The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

Ben & Rob shut their mouths and open their eyes to silent movies, with the first movie in their three part series on Charlie Chaplin, his films and his legacy. 1921’s ‘The Kid’ was a film of hundreds of movie firsts - the first ever film to mix comedy and drama, starring the first ever child star and featuring Chaplin’s first wife; what better place for Rob to start his guided tour of the man the British Film Institute called “a towering figure in world culture”?With Ben watching all of these films for the very first time, can Rob sway his co-host over to the joy that can be found in film before sound? Classic Hollywood is the foundation of so much that the podcast loves, and yet can Ben find anything to love in movies that involve any level of slapstick? What is this film's link to classic goth family comedy series ‘The Addams Family’? And what would YOU do if you found a baby in a bin?!CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob pick at the stitches holding ‘Poor Things’ together as they finish their coverage of the 2024 Oscars season with the film Ben has been DYING to cover since we began. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and many more, ‘Poor Things’ collected FOUR Academy Awards this year despite strong competition in every category it won. The story of a young woman’s journey of self-discovery in a fantastical world of patriarchy and prostitution, ‘Poor Things’ has been rightly praised for its incredible production design, striking visual tone and some career best performances from its cast.But why has the media praised this as such an insightful look at feminism? Isn’t this whole film really just a modern update of Frankenhooker? Why is the start of the film in black and white before switching to full colour? And is this delightful little movie enough to FINALLY win Rob over to Ben’s view that Yorgos Lanthimos movies are more than pure self indulgence?!CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob stay in school with ‘The Holdovers’, the Alexander Payne coming-of-age drama that’s nominated for no less than FIVE Academy Awards! Starring Paul Giamatti, DaVine Joy Randolph and Dominic Sessa in his debut role, ‘The Holdovers’ tells the tale of a curmudgeonly teacher having to stay in school over the Christmas break; to babysit students who are unwanted at home for the holidays. Filled with subtle performances in a career highlight for co-stars Paul Giamatti and DaVine Joy Randolph, we recorded the episode before it came to light this film may have been plagiarised from a script named ‘Frisco’; if it turns out to have all been a big scam we WILL re-record!Ripoff claims aside, ‘The Holdovers’ might just be the warmest, comfiest film of this decade. So why does director Alexander Payne despise having his film described in those terms? Which of Paul Giamatti’s eyes is lazy and how did they achieve it? And why was Ben spiked by Rob into an eight hour trip?!CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob cannot cover 'The Zone Of Interest'. Jonathon Glazer's latest film is uncompromisingly bleak, with even its slim glimmers of light only better illuminating our own guilt and complicity in society's continued evils. Starring Christian Friedel and Sandra Hüller, Glazer paints a cruelly slow picture of the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife, Hedwig, striving to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden next to the camp.Nominated for Best Picture and four other Academy Awards, 'The Zone Of Interest' is as brutally depressing as it's possible for a film to be, and pulls no punches in pointing the finger squarely at the audience. Can a mental health check in disguised as a light entertainment movie podcast even dare to discuss this film? When one is accused of being responsible for crimes that will one day dwarf the Holocaust in their destruction, is laughter really the best medicine? And can we trust Ben & Rob to deal with this matter with even close to the right tone?!CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob get cancelled for ‘American Fiction’; the utterly hilarious 2024 Best Picture nominee that has every white person second guessing if they’ve been the wrong kind of ally to minorities! With an all star cast that features Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K Brown, Issa Rae, Erika Alexander and Lesie Uggams, ‘American Fiction’ challenges the culture of positive discrimination with equal parts hilarity and drama. When writer Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison’s cliche-ridden satire of a “black” novel is hungrily gobbled up by publishers and Hollywood, his private and professional life are thrown into turmoil as he is forced to deal with the falling apart of his family.Undoubtedly the funniest of this year's Oscar contenders, do its themes of racially charged annoyance help or hinder its hilarity? Is this tale of commercial success too subtle to really matter when it comes to race issues in contemporary America? Or is this in fact one of the most incisive, delicate comedies to have been released all year? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! We have a YouTube with EXCLUSIVE content just for you - click the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or watch this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob reconnect with each other over ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song’s directorial debut starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro. It’s distributor A24 are better known for their independent horror movies, but this foray into romance has been cleaning up at awards shows all over the planet as well as making a tidy profit for them. ‘Past Lives’ tells the story of two kids separated by emigration to opposite sides of the planet, reconnecting as adults and questioning the role they play in each other’s lives. Weaving a beautiful tale of what-ifs and missed chances, ‘Past Lives’ is an almost impossibly well made film for a debut feature that keeps the audience engaged with delicate, subtle performances from it’s three leads.Will Nora and Hae Sung come together in love after so many years apart? Are they best off leaving it as a penpal style friendship? And when will Nora’s slightly too accepting husband whip out the video recorder? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode now available on our YouTube channel at the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob slurp up ‘Saltburn’, the social media sensation directed by Emerald Fennell of ‘Promising Young Woman’ fame. Starring Barry Keoghan, Jacob Elordi, Rosamund Pike, Richard E Grant, Alison Oliver and Archie Madekwe the film surfed a wave of buzz driven by it’s casts multiple prior hits (Banshees of Inisherin, Gran Turismo and Euphoria to name just a few).‘Saltburn’ tells the story of young undergraduate Oliver Quick and his deadly obsession with classmate Felix Catton, spending a magical yet malicious summer at his family home of Saltburn with terrifying consequences. A tale of upper class excess as much as it is quasi-sexual longing for what we cannot have, ‘Saltburn’ holds the dubious claim of being the most-commonly mentioned movie of 2023 for us to cover, and until the nominations were announced we were certain it would be an Oscar nominee. But is ‘Saltburn’ the anti-aristocracy movie that some have taken it to be? Or a series of cheap shocks strung together as a feckless homage to ‘The Talented Mr Ripley”? What’s the significance of the bull motif used constantly throughout the film? And why have users of all three social media platforms we post on been sending us hate mail all week?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode now available on our YouTube channel at the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob finish their trilogy of contemporary grindhouse with S Craig Zahler’s final movie ‘Dragged Across Concrete’. Starring famously disgraced racist Mel Gibson alongside Vince Vaughn as two suspended cops stealing money from a heist that’s not yet happened. Universally ignored upon it’s release by both festivals and wider audiences, ‘Dragged Across Concrete’ lost almost all of its budget yet ended up briefly being the most streamed film on Netflix. Zahler’s grimly dark eye as director delighted us in his previous outings (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl In Cellblock 99) but has he gone too far with his latest grindhouse genre-piece? Has Ben finally found a exploitation cinema series that Rob loves 100% of? And is there hope for Mel Gibson’s career after an unforgivable string of disgusting anti-semitism, racism and misogyny? No, and we don’t even consider for a second there could be. No film is good enough for us to forgive Mel Gibson. PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode now available on our YouTube channel at the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob suit up to take on ‘The Avengers’, not only Marvel’s final film of Phase One but our last in this year's coverage of the franchise! Representing the final move in Marvel’s master-plan to monopolise the movies; the final piece of a jigsaw started when they bet the entire Avengers IP in exchange for a £500m loan from Merril Lynch. Bringing together all of their superheroes to date, the cast bulges at the seams trying to stitch together the talent of Robert Downey Jr, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Renner and many more.On its release the film became the most financially successful film ever made - but does it stand up over ten years later? Does it effectively tie up the loose threads of the previous five films or simply plant yet more seeds? Will cinema ever return to what it was before the mega franchise machine started printing money? And did Ben & Rob even watch these films?!PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode now available on our YouTube channel at the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben & Rob drop the soap of “Brawl In Cell Block 99” as they cover every S Craig Zahler movie ever made! Released in 2017, you’d be forgiven for having never heard of this story of vengeance, courage and ultraviolence. Despite masterful directing, brilliant writing and Vince Vaughn turning in the best performance of his entire career, this film never found the audience it so clearly deserves...When Bradley Thomas (Vaughn) has his life turned upside down by a failed drug deal, he finds himself locked up and at the mercy of his old employers. With dependents in danger on the outside, just how far is one man willing to go to triumph in the face of overwhelming odds? How far is director S Craig Zahler willing to go to take faces off skulls? How far through these episode bio’s do actually read? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode now available on our YouTube channel at the link below!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast