Box Office Birthday

Box Office Birthday

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Box Office Birthday episodes

  • The Four Seasons | May 29, 1981

    Join Brandon and Megan for a world of escapist fantasy watching The Four Seasons, where middle class couples can afford to go on four nice vacations a year!


    Coming Attractions trailers for June 12:

    • High Risk
    • Take This Job and Shove It
    • Outland
    • Nice Dreams
    • Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I
    • Raiders of the Lost Ark
    • Clash of the Titans


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    59 min
  • Happy Birthday to Me | May 15, 1981

    Serendipity has finally struck: join Brandon and Megan as they finally watch a birthday-themed movie on their birthday-themed podcast!


    Coming Attractions trailers for May 29

    • The Four Seasons
    • Death Hunt
    • The Legend of the Lone Ranger


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    53 min
  • Excalibur & Friday the 13th, Part 2 | May 1, 1981

    This week, Brandon and Megan bring you a special double episode covering the whole month of April, basically. (We missed you!) First up is the fantasy epic Excalibur, when Megan can let her AP English nerd flag fly, and then we cover Friday the 13th, Part 2, which Brandon still doesn't know if he's seen before.


    Coming Attractions Trailers for May 15:

    • The Four Seasons
    • Death Hunt
    • The Legend of the Lone Ranger


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    1 hr 21 min
  • Thief | April 3, 1981

    This week, Brandon and Megan take a how-to course in diamond heisting, courtesy of Michael Mann's directorial debut, Thief. But the more important skill we can learn from James Caan by far is his impressive vision board collaging.


    Coming Attractions trailers for April 17:

    • Excalibur
    • Going Ape!
    • American Pop
    • On the Right Track
    • Nighthawks
    • Caveman


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    1 hr 1 min
  • Back Roads | March 20, 1981

    What do Lincoln and the CIA-Panama conspiracy have in common? I bet you wouldn't guess Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones, kind of, but there it is! Brandon and Megan discuss all this and not much more when watching Back Roads.


    Coming Attractions trailers for April 3

    • Thief
    • The Postman Always Rings Twice
    • La Cage Aux Folles II


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    49 min
  • Eyewitness | March 6, 1981

    This week, Brandon and Megan witness William Hurt witness a crime in Eyewitness. (Except . . . not really.) Sigourney "Susan" Weaver is there to save the day though, and she has a horse.


    Coming Attractions for March 20:

    • The Funhouse
    • Back Roads
    • Dogs of War
    • The Final Conflict
    • All Night Long
    • Amy


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    48 min
  • Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen | February 20, 1981

    This week Brandon and Megan delve into the mysteries of Charlie Chan and the Dragon Queen, namely how did this franchise last so long and with so much yellowface. We also bring up race cars a weird number of times and come up with more brilliant advertising/business ideas.


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.


    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    47 min
  • The Incredible Shrinking Woman | February 6, 1981

    She's bigger than a breadbox . . . oops, now she's smaller than a breadbox . . . it's The Incredible Shrinking Woman! Brandon and Megan discuss this Lily Tomlin flick that bumps Charles Grodin up to an early lead as our most watched actor of 1981. Stayed tuned for our debate on if Lily Tomlin's character would have appeared on Ellen and for our hot new segment, Megan's Sports Corner.


    Coming Attractions trailers for February 20

    • My Bloody Valentine
    • Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen
    • The Devil and Max Devlin
    • Scanners


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd at @boxofficebday!

    47 min
  • It's My Turn | January 23, 1981

    There are so many movies about that special relationship between a girl and her new step-brother: Clueless, Drive Me Crazy, many episodes of Gossip Girl. But now it's Brandon and Megan's turn to watch It's My Turn!


    Coming Attractions trailers for February 6

    • Fort Apache, The Bronx
    • The Incredible Shrinking Woman


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd at ⁠⁠@boxofficebday⁠⁠!

    42 min
  • Flash Gordon | January 9, 1981

    Brandon and Megan are back for the new year...quite literally! Season 2 of the podcast travels back in time to 1981. We start the year off with that classic space opera that isn't Star Wars: Flash Gordon. We discuss the great campy aesthetics and debate if the characters invented a new kind of racism.


    Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1981 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch every other Friday.

    Follow us on Letterboxd at ⁠@boxofficebday⁠!

    1 hr 6 min

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A calendar-accurate cinema rewatch podcast! Join Brandon and Megan as they relive 1981 at the movies week by week.