Box Office Pulp

Box Office Pulp

By Cody Alft, Jamie Lewis, Mike NapierTV & FilmFilm ReviewsFilm History
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Box Office Pulp episodes

  • A Bunch of Hocus Pocus: The Kids Horror Canon

    Listener beware, you’re in for a… *checks notes* trip to the intersection of Nostalgia Lane and Formative Genre Programming Boulevard. It’s the spookiest night of the year, with all the little ghosts and goblins performing tricks and collecting treats, but instead of watching in wistful remembrance of youth, The BOP Crew is celebrating Halloween by… well, talking in wistful remembrance of youth! We’re digging up the most underrated, but arguably, most important bones of the genre, and assembling a Frankensteinian canon of influential children’s horror media. We’ve got Cowardly Dogs, Midnight Societies, Goosebumps, and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark sitting in our lab, not only waiting to give you back some old nightmares, but holding the key to what makes this stuff the very heart of horror, and essential to growing up. We all owe Ernest a life debt, is what I mean.

    Come little children, let me take thee away, by downloading the episode now!



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    1 hr 42 min
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Commentary Track
    Our Unbreakable Vow to provide a BOP 'n A Movie Feature Commentary for every Harry Potter film remains unbroken! For we have reached the penultimate entry in the series (technically!). An entry in which, every day, every hour, this very minute, perhaps, dark and moody cinematography attempt to depress the hell out of you! Then again, maybe seeing the young hero we've watched grow up before our eyes struggle relentlessly with Wizard PTSD is what's doing that. With this film, Steve Kloves returns, David Yates starts finding his groove, and we learn a whole lot about love... until we're reminded that love has an opposite, and it rears it's ugly head in one of the best gut-punching finales in cinema. So, take your liquid luck, crack open your potions book, and join us for the somewhat polarizing, HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE!

    Once again, we must ask too much of you, audience. Take our arm and download the commentary here!



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    2 hr 45 min
  • THE WITCHES Commentary Track
    Get ready to emerge nude from your Ghostbusters playset, because BOP is celebrating Halloween with Nicolas Roeg's 90s stranger danger fantasy THE WITCHES! Apologies in advance, but our feature commentary will unfortunately cause you to remember that this Roald Dahl adaptation did in fact happen and wasn't merely a freakish nightmare! It happened and you will WATCH IT AGAIN WITH US, DAMMIT. So,  join Witchfinder General Cody, Hotel Manager Mike, and Grand High Bitch Jamie, as they talk about one of Anjelica Huston's best performances, the balance between whimsy and horror this movie masters, and the creature effects that still give us the willies to this day. Listen now, before Cody is trapped inside his Scream poster forever!

    Call out for help from your badass Witch Hunter Grandma by downloading the commentary here!



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    1 hr 39 min
  • THE HALLOWEEN TREE Commentary Track (A Big-Ass Pumpkin Day Extravaganza)
    They say when The BOP Crew recorded this audio commentary for THE HALLOWEEN TREE, all the soda pop bottles in the world fizzled over. They could tell dumber jokes, analysis film better, AND eat more popcorn. Box Office Pulp, the greatest movie podcast that ever lived! According to their mother's. That whimsy aside, I don't know about you, but I smell pumpkin in the air, along with a tinge of last year's candy corn. 'Tis the season with the most reason! And to kick it off, it's our favorite of all make-believe holidays: Big-Ass Pumpkin Day! As every year, we celebrate with an appropriate jack-o-lantern-y flick, and this time, it's the aforementioned Cartoon Network adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic trip through Samhain's past!

    Grab your carving tools and join us by downloading the commentary here!



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    1 hr 27 min
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX Commentary Track
    A corrupt, invaded by Nazi's Government telling us what is and is not true, while also controlling what our children are taught? 2018 in America or Harry Potter film? Both, actually! The Room of Requirement has opened to us, revealing... a screening room! With ample seating so we may march onward in our retrospective study of one of the greatest franchises in cinema history. This time, Harry must step up in one of the most fascinating uses of the chosen one trope, as the series also meets it's Directorial stalwart for the remainder of the films, David Yates. But for the first and only time, Steve Kloves did not provide the adapting screenplay, and... well, we'll get into how it fared without him! Ignore all decrees by the Ministry of Magic and evil old cat ladies, and join us in this audio commentary for: HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX!

    Feeling ghosted by Dumbledore? Downloading the commentary here!



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    2 hr 28 min
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE Commentary Track
    Dear, loyal, trusted, passionate listener, we are going to ask you this... just... once... DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE!? DID YOU!? Sorry, sorry. We shouldn't have come at you so aggressively, but the thing is, we're just so darn excited! Our special Potterific BOP 'n A Movie trek into Diagon Alley continues, and we've officially reached adolescence! Which means... THE TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT! The last full on whimsical time for our spectacled hero, as the series reaches maturity with a film that takes us both to the most joyous of heights the series is capable of, but also to the darkest of left turns, where, in the words of Hermoine... nothing will ever be the same again. So, roll up your sleeves and check your Death Eater tattoos, folks, because it's time for an audio commentary! And this port key takes us straight to -- HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE!

    P.S. The bird bites. If you'd like to avoid that, download the commentary here!



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    2 hr 47 min
  • BLADE TRINITY
    Blade... prepared for your franchise to burn out in supremely lackluster fashion? No? Well, too bad there, buddy! The time has come to complete our look-back on the highly influential and ass-kicking BLADE series, and what better way to end a series than with the least influential and ass-kicking entry possible! Yup, folks, we're delving into a tale of on-set meltdowns, sticky notes, bikers, lawsuits, and the secret origin of Deadpool, all to perhaps find out how, in La Magra's name, BLADE TRINITY came to pass. Turn up your mid-2000s iPod for this one, because our fangs are also located in our vaginas.

    Avoid any Vampire Pomeranian's by downloading the episode now!



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    54 min
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN Commentary Track
    Turn this podcast to page 394. And while you do that, we'll be turning back time to 2004, to the third year of Hogwarts, as BOP 'n A Movie solemnly swears to provide an audio commentary for Alfonso Alfonso Cuarón's whimsical and spooky artistic achievement: HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN! Our deep dive into the tale of The Boy Who Lived arrives at the departing of Chris Columbus as Director. But, as you know, happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light... or, in this case, hire the guy who made Yu Tu Mama Tambien to take the reigns. Appreciate the balls of this in context, folks. And boy, did it pay off! What Cuarón did both changed the series forever, and paved the way for studios to think outside their box. So, summon your trusty Patronus, ward off those Dementors, and stay the hell away from Buckbeak... he's very flinchy.

    Manage your Mischief by downloading the commentary here!



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    2 hr 33 min
  • BLADE 2
    You have no idea what podcast you are [messing] with! If that censored for TV version of a badass one-liner didn't tip you off, we're continuing our trip down bloody memory lane with our BLADE series retrospective, and we've reached the main course: Guillermo Del Toro's BLADE 2! In which, this time, our fave Daywalker must team-up with Ron Perlman and his cool vampire buddies to stop some vagina mouthed mutant bloodsuckers. There's other vagina stuff, too. Also, things in jars. Lots of things in jars. All the Del Toro staples are here, folks! Plus, Norman Reedus! So, how has the character of Blade evolved between entries? What makes Nomak one of the best villains in comic filmdom? Why isn't the fact Donnie Yen was totally a vampire ninja once brought up more!? The BOP Crew is here to answer these questions the Del Toro way -- with a graphic autopsy!

    Join The Bloodpack by downloading the episode here!



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    59 min
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS Commentary Track (Theatrical Cut)
    If you folks would look under your seats, you'll notice that we gave you all socks! You're now as free as Dobby! And hopefully less challenged. BOP 'n A Movie's Wizarding World Tour continues with the second year at Hogwart's, and the series first dark turn, in our audio commentary examination of Chris Colombus' HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS. The film that took the building blocks of the first and perfected it, representing why Colombus' contributions are sorely unappreciated. So, hop in your magic flying god damn car and join us at the BOP Drive-In! We guarantee there are no giant spiders. Giant snakes on the other hand...

    Reveal your full name spells out I Am Lord Voldermort by downloading the commentary now!



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    2 hr 53 min

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