The Movie Breakdown

Can you believe we are in November already? It has almost been another year of The Movie Breakdown and this week we're bringing you five movie reviews. The cool thing among all the kids is having sequels that retcon out all the sequels we don't like and so, we have Terminator: Dark Fate, the movie that wants you to believe there has only been two previous movies in the series. Speaking of erasing...

Halloween is almost here and so it is time for our annual tradition The Breakdown of Horror, where we review five scary movies. We've got two very different zombie pictures with one being about dealing with the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse in The Cured and then we have those pesky zombies chomping at brains during World War II in Overlord. We also have three movies about hauntings and possessi...

It is a big day in Canada, as it is the Federal Election, which we don't make any mention of on The Movie Breakdown. Because on this podcast, we talk movies (and recording it on Sunday means it wasn't fresh on our minds either) and you can elect to listen to all four of our reviews. The theatre had some big sequels released in the dark-ish Disney fantasy family adventure, Maleficent: Mistress of E...

Happy Thanksgiving to all my Canadian readers and listeners. For everyone else, have a fantastic Monday. To make your Monday fantastic, we have our latest episode of The Movie Breakdown where we will review three movies this week. It is October so you need a horror movie, and so we have the adaptation of the Stephen King and Joe Hill novella, In the Tall Grass. The kids are full into school now, a...

We're back to reviewing new releases this week and we've got four of them on this episode. It seems like every few months there must be a new comic book movie, but this is one very different, as we look at the gritty, violent origin story of an iconic villain in Joker. We also have another movie geared towards adults with the based on true event tale of strippers that scammed rich wall street type...

It is another special episode this week, and we look at several movies set in school. We are also looking at several movies that by many are considered classics and even defined their decade. We got two John Hughes movies in the Saturday detention comedic drama The Breakfast Club and then the movie about the guy who'd never get stuck in detention, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Then we leave the 1980s...

This week we've got another special episode, and this is The Breakdown of More Reasons for Why We Love Movies. This is the sequel to an episode we did a few years ago, and we now have even more things that cause us to be huge movie fans. We could do a show like this a hundred time, because there are so many things that makes movies great. Some of the things we discuss this time are the shared expe...

It is another special episode this week, as we finally do something that I've wanted to do for over a year. We analyze all the major Hollywood movie studios and look at their success in the box office, the diversity of their slate of movies and how consistent they are at delivering creative and high-quality pictures. We will discuss big studios like Disney, Warner Brothers, Universal, Paramount an...

It is a return to the movie reviews this week on The Movie Breakdown, and we've got five of them for you. The big one is the hotly anticipated horror sequel in It: Chapter 2, which is a follow-up to one of my favourite movies of 2017. We also have a horror-thriller based on children's game in Ready or Not, a feel-good drama about an obsessed Bruce Springsteen fan in Blinded by the Light, we have a...

For Ontario kids, it is time to return to school tomorrow, which spells the end of summer vacation. If you look at the new releases this past weekend at the cinemas, you can also see it is the end of the summer movie season. So, it is time to look back at the past four months and analyze what have we learned about the state of movies and the future of the summer blockbuster movie season. We discus...

The major movie studios are always looking for the next big blockbuster movie, but there is still a very healthy place for genre movies. This week we discuss the state of genre movies and how we see their future. We talk about things like how horror has risen to be the best genre to explore family issues, we look at the resurrection of the musical, what makes a good 18A movie and how comedy has ch...

The latest episode of The Movie Breakdown is here to enhance your summer Monday with movie talk. We review two theatrical releases in the raunchy coming of age comedy in Good Boys and a horror picture based on a popular book series in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. We also have two Netflix Originals including the comedy about under-appreciated mothers in Otherhood and the political documentary...

The latest episode of The Movie Breakdown is here to make another summer day movie-talk-a-licious. Oh boy, do we talk movies. We have four movie reviews this week. We review the Melissa McCarthy and Tiffany Haddish starring crime drama based on a graphic novel, The Kitchen. Do you want more star vehicles? Well, how about the based on true events drama-thriller starring Chris Evans, The Red Sea Div...

August has arrived and that means there is one big summer special effects extravaganza left and we are ready to review it this week. That is right, we're discussing the Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham starring action spin-off to Fast and Furious in Hobbs & Shaw. A movie that is probably even a bigger deal to cinephiles is also being reviewed this week in Quentin Tarantino's latest. Once Upon a Ti...

It is a special episode this week that we are calling The Breakdown of the Future of Movies. We predict some major changes that we believe will happen over the next year or two. We will discuss things like filmmakers having more creative control, a greater focus on movies for adults, streaming services beginning to become similar to cable and movie theatres becoming more affordable and community f...

It has been the summer of Disney when it comes to the big blockbusters and we review a huge one this week in the adaptation of animated classic in The Lion King. We also look at two Netflix originals in the buddy action flick starring Anthony Mackie and Frank Grillo in Point Blank and then a Taiwanese sci-fi dystopian thriller meets crime noir in Cities of Last Things. We also talk about how moder...

We are now deep into the summer movie season, which means we still have some big explosive tentpoles, but some mid-budget genre fare starts making its way out too. This week we review one of the biggest movies of the summer in the latest instalment of the adventures of our favourite neighbourhood superhero in Spider-Man Far from Home. You want some genre fun, then how about a young woman trying to...

Happy Canada Day to all our Canadian listeners, and for our American fans, happy almost Independence Day. We forgot to make those well-wishes on the show, but we did remember to serve up three movie reviews. The big one is the supernatural horror sequel, Annabelle Comes Home, which is the latest in the Conjure-verse. We also have a high concept romantic comedy about a failed singer who ends up bei...

It is our 300th episode. We've been doing this since 2013 and have reviewed hundreds of movies. Today we will review four more. We got a huge one in the Pixar animated adventure and follow-up to a classic in Toy Story 4. We keep up the theme of talking toys with the more sinister Child's Play. Speaking of evil talking toys, we have the latest Adam Sandler movie in Murder Mystery. Finally, we look...

This week we are deep in the sequel talk. We review two theatrical movies that are 'rebooted' sequels of once popular series. One of my favourite modern movie duos Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson team up again but this time in some suits for the latest adaptation of a sci-fi adventure series in Men in Black International. Then director Tim Story does a very comedic version of a long running act...

This week on The Movie Breakdown we've got three movie reviews to kick off your Monday right. The big theatrical release is the musical biopic of Elton John called Rocketman and yes, I make some comparisons to Bohemian Rhapsody. We also discuss the latest romcom from Netflix with the story about two best friends falling love in Always Be My Maybe. Then we review the children fighting aliens advent...

We are just a few weeks away from our 300th episode. But we still have lots of movie goodness to discuss until then. We have a huge summer movie this week in the big monster mash sequel, Godzilla: King of the Monsters. We also review three Netflix originals in the twisty thriller, The Perfection, a new romcom called Good Sam and a political documentary in Knock Down the House. After the movie revi...

This week we have a surprise as we are revisiting Avengers: Endgame again but this time with all the spoilers and major plot points being discussed and analyzed. We also have three other movie reviews including the latest live-action adaptation of a Disney animated classic in Aladdin. We also have two Netflix originals in Amy Poehler's directorial debut in the comedy Wine Country and the teen comi...

Another weekend has passed and that means a new release needs to be reviewed on The Movie Breakdown. This week it is one we've been looking forward to talking about for a long time with the third instalment of the bloody, stunt-laden, poetic actioner John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum. We also finally discuss the Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron starring romcom Long Shot. Netflix has two movies about m...

It is a huge show this week that we are calling The Breakdown of the Atypical Blockbuster. When you think box office powerhouse, you usually picture big special effects adventure movies, but sometimes other type of movies can connect with an audience and make the same kind of money. The is a week we will review the master Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece in the original slasher movie, Psycho. We hav...