Each week on Best of the Rest we take a second look at a movie that was poorly received upon release, but challenge ourselves to only talk about what the movie does well. Maybe not every movie is great, but all movies have GREATNESS!
This week we are joined by television writer, voice actor, and host of Batman The Animated Podcast: Justin Michael!
To celebrate the holiday season, we are going back once more to the Batman franchis…
In this bonus episode we are breaking down everything we loved about Spider-Man: No Way Home. Favorite scenes, best performances, and biggest surprises. This is a SPOILER FILLED episode, do not liste…
Mystery Men was a movie ahead of its time; parodying superhero blockbusters before they took over cinemas in the 2000s, and teaming up superheroes before there was a cinematic shared universe of comi…
The Punisher was given the reboot treatment in 2008 when Ray Stevenson stepped into the role of Frank Castle, but audiences and critics alike were quick to forget it ever existed. So this week we tak…
This week we are joined by Preston Willke, co-host of the wonderful Level Zero Podcast!
Movies based on Marvel characters dominate today's box office. This week we take a second look at the very FIRST…
Guillermo del Toro and Ron Perlman teamed up to give audiences two beloved Hellboy adaptations. After the release of Hellboy II in 2008, fans eagerly awaited a third entry in the franchise, but a new…
Mere months after the release of Batman v Superman, the DCEU gave us Suicide Squad, an ensemble movie with an all star cast. Unfortunately the star power was not enough to impress critics or general …
When Fox decided to reboot the Fantastic Four franchise in 2015, they took the characters in a whole new direction. Instead of a bright, light-hearted superhero adventure, director Josh Trank looked …
It didn't take long for the comic book movie boom of the early 2000's to produce an R rated adaptation, and in 2004 The Punisher was released in theaters. Unfortunately, audiences did not flock to th…
Not only is Nicolas Cage back, but he's the only one who returns for the sequel, and this time he is truly uncaged. Critics were not fond of the even more absurd and over the top tone for the franchi…
This week we are joined by special guest Thompson Conradi, a VFX artist who has worked on several superhero films including, you guessed it, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice!
This highly anticipated…
As the FOX-Men franchise was winding down, the team assembled for one last adventure. Unfortunately, it received the lowest critical reviews the X-Men moves had ever seen. Audiences and casual movie …
Long before he played the funny executive on a TV show and voiced an animated baby in a business suit, Alec Baldwin was a supernatural pulp hero known as The Shadow. Much like the bad guys unfortunat…
While Spider-Man was busy swinging into the MCU, Sony wanted to have their cake and bite the head off too, and produced a movie starring Venom in a universe without his superhero rival. The reception…
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Men In Black was one of the biggest sci-fi action movies of the 90s, and a touchstone of pop culture. A sequel seemed inevitable, but th…
The DCEU has had its fair share of ups and downs over the past decade, and it all began with the divisive Man of Steel. While some felt that this portrayal of Superman was refreshing, others said it …
Hey dude, this is no movie! BotR is celebrating 20 episodes with everyone's least favorite Ninja Turtles movie. Is there really anything positive to talk about here? Of course! ...Maybe. Well we at l…
Before he was Bruce Wayne, Ben Affleck was Matt Murdock in the 2003 film Daredevil. Released shortly after the success of Spider-Man, audiences were not as enthusiastic about this red suited hero. Bu…
Despite receiving largely negative reviews, Fox decided to make a sequel to their action movie about a team of super powered people. A tale as old as time.
The sophomore effort in the Fantastic Four f…
Merely 5 years after the first issue was published, Spawn was adapted into a major motion picture. And how did mainstream audiences greet the indie comic book star? With a mild box office and scathin…