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 the Impact of A24
For the last decade, I've read and heard many people bemoan that they don't make movies like they used to. Or I hear about how the original idea in entertainment is dying. Well, when I hear those thi…
01:26:55 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
The Breakdown of Christopher Plummer - 'The Sound of Music', '12 Monkeys', 'All the Money in the World' and 'The Last Station'
Canada has been the home of several great actors but one of the true legends was Christopher Plummer. We pay tribute to the icon on the latest episode of The Movie Breakdown with reviews for four of …
01:37:31 |
Mon 15 Feb 2021
The Breakdown of Love - 'His Girl Friday', 'Silver Linings Playbook', 'The Spectacular Now' and 'The Blue Lagoon'
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and we're going to celebrate it with an episode we've called The Breakdown of Love where we will review four romance pictures. We are going all the way back…
01:48:06 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
The Breakdown of 'The King of Comedy', 'Outside the Wire', 'The Rental' and 'The White Tiger'
It is a really big episode this week as we look at one of the lesser-known movies of Martin Scorsese that was a flop at the time of its release but has gone on to be one of his most influential movie…
01:36:38 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
The Breakdown of 'One Night in Miami', 'Pieces of a Woman', 'The Beastmaster' and 'Pirates! Band of Misfits'
It is our first traditional review show of 2021 on The Movie Breakdown. We kick off with some big streaming exclusives like Regina King's directorial debut in One Night in Miami and a heavy drama loo…
01:32:16 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
The Breakdown of the Future Success of Movies
It is another special episode this week and we're calling it, The Breakdown of the Future Success of Movies. The movie industry took a huge blow in 2020 with the pandemic, and there is hope that they…
01:40:13 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
The Breakdown of the Best Movies of 2020
It is finally here. Our biggest show of the year and definitely one of our favourite episodes we do every year. We celebrate the best movies of the past year. I know 2020 was a really strange year, a…
02:45:48 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
The Breakdown of the Most Underrated Movies of 2020
This week is a show that has been a long time in coming and is planned to be our third annual 'year-end list' special along with our best of and worst of shows. I've always been a huge fan of our top…
02:17:10 |
Mon 04 Jan 2021
The Breakdown of the Worst of 2020
2020 was an odd year for movies. The big studios kept pushing all their stuff off the schedule for another year. It feels like there was a lot less movies, yet stuff quietly kept being released each …
02:10:22 |
Mon 28 Dec 2020
The Breakdown of Our Wishes for 2021 and Beyond
Christmas is right around the corner and The Movie Breakdown is getting into the festive mood by making our own wish list. The week is The Breakdown of Our Wishes for 2021 and Beyond, where we discus…
01:16:53 |
Mon 21 Dec 2020
The Breakdown of 'Mank', 'Christmas Chronicles 2', 'Capone' and 'Time'
It is the final traditional The Movie Breakdown episode before we march our way into our annual year-end specials. We wrap it up with four movie reviews including a picture we've been anticipating al…
01:38:38 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
The Breakdown of 'The Last House on the Left', 'Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey', 'Death Wish' and 'Uncle Frank'
It is a wild episode of The Movie Breakdown podcast with some very different movies getting reviewed this week. We go all the way back to the 1970s to review two exploitation movies in Wes Craven's c…
01:40:30 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
The Breakdown of 'The 40-Year-Old Version'. 'Hillbilly Elegy', 'Rebecca' and 'A Shot in the Dark'
The latest episode of The Movie Breakdown is saying good-bye to November in the form of four movie reviews. We have three Netflix originals for you, and at least one of them we consider a best of the…
01:29:58 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
The Breakdown of 'Bill & Ted Face the Music', 'The Pink Panther', 'Over the Moon' and 'Evil Eye'
This week we've got four piping hot movie reviews for you. We're reviewing a sequel that took almost three decades to get here in the time travelling comedy. Bill and Ted Face the Music. Then it is t…
01:37:04 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
The Breakdown of 'Freaky', 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm', 'Let Him Go' and 'Bloodshot'
For the first time in awhile, we are reviewing all 2020 releases and two of them came straight from the theatre. Friday the 13th just passed and so we appropriately have ourselves a slasher film, but…
01:35:52 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
The Breakdown of Sean Connery - 'Highlander', 'The Untouchables', 'Murder on the Orient Express.' 'The Great Trainer Robbery' and 'First Kni
This week it is The Breakdown of Sean Connery as we review five movies starring this Hollywood icon. We look at the movie that earned him an Academy Award in the gangster drama directed by Brian DePa…
01:48:18 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
The Breakdown of Horror - 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street', 'Tremors', 'The Monster Squad', 'Eraserhead' and 'Come Play'
It is time for our yearly Halloween special, The Breakdown of Horror, because nothing is scarier than a holiday episode released after the day it is celebrating. We are reviewing a diverse array of f…
01:29:24 |
Mon 02 Nov 2020
The Breakdown of 'The Trial of the Chicago 7', 'Ghost', 'Casper'. 'American Murder: The Family Next Door' and 'Sucker Punch'
It is a huge episode this week as we have five movie reviews for you, and we are dipping into all kinds of genres. Halloween is almost here, so it seemed appropriate to look at two pictures about gho…
01:47:58 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
The Breakdown of 'The Silence of the Lambs', 'Hubie Halloween', 'Santa Fe Trail' and 'Pets United'
We are approaching Halloween season, which means we are building towards our annual scary movie episode. That also means we want to see some horror movies on the way, and this week, we're discussing …
01:54:04 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
The Breakdown of Things We Are Thankful for in Movies
Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian listeners and readers, and for everyone else, I hope you're having a wonderful Monday. Since our show is recorded in Canada, we've decided to have a special Tha…
01:11:41 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
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