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.

Early Podcasts

1986 Hoosiers & Maximum Overdrive
1987 Angel Heart & Ishtar
1988 Die Hard and Caddyshack II
1989 Field of Dreams & Dream a Little Dream
Overrated & Underrated Movies of the 1980's
1990 The Grifters & 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?

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.

1993

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.

1994

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.)

The Terminator Franchise

In this special podcast we cover The Terminator franchise!

Join us as we discuss all 6 movies and try to figure out how Arnold went from a cold, ruthless killing machine to a family friendly cyborg who says, "Talk to the hand."

We find out which of these films are sci-fi classics, and which ones should be terminated to protect mankind's future?

Rocky Franchise

In this special podcast, we go 10 rounds with Justin's favorite franchise Rocky. From his humble beginnings in the original to single handedly defeating communism in Rocky 4 to throwing in the towel and passing the legacy to Creed, we cover all the movie knockouts as well as the ones that hit below the belt!

The Godfather Franchise

Take the gun... leave the cannoli.

This episode we dive into Matt's franchise pic, The Godfather franchise. Is this still the greatest mob story of all time, or has The Sopranos, Goodfellas, and Godfather 3 hurt its legacy?

Here's an offer you can't refuse: Listen now as we discuss all three movies.

1995

Is Before Sunrise the quintessential Gen X love story, or is it nothing but talk?

Also on this episode: Matthew McConaughey, Renee Zellweger, and Leatherface in lingerie? How could this movie possibly be bad? Tune in to find out as we discuss Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.

1996

Is Fargo a comedy? A thriller? A masterpiece? You betcha! Listen as Tom tries to convince the cohosts that Fargo is a perfect movie.

Can Black Sheep recapture any of the Chris Farley/David Spade magic from Tommy Boy? Was Tommy Boy even worth copying? We dive into Matt's pick for the worst of 1996 with Black Sheep.

Meet the Butter Your Popcorn Movie Podcast Hosts

Tom

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

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.