Episodes
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
True Lies 2: Dana-nother Day
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
Thursday Jan 17, 2019
In our recent year-end review, Harry put forth the controversial opinion that Skyscraper is a perfect action movie. This week, John attempts to unpick that theory with a look at one of the ultimate dumb-action classics, James Cameron's True Lies...
True Lies stars accent-challenged action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker, trigger-happy secret agent by day, loyal husband and father by night. However, his worlds begin to collide when he suspects his wife of having an affair with an enemy agent, and a terrorist plot threatens to tear his family, and the world apart!
In this week's episode, we discuss silly action vs stupid action, the icky racism (and sexism) at the heart of this movie, and debate whether 90s action truly peaked when Arnold chased a motorcycle-riding terrorist through a luxury hotel... on horseback.
James Cameron famously cancelled plans for a sequel on the grounds that terrorism was no longer funny in a post 9/11 world. He's probably right, but would it be possible to extract the best elements of this movie and leave the more problematic parts on the cutting room floor? That's the challenge we're setting ourselves this week as we pitch some sequels to bring Arnie out of semi-retirement, finally show Jamie Lee Curtis some goddam respect and give the awesome Eliza Dushku the big screen action epic she deserves...
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast dedicated to pitching sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to classic standalone movies that don't have any. From Titanic to True Lies, we're 99 episodes deep and we're not planning on slowing down anytime soon.
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00.00: Why would anybody ever trust Arnie to go undercover?
41.30: True Lies Drinking Games
50.40: True Lies 2: Dana-nother Day
1.03.20: True Lies II: Meet The Taskers
1.13.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 100 Preview
Friday Jan 04, 2019
BONUS | Movies of 2018 Reviewed... With Sequels! (Part Two)
Friday Jan 04, 2019
Friday Jan 04, 2019
In the second half of our epic 2018 review, we look back at the movies we watched between July and December and deliver our final verdicts - complete with increasingly drunken and dissolute sequel ideas... enjoy!
Remember, you can enjoy full-length reviews of all of these movies by signing up to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/beyondtheboxset
0.30: Skyscraper
4.45: Incredibles 2
8.50: Mission Impossible - Fallout
13.00: Mamma Mia 2
16.00: Hotel Artemis
20.05: The Meg
25.55: BlacKkKlansman
27.10: Crazy Rich Asians
31.30: Searching
37.50: The Predator
44.20: Venom
48.45: Bad Times At The El Royale
57.15: First Man
1.04.25: A Star is Born
1.12.50: Bohemian Rhapsody
1.19.10: Widows
1.25.10: Fantastic Beasts - The Crimes of Grindelwald
1.30.15: Robin Hood
1.33.15: Spiderman - Into The Spiderverse
1.35.55: Mortal Engines
1.38.00: Mary Poppins Returns
1.40.35: Final Rankings + 2019 Preview
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
BONUS | Movies of 2018 Reviewed... With Sequels! (Part One)
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
Wednesday Jan 02, 2019
In addition to pitching sequels to old films, we also watched a lot of new releases in 2018. So we thought we'd end the year with a look back at everything we caught at the cinema over the past 12 months, while also attempting to pitch some very quick sequel ideas for them.
This was a very silly idea that turned into a literal all-nighter, so we've split the results into two parts. Here's part one, in which we ran down everything we saw between January and June. Spoilers abound, obviously!
You can listen to full-length review episodes for all of these films by subscribing to our Patreon for as little as $2 per month.
00.00: Molly's Game
04.55: The Post
07.25: Downsizing
12.35: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
16.08: The Greatest Showman
20.50: Phantom Thread
25.40: Call Me By Your Name
30.55: Black Panther
36.45: Darkest Hour
38.25: The Shape of Water
41.25: Coco
45.30: Ladybird
49.00: I, Tonya
52.35: Red Sparrow
55.30: Tomb Raider
58.30: Ready Player One
1.05.55: Love, Simon
1.08.50: Isle of Dogs
1.11.30: A Quiet Place
1.13.40: Deadpool 2
1.19.45: Avengers: Infinity War
1.24.40: Solo - A Star Wars Story
1.26.10: Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom
1.29.30: Hereditary
1.33.55: Ocean's Eight
1.36.30: Leave No Trace
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Scrooged 2: Oliver Twisted (feat. 2 Geeks 2 Movies)
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
Thursday Dec 27, 2018
A cynical 80s update of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol with Bill Murray in the central role, Scrooged has all the elements of a festive home run. Yet back in 1988 critics received the movie like a lump of festive coal, and even Murray himself was publicly critical of his performance.
Nevertheless, years of TV syndication have helped Scrooged to endure as a cult holiday classic. Did the critics get it wrong, or has Murray's boundless charisma hoodwinked contemporary viewers into looking back at the film with rose tinted glasses?
To help us find the answer, we're re-joined this week by our most consistently available guest, Ross Burton from 2 Geeks 2 Movies. Together we discuss how Scrooged compares to other popular A Christmas Carol adaptations, whether we really believe Murray's change of character will last beyond the Holiday season, and why, depending on who you ask, Carol Kane's psychotic sugar plum fairy is either the best or the worst part of this movie...
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00.00: Harry is 100% done with Charles Dickens this year.
24.10: Scrooged Drinking Games
34.55: Scrooged 2: First Contact
46.30: Scrooged 2: Oliver Twisted
55.50: Son of Scrooge
1.05.14: Listener Submissions & Episode 98 Preview
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Elf 2: How Buddy Saved Christmas
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Thursday Dec 13, 2018
Will Ferrell has repeatedly ruled out making a sequel for Elf, his festive 2004 comedy hit that rapidly became a seasonable staple. After the muted reaction to the belated Anchorman and Zoolander sequels in recent years, he may have a point...
Yet despite Ferrell's lack of enthusiasm, the appetite for an Elf 2 seems to grow stronger with every passing year. Is this just lazy nostalgia at work, or is there really potential for a follow-up that could wouldn't taint memories of the widely-loved original?
For this week's episode of Beyond The Box Set, John and (a very hung over) Harry summon as much Christmas spirit as they can muster as they attempt to figure out what makes this particular Christmas film so enormously popular, and where a theoretical sequel could actually take Ferrell and friends the second time around...
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Each week on Beyond The Box Set, hosts Harry Chappell and John Lucas compete to pitch sequels, prequels and spin-off ideas for a different standalone movie. Currently midway through our annual festive season, we're spreading cinematic good cheer wherever we go and proving that, unlike a puppy, a sequel can be for life and for Christmas.
New episodes are released every Friday morning, so please hit subscribe to stay up to date with all our latest episodes. Reviews and recommendations are also much appreciated, as they really do help us to reach out to new listeners. Go on, tis the season and all that....
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00.00: Harry is having a very bad day...
24.10: Elf Drinking Games
31.00: Elf 2: Return to the Pole
45.00: The 2Elf Days of Christmas
55.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 96 Preview
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Edward Scissorhands 2: Rock, Paper, Scissorhands... (feat. Blokebusters)
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Thursday Dec 06, 2018
Is Edward Scissorhands a Christmas movie? Possibly not, but it features snow, Christmas trees and an underlying air of sadness, which makes it close enough for us to crowbar Tim Burton's melancholy classic into our annual festive mini-season.
This week, long-time friend of the show Paul Hawkins from Blokebusters joins us to discuss Winona Ryder's old lady voice, Dianne Wiest's questionable parenting methods, whether it's still OK to appreciate Johnny Depp's legitimately brilliant performance in this movie and more...
As usual, we also spend some time brainstorming potential sequel ideas, including Edward's long-overdue trial for the murder of Anthony Michael Hall, an origin story that brings together two classic Tim Burton properties and a crossover that attempts to explain some of the more... eccentric design choices in the original movie...
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, two creative movie geeks compete to pitch sequels, prequels and spin-off ideas for classic standalone movies. We're almost 100 episodes deep and we have no intention of slowing down, so dive in for the only Podcast (that we know of) to combine classic movie chat with hilarious, frequently unfilmable fan fiction.
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If you're a super fan of the show, you can also show your appreciation by supporting our Patreon for as little as $2 per month. As a special thank you, we'll give you access to our weekly movie review bonus show Beyond BTBS, the opportunity to select a movie for us to discuss on a future episode of Beyond The Box Set, a regular 30 second promo slot and more.
00.00: Is Edward Scissorhands a Christmas Movie?
37.00: Edward Scissorhands Drinking Games
43.30: The Edward Scissorhands FRIENDS Game!
46.40: Edward Scissorhands 2: Jim's Ice Cold Revenge
56.30: Edward Scissorhands 2: The Snowman Cometh... Home
1.04.30: Edward Scissorhands 2: Rock, Paper, Scissorhands...
1.11.15: Listener Submissions & Episode 95 Preview
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Behind The Mask 2: The Reboot of Leslie Vernon
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Thursday Nov 01, 2018
Halloween may be over, but our Horror movie season extends for another week as we're joined by special guest Mark Reid to discuss 'Behind The Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon', a spoof documentary following a surprisingly affable serial killer in training.
Join us as we discuss serial killer cardio, the final girl trope, the correlation between murderers and magic nerds and much more. We also pitch our own sequel ideas for this hilarious horror, including Leslie's inevitable - albeit slightly less impressive - return from the grave, a comic book twist on the film's mockumentary format and a serial killer summer camp movie that sees the hunters becoming the hunted.
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00.00: Affable serial killers and John's shameful secret
19.30: Behind The Mask Drinking Games
29.30: Spiderman: Behind The Mask
38.20: Behind The Mask 2: The Reboot of Leslie Vernon
44.40: Behind The Mask 2: Summer Camp
56.00: Listener Submissions & Episode 90 Preview
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Wolf 2: Old Wolf (feat. Phil Better & Doghair Presents)
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
Thursday Oct 25, 2018
It's time for another Podcast crossover! As we conclude our Halloween 'Season of the Wolf' we're joined by Phil Better of The Phil Better Show and Rory Spence from Doghair Presents to discuss 'Wolf' - a 1994 romantic horror starring Jack Nicholson, James Spader and Michelle Pfieffer.
Now, if any actor was born to play a werewolf, it's probably Jack Nicholson. But while he certainly looked the part, we found this movie slightly lacking in bite. Fortunately there were enough weird and wonderful moments to keep us engaged - not least the dated effects, bizarrely inappropriate jazz saxophone score and the frequently terrible use of body doubles.
Made for a surprisingly pricey $70 million, Wolf just about turned a profit on release, but despite the starry cast is largely forgotten today. Can we make the case for a belated sequel? Tune into this week's episode to find out...
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Every week on Beyond the Box Set, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch fantasy sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Sometimes alone, sometimes with special guests, we're putting a fresh spin on the Hollywood canon.
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00.00: Somebody wasn't even trying with the body doubles...
42.20: Wolf Drinking Games
54.50: Wolf 2019
1.03.55: Wolf 2: Old Dog, New Tricks
1.15.30: Wolf 2: The Hunt
1.22.45: Listener Submissions & Episode 89 Preview
Thursday Aug 02, 2018
Blue Velvet - An Antz Perspective
Thursday Aug 02, 2018
Thursday Aug 02, 2018
Blue Velvet - an iconic movie of the 80s, but perhaps not the most compatible movie for the consumption of omelettes. That's just one of the many lessons we learned while attempting to make sense of David Lynch's twisted suburban noir.
Join us in this week's episode as we discuss the sinister appeal of Kyle Maclachlan, Isabella Rosellini's rather limited nightclub repertoir, and why, in a movie filled with terror and violence, a Roy Orbison lip sync number might just be the scariest scene of all...
David Lynch doesn't really do traditional sequels, but we like to think he'd approve of some of our sequel ideas this week, including an unlikely children's movie set inside a certain severed appendage, a sitcom retelling - complete with laugh track - and a Dennis Hopper origin story with some controversial re-casting choices...
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a difference. Each week, our two intrepid hosts discuss a classic piece of standalone cinema, and compete to come up with sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. Ideas range from the inspired to the totally idiotic, and that's just the way we like it...
If you enjoy the show, please subscribe and leave us a review - it really helps new listeners to find us. You can also access a wide variety of bonus content by signing up to our Patreon for as little as $2 per month, and we have exclusive merchandise available on Teepublic.com
00.00: Harry picked the wrong time to watch this movie
33.35: Blue Velvet Drinking Games
43.00: Blue Velvet - An Antz Perspective
59.50: Blue Velvet - Better Call Ben
1.12.38: Listener Submissions & Episode 76 Preview
Thursday Jul 19, 2018
Jerry Maguire 2: Jerry's Game
Thursday Jul 19, 2018
Thursday Jul 19, 2018
From the chunky flip phones and questionable hair to the dodgy sexual politics and curious lack of any real stakes, Jerry Maguire is perhaps the quintessential mid-90s prestige rom com. Written and directed by Cameron Crowe, the movie stars Tom Cruise as a successful sports agent whose search for meaning in a cynical industry leads him into the arms of warm-hearted, possibly overly suggestible single mother Renee Zellweger.
In this week's episode of Beyond The Box Set, we discuss the bizarre pacing of this movie, Renee Zellweger's succession of very poor decisions in the film and the fact that we're pretty sure all of the characters are addicted to cocaine.
Once we've completed a thorough post-mortem, we move on to pitching our own Jerry Maguire sequels as set in 2018. Would Jerry's questionable business strategy of focusing on fewer clients and less money be working out for him? Would his quickie marriage to a woman who may very well be in a cult still be going strong? And would Cuba Gooding Jr ever appear in another successful project again?
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Beyond The Box Set is the hit British podcast in which two hapless but creative film nerds pitch sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas for classic standalone movies. We've been featured as a must-listen Podcast by Podbean, The Guardian and iTunes, and our show is available on virtually all major platforms.
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00.00: Cocaine, flip phones and unexamined white privilege
32.10: Jerry Maguire Drinking Games
39.05: Jerry Maguire 2: Breaking Jerry
45.30: Jerry Maguire 2: Jerry's Game
53.10: Listener Submissions & Episode 75 Preview