Brian Schmid

Box Office GROSS: The Top 50 Hit Films of 2006

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Revisiting the top 50 highest-grossing films of 2006 with the hindsight of twenty years, looking into the mostly-forgotten films that made the most money, why they were hits in their moment, and why they did or (more likely) did not endure in the popular culture.

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Brian Schmid

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S1 E3: "Are We There Yet?" (#24) 17.03.2025 1:23:45

We're up to episode 3 and we've already arrived at what very well might be the absolute worst film we cover on our 2005 season: the 24th highest grossing film of the year, the nightmarishly bad kids road trip comedy "Are We There Yet?", which has an extremely bizarre relationship to its setting, its characters, their romances, their jobs, and their relation to each other and the...

S1 E2: "Coach Carter" (#36) 10.03.2025 1:17:08

Our second entry in the 2005 top 50 is "Coach Carter", an inspirational-teacher basketball drama starring the great Samuel L. Jackson. We delve into the unusual journey director Thomas Carter took from starring in The White Shadow and the very quirky hybrid thing this movie turns out to be. Topics include Slamball, Marianne Williamson and MIND OF MENCIA. CHECK IT OUT. Brian's Twitter: ⁠https://x.c...

S1 E1: "White Noise" (#46) - with David Roth! 03.03.2025 1:21:48

For our VERY FIRST EPISODE, we invite the great David Roth (Defector Media, The Distraction) to join us to help usher in our series covering the shameful films we all gave our money to go see 20 years ago, and we start with a real doozy, the first-week-of-January Michael Keaton supernatural...thriller(?) "White Noise"! We delve into VERY REAL and VERY SERIOUS experiences of ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOM...