In 2014, the video rental store Blockbuster went out of business. 9 years later, two boys stole their logo, added a hyphen and replaced the R with a D. Join the Himbos of film as each week they give you a deep dive into two movies that are related… supposedly.Â
Back again for the first time ever it's Max and Mitch's Monthly Movie Marathon! Anatomy of a Fall - 00:06:01Anyone but You - 00:13:56Night Swim - 00:18:18:The Beekeeper - 00:23:12Poor Things - 00:26:44Next Goal Wins - 00:36:09Dream Scenario - 00:46:07The Holdovers - 00:53:21All of Us Strangers - 01:02:41The Iron Claw - 01:12:51Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Why thank you, thank you very much!Max and Mitch tangle with the stars as they witness the rise and fall of Elvis (2022) and then a similar rise and fall with in his marriage with Priscilla (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Lookin' fine on the finish line. Is it the car or the fashion? The answer is yes!Max and Mitch become Italian entrepreneurs along with their best mate Adam Driver as they conspire to murder the head of a certain house of a certain fashion brand in House of Gucci (2021). Then they crash their way to the finish line in Ferrari (2023) managing to wipe out as many innocent bystanders as they possible can.Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Sexy, hot, smart and astoundingly rude. All this and more awaits in this *very* new episode of Block-Busted.Max and Mitch test the limits of their stereotype in Heathers (1988) before singing their inability to escape the limits of said stereotype in Mean Girls (2024).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
A podcast is a wish your mouth makes. For your ears. Our mouth. Your ears.Max and Mitch celebrate and commemorate 100 years of Disney by being white and short with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, followed up with having their wishes stolen or crushed by life in Wish.Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Get whimsical, get magical, get jiggy with it!Max and Mitch have returned for a new year of films and they brought a friend, Jazz, along to usher in this exciting new chapter. All three race the military and pirates to Laputa, the Castle in the Sky (1986) at which point they run into The Boy and The Heron (2023) who can't seem to stop bickering. Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Jazz: https://letterboxd.com/jazzyliss12/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Welcome to the finale of the first season of Block-Busted! To anyone and everyone who has listened to this podcast, we say sorry but also a heartfelt thank you for taking the time.In this episode, let Max and Mitch reminisce on their first year of podcasting as they take you through the highs and lows of the 2023 film scene. Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Enjoy an episode where Mitch's audio is, once again, shit! But also Jazz and Mitch have a great time with these sweet films.The Candyman (2021) is coming and he's gonna be in your mirrors and stuff, watch out for your reflection! Then watch out for Wonka (2023) who is not in your mirrors but will, in the future, have a comparable body count.Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Jazz: https://letterboxd.com/jazzyliss12/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Raw raw raw raw raw poddie raw raw raw raw Jazz and Mitch raw raw raw raw raw.Jazz and Mitch find themselves surrounded by reptiles in this episode of Block-Busted as they ride across the desert in search for water in Rango (2011) and then try and survive the destruction of a city by a walking metaphor for atomic bombs in Godzilla Minus One (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Jazz: https://letterboxd.com/jazzyliss12/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
It's been three days since I killed Max. I had to do it. He was hell bent on vengeance and there was no other way. But damn... his screams of rage fill my every moment, waking or sleeping. I found a new host to replace him, Jazz. She shows promise but in the back of my mind... I can't help but wonder if she shall fall to the same fate.- Entry from Mitch's Diary dated 10/12/2023Mitch is joined by a new host this week, Jazz, as they square up against against two different fight clubs. They battle their way through a corporatised and commercialised late 90s America after accidentally joining a Fight Club (1999) thinking it was a kickboxing gym. Then they find themselves in the early 2020s where they join a different fight club thinking, once again, it's a kickboxing gym, only to find themselves embroiled in an attempt at getting laid orchestrated by a bunch of Bottoms (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Jazz: https://letterboxd.com/jazzyliss12/Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: https://youtu.be/zcKR0KhTgHg?si=j9QiYVaRaR61h-8YMusic from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Max and Mitch think they're going on a lovely holiday to France, but little do they know they've arrived at a bit of a tumultuous time. Watch them as they listen to the people sing, and then ask them to repeat what they sang because they couldn't hear properly, in Les Misérables (2012). Unable to understand what's going on, they accidentally bumble their way into the French Military and find themselves fighting for the glory of France for their Short King (or is he an Emperor) in Napoleon (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Boy, there we go killing children again. It's a good day to be a part of this super fascist and not democratic at all nation. And, what's this? Our weekly mandated poddie listening sesh? I can't wait to hear what definitely not held at gun-point hosts Max and Mitch have to say about some films.Join Max and Mitch this week as they try and live their most dramatic high school lives and kill all their classmates in Battle Royale (2000). Once they graduate from high school, follow their less than meteoric rise through university and, eventually, political office (it's as interesting as it sounds) in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Call me the Weeknd because I am blinded by the lights! Now prepare to be deafened by this latest poddie! Max and Mitch get no sleep as they try to leave the drug game in Light Sleeper (1992). Then, they go on an intergalactic journey to shoot some lasers at some bad guys in Marvel's The Marvels (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
"Buy, Buy, Sell, Sell!" Is that the New York Stock Exchange? No - It's this week's episode of Block-Busted!Mitch and Max try their hands at getting rich quick while doing nothing but talking. First, they have a go at shorting mortgage bonds (whatever that means) in The Big Short (2015). If that wasn't enough, they jump to Reddit for financial advice on Gamestop in Dumb Money (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
I'm not a huge fan of this restaurant. The pizza is too greasy and the animatronics are too haunted. But at least the poddie they play over the speakers is... bearable.Max and Mitch find themselves employed at two different haunted family restaurants. They try and have a workplace gossip sesh with Nicolas Cage but he ain't saying anything while they clean away at Willy's Wonderland (2021). Ask them any question about the lore at their second workplace, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. Will they know the answer? Unlikely but they will make up something funny as they spend Five Nights at Freddy's (2023).Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
There is black gold in them there hills! And beige tin in this here podcast!Max and Mitch strap on their top hats as they let the spirit of capitalism take them. Watch them neglect their child and slap priests in There Will Be Blood (2007). Then, marry for money and have their butts paddled by Robert DiNero in Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).Do you want your fan mail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
You're in the woods, you hear spooky singing, and then two dudes covered head to toe in mud take you to their forest bungalow. There is a sign outside that reads 'No Spooky Girls Allowed' and they say "Don't worry, you're safe now". But then, they hand you some earbuds. "Want to listen to our podcast?"The true horrors have just begun!Max and Mitch buckle on their brave pants as they face down a variety of Spooky Girls this week. They learn about the wonders of puberty in Carrie (1976) and then how not to talk to their long dead mum's in the Exorcist: Believer.Do you want your fanmail and/or deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comTwitter: @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok: @bbpoddieInstagram: @bbpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Max and Mitch return for another round of films. This week they witness rebellion on a personal and political scale in Persepolis (2007). Then, they hope that a single mother can combat her abusive ex-husband in Shayda (2023).Find us places:Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieInstagram @bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Whir those internal fans and reboot your hard drives Bot-Kind because a new episode of the most Pro-Android podcast has arrived.Max and Mitch are back and this time they can't help but fall in love. First, they try and replace their ex-wife with a computer in Her (2013). Then they try to find peace over their other, dead, ex-wife by adopting a computer... and falling, paternally, in love with it in The Creator (2023).Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Rise and shine campers! Another poddie episode has stumbled it's way out of the woods and is now eating all our supplies. This week, follow amateur forest-men and singers Max and Mitch as they attempt to brave the untamed wilds. Apply some Aeroguard as you listen them judge the hell out of some cringe teenagers in Camp Rock (2008). Then, take a front row seat and watch them run a business into the ground in Theatre Camp (2023).Find us places:Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK'Bwaaah Sound Effect' By SPANAC (CC BY 4.0)https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/bwaaah-sound-effect/Show less
Can you feel it in your antennae? It's another fab episode of your favourite poddie, Block-Busted!In this episode, lift 10 times your body weight as Max and Mitch go to war over a woman they met in a bar once and then invent socialism in Antz (1998). Then, watch your two hosts put on their hero pants as alien technology inserts itself into their rectums and obligates them to 'save the day' in Blue Beetle (2023).Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
A new episode has arrived for you to plug into your reptilian ear holes while you warm up that cold blood of yours!Max and Mitch poke their heads out of their shells for another round of films. Listen in bewilderment as they fail to escape a tropical island in The Red Turtle (2016), then remain bewildered as they fail to hang with the local ninja youths in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023). Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Grab some popcorn and a blanket and settle in for a double feature of K-Drama!Max and Mitch have returned as dramatically as they possibly can. Listen to them bicker as they take their family cross country to start a farm in Minari (2020), only to then realise they have been growing their in-yun for generations just to, once again, be unable to spend eternity together in Past Lives (2023)Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/track/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Poddie-heads, start your engines! Max and Mitch race to their mics in this high octane episode of movie reviews. Watch as they sacrifice themselves to wipe away their guilt when talking about Gran Torino (2008). Then, see them prove to their parents that gaming isn't a waste of time in Gran Turismo (2023).Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us places:Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK'Bwaaah Sound Effect' By SPANAC (CC BY 4.0)https://www.freesoundslibrary.com/bwaaah-sound-effect/
Hello, may we enter your podcatcher? Max and Mitch grab up all the wooden stakes and garlic they can find as they combat the treacherous Count Dracula in not one, uh uh uh, but two movies about the immortal Transylvanian. Watch them fight off Gary Oldman's sex appeal in Bram Stoker's Dracula, then battle sea sickness aboard The Last Voyage of the Demeter in a Block-Busted episode you can really sink your teeth into!Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us places:Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddieTikTok @blockbustedpoddieLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
What's that green light? That odd, not of this earth sound? Are you being abducted? No, it's that time of the week when Max and Mitch talk movies. Join them this week as they tackle Wes Anderson's latest whacky creation Asteroid City (2023) and Jordan Peele's third foray onto the silver screen Nope (2022).Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us on Twitter @bbpoddie or https://twitter.com/bbpoddie Find us on Letterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
This week Mitch and Max try and talk about two shark movies, that are really the same shark movie. Will they make it through without getting chomped by The Meg (2018, John Turteltaub) or Meg 2: The Trench (2023, Ben Wheatley)?Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us on Letterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
This week, Mitch and Max watch from the comfort of their own homes as they look at two direct-to-streaming animated features. Can they come to a consensus on The Mitchells vs. The Machines (2021, Michael Rianda) and Nimona (2023, Troy Quane and Nick Bruno)?Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us on Letterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
This week, Mitch and Max tackle two hard-hitting new releases in one spectacular podcast. They try and learn something from the lessons of Barbie (2023, Greta Gerwig) and Oppenheimer (2023, Christopher Nolan), with limited success.Do you want your fanmail/deep and warranted criticism to feature in the next episode? Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comFind us on Letterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/ Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK
Jake Gyllenhaal is this week's theme as Mitch and Max talk about Donnie Darko (2001) and Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) in Block-Busted's debut episode.Email us at blockbustedpoddie@gmail.comLetterboxd:Mitch: https://letterboxd.com/swagatario/Max: https://letterboxd.com/USBChicken101/Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):https://uppbeat.io/t/all-good-folks/make-it-workLicense code: TNWVZKOXJY0OWBZK