Bigger Movie Pod

During a dinner at his home, M-G-M studio chief Louis B. Mayer and his  guests talked about creating an organized group to benefit the film  industry. A week later, 36 invitees from all the creative branches of  the film industry dined at Los Angeles's Ambassador Hotel to hear a proposal to found the International Academy of Motion Picture Arts and  Sciences. Articles of incorp...

Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing.

We were supposed to talk about a traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening. But we spent more tome talking about The Suicide Squad, The government sends the most dangerous supervillains in the world  -- Bloo...

A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.

Lance Clayton is a man who has learned to settle. His son, Kyle's an  insufferable jerk. Lance is dating Claire, the school's art teacher, but  she doesn't want to get serious or even acknowledge publicly they're  dating. In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy  -- and greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the  possibility of...

Sexually adventurous Cristina and her friend Vicky, who is bright but  cautious, holiday in Barcelona where they meet the celebrated and wholly  seductive painter, Juan Antonio. Vicky is not about to dive into a  sexual adventure being committed to her forthcoming marriage. But  Cristina is immediately captivated by Juan Antonio's free spirit and his  romantic allure is en...

The son of a virtual world designer goes looking for his father and ends up inside the digital world that his father designed. He meets his father's corrupted creation and a unique ally who was born inside the digital world.

The debut film from writer-director Rose Glass, Saint Maud is a chilling and boldly original vision of faith, madness, and salvation in a fallen world. Maud, a newly devout hospice nurse, becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient's soul -- but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling.

While exploring uncharted wilderness in 1823, legendary frontiersman Hugh Glass sustains injuries from a brutal bear attack. When his hunting team leaves him for dead, Glass must utilize his survival skills to find a way back home while avoiding natives on their own hunt. Grief-stricken and fueled by vengeance, Glass treks through the wintry terrain to track down John Fitzgerald, the former confid...

Queens-born Herbie Stempel (John Turturro) becomes an unlikely hero after winning on America's beloved game show, "Twenty One." When the network decides to bring in a more telegenic contestant, the WASP-ish Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), Stempel takes aim at the show, announcing that the game is rigged. Congressional investigator Dick Goodwin (Rob Morrow) is brought in to examine the claim tha...

We're at P for Prisoners, the 2013 film directed by Denis Villeneuve, and starring Jake Gynehall, Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis. How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had ea...

Loosely based on Homer's "Odyssey," the movie deals with the picaresque adventures of Ulysses Everett McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everett's home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters--among them sirens, a cyclops, bank robber, a campaigning governor and his opp...

N is for Nomadland, the 2020 film directed by Chloe Zhao. This is the story of a woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Today you join us at M for mid90s, the 2018 film directed by Jonah Hill. The story follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop.

This week we share our thoughts on the 2016 film La La Land starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Breathing new life into a bygone genre, La La Land scored 91% on Rotten Tomatoes with it’s thrillingly assured direction, powerful performances, and an irresistible excess of heart.

In this episode we review the 1982 film, The King of Comedy starring Robert De Niro. Rupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing  more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and  kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself.

In this episode Rob and Darren review the 2012 film, Jack Reacher. A homicide investigator digs deeper into a case involving a trained military sniper who shot five random victims.

On the show this week, Rob and Darren discuss High Fidelity. Rob Gordon, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

This week we're watching Gold. Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a  similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the  uncharted jungle of Indonesia. Turn's out Darren has never seen SpaceJam, and Rob's cycling challenge is heating up. Special thanks to Matt, Junior and Imperial. 

On this week's episode: We take a look at the story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008 We welcome Welsh rockers, Junior, as their track 'Maria' officially becomes our new theme song And, we take a look at Rob's cycle challenge, as heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire. Rob is cycling 300 miles in A...

In this episode we take a look at Ex_Machina! Caleb Smith, a young programmer, gets a chance to become a part of a strange scientific experiment where he is expected to assess artificial intelligence by interacting with a female robot.

In this episode we take a look at The Dark Tower. A boy haunted by visions of a dark tower from a parallel reality teams up with the tower's disillusioned guardian to stop an evil warlock known  as the Man in Black who plans to use the boy to destroy the tower and  open the gates of Hell.

In this episode we take a look at Captain Fantastic - Ben and Leslie Cash live largely off the grid with their offspring  -- Bodevan, Kielyr, Vespyr, Rellian, Zaja and Nai -- in a cabin in the  mountains of Washington state. The parents have passed their socialist  and survivalist ideals to their children. Ben considers most of Western  society to be fascist, especially corpora...

In this episode we take a look at this cult comedy. Puppeteer Craig Schwartz and animal lover and pet store clerk Lotte  Schwartz are just going through the motions of their marriage. Despite  not being able to earn a living solely through puppeteering, Craig loves his profession as it allows him to inhabit the skin of others. He  begins to take the ability to inhabit the skin of ot...

In this episode we take a look at Animal Kingdom. A 2010 Australian crime drama film written and directed by David Michôd and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, James Frecheville, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, and Sullivan Stapleton. After his mother overdoses, 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody (James Frecheville) asks his estranged grandmother, Janine "Smurf" Cody (Jacki Weaver), for help,...