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 Sep 20, 2018
Thursday Sep 20, 2018
How far would you go to be with your children? In the classic 90s comedy Mrs Doubtfire, Robin Williams goes truly goes above and beyond to spend some quality time with his family, with predictably hilarious results.
Tune into this week's episode for our thoughts on the difference between a good Robin Williams movie and a bad one, the irresistible charm of Sally Field and why some 90s comedy tropes have aged better than others, plus much more as we pitch sequels to this timeless comedy classic...
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Beyond The Box Set is a British movie podcast that blends comedy, movie chat and creative storytelling to ludicrous effect. Each week our two hosts take on a classic standalone movie - Titanic, Gladiator etc. - and attempt to pitch fantasy sequel ideas to bring them back to the big screen. We've been featured by The Guardian, Podbean and Apple Podcasts as a must-listen show, and over 150 listeners have granted us a 'Five-Star' rating on iTunes. Not that we like to brag or anything...
If you enjoy the show, please consider hitting subscribe for a new episode every Friday morning, and drop us a review if you're feeling extra generous. It really does help us to find new listeners, and we'd totally love you forever.
For listeners who truly can't get enough, we also offer exclusive bonus content on Patreon, where for as little as $2 per month you can access our weekly bonus show 'Beyond BTBS', grab a 30 second on-air promo slot to advertise anything you like, and pick a movie for us to cover on a future episode of the main show. We also have merchandise available on Teepublic.
00.00: Sally Field has the best face in Hollywood
51.30: Mrs Doubtfire Drinking Games
1.02.40 Mrs Doubtfire 2: Stu's Return
1.12.40: Mrs Doubtfire 2: Not Without My Daughter
1.24.00: Mrs Doubtfire 2: Son of Doubtfire
1.33.25: Listener Submissions & Episode 84 Preview
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
Thursday Sep 13, 2018
With an endlessly quoteable script from The Coen Brothers and career-defining performances from Jeff Bridges and John Goodman, The Big Lebowski is probably the ultimate slacker comedy. Mike Burton from Genuine Chit Chat joins us this week to discuss his abiding love of the movie - and to help us to pitch a few sequels.
Tune in as we discuss White Russians, incomprehensible kidnapping plots, John's strong erotic reaction to Jeff Bridges acid dancing and how this movie unexpectedly brought out Harry's reactionary side.
As always, after we're done waxing nostalgic about the movie, we move on to pitching our own fantasy sequel ideas - all of which mysterious hinge on the tragic fate of Donny, the unsung hero of The Dude's bowling team. Can our storytelling skills finally grant him the justice he deserves? There's only one way to find out...
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Beyond The Box Set is a British movie podcast that blends comedy, movie chat and creative storytelling to ludicrous effect. Each week our two hosts take on a classic standalone movie - Titanic, Gladiator etc. - and attempt to pitch fantasy sequel ideas to bring them back to the big screen. We've been featured by The Guardian, Podbean and Apple Podcasts as a must-listen show, and over 150 listeners have granted us a 'Five-Star' rating on iTunes. Not that we like to brag or anything...
If you enjoy the show, please consider hitting subscribe for a new episode every Friday morning, and drop us a review if you're feeling extra generous. It really does help us to find new listeners, and we'd totally love you forever.
For listeners who truly can't get enough, we also offer exclusive bonus content on Patreon, where for as little as $2 per month you can access our weekly bonus show 'Beyond BTBS', grab a 30 second on-air promo slot to advertise anything you like, and pick a movie for us to cover on a future episode of the main show. We also have merchandise available on Teepublic.
00.00: Harry takes serious issue with The Dude's lifestyle
27.55: The Big Lebowski Drinking Games
38.45: The Big Lebowski: Dial 'L' For Murder
1.01.00: The Big Lebowski 2: Finding Donny
1.06.00: The Big Lebowski 2: Donny Didn't Die
1.19.45: Listener Submissions & Episode 83 Preview
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
It's a passion! It's a fashion! It's... a campy wig explosion with terrible acting, a nonsensical plot and far, far too many characters! In this very special edition of Beyond The Box Set, we're joined by returning guests Oli Ajulo and Louise Ball to discuss Burlesque - the 2010 movie musical starring Cher, Christina Aguilera and precisely zero nipple tassles.
Written and directed by Steven Antin - who we suspect might possibly be a well-connected gay man with no self control - Burlesque may have been a donkey at the box office, but chances are it'll be screening at drag bars and bad movie events until the end of time.
Tune into this week's episode to hear our doomed attempts at making sense of the plot, our theory that Christina Aguilera's character is quite obviously the villain of the movie and some extremely variable Cher impersonations...
In a twist on our usual format, we also formed competing teams with our two guests to present a pair of sequel ideas that include a musical riff on the Scream franchise and a prequel that attempts to clear the name of one of the original movie's most unfairly maligned characters...
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie review podcast with a twist. Every week, we take a classic - or questionably classic - piece of standalone cinema and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas we can think of to bring them back to the big screen. We've been featured as a 'Binge-Worthy Podcast' on iTunes and named 'Podcast of the Week' by The Guardian.
Our show is available on all good podcasting platforms including iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and aCast. If you enjoy the show, please consider subscribing for a new episode every Friday morning - and if you're feeling really generous, leave us a review too. It makes us feel good and really helps us to find new listeners.
You can also access a host of bonus content by becoming a VIP listener for as little as $2 per month on our Patreon page, and we have a range of fabulous merchandise over on Teepublic.
00.00: Christina Aguilera is an entitled monster
51.30: Burlesque Drinking Games
1.00.00: Burlesque 2: Take Your Passion!
1.11.30: Burlesque 2: Season of the Bitch
1.25.55: Listener Submissions & Episode 82 Preview
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
Thursday Aug 30, 2018
We were in dire need of a comedy palate cleanser after sitting through the dreadful 'Sausage Party' for last week's episode, so John decided that the time was right to bring out an all-time favourite. Death Becomes Her is probably the only movie that gives you two Oscar-winning actresses rising from the grave and beating each other over the head with shovels.
Directed by the always visually inventive Robert Zemeckis, what Death Becomes Her lacks in subtlety, it more than makes up for in crazed, campy and endlessly quotable entertainment. Join us as we discuss warring divas, Isabella Rosellini going full panto and why we love Bruce Willis playing cartoonishly against type.
We also put our heads together to pitch some belated sequel ideas, which this week include a global immortality epidemic, the return of the shadowy Big Daddy corporation and a conspiracy theory involving another iconic - and strangely ageless - Hollywood A-Lister.
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At Beyond The Box Set, we believe that every great movie deserves a faintly unnecessary sequel. Each week, our two hosts take a look at a classic standalone feature film and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
Our show is available on all good podcasting platforms including iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher and Google Podcasts. If you enjoy the show, please consider subscribing for a new episode every Friday morning - and if you're feeling really generous, leave us a review too. It makes us feel good and really helps us to find new listeners.
You can also access a host of bonus content by becoming a VIP listener for as little as $2 per month on our Patreon page, and we have a range of fabulous merchandise over on Teepublic.
00.00: Goldie Hawn is a comedy genius
39.10: Death Becomes Her Drinking Games
46.00: Death Becomes Everyone
1.00.30: Death Becomes Her 2: Ghost Protocol
1.13.00: Listener Submissions & Episode 81 Preview
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Thursday Aug 23, 2018
Food and sex can be a wonderful combination... at times. Sausage Party is not one of those times.
Written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Sausage Party imagines a world in which processed food is sentient and worships human beings as Gods... little imagining the horrors that await them when they're finally purchased. Not the worst concept in the world, but sadly not one that has the smarts or the laughs to sustain a feature film.
This week on Beyond The Box Set, Harry and John find themselves challenged with pitching sequel ideas for a movie they were pretty much sick of after the first ten minutes of food puns and nonsensical sex jokes. It's a tall order, so tune in to find out how they did. Please. Seriously, if you don't, we sat through this garbage for nothing...
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Beyond The Box Set is the hit British podcast that believes every great movie deserves a questionable sequel. Each week our two hosts revisit a classic standalone feature and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen.
If you enjoy this episode, please subscribe to the show on your preferred podcatcher for a new episode every Friday morning. You can also leave us a review if you're feeling extra kind, or gain access to even more of our content by becoming a VIP listener over on Patreon.
00.00: John is deeply uncomfortable about dough-based vaginas
28.50: Sausage Party Drinking Games
34.10: Starbaked: A Franchise of Diminishing Returns
44.25: Sausage Party 2: A Fistful of Sausages
59.20: A Knight's Tale 2: The Gorgeous Ladies of Jousting
53.00: Listener Submissions & Episode 80 Preview
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Friday Aug 17, 2018
Fonging hell! We've got a real crowd pleaser to talk about this week - gleefully anachronistic jousting adventure A Knight's Tale, the starring the much-missed Heath Ledger.
Released in 2001, A Knight's Tale helped to establish Ledger as a reliable leading man, after well-received supporting turns in 10 Things I Hate About You and The Patriot. It also featured a memorable cast of supporting characters including Alan Tudyk, Mark Addy and future Marvel star Paul Bettany in the role of a loudmouthed, frequently naked Geoffrey Chaucer.
This week's movie was selected by special guest Jason Croxon, host of the A Conversation With... podcast. Jason joins us on this episode to discuss olde worlde relationship politics, variable accent work, scenery chewing extras and much more.
As always, we also spend the second half of the episode pitching our own fantasy sequel ideas to this feelgood romp - which sadly have to work around the less than cheerful fact of Ledger's tragic death in 2008. How could a spin-off movie ever work in his absence? That's a question we challenge ourselves to answer this week. Tune in now to see how we fared...
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Every week on Beyond The Box Set, we revisit a classic standalone movie that, for whatever reason, never got an official sequel. Then we compete to come up with our own pitches to bring that movie back to the big screen in 2018. It's a pointless thought experiment that's already guided us through 78 episodes with no sign of slowing down...
If you enjoy the show, please hit subscribe on your preferred Podcatcher and consider leaving 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: Paul Bettany's bum deserves an Oscar
36.55: A Knight's Tale Drinking Games
43.50: A Knight's Tale 2: A Squire's Tale
51.00: A Knight's Tale 2: Catcheth Me Ift Thee Can
59.20: A Knight's Tale 2: The Gorgeous Ladies of Jousting
1.12.50: Listener Submissions & Episode 79 Preview
Thursday Aug 09, 2018
Thursday Aug 09, 2018
May we have your attention please? This week we're taking on a slightly less well-known movie than usual, but we definitely think it's worthy of a wider audience. Writer-director Lucky McKee's May is a surprisingly thoughtful and challenging indie-horror about a lonely and isolated young woman who takes a... creative approach to dealing with rejection.
Joined by this week's special guest, May super-fan Kit Sheppard, we discuss the traumatic influence of creepy childhood dolls, Anna Faris' questionable acting choices and the sad fate of poor, sweet Blank with the cartoonishly large hair...
We also brainstorm some sequel ideas including an all-star, mega-budget horror upgrade inspired by Aliens, an Orange Is The New Black-inspired crossover and a decidedly adult spin on Pixar's Toy Story formula.
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a difference. Each week, our two hosts - and the occasional guest - review a classic standalone movie and attempt to pitch ridiculous sequel, prequel or spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. From Oscar-winning classics to box office bombs, our creativity knows no bounds.
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: Traumatic childhood doll stories
31.40: May Drinking Games
49.50: May Is Back
56.20: Suzie: An Adult Pixar Movie
1.12.38: Listener Submissions & Episode 78 Preview
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 26, 2018
Thursday Jul 26, 2018
Talking goats, doomed kittens and a *lot* of projectile vomiting, Drag Me To Hell found Sam Raimi back in his comedy-horror element after his lucrative turn behind the Spider Man franchise. But does it have the potential to become an Evil Dead-esque franchise?
For this week's episode of Beyond The Box Set, we discuss the extreme pettiness of Gypsy curses, Octavia Spencer's blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo and the wonderfully ludicrous concept of Professor Justin Long, before pitching our own ideas for extending the franchise - including a sequel set entirely in hell itself, and the unlikely but strangely compelling confluence of Star Wars, Jade Pinkett-Smith and Sam Raimi.
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Beyond The Box Set is a movie podcast with a devilish twist. Every week, we take a classic standalone movie and compete to pitch the most ridiculous sequel, prequel and spin-off ideas to bring them back to the big screen. From Gladiator: The Musical to a stoner comedy sequel to Titanic, no cinematic sacred cow is safe from our questionably creative writing...
You can find our show on all good podcasting platforms, including iTunes, Spotify and Stitcher - plus we also offer a wide variety of bonus content on Patreon, including reviews of current cinema releases and the opportunity to pick a movie for us to bastardise on a future episode - all for as little as $2 per month thanks to our pay as you feel tiered sponsorship system.
00.00: Why Harry travelled 50 miles to see this movie
38.05: Drag Me To Hell Drinking Games
49.00: Drag Me To Hell II: Justin's Long Con
1.10.15: Drag Me 2 Hell: Two Tickets To Damnation
1.21.40: Listener Submissions & Episode 76 Preview
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.
We also have a dedicated Patreon page where fans can access a host of bonus content, including our weekly cinema review show 'Beyond BTBS' and the opportunity to choose a film for us to cover on a future episode of the main show - all for as little as £2 per month!.
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