The Movie Breakdown

It is another Wednesday and so another bonus episode that we like to call The Midweek Breakdown, our supplemental podcast to the weekly The Movie Breakdown. As is the way for our hump day podcast, we jump all over the place with various discussions such as lifer after the pandemic, the joys of homemade bread, way more Back to the Future talk, discussion about cinematic classic The Last Airbender a...

Right now, everybody needs something to lift our spirits and give us some warm fuzzies. So, this week we've picked five positive and fun movie that will put a smile on your face. It is our first (but maybe not our last) The Breakdown of the Feel-Good Movies. I will tell you right now, one of the movies we review is what I consider the perfect movie and right near the top of my all-time great movie...

In the ongoing goal to keep you entertained while stuck at home, we have another bonus episode with our second new episode of The Midweek Breakdown. This week we talk about life stuck at home, make it clear Donald Sutherland had quite the career before Animal House, talk about all the cool free stuff big companies are delivering and we discuss the movie theatres recent outrage over Universal darin...

Sorry about the delay on this week's show, but we had some technical issues. But it is here now, and we've got three big movie reviews for you. Lately, we've been revisiting some movies held up as classics, and we continue that again with one of the most successful, popular and influential comedies of all time Animal House. We follow the path of beloved comedies with a huge 1990s romantic comedy h...

As promised on the most recent The Movie Breakdown episode and on social media, while the coronavirus pandemic forces many of us to stay home, we are going to be doing some bonus Breakdown episodes during the week. Today marks the return of The Midweek Breakdown, a series of shows that we did back in 2013 and for a short time returned in 2014 as well. For those not familiar with those past episode...

It is Monday morning and you're stuck at home and maybe you have nothing to do, so The Movie Breakdown has you covered for the next 90 plus minutes. This week we review four movies and all four have the theme of going through major life change. We review what is held up as one of the all-time classic coming of age pictures and the big break-out movie for George Lucas that doesn't involve a galaxy...

The latest episode if The Movie Breakdown is here, and we've got you covered for all those finding themselves stuck at home for a long time. This week we have four movie reviews for you including a picture many hold up as an all-time classic in Spike Lee's break-out directorial effort, Do the Right Thing. We also discuss two movies that will be the last of the theatrical new releases for awhile in...

It's another big week here on The Movie Breakdown as we have four huge movie reviews. One of the most anticipated family animated adventures of the year has arrived with the latest Pixar picture, Onward, and I saw this one with the family, so I'll share their experience too. Then in the less family category we have two horror pictures in the remake of a classic in The Invisible Man and the latest...

We are thrilled to kick off the month of March with a massive episode of The Movie Breakdown. We review a movie that may have been Everett's most anticipated movie of the year and a film I had the pleasure to watch with him in the video game adaptation family adventure, Sonic the Hedgehog. Do you want prestige, then how about the Best Picture winner as we talk about Parasite. We have a rare thing...

It's another special topic episode this week, as we look at some of the current hot trends in movies and also some that we think will become significant over the next few years. We've been doing this show since 2013, and we've already seen a lot of trends come and go over that time. We feel movie strategies and what is considered hot has changed a lot over the past six years. The one thing that ma...

Happy Family Day to all my Ontario readers and listeners. Because it is Family Day weekend, I stayed away from the cinemas and spent time with my favourite people in the universe. This means of course, that this week is one of those themed topic episodes. This one we discuss the things in movies that we love and are obsessed about. We will talk about things like expert cinematography, practical ef...

It is the day after the Oscars, and we are so floored by the results that we don't discuss them at all. Also, we recorded this episode before the show took place, but we still had lots to talk about. We have four big movie reviews and we have lots to say about each as this episode burst past 90 minutes. We look at the latest comic book movie in the Margot Robbie lead Harley Quinn adventure, Birds...

It is a packed episode of The Movie Breakdown as we have five movie reviews and some pictures that are held up as classics. We've got what may be the most quoted comedy in movie history in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. We also have the candy-coated family adventure in the Gene Wilder starring Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It is 2020, so we have some releases from this year in the gritt...

We are now into the full swing of reviewing movies again on The Movie Breakdown. This week we discuss a picture that I've been really looking forward to with Guy Ritchie's return to the comedic crime caper, The Gentlemen. I was less excited about Tyler Perry's return to melodrama but we still review A Fall from Grace. We also discuss a movie that made Scott's best of the 2019 in One Cut of the Dea...

After three weeks of doing top ten lists, we have lots of movie reviews to catch up on, and that is exactly what we do this week as we're loaded up on the motion pictures to talk about. We have two 2020 new theatrical releases in the rebooted horror picture, The Grudge and the buddy action sequel, Bad Boys for Life. We also have a Netflix original movie in the coming-of-age romance out of Mexico i...

It is mid-January in 2020, so it is the perfect time to do our Best of 2019 episode! While I've said a few times that 2019 was a good but not amazing year for movies, I started questioning that stance while trying to put together my list. I had a hard time narrowing it down to ten movies, as there was so much great stuff that I wanted to talk about. But I found my ten movies, as this week Scott an...

It is a brand-new decade, but we aren't quite ready to say good-bye to the 2010s yet. It was a great decade for movies where there was a diverse slate at the cinema despite that some have whined there are no great movies anymore. Not only has there been great movies but this week we talk about some classics. Both Scott and I will reveal our top ten favourite movies of the past decades. It will be...

It is finally here, it's our favourite time of the year: The Movie Breakdown's Year-End episodes. It is the time where we form top ten lists to reflect on the year that just passed. This year it will be a three-episode series, because we are also saying good-bye to a decade as well. First, we want to kick it off by looking at the crap that polluted 2019. This week, Scott and I both rank our top te...

It is our final traditional movie review show of the decade and I can't think of a bigger way to end it. We will be reviewing the movie that is being promoted as the end of a massive nine movie saga in the sweeping space adventure, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. We also look at two movies that garnered critical acclaim during the festival circuit in the based on true events The Two Popes and th...

It is another huge show, as we have a few movies that are destined to make our 2019 year-end lists. We have the big trapped in a video game adventure sequel in Jumanji: The Next Level. We also got some powerhouse directors in Taika Waititi's new satirical, but heartfelt comedy, Jojo Rabbit and Noah Baumbach explores divorce in Marriage Story. Fred Durst rolls out a thing that is best described as...

It is another huge show as was we have five movie reviews and two of them are gunning for some Oscar recognition. One of my favourite modern directors Rian Johnson is dipping into the whodunit realm with the murder mystery, Knives Out. We have Tom Hanks playing another real-life person with this time it being the wonderful Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. Then we have some 2019...

I can't believe we're marching towards the end of another year. This week we have a wide assortment of different movies we discuss and review this week. The big one is Martin Scorsese's return to the gangster epic realm in The Irishman. We also review a smaller 2019 release in the man vs. nature thriller, Arctic. We go all the way back to the 1970s to discuss a prison drama in Midnight Express. Th...

The Christmas season is upon us, so it is time for some family holiday movies. We have two really big animated family features to discuss. The biggest one is the huge Disney fantasy sequel as we return to Anna and Elsa in Frozen 2. Do you want an origin story of Santa Claus? We have that in the Netflix animated original Klaus. Then we have some stuff that isn't family friendly like the dark dramat...

It is a busy time of year and so we have a jam-packed episode for you. Our new theatrical release is a big Oscar hopeful in the James Mangold directed, Ford v. Ferrari. We also dip into the vault to review the Bruce Lee martial arts classic, Enter the Dragon. We also got a Netflix original in the teen romance holiday movie, Let It Snow. We cap off the reviews with an indy darling from last year in...

We are jumping into the time machine this week on The Movie Breakdown as we record this episode in person just like we did from 2013 to 2016. You know what else we did back then, we often picked a lot of older movies rather than trying to review every Netflix Original movie. We kick off this new era of reviewing some older movies with a bang as we have the horror cult hit that played a part in bir...