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Box Office PulpBEG (2011) Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Extravaganza)Scoop out the guts, carve out the eyes, scoop out the guts... oh, hello there! Dont mind me, just preparing the family's plus-sized gourd for Big-Ass Pumpkin Day, the only remaining holiday Hallmark hasn't gotten its grubby fingers on! This year's attraction is a slasher movie so you better believe we found it on Tubi, 2011's Beg. Its the provocative story of a small-town cop and his favorite clone batch tracking down a serial killer with a pumpkin on his head, murder on his mind, and... a shifting ethnicity? What? Join the crew for a commentary as murky as...2024-10-142h 05
Box Office PulpHUNDREDS OF BEAVERSWith studios less sure how to reach audiences by the day, only one film has the answer to what people truly want: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS. In the newest movie from Mike Cheslik and the team behind Lake Michigan Monster bring us a new descent into whimsy and madness in a film so ridiculous, we're convinced it stars Cody. Join Mike and Jamie as they talk about this delirious swirl of live action cartoon, silent(ish) movie, harrowing survival tale, XXX-ed jugs ,and 16-bit farming sim (not kidding), HUB might be the most creative movie of the year, the funniest...2024-07-1424 min
Box Office PulpSPEEDardy!Surprise test, hothead! Just when the BOP crew thought they could enjoy some much-needed R&R, they're pulled away from their vacation to stop a madman threatening to destroy everything we hold dear: their co-host! Welcome to SPEEDARDY, the game show where the velocity is made up and the pedestrians don't matter, organized by Quizmaster Cody to test the limits of his friends' knowledge of the Jan de Bont crowd-pleaser... if only they had actually watched the movie beforehand. Will Mike get the girl, or will it be Jamie who discovers how few relationships based on intense experiences ever work...2024-05-0555 min
Box Office PulpThe Humbugs of Cinema: A Christmas Carol(s) RetrospectiveOld Box Office Pulp was better than its word. It returned to the well of Dickens yet again that December, to spend another holiday discussing where the adaptations of A Christmas Carol fell on the gravy-grave scale. They ranked the various Scrooges, Fezzywigs, Marleys, and infinitely more; and to Cody, who did NOT die of alcohol poisoning last commentary, there was much introspection on the logistics of employing a street urchin, the bizarre phenomenon of Scrooge Action Scenes, why Albert Finney decided to go Full Witch, whether London bookie Eddie Scrooge ever beat that murder rap, and whether the...2023-12-241h 06
Box Office PulpSAW III Commentary TrackEditor's Note: Mike's audio was borked and did our best to do a Lazarus on it and save the commentary. Will be jarring at first but hope we got it listenable for you. Our apologies!With Saw X currently gouging up the theaters, we continue our ongoing social experiment against the moral integrity of Cody's liver, BOP n' A Movie! This edition's reading from The Book of BOP brings us to Saw III, Darren Lynn Bousman's sophomore turn in the director's chair and Leigh Whannell's final word on Jigsaw and all his animal friends. Avoiding the franchise's...2023-10-232h 15Box Office PulpSAW II (Unrated) Commentary TrackXavier did nothing wrong! And now that we've got your attention, welcome to the second installment of Saw n' A Movie, the commentary series that was in the safe the whole time. Spoilers. Join us as we discuss Saw II, first-time director Darren Lynn Bousman's inaugural dip into the needle-pit that would shape the franchise to this very day, and the first time America heard Tobin Bell lecture us about time management. We talk the brilliant set-design, the balancing act between traps and story the other films would struggle with, the return of Shawnee Smith as the world's first reverse-Scream...2023-09-271h 49Box Office PulpSUPER MARIO BROS. (1993) Commentary TrackNothing is impossible, listeners. Improbable? Unlikely? Sure, but never impossible. If you need any more proof, just look at the new Nintendo movie that hit theaters this week, something fans thought they'd never see again after the subject of this BOP n' A Tragedy audio commentary, 1993's Super Mario Bros! You're heard the jokes, the brutal behind-the-scenes stories, and the lamentations of Leguizamo, but the BOP Crew (okay, mostly Jamie) aren't content with leaving the first video game movie on the scrapheap. Between the eight (!) scripts that slowly mutated a fantasy comedy into a cyberpunk thriller-- then tried to walk...2023-04-092h 02Box Office PulpSCREAM 6Ghostface and BOP are back, baby! After their respective hiatuses, one is here to talk about movies and the other to cut a bloody swath through New York City. We'll let you decide which is which. Regardless, The Core Four are back on the silver screen with a new masked slasher to contend with, and Mike and Cody get to gab about what may be one of their new favorite entries in the Scream franchise! Mostly importantly, though, they get to loudly declare "Kirby Lives!" with righteous indignation. So how does the sixth installment fare without series lead Sidney Prescott...2023-03-2356 minBox Office PulpTalking with Josh Ruben on A WOUNDED FAWN + BLOOD RELATIVESCody and Jamie welcome actor/writer/director/producer/cat dad Josh Ruben to the show to chat about his two new films, the festival hits A Wounded Fawn and Blood Relatives, both streaming now on Shudder. Along the way we talk about his transition from acting to directing, the slippery slope of horror movie references in horror movies, the thrill of giving an audience a genuine surprise, his small but show-stealing role in the vampire flick of the year, and how he would approach resurrecting a Sam Raimi classic for a new generation.Defeat your own inner Red Owl b...2022-12-1740 minBox Office PulpPUMPKINHOLE Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Extravaganza)Parents, lock up your children! Farmers, lock up your gourds! It's the time of year when mischief is in the air and danger is in Cody's wine glass, Big-Ass (Big-Ass) Pumpkin Day! And what better way to celebrate being halfway-to-Halloween than with our feature commentary for 2022's Pumpkinhole! Rather than a schlocky spookfest, or an October concert film capturing the 90's grunge band Hole, we've instead found a chilling, surreal exploration of guilt and madness. Look, it had a funny name, okay! Grab an age-appropriate beverage as we discuss the breakdown of the sacred Halloween/Thanksgiving/Christmas truce, the perils...2022-10-141h 37Box Office PulpTHE BLACK PHONEFrom the ashes of a Raimi-less Doctor Strange sequel from another multiverse comes Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill's exemplary adaptation of Joe Hill's THE BLACK PHONE, which gifts us a new horror icon in Ethan Hawke's THE GRABBER and some of the best child performances since IT! Cody and Mike ring up some ghosts themselves to dive into the 70s trappings, heady themes, the ways Derrickson and Cargill expand and improve the short tale, and for some reason debate whether or not the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT remake should have included the chainsaw massacre or not.Pick...2022-07-3052 minBox Office PulpMini BOP - XAfter toiling in the lucrative salt mines of television for the last few years, Ti West has returned to film with his most unique-- and haunting-- film yet, with the A24-produced geezersploitation slasher X. Listen as Cody and Jamie discuss how well West's slow-burn approach to horror fits this tale of a 70's porno shoot gone wrong, the star-making double performance from Mia Goth, and just how terrifying the elderly truly are despite years of Cocoon propaganda. Prove where you stand on the nice girl/not-so-nice girl binary by downloading here!Facebook: https://www.f...2022-05-0237 minBox Office PulpDUNE (2021) Commentary TrackAs they say on Salusa Secundus, Cody's dreams are messages from the derp. *insert horrible god language* And if any of that nonsense sounded familiar, then boy do we have three hours for you! Damn your own personal spice as you join Baron Cody Drinkonnen, Michael'Dib, and Euphoria's Zendaya as Jami, while they record a BOP n' A Movie thought unrecordable on the film thought unfilmable! Battling public apathy, a pandemic, and production woes longer than most cast members have been alive, Denis Villeneuve's Frank Herbert's Dune: Part One had no reason to be the surprise hit it was, and...2022-03-032h 50Box Office PulpSCREAM (2022)Ring. Ring. What’s your favorite scary movie? If the answer isn’t an entry in the SCREAM franchise, then we don’t want you to live anyway! It’s been years since the last entry and we have since lost the legendary Wes Craven, but the incredible talents known as RADIO SILENCE concocted a legacy requel/sequel/satire that not only honored the maestro, but carried on his and Kevin Williamson’s influence. Mike and Cody stab their way through the newest tale of Woodsboro’s infamous Ghostface killa, SCREAM (5)!Hide your red right hand and download now!Faceb...2022-02-0250 minBox Office PulpTHE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL Commentary Track2021 was dead, to begin with. Dead as a doornail. And to lay it to rest, we've embarked on a most joyous recording: a commentary track for the beloved The Muppet Christmas Carol, cherished by many a soul as the best adaptation since Charles Dickens first put quill to parchment. Our brothers in felt's first outing after the death of Jim Henson, this holiday classic boasts career-highlight performances from Michael Caine, Steve Whitmire, and Rizzo The Rat as Himself. But did it hold a candle to the Scrooge chronicles before and after? And would the BOP Crew be able to reflect...2021-12-221h 40Box Office PulpJAMES GUNN'S THE SUICIDE SQUADKinnison The Zombie. Cody Alft. Trident Man. Box Office Pulp Guy. Mike Napier. Click-Ar. Jamie Marshall. And Weasel. Together, these desperate criminals will be united by one mission: Discuss the four-color carnage of The Suicide Squad, James Gunn's most ambitious (and bloodiest) feature yet. And not all of them will be coming home! Between the dark humor, and darker political commentary, "The" couldn't be farther from its peers or the infamous original, but does this sequel/reboot/apology have what it takes to stand beside the best of the genre? Do z-listers like Bloodsport and Ratcatcher have a shot at...2021-08-2139 minBox Office PulpR.L. STINE'S FEAR STREET TRILOGY (1994, 1978, 1666)Childhood friends Mike and Cody, along with the girl next door Jamie, had the perfect summer job: Hosting the local radio station's movie analysis show. That was, until they met a trilogy whose secrets would not be so easily uncovered: R.L. Stine's Fear Street! Inspired by the proto-Goosebumps all the cool kids were reading, director Leigh Janiak's multi-era, genre-spanning horror epic is a haunted house of twists, turns, and questionable character choices. Will they survive the experience long enough to tell tale of its grisly kills, shockingly sincere love story, and unique take on slasher conventions? Or will they...2021-08-1353 minBox Office PulpTHE THIN MAN Commentary TrackHolidays got you drained? Not particularly festive this year? Feel like punching a stranger if you see another Leg Lamp? Then BOP n' A Movie has a non-denominational, seasonally-appropriate treat where Santa keeps his jolly ass at home: 1934's booze-and-clues classic THE THIN MAN! Join Mike & Jamie Charles, along with their pet drunk Cody, as they investigate what's made this feel-good homicidal romp stand the test of time. From William Powell and Myna Loy's one-of-a-kind chemistry, to the film's uncanny talent for sending-up noir tropes before they were even tropes, you couldn't ask for a cozier movie to get...2020-12-241h 49Box Office PulpYou Can't Kill The Gummer: TREMORS 5 & 6So it's come to this. Jamie and Cody are reaching the end of their trek through the life of Burt Gummer, and have seen the mustache man's most terrifying foe yet: IP cash-ins. On its penultimate episode, You Can't Kill The Gummer looks at the two movies that brought back the graboids for a new generation, for better or worse, 2015's Tremors 5: Bloodlines and 2018's Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell. The first entries in the franchise without the involvement of Stampede Entertainment, are these Jamie Kennedy-centric fahter-and-son survivalist bonding adventures worthy of the legacy of worm-explodin' that came before...2020-12-1156 minBox Office PulpALIEN ABDUCTION: INCIDENT IN LAKE COUNTY Commentary Track In the fall of 2020, Cody Alft, Mike Napier, and Jamie Marshall set out to record a Thanksgiving episode of their podcast, on the UPN original movie Alien Abduction: Incident At Lake County. What they purportedly captured on their microphones was more than just a discussion of obscure cinema. The following BOP n' A Movie commentary track, if real, could be the most important evidence ever that the found footage subgenre has roots reaching back long before Blair Witch. As you avoid election discourse with relatives, listen to the crew of Box Office Pulp detail their childhood memories of D...2020-11-261h 41Box Office PulpYou Can't Kill The Gummer: TREMORS 4: THE LEGEND BEGINSSit around this campfire, podcast listener, and we shall tell you a tale. A tale of greed, and deception, and unstoppable will. A tale of a young country growing out of stolen soil, and the blood that watered it. And sandworms. It's Tremors, we're talking about Tremors again, it's another Tremors episode. Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, to be exact! Join Silver Tycoon Cody and Schoolmarm Jamie as they explore the last entry in the series to involve original co-creator S.S. Wilson, a Weird Western prequel that's as out-of-left-field as finales get, but also... might have the most...2020-11-1936 minBox Office PulpYou Can't Kill The Gummer: TREMORS 3: BACK TO PERFECTIONMuch like Frosty The Snowman and the star power of Bradley Cooper, graboids never stay gone for too long, and You Can't Kill The Gummer is back with a look at Tremors 3: Back To Perfection. After five long years, we return to Burt and his home of Perfection, Nevada, a festering hellhole of false cowboys, shady real estate schemes, and more sandworm-themed tourist traps than Frank Herbert's home town.How does this return to form for the series stack up against the form it was returning from? Join Cody, Jamie, and The Endangered Ass-Blasters Of America as they...2020-10-2737 minBox Office PulpHAPPY HALLOWEEN, SCOOBY-DOO! Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Extravaganza)You walk out onto an unfamiliar street, your legs doing the thinking for you. The chill steals the last remnants of warmth from your breath, turning it to a cool mist before your eyes. It's dark, as dark as it gets, but even so there are shadows, long and threatening, cast by nothing at all. As it strikes you how improbable that is, you hear the children, unseen but approaching, the clatter of their hurried footsteps nearly drowning out their endless, maddening chant: "Come on, Scooby, where you been? Trouble's on the loose again." It is Big-Ass Pumpkin...2020-10-141h 42Box Office PulpYou Can't Kill The Gummer: TERMORS 2: AFTERSHOCKSFetch your combustible RC cars and Graboids™ arcade cabinet, because this retrospective on the Tremors sequels has finally reached its first Tremors sequel! This week Cody and Jamie are revisiting Tremors 2: Aftershocks, the 1996 follow-up that brings half the cast, a quarter of the budget, but three times the Fred Ward. Could this hold the dubious honor of the greatest DTV sequel of all time? What the hell is going on with Graboid physiology? And how does the fall of the Soviet Union play into the origin story of the greatest monster hunter to ever live... in Nevada? I do...2020-10-0538 minBox Office PulpYou Can't Kill The Gummer: TREMORSDuring these trying times the auto commercials tell us we're having, everyone's looking for comfort food. So while Mike wages a private war with his internet provider, Cody and Jamie are digging into one of the few things from their childhoods that have weathered all life's thrown at them and come out still kicking: The Tremors franchise, mainlined by one of the longest-running monster hunters in film, Burt Gummer. Welcome to You Can't Kill The Gummer. the podcast where nobody owns a helicopter! Leading up to the release of seventh (!) entry in the series, they're revisiting each chapter...2020-09-2546 minBox Office PulpDIY Demons: Lake Michigan Monster & HostIf you're anything like the BOP Crew, you've been idling away Virus Year with as many homebrew projects as you can. But while some of us are building LEGO castles or recutting Excalibur to be in sync, indie artists have been proving how much can be done with hardly anything at all. Join Cody and Jamie as they hype up Arrow's "Lake Michigan Monster", and Shudder's "Host", two wildly different, direct-to-streaming genre entries from directors Ryland Brickson Cole Tews and Rob Savage. Nautical hijinks abound as BOP delves into the changing definition of DIY filmmaking, the structural efficiency of the...2020-08-2447 minBox Office PulpDOOM Commentary TrackWithin the unseen Umbral Plains of Hollywood, film studios rip souls from promising films, producing husks of celluloid innards designed by The Nameless Marketers to please no one. Cinemas and discount bins infested with once earnest oaths for proper adaptation. Nowhere is this demonic pact more brutal than the videogame movie. The simplest of concepts, confused and contorted into unhuman wretches. It takes only podcasters with huge guts to examine the why and the how of such torment. A stellar cast, a writer with cred, the perfect blueprint, everything going for it and the right eye toward B-movie flair. But...2020-06-252h 05Box Office PulpX-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE Commentary TrackHe's the best at what he does, unfortunately, what he does in no way involves the power to tell Tom Rothman "no." The BOP Crew reaches the zenith of X-Men Generation One in our X-Retrospective series, along with the zenith of late 2000s 20th Century Fox Tom-foolery (see what we did there?). This is our audio commentary for X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, a film meant to kickstart a spin-off series of Origin titles, be Gavin Hood's big break, the start of a (very) different Deadpool, plus many other incredibly broken promises. Instead, a writer's strike, producer and executive arguments, conflicting ideals...2020-05-212h 02Box Office PulpX-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND Commentary TrackAudiences and third films. They have long struggled to co-exist, with studios stretching directors to the point of burnout, and others choosing new blood to handle the ballooning budgets and ravenous expectations. Neither strategy has prevailed, and X-Men: The Last Stand exists as a monument to this riddle so few can solve. Join BOP n' A Movie as we move into Tragedy territory on the third leg of our X-Men commentary series, dissecting one of the most infamous disappointments of the 2000's, a film so poorly-received it was held partially responsible for "killing" the superhero movie before the MCU began...2020-05-011h 54Box Office PulpX2: X-MEN UNITED Commentary TrackEscalation. Since the discovery of the formula, superhero movies have known it to be the secret to their survival. The debate rages: Do audiences want more action and a grander scale the second time around, or a more personal experience with these characters? Either way, it is a historical fact: X2: X-Men United had it both ways. The academy's sophomore outing attempted to adapt God Loves, Man Kills, delve into Wolverine's origins at Weapon X, unravel a presidential assassination conspiracy, set up the Dark Phoenix Saga, AND be a sequel to the original film, and by some miracle of mutation...2020-04-022h 26Box Office PulpCOLOR OUT OF SPACEFrom the cthonic dank of the interwebs comes a podcast of most immemorial effulgence! An innumerably indescribable discussion on a frenzied blaze of cosmic daemonicum! Okay, we'll stop now. But in our defense, we're just so darn excited to talk up the madness of one Howard Phillip Lovecraft! Recently, in some glorious begotten miracle from the Great Old Ones, the legend himself, Richard Stanley, returned to filmmaking after 20-plus years with an absolutely mind-bending adaptation of one of Lovecraft's greatest and most terrifying, COLOR OUT OF SPACE! So, join us as we dissect the horror Lovecraftian horror, what Stanley added...2020-03-151h 01
Box Office PulpX-MEN Commentary TrackComic book movies: The key to multi-media empires. It has enabled us to view men in rubber suits punching penguin-men, spandex-clad alien visitors turning back time, and Shaq attempting to act. But every few decades, comic book movies leap forward. With the impending release of NEW MUTANTS, the final in-continuity film in the franchise that changed the course of action cinema and cemented a genre into the pop culture zeitgeist, the BOP Crew is celebrating where it all began with a trip down Mutant Lane, going deep and introspective on the X-MEN franchise! It's a BOP 'n A Movie...2020-03-021h 54Box Office PulpCHILD'S PLAY 3 Commentary TrackJust when you thought it was time to put away childish things like dolls and do something grown-up like put on fatigues and pretend war for a bunch of old white dudes, movie studio executives come beckoning with insane demands like putting out another sequel less than a year since your last entry! Such is the strange and sad tale of Don Mancini's CHILD'S PLAY 3, a Bop n' A Tragedy if there ever was one! With only mere months to throw together a script, cast, and film an entire movie from scratch, it's a testament to Mancini's talent that Chucky...2020-02-041h 44Box Office PulpMonster Crime!CRIME! It's shambling its way across this great land of ours, and we all know who's responsible! Creatures from the grave and beyond, coming into our towns, terrorizing our babysitters, striking down our camp counselors, and carrying our brides into the sea! Thankfully, the good men and otherwise of the B.O.P. have been tasked with restoring the rule of law, and in this broadcast they will suss out which of these Ghoul-Americans are hard-working members of society, and which should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. THE PHANTOM: Opera-house menace or harmless prodigy? MICHAEL MYERS...2020-01-251h 07Box Office PulpBOP Brews: Vol. 1This New Year's Evil, pour yourself something nice, sit next to a roaring fire, and listen to the first-ever Box Office Pulp clipshow! Then immediately throw out whatever drink you just made, because our Senior Mixologist Cody "Drinking" Alft is your guide through the world of movie-themed booze. Want the perfect drink to get you in the mood for Clue? Cody's drunk it™! Looking to dull the cosmic horror of Event Horizon? Cody's drunk it™! Want to get plastered while watching Harry Potter? Highly inappropriate for a variety of reasons, but you better believe Cody's drunk it™! So enjoy t...2019-12-311h 05Box Office PulpNetflix And BOPAs countless movie trailers keep reminding us, the world is changing. With theaters struggling to attract butts to seats, streaming sites are shaping up to soon be the primary way we see new releases. So how well are they handling the responsibility? Join Cody and Jamie as they discuss the highs, lows, and Brights of the former pop-up ad nuisance and current King Of New Media, The Net-Flicks. Does The Irishman live up to the hype, or did Disney put out a hit on Martin Scorsese for nothing? Is word-of-mouth going to be enough to make these titles...2019-12-201h 02Box Office PulpJohn Carter (Of Mars) - LOVE THE BOMBSMars ain't no place to set a movie. In fact, it's cold as hell. This is a lesson Andrew Stanton would learn in 2012 when the release of his dream project, a mega-budget adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' massively influential John Carter novels, was met with spectacular apathy from critics and audiences alike. Released a month before The Avengers, this mocap-heavy sci-fi/fantasy/western was going to kick off the next great Disney franchise, but inexperience, bad timing, and one of the most ill-advised marketing campaigns in recent memory doomed it to the scrap heap. A shame, since it's one...2019-12-051h 03Box Office PulpTHE ADDAMS FAMILY (1991) with Spooky Gal's CornerThe BOP Crew does what they wanna do and says what they wanna say... and the podcast might be worst off for it. In this extra special creepy and kooky episode, we turn the clock back to the radical '90s to talk one of our most affectionate childhood movies, Barry Sonnenfeld's THE ADDAMS FAMILY! But, since we three are only mysterious, creepy and kooky, we needed someone to really bring in that spooky! So we reached out to friend of the show and real life Morticia, Jasmine of Spooky Gal's Corner! With our powers combined, we're all together ooky...2019-11-251h 14Box Office PulpReturn To BOP's Lot: The Worst Of KingWe've talked about a lot of good Stephen King movies on Box Office Pulp, but tonight we want to tell you about the ones that weren't so good. A lot of other podcasts have made fun of these, and we finally decided that if you want something done right... you ought to do it yourself. So join the BOP Crew as they reminisce about a childhood wasted waiting for The Langoliers to eat that airport, Matthew Mcconaughey's leisurely stroll toward The Dark Tower, the tremendous lasting impact Maximum Overdrive has somehow had on American culture, and the sinister...2019-11-141h 19Box Office PulpTRICK 'r TREAT Commentary TrackDuring the spookiest time of the year, there are a few guidelines all horror fans should follow. Always check if there's a Blumhouse release out, never go to a stranger's home to see their VHS collection, and NEVER watch alone. I see you're ready to pop in the 2009 anthology Trick r' Treat tonight, but not so fast, Timmy! You want to let The BOP Crew check that movie for razor-blades, so give this BOP n' A Movie audio commentary a listen first! Our Samhain Specialists are here to explore how Michael Dougherty's directorial debut showcases the holiday in all of...2019-10-311h 34Box Office PulpTHE PUMPKIN KARVER Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Extravaganza)Get out your knife and a really big spoon, because it's the only day of the year the BOP Crew looks forward to more than Halloween: The Great Gourdening, Dia de los Calabaza itself, Big-Ass Pumpkin Day! And to properly prepare for the festivities, we suggest you put on a slasher so obscure it makes you think "Wow, Amy Weber and Minka Kelly are really slumming it," THE PUMPKIN KARVER! Mix together this year's BAPD Cocktail, and listen to Cody, Mike, and Jamie get lost in the dangerous world of expert pumpkin carving. Then grab your own pump', cut a f...2019-10-141h 47Box Office PulpBOP's Lot: The Best of Stephen KingThe author from Maine strode across the silver screen, and the BOP Crew followed. Not, like, in a stalker way or anything, we just-- it's a podcast, okay? And in honor of this year's love affair with the man, we're spotlighting the legend, inspiration, and goddamn industry that is Stephen King! People (mainly us) have gushed about The Shining and IT aplenty, but what about the lesser-known cinematic gems from the most-adapted author since God? Listen to Cody Flagg, Mike Renfield, and It Was Always Meant To Be Jamie as they revisit the time two masters of horror gave us...2019-09-301h 36Box Office PulpIT: CHAPTER 2Beep Beep, folks! The BOP Crew is floating their way on back to Derry to fulfill a blood oath. A blood oath to... to talk about movies. We take talking about movies very seriously, all right!? But regardless, we find ourselves collectively at the conclusion of the horror juggernaut that is Stephen King's clown-tastic, IT CHAPTER 2! Andy Muschietti takes on the Herculean task of providing a satisfying end to a story that generally... is not known for having a satisfying ending. After crafting a masterpiece with Chapter 1, is he able to land safely, or is there Langoliers-sized turbulence? Join Mike...2019-09-221h 00Box Office PulpSPLIT SECONDSatan's in deep shit! The BOP Crew is sitting down with some instant coffee and whipping chocolates at the refrigerator. Cody's housewarming party? No, it's because we're talking about the 1992 sci-fi/horror/noir/comedy from the writer of Hollow Man and The Fast And The Furious, SPLIT SECOND! Haven't heard of it, you say? Neither had we until the passing of it's star, Rutger Hauer, but what we found was a chronicle of the far-flung future of 2008, where a troubled detective who doesn't play by the rules searches the flooded streets of London for a killer who may be something...2019-09-0554 minBox Office PulpCHILD'S PLAY 2 Commentary TrackOh, you thought it was the end, friends? Clearly you don't know how slasher flicks work! We're continuing our BOP 'n A Movie series on the franchise that keeps going and going and going and going. And unlike that piece of crap Energizer Bunny, Chucky don't need no batteries to do it! This time, we tackle the baby steps the series took as it moved on from Tom Holland, slowly began embracing a more campy tone, and sky rocketed everyone's favorite killer doll into a pop culture sensation! A debate has raged between series fans for decades on whether this...2019-08-221h 36Box Office PulpMini BOP - VENOMThe nineties were a grand ole' time if you were a geeky kid. An era ruled by a wise and fair Macho King, all your favorite characters co-existed in ice cream form, and an invasion of bigger, badder, and extrem-ier anti-heroes hit comics like a flaming-hot meteor, and cooled off just as quickly. Over thirty years since his creation, VENOM has not only outlived the trends that birthed him, but thrived -- much to the chagrin of the same readers who were his first fans. In Eddie Brock's film debut (we don't talk about Spider-Man 3), Ruben Fleischer and co. have...2019-08-0135 minBox Office PulpCHILD'S PLAY (1988) Commentary TrackThe BOP Crew will be your friends 'till the end! Or at least until you shove us into a fire place and light us ablaze. But even being a congealed, melted hunk of plastic won't keep us from bringing you this BOP 'n A Movie! With the remake having just recently graced theaters, it seemed appropriate to travel back in time to the beginning of a now incredibly long-running horror series, to the first time Charles Lee Ray bellowed out an incantation to transfer his soul. The first time he screeched out "you bitch!" or skittered about the floor with...2019-07-201h 40Box Office PulpSPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOMEIn today's troubling world, we need real heroes now more than ever. That's why we're glad to report that a new icon has risen to inspire America in its darkest hour: Mysterio, the star of Marvel's Spider-Man: Far From Home. Listen to us rave about how Jake Gyllenhaal brings the iconic inter-dimensional traveler known as Mysterio to life, the surprisingly relevant themes his character represents, and what the developments he brings to the table mean for both Spider-Man and the MCU at large. In a world where Into The Spider-Verse exists, what does this movie do to step out of...2019-07-081h 01Box Office PulpGODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019)History (and Hollywood) can't help but show, again and again, how nature points out the folly of man, and usually it's with a giant, radioactive, morally-ambiguous lizard beating the ever loving snot out of some monsters. Now THAT'S an environmental lesson we can all get behind! It's been many a years since Gareth Edwards rose a new Americanized big budget Godzilla from the depths. It may not have been perfect, but with the release of Michael Dougherty's damn fine roller-coaster ride of a sequel, it is the perfect cinematic equivalent of "I set 'em up, you knock 'em down!" And...2019-06-2759 minBox Office PulpABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN Commentary TrackYou've seen The Crew go head-to-glove with Freddy Krueger. You've seen them say n-o to Jack-O, and chase Pumpkinhead back to Lance Henrickson's shack with his pumpkintail between his pumpkinlegs! But now they face off against cinema's most terrifying creatures... Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, the original Vaudevillian Villains! In yet another BOP 'n A Movie rock 'em and sock 'em punch-out involving things which go bump in the night and/or snarl a lot, we survey the only surviving record of three hapless monsters who left the old country in search of the American dream, and found only a n...2019-06-181h 40Box Office PulpAVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR Commentary TrackIN THIS CORNER, HAILING FROM LV-426, THE PHALLIC EYE IN GIGER'S EYE, THE HUDSON DESTROYER... THE XENOMORPH! And... in this corner... from parts unknown... he's the last laugh on Schwarzenegger... he's one ugly mother f*cker... THE PREDATOR! And whoever wins... doesn't really matter because we'll still be getting a really disappointing sequel either way. But we're not here for requiems! We're here for a monster mash-up of a BOP 'n A Movie! Remembered for being a big dumb CGI laden action flick, with years removed and upon reflection... well, it's still like half that. BUT more interesting than it's...2019-06-102h 02Box Office PulpTales From The BOP: HELLBOY (2019)There are movies that suck in the summer, dear listener, make no mistake... and we are the ones who suck back. That statement did not come out right at all, but unlike this episode's subject, we stick to our guns all the way down. That's right, BOP's very own Senior Hellboy Aficionado Cody went to see Neil Marshall's studio-hijacked 2019 reboot/prequel/spin-off/Cinematic-Universe-Creation-Kit, and after several weeks of reflection felt up to the task of running us down each and every footnote-burdened sequence. Listen as Cody The Homunculus guides us through a twisting labyrinth of flashbacks, character introductions, location changes...2019-05-311h 16Box Office PulpSKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW - LOVE THE BOMBSWelcome to How I Learned To Love The Bombs, a new sub-series where the BOP Crew spotlights some of our favorite celluloid in the rough-- from the under-performing, to the underappreciated, to the underground-- and shower them with the love their audiences so cruelly denied them. And what better way to begin then with a film that ushered in a new age of Hollywood: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow! Find out how two brothers from Flint, Michigan went from shooting a short film about killer robots in their living room to being in charge of a multi-million-dollar tent-pole...2019-05-191h 08Box Office PulpAVENGERS: ENDGAMEWe're in the spoilers game now. But besides "whatever it takes," what do we actually do now in a post-Endgame world? Disney+ shows? Mysterio's Big Adventure? A sequel to The Incredible Hulk? No, the exchange of souls needed for that one would be too great. Ten years have taken us from "We're Iron Mongers, Tony," to "The Staff of The Living Tribunal," from Whiplash's bird, to Killmonger's Oscar nomination, and every stunt-casting in-between. While we mourn the loss of being really, really hyped for Endgame, we also go over what we loved about this ending of a cinematic era (that...2019-05-021h 18Box Office PulpSPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE Commentary TrackOkay, let's try this again: This is BOP n' A Movie, and we're not the only podcast doing a commentary for Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse anymore. Not by a long-shot. We are, however, the only one with drink-mixing segments, and that's something! Listen to the pod-slingers discuss this movie's surprisingly deep themes of identity and multiculturalism, its one-of-a-kind animation style, and how it wove together disparate threads from a dozen comic sources to make what may be the perfect superhero movie. Do we still find time to thirst over a cartoon pig? Of course. But what makes us stupid... is...2019-04-222h 10Box Office PulpMini BOP - PET SEMETARY (2019)Follow us to the sacred place. No, folks, this ain't a dream, and you can't escape! The moon is full and the air is still, and we are just covered in undead cat hair. Which can only mean one thing... dead really is better. But so is BOP! In this episode, Mike and Cody exhume themselves for a chat on the new adaptation of Stephen King's darkest work: PET SEMETARY. We discuss the impressive changes from the source, how it captures King's themes, some spooktastic atmospheres, and difficulties in translating the book's particular brand of unsettling to the big screen...2019-04-1246 minBox Office PulpBACK TO THE FUTURE PART III Commentary TrackThrough these adventures the space time continuum has been mucked up, fixed, mucked up and fixed again! This time though (see what I did there?), there's something far more perilous in store... the grossness of the Old West. THE WATER IS BROWN. But that ew, aside, our BOP 'n A Movie series examining The Back To The Future Trilogy has reached the teased conclusion, and while Part 2 famously dug deep into time travel shenanigans and big sci-fi stakes, the final entry scaled it all back, sticking to a singular adventure and making the stakes personal for our time-displaced heroes in...2019-03-312h 09Box Office PulpBACK TO THE FUTURE PART II Commentary TrackNobody calls this podcast chicken! NOBODY! You can call us fashionable, though. What, with our double ties and all. But, enough about neck accessories, our special BOP 'n A Movie series is blasting off into the future, the alternate present, and back to the past, for the next entry in the beloved trilogy -- BACK TO THE FUTURE PART 2! Featuring the first appearance of President Trump. Sigh. But, that unfortunate prediction aside, it also features one of the most interesting uses of time travel in a story, ever... even if it is to it's own detriment. We dig into topics...2019-03-201h 59Box Office PulpMini BOP - CAPTAIN MARVELThe BOP Crew are going Higher, Further, AND, dare we say, Faster, in this bite-sized episode where we fanboy and fangirl out over CAPTAIN MARVEL! The first (finally) female-fronted Marvel flick that is allll about that swagger. We discuss the interesting choice of Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck as directors and how it paid off huge for the studio, giving us both a rousing space-buddy-adventure throwback and focused character study; Brie Larson's star-making turn in which she pitch perfectly brings Carol Danvers to life; how Ben Mendelsohn is straight up Skrullin; MCU connections; and, of course, we make fun of...2019-03-1244 minBox Office PulpBACK TO THE FUTURE Commentary TrackOnce this podcast hits 88mph, you're going to hear some serious sh*t. The Crew have bashed their skulls in and had a vision! A picture in their head! And it's a special BOP 'n A Movie series powered by 1.21 Gigawatts! So, if you've managed to narrowly avoid sleeping with your mother AND narrowly avoided being gunned down by some terrorists you bamboozled, please join us as we set our DeLorean for 1985, 1955, 2015, alternate 1985, and 1885, to provide to you these feature audio commentaries for each of ole' Doc Brown and Marty McFly's adventures! Starting right here with the film that changed...2019-03-102h 05Box Office PulpA Tale Of Two SpielbergsThere is a director in our midst who operates beyond the confines of genre. His filmography is as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. He is the middle ground between light and shadow, between history and fantasy, scarf and baseball cap. His blu-rays lay between the pit of your sci-fi collection, and the dusty shelf where you keep an unopened copy of Empire Of The Sun. That's the signpost up ahead, your next stop: the finale to Spielberg Month here on BOP! In this episode, we ponder how one of the greatest living directors can switch between such...2019-03-0156 minBox Office PulpHOOK Commentary TrackGooooood morning, Neverland! Welcome back to the only podcast that can fly, that can fight, that can even god damn CROW. And if you've managed to find your marbles, you know this is Steven Spielberg Month, which means we've conjured our happiest thought to provide a BOP 'n A Movie feature commentary for what may be his most polarizing picture, 1991s sometimes too-cheesy-for-it's-own-good family classic -- HOOK! Some love it, some despise it, and there's very little in-between. The Crew tries to get to the bottom of why that is, and the answer might cause you to respect Hook a...2019-02-202h 32Box Office PulpMINORITY REPORTOpen your mouth in wonder while moving in distinct L-shaped patterns, because this is the beginning of Steven Spielberg Month! AKA The Two Faces Of Steve, AKA Spielberg Dead Ahead, AKA a third joke. And we're kicking it off with one of his most stylized and off-kilter films: 2002's Minority Report. While much of the talk today concerns its chillingly accurate predictions of modern technology, the Crew find this to be one of the director's deepest films, and they discuss the political climate that influenced it's tone, the adaptation's meaningful deviations from Philip K. Dick's story, and the lengths Spielberg...2019-02-101h 07Box Office PulpEVENT HORIZON Commentary TrackSo, you've ditched your battle-damaged wave-runner and sworn off the high seas for good this time, aye? Unlucky for you, there's still one more cursed voyage to take in our look at low-grossing 90's derelict ship-based horror, BOP n' A Tragedy! Our final stop on this roller-coaster of quality is Paul W.S. Anderson's incomplete cult classic, 1997's EVENT HORIZON! In this feature commentary, we perform a loving autopsy on a film that began life as a simple ghost story in space, and evolved into a psychological journey through hell... before an insecure, cold feet studio left us with a...2019-01-301h 53Box Office PulpDEEP RISING Commentary TrackYou've escaped the terror of MechaSutherland and accepted that man is the true virus, so now what? Well, now it's time for the second act of our journey through high-concept 90s sci-fi bombs, BOP 'n A Tragedy! And our next feature commentary is for the 1998 high seas adventure/creature feature/noir/comedy/backdoor pilot, DEEP RISING! Just one year before he gave us The Mummy, director Stephen Sommers would ask himself, "what would have happened in Die Hard if Godzilla showed up halfway through?" The result would be one of the most unique and subplot-burdened genre films of the era...2019-01-201h 57Box Office PulpVIRUS Commentary TrackThere are films that expand the mind, enrich the spirit, or even teach us how to be better. Cinema can, and often is, a triumph. But, dear listeners, haven't the triumphs of the medium been examined, analyzed, and spoken of enough? The laws of time and space have a rule: for every positive, for every triumph... there must be an opposite. And so, welcome to BOP 'n A Tragedy! A mini-series where we put films that are commercial or critical failures under a microscope, and learn to celebrate what is there, warts and all. To kick it off, we're watching...2019-01-111h 52Box Office PulpBOPardy!Move over, Trebek! We don't need you OR your lousy mustache! Or lousy clean shaven face. Or lousy beard. Or whatever you have these days. Bees, perhaps? Who knows, we're under the age of 70 and don't watch your show. The important thing is, Cody has wrestled hosting duties away from you and re-branded everyone's favorite prime time game show into... BOPardy! And things run less than smoothly because of it. We're throwing out world history and replacing it with movie trivia! Or something. I don't know, Cody got weird with it, and there was improv, and Dracula, and a lot...2018-12-311h 12Box Office PulpMURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (2017)Our name is Box Office Pulp, and we are probably the least professional movie podcast in the world. Which is why we're so upset that our relaxing train ride has been interrupted with murder most foul! We actually have to record an episode when all we want to do is read Dickens and eat cake. So, in an episode where everyone - yes, even you, dear listener - is a suspect, The Crew curls their double mustaches for a sit down chat about Kenneth Branagh's superb adaptation of Agatha Christie's whodunit masterpiece, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS! How did Branagh...2018-12-211h 02Box Office PulpCLUE Commentary Track (with Carter Lee)Was it Cody in the Billiard Room with the pipe? Was it Jamie in the Kitchen with the candlestick? Perhaps Mike in the Library with the revolver? Or, in the most likely scenario, our special returning guest Carter Lee in the Dining Room with the rope!? No matter the answer, Communism was JUST a red herring, we assure you. You see, on this date of December 13th, but in the year of 1985, one of the greatest comedies ever produced was unappreciatively released in theaters. But, decades later, we're here to appreciate! And delve into what makes this classic satire of...2018-12-131h 50Box Office PulpHARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 Commentary TrackThe Boy Who Lived... has come to die... And Box Office Pulp has come to graduate from Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Many werewolf full moons ago we took off in Hagrid's side car on a quest that took us from a cupboard under the stairs, to one of the greatest cinematic worlds ever produced, all to plumb the intricacies and artistry of a once in a lifetime series that actually stuck a landing! And boy, what a landing. BOP 'n A Movie opens at the close to provide a feature commentary for HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS...2018-11-302h 29Box Office PulpTales From The BOP: THE SNOWMANMister Police. You could have saved yourself from watching this movie. I gave you all the reviews. But still you did. Still you watched due to the promise of Michael Fassbender battling a Snowman themed serial killer. Now look at you, a shadow of your former self. But luckily, for the rest of you, one member of the BOP Crew has turned his soul crushing viewing experience into this spine-tingler of a TALES FROM THE BOP! All in hope you don't meet his same twig-armed fate! This time, Mike weaves for Cody and Jamie, a story of Charlotte Gainsbourg dry...2018-11-261h 39Box Office PulpThe Art of Adaptation (with Adam DeCollibus)Fair warning: The book of this podcast was better. But that doesn't mean we're not giving it the old college try, as we talk about the art of film adaptations with our special guest, and author of the upcoming book CARAVAN, Adam DeCollibus! We try to nail down what can be gained from moving a story from one medium to the next, what can be inevitably lost, and how those changes can sometimes affect the source material in unexpected ways. Case in point: The Spirit. Remember The Spirit? No? Well, once upon a time there was a man named Frank...2018-11-2052 minBox Office PulpHARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 Commentary TrackThere once were three podcasters who took it upon themselves to record a commentary track for every film in a very beloved series. Nearing the end of their Wizarding journey, they found the final adaptation had been split in two! Being podcasters with little to no lives outside their hobby, though, they simply waved off any prior obligations and sat down for the first of their final two Potter BOP ‘n A Movie tracks! The Golden Trio find themselves lost in some woods, and lost emotionally, as a movie often tossed aside and mis-remembered as nothing more than stretched out pre...2018-11-102h 38Box Office PulpA Bunch of Hocus Pocus: The Kids Horror CanonListener beware, you’re in for a… *checks notes* trip to the intersection of Nostalgia Lane and Formative Genre Programming Boulevard. It’s the spookiest night of the year, with all the little ghosts and goblins performing tricks and collecting treats, but instead of watching in wistful remembrance of youth, The BOP Crew is celebrating Halloween by… well, talking in wistful remembrance of youth! We’re digging up the most underrated, but arguably, most important bones of the genre, and assembling a Frankensteinian canon of influential children’s horror media. We’ve got Cowardly Dogs, Midnight Societies, Goosebumps, and Scary Stories...2018-10-311h 41Box Office PulpTHE WITCHES Commentary TrackGet ready to emerge nude from your Ghostbusters playset, because BOP is celebrating Halloween with Nicolas Roeg's 90s stranger danger fantasy THE WITCHES! Apologies in advance, but our feature commentary will unfortunately cause you to remember that this Roald Dahl adaptation did in fact happen and wasn't merely a freakish nightmare! It happened and you will WATCH IT AGAIN WITH US, DAMMIT. So, join Witchfinder General Cody, Hotel Manager Mike, and Grand High Bitch Jamie, as they talk about one of Anjelica Huston's best performances, the balance between whimsy and horror this movie masters, and the creature effects that still g...2018-10-241h 38Box Office PulpREADY PLAYER ONEA podcaster who hates his podcast. A hidden cameo, and tangents not forecast. Click the link, ignore our past, and this episode of BOP will be yours at last! As you can tell by CGI Cody feeding you wizard riddles, The Crew is logging on to The Oasis to talk Steven Spielberg's ode to pop culture - READY PLAYER ONE! We dig into the film's surprisingly nuanced approach to nostalgia, compare Ernest Cline's book to Zak Penn's nearly unrecognizable script, debate whether Wade Watts is a nice guy or a "Nice Guy", and remind ourselves periodically that, yes, Steven Spielberg...2018-07-2551 minBox Office PulpTales From The BOP: THE MUMMY (2017)Leave your bright and sunny universe behind and take a step into a Da-- oh, sorry, as I was typing that, that entire initiative was cancelled. ANYWAYS, you may no longer be able to wander the secretive halls of Prodigium again anytime soon, but you can wander the halls of Cody's Memory Palace! Come inside, kiddies, for a new installment of Taaaaales Froooom The BOOOOOOOP! In which films not on the "must see!" spectrum are retold to you by one of our illustrious Crew members, who took the plunge into movie muck so you don't have to! This time, Cody...2018-07-031h 25Box Office PulpINCEPTION Commentary Track: Level 3Now, you mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darlings. Unfortunately for us, and to a degree, unfortunately for you, as well, we dreamed big. Way, way too big. Welcome to the third level down. The grand experiment in Inception commentating continues, in which we annually provide commentary for the previous year's commentary. My head is spinning. This year, Saito has bled out, but we soldier on without him... and Cody's brought alcohol. So, for once, having to commentary a commentary is the least troublesome thing we must endure. In what might be BOP's most surreal recording yet, the...2018-05-252h 37Box Office PulpMasters of the Cinematic UniverseDo you think this is the only movie podcast in the world? You've downloaded part of a bigger universe... you just don't know it yet. Unrelated to those ominous words, this episode sees The Crew taking a look at Hollywood's current obsession with the shared cinematic universe. Why does Marvel have such a monopoly on the concept, and what essential part of the equation are studios missing? What can be gained from such a complicated endeavor, and how have creators pulled off such feats in the past? And for God's sake, will Cody ever get over The Mummy? No. No...2018-04-081h 35Box Office PulpMen In BlackThis episode is a rumor, recognizable only as another boring movie podcast, and dismissed just as quickly. It doesn't exist, it was never even recorded. Movie analysis is its name. Cinema its native tongue. We are above Itunes. Over it. Beyond it. We are madness. We are moxie. We are Box Office Pulp. ... but yeah, here's an episode on Men In Black where we talk about how important this was to a generation of audiences, marvel at just how unique it is in the pantheon of comic book movies, debate what could be done with the upcoming r...2018-03-031h 09Box Office PulpMini-BOP: Free FireA lot of podcasts promise you entertainment, but only Box Office Pulp delivers protection from infection! In an all-new Mini-BOP, the crew takes a look at Ben Wheatley's 2017 Action-Thriller-Noir-Sitcom Free Fire, an unrestrained clusterf*** in the best possible way. Join us as we discuss its deft juggling of tones, Wheatley's increasingly impressive catalog of work, whether or not Sharlto Copley happens to be playing Skeletor in this film, and Cody's childhood memories of owning human flesh.Guard yourself with cardboard armor and download the episode here!Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...2018-01-2943 minBox Office PulpROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY Commentary TrackCongratulations, you are listening to Box Office Pulp. Please... do not resist. Too bad the BOP Crew can smell the lies! The deception! So, why don't you choke on your aspirations of doing something else this evening, and become one with the Force by listening to this BOP 'n A Movie feature commentary! And if you haven't picked up on the clues, we're doing ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY while the movie's still hot and fresh off the presses! Who will steal credit away from Cody's achievement? Will Mike go through with his murderous orders while wrestling with his...2017-05-032h 35Box Office PulpThe LEGO Batman MovieIn a franchise that has seen returns, forevers, rises, dawnings and beginnings, there's only one spectrum of cinema that The Caped Crusader has yet to conquer: multi-million dollar animated children's movies rendered entirely in tiny bits of plastic. But does THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE live up to the legacy it dares deconstruct? It's time to light the individual signals for movies, madness, and moxie, because The BOP Crew is on the case! But just how far is too far when it comes to satirizing Cody's beloved hero? When do the rose-tinted glasses of MB's youth fall away to reveal the...2017-03-101h 18Box Office PulpTHE SHINING Commentary Track (European Cut)Want some ice cream, Doc? No? Well, how about a BOP 'n A Movie feature commentary for Stanley Kubrick's horror masterpiece, THE SHINING! Also, no? Well, screw you, psychic kid, you're getting it anyway! For this one, the Crew heads to the secluded Overlook Hotel to get some deep cut film analysis done over the winter season, but per-usual, ghosts compel them to kill each other instead. It happens. But when not CORRECTING one another with an axe to the sternum, they do delve into things like the philosophy of horror, how exactly a director drives Olive Oyl to lose...2017-01-312h 13Box Office PulpROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORYThrough the use of CGI and various British actors, a fallen co-host is brought back to the Crew! Cody has returned from his pilgrimage, and he and Mike manage to not choke on their ambition long enough to absolutely love ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY! From Vader hallway fights, Donnie Yen trusting in the Force of Others, BOR GULLET being all BOR GULLET, and loving how the Star Wars Universe is no longer nothing but white (take that Alt-Right!), this episode also has us trying desperately to name five good prequel films from the history of cinema. Do we...2017-01-191h 12Box Office PulpWhen Good Ghouls Go Bad Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Celebration!)
Spit out your candy corn and put down your carving knives, because it's that time of year again! No, not that time of year! The other time of year, where the mighty Pumpkin lords over all that encounter it! It's another festive installment of (Big Ass) Big Ass Pumpkin Day, and the BOP crew once again has you covered for all things spooky and ooky. Perhaps even kooky? Madness, you may say, but the film we're watching this year represents everything that BAPD symbolizes: fake mummies, the titular giant pumpkins, and of course, a zombified Christopher Lloyd! It's The...2016-10-151h 58Box Office PulpYOU'RE WRONG! (And Other Life Lessons Involving Unappreciated Films)
Some films find an audience, become cult hits, and get some of that sweet lovin'. But then there are some that remain forgotten, never getting a second look. So, to call attention to some of these movies, the BOP Crew have made a list, checked it twice, and you are gosh darn gonna hear them out on this! It's our favorite UNAPPRECIATED/UNLOVED MOVIES in this episode! What whimsical terror involving Tom Hiddleston's butt will Cody bring us? What kind of SACRILEGE does MB have in store? Will James pack snacks as he tells us of a road trip through...2016-09-271h 18Box Office PulpFOUND FOOTAGE (TO THE END OF YOUR LIFE)
RE: BOX OFFICE PULP, "Found Footage Episode," Archived 8-17-16:
A few weeks ago, the Crew of the Box Office Pulp podcast attempted to document an episode in which they would analyze, dissect, and discuss, the film genre known as "Found Footage." They have not been heard from since. Three days ago, a brown package arrived at our offices (The Kinnison County Sheriff's Department), inside was a recording of their final days spent researching the aforementioned style of movie. At first, it was noted that all seemed well; each member of the crew provided insightful comments ranging from...2016-08-181h 24Box Office PulpO BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? Commentary Track
Damn, The BOP Crew are in a tight spot! And you will be too, if you don't sit down and give a listen to the latest installment of Box Office Pulp's very own commentary series, BOP 'n A MOVIE, celebrating only the classiest and cultiest of conventional cinema. And this month, Babyface Bank Robbin' Cody, Guitar Playin' Devil's Acolyte Mike, The MB of Constant Sorrow, and Loved Up Horny Toad James don't want Fop, god damn it... they're Dapper Dan men! Because in order to properly parlay a discussion on the careers and directorial stylings of cinematic scribes The Coen...2016-07-222h 01Box Office PulpCaptain America: Civil WarThe BOP Crew are trying to stop Box Office Pulp from being torn apart... but Cody did that the moment he lost his original intro. It's an all out Civil War of the American variety, as Iron Mike and Captain Cody come to blows over what makes a good ratio of dick jokes, while a horrified Spider-James looks on from the distance, all of them made completely unaware that this discussion was only a scheme perpetrated by the surprisingly capable Baron MB. Just how many superhero puns can the group make when talking about Marvel Studios' latest summer blockbuster, CAPTAIN...2016-06-131h 29Box Office PulpINCEPTION Commentary Track
There's something you should know about Box Office Pulp: we specialize in a very specific type of podcasting. Movie analysis podcasting. We're talking about commentaries. (WONNNG) We pick the film we want to talk over. We bring Cody into that conversation, and he fills it with his frogs. It's called "BOP 'n A Movie," and in this installment, we're watching Christopher Nolan's telescopic opus, INCEPTION! (WONNNG) Join Point Man Cody, Architect Mike, Extractor MB, and Forger James as they wade through obsessive internet theories, chart the career of one of Hollywood's most idiosyncratic directors, discuss the unrelated film "1941" for far...2016-05-262h 44Box Office PulpJAWS Commentary Track
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet, the Box Office Pulp crew emerges from the depths, bringing with them the very first BOP ’n A Movie! That’s right, the normal podcast wasn't enough... so we're gonna need a bigger BOP! In this inaugural feature commentary, MB, James, Mike, and Cody put on their snorkels like half-assed astronauts and go swimmin’ with bowlegged women as they discuss the king of summer blockbusters: JAWS!
Compare your shark-related scars with the rest of us by downloading this commentary right here!
Find u...2015-08-202h 17Box Office PulpMarvel's Ant-ManMB and Cody shrink down to the quantum realm to get a closer look at Marvel's newest superhero film, ANT-MAN! For all your bad Nick Nolte impressions and soul-crushing reminders that the first 10 minutes of UP are gut-wrenching, this episode has you covered. And just so the obligatory Zoolander joke is made, yes, this is a podcast for ants.
Give your Pym particles a shake by downloading here!
2015-08-061h 06Box Office PulpPrincess Mononoke Mike, James, and Cody gather to discuss the Studio Ghibli's animated classic Princess Mononoke. With eyes unclouded, they attempt to discuss the Miyazaki masterpiece without falling into the pitfalls of hate. Or the dark catacombs of IMDb. Or tangents about C.H.U.D. Their mission is hopeless, but at least they get to go out remembering that time when Keith David voiced a giant, pissed-off boar god. What more could they ask for?
2014-12-111h 03Box Office PulpTales From The BOP: WOLFENEven a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night, may get stuck watching WOLFEN when the VHS player blooms and the autumn moon is bright. On this new BOP segment, Cody recounts his harrowing encounter with the kinda-sorta werewolf movie WOLFEN to the rest of the crew, preventing them from a grizzly fate of actually having to watch this train wreck of a movie for themselves. It’s a descent into hell, horror, time-warping runtimes, and a nude Edward James Olmos in the very first TALES FROM THE BOP!
2014-11-301h 19Box Office PulpMini BOP - You're Next Grab your crossbows and lamb masks as James, Mike, and Cody gush blood and admiration for the horror comedy You're Next in this mini-BOP. Spoilers, spoilers... Barbara Crampton is still hot, Mike has no qualms about making out next to corpses, face-blendering needs to be a more common movie occurrence, and YOU are actually next. Yes, you behind the computer monitor. Tough break, kid.
2014-05-2940 minBox Office PulpMini-BOP - Captain America: The Winter Soldier Mike and Cody sit down to geek out over Marvel's newest film. Spoiler alert: Captain America: The Winter Soldier is great, Hydra is behind everything (Even your missing socks), and someone was smart enough to create a M.O.D.O.K. mug. Enjoy and hail Hydra!
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