The Movie Breakdown
Hosts Scott and Christopher review and discuss the latest releases along with foreign, independent and classic (and not so classic) pictures. Like any good review show, they also hop down many pretty rabbit trails.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 98 minutes
- Episodes
- 226
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
The Breakdown of 'Bonnie & Clyde'
There are many movies considered classics, but only a few that can be considered so ground-breaking that it changes how the movie industry operates and influences the next entire era of filmmaking. T…
01:41:51 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
The Breakdown of The Candidate
This week we're going all the back to 1972 for the satirical political drama starring Robert Redford in The Candidate. The movie is speaking into the climate and turmoil of its time, but like any goo…
01:25:10 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
The Breakdown Makes the Others Picks
This week's episode does not have the most graceful or catchiest title, but it speaks the truth. This week we have 10 different categories like Go to Director or Beloved Childhood Movie, but Scott wi…
01:54:36 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
The Breakdown of Our Unexpected Soft Spots
The Movie Breakdown often champions certain movies or actors or filmmakers. We don't hide what we love, and we are eager to throw out recommendations for the things we enjoy. But you may have noticed…
02:00:41 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
The Breakdown of Dune (2021)
For anyone who has been listening to The Movie Breakdown for a decent amount of time, you know that we don't always get excited about the bug studio tentpoles like other sites or shows. We tend to le…
01:35:53 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
The Breakdown Builds a Horror Franchise
Halloween is right around corner, so we're dedicating this episode to horror movies. More specifically, horror franchises. Even more specific, we're creating our own ultimate horror movie franchises.…
01:38:15 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
The Breakdown of Halloween (2018)
October is all about the trick or treats. This week on The Movie Breakdown we're offering both. Last week, we promised a deep-dive on the new theatrical release, Halloween Kills, but that was a trick…
01:35:12 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
The Breakdown of Our Childhood Movie Trauma
Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian readers and listeners. Nothing says a Canadian Thanksgiving more than emotional scarring. That is why this week we're both listing ten movie moments that haunted and…
01:39:33 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
The Breakdown of The Terminator vs. The Thing
We are trying out something different this week that is similar to a special episode we did way back at the beginning of The Movie Breakdown. In 2013, we did something called Mockbuster vs. Blockbust…
01:57:32 |
Mon 04 Oct 2021
The Breakdown Revisits the Best of 2014
Last year, we decided to revisit our 2013 top ten lists to see how it held up, and if we still loved the same movies that we did then. It was a lot of fun or at least, it was for us. For anyone who h…
02:34:36 |
Mon 27 Sep 2021
The Breakdown of Weekend at Bernie's
It wasn't critically acclaimed or a massive box office powerhouse, but Weekend at Bernie's not only had quite a few fans upon its release but it is probably better remembered now then many bigger hit…
01:12:35 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
The Breakdown of American Pie
The kids are back to school, and that means a great time to review a high school comedy. In the early 1980s, there was several teen sex comedies like Porky's that were huge hits, but they'd start to …
01:31:46 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
The Breakdown of Superman: The Movie
It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a podcast. That's right, it is The Movie Breakdown and we're reviewing the first big budget superhero event picture in Superman: The Movie from 1978. While it may be d…
01:48:49 |
Mon 06 Sep 2021
The Breakdown of the Best of 2021 So Far
It is time for the annual look at the best movies that came out during the first half of the year. Much like last year, it is a few months late, because in Ontario, we didn't even have open theatres …
02:40:07 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
The Breakdown of the Underrated Summer Blockbuster
The summer movie season is often where we get the biggest and most popular movies of the year. It is the time that studios serve up their event movies that they hope will draw in giant crowds. It is …
02:39:17 |
Mon 23 Aug 2021
The Breakdown of Beverly Hills Cop
Eddie Murphy had already turned into a movie star with 48 Hrs. but with Beverly Hills Cop he rocketed up to being the biggest box office star of the 1980s. It is hard to explain in modern times, wher…
01:30:32 |
Mon 16 Aug 2021
The Breakdown of the Action Stars' Defining Movies
The Movie Breakdown loves a good action movie. We also realize one of the things that really makes a great actioner is having an engaging and charismatic lead that you care about. This week we want t…
02:11:52 |
Mon 09 Aug 2021
The Breakdown of the Fear Street Trilogy
My brother was a big fan of the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series, but by the point those books became popular, I had already started gobbling up Stephen King novels. If the series was around when I was a…
01:30:14 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
The Breakdown Ranks Time Loop Movies
Way back in 1993, there was no way of knowing that Groundhog Day would turn out to be one of the most influential movies. Its formula has been repeated by multiple movies in multiple genres. We actua…
02:28:39 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
The Breakdown of First Blood
Long time listeners of The Movie Breakdown will have heard us mention all kind of different things on a recurring basis. One of them is that we have been against the critical consensus when it comes …
01:27:11 |
Mon 19 Jul 2021
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