Butter Your Popcorn Movie Podcast
Let's Talk Movies!
Join Tom, Justin, and Matt every two weeks as they review a specific year in movies and discuss one host's favorite as well as another host's least favorite of that year.
This is an interesting, informative, and irreverent take on not only the biggest hits, but also the biggest misfires, throughout movie history.
New episodes released every other Thursday!
Look below to see released episodes as well as what's coming up.
1986
Gene Hackman is always great, but is Hoosiers, inspired by the true story of the 1954 Indiana basketball state champions, one of the best inspirational sports movies?
Also, everyone loves Stephen King... well, his books at least. We dive into the insanity of his first and only directed film Maximum Overdrive.
Links to this podcast at Spotify and Apple Podcasts at top of our page.
1987
Sam Spade goes to Hell... is Angel Heart a masterful cross between Chinatown and The Exorcist, or is it an overcomplicated mess?
Also, how can a movie have two of the most respected actors in Hollywood and turn out this embarrassing? We get lost in the desert with Ishtar.
Links to this podcast at Spotify and Apple Podcasts at top of our page.
1988
Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Who cares... we discuss if Bruce Willis' wisecracking, window breaking, no shoes wearing shoot 'em up ranks with the best of all action movies.
Caddyshack was a fun and raunchy comedy but how about its sequel with Jackie Mason and Robert Stack? Does anyone remember that? Hello? Anyone???? We yell "Fore!" and dive into one of the worst sequels in history.
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1989
If we podcast it, they will come... that's our hope at least as we cover one host's favorite, the baseball loving Field of Dreams.
Would you rather see Corey Feldman dance or act? How about both! We discuss if teen comedy Dream a Little Dream is a nightmare worthy of Freddy Kruger.
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Overrated & Underrated of the 80's
How could someone not love National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Gremlins, and Dirty Dancing? A different host has that difficult task of convincing the other two that each film is one of the most overrated movies of the 1980's.
In this special podcast, we also shine a light on some of the underseen or forgotten movies of the 1980's. Can each host get the other two to agree that The Vanishing, The Untouchables, and Johnny Dangerously deserve more love?
Links to this podcast at Spotify and Apple Podcasts at top of our page.
1990
We are finally in the 1990's and is the noir, cult classic The Grifters a perfect con movie or is one host trying to swindle the other two?
Cheese is on the menu for this podcast as we cover the gloriously embarrassing late 80's/early 90's direct to video classic Repo Jake.
Special Halloween Episode
In this special Halloween podcast, we talk horror!
The Last Exorcism has a 35% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, and Tom is picking it as an underrated gem... is it better than its reputation or was it one exorcism too many?
Insidious spawned four sequels and is one of the highest grossing horror franchises of the last 15 years, and Justin will make the case it is overrated. "It's not the house that's haunted." It's the 3 podcasters.
And finally, we travel to Texas and dive into a classic film that horror-hating Matt has never seen with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Will we survive and what will be left of us?
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1991
Keanu Reeves playing former college football star turned FBI agent Johnny Utah? Point Break may be Matt's favorite of 1991, but will it be the breaking point for early 1990's action hating Tom?
After becoming America's sweetheart in Pretty Woman, Julia Roberts could do no wrong... then 1991 brought us Dying Young, Hook, and Sleeping with the Enemy. Those movies made some money, but does anyone remember them? Did anyone like them? We dive into Justin's least favorite pick Sleeping with the Enemy.
1992
Coffee is for podcasters... Special guest Veto joins us to discuss the cold and cutthroat world of salesmen for 1992's Glengarry Glen Ross. It's our first podcast with 4 hosts, and as Alec Baldwin says, "First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize... you're fired."
What do you get when you cross incestuous cat people and a newly sober Stephen King writing his first screenplay? Well, you get something that should be buried in the kitty litter box. The crew has a blast reviewing the unintentionally hilarious Sleepwalkers.
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1993 (Releasing 12/12/24)
1993 was the year of Steven Spielberg with the release of both Schindler's List and Jurassic Park, and Tom makes the case that Schindler's List is his crowning achievement and one of the greatest and most powerful movies of all time.
What would you do for $1,000,000? Would that be enough money to watch this movie again? The three hosts dive into Matt's pick of the worst of 1993 with Indecent Proposal.
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1994 (Releasing 12/26/24)
Is Matt choosing Dumb & Dumber as his favorite of 1994 over Pulp Fiction dumb, dumber, or smartly subversive just like this Jim Carrey comedy?
Bruce Willis is a psychoanalyst who can no longer see red... but Color of Night has the hosts seeing red. Join us as we dive into this Temu version of Basic Instinct without its sexiness, thrills, and coherence (and let's be honest, Basic Instinct didn't even make all that much sense.)
Meet the Butter Your Popcorn Movie Podcast Hosts
Tom
Justin
Justin
Since being allowed to stay up late and watch the original Halloween movie at 5 years old, Tom has always had a love for horror movies. Highbrow (Hereditary) lowbrow (Sleepaway Camp 2: Unhappy Campers) and everything in between. In his spare time, Tom takes a break from watching horror movies to enjoy dramatic films like Magnolia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Paris, Texas.
Justin
Justin
Justin
Growing up on a steady diet of Skinamax and repeated Rocky viewings, Justin will now give any flick a chance: drama, action, horror, or comedy. When he's not coaching baseball, he's watching movies... at least any movie that didn't premiere on The Hallmark Channel.
Matt
Justin
Matt
When Matt is not educating the future of America, he is enjoying a good chick flick or mob movie. You will not catch him watching sci-fi or horror, but he can be easily bribed to watch anything for a free meal. Matt doesn't claim to know everything about movies, but he does claim to know something about everything.