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Big Gross MoviesTV Time Capsule - S01E01 - Family Ties and why doctors used to give out speedDave and Meg try out a new format and dig up an episode of 80s sitcom Family ties and investigate how you could apparently just get prescribed amphetamines for whatever in the 80s.
2021-08-3025 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-345-2015-PaddingtonThis week we were just friends and watched Paddington and had soup! CHECK OUT MEG AT TORONTO SKETCHFEST BUY TICKETS WITH YOUR MONEY AND GO TO THE SHOW WITH YOUR BODIES!
2020-03-0425 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-344-2005-ConstantineThis week Dave and Meg swing back to 2005 because we remember liking Constantine and turns out, it's not bad! We talk about how being in this movie seems to have frozen everyone involved in time (except Shia), how DIY all the demon rituals are, Peter Stormare having a time, Tilda Swintoning all over the place and of course we go over the shocking amount of drowning going on.
2020-02-2656 minBig Gross MoviesBGM-344-2005-ConstantineThis week Dave and Meg swing back to 2005 because we remember liking Constantine and turns out, it's not bad! We talk about how being in this movie seems to have frozen everyone involved in time (except Shia), how DIY all the demon rituals are, Peter Stormare having a time, Tilda Swintoning all over the place and of course we go over the shocking amount of drowning going on.
2020-02-2656 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-343-1973-Live and Let Die with Bryn PottieThis week uncle of the show Bryn Pottie is back to help us poke 1973's Live and Let Die with a stick because it's kinda gross now. We first talk about the creator of James Bond Ian Fleming and his drunken stumble down easy street, then we look into the figure from Haitian Vodou people with no right to slapped into this movie with no real care before realizing a lot about ourselves and movies and just how much nice suits in cool rooms can carry a movie.
2020-02-051h 22
Big Gross MoviesBGM-342-1995-Mortal Kombat with Isabel Zaw-TunThis week we're in 1995 to watch the good bad video game madness of Moral Kombat! With special guest Isabel Zaw-Tun we first go over the Canadian tale of Madeleine Parent, Union organizer and person who helped before hopping over to a much sillier kind of fight in Mortal Kombat, a movie with lizard people, ice folks and a scorpion fella with the tone of a teen ski comedy.
2020-01-291h 36
Big Gross MoviesBGM-341-2016-Doctor Strange with Brendan D'SouzaThis week we are swinging back to 2016 to catch Disney's Marvel's Doctor Strange with special guest comedian Brendan D'Souza! First we talk about the posh Englishman who moved to Saskatchewan to give everyone some mescaline for socialism, then go over a movie that for sure was made by people familiar with mescaline.
2020-01-221h 22
Big Gross MoviesBGM-340-2017-Coco with Alan Shane LewisThis week Alan Shane Lewis is back again, this time to jump on the emotional grenade that is Pixar's 2017 movie: Coco. First we go over some guesses people made a long time ago about what happens when we die, and then watch a lighthearted children's film about that very same question! We cried so much!
2020-01-151h 03
Big Gross MoviesBGM-339-1980-Battle Beyond the StarsThis week Meg and Dave stick to last week's theme and watch another Roger Corman $23 Star Wars movie Battle Beyond the Stars! Marvel at the spaceship that has boobs! Also there are space heroes, some of whom also have boobs! And don't worry, there's other uncomfortable misunderstood elements of Heavy Metal Magazine as well pasted over a plot stolen from a better movie that stole it from another still better movie! It was bad, we had fun!
2020-01-0832 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-338-1979-StarCrashThis week to celebrate the futuristic New Year of 2020, we headed back to 1979 to catch an all over the place weird cheap sci-fi masterpiece. Meet Count Space Dracula, Hair Jedi, Princess Bikini Collar, Robot Southern Sheriff and their friends as they something something a doomsday weapon, you get the idea! It's tons of fun.
2020-01-0147 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-337-2018-A Christmas Prince: The Royal WeddingThis week it is Christmas Day so we typed that into Netflix and went for it, for you! Happy days off to all!
2019-12-2546 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-336-1971-Bedknobs and Broomsticks with Ashley CooperThis week Ashley Cooper is back to have a look at 1971s Disney Classic Bedknobs and Broomsticks! first we talk over the ridiculous history of witchcraft in Canada before going over a very baffling and expensive classic with witches, spells, the blitz, nazis, living suits of armour and a guy so scared of kids he joined the army in 1940.
2019-12-181h 16
Big Gross MoviesBGM-335-1992-The Mighty Ducks with Rebecca ReedsThis week special guest Rebecca Reeds is back to check out 1992's The Mighty Ducks! We first go over a very Canadian tale of hockey and some other things we might wanna examine more before talking about being so upset you become a lawyer, making bespoke dog poops for pranks and midnight skate flashbacks plus so much more.
2019-12-111h 10
Big Gross MoviesBGM-334-1985-Ewoks The Battle for EndorThis week we're doing a Meg's Birthday special and catching one of her childhood favourites from 1985: Ewoks: The Battle for Endor! We go over what Wilfrid Brimley is doing there, the weird way it is both very cheap and ungodly expensive, the pros and cons of using a real 5-year old who looks tired and why you should never whisper your secrets to birds.
2019-12-041h 03
Big Gross MoviesBGM-333-1986-Iron Eagle with Josh O'KeefeThis week we are back from one of our now traditional Dave's spine goes out breaks and we are checking out 1986s Iron Eagle with special guest Josh O'Keefe! We first go over a famous Canadian Pilot before seeing the craziest 80s-est thing to grace the podcast in years. Jet planes! Treason! Using teenage hijinks to steal state secrets! A man who we are to believe is legally named Chappie! It's really got it all.
2019-11-271h 03
Big Gross MoviesBGM-332-2015-Magic Mike XXLThis week, we're doing an audience suggestion special! One of you asked us to watch Magic Mike XXL, so we did, and oh lord did we like it! We talk about the divorced mum inside us all, the tale of Mr Andie McDowell and are reminded that sexuality is a wide, beautiful spectrum that entirely agrees that Channing Tatum dances real good.
2019-10-3047 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-331-1994-Léon: The ProfessionalThis week Bryn Pottie is back and we're talking the tale of a real Québec Rambo before talking about another French guy who killed people: Léon: The Professional! First we talk about Léo, the eyepatched war hero before discussing a confession of crimes with an action movie in it called Léon.
2019-10-231h 22
Big Gross MoviesBGM-330-1987-The Princess BrideThis week we watched a movie while the Canadian Turkey was in the oven for Canadian Thanksgiving and recorded you a Canadian Thanksgiving Special where we talk about the nicest movie we know: The Princess Bride! Why is it so nice? We try and find out for your entertainment while the smell of poultry and birdflesh wafted at us!
2019-10-1642 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-329-1941-Dumbo with Dylan GottThis week special guest Dylan Gott is back to swing back to 1941 to catch the animated classic Dumbo! First we go over the history of Toronto from the last ice age up until a clown vs firefighters riot in 1855, then we try and parse the nice children's movie that also has racism and a mushroom trip in it.
2019-10-091h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-328-2003-Kill Bill Vol 1 with Craig FayThis week special guest Craig Fay is back to head back to 2003 to have a look at Kill Bill Volume 1! First we go over another Canadian History story about how the past is awful and then we go over Quentin Tarantino's kung-fu foot classic Kill Bill Volume 1.
2019-10-021h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-327-2015-Jupiter AscendingThis week our special guest had an emergency involving a cat and a skunk and a hose so we swerved off course and watched the bonkers 2015 classic bad movie Jupiter Ascending! Illegal telescopes! Channing Tatum the dogfaced bodyguard with wings! Marrying your mom as a casual plot point halfway through, that kinda thing.
2019-09-2535 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-326-1966-Our Man Flint with Alan Shane LewisThis week we swing back to 1966 to catch the movie fox made to cash in on James Bond, Our Man Flint with special guest Alan Shane Lewis! We first go over a real life cold war spy who betrayed his homeland because of how nice he thought Ottawa was before going over the silly weird campy classic Our Man Flint!
2019-09-1851 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-325-1987-Predator with Nigel GrinsteadThis week we're headed back to 1987 to watch Predator because we felt like it! First we discuss the tale of a Hockey Player and a businessman... but not the same guy. Then we go over the bicep and foliage festival that is Predator. A Hearty "get to the choppa!" to you listeners!
2019-09-111h 03
Big Gross MoviesBGM-324-1986-Back To School with Anne-Marie (a teacher!)This week is back to school times, so we figured why not invite a teacher and coincidentally Dave's lady friend Anne-Marie along to swing back to 1986 to catch Rodney Dangerfield in Back to School! We go over the baffling symptoms that come with Dangerfield infection, what Sam Kinison was, how this was a very odd away mission for Lieutenant Dax and flip out lids over the Vonnegut gag.
2019-09-0442 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-323-2001-Exit Wounds with Bryn Pottie(Content Warning, the history story this week is about a sexual assault, so it comes up, so maybe try our Home Alone episode which has a history half about Moscow Cheeseburgers.) This week special guest Bryn Pottie is back and we're headed back to 2001 to catch its action meh Exit Wounds! First we talk about something that, like exit wounds, was shot in Toronto before going over a movie that really shoulda been better.
2019-08-211h 06
Big Gross MoviesBGM-322-2011-Tinker Tailor Soldier SpyThis week we're back from our comedy festival/summer vacation hiatus and to celebrate we hopped back to 2011 and watched Dave's favourite movie Tinker Tailor Solider Spy! We discuss bog teachers murdering owls to show dominance, discover that spying in the 1970s seems to have been over 85% smoking and being cryptic and discover that the evil spymaster Karla is a bit of a dramatic debbie.
2019-08-1439 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-321-2017-The Fate of the FuriousThis week in preparation for Meg going to the Just For Laughs Festival for a few weeks we sat down and tried to pick through the biggest, loudest, confusingest movie we could find: The Fate of the Furious. We try to figure out what is happening, why it may be happening, and why none of that matters because vroom vroom pow pow family.
2019-07-1750 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-320-1988-Hairspray with Ian GordonThis week we're in 1988 and watching John Waters' Hairspray with special guest Ian Gordon! First we carry on our series of research stories on Canadians with Viola Desmond, the lady who ignored the Halifax explosion as a baby and got better at dealing with crazy bullshit that wasn't her fault from there. Then we go over the charming dancing weird camp high school play of a movie that is Hairspray. John Waters if it's ever convenient come on by for dinner.
2019-07-1055 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-319-1986-Highlander with Bee BertrandThis week we swing back by bad movie town and settle in for the swordfighting dude classic: Highlander with special guest Bee Bertrand! We talk about Sean Connery's peacock frock, sword detectives, how much weight a Queen soundtrack can carry and just a whole lot of trying to figure out the freaky sexual over and under and just normal tones of this thing.
2019-07-0344 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-318-2014-Hercules with Cathryn NaikerThis week special guest Cathryn Naiker is here to continue our series on movies vaguely related to interesting Canadians with 2014s Hercules! First we meet a giant very strong french baby that lifted heavy things to folk herodom: Louis Cyr, then wade into the weird murky swamp that is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's baffling Hercules movie.
2019-06-191h 19
Big Gross MoviesBGM-317-2001-Legally Blonde with Rebecca ReedsThis week special guest Rebecca Reeds is back to learn about Canadian Icon Dr. Elizabeth Bagshaw and watch a lovely piece of fluff, Legally Blonde! First we talk about how badass you had to be to get a medical license as a woman in 1905 and stumble through a real cool life before being charmed thoroughly by the fluffiest of fluff.
2019-06-121h 20
Big Gross MoviesBGM-316-2017-John Wick: Chapter 2This week we come back from our little life break to watch chapter 2 in the Meg-bothering series of John Wick movies! We discover that everyone has a wife-dog, wine puns are weird for guns and have entirely too much fun misnaming everyone who isn't named John.
2019-06-0541 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-315-1987-Miami Connection - Bad Movie Special with Hunter CollinsThis week special guest Hunter Collins is here so we made a special trip back to 1987 to catch a wonderful not good movie made by a martial arts instructor without the knowledge of a fair part of the cast. We talk about confusing nudity, shirtless mailbox jaunts, how nice it is that these mature students seem so accepted by the other youths, we have a great time!
2019-05-0852 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-314-1999-Office SpaceThis week in honour of Dave quitting his weird job at soup dot com we head back to 1999 to catch Office Space! We go over how it turns out we're all Miltons, how well Mike Judge nailed it and freak out a bit about how many characters from this movie we've now met in real life.
2019-05-0136 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-313-1987-Dirty Dancing with Allison DoreThis week extra special guest Allison Dore is back to swing back in time to look into 1987's Swayze pants classic Dirty Dancing! First we talk about the original catskills resort and the lady who ran it and how dear god it sounds like fun before having just the loveliest time watching sexy people dance at each other.
2019-04-241h 32
Big Gross MoviesBGM-312-2010-Resident Evil Afterlife-National Canadian Film Day Special!This week in honour of National Canadian Film Day we watched the highest-grossing technically Canadian film ever made: Resident Evil Afterlife! We talk about what is happening in the movie, why it is happening, and do not come up with any answers, but have a lot more questions. We kinda lost our minds.
2019-04-1746 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-311-2017-Paddington 2 with Nigel GrinsteadThis week we have Nigel Grinstead back to do an episode that is nice, darn it! Rough few weeks so why not watch something delightful, so we hopped back to just 2017 to catch Paddington 2! We first talk about bears, well Dave does, because he grew up in a town covered in bears before watching the most delightful bear of all in Paddington 2. It's just so crazy good.
2019-04-101h 23
Big Gross MoviesBGM-310B-1987-Withnail and IThis week we follow up on our last episode about the drunken Royal Navy with another very drunk very British Episode, we swing back to 1987 to catch Withnail & I! We talk about the terrifying spectre of alcoholism, funny chickens and how the whole point of this movie is probably to make you feel kinda icky.
2019-04-0345 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-310A-The Drunken Royal NavyThis week to get ready for Withnail & I we're talking about something very drunk and very British: The Royal Navy! We talk about the centuries of Naval history where everyone was proper loaded, then discuss the day they took away British Sailors free work booze.
2019-03-2726 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-307-1981-Outland with Alex WoodThis week Alex Wood is back with Dave and Meg to swing by 1981 to have a look around and watch Outland, a movie with Sean Connery, Shotguns, spacesuits and uncomfortable endless anxious tension! We talk about the camera on a stick robot humanity flung into space to look at Jupiter and then go over space bleak: The movie.
2019-03-061h 07
Big Gross MoviesSpecial announcement from your impoverished hosts!This week, instead of our episode we hope you'll support Canadian Stand-ups like us and maybe buy some albums to help out maybe? If you're wondering what's up Dave wrote a thing about it you can click here to read, and he'll explain it, back to normal next week but this week, solidarity, and again in our defense the union meeting was at a bar.
2019-02-2702 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-301-1979-The Warriors with Shawn HoganThis week we throw the agenda out the time machine window for Season 3! Dave and Meg and special guest Shawn Hogan go over why Movie New York AKA actual New York in the seventies was like that before gawking at it in 1979s youths punching epic The Warriors!
2019-01-161h 12
Big Gross MoviesBGM-277-1997-The Jackal MEG BIRTHDAY SPECIAL with Vance Banzo!This week it's Meg's Birthday so favourite guest Vance Banzo is here to watch a forgotten action movie from the latter half of the nineties to celebrate the miracle of Meg's life and her besting of the sea for another year in their lifelong struggle. Under the influence of Cake we go over Bruce Willis' many wigs, everyone's bad accents and shooting your movie in what seems like a whole buncha places.
2018-12-1259 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-273-Some Stand-up from DaveThis week, we drop off the time machine to get an oil change and instead play you a clip of your co-host Dave's act from a couple months ago! We'll be back next week with our usual history/movie oddities.
2018-11-1408 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-264-1983-Return of the Jedi Again with Shawn HoganThis week Meg got a chance to do a cool thing, so we continue our busy streak and we're running another episode from waaaay back, we'll have fresh stuff soon as we can! This week we throw a few adorable tiny bear... things into the time furnace and fly our machine back to 1983 to have a glance around and see it's highest grossing movie Return of the Jedi! We talk about the world nearly exploding a few times, an italian man who has 105 problems and then review the little bear hover dirtbike desert bumhole epic Ret...
2018-09-121h 34
Big Gross MoviesBGM-250-1984-The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension-WEIRD MOVIE SPECIALThis week, Meg is back from her assignment so to celebrate we're doing a Weird movie special! We go back to 1984 to have a look at The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, an insane fever dream of a movie with a closing sequence you should watch on youtube.
2018-06-0650 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-249-1989-Star Trek V: The Final Frontier with Will NoyeThis week, Meg is on assignment so Will Noye is back to watch another Star Trek Movie! We warp back to 1989 to catch Star Trek V: The Final Frontier AKA the one Shatner directed AKA the one where they shoot a photon torpedo at God Almighty. Lotsa fun!
2018-05-3036 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-242-1987-Masters of the Universe BAD MOVIE SPECIALThis week, we had some stuff come up so it's a BAD MOVIE SPECIAL! Dave and Meg go over 1987s weird bad silly cannon films masterpiece: Masters of the Universe. Masks! Other Masks! Courtney Cox? Buddy from Voyager? Yes, those things.
2018-04-1146 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-241-2014-John Wick 3rd anniversary special!This week, to celebrate three years of Big Gross Movies we torture Meg by watching her most hated of Dad movies: John Wick. We invent the John Wick Game, go over the trials of evil Russian Santa.
2018-04-0443 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-234-1997-Face/Off BAD MOVIE SPECIAL!This week it's a BAD MOVIE SPECIAL! Meg and Dave get sideways and swerve our way though the vortex back to 1997 to watch Face/Off because we deserved it. We go over Gun wizardry, how early to suspect a face-switch situation, space prison etiquette and many other insane delights.
2018-02-1455 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-231-1969-Midnight Cowboy with Alex WoodThis week we swing back to 1969 to have a look around and go over its second highest-grossing movie: Midnight Cowboy with special guest Alex Wood! Meg does the research this week and we look at the Stonewall Riots before going over a masterpiece that is also bleaker than a Russian novel being read to you by a dying child.
2018-01-241h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-228-1993-Cliffhanger STALLONE HUBRIS SPECIALThis week, filled to the brim with Christmas Cheeses, Dave and Meg head back to 1993 to continue our series of in-depth analyses of Sylvester Stallone being absolutely certain he pooped gold for about ten years there with Cliffhanger! Stalactite Cool Runnings Murder anyone? How about two Canadian Podcasters losing their minds over nobody wearing the right coats or gloves? It's all here!
2018-01-0347 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-227-1983-Terms of Endearment with Sam BurnsThis week, Dave and Meg load up on various leftover nogs and head back to 1983 to watch it's second highest-grossing movie: Terms of Endearment with guest comedian Sam Burns! We do a Canada Corner first half and go over a deadly toilet fire and a guy who landed a dead 767 on a racetrack before diving into a movie about a gin witch, her problematic daughter and the daughter's flappy husband who is actually full-on named Flap. Good times!
2017-12-271h 01
Big Gross MoviesBGM-225-1988-Who Framed Roger Rabbit? with Allison Dore!This week, Dave and Guest Meg Allison Dore Make a quick hop to 1988 to have a look around and watch its second highest-grossing movie: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? We go over the first guy to reach the north pole and peel away at an onion of why he's terrible before going over a movie that is somehow both good and no fun.
2017-12-131h 19
Big Gross MoviesBGM-224-1991-Adventures in Dinosaur City with Jess WilliamsThis week it's Meg's Birthday so it's another Meg Birthday Special! we watch her childhood favorite, the 1991 made for TV movie Adventures in Dinosaur City and go over unsettling puppets, unsettling sexuality, unsettling longshorts, and have a great time with this baffling work of cinematic... film.
2017-12-0654 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-223-1982-The Dark CrystalThis week it's a Meg Remembers Special! After we recorded last week's episode Dave and Meg each recapped a favorite movie from memory that the other hadn't seen. Dave's didn't record right, but Meg's did, so this week Meg is going over The Dark Crystal! Being sick of the hero's journey in a hero's journey, everything being puppets, and the meaning of the bird people and whatnot.
2017-11-2930 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-219-1994-The Specialist STALLONE HUBRIS SPECIALThis week, Meg and Dave take a Stallone Hubris joyride to 1994 to watch the incredibly goodbad The Specialist. Sylvester Stallone IS Ray Quick, a bomb man who knows James Woods, also a Bomb Man. Then Sharon Stone is also there, but look out, because explosions! We go over feeling bad for Sharon Stone, Eric Roberts' traumatizing pants and more!
2017-11-011h 03
Big Gross MoviesBGM-214-1964-Mary Poppins with Nour HadidiThis week, Meg is on assignment on the East Coast, so to handle her time paddle, Guest Meg Ryan Horwood is here to help us back to 1964 again to have a look around and watch it's third highest-grossing movie Mary Poppins with guest Comedian Nour Hadidi! We go over a stoned busride of odd importance before going over the very long, very odd tale of an all-powerful wind witch who teaches a bank guy to not be such a stiff jerk.
2017-09-2747 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-204-1990-Home AloneThis week, the curse is broken as Dave, Meg and guest comedian Craig Fay fire up the time machine to head back to 1990 to talk about Russian McDonald's and that year's number two Big Gross Movie: Home Alone! Mostly we marvel at how fragile we are as we squirmed more at falling on ice than being set on fire.
2017-07-1957 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-201-1995-Die Hard With a VengeanceThis week, we start season of number twos and head back to 1995 to look into this one time Canada almost wasn't and then watch the Number 2 highest-grossing movie: Die Hard: With A Vengeance with Guest Meg Ryan Horwood and fwriter/co-host of the I Hate it but I Love it Podcast Jocelyn Geddie. We go over the undying asshole John McClane, Jeremy Irons' onesie and other delights.
2017-06-281h 11
Big Gross MoviesBGM-111-The Rise of the Number TwosWe're back! Dave and Meg have been away because their frail bodies failed them, but thanks to modern science they're back on their feet to go over all our favorite number ones and let you know how the show is gonna work now that we're moving on to the second highest grossing movies and revisiting years. It's fun! We're back! And so on.
2017-06-2126 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-110-1992-Stop or my Mom Will Shoot!This week Meg is on assignment so Will Noye is in her timeseat for a trip to 1992 to continue in our series of Sylvester Stallone Hubris specials, but little did we know Stop or My Mom Will Shoot would work as well as it did. It's dumb, it's bad, but wow everyone came to play. Also we go insane.
2017-05-1741 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-107-1993-Demolition Man + THE RETURN OF MEGThis week, Meg's back from flying a special assignment through time and space so we took a nice pleasure cruise to 1993 to catch another in our series of Stallone hubris pictures: Demolition Man! We go over sexist seashells, Hunka-Chunka, and Wesley Snipes as one of the weirdest and most wonderfully dumb villains in film.
2017-04-2647 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-105-1956-The Ten CommandmentsThis week, Dave and guest Meg Will Noye leave a time-machine jumpseat open for Elijah and head back to 1956 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Cecil B. Demille's The Ten Commandments with our special guest Amanda Day! We go over Russia calling out their ex-leader, how awful Alabama was and a year of comically awful Canadian plane crashes before going over the almost four-hour epic about Passover, during Passover! L'Chaim!
2017-04-121h 38
Big Gross MoviesBGM-104-1928-The Singing FoolThis week, Meg is on assignment so Kat Angus is guest Megging for our trip to 1928 to have a look around and watch the highest-grossing movie The Singing Fool with special guest Nigel Grinstead. We go over whoopsie-doops antibiotic discoveries, pregnancy tests before the stick you pee on and then watch the most horrid thing we've sat through thus far for your entertainment.
2017-04-0558 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-103-1986-Cobra BAD MOVIE SPECIALThis week Meg is away so we revisited one of the finest auteurs in bad cinema and checked out 1986s Cobra starring Sylvester Stallone, his ego, and some actors I guess. With Special guest Craig Fay Dave goes over one of the laziest, uncooked movies ever made that is still somehow watchable.
2017-03-2959 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-101-2003-Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingThis week we pack our aluminium time tubes with yellow cake and fly on back to 2003 to have a look around and then review it's highest-grossing movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. With special guest Blayne Smith we go over the unfortunate events of 2003 and then tussle with Tolkien, Meg's hatred of B-list Hobbits and the fat-shaming of Samwise Gamgee.
2017-03-151h 20
Big Gross MoviesBGM-100-1996-100th Episode Special-Star Trek: First ContactThis week to celebrate our hundredth episode we got nostalgic and maybe self-indulgent and invited guest comedian Alex Wood to time vortex thingie back to 1996 and review the movie Dave and Meg conceived the show over: Star Trek First Contact. We sing, we laugh, we posit old-timey borgs and just generally have a grand time. Thanks for listening.
2017-03-0845 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-096-1934-Viva Villa!This week Meg is back pulling time levers to get us back to 1934 to have a look around and watch it's highest-grossing movie: Viva Villa! with special guest, writer and tweetist Karen Geier. We go over the dirt stormy criminal shooty child exploiting nightmare of 1934, then ponder the layers of wrong and bad that make up Viva Villa!
2017-02-081h 16
Big Gross MoviesBGM-095-1952-The Greatest Show on EarthThis week, Meg is on assignment so Shawn Hogan is here to reload the time rods and bring us back to 1952 to find out what it was like and watch its highest grossing movie: The Greatest Show on Earth! With special guest Lukas Stark the mystery entertainer we go over the awful, awful year of dead kings and smog clouds before going over an ode to the deceased Ringling brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, which should have closed good riddance. This movie is a horrific clown show that almost broke us, Jimmy Stewart playes a murder clown who n...
2017-02-011h 26
Big Gross MoviesBGM-094-1964B-GoldfingerThis week, Meg's away so 1964 guest Ryan Horwood and I flew back to catch the second highest-grossing movie of 1964, the misogynist masterpiece that needs a long talk about consent while serving prison time: Goldfinger. Marvel as James Bond is drunk, terrible at his job, and repeatedly captured! Also he's a sex criminal.
2017-01-2530 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-093-1986-PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL-The Color of MoneyThis week Guest Meg Sam Burns and Special guest Rebecca Reeds man the time pumps on a trip to 1986 to see our Podcast's hero's academy award winning performance in Martin Scorcese's pool movie sequel The Color of Money. Tiny Tom Cruise spazzes out like six times. It's Great.
2017-01-1841 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-091-1932-Shanghai ExpressThis week Meg is still outta town so Nigel Grinstead is pedaling the time bike as guest Meg and we're headed back to 1932 to have a look around and catch its highest-grossing movie Shanghai Express! We talk about aviation pioneers of both the baby losing and pioneering types, go over the time some mounties spent a month killing a snow terminator and then review a movie that is pretty much a real-time train ride with a real chill german lady: Shanghai Express with guest comedian Cathryn Naiker.
2017-01-041h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-090-1994-Star Trek: Generations TREK SPECIALThis week Meg is away so resident Star Treksman Will Noye and Dave egg nog drunked the Time Machine to 1994 to watch it's Star Trek movie: Star Trek: Generations, which looks good but ain't super great. Lotta jokes about costuming.
2016-12-2848 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-089-1998-HOLIDAY SPECIAL - Jack FrostThis week Dave and Meg fire up the Time machine and get so egg-nog drunk they crash it into 1998 and catch its holiday... thing called Jack Frost, starring Michael Keaton as the voice of a George Clooney puppet who is also a dad and can snowboard because Harmonica snow Christmas Robert Baratheon with an earring. Happy Season everyone!
2016-12-2138 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-088-CHRISTMAS SKETCHTACULAR!This week, we leave the time machine parked and let Dave play Radio for Christmas. Enjoy the clip, back next week with a movie show! Scheduling in December is nightmare!
2016-12-1405 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-087-1984-MEG BIRTHDAY SPECIAL - The Neverending StoryThis week, it's Meg's Birthday so we took the time machine back to 1984 to check up on one of our childhood favourites: The Neverending Story. It holds up! Join us as we go over creepy book men, suspiciously well-stocked school attics and the sad horse thing... God the Horse thing...
2016-12-0746 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-SKETCHTACULAR-002This week Canadian Thanksgiving done busted the time machine so bad we couldn't even record an episode, but worry not listeners, Dave is nothing if not totally willing to sit in his room alone and make really silly things. Enjoy the sketches: The Adventures of Phineas Blackwood: Gentleman Time Traveler, Artisan's Corner and Shitfaced Steve Sings the Hits.
2016-10-1210 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-079-1961-The Hustler- PAUL NEWMAN SPECIAL!This week, we invite our original Paul Newman guest Fraser Young to go over what Dave was sure was cool movie where cool Paul Newman plays cool pool and is cool. We talk about that, which makes up about a quarter of the movie, and then go over the dark tale of Bus Station drunks hidden inside the cool pool movie.
2016-10-0553 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-SKETCHTACULAR-001After being unable to nail down meg, Dave wrote and recorded a Sketch to send out to say sorry no episode! Enjoy "Donald Trump Debate School".
2016-09-2803 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-078-2004-Shrek 2This week, Meg Mackay returns and we hop back to 2004 to look around/wallow in its sadness then watch its highest-grossing movie: Shrek 2 with special guest Michael Kolberg.
2016-09-211h 09
Big Gross MoviesBGM-077-1991-STAR TREK SPECIAL - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered CountryThis week to honour the 50th anniversary of Star Trek Dave invites resident Trekspert Will Noye to continue our series of odd-numbered Star Trek reviews with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Shakespeare quoting Klingons, Sex in the City Vulcans and President of the Federation Pai Mei Red Foreman. It's all here!
2016-09-141h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-076-1949-Samson and DelilahThis week we let the time machine's hair grow out and zipped back to 1949 to have a look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Samson and Delilah with Guest Meg Ryan Horwood and special guest Lucy Gervais. We go over a soviet bomb, Mao Zedong, a hero cat and a stuck cow before going over the biblical epic about a longhair superman and his original bride's... sister? Bible times, check it out! As usual, check out our Tumblr for History notes.
2016-09-071h 14
Big Gross MoviesBGM-074-2014-The Expendables 3-CUSTOM MEG SPECIAL!This week, Meg Mackay is still on assignment in the middle east, so we rappelled down the time vortex to 2014 with returning guests Alison Dore and Shawn Hogan to catch one of Meg's Favorites: The Expendables 3. We have a ball going over a movie that has all the things, and then more things.
2016-08-241h 28
Big Gross MoviesBGM-071-1991-BAD MOVIE SPECIAL-Hudson HawkThis week, after having a good time in 1989 watching Tango & Cash, we decided to stop by 1991 on the way back to see another insane product of hubris: Bruce Willis' Hudson Hawk. Oh and Meg is moving to the Middle East for six weeks. Enjoy!
2016-08-0331 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-068-1938-You Can't Take it With You with Craig FayThis week Meg is away, so guest Meg Amanda Day is here to polish the time crystals and get us back to 1938 to have a look aroound and watch it's highest grossing movie: You Can't Take it With You with guest comedian Craig Fay.
2016-07-131h 25
Big Gross MoviesBGM-067-1989-AWFUL MOVIE SPECIAL-Tango and CashThis week Meg and Dave take the time machine on a pleasure cruise to Christmas 1989 to watch it's hilarious flop and study in megalomaniacal macho Tango and Cash; wherein Kurt Russel and Sylvester Stallone play out a fever dream dad fantasy.
2016-07-0650 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-065-1987B-Superman IV: The Quest for PeaceThis week, after still having no idea what the hell was up with 1987 after our last episode, Dave and Meg flew back this week to give the year another shot by watching the movie we assume would make all the money today: The Superhero one. So we watched Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. We go over Lex Luthor's useless nephew, A Love square that winds up in a sitcom, and the mechanics of hucking things into the sun.
2016-06-2248 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-064-1987-Three Men and a Baby with John MostynThis week with special guest John Mostyn Dave lights the pilot and cranks the gauges on the time machine to pick up Meg in the Mesozoic era before stopping in 1987 on the way back to stop time assassins from killing us as babies and to look around and watch its highest-grossing movie: Three Men and a Baby.
2016-06-151h 05
Big Gross MoviesBGM-063-1986-Trek Special: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home with Will NoyeMeg fell out of the time machine again so Dave swung by and picked up Special guest Will Noye to continue our survey of even-numbered Star Trek films.
2016-06-0839 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-051-1980-Flash Gordon with Blayne SmithThis week Meg sits in the pilot sac and launches the time machine into 1980 to catch her favorite movie: Flash Gordon with comedian Blayne Smith. We go over the pedigree of John Carter thrice removed and recap an assemblage of mescaline hallucinations scored by Queen.
2016-03-161h 19
Big Gross MoviesBGM-041-2002-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers with Kyle LuceyThis week, Co-host Meg Mackay and special guest Kyle Lucey are here to hold the time machine's hair back as it pukes through it's new years hangover and ferries us to 2002 to look around and catch it's highest grossing movie. We talk about color-coded scary things and such before going over the epic middle child of Peter Jackson: The Lord of the Rings: Thw Two Towers.
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2016-01-061h 25
Big Gross MoviesBGM-038-1930-All Quiet on the Western Front with Craig FayThis week Meg Mackay fell off the time machine again, landing somewhere in Victorian England, presumably on a pile of poor children, but worry not as I swung back and got Guest Meg Amanda Day to swing back to 1930 to watch it's highest grossing movie: All Quiet on the Western Front! We talk about fancy innovations like exploding airships and flying cows and go over a sombre, reflective, profound meditation on war... blockbuster? The Past is weird guys, with Special guest Craig Fay!
2015-12-161h 14
Big Gross MoviesBGM-032-1990-Ghost with Cathryn NaikerThis week comedian Cathryn Naiker stumbled into a stockpile of fissile time-machine grade material somehow so we swung by the nightmare sandwich dimension to pick up Co-host Meg Mackay on the way to check out 1990 and its big gross movie Ghost. We talk about weaponised GnR, the best guy ever, and go over the Oka crisis before emotionally exploding.
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2015-11-041h 34
Big Gross MoviesBGM-031-2015-Furious 7This week the time machine done conked out so I got Guest Meg Amanda Day as your fearless co-host is (probably) in a dimension of reality where sandwiches can steal souls, back next week (If the time machine gets fixed) So anyway we decided to get a look at another movie that made a lot of money this year, we saw Furious 7 with our special guest Will Noye!
2015-10-281h 10
Big Gross MoviesBGM-030-1996-Independence Day with Megan MykeThis week Meg Mackay is on loan to the 97th time precinct to track down a temporal fugitive because Dave couldn't be bothered, so Guest Meg Alex Wood is here to peddle the time bike and get us back to 1996 to look around and watch it's Big Gross Movie: Independence Day. We talk about a strange fella from the woods, Canada's national shame, and go over the pile of flags and exploding miniatures that is Independence Day with comedian Megan Myke.
Show Notes and pictures from 1996 Here on our Tumblr
2015-10-211h 27
Big Gross MoviesBGM-029-1974-The Towering Inferno with Bryan HattThis week Co-host Meg Mackay burst through a rip in the very fabric of space and time on a tank made of spoons just in time to hop in the time machine to have a look at 1974 and catch it's highest grossing movie: The Towering Inferno! We talk about President Nixon resigning, a Japanese guy who was very devoted to his work and invite comedian Bryan Hatt to review a movie about poor building materials and Steve McQueen's ego.
Show notes at http://biggrossmovies.tumblr.com/
2015-10-141h 21
Big Gross MoviesBGM-028-1931-Frankenstein with Andrew BarrThis week my fearless co-host and time pilot Meg Mackay is unavailable as she is fighting her way out of a pocket universe where everything is spoons, but worry not as guest Meg Amanda Day is here to shovel time coal into the machine. We get it back to 1931 this week to look around and watch its big gross movie: Frankenstein. We talk about India, foppish dandies, and how Hitler was a real piece of work, then we go over the horror classic: Frankenstein with guest Andrew Barr, host of the horror movie comedy show guts for laughs at Co...
2015-10-071h 18
Big Gross MoviesBGM-019-1988-Rain Man with Ben MinerThis week we skip the time machine back to 1988 and watch its Big Gross movie: Rain Man. We discuss wars, elections, inventions, and which meat product most resembles Dave's nipples. With special guest Ben Miner.
2015-08-0554 min
Big Gross MoviesBGM-015-2015 Progress ReportThis week the piece of garbage time machine poops out so we do a progress report on the big gross movies of 2015 so far, some of which we have never goddamn heard of. Listen along as Meg realises her life's ambition is to live in a cottage with Michelle Rodriguez and Chris Pratt with a nearby Raptor Paddock and Dave feels strong things about Gasoline in the desert. We also talk about women in movies and how there aren't very many.
2015-07-0827 min