The Magnificently Huge Podcast

Christmas music is evergreen, and so is this episode from Black Friday of 2017. Once again, Brian subjects the rest of the MagHuge crew (and you!) to his insane taste in christmas music! Click the link to play the home game! Here's a link to the Awesome/Bad Christmas playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/quebedox/playlist/4JVVzDtl3AtASAtj99KKKl | 0:00 - Introductions | 2:50 - The Punisher | 4:03...

What could possibly make the perennial Charles Dickens holiday classic, “A Christmas Carol,” even better? Why, add The Muppets, of course! And it’s right there in the friggin’ title! We end 2022 with a Bah Humbug look at “The Muppet Christmas Carol” turning 30 - a true banger starring Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge, along with your favorite Muppets to bring some festive cheer. We call it “The m...

The 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” was the perfect encapsulation of what Christmas should be all about. That’s why it’s a classic. Is this week’s show about that? Well, that would have been nice and easy. But there’s just one thing you see, Mag Huge never ever do nothing nice and easy - we always do it nice and rough. So instead, we cover the two competing sequels to a movie that was so charming...

Episode 245 - Obligatory Top 3 Coen Brothers Show Any film nerd worth their salt has at least a few favorites in the Coen Brothers’ oeuvre… And since we’re all definitely nerds, we thought we’d stack our personal Top 3’s against each other and see what happens. Join us shall we, for our fully obligatory, totally arbitrary whittling down of the entire Coen Brothers filmography, stinkers included! W...

Episode 244 - Nope In his continuing bid to be just like M. Night Shyamalan but better, we have “Nope,” Jordan Peele’s latest horror-thriller film. We break it down this week - What is this film really about? Is it about anything? Why is it called, “Nope” really? Why isn’t Michael Wincott in more movies? And more. Probably. Plus our usual collection of what we’ve enjoyed this week that so many of...

In 2005 we were in the afterglow of the first 2 Spider-Man movies, Blade, and The Matrix. Even the X-Men movies were still good. Just before Batman began again and Marvel stomped all over everything, we got Constantine - a little nugget of what comic based movies might have been, until they weren’t. This week the Mag Huge crew revisits this under-the-radar film that will apparently be getting a se...

Oh my little hungry ones, it’s time to make a mountain out of a molehill! This week the new Weird Al movie showed up on Roku, and gave us an excuse to get nerdy in the extreme about the man himself. So wind up your radios and enjoy a totally true podcast about an even more TOTALLY TRUE BIOPIC about the greatest performer who ever made up words to other people’s songs that already existed. This is...

Stephen King has written over 60 books and countless short stories over 50 years. He's essentially his own genre - a blend of horror, supernatural, thriller and human drama - that is, let's be honest, a mixed bag. And don't get us started on all the movies - from the highs of The Shining to the lows of Lawnmower Man, and everything in between. Or maybe do get us started, because we have opinions....

Which do you find scarier: A phantom from beyond our mortal coil that came to drag you to hell, or a guy with a knife who you might work with and thinks your skin would make a nice hat? The fact that there’s (likely) no hell but there are definitely knives could make you think this is an easy choice. But it’s not up to you, it’s up to how scrunched up your butt hole gets when they bring on the sca...

Eric’s screenwriting professor used to tell him, “the story all comes out of the characters you create.” Okay, yes, but… if they don’t have anything to do, they’re just a bunch of people standing around talking. The MacGuffin is a plot device that makes people do things in a story. It may force characters to show you parts of themselves you wouldn’t normally see, because it introduces stress, or o...

For one brief shining moment in 1988, the notion that Cyndi Lauper would be the next big pop star to become a movie star was real. Noted 80’s hack screenwriters Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandell created the ultimate star vehicle for her in the form of Vibes, a movie that Dan Ackroyd turned down. Think about that for a minute. Think about what Dan Ackroyd was doing in that time frame, and realize tha...

Think of a popular movie series (ie, “film franchise”) - loosely, a film and its sequels totaling 3+ entries - and, based on the very first one in said series/franchise, ask yourself a question: Did that movie warrant a big, fat franchise (ie, “series”)? Obviously, if there is money to be made, a studio will make it. But as much as you like the first Back to the Future, let’s be real, those sequel...

What’s the best way to start an introduction to the British alt-rock band Radiohead? Talk about how weird they can get? Their rabid fan base? What critical darlings they are? Yes, and in that order! Which is what I just did! Yay me! Check out our run-down of the biggest band of the turn of the millennium. | 0:00 - Intros | 4:15 - Forbidden Zone (1980) | 10:20 - Three Thousand Years Of Longing (202...

Legendary animator Phil Tippett apparently has too much time on his hands. He’s got nothing to do and all day to do it. He’s got nowhere to go and all night to get there. After watching his long-in-development home movie Mad God, we wonder not if he’s crazy. We wonder if he’s sane at all. We watched Mad God, and honestly - it’s hard to believe such a calamity. | 0:00 - Intros | 3:05 - The Boys (Se...

We have a theory here at the show: NEVER read the source material of any movie adaptation before you see the film itself. Otherwise, you’ll just be disappointed. Spoiler: Brian broke his own rule and proved the thesis. So what happens when Netflix makes a slick, big-budget movie based on a renowned post-modernist short story by a celebrated author (George Saunders) no one outside the literary comm...

What do you get when you mix an unemployed millennial, his girlfriend, his hipster friends, a minotaur, and an insanely huge box fort complete with an abattoir and booby traps? Normally, just a big dumb mess. But in this case, you get one of the most interesting to watch independent films in decades. This week we’re breaking down the 2017 insanely great film, “Dave Made a Maze.” Join us, shall we?...

In 1977, Mel Brooks was on one helluva roll with classic film parodies like Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein. But rather than talk about those, instead we’re gonna revisit his riff on Hitchcock called High Anxiety. While it has some good bits - because Mel Brooks - this is one where the worm started to turn for his particular brand. And we aren’t entirely sure why. High Anxiety just hasn’t h...

Back in 1978, mega-star Burt Reynolds and director Hal Needham followed up their enormous success of Smokey and the Bandit with a simple ode to the Hollywood Stuntman called Hooper. And we dare you not to get pulled in by its frothy, effervescent charm in a virtually plotless romp that follows Reynolds as the titular hero performing ever-crazier gags for the movie-within-a-movie “The Spy Who Laugh...

If you don’t know who Devo is, you probably do know their song, “Whip It.” Devo’s following is enormous, and they’ve been legendary for years. Still, “Whip It” is what would be on their tomb stone. (If bands were buried.) This show is about those songs, the ones that outshine their creators. This isn’t the same as one-hit-wonders - those are songs that are big, and the people who sang them just go...

The world is utter garbage and everything is horrible. Here’s a show about a movie to take your mind off of the hopeless hellscape that is your life today, if only for a short while. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is another movie from the early 2000s that somehow Brian hadn’t seen yet. We talk about it. Also this week, Elvis and Ben Folds! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:00 - Elvis (2022) | 13:20 - not watchi...

Set the Wayback Machine to 1982 as we revisit a sword & sorcery cult classic that is about to turn 40 years old and isn't Conan - The Beastmaster! Because you really can’t go wrong with a movie about Dr. Doolittle in a loincloth talking to animals like nobody’s business and twirling a sword around his head with flair. The Beastmaster was not a huge hit at the box office, but like many films in the...

Hey, it’s another show about another movie about more disaffected youth… only this time it’s Punk! SLC Punk, to be specific. This late 90’s indie cult movie chronicles what appears to be the only two punk rockers living in heavily religious Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1985. While the semi-autobiographical film is light on story, it more than makes up for it with a boisterous aesthetic that DGAF… W...

Influential director John Woo made a name for himself in the late-80s with classically iconic Hong Kong gun-fu cinema like The Killer. Then he emigrated to Hollywood in the early 90s and proceeded to make five generically terrible actioners (Broken Arrow, MI-2, etc), and one bona-fide bat$h!t crazy classic (Face-Off). In short. Hollywood had no clue what to do with his distinctive style and his Am...

Pump Up the Volume is a view of the 90s encased in amber, when the kids were all angry and had no idea what to do about it. It comes from a long line of movies about kids who don’t get what their place in life is, but… you know, In the 90s. With a brilliant soundtrack, a prescience of what social media would become, Christian Slater as Christian Slater, and of course, Samantha Mathis’ boobs, Pump...

Fire up that 156k modem, crack open a Crystal Pepsi and get the VCR ready, because we’re about to pick The Most 90s Movie Ever! Enjoy our arbitrary and wholly unscientific attempt to find the movie that singularly defines a decade known mostly for grunge, the internet bubble, and a white Bronco. Yup, we’ve got tons of electronic & alternative soundtrack music, rollerblading, obsolete “new” tech, r...