Belated Box Office

The Belated Box Office has made it to twenty episodes, and to celebrate Pat and Jeff are covering one of their all-time favorites. They discuss Troy Duffy's debut film, The Boondock Saints, and imbibe more than a moderate amount of whiskey. Also, we see the return of a classic segment, "Pat's Dilbert Calendar."

This week, Jeff and Pat are talking about The Shadow, the 1994 vigilante anti-hero film that's totally not a rip-off of Tim Burton's Batman. They discuss how the movie's financial failure dashed the studio's hopes of kick-starting a blockbuster superhero franchise, and Pat shares some of his extensive knowledge of the Donkey Kong Country universe.

This week, Jeff and Pat are taking on another shoot-em-up action movie with Escape from New York. Jeff expresses his dislike for movies that use a ticking clock as a plot device, and Pat refuses to include the social sciences in the term "science fiction".

Forget it, Jake - it's the Belated Box Office's 17th episode, and we're talking about the 1974 detective film, Chinatown. Pat voices his criticism of American private eye characters, and Jeff starts a fight with a head of cabbage.

This week Jeff and Pat are talking about Labyrinth, a movie riddled (get it?) with ugly goblin puppets, barely important tag-along characters, and terrible greenscreen. Was this whole project, with all its ill-advised rewrites, just a ploy by David Bowie to stay relevant with kids who don't remember his music? I mean, yeah. Pretty much. Come listen to us talk about it.

This week, Jeff and Pat go to China in the 17th or 18th century or something with the classic kung fu masterpiece, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin. They put their tenuous grasp of history on display as they praise the film for its simple yet engaging plot, and move on to briefly discuss the disappointment that is both of the 36th Chamber's sequels.

This week, Jeff and Pat are covering their first animated film - the 2012 Disney adventure, Wreck-It Ralph! Lots of off-topic video game rants ensue.

Pat and Jeff are excited to welcome their first ever guest to the podcast, Jared McLean! Jared comes on to talk about Niels Arden Oplev's 2013 action-ish movie, Dead Man Down. Opinions differ, and the merit of Colin Farrell as a leading man is discussed. Ultimately, it's agreed upon that the movie is a rip-off of Everybody Loves Raymond, and not as good as Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Much like Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi teamed up to make a vampire mockumentary spoof in 2014, Jeff and Pat are teaming up to... talk about how they watched that movie. Also, they reminisce about the short-lived TV phenomenon Deadliest Warrior, and they float out the idea of a brand of ham made exclusively from virgin pigs. (the movie is What We Do in the Shadows, by the way.)

After last week's double-header of award-winning blockbusters, Jeff and Pat are doing a complete 180 with a very much not-nominated financial flop. It's Louis Leterrier's crude shock comedy/actually pretty good action movie, The Brothers Grimsby!