This week, it’s a throwdown between two 1999 Julia Roberts rom-coms, Notting Hill and Runaway Bride. Both have their own merits—and pitfalls. It’s a great matchup, and a great conversation filled with hot takes. Give…
On this week’s episode, it’s a throwdown between two exceptional guy-on-the-phone films, as 2002’s Phone Booth goes up against The Guilty from 2021. Which one walks away with the title? Tune in and find out!
This week, we welcome author Laura Carney and filmmaker Gerik Gooch to the show to draft 20th-century summer blockbusters like Jaws, The Empire Strikes Back, and Batman. Which player wins in the end? Check out…
It’s often said that Rob Cohen’s The Fast and the Furious from 2001 is the same film as Kathryn Bigelow’s Point Break from 1991, but with cars instead of surfboards. Well, this week on the show, Mike and Steven get to the bottom of that notion and talk through
On this week’s episode, we delve into the world of Steven Spielberg with a throwdown between two of his most discussed sci-fi films. Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977 goes up against Disclosure…
On this week’s episode, Mike and Steven host an interesting throwdown between two films that feature reluctant criminals with hearing conditions at their center. From 2017, it’s Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver, going up against Daniel…
This week on the Weekly Movie Throwdown, it’s a battle between two films set primarily inside emergency vehicles. Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out the Dead from 1999 is a haunting character study of a man (played…
In this week’s episode, Mike and Steven go way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood to discuss a throwdown between two very different Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant films. It’s 1938’s Bringing Up Baby, directed by…
In this week’s episode it’s a throwdown between woman-led action tales, as 2017’s Atomic Blonde takes on 2021’s Gunpowder Milkshake. Two ass-kicking films with a lot of style and substance levels that are all over…
On this week’s episode, it’s a throwdown between two stories of toxic achievement, as Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) takes on Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash (2015). Which film is better? Tune in to see which way…