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...
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...
On the show this week, we host a throwdown between two legendary comedy classics, both from 1980. It’s the Zucker/Abrahams production Airplane! going up against Harold Ramis’s Caddyshack. Which one is better? It’s a very...
This week on the show, it’s a battle of the B-movie directors as Joe Dante’s homage to Hollywood showman William Castle, Matinee!, throws down against Tim Burton’s biopic of the “worst director of all time,”...
This week on the podcast, it’s a throwdown between two films that feature murder caught on tape, as Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State takes on Steven Soderbergh’ s Kimi. Each is a treatise on...