The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

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

Ben & Rob inject 2011’s ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’, directed by Joe Johnston and starring Chris Evan, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Tommy Lee Jones and Sebastian Stan. The final Phase One film before Marvel unveiled their long-hyped debut Avengers movie, ‘The First Avenger’ sees human wetwipe Steve Rogers getting bigger and stronger but no less moist in his battle against the Nazi stand-in Red Skull. Drawing on his experience directing Jurassic Park 3 and Jumanji, director Joe Johnston balances Saturday afternoon adventure film with a classic WW2 genre sensibility; all whilst laying groundwork for the ongoing MCU Franchise.But how hard can it be to find a good man in America? Have we uncovered definitive proof that Chris Evans has tiny testicles? How many people have Marvel superheroes killed by now? And has Ben fallen in love with a certain Agent Carter? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more!PLUS! Extra content we didn’t have time for in the audio only episode 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 saddle up and gallop for Exploitationville with 2015’s ‘Bone Tomahawk’, directed by S. Craig Zahler and starring Kurt Russell, Patrick Wilson, Richard Jenkins and Lili Simmons. When bloodthirsty cannibals kidnap a cowboy’s wife, it’s up to the Sheriff to get the boys together and stage a rescue mission. In their way stands hundreds of miles of hostile wilderness, personal injury, social injustice and a metric ton of trauma. Can they beat the terrifying troglodytes or is all hope lost in The West?This film caught heat for it’s depiction of Native Peoples, made a fraction of its budget and killed the careers of some of its cast; yet this movie is considered a classic of the modern exploitation genre. Have we outgrown the tired stereotypes of the Western genre? Can Ben stay on topic for more than 48 seconds? And can YOU kill David Arquette?! Find out all this and much, much more when you CONSUUUUME!!!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 take a swing at 2011’s ‘Thor’; Marvel’s Kenneth Branagh directed fourth instalment in the cinematic universe that redefined the box-office. Introducing the third and arguably strongest Avenger, ‘Thor’ finds Asgard’s buffest boy banished for boisterous behaviour whilst his smarter, more attractive brother ends up man of the house. With Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston, Natalie Portman and the incomparable Anthony Hopkins in leading roles, the film succeeded at the box-office despite a lukewarm reception from critics. But with Thor’s enduring impact on the Avengers and Marvel’s entire franchise, does this first chapter of his tale still stand up? Is this just Marvel’s play for reflected ‘Lord Of The Rings’ money? Why is so much of this film shot at a 45 degree angle? And will Rob have ANY respect left for Ben after some of the ridiculous statements made in this very show? CONSUUUME to find out all of 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 debate the many merits of ‘If You Were The Last’, the debut feature film of director Kristian Mercado, who joins us to talk about everything from Anthony Mackie’s shed-beard to the challenge of making movies in the era of the franchise.‘If You Were The Last’ stars Anthony Mackie and Zoe Chao as two stranded astronauts facing no hope of ever returning home. In their third year of isolation, they begin to debate the benefits of a casual sexual dynamic between them. With stunning set design and natural chemistry between the leads, ‘If You Were The Last’ is Ben & Rob’s Christmas pick of 2023; not a Christmas film, but a damn fine choice for the season. Director Kristain Mercado gives Ben & Rob a rare peek behind the curtain of making a debut feature starring Captain America, shares his kinks and joins us in a game of Sloppy Synopsis! But what are his three ride or die films? What’s the worst thing Ben & Rob have ever said to each other? And what does this film share with Mexploitation classic ‘Machete’?! CONSUUUME now to find out all of this and much, much more!Find us on your socials of choice or WATCH this episode at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast