The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane
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Join hosts Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane for a weekly mental health check in disguised as a movie podcast. Weekly episodes released every Sunday have the boys talking everything from Hollywood blockbusters to indie darlings and all manner of highs and lows in-between!

  1. 2d ago

    Waterworld (1995): Ruin Your Friendship For Only £175m

    Ben and Rob set sail for Waterworld, Kevin Reynolds' 1995 post-apocalyptic epic that turned a five-million-dollar B-movie idea into the most expensive film ever made at the time, and one of Hollywood's most infamous cautionary tales. Directed by Reynolds and starring Kevin Costner, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino and Dennis Hopper, the film follows a mutant drifter across a flooded Earth while, behind the scenes, an unfinished script, a gigantic floating city and two old friends with very different ideas of what movie they were making pushed the production towards complete industrial madness. How did Roger Corman rejecting a waterlogged Mad Max knock-off for being too expensive lead, somehow, to a $175 million studio blockbuster? Why did Kevin Costner and Kevin Reynolds agree to work together again after Robin Hood had already wrecked their friendship, and how did the exact same argument over creative control come back to destroy them twice? What happens when you decide the best way to suggest a floating city is to actually build one, chain it to the seabed and employ Lockheed Martin to help keep the bastard afloat? And after months of headlines branding it “Fishtar” and “Kevin’s Gate” before audiences had even seen it, was Waterworld really the catastrophic flop everyone remembers, or did the story of the disaster become bigger than the film itself? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Waterworld (1995): Ruin Your Friendship For Only £175m

  2. Sep 28

    Howard The Duck (1986): Is The Making Of Howard The Duck The Most Howard The Duck Thing That Ever Happened To Howard The Duck?

    Ben and Rob step into Howard the Duck, the 1986 sci-fi comedy that took George Lucas's decade long crush on a foul mouthed Marvel comic book duck and turned it into one of the most notorious box office disasters in Hollywood history. Directed by Willard Huyck from a screenplay he co-wrote with Gloria Katz, the film stars Lea Thompson as rock singer Beverly Switzler, Jeffrey Jones as a scientist possessed by an alien entity, and a young Tim Robbins as her hapless almost scientist friend, all sharing the screen with a wisecracking, cigar smoking duck played by a rotating cast of performers in animatronic suits. Why did Lucas and his American Graffiti collaborators originally want to make this thing as a cartoon, and what forced Universal to demand a live-action duck instead? How do you even get an audience to accept a romantic subplot between a human woman and a man in a rubber duck costume, and did anyone involved really think that would work? What happened on release that turned this into a punchline for years and got it nominated for Worst Picture of the Decade at the Razzies? And is there something almost too perfect about a movie starring an outsider who doesn't fit anywhere getting made by an industry that couldn't figure out where it fit either? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Howard The Duck (1986): Is The Making Of Howard The Duck The Most Howard The Duck Thing That Ever Happened To Howard The Duck?

  3. Sep 21

    Labyrinth (1986): Is Labyrinth Secretly A Film About Grief? And If So, Does It Change How We Watch It?

    Ben and Rob step into Labyrinth, Jim Henson's 1986 fantasy adventure that turned a puppeteer's most personal creative risk into a genre-defining cult classic. Directed by Jim Henson from a screenplay credited to Monty Python's Terry Jones, the film stars David Bowie as the Goblin King Jareth and a fourteen year old Jennifer Connelly as Sarah, a girl who has thirteen hours to solve an ever-shifting maze and rescue her baby brother from Jareth's clutches. How did a limo ride home from a Dark Crystal screening turn into a story about goblins stealing babies, and why did the finished script pass through the hands of a Monty Python legend, a Fraggle Rock lyricist, and George Lucas before anyone was happy with it? What made David Bowie the obvious choice to play Jareth when Sting, Prince, and Michael Jackson were all in the running, and how much of the film's most memorable moments came down to pure, unscripted chemistry on set? Why did a film this ambitious flop so badly on release and what does it say that a story about a girl choosing to grow up came at the exact moment its director's own life was falling apart? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Labyrinth (1986): Is Labyrinth Secretly A Film About Grief? And If So, Does It Change How We Watch It?

  4. Sep 14

    Tremors (1990): The Movie Dune Could've Been If It Had Just Tried Less...

    Ben and Rob head underground for Tremors, Ron Underwood's 1990 monster comedy that turned a killer-worm B-movie premise into one of the most beloved cult classics of the home-video era. Directed by Underwood in his feature debut, from a script by S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddock, the film stars Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire (in her acting debut) as the residents of an isolated Nevada town who discover something enormous is hunting them from beneath the dirt. What did it actually take for two writers to get this thing made on their own terms, and where did an idea this strange even come from in the first place? What was going on in Kevin Bacon's career that made this the role he took and the one he'd spend years trying to distance himself from before changing his mind entirely? How much of what makes this monster still work comes down to old-fashioned, hands-on craft rather than anything flashy? And when the film itself keeps daring you to guess where these things came from, is that an open question worth taking seriously, or the whole point of the joke? And finally… what does it really mean?! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast If you enjoyed the show and want more, head on over to Patreon and enjoy heaps of exclusive content there! LOVE YA GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Tremors (1990): The Movie Dune Could've Been If It Had Just Tried Less...

  5. Sep 10

    Obsession (2026): Shoestring Horror Makes Cinematic History AKA Self Milking Men feat. James Bertie

    Ben and Rob make a wish on a One Wish Willow and immediately regret it, joined this week by James Bertie for a deep dive into the low budget horror romance that somehow outgrossed Scream 7, Backrooms, and pretty much every other genre film released in 2026. Directed by Curry Barker and starring Michael Johnston as lovesick Bear and Inde Navarrette as his increasingly ominous crush-turned-obsession Nikki (with able comic backup from Andy Richter), Obsession is the story of a Faustian bargain gone spectacularly, hilariously wrong. The trio dig into how Barker builds dread on a shoestring, the slow burn tension of Nikki's increasingly unsettling attempts at being romantic, while somehow keeping the film laced with genuine, quotable comedy throughout. They trace Bear and Nikki's character arcs from meet cute to nightmare fuel, unpack what the film is actually saying about obsession, wish fulfillment, and modern romance under the hood of all that supernatural mayhem, and go behind the scenes on the low budget, high ingenuity making of a movie nobody saw coming. James Bertie is one of our favourite people, he's a very talented comedian and a lovely, wholesome fella to boot, please go and show him some love here: https://www.instagram.com/mrjamesbertie/ 3 PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Obsession (2026): Shoestring Horror Makes Cinematic History AKA Self Milking Men feat. James Bertie

  6. Aug 30

    The Cell (2000): ... What?

    Ben and Rob strap into the neural interface for ‘The Cell’, Tarsem Singh’s hallucinatory 2000 psychological thriller that turned a serial killer plot into one of the most visually audacious studio films of its era. Directed by Tarsem (billed under his mononym for his feature debut), the film stars Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D’Onofrio, and plunges a child psychologist into the comatose mind of a killer to save his latest victim before time runs out. How did a music video director best known for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” end up helming a big-budget studio thriller, and what did that background do to the way this film actually looks? What exactly is going on with the costume design, and how much of the film’s dream logic was built in the fitting room rather than the script? Why does a movie this committed to style over sense still hold up as a genuine visual achievement more than two decades later, and is “it doesn’t need to make sense” really a defence, or is that exactly the point? And finally… what does it really mean?! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    The Cell (2000): ... What?

  7. Aug 23

    Destination Moon (1950): Your Favourite Movie's Favourite Movie

    Ben, Rob and Amber blast off with ‘Destination Moon’, the 1950 science fiction landmark that helped launch an entire decade of space age cinema. Directed by Irving Pichel, produced by George Pal and developed with legendary sci-fi author Robert A. Heinlein, Destination Moon stars John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers and Dick Wesson as the crew of the first privately funded mission to the Moon. Released nearly twenty years before Apollo 11, the film treated space travel with a seriousness that helped reshape what science fiction could look like on screen. Did Destination Moon really start the 1950s sci-fi boom, and how scientifically serious was its vision of travelling to the Moon? What did the film predict correctly, what did it get spectacularly wrong, and how did its ideas eventually cross paths with the real world of NASA? How were its groundbreaking special effects achieved; why does its politics now seem astonishingly naive; and if Destination Moon had such an enormous impact on science fiction and popular culture, why has almost everyone forgotten it? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Destination Moon (1950): Your Favourite Movie's Favourite Movie

  8. Aug 17

    Backrooms (2026): From Unclogging A Drain To Petting A Bee

    Ben and Rob noclip into ‘The Backrooms’, Kane Parsons’ 2026 A24 horror debut that transforms the viral internet creepypasta and his Kane Pixels YouTube series into a feature length nightmare. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Renate Reinsve and Mark Duplass, ‘The Backrooms’ follows a struggling furniture store owner who discovers an impossible doorway beneath his shop, and the therapist who follows him into an endless maze of liminal spaces. How did a teenager teaching himself Blender during lockdown go from YouTube animator to directing one of A24’s biggest movies? How did a single creepy photograph become one of the internet’s biggest horror myths, and how much of the Backrooms mythology did Kane Parsons actually invent? What does The NeverEnding Story have to do with any of this?! And is the real monster hiding in those yellow corridors actually regret? CONSUUUME to find out all this and much, much more! PLUS we have a Patreon with EXCLUSIVE content just for you starting at less than £2 a month! Click the link below! Find us on your socials of choice at www.linktr.ee/everymovieeverpodcast GET 20% OFF CINEWORLD UNLIMITED MEMBERSHIP WITH DISCOUNT CODE: ' TEL013 ' You're Welcome!

    Backrooms (2026): From Unclogging A Drain To Petting A Bee
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Join hosts Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane for a weekly mental health check in disguised as a movie podcast. Weekly episodes released every Sunday have the boys talking everything from Hollywood blockbusters to indie darlings and all manner of highs and lows in-between!

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  • Creator
    Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    199
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Ben Groves 2021
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    The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

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