It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Joel and Jesse returning to the Retro Rewatch format!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahead of their attendance at the Australian Premiere of James Gunn's new Superman flick, the BroMax boys look back upon where it all began in some of your favourite segments including Top 5 and Explain Plot Badly, and introduce a new segment: the All Things DC Draft!!! This is a fun one folks and, regardless if you've actually seen Superman, there will be something for you to enjoy! Also, make sure ...
Jun 29, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 48
It's been several minutes, but we're back, fresh off the 2025 Sydney Film Festival and ready to discuss. The boys saw 27 different films combined, and inform the dear listener of the ones to seek out and the ones to avoid. Happy listening! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to have a browse of our range over there. Also, subscribe on ...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 47
Welcome back welcome back welcome back welcome back welcome back. Excuse the Graham Norton impression. Today on The BroMax Podcast Joel and Jesse compare their takes as to the best acting performances in films that, well to put it nicely, suck quite a bit. Which Oscar-winning role appears on Jesse's list? Has Joel actually seen a movie that isn't connected to another movie in some form of universe or multiverse? Find out now!!! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up...
May 04, 2025•57 min•Season 3Ep. 46
Welcome back everyone! Today, Joel and Jesse unpack the highly anticipated new sequel to 'The Accountant', which has the same title, only SQUARED! Then, the boys list their top ten favourite films about careers, jobs, employment, etc. It could be as simple as the title, i.e. The Beekeeper, or it could go a little bit deeper in order for some, let's face it, much better films. Hope you enjoy! And thanks for listening :) Timestamps 0:00 - 21:50 The Accountant 2 NON-SPOILER review 21:50 - 37:15 The...
Apr 27, 2025•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 45
Do you have a favourite movie that could really use a prequel, sequel, lega-sequel, or another 'equel' to install within the franchise? Well, perhaps you have ideas similar to those of Joel and Jesse? From nostalgic classics, beloved book adaptations, and ridiculous crossovers, the boys have it all when pitching what they believe to be five tremendous ideas for sequels. We hope you enjoy the episode, and if you're a producer, DM us for more information! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagr...
Apr 13, 2025•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 45
Hello again friends! Time for a showdown between Original and Remake, 1937 vs 2025, Snow White versus Snow White. Is the new flick starring Rachel Zegler really as bad as everyone is making it out to be? Or does it have some merit after all? Find out now!! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to have a browse of our range over there. ...
Apr 06, 2025•56 min•Season 3Ep. 44
Welcome back all. The Oscars have come and gone, and Sean Baker's Anora is the big winner. Join Joel and Jesse as we break down the highs and lows of the telecast as well as all 23 winners, and whether or not they deserved it. We will also, for one final time, rank the ten Best Picture nominees - this time in order of worst winner to best winner - and reveal who won our lil Oscars wager. Will Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare or The Wog Boy reign supreme? Find out now!!! - Also, make sure to check...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 43
Welcome back to the show! The Academy Awards are right around the corner, which means Joel and Jesse have some predicting to do, all 23 categories this year! As with last year, the friendly Oscar wager is back, meaning whoever gets the most right gets to pick a film for the other host to watch? The boys differ in seven categories this year, so a winner will be crowned! As for the Oscars, who will be the big winner??? Anora? Conclave? Wicked? Better Man? Find out what we think will go down, right...
Mar 02, 2025•53 min•Season 3Ep. 42
Screw the Oscars, the Golden Globes, the BAFTAs, screw them all!! The only award show you'll ever need takes place over the next thirty minutes of your good time. Thanks to all who voted, we really appreciate it. Let us know which films/people were snubbed, and as always, thanks for listening! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to h...
Feb 23, 2025•30 min•Season 3Ep. 41
Join your hosts Joel and Jesse as they look ahead to 2025 and list ten films each that they expect to be good, or at the very least entertaining... - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to have a browse of our range over there. - Also, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts so you never miss an episode! Please feel f...
Feb 02, 2025•47 min•Season 3Ep. 40
Dear listener, this is it! The big one. The one and only. The top ten films of 2024. Officially. We know the Oscar nominees are out by now. Forget about them. These are the correct ten. Please enjoy. - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to have a browse of our range over there. - Also, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google ...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 39
The year that was 2024 is officially over, but humor us as we hang on to it a little while longer! Join Joel and Jesse as we go back and forth tearing films to shreds, which is one of our favourite things to do. So, what was the worst that 2024 movies had to offer? How many superhero films will be present? Which film is the boys' biggest star rating difference EVER?! Find out now! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas...
Jan 19, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 38
Happy New Year BroMaxers! And a happy 3rd birthday to us? Thank you to all who have listened, we can't tell you how amazing you all are! Today we take a look at the past Golden Globes ceremony, and discuss the major contenders for the Best Picture Academy Award, finishing with a power ranking of the ten films we predict to be nominated! THEN! Joel and Jesse reveal the nominees for the 2024 BroMax awards. And YOU can vote via this link: https://forms.gle/z46ZgAZ6BmhSoW1a6 We've got 10 serious awa...
Jan 12, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 3Ep. 37
Welcome back to the biggest scale discussion ever on The BroMax Podcast. What are the ten most influential films of all time? They can be influential to the world, to the cinema, to you, to the past of the future. This one's massive, with so many great films to choose from. We hope you enjoy! - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to ...
Dec 04, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 36
Join Joel and Jesse as they break down the Best Picture winning Gladiator (2000) in a mini Retro Rewatch before moving on to its hot new sequel starring everyone's favourite man in short shorts Paul Mescal. How does it stack up to the original? Find out (at least what we think) NOW! Timestamps: Gladiator SPOILER REVIEW 0:00 - 17:25 Gladiator II NON-SPOILER REVIEW 17:25 - 23:30 Gladiator II SPOILER REVIEW 23:30 - 44:30 - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with ne...
Nov 27, 2024•46 min•Season 3Ep. 35
Join Joel and Jesse as we break down five recommendations and five things to stay away from each in our first episode BACK after two months! There's a couple of tv shows and even a concert too as somebody forgot we were a film podcast...(cough cough Joel). Hope you enjoy! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes! - Also, our merch is still active on Redbubble, so make sure to have a browse of our ra...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 34 min•Season 3Ep. 34
Welcome back everybody. Today, the greatest episode format of all podcasting history returns: the RETRO REWATCH everybody!!! Yay! Join Joel and Jesse as we bring back all your favourite segments: Compliment Sandwich, Retro Recast, Top 5 and Explain A Plot Badly, and apply them to Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 neo-noir thriller. Exciting times! We hope you enjoy. - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and polls, and leave us your ideas for upcoming episodes!...
Sep 23, 2024•40 min•Season 3Ep. 33
Welcome back everybody! Today, Joel and Jesse each compose a shortlist of the very best of 90s cinema! Ten films of a whole decade is extremely challenging, and we have stacks of honourable mentions, but are ultimately stoked to reveal each and every one of our selections. How many cross-ups will the boys have? How many of Joel's picks will be on Jesse's HM's. What on earth could the single greatest film of this entire decade be? Find out RIGHT NOW! And let us know what your favourites are in th...
Sep 15, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 32
Welcome back for a cheeky bonus Sunday episode. This is just an under 40-minute cutsey one so we thought we'd drop in an extra. Today, Joel and Jesse have come up with twenty questions for the other co-host about their own Letterboxd profile, i.e. how well do they know their own film opinions! Which co-host has a clear disadvantage from having hundreds of extra stats unlocked through the Patron feature? Which co-host can't count to four? Find out now, and let us now if you'd like more trivia-bas...
Sep 08, 2024•38 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Content warning: This episode of The BroMax Podcast discusses sexual assault and family violence. If you or someone you know needs help, please call 1800 HELP in Australia, or 1800 737 732, or else visit 1800respect.org.au or White Ribbon Australia. Welcome back to another review! And what??? Joel and Jesse posting three weeks in a row? Who would have thought :) Today, the boys dive into the adaptation of the book that has taken TikTok and the rest of the world by storm: IT ENDS WITH US! Starrin...
Sep 04, 2024•43 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Hello again friends! Welcome back to the show! Over the last five years of film, critics would agree that every other new release appears to be some sort of prequel, requel, sequel, legasequel, spinoff, reboot, or extended universe addition. Industry titans such as Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino agree that these franchise films are watering down cinema and swallowing up authentic, original filmmaking. Well, who cares what they think?! You're here to listen to us, Joel and Jesse, and we th...
Aug 28, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 28
Welcome back you sexy people! Do you enjoy the classics? Oscar contenders? IMDB heavyweights? Letterboxd icons? Well, so do we! Most of the time! Over the next hour, Joel and Jesse break down ten beloved films each that just aren't worth their flowers, and our opinions may shock, annoy and disgust you, but laughs and entertainment are guarenteed! Be sure to vote in our Q&A below for your favourite list!!! - Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Oh, hello! You're probably wondering whose balls we had to fondle to release this episode (Hint, it rhymes with Dotify). Welcome to The BroMax Podcast's official review of DEADPOOL and WOLVERINE, the hotly anticipated 34th entry in the MCU that has taken the box office by storm, starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. But, is it any good? There are spoilers galore as Joel and Jesse discuss the film, so listen to Sabrina Carpenter and please please please do not listen to us until you've seen th...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 26
Howdy y'all! We can feel it, so we're chasing it! (Yeah maybe that line is only cool if Glen Powell is saying it). Welcome back to the show, and today the boys are breaking down TWISTERS, a new summer blockbuster lega-sequel that audiences are loving! Us, however? A divide once more. But you're used to that by now. We also unpack ten films each that we really enjoy, but have terrible, terrible endings that ruin them from being incredible films. From Best Picture winners to auteur directors, it's...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Hey y'all! Is anyone feeling...DESPICABLE??? Well, in the biggest difference in scores in the history of BroMax, one of our boys is having a bad bad day, and when watching the film, nothing went his way. Despicable Me 4 caused much arguments and debates, but hey, that's what we do best! After the review, Joel and Jesse rank every Illumination film, and evaluate how it stands up against Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks, etc. Hope you enjoy! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to ke...
Jul 17, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Welcome back everyone! Pixar's latest film INSIDE OUT 2 has certainly made a splash at the box office, surpassing Dune 2 as the highest-grossing film of 2024. But, is it any good? That's for us to tell you and you to agree or disagree with, as the boys unpack the sequel to the hit 2015 film and debate whether it's better than the original. Following that, Joel and Jesse rank every film in the Pixar franchise, and let's just say if you thought you had their film tastes figured out, you're in for ...
Jul 10, 2024•59 min•Season 3Ep. 23
Guess who's back, back again! After two weeks at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival, Joel and Jesse are here to let you know what we saw, but more importantly, what we would recommend. With 17 films between them, there's something for everyone in this week's hilarious and insightful discussion. Did you attend the festival? Let us know what you saw in our Q&A below, and stay tuned for our Pixar special newt week! Also, make sure to check us out on Instagram (@bromaxpod) to keep up with new eps and...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Hey y'all! Sorry for the late upload, the Sydney Film Festival has kicked off and is all we can think about at the moment! Our episode about what we watched during the time is coming soon! Today, Joel and Jesse select ten film franchises each, five good and five bad, and single out the one film in the franchise that is different, either for the best or for the worst. This is less of an educated film discussion, and more the boys paying each other out for an hour, as there are franchises on Joel'...
Jun 05, 2024•57 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Welcome back everybody! If you've been following along on our socials, you'd have noticed that Joel and Jesse were invited to the World Premiere of Furiosa in Sydney! Now, weeks later, we are finally able to talk about the latest instalment in the Mad Max franchise. Speaking of which, in the first 10ish minutes we give our quick thoughts on the original 'Mad Max' and 'Fury Road', and compare these classics with Furiosa. Everyone's loving it, but will we? Maybe? Maybe not... - Also, make sure to ...
May 29, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Welcome back, It's been a while, although it usually has. We have at least three episodes lined up though - including FURIOSA next week! In anticipation of this, the boys are breaking down ten Australian films each that they believe to be the cream of this country's crop. Indeed, this is probably the weakest list Joel and Jesse have made, but there's plenty of laughs as the boys roast each other, the state of the Australian film industry, and most prominently, Baz Luhrmann. Hope you enjoy! - Als...
May 22, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 21
