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Ben & Steve’s Video Store has opened for March! Join the two movie geeks in their store (probably the last one on Planet Earth), as they talk about lots of things connected to the wonderful world of movies, including Reviews of the biggest home releases for March, including Terminator Dark Fate, Doctor Sleep, Ford Vs Ferrari and Knives Out. Children’s classic Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory goes into The Disturbed Ward In a new feature, ‘Ben & Steve’s Bonk-On’ we discuss Steven Spielberg’s 2005 film, Munich. This month’s Bargain Bin of the Month choice is between disaster movies Armageddon & Deep Impact, which both look at the end of the world in very different ways In the 80’s – we look at the top 10 home video rentals in the USA in 1985 In another new feature ‘So Bad, It’s Good’ we look at the Arnold Schwarzenegger film Commando and talk about how great it is, despite it being awful. As well as all that, our chat on The Karate Kid takes a dark turn, we lament Disney removing the word ‘Fox’ from 20th Century Fox and we also talk about the 1980’s TV show ‘That’s Life’. As you do. Find us on Twitter: @BenStevesVideo1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BenStevesVideoStore/?modal=admin_todo_tour Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/benandstevesvideostore/?hl=en You can email the show at benandstevesvideostore@gmail.com if you have any suggestions for future Disturbed Ward entries, or Bargain Bin of the month choices. If you want to track how many movies you’ve seen that we’ve been talking about since we opened the store, check out the show’s Letterboxd list on Steve’s page: https://letterboxd.com/spclark14/list/ben-steves-video-store/ Please leave us a 5 star review on your pod platform of choice to help our store find more customers, we do appreciate it! Also, if you want to watch the Not then Nine O’clock News sketch that we talk about, you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NVk6hf4hFE We’ll be opening again in April please return your rentals by then or you will be fined.
On this episode of Wicked Hot Movie Mayhem; Do you ever wonder why similar movies about the same subject are released around the same time? It is called the ‘twin film phenomenon.’ This episode we discuss the history of the phenomenon and why it happens so often (0:00). We also cover a few examples like Armageddon/Deep Impact (17:15), Tombstone/Wyatt Earp (23:50), War of the Worlds/H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (31:07), and Antz/A Bug's Life (43:14) www.wickedhottalk.com Twitter/Instagram/FacebookShow - @WickedHotTalkKevin - @ImperiaDigitalJon - @KimJon_Gil