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The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

The Every Movie Ever! Podcast

By: Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane
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Join hosts Ben Groves & Rob Macfarlane for a weekly mental health check in disguised as a movie podcast. Weekly episodes released every Sunday have the boys talking everything from Hollywood blockbusters to indie darlings and all manner of highs and lows in-between!

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  • Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012): We Miss This Already
    Mar 22 2026

    Ben and Rob bring the saga to a close with ‘The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 2’, the 2012 fantasy finale that ended one of the most talked about franchises in modern cinema. Starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Mackenzie Foy, Michael Sheen, Dakota Fanning and Anna Kendrick, Breaking Dawn Part 2 delivers the final chapter of vampires, werewolves and eternal love, while wrapping up a cultural phenomenon that defined a generation.

    Does Breaking Dawn Part 2 actually deliver as a franchise finale? How do the cast and pacing hold up, and does that infamous final act work? What was the critical response at the time, and how did the making of the film shape what we ended up seeing? Why is Renesmee still one of the strangest choices in blockbuster history, and what did the end of Twilight mean for the cast who lived it? And finally, why do Ben and Rob adore this franchise so much, and why are they genuinely sad to see it end?

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • The Bride (2026): Dead On Arrival Or Destined For Acclaimed Ressurection?
    Mar 16 2026

    Ben and Rob head back into the Frankenstein mythos to tackle The Bride! (2026), the bold, chaotic, and very Maggie Gyllenhaal take on one of horror’s most famous monsters. Before diving into the film’s wild ideas, the pair rewind to ask the obvious question: what exactly is this movie trying to be? A gothic romance? A feminist monster movie? A gangster road film set in 1930s Chicago? Somehow, it’s attempting all of them at once.

    From there the conversation gets stranger. The boys unpack the film’s radical attempt to give the Bride a voice and agency after decades of being little more than a screaming footnote in Frankenstein history. They dig into the film’s themes of identity, creation, and control, the strange outlaw-love story between the Bride and the Monster, and why the movie seems determined to throw everything (gangsters, musical numbers, philosophy, and violent rebellion) into the same electrified laboratory.

    Along the way they debate whether the film’s chaotic energy is exactly the point, what the movie is really saying about autonomy and being “made” for someone else, and whether turning Frankenstein’s monsters into Bonnie and Clyde style lovers is genius or complete madness.

    It’s resurrection, rage, 1930s crime sprees, and a monster love story that might be more about freedom than romance, as Ben and Rob try to untangle The Bride!... and, as always, beneath the lightning bolts, stitched skin, and laboratory experiments... what does it really mean?

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    57 mins
  • Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011): The One With Wedding Bells, Broken Beds And Grumpy Psychic Wolves... And Imprinting On Babies?
    Mar 9 2026

    Ben and Rob head back to Forks to crack open Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the strangest chapter in the Twilight saga. Before getting into the chaos, they rewind to ask the obvious question: what is this film actually trying to be? The pair unpack the cultural moment surrounding its release, what critics made of it at the time, and why a movie that feels like it has three completely different acts somehow still counts as one story.

    From there the conversation gets weirder. The boys dig into the Mormon influence behind the Twilight universe, the fingerprints of purity culture all over Bella and Edward’s relationship, and how those ideas shape the film’s deeply uncomfortable worldview. Along the way they debate whether Bella might secretly be one of the worst movie wives ever put to screen (a title previously held by Amazing Amy in Gone Girl), and why the film’s emotional logic feels so… off.

    It’s romance, horror, awkward honeymoon vibes, and some truly baffling storytelling as Ben and Rob try to untangle why Breaking Dawn – Part 1 feels so strange, what it says about love, marriage, and control in the Twilight world… and, as always, beneath the vampires, wolves, and wedding bells… what does it really mean?

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    1 hr and 14 mins
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