The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Harley Davidson & the Marlboro Man is a movie that probably shouldn’t exist, yet thankfully does. The 1991 actioner was supposed to be a big hit for stars Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, the titular heroes with names that wander dangerously close to copyright infringement. The story is simple: It’s a modern western set in the near future of 1996 wherein two drifters literally rob a stagecoach to sa...

The Kids in the Hall is not only one of the funniest things to come out of Canada, it is also one of the funniest things we have ever watched on television. Five guys from the Great White North formed a sketch comedy troupe in the mid-80s that begat a hugely influential TV show that aired from 1988-1994 on HBO and helped kickstart the 90’s sketch show renaissance. With oddball characters placed in...

Welcome to the Magnificently Huge Podcast 3rd Anniversary Show! Which also happens to coincide with Star Wars Day, May 4. So, May the Something Something… We celebrate our 3 years in existence with our annual gabfest about all things Star Wars. Because why not? This time we look to the sins of the recent past and air our grievances about the final Skywalker Trilogy. What did they manage to get rig...

Giorgio Moroder is the most influential musician you have probably never heard of. He was an early techno musician and producer before there was anything even called, “techno.” (In other words, without Giorgio Moroder, no Daft Punk.) He has written songs for David Bowie, Blondie, Janet Jackson, and a bunch more than I can put down here. He produced all of the best singles Donna Summer ever recorde...

Before he was Forrest Gump...Before he became America’s Dad...Tom Hanks almost killed his career in the 1980’s with a string of mediocre, low-box-office comedies where he basically played the same role repeatedly - the charming, lovable, unthreatening, wisecracking everyman. Apart from making a big splash with enormous hits like Big and Splash, there is little to distinguish most of his movies mad...

Heading into Week 5 of Pandemic Self-Isolation and we’re all a bit stir crazy. So we decided to test a new Chrome extension called Netflix Party, which makes it possible to watch something on the streaming service simultaneously from different places. For this grand experiment, we picked a low budget 2014 Indian sci-fi kids show called Maharakshak Aryan - because reasons. Long-story-short, we heck...

If you were stuck at home sick in the dark days before cable t.v., before VCR’s, and well before the internet, you had limited options to fill the day. Sure, you could’ve read Judy Blume or Encyclopedia Brown books, but that was just like being at school. Instead, you plopped yourself down in front of your best friend, the television, and watched whatever crap happened to be on. Like, all day. Thi...

Is seeing your first R-rated movie even considered a right of passage any more? Used to be you had to sneak into a theater to get nudity, profanity and some good old-fashioned ultra-violence. And then came PG-13, giving teenagers a watered-down version of what once passed for Rated R fun. But kids these days have the internet and can pretty much watch whatever they want, whenever they want. The po...

Little Shop of Horrors! First it was a cult B-Movie! Then it was a hit off-Broadway musical! Which then became the highest-grossing cult movie musical of 1986 based on a stage show adapted from an old Roger Corman film! You don’t want to miss how we break it all down to explore why Little Shop of Horrors is so damn fun, considering it is about how everything sucks, people are inherently horrible,...

Child actors - one of the cruelest ways we tortured children until we started forcing them to sew Nike shoes. These people start out cute and precocious, but get thrown to the wolves with no job skills, unrealistic expectations of the world, and weird faces that kind of look like that kid from that show. In other words, hilarious. Schadenfreude for ugly people. And a cautionary tale for parents lo...

How many bands are named after places? A freakin’ crapload, that’s how many! Join the MagHuge crew as we explore the strange phenomenon of musical acts who can’t think of anything interesting to call themselves so they just pick a random place and run with it - like Chicago, Kansas, Asia, or Berlin. Think globally, name locally, that’s our motto for today. From streets and cities, to states and na...

Brazil, the 1985 movie by Terry Gilliam, is a dark-comedy masterpiece that is both a spoof of Orwell’s 1984, but also a brilliant satire of mindless bureaucracy run amok. And it is one of our all-time favorite films. In the world of Brazil, if you are not part of the system, then you are part of the problem. One lonely cog in the machine, a mid-level paper pusher and daydreamer named Sam Lowry, ju...

Everyone has their first Mad Max, the titular anti-hero of the wasteland first brought to life in 1979 by filmmaker George Miller. Four films made across 40 years, they still pack a wallop and remain one of the most influential series ever made. So which one started it for you? The Road Warrior? Fury Road? Was it somehow Beyond Thunderdome? Join us as we explore the pockyclypse through dust, guzzl...

Kevin Costner was a cinematic superstar who starred in a series of massive hits from 1985 to 1992. He even won an Oscar for directing himself in Dances With Wolves, for Pete’s sake. And then, for some unfathomable reason, he made two vanity projects virtually back-to-back in the mid-90s that have become synonymous with Heaven’s Gate/Ishtar-level failure - Waterworld (1995) and The Postman (1997)....

We took a few weeks off and now we’re back, refreshed and not quite ready. Um… we didn’t really prep a real topic this round because we kinda suck. Instead, we offer yet another show-length version of our Fresh Shit segment, full of all the movies and television we’ve consumed over the hiatus. It is chock full of arbitrary opinions, audience pandering, and a whole lot of word salad! Hear Chris foa...

2019 was the Endgamiest year on record! Here’s all we could muster the energy to talk about - from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs, and all that other junk in between. For us, it was a meh end to the Terrible Teens - a year with a few bits that exceeded expectations, and a whole bunch more that landed with a giant thud on the Pile of Disappointments. We got movies, TV shows, politics, a...

Roland Emmerich: A director whose career is marked by huge aspirations, enormous spectacle, and an amazing track record of success considering no one admits liking his work. Clint Eastwood is still mistakenly thought of as a genius for making sloppy, boring biographical dramas, but Roland Emmerich's genius is all but ignored despite a filmography that includes the destruction of the Earth FOUR TIM...

When it comes to Christmas specials that define the fabric of the holiday season, few are as vital (or strange) as the Rankin/Bass stop-motion acid trip classic, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. It has aired every single year since 1964, which is astonishing. Even more astonishing is the fact that this “Christmas Classic” has very little to do with actual Christmas. It features a Yeti, a crazy moun...

Join us for our hot take on the star-studded Rian Johnson (The Last Jedi, Brick) whodunit that has single handedly reinvigorated the cable-knit sweater industry - Knives Out. Beware of spoilers here, because we definitely tell you that it was Mrs. Peacock in the library with the candlestick. Wait, wrong mystery-comedy…but trust us, this one is damn fun. It will keep you guessing to the very end wh...

It’s the holidays, and that means watching every Bond film, one after another. Holidays without Bond is like Thanksgiving without turkey, like rain without clouds, like sex without a finger in your butt. While that metaphor is rolling around in your head, consider just how much some Bond films… well… are kind of crap. This episode explores which Bond film is the second worst of the bunch. We didn’...

Let’s talk turkeys, because this round we’re giving thanks for movies that stank! Yup, that’s right…we gorge ourselves on empty calorie entertainment that we should hate on pure principle. These movies may be dumb, but we still love them in spite of our better judgment. Join us as we explore a handful of films that are not only so-bad-they’re-good, but so-bad-they’re-beyond-awesome. It’s arbitrary...

We have come here to chew bubblegum and make a podcast to celebrate John Carpenter's 1988 B-movie classic, They Live. And we are all out of bubblegum. If you don't know this film, then dammit, go watch it! For everyone else, try not to focus too much on the fact that its message remains depressingly relevant 31 years later. But at least it has the best fight scene ever filmed. Don't question that,...

Can you think of ONE GOOD SONG by an artist or band you otherwise despise? That is a challenge, one we found to be deceptively difficult. Seriously, please don’t expect us to defend anything by Nickelback. Or Creed. Or Ed Sheeran. Luckily, those are all indefensible and we won’t waste your time. But that doesn’t mean we don’t make the case for a few other songs that we actually enjoy from artists...

Another Star Trek show? You’re damn right, because Star Trek is a touchstone of American geek pop culture. And if you don’t like it, you probably had a girlfriend in high school. But so what? Let’s talk 90s era Trek: from Next Generation to Deep Space Nine to Voyager, plus the movies, a smidge of Enterprise, wack-a-doodle timelines, and the short-lived United Paramount Network... because money eve...

Martin Scorsese recently went on record to state that superhero movies – more specifically, Marvel movies – are “not cinema” and nothing more than “amusement park rides.” To the legendary filmmaker behind movie classics like Taxi Driver, Goodfellas & Raging Bull we only have this to say: Yeah? Well, that’s just, like, your opinion, man. But one thing is certain, he touched a nerve with filmgoers a...