug look at “The Muppet Christmas Carol” turning 30 - a true banger starring Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, along with your favorite Muppets to bring some festive cheer. We call it “The most accessible version of A Christmas Carol ever made!” Damning praise indeed! Plus, we’ve got a bunch of other stuff we’ve been watching to close out the year in true MagHuge style. Ho ho ho. | 0:00 - Intros | 7:40 - The Menu (2022) | 16:00 - Strange World (2022) | 22:25 - The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) | 28:00 - Year of the Rabbit (Britbox) | 31:10 - The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

The 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” was the perfect encapsulation of what Christmas should be all about. That’s why it’s a classic. Is this week’s show about that? Well, that would have been nice and easy. But there’s just one thing you see, Mag Huge never ever do nothing nice and easy - we always do it nice and rough. So instead, we cover the two competing sequels to a movie that was so charming, it shouldn’t have a sequel at all...much less two. But if you think about it, two movies made to cash in on a nostalgia classic is exactly what Christmas is all about, isn’t it? Exploitation! We also cover the things we’ve been watching in this, our penultimate show for the year 2022. Ho ho ho! | 0:00 - Intros | 5:00 - Santa Claus The Movie (1985) | 12:00 - A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019) | 14:45 - Wednesday (Netflix) | 21:00 - She Said (2022) | 27:10 - Andor (Disney+) | 33:20 - A Christmas Story 2 (2012) | 45:00 - A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)

Episode 245 - Obligatory Top 3 Coen Brothers Show Any film nerd worth their salt has at least a few favorites in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre… And since we’re all definitely nerds, we thought we’d stack our personal Top 3’s against each other and see what happens. Join us shall we, for our fully obligatory, totally arbitrary whittling down of the entire Coen Brothers filmography, stinkers included! We definitely agree on one clear favorite above all others, and it may shock you! As The Dude would say, “Yeah, well, that’s just like…your opinion, man.” | 0:00 - Intros / Twitter | 9:20 - Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) | 13:40 - She Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022) | 17:30 - God of War: Ragnarok (PS5) | 19:00 - The E$tate (2022) | 21:55 - Spirited (2022) | 27:00 - How It Happened (podcast) | 33:55 - Investigate Joe Rogan (podcast) | 37:25 - Coen Brothers movies

Episode 244 - Nope In his continuing bid to be just like M. Night Shyamalan but better, we have “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s latest horror-thriller film. We break it down this week - What is this film really about? Is it about anything? Why is it called, “Nope” really? Why isn’t Michael Wincott in more movies? And more. Probably. Plus our usual collection of what we’ve enjoyed this week that so many of you clamor for because you can’t figure out what to watch on Netfilx. You’re welcome. So come along, shall we? | 0:00 - Intros | 7:00 - Heardle | 9:00 - Is That Black Enough For You? (Netflix) | 12:30 - Blockbuster Video | 14:10 - Angelyne (Peacock) | 17:25 - Black Panther Wakanda Forever (2022) | 24:11 - American Horror Story NYC | 29:35 - Nope (2022)

In 2005 we were in the afterglow of the first 2 Spider-Man movies, Blade, and The Matrix. Even the X-Men movies were still good. Just before Batman began again and Marvel stomped all over everything, we got Constantine - a little nugget of what comic based movies might have been, until they weren’t. This week the Mag Huge crew revisits this under-the-radar film that will apparently be getting a sequel some day. | 0:00 - Intros | 5:17 - Black Adam (2022) | 6:00 - Oklahoma! (2019 revival, touring) | 13:07 - More about Duane Johnson | 16:55 - Ariel Elias and Pelosi’s husband attacked | 20:51 - Cover Bands: The Wanna-Be 52’s and The Beat On Brats | 27:25 - Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World | 31:35 - Constantine (2005)

Oh my little hungry ones, it’s time to make a mountain out of a molehill! This week the new Weird Al movie showed up on Roku, and gave us an excuse to get nerdy in the extreme about the man himself. So wind up your radios and enjoy a totally true podcast about an even more TOTALLY TRUE BIOPIC about the greatest performer who ever made up words to other people’s songs that already existed. This is the life! | 0:00 - Intros | 4:40 - See How They Run (2022) | 11:00 - The Automat (2021) | 16:25 - Coins - Daft Science remixes https://coinsmakeyoudance.bandcamp.com/album/daft-science | 18:50 - Six (Broadway Touring) vs RuPaul’s Drag Race Live (Vegas) | 24:07 - Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) and also just Weird Al in general

Stephen King has written over 60 books and countless short stories over 50 years. He's essentially his own genre - a blend of horror, supernatural, thriller and human drama - that is, let's be honest, a mixed bag. And don't get us started on all the movies - from the highs of The Shining to the lows of Lawnmower Man, and everything in between. Or maybe do get us started, because we have opinions. Scary ones… | 0:00 - Intros | 8:00 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Japanese Breakfast, The Linda Lindas (live) | 16:00 - Pet Shop Boys and New Order: The Unity Tour (live) | 24:10 - Living Single | 28:00 - John Wick | 31:40 - Well There’s Your Problem (podcast) | 35:00 - Stephen King Here’s a link to the Well There’s Your Problem Podcast https://youtu.be/gxOK6otta3s

Which do you find scarier: A phantom from beyond our mortal coil that came to drag you to hell, or a guy with a knife who you might work with and thinks your skin would make a nice hat? The fact that there’s (likely) no hell but there are definitely knives could make you think this is an easy choice. But it’s not up to you, it’s up to how scrunched up your butt hole gets when they bring on the scary. This week, we’re Halloweening with ghost and psycho movies. | 0:00 - Intros | 6:35 - House of the Dragon (HBO) | 13:30 - Reboot | 15:30 - Marc Maron - End Times Fun (Netflix) | 17:00 - Roger Waters: This Is Not A Drill | 20:56 - Werewolf By Night (Disney+) | 26:00 - She Hulk: Attorney At Law (Disney+) | 29:00 - The Batman | 32:35 - Ghosts vs Psychos!

Eric’s screenwriting professor used to tell him, “the story all comes out of the characters you create.” Okay, yes, but… if they don’t have anything to do, they’re just a bunch of people standing around talking. The MacGuffin is a plot device that makes people do things in a story. It may force characters to show you parts of themselves you wouldn’t normally see, because it introduces stress, or obsession, or a reason for being. This week we discuss some of the Big MacGuffins in film history, and why they work. | 0:00 - Intros | 2:40 - Star Wars: Andor (Disney+) | 13:25 - Day Shift (Netflix) | 15:15 - She-Hulk: Attorney At Law (Disney+) | 19:15 - Harley Quinn (Season 3, HBO Max) | 22:38 - Rick and Morty | 27:26 - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Rings of Power | 37:37 - MacGuffins!

For one brief shining moment in 1988, the notion that Cyndi Lauper would be the next big pop star to become a movie star was real. Noted 80’s hack screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell created the ultimate star vehicle for her in the form of Vibes, a movie that Dan Ackroyd turned down. Think about that for a minute. Think about what Dan Ackroyd was doing in that time frame, and realize that he had no taste whatsoever. Anyway, Vibes is better than what he was doing. Also Jeff Goldblum! | 0:00 - Intros | 7:30 - See How They Run (2022) | 11:15 - M*A*S*H | 20:00 - Better Call Saul | 26:21 - Hacks (HBO Max) | 29:38 - The Patient (Hulu) | 36:45 - Vibes (1988)

Think of a popular movie series (ie, “film franchise”) - loosely, a film and its sequels totaling 3+ entries - and, based on the very first one in said series/franchise, ask yourself a question: Did that movie warrant a big, fat franchise (ie, “series”)? Obviously, if there is money to be made, a studio will make it. But as much as you like the first Back to the Future, let’s be real, those sequels are kind of pointless. Or, to paraphrase Jurassic Park (another now-endless, pointless franchise, btw): Just because the studios could, they didn’t stop to think if they should. We drop some series old and new, because rehashing a show about sequels and calling it Improbable Movie Franchises is not lame at all. | 0:00 - Intros | 6:45 - Duran Duran - Future Past tour with Nile Rogers and Chic (live) | 10:30 - Rick Springfield with Men At Work (live) | 16:00 - Franz Ferdinand (live) | 19:10 - Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon) | 28:15 - What We Do in the Shadows | 30:25 - Belfast | 33:00 - Improbable Movie Franchises

What’s the best way to start an introduction to the British alt-rock band Radiohead? Talk about how weird they can get? Their rabid fan base? What critical darlings they are? Yes, and in that order! Which is what I just did! Yay me! Check out our run-down of the biggest band of the turn of the millennium. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - Forbidden Zone (1980) | 10:20 - Three Thousand Years Of Longing (2022) | 14:20 - The Boys (Season 3) | 19:12 - Welcome to Wrexham (Hulu) | 23:20 - Your Mom’s House (podcast) | 25:15 - Kleo (Netflix) | 29:35 - Radiohead

Legendary animator Phil Tippett apparently has too much time on his hands. He’s got nothing to do and all day to do it. He’s got nowhere to go and all night to get there. After watching his long-in-development home movie Mad God, we wonder not if he’s crazy. We wonder if he’s sane at all. We watched Mad God, and honestly - it’s hard to believe such a calamity. | 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - The Boys (Season 3) | 7:47 - Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand | 10:20 - Grease (1978) | 19:00 - Billy Idol (live) | 23:00 - Boy George and Culture Club (live) | 25:45 - The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard | 33:00 - Mad God (2022)

We have a theory here at the show: NEVER read the source material of any movie adaptation before you see the film itself. Otherwise, you’ll just be disappointed. Spoiler: Brian broke his own rule and proved the thesis. So what happens when Netflix makes a slick, big-budget movie based on a renowned post-modernist short story by a celebrated author (George Saunders) no one outside the literary community has likely heard of before? Why, Spiderhead, of course, you big dummy. Chris Hemsworth leads a cast that includes Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett, in something about a cushy white-collar prison in the middle of nowhere testing pharmaceuticals on its volunteer inmates before things get really weird and violent. Oh, and it is directed by Joseph Kosinski, who just did Top Gun: Maverick, so he can do whatever he wants now. But definitely don’t read the book first, whatever you do. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - Bullet Train (2022) | 11:10 - Download: The Rise and Fall of Harry Knowles and Aint It Cool News (podcast) | 17:05 - The Old Man (Hulu) | 24:10 - The Umbrella Academy (Season 3, Netflix) | 27:37 - The Sandman (Netflix) | 35:10 - Spiderhead (2022)

What do you get when you mix an unemployed millennial, his girlfriend, his hipster friends, a minotaur, and an insanely huge box fort complete with an abattoir and booby traps? Normally, just a big dumb mess. But in this case, you get one of the most interesting to watch independent films in decades. This week we’re breaking down the 2017 insanely great film, “Dave Made a Maze.” Join us, shall we? | 0:00 - Intros | 1:47 - Grand Theft Auto Online | 6:40 - The Chats, Amyl and The Sniffers, and The Beths | 13:20 - The Princess | 16:00 - Clark | 19:04 - Dispatches From Elsewhere | 22:20 - Severance | 25:40 - Last Night In Soho | 29:34 - Elvis (2022) | 33:50 - Dave Made A Maze

In 1977, Mel Brooks was on one helluva roll with classic film parodies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. But rather than talk about those, instead we’re gonna revisit his riff on Hitchcock called High Anxiety. While it has some good bits - because Mel Brooks - this is one where the worm started to turn for his particular brand. And we aren’t entirely sure why. High Anxiety just hasn’t held up as well compared to his earlier work, and that’s our dumb thesis. Enjoy! High anxiety, it's always the same. Ooh-XIETY, It's you that I blame. It's very clear to me, I've got to give in. High anxiety…You win. | 0:00 - Intros | 3:04 - The Gray Man (2022) | 11:10 - Discovery, Warner Bros., HBO Max | 17:35 - Prey (2022) | 23:20 - Marcel The Shell With Shoes On (2022) | 27:05 - Neon White | 29:15 - High Anxiety (1977)

Back in 1978, mega-star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham followed up their enormous success of Smokey and the Bandit with a simple ode to the Hollywood Stuntman called Hooper. And we dare you not to get pulled in by its frothy, effervescent charm in a virtually plotless romp that follows Reynolds as the titular hero performing ever-crazier gags for the movie-within-a-movie “The Spy Who Laughed at Danger.” Basically, this is yet another excuse for Reynolds to have some fun with his friends and co-stars (Sally Field, Jan Michael Vincent and Brian Keith) and he is at his breezy best here. Coming it at #6 at the 1978 box office, this one went on to play non-stop on HBO and is a cornerstone of the MagHuge crew’s arrested development! | 0:00 - Intros | 2:45 - Rejected | 5:57 - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | 17:30 - Only Murders In The Building | 21:10 - The MaryTyler Moore Show | 24:25 - RRR | 30:15 - The Lion King (Touring) | 38:20 - Hooper (1978)

If you don’t know who Devo is, you probably do know their song, “Whip It.” Devo’s following is enormous, and they’ve been legendary for years. Still, “Whip It” is what would be on their tomb stone. (If bands were buried.) This show is about those songs, the ones that outshine their creators. This isn’t the same as one-hit-wonders - those are songs that are big, and the people who sang them just go away. They don’t have any following or career to speak of. This show is going to be about figuring out the rules of a “Whip It.” | 0:00 - Intros | 4:35 - No Time To Die (2021) [SPOILERS] | 13:00 - Thor Love and Thunder (2022) | 17:20 - Ms. Marvel | 18:55 - Stranger Things 4 | 28:20 - Whip It Bands

The world is utter garbage and everything is horrible. Here’s a show about a movie to take your mind off of the hopeless hellscape that is your life today, if only for a short while. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is another movie from the early 2000s that somehow Brian hadn’t seen yet. We talk about it. Also this week, Elvis and Ben Folds! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - Elvis (2022) | 13:20 - not watching Jurassic World or Lightyear, but somehow Maria Menunos is everywhere | 15:30 - The Pentaverate | 17:10 - Ben Folds - In Actual Person Live For Real Tour | 22:55 - Scoob! | 29:50 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Set the Wayback Machine to 1982 as we revisit a sword & sorcery cult classic that is about to turn 40 years old and isn't Conan - The Beastmaster! Because you really can’t go wrong with a movie about Dr. Doolittle in a loincloth talking to animals like nobody’s business and twirling a sword around his head with flair. The Beastmaster was not a huge hit at the box office, but like many films in the 80s it eventually found an audience… mostly because it aired on cable TV 5 times a week for like 10 years. Happy 40th Anniversary to forgotten classic - The Beastmaster! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:50 - This Week’s Billboard Top 5 Songs | 11:30 - Pistol | 16:00 - Shoresy | 17:10 - Obi Wan Kenobi | 21:15 - Not E3 and The Plucky Squire | 23:30 - Come From Away | 27:00 - The Beastmaster

Hey, it’s another show about another movie about more disaffected youth… only this time it’s Punk! SLC Punk, to be specific. This late 90’s indie cult movie chronicles what appears to be the only two punk rockers living in heavily religious Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1985. While the semi-autobiographical film is light on story, it more than makes up for it with a boisterous aesthetic that DGAF… Which is kind of punk? Forget that it hews too closely to similar, more culturally significant films like Trainspotting and Quadrophenia about angry youth subcultures that feel trapped in existential crisis. But the lead performance by Matthew Lillard is very solid, and the soundtrack is a great Punk Rock 101 introduction. But does it hold up all these years later? | 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - Coca Cola Starlight and other sodas | 7:06 - Russian Doll | 10:15 - Ozark | 17:34 - The Adam Project | 18:50 - Bullsh*t | 20:25 - The Pentaverate | 22:22 - The Kids in the Hall | 30:20 - SLC Punk!

Influential director John Woo made a name for himself in the late-80s with classically iconic Hong Kong gun-fu cinema like The Killer. Then he emigrated to Hollywood in the early 90s and proceeded to make five generically terrible actioners (Broken Arrow, MI-2, etc), and one bona-fide bat$h!t crazy classic (Face-Off). In short. Hollywood had no clue what to do with his distinctive style and his American output is a damn travesty of wasted opportunity. So what happened? Let's discuss! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:10 - Cruel World Festival (Bauhaus / English Beat / Missing Persons / PiL / DEVO / Psychedelic Furs / Blondie / Violent Femmes / The Damned) | 23:35 - Professor Brian Cox - Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey | 30:40 - John Woo vs. Hollywood

Pump Up the Volume is a view of the 90s encased in amber, when the kids were all angry and had no idea what to do about it. It comes from a long line of movies about kids who don’t get what their place in life is, but… you know, In the 90s. With a brilliant soundtrack, a prescience of what social media would become, Christian Slater as Christian Slater, and of course, Samantha Mathis’ boobs, Pump Up the Volume is a view of disaffected youth in America. Again. But… you know, In the 90s! We give our take on this semi-forgotten film, plus everything we’ve been watching and listening to this week in our Peabody Award winning segment, “The Fresh Shit.” Talk hard. | 0:00 - Intros | 3:10 - The Righteous Gem Stones (HBO) | 10:30 - Plebs | 11:58 - Better Call Saul | 17:30 - Severance (Apple TV) | 19:50 - Bottle Rocket | 23:30 - Nightmare Alley | 27:05 - Pump Up The Volume (1990)

Fire up that 156k modem, crack open a Crystal Pepsi and get the VCR ready, because we’re about to pick The Most 90s Movie Ever! Enjoy our arbitrary and wholly unscientific attempt to find the movie that singularly defines a decade known mostly for grunge, the internet bubble, and a white Bronco. Yup, we’ve got tons of electronic & alternative soundtrack music, rollerblading, obsolete “new” tech, reverse-irony, terrible blockbusters, and some overly obvious product placement in a show about an era people only think they remember - the 1990s! | 0:00 - Intros | 5:20 - The Great | 7:28 - Star Trek Picard | 17:40 - The Pentaverate | 24:40 - Down With Love | 27:11 - Moulin Rouge! | 32:00 - The Most 90’s Movie Ever

Eric pitched a totally different show this week that Brian and Chris prepared for… Then he called an audible at showtime for an impromptu Q&A game. Hilarity ensues. Yes, it’s Pop Quiz, Hot Shot: 70s/80s Edition! What was the first movie you ever went to? The first album you ever bought with your own money? The first television show you binged out on (because it meant something special to you, not because your parents parked you in front of the TV)? Your first celebrity crush? These are the hard questions we delve into this week and the answers may shock and astound you. Or not. Really, it’s just some nostalgia for the 70s and 80s from three guys who are going to be dead a lot sooner than you. | 0:00 - Intros | 3:30 - The Batman (2022) | 17:45 - Grand Theft Auto Online | 24:00 - Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) | 27:50 - Hadestown | 31:10 - Eric’s “What’s Your First” pop quiz (movies, TV, music)

Did you know the moon was actually an alien-made superstructure put in our orbit for… reasons? Now the angry E.T.’s that put it there want it back for… other reasons. Stuff explodes, cities are destroyed, and humanity hangs in the balance for… more reasons. Moonfall - the latest disaster jam from our favorite big-budget schlockmeister Roland Emmerich - gets its due with a full-throated and arbitrary review. And yes, even by the standards of an Emmerich movie, this thing is D-U-M-B. But is it fun? Listen and find out before the fake moon destroys the planet in a blazing ball of fire! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:50 - The Lost City | 6:55 - Men Without Hats - Again, Part 2. | 8:55 - Journey and TOTO (Live) | 20:15 - The Great (Hulu) | 26:00 - Wanderers: A Novel - (Chuck Wendig) | 28:30 - Death on the Nile (2022) | 34:35 - Moonfall (2022)

Ever been caught in the middle of a garbage film and thought, “Wow! This one actor is really good though! I wish they were in something else, so I could be watching it instead right now!” This week we dive into those performances that are our personal favorites, the ones that appear in otherwise worthless films. We also dig into some movies, video games, TV shows, and music that is new or sort of new, and all the other culturally aware stuff you expect from a podcast of our grand stature! Huzzah! | 2:00 - Everything Everywhere All At Once | 7:00 - Human Fall Flat | 9:55 - Severance | 15:10 - Moon Knight | 19:20 - Our Flag Means Death | 22:35 - Peacemaker | 28:15 - Wet Leg | 31:10 - Good Performances in Bad Movies

It’s an awesome spectacle. Truly a sight to behold. The show, beaten. The once Magnificently Huge podcast, now a study in mopishness. No longer the once-a-week podcast we’ve listened to so many times before, but a pathetic, washed up, aged ex-champion. We also want our TWO DOLLARS! This week the MagHuge crew takes on one of our all time favorites: 1985’s Better Off Dead! Plus: The Batman, Halo, and Spider-Man: No Way Home all get our dumb hot-takes and faux-brilliant anaylisis. As of this week we’re also no longer listing all the clips because the show notes are too long and are breaking the podcast feed. Womp womp. | 4:30 - The 80’s Cruise 2022 | 12:30 - Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) | 16:26 - The Batman (2022) | 23:30 - Hamlet (Olivier, 1948) | 28:00 - Christine (1983) | 30:15 - Halo | 32:20 - Netflix MCU shows on Disney+ | 34:30 - Better Off Dead (1985)