The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Episode 295 - Train to Busan 2016 was the middle of the zombie pandemic. “What?” I hear you say, despite that being impossible. “There was a zombie apocalypse?” There sure was - in theaters! And 2016 was right smack dab in the middle of a bunch of great zombie films. That year saw “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” and “The Girl with All the Gifts,” which were great in their own ways. However they...

Before there was Nightmare on Elm Street, before there was Inception, there was Dreamscape! This under-the-radar sci-fi/action/thriller/romance from 1984 was a heady mix of genres, and while it was the first notable film to feature a storyline about people entering the dreams of others to help or harm, it has gone largely unnoticed in the last 40 years. But it beat Freddy and Christopher Nolan to...

Time again for yet another 80’s film retrospective! The year 1987 does not automatically spring to mind when one thinks of classic cinema. At first glance it is kind of meh, which is not surprising given that Three Men and a Baby was the top earner that year. But upon closer inspection, 1987 has a crap-ton of stealthily influential flicks buried within. Yup, 1987 is the year that gave us Evil Dead...

Ever seen a movie or show and thought, “Wow - they sure got that wrong!” It could have been good, but they missed the point. Or maybe you had a better point in mind. That’s the theme of this week’s show - why not remake these things that were almost good? As long as everything else gets remade every five years, here are some projects that decidedly deserve to be correctly done. 0:00 - Intros 4:30...

This week Brian made the MagHuge crew revisit the 1990 Warren Beatty magnum opus “Dick Tracy.” Will it stand the test of time? Will hijinks ensue? Will Chris and Eric drink hemlock? There’s only one way to find out! 0:00 - Intros 5:51 - Mr. Robot 13:30 - Japanese Precision Walking 16:15 - Kabaddi 20:39 - AR / VR 26:50 - Freaks VS The Reich 32:10 - Dick Tracy (1990)

Welcome to the Technical Difficulties Edition of yet another amazing Freshitravaganza show, wherein we have an ad hoc discussion about literally whatever dumb stuff pops into our heads! Funny story… We tried to do a show wherein we savaged Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon, his latest mirthless sci-fi IP starter. But all our tech went bonkers early without us realizing it and we lost everything but the Fre...

Blazing Saddles is a comedy classic given to us by Mel Brooks way back in 1974 and we are going to celebrate the 50th Anniversary accordingly… with copious amounts of vulgarity, fart jokes and meta-humor on top of an angry, socially conscious satire of race relations in America. That’s right, Blazing Saddles is a foundational film comedy that is not afraid to make you laugh while also making you u...

Released in 1969, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun is a fun little cult sci-fi film. If you’re familiar with “Thunderbirds,” you’ll recognize the cool use of model special effects used here. The short sell - this is a fun romp through what the future could have been like. The long sell - well, if they had hired actual writers with talent to lay this sucker out, it would have been a classic. As i...

In honor of the new movie musical version that no one asked for, we present another classic MagHuge episode! Two cliques enter, one clique leaves... Welcome to the High School Movie Grudge Match Thunderdome! We pitch 80’s black-comedy classic Heathers against 00’s teen classic Mean Girls in a head-to-head battle for ultimate Snark Supremacy! How Very. That’s So Fetch. Oh, and ⅔ of our crew had nev...

We’re Baaaaaaaack! After a month-long hiatus of adhering to a Live-Laugh-Love mantra, the MagHuge crew rings in 2024 with a whole new podcast show about random crap we’ve all been watching and doing and listening to during our self-imposed holiday! We gots movies, concerts, TV and theater galore to catch you up on. But no books - because books are for the idle and never did no one no good never. W...

Upon the occasion of his death, we are repeating our tribute to the great Norman Lear! In the 1970's, television producer Norman Lear beat Marvel to the punch by several decades with the creation of a sitcom universe filled with individual shows whose characters formed an unstoppable team of comedy heroes to defeat an array of social issues. Archie Bunker is Iron Man. Maude is Thor. George Jeffers...

Episode 286 - Children of Men Children of Men (2006) is one of the finest dystopian future movies ever committed to film… that no one seems to remember. Which is weird, because it has one of Clive Owen’s best hangdog performances, and a supporting cast (Julianne Moore, Michael Caine & Chiwetel Ejiofor) that most movies would kill for. Plus, Alfonso Cuarón directed some of the most amazing “single-...

Say you’re so rich and popular that you can just make a movie with all your most famous friends and make yourself look cool. Turns out that Frank Sinatra did it in 1960, and so did George Clooney in 2001. It turns out that both times the movie was named “Ocean’s Eleven!” It must be nice. For our part, we spoil more MCU stuff and hang out with a big fun hang-out movie. Hang out with us! 5:40 - Star...

Spider Baby - the 1967 “cult classic” that you’ve probably never heard of. As always, we watch it for you, so you don’t have to! 4:15 - Invasion (Apple TV+) 7:45 - One Cut of the Dead 15:25 - Band of Brothers 20:05 - How To with John Wilson / Nathan For You 23:35 - No Hard Feelings (2023) 28:45 - Spider Baby (1967) You can watch Spider Baby on the internet archive here: https://archive.org/details...

Among the notable horror icons of the 80s that spawned endless sequels of varying quality, few are as weird as the phenomenon of Chucky - the child’s doll possessed by the spirit of a psychopathic serial killer who dabbles in voodoo. First arriving in 1988, Child’s Play was a modest success that was buoyed by an interesting concept and some first-rate practical effects work that helped propel it i...

While Scream and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare brought meta to the horror genre earlier, 2011’s The Cabin In The Woods brings a fresh new perspective to the well worn dead teenager film. If we want to get really meta about it, we can talk about how the scariest and most disturbing things about it are related to Joss Whedon, but really that’s just lazy comedy. Anyway, it’s October, so crank up the sca...

This week, we break down the career of David Cronenberg in three acts. The thing is, there’s little you can say about David Cronenberg that makes sense. He’s a filmmaker who makes horror films, kinda. He has a preoccupation with body horror, sort of. Really he’s interested in people’s obsessions - what we can’t do without, even if we won’t admit it to ourselves. I think. It’s tough to say - like a...

We love it when a plan comes together! Unless it doesn’t, as is the case with 2010’s misguided, uninspired, confusing reboot movie of the classic 80s TV juggernaut - The A-Team. What should have been a slam-dunk summer actioner was actually a giant, generic mess of a movie that arrived with a shrug and killed any hope of a franchise. Mistakes were made. A lot of mistakes. Join us for our shallow d...

If you know, you know… John Carpenter’s Big Trouble in Little China is flat out one of the greatest achievements in modern cinema. That’s it, that’s our thesis. Because when some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the barroom wall, and he looks you crooked in the eye and he asks you if ya paid your dues…You just stare that big sucker r...

Join us as we discuss the forgotten mock spy classic “Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.” The inspiration for the Fembots from Austin Powers, this movie reeks of mid-60s camp, sexism and utter lack of subversiveness. If nothing else, it explains why your boomer grandparents look so confused now. We also discuss what we’re watching this week, now that the writers and actors are on strike. And good...

So we thought it would be fun to do a show about Troma, the indie movie studio that has given us such classic exploitation comedy-horror schlock like The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die! for decades now. Turns out, we were dead wrong. The funny thing about Troma - at least for us - is that we always seem to remember the movies fondly…until we have the actual butt-squirming experience of tryi...

Boy what is there to say about this weird-ass French Power Rangers inspired movie? Guess you’ll just have to listen to the podcast to find out! 5:55 - The Crowded Room (Apple TV+) 9:45 - The Dollop 13:00 - Berlin, Howard Jones, and Culture Club Live - The Letting It Go Show 17:15 - Tacoma FD 21:55 - Smoking Causes Coughing (2023)

Take off, you hosers! Sorry, had to lead with that because it’s a beauty catchphrase, eh… from the SCTV duo of Bob & Doug McKenzie in their one and only film: Strange Brew. It’s a classic from 1983 that has achieved true cult status, and it turns 40 this year, so that deserved a little something from the podcast. Just know, everything we learned about Canadian culture came from this movie, so don’...

You think you know what a cult film is? You think it’s something like “Clockwork Orange” or “Blade Runner,” just because they didn’t make money when they came out but were actually really great films? No! Cult movies are crap movies that are just balls-out weird. Like “Human Highway” - the love child experiment of granola rock merchant Neil Young. This week we do a deep dive into an ACTUAL cult fi...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled podcast to bring you this very special episode of the Magnificently Huge Podcast. The recent news of the death of Sinéad O'Connor followed by Paul Reubens / Pee-Wee Herman knocked us off our rhythm of making each other watch movies. Raise a glass with us to some underappreciated talents. Also this week, we manage to actually talk about current movies like Oppen...