Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON Everyone is blessed with one special thing.  For PTA, it seems to be film making. It's 1977, and teenage busboy Eddie Adams gets discovered by Jack Horner, who takes him under his wing and transforms him into the adult-film sensation: Dirk Diggler. Rhys and Kane bite off PTA's second feature, which already packs in a giant ensemble, and shoves it...

PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHON The hardcore film analysis helmets are coming on. Rhys and Kane are taking a break from horror and kids movies to go through the filmography of one of Rhys' favourite directors: PTA. This episode sees a bit of a rundown of who Paul Thomas Anderson is as a film maker, why we should care about him, and explores his first directorial feature. A seed has...

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON After a long road of many little singers covered in fur, a few strange A-to-B kids movies, and only one Dave and Uncle Ian, the entire Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise has been marathoned. Kane and Rhys are more cut-out for horror movies and iconic trilogies, but they've done the hard work and walked the line... now its time that they rank these Chi...

ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Alien is BACK... and Marathon Me could not be more excited. Horror franchise installments from this year have been pretty damn good, and with Fede Alvarez on-board, things are looking promising. In this entry, we join the timeline between Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986) and see Space colonisers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scave...

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON A fourth entry to a beloved children's franchise that changes up the look and feel of the originals and is set on a road trip?... oh no. We've been here before and it wasn't pretty. Alvin, Simon and Theodore believe that Dave is going to propose to his girlfriend Samantha in Miami. In a bid to retain their place in Dave's life, the thr...

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON The next logical step in this series based around Chipmunk children who can sing: they all have to survive the trials and tribulations of a desert island. Dave, Alvin, Simon, Theodore, (Brittany, Jeanette, Eleanor and Ian) ALL find themselves on a cruise together. All is good, the world is content. Until one crazy thing leads to another, and the crew of m...

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON History has been made: the first ever Squeakquel. They said they were mad... but Hollywood made it happen. Following Alvin and the Chipmunks' rise to fame in the first film, only to discover that family and love is much more valuable than being in the spotlight, they move onto the next logical narrative step: going to high school. And also there&apos...

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHON It's all been building up to this one... the journey of Dave Savil and his borderline psychotic break, where Chipmunks take over the man's life. There's Alvin, Simon and Theodore, and the whole world is there oyster. They're not just cool, handsome, smart and ambitious... they can also SING. And this is all that Jason Lee... I mean Dav...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON The (fury) road has come to an end. With five films down, it has been an emotional journey for the two men. The marathon has taken them across a sandy landscape, touching on four separate decades, and an entire evolution of Mad Max was witnessed. From humble beginnings in regional Victoria - to a world stage, starring A-list talent. Rhys and Kane individually rank the fr...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON I guess every franchise has to do one... prequel. BUT, a prequel for one of the most interesting and open-ended characters in the franchise? Maybe sold on this one. Almost a decade after Fury Road, Furiosa gets her well-deserved prequel film that brings the Mad Max franchise to a point where we have no Max anymore. It is the world that shines the brightest light. Rhys an...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON Mad Max in the 21st century - what could this possibly look like? An insane world opened up for the wasteland to thrive and expand. Max enters a world entirely over-run by sand and close to $160 million of set-design. It is fresh. It is next level. It is the next stage of the wasteland. Rhys and Kane discuss this giant leap for the franchise - entering a whole new era of...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON The world of Mad Max has been corrupt by a sickness. Not radiation poisoning, but rather, the cocaine-fueled 80s - at it's gotten into every pore of this sequel. A war has passed, and Max now has luscious locks of hair to accompany his fists of fury. Constantly evolving, the wasteland has met its next stage, full of mutants and live-action cartoon characters. At lea...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON It's madder. It's Maxer. It's 2er. Max is now a lonely, hardened, high-definition man - taking on the wasteland that was thrust upon him. The world has deeply entered an apocalypse, and turned to a primitive hellscape. We rejoin Max with everything lost, forced to realise that it isn't about the destination, but the friends you make along the way (no...

MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHON It's about time the Australian boys take on a franchise from their great nation. Time for a visit to the motherland. Warm your engines, because they're taking on Mad Max. The first Mad Max is not what most imagine when they picture pop culture's favourite rev-head, but it is the closest glimpse we've gotten so far of how the world turned into the wast...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON The Hostel world-tour is complete and it's time to put it all into perspective. How do these films fare as a franchise? A quicky, but a goody; this trilogy of torture is taken from underground theatrical, to straight-to-DVD entertainment, taking a simple concept and creating a world and mythology in the long-run.  Eli Roth may not have been there for all of the films...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group of degenerate men on a bachelor's-weekend in Vegas, where they indulge in all of the vices, only to find themselves in vices by the end. Rhys and Kane explore if Eli Roth leaving th...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON This one's for the girls. A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-focused objectification, uber-rich greed, and incel culture. 'Hostel: Part II' sees us go back to Slovakia, with a trio of adventurous young women. Obviously, they have a...

HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHON Moving on from the spawn of Satan entering the world of the living, to the living entering a hell-on-earth: a new marathon is under way, and it's Hostel. Eli Roth's second major film, spawning from the wallet of Quentin Tarantino, this franchise sees the 'Elite Hunting Club' traffic human beings in Slovakia for the uber-rich to do with them as they wil...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON 6 films, touching 6 decades, with 6 takes on the anti-Christ (to varying degrees of quality) Some friends are only with you for a short time, and some are with you for life. Damien is one of the lifelong homies. After investigating and diving into the sometimes scary, sometimes wild world of The Omen, the boys have found another home amidst the religious imagery and anx...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Finally we're at the final Omen film, and for some reason, it likes to go by as 'The First Omen'. It's okay; aging is scary, we get it. The long anticipated PREQUEL. Will it have the prequel curse? Will it have the actual curse that the original film had? If you've read any reviews yet, you'll see that pleasantly, no! This actually sort of...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON The only film to my knowledge to be solely made because of the novelty of it's release date - having come out 06/06/06; what a hell of a time. The Omen sees on one fateful night, the rebirth of the antichrist... coming in the form of a small child named Damien. [Liev Shreiber]'s perfect, wholesome and almost soap-opera-like life gets completely torn apart, whe...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON What else could the antichrist have to say on the big screen? So it's about time he shifts to the small screen... with this made-for-TV 'movie'. Following the death of Damien Thorn, the seed of Damien lives on in a little girl names Delia. Taking a very similar approach to the first Omen film, we find the antichrist in the form of a small child; except th...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Or more commonly regarded as: 'The Omen 3: The one with Sam Neill'. The Omen franchise enters the 80s, and Damien enters his 30s. It's the antichrist's time to shine, but a little fella that goes by the name 'anti-antichrist' (friends call Him 'Christ') has been born again and threatens all that Damien strives for. Rhys and Kane r...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Marathon Me's 100th EPISODE is finally here! And really, what is truer MM-spirit than talking about a random, weird, sorta-shit horror movie sequel. Damien is now a teenager, coming to know himself as both a person, and something much darker and much more important. Narrative potential is massive right; a lot of room to comment on the universal teenage experience a...

THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON Back to horror movies, with a franchise that has the same amount of frights, curses, and forgotten obscure sequels. The Omen sees on one fateful night, the rebirth of the antichrist... coming in the form of a small child named Damien. Gregory Peck's perfect, wholesome and almost soap-opera-like life gets completely torn apart, when he realises his son may be more t...