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Unknown Host hosts Weekly Movie Throwdown, a history show with 123 episodes published.
This week, it's a throwdown between two 1999 Julia Roberts rom-coms, Notting Hill and Runaway Bride. Both have their own merits—and pitfalls. It's a great matchup, and a great conversation filled with hot takes. Give it
On this week's episode, it's a throwdown between to exceptional guy-on-the-phone films, as 2002's Phone Booth goes up against The Guilty from 2021. Which one walks away with the title? Tune in and find out!Folllow the sh
This week, we welcome author Laura Carney and filmmaker Gerik Gooch to the show to draft 20th-century summer blockbusters like Jaws, The Empire Strikes Back, and Batman. Which player wins in the end? Check out the episod
It's often said that Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious from 2001 is the same film as Kathryn Bigelow's Point Break from 1991, but with cars instead of surfboards. Well this week on the show, Mike and Steven get to the
On this week's episode, we delve into the world of Steven Spielberg with a throwdown between two of his most discussed sci-fi films. Close Encounters of the Third Kind from 1977 goes up against Disclosure Day, which is i
On this week's episode, Mike and Steven host an interesting throwdown between two films that feature reluctant criminals with hearing conditions at their center. From 2017, it's Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, going up again
This week on the Weekly Movie Throwdown, it's a battle between two films set primarily inside emergency vehicles. Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead from 1999 is a haunting character study of a man (played by Nicola
In this week's episode, Mike and Steven go way back to the Golden Age of Hollywood to discuss a throwdown between two very different Katharine Hepburn/Cary Grant films. It's 1938's Bringing Up Baby, directed by Howard Ha
In this week's episode it's a throwdown between woman-led action tales, as 2017's Atomic Blonde takes on 2021's Gunpowder Milkshake. Two ass-kicking films with a lot of style and substance levels that are all over the ma
On this week's episode, it's a throwdown between two stories of toxic achievement, as Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan (2010) takes on Damien Chazelle's Whiplash (2015). Which film is better? Tune in to see which way Mike a
On the show this week, Mike and Steven host a throwdown between two legendary comedy classics, both from 1980. It's the Zucker/Abrahams production Airplane! going up against Harold Ramis' Caddyshack. Which one is better?
This week on the show, it's a battle of the B-movie directors as Joe Dante's homage to Hollywood showman William Castle, Matinee!, throws down against Tim Burton's biopic of the "worst director of all time," Ed Wood. Whi
This week on the podcast, it's a throwdown between two films that feature murder caught on tape, as Tony Scott's Enemy of the State takes on Steven Soderbergh's Kimi. Each is a treatise on technological and government ov
Batter up! This week on the show, it's a throwdown between two baseball classics: The Natural (1984) vs. Field of Dreams (1989). Both are beloved stories of fathers, sons, and the pursuit of a calling (literally in one o
This week's episode comes straight from the theater as we match two Andy Weir book adaptations against one another. 2015's The Martian, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, goes head to head with Project Hai
This week on the show, we move on from the musicals of last week to films about musicians in a throwdown that might be one of our favorites to date. It's That Thing You Do! from writer/director Tom Hanks, going up agains
On this week's episode, the guys dive deep into Mike's wheelhouse: movie musicals. To celebrate Sunday's Oscars ceremony, this is a battle of Best Picture nominees from all the way back in 1964. It's the category winner,
In this week's episode, it's a matchup of original vs. remake as Mike and Steven discuss The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The original, directed by Joseph Sargent, is from 1974, and Tony Scott's remake is from 2009. B
This week, a couple pairs of crime-fighting "guys" square off to find out who takes home the crown. It's 2010's THE OTHER GUYS going up against THE NICE GUYS from 2016. Is a broad slapstick story the way to go here? Or i
In this episode, it's a battle of the ensemble rom-coms to round out February, as He's Just Not That Into You goes head-to-head with Crazy Stupid Love. Which one pulls off the big, star-studded cast better? And which one
Laura Carney
Author of My Father's List: How Living My Dad's Dreams Set Me
3 appearances on this show
Goldie Hawn
Academy Award–winning actress and Mind Up founder
1 appearance on this show
Antonio Banderas
El Mariachi
1 appearance on this show
Sylvester Stallone
actor and filmmaker
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Dev Patel
1 appearance on this show
Jason Statham
2 appearances on this show
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Weekly Movie Throwdown is hosted by Unknown Host. The show is categorised under History (film) and has published 123 episodes.
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