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The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

by Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane

Comedy Film Reviews

Season 1

The Cell (2000): ... What?

Ben and Rob strap into the neural interface for ‘The Cell’, Tarsem Singh’s hallucinatory 2000 psychological thriller that turned a serial killer plot into one of the most visually audacious studio films of its era. Directed by Tarsem (billed under his mononym for his feature debut), the film stars Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio, and plunges a child psychologist into the comatose mind of a killer to save his latest victim before time runs out. How did a music video director best known for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” end up helming a big-budget studio thriller, and what did that background do to the way this film actually looks? What exactly is going on with the costume design, and how much of the film’s dream logic was built in the fitting room rather than the script? Why does a movie this committed to style over sense still hold up as a genuine visual achievement more than two decades later, and is “it doesn’t need to make sense” really a defence, or is that exactly the point? And finally… what does it really mean?! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Destination Moon (1950): Your Favourite Movie's Favourite Movie

Ben, Rob and Amber blast off with ‘Destination Moon’, the 1950 science fiction landmark that helped launch an entire decade of space age cinema. Directed by Irving Pichel, produced by George Pal and developed with legendary sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, Destination Moon stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson as the crew of the first privately funded mission to the Moon. Released nearly twenty years before Apollo 11, the film treated space travel with a seriousness that helped reshape what science fiction could look like on screen. Did Destination Moon really start the 1950s sci-fi boom, and how scientifically serious was its vision of travelling to the Moon? What did the film predict correctly, what did it get spectacularly wrong, and how did its ideas eventually cross paths with the real world of NASA? How were its groundbreaking special effects achieved; why does its politics now seem astonishingly naive; and if Destination Moon had such an enormous impact on science fiction and popular culture, why has almost everyone forgotten it? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Backrooms (2026): From Unclogging A Drain To Petting A Bee

Ben and Rob noclip into ‘The Backrooms’, Kane Parsons’ 2026 A24 horror debut that transforms the viral internet creepypasta and his Kane Pixels YouTube series into a feature length nightmare. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, ‘The Backrooms’ follows a struggling furniture store owner who discovers an impossible doorway beneath his shop, and the therapist who follows him into an endless maze of liminal spaces. How did a teenager teaching himself Blender during lockdown go from YouTube animator to directing one of A24’s biggest movies? How did a single creepy photograph become one of the internet’s biggest horror myths, and how much of the Backrooms mythology did Kane Parsons actually invent? What does The NeverEnding Story have to do with any of this?! And is the real monster hiding in those yellow corridors actually regret? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Them! (1954): Sci Fi Trilogy Part 2 - The Birth Of The Big Bug Invasion

Ben and Rob get stepped on this week by 1954's Them!, the black-and-white creature feature that took Cold War nuclear dread and gave it nine feet of legs, mandibles, and a taste for sugar. Starring Edmund Gwenn (yes, Santa Claus himself) as the entomologist explaining that mankind has opened a door it can't close, alongside James Whitmore and a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness, Them! follows a colony of New Mexico ants mutated by atomic testing into man-eating monsters, working their way from the desert into the storm drains of Los Angeles before the military can stop them. We'll get into the cultural context that turned giant bugs into box office gold, how a country nervously reading about A-bomb tests in the Southwest turned that anxiety into a monster it could actually shoot at. We'll cover the special effects: full-scale mechanical ant puppets, and a shrieking sound effect that was drove Rob to the brink of BURN IT ALL DOWN. And we'll trace the lasting legacy through the years; how a movie whose budget got slashed days before shooting somehow became Warner's biggest hit of the year and spawned an entire decade of giant-bug knockoffs. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

The Odyssey (2026): The First Film In History To Succesfully Get Matt Damon Home In 100% IMAX

Ben and Rob are joined this week by a very special third mast, guest host Amber Poppit for an episode covering Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the $250 million, 100% IMAX 70mm adaptation of Homer's original road trip gone wrong epic. Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the King of Ithaca who spends a decade failing to simply go home, alongside Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as long suffering wife Penelope, The Odyssey rounds out its absurdly stacked cast with Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron as Circe, and Zendaya as Athena; the goddess whose entire arc has the internet arguing about whether she's a deity, a vision, or a guilt trip with cheekbones. It is, depending on who you ask, either Nolan's most ambitious swing yet or yet another film maker desperately trying to get Matt Damon home. Ben, Rob, and Amber dig into the "shot entirely on IMAX film" claim and what that actually means for a movie shot across real-world locations instead of a soundstage, the casting choices that had half of Film Twitter cheering and the other half frothing at the mouth, what this interpretation of Homer's The Odyssey is doing for culture and cinema as a whole, Ben proves without a doubt that we live in a time of apparent magic and the 3 embark on a journey almost as epic as The Odyssey itself. USUAL DISCLAIMER; everything said about ancient Greek mythology should be independently verified. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Attack Of The 50ft. Woman (1958): The Throwaway Cash Grab Side-Hustle B-Movie That Is Still Revelant Nearly 70 Years Later!

Ben and Rob shrink themselves down to size this week to tackle a woman who did the opposite: 1958's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the black-and-white B-movie that proved you don't need a budget, you just need a giant papier-mâché hand and a grudge. Starring Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer, a wealthy heiress who has a close encounter, gets a lot bigger, and decides it's finally time to deal with her cheating husband Harry and his mistress Honey, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is fifty-plus feet of scorned-wife rage wrapped in some of the most gloriously unconvincing special effects of the decade. Behind the scenes facts, the movie's "logic" (giant hand, tiny bar, you do the math), and the story of a director who liked the job so little he put a fake name on it. We'll cover who didn't make it out of this production alive, how a film this cheap and this weird somehow clawed its way to cult classic status, and exactly how those effects were pulled off with rear projection, oversized props, and a whole lot of nerve. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Spiderman 3 (2007): With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility AKA The Franchise Killer

Ben and Rob shoot their webs all over 2007 to dissect the $258 million fever dream that is Sam Raimi's Spider Man 3, the movie that had four villains, a jazz club, an emo dance number, and somehow still wasn't the strangest thing Sam Raimi did that decade. We trace the making of this notoriously overstuffed threequel, from studio pressure to cramming in Venom, to Topher Grace's freakish, some may say gimpy, get up, to the reshoots and the runtime battles. Starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church, Spider Man 3 follows Peter Parker as fame goes to his head, an alien goo goes to his hair, and Harry, Eddie and Flint Marko all queue up to ruin his week. Behind-the-scenes facts, the movie's "logic" (we use that word generously), and the eternal question of how a man can walk down the street snapping his fingers and still be the scariest version of himself in the entire franchise. All facts fully, undoubtedly researched... mostly. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Snakes On A Plane (2006): The Best Thing To Come Out Of WWII... AKA Snakes Together Long

Ben and Rob fly first class back to 2006 to federally investigate a $33 million B-movie that somehow became one of the most anticipated films of the internet age, before a single trailer even dropped. This episode traces how Snakes on a Plane went from a modest 1992 spec script to a title so absurdly perfect that Samuel L. Jackson signed on for the name alone. We dig into the film's tangled decade-long road to the screen, the fan campaigns and internet memes that forced New Line Cinema to re-re-name the film mid-production, and how a movie built almost entirely on hype became a genuine case study in viral marketing before "going viral" was even a phrase people used. Plot hole's galore, Sam Jackson being Sam Jackson and the best thing to come out of WWII... All truth facts that arre fully, undoubtedly proven.... Probably. Finally, we ask the bigger question: what does it really mean?! And can Rob finally get us cancelled? SNAKES TOGETHER LONG! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Spiderman 2 (2004): Why Is This The Stickiest Superhero Movie?

Ben and Rob swing into ‘Spider-Man 2’, Sam Raimi’s beloved 2004 superhero sequel that transformed a comic book blockbuster into one of the most emotionally enduring films of its genre. Starring Tobey Maguire, Alfred Molina, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons, Spider-Man 2 follows Peter Parker as he struggles to balance responsibility, romance and heroism, while facing the tragic rise of one of Marvel’s greatest villains. Why does Doctor Octopus remain one of cinema's most enduring comic book villains, and what makes Alfred Molina the perfect actor to bring him to life? How close did Tobey Maguire come to losing the role? And is Spider-Man 2 secretly one giant metaphor for sexual performance anxiety?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below!

They Live (1988): CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY, CONSUME, OBEY

Ben and Rob intercept the frequency in John Carpenter's They Live (1988), starring Roddy Piper as a man with nothing, Keith David as a man with just enough left to lose, and an entire ruling class of skull-faced aliens doing their most convincing work in business suits. What begins as the story of how a six-page pulp story from 1963, written by a man almost nobody has heard of, adapted into a comic nobody much read, ended up in the hands of a furious filmmaker who wanted to give the finger to a sitting president slowly develops into something considerably larger; a conversation about the collision of rage, resourcefulness, and sheer unlikely chemistry that produced one of the most politically precise films Hollywood has ever accidentally greenlit and whether a B-movie with a four-million-dollar budget and rubber alien masks is secretly one of the most important documents of the twentieth century. And finally… what does it really mean? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

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