Blockbuster Buffs

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 7: Go Big or Go Home – Sports Season Finale Hosts: Matt and Joe Movies: All six films from Season 5 The season finale is here, and it’s time for Matt and Joe to put their stats where their mouths are. Each host gets 5 points to add or subtract from any category on any movie across the season — and once those points are sp...

CLEAR EYES, STRONG SIDE – Remember the Titans (2000) BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 6: CLEAR EYES, STRONG SIDE – Remember the Titans (2000) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Remember the Titans (2000) The Buffs take the field one last time this season for Remember the Titans — the 2000 sports drama that made Denzel Washington your dad’s favorite coach and tau...

BOLD STRATEGY, COTTON – Dodgeball (2004) BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 5: BOLD STRATEGY, COTTON – Dodgeball (2004) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) Grab your wrenches and tighten those headbands — the Buffs are heading into the danger zone of dodgeball, where one wrong move could leave you concussed, humiliated, or co...

HALLOWEEN RE-RELEASE! NOSFERATU! BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 3: The Boys Go Monster Mashing Episode 41 – NIGHTLY NIBBLES Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Nosferatu 2024 This week, Matt and Joe sink their teeth into the eerie and irreverent world of Nosferatu 2024. In this tongue-in-cheek update of the vampire classic, our hosts serve up a hearty helping of biting humor, modern twists, and a generous dose o...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 4: ROMANTIC ABOUT BASEBALL – Moneyball (2011) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Moneyball (2011) Matt and Joe crunch the numbers and question the system in this week’s episode on Moneyball —the film that made spreadsheets emotional and turned on-base percentage into a cinematic tearjerker. We talk Brad Pitt’s perfectly tousled G...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 3: FULL TILT FRIENDSHIP – Rounders (1998) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Rounders (1998) It’s all-in or nothing this week as the Buffs gamble on friendship with Rounders — the slick, smoky, cult poker drama that taught a generation how to pronounce “Malkovich.” Matt and Joe bluff their way through this bro-fueled tale of loya...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 2: VON ERICHS VS. EVERYBODY – The Iron Claw (2023) Hosts: Matt and Joe Guest: Jacob Hall Movie: The Iron Claw (2023) This week, we step into the squared circle with The Iron Claw , the heartbreaking A24 biopic about the rise and fall of the legendary Von Erich wrestling family. We’re joined in person by special guest Jaco...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 5: MVPs – Clear Eyes, Buff Guys, Can’t Lose Episode 1: READ IT, ROLL IT, HOLE IT – The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) Season 5 kicks off with khakis, caddies, and some surprisingly cinematic golf. Shia LaBeouf trades transformers for tee times in this underdog sports story that had us whispering “nice shot”...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Finale: HAPPILY EVER AFTER – Season Wrap-Up & Rom Com Rankings Hosts: Matt and Joe It’s the final countdown. After a summer of love, confusion, and emotionally questionable decisions, the Buffs are closing the book on Season 4 with one last, chaotic romantic gesture: editing the leaderboard. Armed with 10 points each , Matt...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 13: LOVE CONQUERS NIHILISM – Palm Springs (2020) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Palm Springs (2020) For the final rom-com of the season, the Buffs dive headfirst into an existential sandstorm of love, loops, and lava pits with Palm Springs — the 2020 time-loop romance starring Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti. Nyles and Sar...

Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 14: GINGER TIME LORD – About Time (2013) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: About Time (2013) This week, Matt and Joe step into a time-traveling closet with About Time — the 2013 British rom-com where love, loss, and ginger genetics combine to make you cry at least twice. With Domhnall Gleeson playing the most emotionally responsible Time Lord i...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 13: MANIC PIXIE TWEE GIRL – 500 Days of Summer (2009) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: 500 Days of Summer (2009) This week, Matt and Joe stare directly into the sun (Zooey Deschanel) and come away with an existential crisis and a Smiths song stuck in their heads. It’s 500 Days of Summer , the anti-rom-com that fooled a whole...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 12: A ROM-COM FOR SAD GUYS – Silver Linings Playbook (2012) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Silver Linings Playbook (2012) This week, Matt and Joe lace up their sneakers, grab their trash bags, and sprint full-speed into Silver Linings Playbook — the 2012 Oscar-nominated romantic dramedy where mental health, ballroom dancing...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 11: INNER BEAUTY PAGEANT – I Feel Pretty (2018) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: I Feel Pretty (2018) This week, the Buffs take on I Feel Pretty — the Amy Schumer-led rom-com that asks: what if confidence really was all in your head? A bump on the noggin gives our lead a new lease on life… but does the movie’s message land wi...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 10: BETTING ON RIZZ – How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) Hosts: Matt, Joe, and special guest Lizzie Movie: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) We’re back in person, baby! After two years of remote recordings, the Buffs are finally together in the same room — and we brought a guest: Joe’s fiancée Lizzie. What better way...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 9: WHEN GIGI MET ALEX – He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) Hosts: Matt and Joe Guest Host: Kyle Anderson Movie: He’s Just Not That Into You (2009) This week, Matt and Joe are joined by Kyle Anderson to dissect one of the most early-2000s ensemble rom-coms ever made. He’s Just Not That Into You gives us a web of love sto...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 8: CHRISTMAS IN JULY SWAP – The Holiday (2006) Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: The Holiday (2006) This week, Matt and Joe pack up their emotional baggage and hop across the Atlantic for The Holiday — the 2006 festive rom-com where Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet quite literally switch lives (and houses). From adorable cottages...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 7: TOO OLD FOR THIS BIT Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) Matt and Joe take a very uncomfortable trip back to 2005 with The 40-Year-Old Virgin , the Judd Apatow comedy that helped launch a wave of raunchy rom-coms. But how well does it hold up nearly two decades later? Spoiler: not great. This epi...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 4 – TAMING OF THE TEENAGERS – 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) Hosts: Matt and Joe Guest: Deidre Movie: 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) This week, Matt and Joe are joined by guest host Deidre to break down the high school Shakespeare adaptation that made us all swoon: 10 Things I Hate About You . With a killer ’90s s...

BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY Season 4: The Buffs Learn to Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 5 Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: 13 Going on 30 (2004) This week, the Buffs get flirty, thirty, and a little bit dirty with 13 Going on 30 —the body-swap rom-com that dares to ask: what if your dream life isn’t what you thought it’d be? Matt and Joe dig into the nostalgia-fueled fantasy, the killer soundtrack, and whether...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS S3 E2 - Blockbuster Buffs Origins (RE-RELEASE) Movie: Jaws (1975) HOSTS : Matt and Joe 🦈 We’re gonna need a bigger anniversary. To celebrate 50 years of Spielberg’s shark-sized masterpiece, we’re re-releasing our Jaws episode! Matt and Joe revisit the movie that birthed the summer blockbuster—and a generation of beachgoers too scared to swim. We dig into everything from that spi...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 3 – LOVE ACTUALLY TAKES AWHILE Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: When Harry Met Sally (1989) Can men and women ever just be friends? Or are they just killing time until one of them catches feelings in a New York diner? This week, Matt and Joe unpack When Harry Met Sally (1989)—the Nora Ephron–penned rom-com that defined an ent...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 2: Enemies with Benefits Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Anyone But You (2023) This week, Matt and Joe take a trip to Australia with Anyone But You , the enemies-to-lovers rom-com that asks, “What if Shakespeare had abs?” With a beach wedding, forced proximity, and enough shirtless Glenn Powell to fuel a thousand TikToks, th...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love: A Rom Com Summer Episode 2: Barrymore More More Hosts: Matt and Joe Guest: Jarrett Movie: 50 First Dates (2004) This week, the Buffs are joined by special guest Jarrett for a deep dive into 50 First Dates , the tropical rom-com that asks: can love survive amnesia, Rob Schneider in dreadlocks, and Sean Astin’s mesh tank tops? We talk Drew Barrymo...

BLOCKBUSTER BUFFS Season 4: The Buffs Learn To Love – A Rom Com Summer Episode 1 – CRAZY STUPID TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES Hosts: Matt and Joe Movie: Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) We’re kicking off our rom-com summer with Crazy, Stupid, Love —a film with heart, humor, and a shockingly perfect use of Ryan Gosling’s abs as a plot device. Unfortunately, our SD card didn’t love us back. This episode was reco...