Box Office Birthday

Brandon and Megan welcome you aboard Convict Airlines – aka Con Air! Brandon spends a lot of time explaining the plot points Megan didn’t get, but hey, at least she can spot a tertiary character that also appeared in the Twilight movies from a mile away. We also cover the popularity of bird-based pick-up lines, debate wigs, and honor the dueling soundtrack singles with not one, but two musical interludes. 

Coming Attractions trailers for June 13

• Til There Was You
• Speed 2: Cruise Control

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

What better time for a Thanksgiving movie than the last week of May? Brandon and Megan watched Gone Fishin’, a buddy comedy not at all known for jump-starting the screenwriting career of one J.J. Abrams. We unlock the zen inner life lessons of a film about exploding boats and mischievous crocodiles. Most importantly, Megan teaches Brandon how to test if you’ll look good with bangs. 

Coming Attractions trailers for June 6:

• Con Air
• Buddy

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Brandon and Megan hit the theater to see the box office monster of 1997, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. We have many opinions about dinosaurs (scariness factor, gender, lack of buttholes) but first have to make an impossible choice for which trailer seems the least terrible for next week’s episode. 

Coming Attractions trailers for May 30:

• Trial and Error
• Gone Fishin'
• Everything Relative
• Night Falls on Manhattan

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

This week, Brandon and Megan take a quick side trip back to 1996 to watch Jerry Maguire and discover what all the fuss (and 19+ weeks in the Bloomington, IN movie theater) is all about. They debate the many iconic lines: what exactly is quan? which hello did she have him at? 

Coming Attractions trailers for May 23

• Addicted to Love
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

Brandon and Megan revisit a sci-fi favorite that some (but definitely not Brandon) are calling the Star Wars of the ‘90s, The Fifth Element. Megan works through several lists including her favorite alien species, her favorite character costumes, and her favorite interior design aspects of Korben Dallas’ apartment.  

Coming Attractions for May 16

No new movies came out next week! Instead join us to watch the top Bloomington box office mainstay of 1997, Jerry Maguire.

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

This week, Brandon and Megan watch Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. Make sure you get that subtitle down correctly because Megan accidentally purchased and started watching the sequel instead (and it took Brandon about five minutes to notice). After that gets sorted out, we explore the theory of relativity as it pertains to spinning beds and Brandon gets to flex his James Bond nerd knowledge. 

Coming Attractions trailers for May 9:

• The Fifth Element
• Father's Day
• Paradise Road
• Kolya

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

Brandon and Megan discuss the importance of emergency management, as well as work/life balance when there’s suddenly a Volcano in downtown LA! But don’t worry, lava is significantly slower than you’d think and this movie is weirdly committed to realism in that regard. Brandon questions if the LA subway really exists (he’s lived there almost five years) and Megan questions why there are so many notable Michael Jacksons (it’s just a really common name). 

Coming Attractions trailers for May 2:

• Warriors of Virtue
• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• Chasing Amy
• The Godfather (25th Anniversary Release)

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

This week, Brandon and Megan investigate Murder at 1600. (That's a street address, not 4:00 pm military time.) Well, really, it's Wesley Snipes and Diane Lane investigating a murder at the White House with the most reliable tool of all - an apartment-sized Civil War battle diorama. (We think?)

Coming Attractions trailers for April 25:

• Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion 
• Volcano
• Breakdown
• Kama Sutra

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

Join Brandon and Megan on a trip down the Amazon to watch Anaconda! We learn some facts about snake anatomy and more importantly, that no one ever taught them about stop, drop, and roll. Disclaimer: Brandon says this is our longest episode yet because this is the most culturally important movie of the year. 

Coming Attractions trailers for April 18 

• Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag 
• McHale’s Navy 
• Murder at 1600 
• Smilla’s Sense of Snow 

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday. 

This week, Brandon and Megan go undercover with Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue in The Saint. Is there anything better than a baker's dozen of disguises, wigs, and leather pants?? The movie tries to trick us into thinking we don't know what's going on with the plot, but we're at least pretty sure that's not how math formulas work.

Coming Attractions trailers for April 11

• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Anaconda
• Lost Highway

Box Office Birthday is a calendar-accurate movie rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the year 1997 in film by choosing a new theatrical release to watch each Friday.