This week on Magnificently Huge, we crank the dials back to 1927 and dive into Metropolis, the granddaddy of sci-fi cinema where the future is shiny, oppressive, and apparently run by people who’ve never met a labor law they liked.

Directed by Fritz Lang, this silent-era spectacle somehow predicted everything: towering megacities, massive class divides, dehumanizing technology, and robot doubles designed to manipulate the masses. You know, just your standard Tuesday in 2026.

Join us as we marvel at the spectacle, question the message, and nervously eye our devices. Because if Metropolis taught us anything, it’s that the future is amazing… right up until it replaces you.

0:00 - Intros

4:40 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

16:30 - Patrick H Willems on legacy sequels

Anatomy of a Legacy Sequel: https://youtu.be/jvXZYxpjHKU?si=SN26rO3pEVgDTKh9

Have we Reached Peak Legacy Sequel?: https://youtu.be/ZGyyy3Old9A?si=ay7hqjFW0386PHFd

20:00 - Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen

25:30 - History Quest https://www.youtube.com/@HistoryQuestChannel

30:35 - Metropolis (1927)

Q: Who you gonna call?

A: Ghostbusters! Duh!

Let’s lighten the mood a bit as we finally jibber-jabber about one of the greatest foundational movies of all time - Ghostbusters! If you’ve never seen this blockbuster comedy/sci-fi/adventure mashup from 1984, we have to ask - What rock have you been living under? With a stacked cast of Second City and SNL superstars, some of the most quotable lines ever, and a marketing synergy for the ages, Ghostbusters is a perennial favorite here at the show. If you don’t enjoy its innumerable charms, you are dead inside. So strap on a proton pack as we join Stantz, Venkman, Spengler and Zeddemore to save humanity from an army of angry ghosts released by Gozer the Gozerian, a couple of demon dogs and of course, the Staypuft Marshmallow Man. Up is down, black is white, dogs and cats living together….Mass hysteria!

0:00 - Intros

6:30 - Paradise (Hulu)

9:35 - The Beauty

17:15 - P1uribus

21:30 - Fallout

25:15 - One Piece

31:35 - Taken

38:35 - Ghostbusters (1984)

A warning about what AI could do to humanity - and we ain’t talkin’ SkyNet? “Colossus: The Forbin Project” is a cult sci-fi film from 1970 that has been gaining a new following in the last couple of years, since we’re all probably about to be destroyed by rich a**holes who would love to crush us with the AI singularity. We dig into what does and doesn’t work with this early warning shot across the bow… all while wondering if there’s anything to truly be learned about AI from an era when punchcards & magnetic-tape data storage ran super computers the size of mountains and still couldn’t do half of what your iPhone does now.

0:00 - Intros

7:40 - Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Hulu, 2025)

15:15 - Project Hail Mary (2026)

28:30 - Fiend Without A Face (1958)

34:40 - Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

Ever watch a movie and absolutely hated it, only to revisit it again later to discover you actually kinda like it now? That’s the rules for today, kids! Pick the media that left you angry… that sorta made you happy the next try. It's a low bar, certainly, but it has happened to us a few times over the years. We get it, tastes change, life circumstances shift, and dare we say that one even matures a bit? This obviously doesn’t apply to “Titanic,” though. That one will always be hot garbage. But that “Speed” movie… that one really grew into its own, did it not?

0:00 - Intros

4:00 - The 80s Cruise 2026

15:30 - Christian James Hand

17:00 - Urgh! A Musical War

21:45 - Daredevil Born Again (2025)

28:00 - Gary and his Demons

30:40 - Have you ever watched a movie where you hated it and appreciated it later?

This week on Magnificently Huge, we slip into something a little more… 90s, as we revisit the Wachowskis’ pre-Matrix directorial debut, Bound. The film somehow manages to be equal parts Hitchcock, Coen Brothers, and late-night cable energy.

Is Bound a feminist noir? A crime thriller with benefits? Or just a really good excuse to watch terrible people make worse decisions in increasingly confined spaces?

Join us as we follow the money, question everyone’s judgment, and celebrate a film that proves sometimes the best way out… is through the drywall.

0:00 - Intros

4:25 - Nintendo Gamecube and Virtual Boy

15:20 - Fackham Hall (2026)

23:40 - God’s Favorite Idiot

26:45 - The Traitors

32:00 - Bound (1996)

Eddington is the perfect film for our times. Everyone’s terrified, everyone wants the glory of being the one who saves the world, and nobody is listening to anyone else. That’s America in a nutshell: Everyone arguing about who gets to decide where to aim the fire hose while the house burns down. What fun, right!?!

0:00 - Intros

10:55 - Cory Doctorow and Enshittification

19:30 - Dungeon Crawler Carl

29:15 - Weapons (2025)

32:00 - Steely Dan - Two Against Nature

34:05 - Eddington (2025)

Here’s a link to the analysis Brian mentioned: https://filmobsessive.com/film/film-analysis/eddington-a-deep-delve-into-ari-asters-national-nightmare/

This week we return to the tiny town of Blaine, Missouri to revisit Christopher Guest’s 1996 mockumentary Waiting for Guffman in observance of the passing of the incomparable Catherine O'Hara.

It’s either one of the sharpest, sweetest skewers of small-town ambition ever put to film, or a dull snoozefest! Which is it for you? Are you a Chris or a Brian? And how does it stack up against the rest of the oeuvre this cast would subsequently produce? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to listen to yet another action packed podcast!

0:00 - Intros

3:20 - Clue (Broadway touring)

13:50 - Song Sung Blue (2025)

20:40 - A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (HBO)

27:35 - Furiosa (2024)

32:10 - Predator: Badlands (2025)

42:30 - Waiting for Guffman (1996)

Dust Bunny is destined to be a cult classic, kids. Get ahead of the curve and see it right now, you won’t be disappointed. But what is Dust Bunny? A little girl has a monster under her bed and hires the hitman across the hall to kill it. Simple, right? But is the monster even real? Or is the monster all of us? We describe it as “Leon, the Professional” if it were made by Jeunet & Caro. Or maybe “The Babadook” if done by Terry Gilliam. But really it is “Dust Bunny” written and directed by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal) and starring Mads Mikkelsen. It is a rare original film these days, delightful and fun and one that has helped restore our faith in the power of cinema. Yea verily.

Here’s a link to the Gen X psychology video Eric references: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5YmIqYSqA0

0:00 - Intros

9:10 - A PSA about not falling for conspiracy bots

12:05 - The Running Man (2025)

20:35 - Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

27:40 - Bugonia (2025)

33:25 - AI Artificial Intelligence (2001)

41:15 - Dust Bunny (2025)

“One Battle After Another” is the latest film by Paul Thomas Anderson, and it is neither too obtuse to understand nor boring. The latest of Paul Thomas Anderson’s work that stylistically makes its point, without getting all up its own ass about said style. (I’m looking at you, Wes Anderson!) It is definitely a movie made for our times, like it or. not.

0:00 - Intros

8:15 - Mel Brooks: the 99 Year Old Man!

13:00 - The Wrecking Crew (2026)

18:40 - The 90’s Cruise

40:50 - One Battle After Another (2025)

You are about to enter another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. And maybe some heartburn. Because “Twilight Zone: The Movie” has absolutely no reason to exist, yet here we are. Back in the early 80s Hollywood thought it was a slam-dunk idea: Take established hitmakers Steven Spielberg and John Landis, plus up-and-comers Joe Dante and George Miller, to make an anthology film based on Rod Serling’s classic, groundbreaking TV series. What could go wrong? Quite a lot, actually, mostly thanks to the tragic accidental death of veteran actor Vic Morrow and two young Vietnamese children while filming under Landis. From then on, the luster was gone and Spielberg mostly phoned it in. But oh what joy to watch Dante and Miller crush it with their segments, remakes of fan favorite episodes that stood out in every good way possible. Still, one sees this movie now and has to wonder: Why?

0:00 - Intros

4:20 - Supergirl and Avengers trailers and the AI fakes

12:10 - Anaconda (2025)

18:40 - Ludwig (BBC)

24:45 - Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2

34:40 - Twilight Zone: The Movie