The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

Ben & Rob suit up to take on ‘The Avengers’, not only Marvel’s final film of Phase One but our last in this year's coverage of the franchise! Representing the final move in Marvel’s master-plan to monopolise the movies; the final piece of a jigsaw started when they bet the entire Avengers IP in exchange for a £500m loan from Merril Lynch. Bringing together all of their superheroes to date, the...

Ben & Rob drop the soap of “Brawl In Cell Block 99” as they cover every S Craig Zahler movie ever made! Released in 2017, you’d be forgiven for having never heard of this story of vengeance, courage and ultraviolence. Despite masterful directing, brilliant writing and Vince Vaughn turning in the best performance of his entire career, this film never found the audience it so clearly deserves......

Ben & Rob inject 2011’s ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evan, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones and Sebastian Stan. The final Phase One film before Marvel unveiled their long-hyped debut Avengers movie, ‘The First Avenger’ sees human wetwipe Steve Rogers getting bigger and stronger but no less moist in his battle against the Nazi sta...

Ben & Rob saddle up and gallop for Exploitationville with 2015’s ‘Bone Tomahawk’, directed by S. Craig Zahler and starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins and Lili Simmons. When bloodthirsty cannibals kidnap a cowboy’s wife, it’s up to the Sheriff to get the boys together and stage a rescue mission. In their way stands hundreds of miles of hostile wilderness, personal injury, soc...

Ben & Rob take a swing at 2011’s ‘Thor’; Marvel’s Kenneth Branagh directed fourth instalment in the cinematic universe that redefined the box-office. Introducing the third and arguably strongest Avenger, ‘Thor’ finds Asgard’s buffest boy banished for boisterous behaviour whilst his smarter, more attractive brother ends up man of the house. With Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman...

Ben & Rob debate the many merits of ‘If You Were The Last’, the debut feature film of director Kristian Mercado, who joins us to talk about everything from Anthony Mackie’s shed-beard to the challenge of making movies in the era of the franchise. ‘If You Were The Last’ stars Anthony Mackie and Zoe Chao as two stranded astronauts facing no hope of ever returning home. In their third year of iso...

Ben & Rob get the War Machine turning as they review Marvel’s 2010 blockbuster sequel ‘Iron Man 2’, starring Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Samuel L. Jackson. Famous for being the film that made Jon Favreau leave the MCU and never come back, ‘Iron Man 2’ sees a dying Tony Stark try and reconcile his chequered past with the re...

Ben & Rob smash their way through episode two of their series covering every MCU Phase One movie ever, and do battle with 2008’s ‘The Incredible Hulk’. Starring Ed Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt and Tim Roth Marvel has this movie in the wings should their first cinematic experiment, ‘Iron Man’, not become the international blockbuster it was always destined to be. Despite a cast that cost mor...

Ben & Rob complete their lap of every Neil Blomkamp movie ever with his 2023 film 'Gran Turismo', starring Archie Madekwe, David Harbour, Orlando Bloom and Djimon Hounsou. When veteran Playstation gamer Jann Mardenborough wins the chance of a lifetime to compete in professional races, will his lack of real-world experience be an obstacle to him winning the race, the girl, and the love of two f...

NOW AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE AT THE LINK BELOW! Ben & Rob suit up for episode one of their MCU journey, with Jon Favreau’s 2008 instant-classic “ Iron Man” . Starring Robert Downey Jr , Gwyneth Paltrow , Jeff Bridges and Terrence Howard , this is the film that started the largest change in contemporary cinema culture since the invention of computer graphics. Iron Man, The Avengers , Thor, Captain...

Ben & Rob exorcise 2021’s ‘ Demonic ’ as the train of their Neil Blomkamp series rolls through its most controversial stop yet. Released in the midst of a global pandemic that had forced the total shutdown of society, and made with a budget of less than two million dollars, ‘ Demonic ’ explores what happens when you enter a virtual reality hosted inside the comatose mind of your serial killing...

Ben & Rob decipher ' National Treasure: Book of Secrets ,' the 2007 sequel to Disney ’s cinematic adventure franchise. Starring Nicolas Cage , Diane Kruger , and Justin Bartha this instalment ups the ante with kidnapped Presidents , Aztec temples and questionably sized cities of gold . Spanning not just the US this time, Benjamin Franklin Gates and his team of enthusiastic nerds also visit not...

Ben & Rob play Mama & Papa to ‘Chappie’ , Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 sci-fi parental dystopia starring sex criminals and slumdogs raising AI’s answer to Forrest Gump. Starring South African heartthrob Sharlto Copley , Australian Ryan Reynolds Hugh Jackman , queen of scifi (and Ben’s heart) Sigourney Weaver and the ever wonderful gentleman and scholar Dev Patel . Homophobic sex-criminals Die Ant...

HALLOWEEN IS UPON US! Ben & Rob follow the sticky trail of 'The Switch', a “romantic comedy” from 2010 starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis and Patrick Wilson in their horrifically “heart warming” Halloween special. This film tells the tale of ill-advised life choices, pregnancies hijacked by toxic friend-zone fanatics and the enduring power of male writers t...

Ben & Rob spin the chamber of ' The Deer Hunter ', the 1978 cinematic masterpiece that explores the profound impact of the Vietnam War on a group of rural-living friends. This episode of The Every Movie Ever Podcast is also our very FIRST to have a sponsor: legendary film distributor StudioCanal ! To celebrate the launch of their brand new streaming service STUDIOCANAL PRESENTS on Amazon Prime...

Ben & Rob strap on an exo-suit and set sail for ‘Elysium’, Neill Blomkamp’s 2013 sophomore cinematic symphony of love, death and robots. Set in a dystopian future where the poor live on a polluted and scorched Earth while the ultra-rich live off-world on space station Elysium, he tries to cover themes of global inequality, immigration and healthcare whilst providing the guttural action and sci...

Ben & Rob crack the code of 'National Treasure’, Disney’s 2004 adventure that turns American history into a nonsense puzzle. Starring Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Justin Bartha and Sean Bean, the film weaves a ridiculous tale of hidden treasures, cryptic clues, and historical secrets. Nicolas Cage plays Benjamin Franklin Gates, a treasure hunter whose quest for riches pits him and Sean Bean aga...

LINK IN BIO! Ben & Rob kick off their brand new Neill Blomkamp series with his stunning 2009 directorial debut ‘District Nine’. A loose re-imagining of the apartheid system of South Africa through the lens of refugee aliens and the corrupt corporation assigned to manage their resettlement, ‘District Nine’ is a masterpiece of science fiction that pulls no punches in depicting the casual cruelty...

Ben & Rob stare in amazement at Japanese Spiderman, the 1978 theatrically released movie from the ‘Supaidaman’ television series. The brainchild of Stan Lee and the Japanese Toei corporation, ‘Supaidaman’ re-invents the webslinger beyond your wildest imagination; featuring mecha, demon aliens and anthropomorphic swordfish. Because of course it does. But how did this fever-dream version of Marv...

Ben & Rob climb the walls of ‘Cobweb’, a horror movie that distributor Lionsgate has done its best to bury under the pumpkin patch. Starring Lizzy Caplan, Anthony Starr, Cleopatra Coleman and Woody Norman, ‘Cobweb’ tells the story of Peter, a young boy living with bizarre parents uniquely ill-equipped to help him with the monster living in his walls. Produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg un...

Ben & Rob stare into the nuclear fire of ‘Oppenheimer’; Christopher Nolan’s latest assault on the senses, and the finale of our series covering every Nolan movie EVER! With a typical Christopher Nolan all-star cast featuring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek and Kenneth Branagh, ‘Oppenheimer’ does so much more tha...

Ben & Rob unbox Greta Gerwig’s 2023 box-office topping ‘Barbie’, the movie that triggered a thousand incels whilst giving them the exact information they need to get laid. Margot Robbie Ryan Gosling, America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, Will Ferrell all contribute to this star studded song and dance spectacular tale of female identity, commercialised womanhood and masculine...

Ben & Rob reverse the entropy of ‘ TENET ’, Christopher Nolan’s 2020 spy-thriller that confused millions and delighted only half of them. Released at the end of the lockdowns, it served as a much needed resuscitation of the cinema trade with a story of spies , lies, sci-fi and of course: time . But did Christopher Nolan go fifteen steps too far with his all star cast featuring John David Washi...

Ben & Rob undergo hypnosis and recover memories of ‘The Fourth Kind’, the 2009 pseudo-documentary tale of alien abduction and astral possession that boldly tried to blur the line between reality and fiction. Starring Milla Jovovich, Elias Koteas, Corey Johnson, and Will Patton the film was critically panned upon release for its disregard toward factual Alaskan disappearances and its wooden per...

Ben & Rob wait on the beach of Christopher Nolan's 2017 film 'Dunkirk'. The highest grossing World War Two movie ever theatrically released, 'Dunkirk' tells the inspirational tale of the land, sea and air theatres of the war, and the contribution of civilian "Little Ships" to the Allied retreat in 1940. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Jack Lowden, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark...