SPEAKING HUMAN MOVIES & MARKETING PODCAST SERIES
Pixels to Premiere: The Minecraft Movie Machine
We dig into the marketing efforts that helped turn pixelated blocks into a blockbuster success.
Sequels No One Asked For
Titanic 2? Bob Marley: One Love: Part Deux? We pitch ideas for film continuations no one saw coming.
Transcendent Soundtracks
We share a compilation of iconic soundtracks that take their movies to another level.
Stu-Stu-Studio
We rank the major movie studios based on who has the most mojo right now.
Holiday Movie Trivia
From “It’s a Wonderful Life” to “Red One”, join us in testing our knowledge of classic Christmas flicks.
Tastiest [Movie] Turkeys
We celebrate the month of November by serving up some delicious box-office bombs.
2024 Summer Movie Awards
It ends with us: We close out the blockbuster season by extending our longlegs to honor the movies that made us ride or die.
Beetlejuice & Best Sequel Titles
Is Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice one of the best names for a sequel in history? We have the answer.
Working for a Living
In honor of Labor Day, we look at how movies show and sell us the agony and glory of work.
Eddie Murphy Ultimate Thunderdome
The legendary comedian and star of the new “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” faces off against various versions of himself throughout his career.
Bad Boys and Best Buddy Movies
We talk about the marketing for Bad Boys 4 and share our picks for best on-screen pairings.
2024 Summer Movie Draft
Two despicable deadpool bad boys team up, get twistered and turned inside out, and let their furiosa fly me to the moon as they compete to predict the top movies at the summer box office.
Solarbabies and the Post-Apocalyptic Future
You’re just trying to play roller hockey in a burnt out wasteland with your orphan friends when you find a weird ball of light… that’s this episode.
Marky Mark at the Movies
From Renaissance Man to The Happening to Arthur the King, we break down our favorite Mark Walhberg movie moments.
The Unbearable Weight of Cage Co-Stars
We try not to sink under “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” as we balance our list of greatest Nicolas Cage co-pilots.
In the Belly of the Dune (Part 2) Hype Worm
In a wasteland bereft of big movie releases, the world awaits the arrival of a blockbuster bearing a bizarre promotional popcorn bucket.
Unforgettable Opening Credits
We spotlight movie title sequences that continue to kick around our hippocampuses long after the end credits have rolled.
Best Movie Posters of 2023
Over 400 new movies hit theaters or streaming this year. Only four made our list of favorite movie poster art.
2023 Summer Movie Awards
We look back on the summer movie season to see which movies turned out to be Barbies and which ones were just Kens.
Pick 3 Part 3s
Anyone can make a sequel, but a great threequel is a rare feat. We pay tribute to some part threes that took trilogies to triumphant new heights.
Seagal Van Damme Thunderdome
Two iconic 90s B-movie action stars enter the thunderdome. Only one will emerge.
Non-Franchise Ford Fiesta
We all know Harrison Ford for playing iconic characters like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, but how does his career hold up without those franchise staples?
2023 Summer Movie Draft
It’s a dead reckoning when two rivals navigate mermaids, spider-verses, and transformers to predict the biggest box office hits of the summer movie season and meet their dial of destiny.
Artificial Movie Pitch
Can today’s advanced AI generate blockbuster movie concepts? We test it to find out.
Bowling for Blockbusters
We watch every trailer that aired during Super Bowl 57 and rank them based on how much hype they produced.
Deceptive Movie Trailers
Movie trailers don’t always paint an accurate picture. But when do they cross the line?
Strongest Stallone Cover Art
When it comes to home video cover art, you be hard-pressed to find more muscle than the films of Sly Stallone.
2022 Summer Movie Awards
We honor the winners and losers of a rollercoaster movie season that delivered us everything from mavericks and minions to carnivores and crawdads.
August Movie Madness
Play along as we answer trivia questions about movies released in the month of August over the past 40 years.
2022 Summer Movie Draft
Two maverick podcasters must confront the ghosts of their past to complete a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice: predicting the box-office winners of a thin 2022 summer movie lineup.
Batman Beyond Thunderdome
Nine Batman movies enter Thunderdome. Only one survives.
Video Game Movie Mashups
From Super Mario Bros. to Uncharted, dozens of video games have tried jumping to the big screen. But would they be better in multiplayer mode?
Mockbusters
We’ve all been there: you go to rent “Transformers” and you accidentally rent “Transmorphers”. Welcome to the wonderful world of Mockbusters.
Big Trouble in Little China
35 years ago a movie hit theaters that wildly blended genres and delivered an iconic Kurt Russel performance. It crashed and burned at the box office… but it’s legend has lived on.
2021 Summer Movie Awards
We look back on lessons learned from a weird season at the box office and award the champion of our annual summer movie draft.
Best Bond Movie Titles
In honor of “No Time to Die” finally hitting theaters, we share our picks for top named films in the James Bond franchise.
Summer Movie Rewind 2000: Gone in 60 Seconds
We look back at a movie over twenty years old and rewatch Nic Cage and Angelina Jolie heist a ton of cars in one high-octane night. The verdict? It might just be our favorite guilty pleasure
Ranking the Rock
He’s been making movies for 20 years. But how strong is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s film career?
2021 Summer Movie Draft
After a year without summer movies we’re back drafting our (suicide?) squads of summer movies we think will make the most bank at the U.S. box office.
The Suicide Squad Red Band Trailer
They’re dying to save the franchise. Can the marketing for The Suicide Squad (2021) make us forget the horrors of watching Suicide Squad (2016)?
Fresh or Rotten
Many people rely on Rotten Tomatoes for their movie-watching decisions. But what does a Tomatometer score really mean? We conduct a test.
Nicolas Cage Match
He’s made more than a dozen movies in the past three years—most of them completely bonkers. But what if Nic Cage’s recent films had to fight each other to the death?
Private Watch Party
We talk about our personal experiences renting out movie theaters for private watch parties.
Toughest Box Office Turkeys
No, we’re not talking about the biggest birds to ever grace the big screen. We’re talking about movies that crashed and burned the hardest at the box office.
Scariest Movie Trailers
Sometimes you don’t even have to see the movie to scream. In honor of the Halloween season, we share our picks for the four most frightening movie trailers of all time.
Bill & Ted Face the Music
We travel through time with Bill & Ted’s latest adventure—sharing our excellent expectations before the movie, some radical reactions while watching, and our post-viewing takeaways on whether this trip was worth the 30-year wait.
Summer Movie Rewind 1990: Days of Thunder
Since the pandemic has put the brakes on the current summer movie season, we decided to look back on some of the high and lows of summer movies past.
Summer 2020 & 2021 Movie Predictions
With the short- and long-term future of summer movies currently hanging in the balance, we forecast whether the blockbuster season can return to its former glory.
The Future of Movies and the Theater Experience (Voicemail Episode #1)
With the coronavirus throwing the film industry for a loop in 2020 and possibly well beyond, we talk about what the future of movies might look like.
The Rise and Downfall of Skywalker (Some Breakneck Pace Questions)
We were somehow able to make a reference to Point Break in our Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker review. That’s how we roll…
Carriers, Outbreaks & Contagions… Oh, my!
With society disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak, what else can we do except talk about movies where viruses break out and disrupt society?
Winning Sports Movie Taglines
From The Hustler to Hoosiers to Happy Gilmore, we make our picks for the all-time greatest sports movie ad slogans.
2010 Best Picture Revised
Will The Hurt Locker get blown away when we rewire the 2010 best picture race a decade later?
Movies Set in the Future
As we move into a new decade, we explore how movies from previous decades imagined the future.
Top 5 Merriest Christmas Movie Trailers
Any movie can be about Christmas, but what movies have done the best job injecting the holiday spirit into their trailers?
Is Everything Better with (Kevin) Bacon?
From Friday The 13th to Flatliners to The Darkness, we reflect on the meaty movie career of actor Kevin Bacon.
2019 Summer Movie Awards
As the blockbuster season comes to a close, we crown the champion of our annual box office challenge and discuss the summer’s hits and misses.
Top Gun: Maverick Trailer
After 30-plus years of service, Maverick flies back into our lives with a new Top Gun trailer. Does the trailer match our sky-high expectations?
Extraterrestrial Movie Marketing
In honor of the 40th anniversary of Alien and the return of Men in Black, we dissect some of the best & worst space creature movie marketing.
2019 Summer Movie Challenge
From Godzilla to Spider-Man to The Lion King, we draft our summer blockbuster teams to see who can rake in the most green.
The John Wick 3 Trailer
Does this first glimpse of the new Wick relight our interest in returning to the world of neon, assassins, and non-stop action?
Best Marvel Movie Posters
As the 21st Marvel movie hits theaters, we share our picks for the five most powerful marvel movie posters.
Revising the 1999 Oscars
Sorry, Shakespeare in Love. With 20 years of hindsight, we can now more confidently say what movies should have really won Oscars in 1999.
Flashback to Point Break (1991)
We revisit the marketing behind the greatest movie ever made about surfing bank robbers and talk about why this flick has held up as a classic.
Aquaman vs. Bumblebee
Two movies featuring otherworldly title characters are released on the same day, seemingly aimed at the same audience. Which one had the better marketing?
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