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Ben and Rob step into Trainspotting, the 1996 adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel that sent Danny Boyle, screenwriter John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald out of the Shallow Grave sandpit and into the scuzzy flats, pubs and shooting galleries of Edinburgh’s heroin underworld. The film follows Mark “Rent Boy” Renton, played by Ewan McGregor, as he tries to kick the habit, fails, tries again, and drags his mates through the wreckage: Jonny Lee Miller’s Sick Boy, Ewen Bremner’s Spud, Kevin McKidd’s Tommy, Kelly Macdonald’s Diane, Peter Mullan’s Swanney, and Robert Carlyle’s Begbie, the friend nobody wants to be in a pub with. What was Britain really like in 1996, a country caught between the hangover of Thatcherism and the glossy optimism of Cool Britannia? How did Boyle and his team turn a book many considered unfilmable into a £1.5 million sensation, and did they really shoot an Edinburgh story in Glasgow? How do you cast a group of near-unknowns, and how did Kelly Macdonald, who had never acted before, end up on screen opposite them? Why did a film accused of glamorising heroin become one of the most celebrated British movies ever made, and what did Underworld, Iggy Pop and the soundtrack have to do with it? And why does that “Choose life” monologue still hit so hard, thirty years on? And finally… what does it really mean?! We have ad free audio AND video episodes up on our patreon! Also a bunch of exclusive bonus content! Feel free to head over there and help support the show, get yourself something extra too :) Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast LOVE YA! GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob step into Sunshine, the 2007 sci-fi thriller that sent Danny Boyle and his 28 Days Later screenwriter Alex Garland out of the zombie-infested UK and into the dying heart of our solar system. The film follows the crew of the Icarus II, an international band of astronauts played by Cillian Murphy as quiet physicist Capa, Chris Evans as the most sensible man on board, Rose Byrne, Michelle Yeoh, Hiroyuki Sanada, Benedict Wong and Cliff Curtis, as they haul a bomb the size of Manhattan towards the sun in a last-ditch attempt to reignite it, with Mark Strong waiting out in the dark as a man who really, really should not have survived. How do you make a cast of actors believe they’re physicists, and did sending Cillian Murphy to CERN with Brian Cox actually work? What was the Boyle and Garland disagreement that left one of cinema’s great writer-director partnerships on ice for years? What on earth possessed Danny Boyle to go on Richard and Judy and say what he said about the ending? Why did a film this gorgeous, with a cast this good, quietly vanish at the box office? And is there something almost too perfect about a film that spends two acts as hard science fiction and then lurches into slasher territory, a third act people have been arguing about ever since: a catastrophic collapse, or the whole point? And finally… what does it really mean?!

Ben and Rob set sail for Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds' 1995 post-apocalyptic epic that turned a five-million-dollar B-movie idea into the most expensive film ever made at the time, and one of Hollywood's most infamous cautionary tales. Directed by Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino and Dennis Hopper, the film follows a mutant drifter across a flooded Earth while, behind the scenes, an unfinished script, a gigantic floating city and two old friends with very different ideas of what movie they were making pushed the production towards complete industrial madness. How did Roger Corman rejecting a waterlogged Mad Max knock-off for being too expensive lead, somehow, to a $175 million studio blockbuster? Why did Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds agree to work together again after Robin Hood had already wrecked their friendship, and how did the exact same argument over creative control come back to destroy them twice? What happens when you decide the best way to suggest a floating city is to actually build one, chain it to the seabed and employ Lockheed Martin to help keep the bastard afloat? And after months of headlines branding it “Fishtar” and “Kevin’s Gate” before audiences had even seen it, was Waterworld really the catastrophic flop everyone remembers, or did the story of the disaster become bigger than the film itself? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob step into Howard the Duck, the 1986 sci-fi comedy that took George Lucas's decade long crush on a foul mouthed Marvel comic book duck and turned it into one of the most notorious box office disasters in Hollywood history. Directed by Willard Huyck from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gloria Katz, the film stars Lea Thompson as rock singer Beverly Switzler, Jeffrey Jones as a scientist possessed by an alien entity, and a young Tim Robbins as her hapless almost scientist friend, all sharing the screen with a wisecracking, cigar smoking duck played by a rotating cast of performers in animatronic suits. Why did Lucas and his American Graffiti collaborators originally want to make this thing as a cartoon, and what forced Universal to demand a live-action duck instead? How do you even get an audience to accept a romantic subplot between a human woman and a man in a rubber duck costume, and did anyone involved really think that would work? What happened on release that turned this into a punchline for years and got it nominated for Worst Picture of the Decade at the Razzies? And is there something almost too perfect about a movie starring an outsider who doesn't fit anywhere getting made by an industry that couldn't figure out where it fit either? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob step into Labyrinth, Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy adventure that turned a puppeteer's most personal creative risk into a genre-defining cult classic. Directed by Jim Henson from a screenplay credited to Monty Python's Terry Jones, the film stars David Bowie as the Goblin King Jareth and a fourteen year old Jennifer Connelly as Sarah, a girl who has thirteen hours to solve an ever-shifting maze and rescue her baby brother from Jareth's clutches. How did a limo ride home from a Dark Crystal screening turn into a story about goblins stealing babies, and why did the finished script pass through the hands of a Monty Python legend, a Fraggle Rock lyricist, and George Lucas before anyone was happy with it? What made David Bowie the obvious choice to play Jareth when Sting, Prince, and Michael Jackson were all in the running, and how much of the film's most memorable moments came down to pure, unscripted chemistry on set? Why did a film this ambitious flop so badly on release and what does it say that a story about a girl choosing to grow up came at the exact moment its director's own life was falling apart? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob head underground for Tremors, Ron Underwood's 1990 monster comedy that turned a killer-worm B-movie premise into one of the most beloved cult classics of the home-video era. Directed by Underwood in his feature debut, from a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, the film stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire (in her acting debut) as the residents of an isolated Nevada town who discover something enormous is hunting them from beneath the dirt. What did it actually take for two writers to get this thing made on their own terms, and where did an idea this strange even come from in the first place? What was going on in Kevin Bacon's career that made this the role he took and the one he'd spend years trying to distance himself from before changing his mind entirely? How much of what makes this monster still work comes down to old-fashioned, hands-on craft rather than anything flashy? And when the film itself keeps daring you to guess where these things came from, is that an open question worth taking seriously, or the whole point of the joke? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob make a wish on a One Wish Willow and immediately regret it, joined this week by James Bertie for a deep dive into the low budget horror romance that somehow outgrossed Scream 7, Backrooms, and pretty much every other genre film released in 2026. Directed by Curry Barker and starring Michael Johnston as lovesick Bear and Inde Navarrette as his increasingly ominous crush-turned-obsession Nikki (with able comic backup from Andy Richter), Obsession is the story of a Faustian bargain gone spectacularly, hilariously wrong. The trio dig into how Barker builds dread on a shoestring, the slow burn tension of Nikki's increasingly unsettling attempts at being romantic, while somehow keeping the film laced with genuine, quotable comedy throughout. They trace Bear and Nikki's character arcs from meet cute to nightmare fuel, unpack what the film is actually saying about obsession, wish fulfillment, and modern romance under the hood of all that supernatural mayhem, and go behind the scenes on the low budget, high ingenuity making of a movie nobody saw coming. James Bertie is one of our favourite people, he's a very talented comedian and a lovely, wholesome fella to boot, please go and show him some love here: https://www.instagram.com/mrjamesbertie/ 3 PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob strap into the neural interface for ‘The Cell’, Tarsem Singh’s hallucinatory 2000 psychological thriller that turned a serial killer plot into one of the most visually audacious studio films of its era. Directed by Tarsem (billed under his mononym for his feature debut), the film stars Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio, and plunges a child psychologist into the comatose mind of a killer to save his latest victim before time runs out. How did a music video director best known for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” end up helming a big-budget studio thriller, and what did that background do to the way this film actually looks? What exactly is going on with the costume design, and how much of the film’s dream logic was built in the fitting room rather than the script? Why does a movie this committed to style over sense still hold up as a genuine visual achievement more than two decades later, and is “it doesn’t need to make sense” really a defence, or is that exactly the point? And finally… what does it really mean?! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben, Rob and Amber blast off with ‘Destination Moon’, the 1950 science fiction landmark that helped launch an entire decade of space age cinema. Directed by Irving Pichel, produced by George Pal and developed with legendary sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, Destination Moon stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson as the crew of the first privately funded mission to the Moon. Released nearly twenty years before Apollo 11, the film treated space travel with a seriousness that helped reshape what science fiction could look like on screen. Did Destination Moon really start the 1950s sci-fi boom, and how scientifically serious was its vision of travelling to the Moon? What did the film predict correctly, what did it get spectacularly wrong, and how did its ideas eventually cross paths with the real world of NASA? How were its groundbreaking special effects achieved; why does its politics now seem astonishingly naive; and if Destination Moon had such an enormous impact on science fiction and popular culture, why has almost everyone forgotten it? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob noclip into ‘The Backrooms’, Kane Parsons’ 2026 A24 horror debut that transforms the viral internet creepypasta and his Kane Pixels YouTube series into a feature length nightmare. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, ‘The Backrooms’ follows a struggling furniture store owner who discovers an impossible doorway beneath his shop, and the therapist who follows him into an endless maze of liminal spaces. How did a teenager teaching himself Blender during lockdown go from YouTube animator to directing one of A24’s biggest movies? How did a single creepy photograph become one of the internet’s biggest horror myths, and how much of the Backrooms mythology did Kane Parsons actually invent? What does The NeverEnding Story have to do with any of this?! And is the real monster hiding in those yellow corridors actually regret? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob get stepped on this week by 1954's Them!, the black-and-white creature feature that took Cold War nuclear dread and gave it nine feet of legs, mandibles, and a taste for sugar. Starring Edmund Gwenn (yes, Santa Claus himself) as the entomologist explaining that mankind has opened a door it can't close, alongside James Whitmore and a pre-Gunsmoke James Arness, Them! follows a colony of New Mexico ants mutated by atomic testing into man-eating monsters, working their way from the desert into the storm drains of Los Angeles before the military can stop them. We'll get into the cultural context that turned giant bugs into box office gold, how a country nervously reading about A-bomb tests in the Southwest turned that anxiety into a monster it could actually shoot at. We'll cover the special effects: full-scale mechanical ant puppets, and a shrieking sound effect that was drove Rob to the brink of BURN IT ALL DOWN. And we'll trace the lasting legacy through the years; how a movie whose budget got slashed days before shooting somehow became Warner's biggest hit of the year and spawned an entire decade of giant-bug knockoffs. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob are joined this week by a very special third mast, guest host Amber Poppit for an episode covering Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, the $250 million, 100% IMAX 70mm adaptation of Homer's original road trip gone wrong epic. Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the King of Ithaca who spends a decade failing to simply go home, alongside Tom Holland as his son Telemachus and Anne Hathaway as long suffering wife Penelope, The Odyssey rounds out its absurdly stacked cast with Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron as Circe, and Zendaya as Athena; the goddess whose entire arc has the internet arguing about whether she's a deity, a vision, or a guilt trip with cheekbones. It is, depending on who you ask, either Nolan's most ambitious swing yet or yet another film maker desperately trying to get Matt Damon home. Ben, Rob, and Amber dig into the "shot entirely on IMAX film" claim and what that actually means for a movie shot across real-world locations instead of a soundstage, the casting choices that had half of Film Twitter cheering and the other half frothing at the mouth, what this interpretation of Homer's The Odyssey is doing for culture and cinema as a whole, Ben proves without a doubt that we live in a time of apparent magic and the 3 embark on a journey almost as epic as The Odyssey itself. USUAL DISCLAIMER; everything said about ancient Greek mythology should be independently verified. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob shrink themselves down to size this week to tackle a woman who did the opposite: 1958's Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, the black-and-white B-movie that proved you don't need a budget, you just need a giant papier-mâché hand and a grudge. Starring Allison Hayes as Nancy Archer, a wealthy heiress who has a close encounter, gets a lot bigger, and decides it's finally time to deal with her cheating husband Harry and his mistress Honey, Attack of the 50 Foot Woman is fifty-plus feet of scorned-wife rage wrapped in some of the most gloriously unconvincing special effects of the decade. Behind the scenes facts, the movie's "logic" (giant hand, tiny bar, you do the math), and the story of a director who liked the job so little he put a fake name on it. We'll cover who didn't make it out of this production alive, how a film this cheap and this weird somehow clawed its way to cult classic status, and exactly how those effects were pulled off with rear projection, oversized props, and a whole lot of nerve. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

Ben and Rob shoot their webs all over 2007 to dissect the $258 million fever dream that is Sam Raimi's Spider Man 3, the movie that had four villains, a jazz club, an emo dance number, and somehow still wasn't the strangest thing Sam Raimi did that decade. We trace the making of this notoriously overstuffed threequel, from studio pressure to cramming in Venom, to Topher Grace's freakish, some may say gimpy, get up, to the reshoots and the runtime battles. Starring Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Topher Grace and Thomas Haden Church, Spider Man 3 follows Peter Parker as fame goes to his head, an alien goo goes to his hair, and Harry, Eddie and Flint Marko all queue up to ruin his week. Behind-the-scenes facts, the movie's "logic" (we use that word generously), and the eternal question of how a man can walk down the street snapping his fingers and still be the scariest version of himself in the entire franchise. All facts fully, undoubtedly researched... mostly. And finally... what does it really mean?! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast

Ben and Rob fly first class back to 2006 to federally investigate a $33 million B-movie that somehow became one of the most anticipated films of the internet age, before a single trailer even dropped. This episode traces how Snakes on a Plane went from a modest 1992 spec script to a title so absurdly perfect that Samuel L. Jackson signed on for the name alone. We dig into the film's tangled decade-long road to the screen, the fan campaigns and internet memes that forced New Line Cinema to re-re-name the film mid-production, and how a movie built almost entirely on hype became a genuine case study in viral marketing before "going viral" was even a phrase people used. Plot hole's galore, Sam Jackson being Sam Jackson and the best thing to come out of WWII... All truth facts that arre fully, undoubtedly proven.... Probably. Finally, we ask the bigger question: what does it really mean?! And can Rob finally get us cancelled? SNAKES TOGETHER LONG! CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month - Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast