(Deep Dive begins at 1:00:30) If the true value of any item is what someone’s willing to pay, what does it say about our free podcast? Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam and Georgia, as we're staying in Los Angeles and waiting for the police scanner to go off in search of the best lighting in Nightcrawler, brought to us by BFF of the BFE, Hermes Auslander of the Scuttlebutt Podcast. We really hope you like long runtimes in our 237th episode as we discuss: The aftermath of...

(Deep Dive begins at 15:35) It's always about measuring expectations so they line up with reality, am I right? Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Megan and Georgia, as we're heading to Los Angeles and violently yo-yoing between loving us and hating the world in the indie darling, (500) Days of Summer. We're doing choreographed dance sequences with animated  birds in our 236th episode as we discuss: The significance of the birthday equinox Who gets over break-ups easier, men or...

FIRST 44:00 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict AFTER 44:00 it's a full spoiler review Beverly Hills, that's where we want to be! Join us as we look at the strangest named legacy sequel in memory with Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.  We discuss whether Axel Foley has reached John McClane? Which actor seemed vastly over their heads compared to their castmates? Which of the returning cast members still have it and who seems to have missed a step? Ian also shares about his...

(Deep Dive begins at 38:25) When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with a pod, you want the that pod to start as soon as possible Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, Megan and Georgia, as we're heading to New York City and questioning all of our friendships in the Rob Reiner directed When Harry Met Sally. We're having what she's having in our 235th episode as we discuss: What was the main hang-up with the casting of this film The reverence this film seems...

(Deep Dive begins at 34:50) The film that took twelve years to make and almost as long for us to review it.  Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, KevDog and Georgia, as we're heading back to our collective childhoods as we watch Boyhood for its 10th anniversary. We're expressing our hatred for squash in our 234th episode as we discuss: What risks did Richard Linklater take when making this film What was Ian's prediction at the end of the film We got some more film school as Ian...

It's the BFE as you've seldom heard them: all tangents and no format sheet.  We turned the mics on and let whatever came to the conversation end up on the tape.  Ian, Liam, and Georgia are cracking wise and sharing their thoughts and histories as we discuss: Preparations for summertime viewing, including the Olympics Ian cracks wise about Wimbledon Liam shares thoughts about American Football and how he got into it We set up Chicken Wing Challenge 2024 Where would we like to visit and where...

(Deep Dive begins at 50:30) Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift. And you use it for the good of mankind . Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, Megan and Georgia, as we're heading back to New York City for Canada Day weekend to see the fusion demonstration in Spider-Man 2 for its 20th anniversary. We're discovering our love for all things science in our 233rd episode as we discuss: Liam is raring to talk about a completely different movie Georgia's very impassioned...

WARNING: POTENTIALLY DIFFICULT SUBJECT MATTER IN THIS EPISODE (Deep Dive begins at 47:45) Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, Megan and Georgia, as we're reviewing the 2022 Netflix Original Film on the 1994 Genocide Against The Tutsi in Rwanda, Trees of Peace. We're asking some big questions in our 232nd episode as we discuss: Should snack foods be held accountable for hyperbolic claims of spice Megs shares a T-Shirt story when wearing her own merch Why our knowledge on...

(Deep Dive begins at 29:30) Hakuna Matata, what a wonderful phrase... Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, Megan and Georgia, as we're heading to Pride Rock to pay homage to the carnivores that might eat us one day in the 1994 Disney animated classic, The Lion King. We're avoiding goose-stepping hyenas in our 231st episode as we discuss: Ian workshops a 1 man Lion King show for the Edinburgh fringe What was Disney's innovative approach for the trailer What other Disney...

(Deep Dive begins at 27:35) Expecto patronum! Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, and Georgia (Megan's training to be a dementor) as we're joined once again by KevDog - freshly broken out of Azkaban - as we're heading to a remodeled Hogwarts while messing with the fabric of time itself in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.  We're managing our mischief in our 230th episode as we discuss: Whether it is possible to divorce the films, and the IP, from the author of the...

(Deep Dive begins at 30:50) We don't watch and analyse films because it's cute. We watch and analyse films because we are members of the human race. Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, and Megan (Georgia is in detention) as we're heading to a dark cave in the middle of the night to trade snacks, play saxophone, and read from Five Centuries of Verse in the film that's crack for teachers, Dead Poets Society.  We're seizing the day in our 229th episode as we discuss: Just how...

We usually go king sized on the BFE but perhaps brevity truly is the source of wit.  Welcome to Three Act Structure: the BFE review show where we have to pass judgment on films but this time, we can only use 3 words or less - wait, should that be 'or fewer?' This month we're reviewing every Film and TV entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  How will films like Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Avengers Endgame do when we're limited to a trifecta of words. What...

(Deep Dive begins at 32:30) We belong in a museum. Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian and Liam (Georgia & Megan got lost in their own museum) as we're heading to Alexandretta in search of the Holy Grail and Henry Jones Sr in what should have been Indy's swan song, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.  All we have to do is scream in our 228th episode as we discuss: Some of the insane pitches for this film as Liam plays "Real Pitch or Chat GPT Pitch?" We have a little English...

(Deep Dive begins at 37:30) Don't be what they made you. Join your favorite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam, and Georgia (Megan's already set off for the magical Canadian border) as we're joined by BFF of the BFE, James DeGuzman in the supposed Hugh Jackman Wolverine send-off, Logan. We're bringing X-23 to the safe haven in our 227th episode as we discuss: More hypothetical food tasting by Georgia What's the backstory of Wolverine Is this film accessible to those not familiar with any of...

(Deep Dive begins at 25:15) Uh, that catnip's not ours. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcaster, Ian (Everyone else is making the near 800 mile trek to Far Far Away) as he's joined by KevDog - in boots - off to visit the shops and enjoy medieval puns in Shrek 2. We're bringing flour to The Muffin Man in our 226th episode as we discuss: How one of us completely missed the Northern Lights this week How does the energy of Shrek 2 pivot from Shrek 1 There's quite a few shots at Disney (yet...

We're back with another round of our Mail Call episode.  Russell the Postie has dropped off a special springtime delivery and Georgia's working in the mail room to deliver the questions from Friends of the Podcast & The Fledgling Fandom to your favourite TransAtlantic podcasting team.  Hear Ian, Liam, and Georgia answer some of your questions in our May 2024 edition.  Key questions this time include: How does the BFE decide which films to do? Which BFE concepts might come back in the near...

(Deep Dive begins at 34:20) Live long and prosper. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam & Georgia (Megs is off on the USS Kelvin) as we're off to Vulcan to stop a madman in the 2009 science-fiction reboot, Star Trek and we're joined by Starfleet's finest in Ensign Ian Davies as we complete our training. We're preparing for the Kobayashi Maru in our 225th episode as we discuss: Salty fries once again What's the appeal of Star Trek and are Trekkies the original nerds? We...

(Deep Dive begins at 30:20) Why do I get the feeling you're going to be the death of me? Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian, Liam & Georgia (Megs if off looking for cloners on Camino) as we're off to Naboo to protect a senator and just staring inapporpriately in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. We're ready for the adventures of Jar Jar in our 224th episode as we discuss: Georgia's right to comment on hypothetical fries Liam does an impression of Felix We discuss whether...

(Deep Dive begins at 38:50) It's a Tuesday and everybody listens on Tuesdays.  Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcaster, Ian & Georgia (LIam and Megan are off working Club Med) as we're off to Washington on a walking tour in the Kevin Kline/Sigourney Weaver romcom, Dave brought to us by BFF of the BFE: Kirsti.  We're collective souvenirs in our 223rd episode as we discuss: Why don't Brits know about this film? A brief history of U.S. Presidents in the late 20th Century / Early 21st...

(Deep Dive begins at 47:30) Would you believe that someone else is to blame for the runtime on a Hermes episode?  Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcaster, Ian & Liam (Georgia, Ethan, and Megan have all won fellowships) as we're the keymaster at a Seattle house party while trying to pick-up the brainiac in the Cameron Crowe/John Cusack film Say Anything. We're joined by very special guest,  BFF of the BFE: Hermes Auslander, and we're disussing kickboxing form in our 222nd episode as we...

(Deep Dive begins at 42:30) Get your black leathers on, shirts are apparently optional, and let's head out looking for trouble. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian and Liam (Georgia, Megs, and Ethan are chasing down rogue drivers) as we're heading to Australia in the not too distant future in the Mel Gibson film, Mad Max.  We are the nightrider in our 221st episode as we discuss: Whether a simple story is necessarily a bad story We talk about big life events this week Liam talks...

BEFORE 53:30 is our WrestleMania 40 (Night Two) PREVIEW & PREDICTIONS AFTER 53:30 you get our WrestleMania 40 (Night Two) FULL REVIEW You know we love our wrestling here at the BFE (well some of us...). Join Ian from Best Film Ever and Stew from The Stew World Order podcast as we break the BFE format by looking at WrestleMania 40 (Night Two). We discuss whether The Rock is helping or hurting creative? Did WWE promise something they ultimately couldn't deliver on? What exactly is a...

BEFORE 1:02:00 is our WrestleMania 40 (Night One) PREVIEW & PREDICTIONS AFTER 1:02:00 you get our WrestleMania 40 (Night One) FULL REVIEW You know we love our wrestling here at the BFE (well some of us...). Join Ian from Best Film Ever and Stew from The Stew World Order podcast as we break the BFE format by looking at WrestleMania 40 (Night One). We discuss whether The Rock is helping or hurting creative? Do we rate matches higher or lower based on our representations? What other stories...

FIRST 23:40 are a spoiler-free review with our See It/Skip It verdict AFTER 23:40 it's a full spoiler review You know the BFE is getting up there in years when we're doing a SIOSI that's a sequel to an earlier film that we also did a SIOSI on.  Join us as we look at the sequel to a legacy sequel in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. We discuss whether Paul Rudd is being over-exposed? Are there too many characters in this film? Did we need every character back from Oklahoma in New York City? Were...

(Deep Dive begins at 32:30) It's WrestleMania week and the BFE are doing their annual tradition of finding something wrestling-related for the  someone asks if you're a god, you say yes. Join your favourite TransAtlantic podcasters, Ian and Liam (Georgia, Megs, and Ethan aren't booked so they're not showing up) as we're heading from bingo halls to the Royal Rumble and everywhere in between in the Barry Blaustein documentary, Beyond The Mat.  We're wishing you a good day in our 220th episode...