Load Bearing Beams: A Movie Podcast
Matt and Laci dive deep into a different movie every week. Whether it’s a great movie, a terrible movie, or somewhere in between—we unpack the history behind its production and the people who made it, then discuss, review, and make fun of the movie itself. Why do we call it a Load Bearing Beam? Because it's a movie you love so much that it holds up the foundation of the very structure that is you. Laci Roth and Matt Stokes are a married couple that needs to find stuff to watch together. On this show, they take a look at movies loved by one but unseen, disliked, or forgotten by the other. With open hearts but exhausted and cynical minds, they will get to the bottom of whether or not the movies they love so much are actually good.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 74 minutes
- Episodes
- 210
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
10. Drop Dead Fred / Dawn Of the Dead
Drop of the Fred with the Sickness in this spooktacular examination of childhood mental illness and mindless consumerism. That's right, it's 1991's Drop Dead Fred (Rotten Tomatoes score: 9%) and 1978…
09. Knowing / Clueless
What do we really know?
Is the future predetermined?
Are human beings really free?
These questions and more are addressed and resolved in the two movie selections Load Bearing Beams, episode 9: Alex …
08. Harry Potter & The Prisoner Of Azkaban / GoldenEye
NOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we took another look at GoldenEye with our pal Wade. Check out Episode 104 to hear a much longer discussion of the film, whe…
07. Death Becomes Her / Spider-Man 2
More fliffity-floo! Laci presents one of the best comedies ever made about an aging stage actress who takes a de-aging potion and then gets murdered by her husband but she can't die so she sticks aro…
06. Master & Commander / Now & Then
It's our highly-anticipated Ampersand Episode! Laci & Matt take a look at the historical seafaring epic Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) [02:55], and Laci puts aside her prejudice…
05. Beetlejuice / Films of Tim Burton
NOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we revisited Beetlejuice. In Episode 89, we went back to Beetlejuice and had a much more informed conversation about it.
Ar…
04. Jaws / The Craft
You're gonna need bigger ears to hear this gem of a half episode! In part A of episode 4, our hosts dive in to the world of "Jaws," (1975) which is not the name of the shark but still a weird thing t…
03. Alien / The Breakfast Club
02. Hook / Halloween
01. Star Wars / Dirty Dancing
NOTE FROM 2024: Many years later, once we learned how to actually podcast, we revisited both of these movies. In Episode 99 we went back to Dirty Dancing and in Episode 100 we went back to Star Wars.
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