Episodes
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
OSCAR BONUS | Ranking the 2018 Best Picture Nominees
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
It's Oscar time! We love an awards show here at Beyond The Box Set, so in honour of the biggest one of all, we're taking a quick detour from pitching ridiculous sequels to compare notes on the 2018 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture.
Over the past few months, we've sat through all nine of the Best Picture nominees, plus as many of other other major award contenders as we could squeeze in. Some were great, some were mediocre, but none of them sucked as much as Hacksaw Ridge.
Join us as we rank the nominees from worst to best, predict the winners of the other major trophies - including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Original Score and the always thrilling Best Sound Editing.
We also talk about some of the films we think got a raw deal this Oscar season - and attempt to right some wrongs with our very own Beyond The Box Set awards, featuring categories that actually matter, such as Hottest Sex Scene, Achievement in Wigs and Least Necessary Celebrity Cameo.
Whether you're a hardened Oscar nerd or a casual follower, this episode offers the perfect primer for Sunday night's show. Stay tuned for our hung over post-Oscars reaction episode too, due out whenever we manage to drag ourselves out of bed on Monday...
The Academy Award nominees for Best Picture in 2018 are
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Darkest Hour
- Dunkirk
- Get Out
- Lady Bird
- Phantom Thread
- The Post
- The Shape of Water
- Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missourri
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00.00: Ranking The Best Picture Nominees
02.30: Horrible Lighting and Redundant Female Characters
06.40: Nice Kaftans, Shame About The Movie
09.30: Needed More Fabulous Dresses
12.40: Weird Sex and Poor Casting Choices
15.15: High Hopes and A Quick Finish
18.20: This Film Gave Me Whiplash
22.40: Something Fishy
28.00: The Superior WW2 Movie
34.55: The People's Champion
39.00: Quickfire Oscar Predictions
1.06.10: The Beyond The Box Set Awards
Monday Jan 22, 2018
BONUS | Oscar Predictions 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
Monday Jan 22, 2018
It's the most wonderful time of the year... for movie nerds! With the official nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards due to be announced in a matter of days, we decided to take a brief detour from our regularly scheduled programming to make our predictions for the movies we expect to see nominated for Best Picture.
The Academy Award nominations will be announced from 05.22 PST or 13.22 UK time*, and you can watch it all unfold live at beyondtheboxset.com/oscars to see how eerily accurate - or woefully off the mark - our predictions might have been.
We'll be bringing your more Oscar coverage over the coming weeks, including our ranking of the actual Best Picture nominees once we've gotten around to watching them all, and our reaction to the results some time after we've recovered from the main show.
Fear not, our weekly schedule of pitching ludicrous sequels to classic standalone movies will not be interrupted, and our regular episodes will continue to come out every Friday morning. Just think of this as bonus content - kind of the way Meryl Streep probably thinks about her Golden Globe nominations these days...
* Harry claims the nominations come out at 1am UK time in this episode, but he never was great with the numbers...
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
BONUS | Pitching Sequels to the Movies of 2017: Part Two
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
Sunday Dec 31, 2017
The second half of 2017 gave us blockbusters of wildly varying quality - from the artistic and commercial highs of Dunkirk and Baby Driver to the wildly misguided lows of Justice League and Geostorm. We also made time for some less mainstream fare, including Kumail Nanjiani's delightful The Big Sick, James Franco's hilarious The Disaster Artist and Darren Aronofsky's utterly batshit Mother!
Join us in this second half of our year-end special as we attempt to pitch quick-fire sequels to every movie we caught in the cinema between July and December. As before, spoiler warnings do apply to all the movies we describe in this episode, but we'll try to give you plenty of warning.
Here are the movies featured in this episode (Star Wars fans, you're safe...)
00.00: Intro
01.10: Baby Driver
05.40: Spider-Man: Homecoming
11.20: War for the Planet of the Apes
16.05: Dunkirk
18.40: Atomic Blonde
21.50: The Hitman's Bodyguard
24.20: The Big Sick
28.55: Detroit
33.20: Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle
36.50: Mother!
41.00: Geostorm
45.45: It
47.30: Murder on the Orient Express
51.35: Thor: Ragnarok
54.00: Justice League
56.45: Suburbicon
59.35: The Disaster Artist
1.03.20: The Best and Worst Movies we saw in 2017
1.05.50: Episode 46 Preview
We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Friday 5th January. Thanks for supporting us through the first year of our show - here's to the next one!
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we watch a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Over the course of 2017 we've pitched sequels for beloved classics like Sideways, The Sixth Sense and The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, cult favourites such as Swiss Army Man, The Fifth Element and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, plus more questionable fare including Deja Vu, Me Before You and Krampus.
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Thursday Dec 28, 2017
BONUS | Pitching Sequels to the Movies of 2017: Part One
Thursday Dec 28, 2017
Thursday Dec 28, 2017
From depressing Oscar contenders to terrible franchise movies, we watched a lot of movies in 2017 that wouldn't necessarily fit the Beyond The Box Set format. So we thought it'd be fun to round off the year with a quick-fire run through everything we saw in the cinema this year, complete with improvised sequel pitches.
Join us in the first part of this mammoth undertaking, in which we vainly attempt to remember the plots of some of the movies we saw from January to June 2017. WARNING - spoilers abound for all of the movies we discuss in this episode, but we'll give you plenty of warning to hit the skip button if there's anything you havent gotten around to yet...
Here are the movies featured in this episode:
00.00: Intro - Broken Shoulders and Pigeon Invasions
03.00: La La Land
06.20: Jackie
07.55: Loving
09.30: Fences
11.15: Moonlight
13.10: Hacksaw Ridge
15.10: Hidden Figures
17.40: Elle
20.30: Manchester By The Sea
23.10: Lego Batman
26.00: Split
29.40: Lion
30.55: T2: Trainspotting
33.10: Beauty & The Beast
35.55: Get Out
38.45: Logan
43.45: Kong: Skull Island
48.50: Ghost in the Shell
51.30: Free Fire
55.30: The Fate of the Furious
01.02.30: Alien Covenant
01.07.30: Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2
01.09.25: Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Salazar's Revenge
01.16.15: Wonder Woman
01.21.10: The Mummy
01.25.40: The Beguiled
Stay tuned for part II, featuring increasingly drunken sequel pitches for all the movies we saw from July to December 2017. We'll also be back to our regularly scheduled programming on Friday 5th January 2018, so be sure to subscribe to hear all our latest episodes as soon as they're released.
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we watch a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Over the course of 2017 we've pitched sequels for stone-cold classics like Gladiator, Titanic and The Truman Show, cult favourites such as The Room, District 9 and Heathers... plus more questionable releases including 50 First Dates, Knights of Badassdom and the Super Mario Bros movie.
If you like the show, please hit subscribe on your preferred podcasting platform to hear a new episode every Friday. Beyond The Box Set is available for free download and streaming on iTunes, Stitcher, aCast, Podbean, Pocket Casts, Youtube, Google Play and many other popular podcasting platforms.
Leaving us a review is the absolute best way to help our show to find new listeners, so if your new year's resolution is to be nicer to strangers on the internet, please consider throwing some nice words and a star or five in our general direction on any platform that allows for it.
If you have a suggestion for a film you'd like to hear us cover - or a sequel idea of your own that you'd like us to shout out on air, you can contact us via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and Tumblr - or by leaving a comment under any blog post on our official website.
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
BONUS | Rex Pickett on Writing Sideways and Potential Sequels
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Last week on Beyond The Box Set, we pitched sequels to Alexander Payne’s highly acclaimed 2005 movie Sideways. In this very special bonus episode, we’re joined by Rex Pickett, author of the award-winning original novel on which the film was based. In a candid and wide ranging discussion, he discusses the novel’s unusual journey from page to screen, what it feels like to be played by Paul Giamatti, and why the time might finally be right for a Sideways sequel…
00:00 Introduction – The Sideways Origin Story
19:30 Miles and Jack’s Connection
25:30 Finding Miles
35:30 The Future of the Sideways Universe
59:15 Rex Pickett’s Fantasy Sequel
Monday Feb 27, 2017
BONUS: Post-Oscars Reaction
Monday Feb 27, 2017
Monday Feb 27, 2017
In the second of our shamelessly off-brand bonus episodes, we blearily reflect on the 2017 Academy Awards, including the most deserved winners, the most robbed losers and the jokes that should have been left on the cutting room floor…
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00:00 Intro – The morning after the night before
06:40 Best Supporting Actor, Shots for Suicide Squad & Costume Chat
09:50 We definitely understand the difference between Sound Editing & Sound Mixing
15:20 A bunch of technical awards that Arrival totally should have won
23:00 Nobody steals from The Muppets
27:10 Mel Gibson needs some fresh air
32:25 The greatest Oscar cock-up of all time
33:50 Final thoughts
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
BONUS: Ranking the 2017 Oscar Nominees
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Sunday Feb 26, 2017
Here at Beyond The Box Set, we love the Oscars! So much so, that we’re going totally off-brand with a bonus episode in which we rank all nine of the 2017 Academy Award nominees for Best Picture from worst to best.
Which Best Picture nominee do we really wish had been directed by Steven Spielberg? Which film definitely should have been nominated for Best Achievement in Wigs? And why was one nominee almost ruined by our decision to watch it in a Dutch cinema? Find out in this very special feature-length episode…
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00:00 Intro – Going off-brand
00:40 #9: The worst Best Picture Nominee of 2017
05:00 #8: Pacing issues and questionable wig-work
09:10 #7 Acting versus *ACTING!*
14:00 #6 Impenetrable accent work and Best Supporting Extra
18:35 #5 Mahershala Ali is having a very good year
23:50 #4 Hyperbole: The Movie
30:40 #3 The most delightful nominee of the year
35:50 #2 #DryFaceCry
41:00 #1 Never watch a sci-fi movie in a Dutch cinema
47:10 Best Director – John can’t pronounce French
47:45 Best Actor – Look, we’re just calling him Ryan Reynolds now OK?
50:35 Best Actress – Florence Foster Jenkins is hard to say
54:20 Best Supporting Actor – The fraud category
56:15 Best Supporting Actress – Wigs vs SnotCry
58:35 The Jimmy Kimmel Problem