Box Office Time Machine

Jon and Veronica successfully exorcised the demon that plagued the recording of the Argylle episode, so they're really ready to talk about The Exorcist this week (and hopefully, sound much better).

Note: we had some audio issues so apologies to your ears. We tried our best.

Jan and Veronica try their best to make sense of the nonsensical.

We keep saying it, but WE'RE BACK! AGAIN! AND AGAIN!

It's been a weird year for movies and we're here to recap our highs and lows for you, dear listener.

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Come to hear us praise the movie, stay for a very special reading of some deleted scenes that may or may not be fan fiction.

Recommendations:

Both - Dicks: The Musical, Killers of the Flower Moon

Jon - Friday the 13th, The Exorcist, Pumpkinhead, Tremors, The Hidden

Veronica - Mister Organ, Inglourious Basterds, Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour

Hi Barbies! On this episode, Jon and Veronica bow down to the memes and tackle the unholy alliance to save movie-going that is Barbie and Oppenheimer.

Recs:

Jon - The Vanishing / Talk to Me

Veronica - Reservoir Dogs

Jon and Veronica have accepted the mission of reviewing a brand new entry in one of their favorite franchises.

Recommendations:

Both: No Hard Feelings / Asteroid City

Jon: Extra Ordinary / Roar / GetEven

Veronica: All the President Men / Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / The Big Lebowski / The Muppets Take Manhattan / Afire

You asked, we listened - this week we're talking all about the capitalism-saving marvel that is The Purge. As always, hope you are cleansed by this episode and thank you to the New Founding Fathers!

Recommendations:

Veronica - Fast X / The Social Network / Zodiac / Memories of Murder / About a Boy

Jon - Miami Blues

Jon and Veronica despair about the state of Marvel in the middle of the night.

Recommendations -

Veronica: Ocean’s Eight / Mad Max: Fury Road

Jon: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark / The Lost Boys

Jon and Veronica settle once and for all whether Flashdance is the story of a boss taking advantage of his very young employee, or that of a group of dreamers striving for success?

Recommendations:

Jon - Evil Dead Rise / Game Night / Single White Female

Veronica - Dungeons & Dragons / Beau is Afraid / The Ocean's Trilogy / The Witches of Eastwick

Jon and Veronica talk about the Evil Dead movie from 2013, not to be confused with the original Evil Dead or the upcoming Evil Dead. Hooray for original ideas!

Recommendations:

Veronica - On Probation (Teimpo De Valientes) / Fast & Furious / Easy Rider / Bunny Lake is Missing / Evil Under the Sun

Jon - Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves / John Wick 4 / Fletch

What's your favorite podcast about #1 movies at the box office? Hopefully, it's Box Office Time Machine because we're back to talk about our favorite franchise - Scream!

Jon and Veronica rank their best (and worst) movies of the year. Previous movies featured in this pod dominate one of those lists, but we won't say which!

Veronica and Jon take the ol' time machine into sea to ride on The Poseidon Adventure. Seems like a fun boat filled with reasonable people, hope nothing bad happens to them!

Plus, listen to the end to hear our pitch for HYPERLOOP the disaster movie for our times.

Recs -

Veronica: Glass Onion / The Muppet Christmas Carol / Eyes Wide Shut / All the Beauty and the Bloodshed / Confess, Fletch

Jon: The Gremlins / Black Christmas / White Noise / After Yang / This Place Rules

Jon and Veronica abandon their human bodies and travel to Pandora. Only one of them actually wants to be there...

Recommendations:

Veronica - Bullet Train / Miss Congeniality / The First Wives Club / Vengeance / The Nightmare Before Christmas / Die Hard

Jon -  The Fabelmans / The Menu / Violent Night

Jon and Veronica's time machine is somehow able to penetrate Wakanda's defenses so we get to talk about the new Black Panther movie!

Recs:

Veronica - The Menu

Jon - The Banshees of Inisherin

Jon and Veronica are pleasantly surprised by the progressive politics of the first Rambo movie.

Recs:

Veronica - Decision to Leave,  The Banshees of Inisherin, Rush Hour, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Armageddon Time

Jon - Triangle of Sadness, In the Mouth of Madness, The Slumber Party Massacre, RRR

Jon & Veronica return to Haddonfield, IL to visit Laurie Strode but are confused as to why this Corey guy seems to always be around.

Movie Recs: 

Veronica - Pearl, House of the Devil, Triangle of Sadness, TAR & Aguirre: The Wrath of God

Jon: Bros, Intruder, Nosferatu: The Vampire, Werewolf by Night, Popcorn, Daughters of Darkness & Killer Klawns from Outer Space

We're back! Again! To talk about Barbarian! But did we both like it?!

Recommendations:

Veronica - Robocop (1987), A League of their Own, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Emily the Criminal

Jon - Prey, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Nope

Jon and Veronica visit New Asgard, but do they like what they find there?

Two people with very limited knowledge of Star Trek talk about a Star Trek movie. What could go wrong? Do they end up comparing it to Frasier? Who's to say.

Hey there fellow kids! Come traverse the multiverse with your trusted time travelers!

Recommendations:

Veronica - The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent / Con Air

Jon - The Northman / Speed / Evil Dead

While maybe few people asked for these movies, this episode talking about them is essential. 

Recommendations: Everything Everywhere All At Once / To Die For / The Dropout / Slow Horses

Do you think Jon and Veronica could pass for high-schoolers?

Recommendations: X, Turning Red & Deep Water

Is this just A Batman or is this, in fact, THE Batman we deserve.

It is party time, but is it, in fact, excellent? 

We're back with a look back at 2021! 

We've definitely Said His Name more than 5 times during this podcast so we might both be dead by the time you hear this!

Recommendations: 

Veronica - Barb and Star Got to Vista Del Mar / Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jon - Annette (not really a rec) / Disco Elysium / Psychonauts 2

Jon and Veronica talk about THE Suicide Squad, which we can all agree is better than A Suicide Squad.

Recommendations:

Veronica: Fallen Angels & Some Kind of Heaven

Jon: Woodstock '99 & Call Me By Your Name

We time traveled back to kill John Connor... oops, I mean, talk about T2, haha! Everything is cool. Don't run away, John Connor!

Recommendations:

Veronica: Woodstock '99 / Pig

Jon: The Raid / Zola

WE'RE BACK! And to compensate for our absence, we tackle the Fast and Marvel cinematic universes. They have more in common than we thought.

We did it. We found the one person on earth who unabashedly loves the movie Swordfish. This week, Veronica goes to bat for the infamous 2001 bomb, soul patches and all!

Somewhere beyond the sea, we're joined by Steven Spencer to loudly discuss the many plot-holes of A Quiet Place, Part II.

We go back to the year 1991 to talk about the competently made Backdraft starring men being men and fires being fires.

Recommendations: 

The Phantom of the Paradise

We are joined by the shook Evan Samuels. Will we tell Wrath of Man to put its asshole back in its asshole?

Recommendations:

Evan: The Long Goodbye and California Split

Veronica: The Father

Veronica thinks Thor was better than expected. Jon just wants it to be more like Enchanted.

Recommendations:

Jon - Nomadland and Another Round

Veronica - The Adventures of Prince Achmed and Our Boys

We're so excited to attend the tournament. Quick question - when does it actually start?

Jon and Veronica welcome monster connoisseur Eddie Dougrou to the show to talk big lizards, giant apes and gaping plot-holes.

We travel back to 1971 to watch Michael Caine be one bad motherf*cker.

Recommendations:

Jon - Q Into the Storm

Veronica - The Diamond Arm

WE'RE BACK!

Jon and Veronica travel all the way back to 1961 to visit a Disney classic and talk about the upcoming Cruella movie. Afterwards, they rev up the time machine back to the future (TM) to talk about the Oscar nominations.

Movie recs:

Jon - The new Planet of the Apes trilogy, Feels Good Man, Psycho Goreman & Lake Mungo

Veronica - The Red Shoes & Bob Dylan - Dont Look Back

Jon and Veronica talk about the best movies and the decade and some of the worst ones from this past year (does Rise of Skywalker make either list?).

Including: Blade Runner 2049, Boyhood, Cabin in the Woods, Frances Ha, Her, Inception, The LEGO Movie, The Lobster, The Master, Max Mad: Fury Road, Moonrise Kingdom, OJ Made in America, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, The Social Network, Toy Story 3, The World of Tomorrow, and those are just the good ones!

Jon and Veronica talk about all the movies they liked this year and hand out some superlatives in between.

Into the UNKNOWN!