The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Honestly, they had us at “a new movie by Gore Verbinski starring Sam Rockwell.” This gonzo 2025 sci-fi comedy satire adventure about timeloops and saving humanity from extinction by AI slop is ultimately a giant swing for the fences, and we are perturbed that it didn’t do as well as it should have theatrically. Tucked within its Black Mirror-like structure is all the angst of our modern world, tha...

This week on the Magnificently Huge Podcast Brian, Chris, and Eric revisit Monty Python' s final theatrical outing: - The Meaning of Life! A film that's less a movie than a series of comedy grenades tied together by the vague notion that we're all born, we suffer, and eventually the Grim Reaper shows up because someone forgot to clean the salmon mousse. Along the way, we join the Python team in sa...

In 1985, Sam Raimi and the Coen Brothers were hot off their breakout indie debuts (Evil Dead and Blood Simple, respectively) and got their first shot at a studio film with a budget. What we got was one of the craziest, trainwreckiest movies of all time - Crimewave! How this one didn’t tank their careers into oblivion remains a great mystery, but suffice that if Raimin didn’t have such an awful exp...

A young boy in 1950s suburbia suspects that his parents might be cannibalistic serial murderers… but are they really? Join us for a look at one of our favorite cult films of all time - “Parents.” Randy Quaid leads a solid cast in this pitch black horror-comedy satire that explores Boomer America, an era that was apparently one giant bag of repressed ugliness simmering beneath the facade of white p...

Frailty (2001) is a psychological thriller about fathers, sons, and demons. This wacky film seems to have been lost to time, as no one ever talks about it, and it hasn’t gained any cult following. Still, it has a creepy atmosphere, a killer cast, and did I mention it’s Bill Paxton’s directorial debut? 0:00 Intros 13:30 - How to Get to Heaven from Belfast 18:30 - Taskmaster Series 19 24:10 - Frailt...

This week on Magnificently Huge, we crank the dials back to 1927 and dive into Metropolis, the granddaddy of sci-fi cinema where the future is shiny, oppressive, and apparently run by people who’ve never met a labor law they liked. Directed by Fritz Lang, this silent-era spectacle somehow predicted everything: towering megacities, massive class divides, dehumanizing technology, and robot doubles d...

Q: Who you gonna call? A: Ghostbusters! Duh! Let’s lighten the mood a bit as we finally jibber-jabber about one of the greatest foundational movies of all time - Ghostbusters! If you’ve never seen this blockbuster comedy/sci-fi/adventure mashup from 1984, we have to ask - What rock have you been living under? With a stacked cast of Second City and SNL superstars, some of the most quotable lines ev...

A warning about what AI could do to humanity - and we ain’t talkin’ SkyNet? “Colossus: The Forbin Project” is a cult sci-fi film from 1970 that has been gaining a new following in the last couple of years, since we’re all probably about to be destroyed by rich a**holes who would love to crush us with the AI singularity. We dig into what does and doesn’t work with this early warning shot across the...

Ever watch a movie and absolutely hated it, only to revisit it again later to discover you actually kinda like it now? That’s the rules for today, kids! Pick the media that left you angry… that sorta made you happy the next try. It's a low bar, certainly, but it has happened to us a few times over the years. We get it, tastes change, life circumstances shift, and dare we say that one even matures...

This week on Magnificently Huge, we slip into something a little more… 90s, as we revisit the Wachowskis’ pre-Matrix directorial debut, Bound. The film somehow manages to be equal parts Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, and late-night cable energy. Is Bound a feminist noir? A crime thriller with benefits? Or just a really good excuse to watch terrible people make worse decisions in increasingly confined s...

Eddington is the perfect film for our times. Everyone’s terrified, everyone wants the glory of being the one who saves the world, and nobody is listening to anyone else. That’s America in a nutshell: Everyone arguing about who gets to decide where to aim the fire hose while the house burns down. What fun, right!?! 0:00 - Intros 10:55 - Cory Doctorow and Enshittification 19:30 - Dungeon Crawler Car...

This week we return to the tiny town of Blaine, Missouri to revisit Christopher Guest’s 1996 mockumentary Waiting for Guffman in observance of the passing of the incomparable Catherine O'Hara. It’s either one of the sharpest, sweetest skewers of small-town ambition ever put to film, or a dull snoozefest! Which is it for you? Are you a Chris or a Brian? And how does it stack up against the rest of...

Dust Bunny is destined to be a cult classic, kids. Get ahead of the curve and see it right now, you won’t be disappointed. But what is Dust Bunny? A little girl has a monster under her bed and hires the hitman across the hall to kill it. Simple, right? But is the monster even real? Or is the monster all of us? We describe it as “Leon, the Professional” if it were made by Jeunet & Caro. Or maybe “T...

“One Battle After Another” is the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson, and it is neither too obtuse to understand nor boring. The latest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s work that stylistically makes its point, without getting all up its own ass about said style. (I’m looking at you, Wes Anderson!) It is definitely a movie made for our times, like it or. not. 0:00 - Intros 8:15 - Mel Brooks: the 99 Year...

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. And maybe some heartburn. Because “Twilight Zone: The Movie” has absolutely no reason to exist, yet here we are. Back in the early 80s Hollywood thought it was a slam-dunk idea: Take established hitmakers Steven Spielberg and John Landis, plus up-and-comers Joe Dante and George Miller, to make an antholo...

Another year, another heaping helping of the Fresh Shit! Our annual tradition of kicking off the New Year with a full show discussing the movies, YouTube channels, and shows that we’ve been enjoying! If we released this the week we recorded it, we’d even be topical! 0:00 - Intros 4:20 - Guard The Leaf https://www.youtube.com/@GuardTheLeaf 4:50 - Let’s get the political stuff out of our system 22:4...

Brian finally brings his binge of all the Bond films to a close with this ranking episode. After subjecting himself to 60+ years of shaken martinis, disposable Bond girls, and increasingly questionable theme songs, Brian drags Chris and Eric into the fray to debate the best, the worst, and the Roger Moore-iest of the bunch. It’s the longest-running franchise in cinema history, and we’ve got takes...

There were a LOT of movies released in the 1990’s, cultural touchstones and zeitgeist titles that everyone still seems to talk about at the proverbial watercooler (insert dumb Pulp Fiction quote here). But every so often a big movie from the era will come up in conversation that we may not have seen and we are unable to contribute anything but anger, confusion or disappointment to the proceedings....

This week on Magnificently Huge, Brian makes Chris and Eric sit through the 2025 Robbie Williams biopic, Better Man. We dig into this weird, high-gloss fever dream of a film that's part jukebox musical, part psychological spiral, and part Bohemian Rhapsody with fewer teeth and more self-pity. There are scenes with Robbie talking to his younger self, scenes with Robbie fighting invisible demons, an...

There are a lot of noir crime thrillers in the world, but most modern ones have a problem digging too deeply into the noir part of the equation. “Killing them softly” does away with the winding plot and instead gives a simple premise, with a simple resolution, and a world so real in its crappiness you can kind of smell it. Maybe it’s a grime thriller? It’s certainly the best at it if you’re into t...

Join us for a look at the underrated Troma classic from 1992, Frankenhooker! What could a movie called Frankenhooker possibly be about, you ask? Don’t be stupid, it’s literally about a STEM weirdo from New Jersey who loses his girlfriend in a freak accident, only to bring her back by sewing her head onto a body stitched together from the parts of dead prostitutes. Duh. And it is one of the more as...

This week, we view Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)—a film that dares to ask: what if Dracula were horny, operatic, and deeply confused about accents? With Keanu Reeves giving the most unintentionally British performance ever committed to celluloid (bless him, he tried), Winona Ryder looking vaguely confused but still cashing checks, and Gary Oldman chewing scenery like it’s soa...

What do you get when you take a creatively brilliant director, give him all the leeway he wants, resulting in a film that is a commercial failure but a sleeper hit? You get a very pissed off John Carpenter is what you get. Despite a career of culturally significant awesomeness - “Starman,” “The Thing,” being Adrienne Barbeau’s husband - all it took was some big trouble in Little China for funding...

We’re gonna Thelma & Louise the shiznit out of this show with our picks for Best Onscreen Duos! That’s right, from Abbott & Costello to Matthau & Lemmon to Rick & Morty and everything in between, it’s a quasi-intelligent chat about our favorite duos from film and television. What makes a duo dynamic? Which duos are garbage? And how can we possibly cram a reasonable number of onscreen duos into one...

James Bond is on the menu this week, as Brian winds down his journey to watch every canonical movie in sequential order. That means we finally hit up the first appearance of Daniel Craig in the 2006 throwback/reboot/reset adaptation of the very first Ian Fleming novel - Casino Royale! Or did we do the very terrible star-studded psychedelic comedy trainwreck from 1967? Or maybe the Americanized, ma...