Welcome to Box Office Birthday , 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 tackle the Tim Allen family comedy, Jungle 2 Jungle . You wouldn’t know it from the excessive amount of time this episode devotes to arguing about Star Wars though! Coming Attractions trailers for March 14 Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi Love Jones...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, 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 watched the adaptation of the stage play, Marvin's Room . (And it really makes more sense if you know that in advance!) Brandon tries to fine tune his theory on when Disney started their mispronunciation campaign for Pirates of the Caribbean and Megan just tries to locate the plot. We both...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, 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 try their hand at historical drama with the John Singleton film Rosewood. IMDb claims Steven Tyler is in there, but we couldn’t find him! Coming Attractions trailers for February 28: Booty Call Donnie Brasco Marvin's Room...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to Box Office Birthday , 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 celebrate Valentine’s Day with their first romantic comedy, Fools Rush In. But before we even get to the film’s abundance of canyon metaphors, we cover Brandon’s close personal relationship with Michelle Kwan, a bad date anecdote from Megan, and the history of President’s Day. Coming Attractions trailer...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Welcome to Box Office Birthday , 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. Disaster strikes as Brandon and Megan watch the volcano flick, Dante’s Peak – neither one of us is a certified volcanologist and it shows. We spend most of our time cultivating a grudge against Ruth, the world’s dumbest grandma and wondering. . . why did the volcanologist cross the lava?? Coming Attractions trailers for ...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, 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 get political, barely, with the Charlie Sheen thriller, Shadow Conspiracy. It gets about as serious as you’d expect from a movie that starts with basket of puppies and ends with a gift-wrapped toy helicopter. Megan also gives a mini-film lesson on split diopter shots and goes on a prolonged ta...
Jan 31, 2025•42 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, 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 dive into Zeus and Roxanne, the story of interspecies… friendship? … romance? … sexual harassment?? between a dog and dolphin. We try to determine the exact amount of Pepé Le Pew vibes, debate how much wiggle room a marine biology research grant might have, and wedge in multiple Fantasy High r...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, 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 watched Metro, starring Eddie Murphy as a cop with few distinguishing characteristics this week. They debate how many bait and switches one movie can reasonably have, theorize about what they wish would have happened (more montages!), and finally try a new Horoscope Corner segment to analyze the birth ch...
Jan 17, 2025•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to Box Office Birthday , a calendar-accurate cinema rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the 1997 year in film by choosing a new movie release to watch each Friday. Brandon and Megan chose to watch Jackie Chan’s First Strike as the first new release of the year. They ponder the narrative significance of koala bear underwear, debate the best Jackie Chan fight sequences, and try to understand the complex numbering system of the First Strike franchise. Oh, and Megan worries she doesn’t kno...
Jan 10, 2025•34 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to Box Office Birthday, a calendar-accurate cinema rewatch podcast! Join us as we relive the 1997 year in film by choosing a new movie release to watch each Friday. There were absolutely no new movies on January 3, 1997, so Brandon and Megan take this opportunity to introduce the podcast and peruse the coming attractions for next week's inaugural podcast film. Coming Attractions trailers Turbulence First Strike The Relic...
Jan 03, 2025•21 min•Season 1Ep. 1
