At Beyond The Box Set, we believe every great movie deserves a questionable sequel. Each week, we take a stand-alone cinema classic and compete to come up with the best, worst and most bizarre pitches to bring them back to the big screen.
Episodes
Thursday May 23, 2019
Thursday May 23, 2019
Starring Mark Wahlberg as Dirk Diggler, the well-endowed Golden Child of the late 70s porn industry, Boogie Nights established Paul Thomas Anderson as a major directorial talent, and featured breakthrough performances for megastars including Julianne Moore, Don Cheadle, Philip Seymour Hoffman and more - plus the comeback of a lifetime for actual seventies icon Burt Reynolds.
In this week's podcast, we go deep and dirty while discussing the changing face of porn, debate whether anyone would actually want to wield a 14 inch penis, attain possible wig watch nirvana and of course, pitch some sequel ideas to help Wahlberg's Diggler to rise again...
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a look back at a notable standalone movie from the past, and shamelessly riff on possible sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas that might bring them back to the big screen. Sometimes we're inspired, sometimes we're insane, but we always rise to the occasion...
Our show has received rave reviews from listeners and been featured as a 'Podcast of the Week' by sources including The Guardian, Apple Podcasts and Podbean. We release a new episode every Friday morning, available totally free to anyone who hits subscribe on their preferred podcatcher.
Beyond The Box Set is also a proud member of the Pave Media Podcast network. Visit pavemedia.net to find out how we can help you to grow your audience and connect with fellow independent podcasters around the world.
00.00: More uncomfortable sexual tension than your average plot summary
48.30: Boogie Nights Drinking Games
53.20: Boogie Nights 2: Dirk Diggler's Hole-istic Dicktective Agency
1.04.25: Boogie Nights 2: Brock & Chest's Second Cumming
1.16.20: Listener Submissions & Episode 118 Preview
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Thursday Apr 18, 2019
Our Glenn Close mini-season - which we're now dubbing 'Close Encounters of the Glenn Kind' - continues with an episode dedicated to Dangerous Liaisons, in which the actress gives one of her most memorably villainous performances as the scheming aristocrat Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil.
Directed by Stephen Frears and co-starring John Malkovich, Michelle Pfeiffer and Uma Thurman, Dangerous Liaisons has it all - intrigue, seduction and many, many wigs. In other words, it should be a perfect Beyond The Box Set movie. Unfortunately, one of us didn't quite end up seeing things that way...
Tune into this week's episode to hear our thoughts on bedtime wigs, a classic distracting Keanu Reeves performance, the film's surprisingly abrupt ending and much more, plus drinking games and of course, our sequel pitches.
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we take a look back at a classic standalone movie, and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequels, prequels and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
Our show has been listed as a 'Podcast of The Week' by The Guardian and Podbean, and as a 'Binge-Worthy Podcast' by Apple. We release a new episode every Friday morning, so subscribe for free to make sure you never miss an episode.
Beyond The Box Set is also a proud member of the Pave Media Podcast Network. Check them out at pavemedia.net to find out how they could help you to grow your listenership and make meaningful connections with fellow podcasters.
00.00: Even worse than Yentl, apparently.
42.50: Dangerous Liaisons Drinking Games
52.30: Dangerous Liaisons 2: Children of the Revolution
1.02.10: Dangerous Liaisons: A Re-Casting Extravaganza
1.24.30 Listener Submissions & Episode 113 Preview
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Having recently discovered that Harry has only ever seen two Glenn Close movies in his life - one of which being Guardians of the Galaxy - we decided to dedicate a season to the iconic 7-time Oscar non-winner. First up, the terrifying 80s erotic thriller Fatal Attraction...
In this movie, Glenn stars as Alex Forrest, a successful career woman who reacts rather poorly to being discarded by married sleaze-ball Michael Douglas after a one night stand. It starts as a compelling examination of mental illness and ends as a fairly silly thriller, but Glenn's performance is one for the ages, and the movie was a genre-defining smash on release.
Tune in to hear our thoughts on dishwater sex (we're against it), the terrible mistreatment of poor Quincey the dog in this movie, and why Michael Douglas deserved pretty much everything he got...
Oh yeah and sequel pitches, drinking games, etc. You know the drill.
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a twist. Each week, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequels, prequels and spin-offs to bring them back to the big screen.
Our show has been listed as a 'Podcast of The Week' by The Guardian and Podbean, and as a 'Binge-Worthy Podcast' by Apple. We release a new episode every Friday morning, so hit subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.
Beyond The Box Set is also a proud member of the Pave Media Podcast Network. Check them out at pavemedia.net to find out how they could help you to grow your listenership and make meaningful connections with fellow podcasters.
00.00: What would Meryl do?
39.20: Fatal Attraction Drinking Games
43.15: Fatal Attraction 2: This Time... It's Personal
1.00.45: Fatal Attraction 2: Bitches Br Crazy
1.12.30 Listener Submissions & Episode 112 Preview
Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Thursday Apr 04, 2019
Over the course of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a man lives an entire lifetime in reverse. After sitting through the three-hour runtime, we felt like we could relate to the experience.
Directed by David Fincher from the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a fascinating concept with a fundamentally boring character at the centre. Join us on this week's podcast as we discuss extremely variable CGI work, the intense ick-factor of the old man/little girl love story and why Tilda Swinton gave us a very British case of second-hand tea anxiety...
We also have a go at pitching some sequel ideas, including some thoughts on how other notable directors might have handled this story, and a crossover with one of our favourite camp classics from a past episode...
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a twist. Each week, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequels, prequels and spin-offs to bring them back to the big screen.
Our show has been listed as a 'Podcast of The Week' by The Guardian and Podbean, and as a 'Binge-Worthy Podcast' by Apple. We release a new episode every Friday morning, so hit subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode.
Beyond The Box Set is also a proud member of the Pave Media Podcast Network. Check them out at pavemedia.net to find out how they could help you to grow your listenership and make meaningful connections with fellow podcasters.
00.00: Every character in this movie is more interesting than Benjamin Button
52.00: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Drinking Games
1.02.40: Being Benjamin Button
1.11.45: Death Becomes Daisy
1.22.30 Listener Submissions & Episode 111 Preview
Friday Mar 08, 2019
Friday Mar 08, 2019
This time last year, The Shape of Water was crowned Best Picture at the 90th Academy Awards. Twelve months on, has the movie lost any of its lustre?
As we bid adieu to another year of Oscar-watching, we decided to revisit Guillermo del Toro's fantastical passion project in our own unique way. Which of course means only one thing - sequels!
From an underwater origin story to an Arrival-inspired sci-fi romance, check out our ideas in this week's podcast - in which we also discuss the benefits of practical effects when depicting inter-species romance, enjoy the cartoonish villainy of Michael Shannon, mourn the tragic death of Pandora the cat and much more...
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Beyond The Box Set is a British movie podcast dedicated to creatively celebrating classic standalone movies... before desecrating them completely. Each week we take a notable one-off film and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
You may have read about us in publications such as The Guardian, Podbean's 'Podcast of the Week' column and on the front page of the Apple store under 'Binge Worthy Podcasts'. We release a new episode every Friday morning so please hit Subscribe to check us out and to make sure you never miss an episode.
You can also join our VIP listener group on Patreon for as little as $2 per month, where we offer a host of exciting bonus content including our weekly movie review show Beyond BTBS.
00.00: Michael Shannon is Toxic Masculinity Personified
35.25: The Shape of Water Drinking Games
39.30: The Shape of Water 2: The Shape of Redemption
53.00: The Shape of Water 2: The Sea-quel
1.06.15 Listener Submissions & Episode 107 Preview
Monday Feb 25, 2019
Monday Feb 25, 2019
It's been a long road, but Oscar season 2019 has finally come to an end. Check out our instant post-show reaction to the shocks, the snubs and everything else that went down in this very hungover bonus episode...
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
Tuesday Feb 19, 2019
It's the most wonderful time of the year - Oscar Season! Eight movies have been nominated for the prestigious title of Best Picture of 2018... and having watched them all, we have some opinions!
In this very special bonus episode of Beyond The Box Set, we rank this year's Best Picture nominees from worst to first, and predict who we think will be taking home Oscar Gold on Sunday night...
The contenders (in alphabetical order)
- Black Panther
- Blakkklansman
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- The Favourite
- Green Book
- Roma
- A Star is Born
- Vice
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
Thursday Jan 31, 2019
How do you solve a problem like following up your first ever live episode? By taking on one of the most beloved movies of all time, of course! This week's episode 101 spectacular is dedicated to the iconic family favourite 'The Sound of Music', starring the legendary Dame Julie Andrews.
Tune in to hear our thoughts on Maria Von Trapp's compulsive singing problem, impressive curtain-based design skills and how Harry's Granny may have been responsible for this movie's record-breaking box office takings back in the 60s...
As ever, we're also pitching some long overdue sequel ideas - including a very unexpected origin story, a crossover that keeps the hills but loses the music, and some dramatic speculation about Dame Julie's adventures in the swinging sixties.
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Beyond The Box Set is a weekly movie podcast that attempts to pitch sequels, prequels and spin offs to classic standalone movies. For over 100 episodes, we've pried open every closed narrative, slaughtered every cinematic sacred cow and pitched ideas ranging from the inspired to the downright un-filmable.
Our show is available on all good podcasting platforms including Itunes, Spotify and Podbean. If you enjoy the show, please leave a ratings and a review, they really help us to attract new listeners. Don't forget to subscribe too, for a new episode every Friday morning.
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00.00: Harry's Von Trapp childhood
33.10: The Sound of Music Drinking Games
38.40: The Sound of Music 2: Back In The Habit
47.00: The Sound of No Music
54.30: Listener Submissions & Episode 102 Preview
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
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
Thursday Nov 29, 2018
It's a thought-provoking modern sci-fi classic that played a key role in Beyond The Box Set's Amsterdam-based origin story. So why did it take us 93 episodes to dedicate an episode to Arrival? Well, if time is a circle, then on some level, haven't we somehow always been dedicating an episode to Arrival? Wait, now we're even more confused...
Dante Pineau of PlayD&D and Let's Get Contextual joins us this week to discuss property porn, the perils of Dutch subtitles, how this movie got totally screwed over at the Oscars and more, before diving into some high-concept sequel ideas including a look at what might have been going on at the other research camps, a grief-stricken Jeremy Renner's attempts to unwind time and save his daughter's life and an expose on what the mysterious Abbot and Costello aliens were really up to...
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Beyond The Box Set is a creative movie podcast dedicated to pitching fantasy sequels to classic standalone cinema. Each week we'll thoroughly dissect a film that for some reason never spawned a spin-off, and compete to come up with the most inspired, or ridiculous, sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
If you enjoy the show, please hit subscribe on your preferred Podcasting platform and leave us a nice review. You can also contact us on social media and we have a Patreon page where dedicated listeners can access a wide variety of bonus content from as little as $2 per month.
00.00: Never watch a movie about linguistics in a Dutch cinema
28.15: Arrival Drinking Games
35.40: Arrival... In Devon?!
44.45: Arrival 2: Departure
55.45: Arrival: Behind The Laughter
1.06.50: Listener Submissions & Episode 94 Preview