Broken Reel

RECOMMEND YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR VISUALS - This week the boys are back in town to flex their brain muscle thingies. We sit down to play a plethora of daily cinema games, six degrees of Kevin Bacon, Immaculate Grid and more. The best part is when you listen to this and shout out the obvious answers in your car as we ruminate on things like Angelina Jolie movies.

Got a little extra tidbit for you this week. Ethan begins by giving his review on Mark Fischbach's (Markiplier) new indie horror film, Iron Lung. The discussion evolves into speculation and optimism for the new era of filmmakers coming off the success of their YouTube careers.

Nobody puts Baby in the corner this week as Jason, Graham, and Slawter return to talk about some of their most formative Rom-Com experiences. We breakdown what makes a good Rom-Com and what's so appealing about them, just as you wished. Graham doesn't want to waste anymore of his life without his movie selections in it. Slawter came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest...

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the release of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (the most rewatched movie of all time {It's true. [I checked.]}) we discuss some of our most rewatched movies. Jason gambles on a new bit, but it's not quite the right tempo... and we're really interested in horses in movies. It is of course, 2026, the Chinese Zodiac Year of the Hor...

Highlight - The Rise and Fall of the Favorite Movie Alarm or whatever...

Howdy! It's 2026 and in this episode a few of us discuss some of our favorite films of 2025, as well as some of our favorite discoveries of 2025. We also recap the results of the Holiday Movie Draft. Hummin', comin' at cha, and you know we're out to gat ya!

Highlight - And the Grammy goes to... Ludwig Göransson!

In this week's episode of Broken Reel the gang gets their eggnog on! (Some more than others...sorry) Tis the season to gather together with friends and family to draft some joyful holiday movies. Join us this week as we choose from the following categories: Undisputed Classic, Contemporary Christmas, Anti-Christmas, Christmas Special Wildcard and Christmas Animation. Merry Christmas ya filthy anim...

Highlight - Home Alone is a soft pick?!

In this episode of Broken Reel we put a capstone on Jason's apartment chronicles. The titular Justin Slawter shares his official 5 star ranking system for movies. He breaks down the differentiating factors between movies like M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and David Robert Mitchell's It Follows. We round out the discussion by briefly talking about what makes a 5 star movie for all of us. Happy...

Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny is Boy Slop!?

In this episode of Broken Reel, the casts expands even further as we open our arms to welcome our friends to this Fall movie discussion. We get an update on Jason's Apartment Complex Chronicles (soon to be a New York Times Best Seller) and we go over the official results of the Horror Movie Draft. Afterwards we engage in conversation around some of our favorite movies that give us the warm and fuz...

Highlight - Timur Bekmambetov's Presents: The Peelening

In this episode we carve out some pumpkins and talk our favorite spooky movies in celebration of the spooky season. This time we are doing it in draft form! Join us as we strategically build our top Horror movie lists in 5 categories: Slasher, Psychological Horror, Supernatural Horror, Creature Feature and Wildcard bitches! YEEEEEEHAWWWWWWW!

In the official inaugural episode of Broken Reel we sit down to discuss what we've been watching lately, some of our unfortunate experiences at the movies and our earliest memories of going to theaters.

In the final installment of our proof of concept we wrap up some thoughts of our least favorite movies. But what goes around comes around. We dive in to some half star reviews on Letterboxd written about our favorite movies.

In the second installment of the short lived prequel series we discuss some of the worst films we've ever seen. Historic schlock and recently released flops.

In our first ever recording everybody was tasked with bringing their top 10ish movies to the conversation. We discuss the similarities, differences and never forget the tragedy that took place at Helm's Deep.

The Lord of the Rings: The Twin Towers