Broken Picture Podcast

It's a landmark solo episode! Amy went to TIFF and saw 16 movies so she's going to tell you about it the best way she knows - really quickly and with many stumbles! Come for the festival commentary, stay for the impassioned plea to support indie cinemas, and hear our Hobbs and Shaw apology.

So what even is the worst thing we watched? Considering all the shades of trash we've seen, that's a tough question. But we try to answer it on this, the very last episode of Broken Picture Podcast! (Until the next Fast and Furious movie comes out, of course) Much love to all the listeners who've spent time with us over these last 4 years. It's been a journey

After years of watching excellent cinema so we can talk about it, it's finally time to choose: which films are the very best of the best we've seen? Find out, in this penultimate episode of BPP! Hot damn!

After our epic journey through the Arabian desert, we took a long walk through the trash heap: an epic viewing of terrible cinema, you could say. We watched two films back-to-back, and found them to be surprisingly complimentary, and both perfect examples of why we still love awful movies. A fine way to send off our last Search for the Worst of Broken Picture Podcast!

We're back in a big way: it's the 3hr and 48min classic about T.E. Lawrence, a man trapped between two worlds. Slow, methodical, and beautifully shot, how to unravel this tale that is at once epic in scale yet intimately about the inner workings of a single man? Also did there need to be so many slow, wide pans of the desert? Also we bring you updates on two BPP alumni: one genuinely sad, the other genuinely stupid.

Nicole Kidman is THIRSTY for John Cusack, Zach Efron is half naked a lot, Matthew McConaughey is Matthew McConaughey, and everyone ends up in the swamp. It’s a weird time.

A classic and important noir gets complicated because you know why.

With utterly no redeeming qualities, this may actually be one of the worst things we've ever watched.

Not only is this film a raw portrayal of life for three friends trapped in a cycle of hate and violence, it's also a black and white French art film that Brad actually liked.

Our minds our blown by what should have been a straight-up stinker, but is instead possibly a masterpiece (for us, at least).

A little dusty perhaps, but this historical epic is anchored by fabulous performances and a pitch-perfect (pun of course intended) ending.

A bunch of nihilistic rich dummies have some dark secrets while Dan, disappointed by a lack of orgies, lays out his anti-wealth manifesto.

Nearly 60 years old, this film still has much to say about elevating empathy and doing away with duplicitous assholes.

A dead sister, an underground drug operation, the blazing Los Angeles EDM scene—but nothing that interesting, really.

While this film is a fantastically structured and paced noir, this episode is a little all over the place.

If an apple is taken in the woods and no camera is around to record it, does that mean Bigfoot is real?

In 1969, the Rolling Stones had a free concert at Altamont Speedway—it didn't go well. This documentary, however, did.

Everyone's favourite silky-smooth specter returns to earth as a murderous denim alien with a wicked manifesto.

They were okay!

It's hard for comedies to age gracefully, and this is no exception.