Marathon Me: A Movie Marathon Podcast
An entertaining conversation from friends, Rhys and Kane, as they marathon films that share the same series, director, actor or themes. The movies explored, reviewed and ranked could be anything from cinema mastery and mindless entertainment, to visual and auditory assaults - as long as they're viewed as part of a movie marathon.
Episodes
125 episodes
Magnolia (1999) - PTA's Enigmatic Saga
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHONHow does one go on living after watching 'Magnolia'? You record a podcast about it. Impressively, the pod doesn't reach the length of the film itself.On one random day in ...
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Season 18
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Episode 3
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1:20:39
Boogie Nights (1997) - Unpacking PTA
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHONEveryone is blessed with one special thing. For PTA, it seems to be film making.It's 1977, and teenage busboy Eddie Adams gets discovered by Jack Horner, who take...
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Season 18
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Episode 2
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1:13:40
Hard Eight (1996) - An introduction to Paul Thomas Anderson
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON FILMOGRAPHY MARATHONThe hardcore film analysis helmets are coming on. Rhys and Kane are taking a break from horror and kids movies to go through the filmography of one of Rhys' favourite directors: P...
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Season 18
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Episode 1
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57:08
Which Chipmunks movie is the best? Alvin and the Chipmunks Franchise Ranking/Overview
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHONAfter a long road of many little singers covered in fur, a few strange A-to-B kids movies, and only one Dave and Uncle Ian, the entire Alvin and the Chipmunks franchise has been ...
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Season 17
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Episode 6
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50:26
Alien Romulus (2024) / MM Update
ALIEN FRANCHISE MARATHONAlien is BACK... and Marathon Me could not be more excited. Horror franchise installments from this year have been pretty damn good, and with Fede Alvarez on-board, things are looking promising.
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Season 17
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Episode 5
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1:16:54
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHONA fourth entry to a beloved children's franchise that changes up the look and feel of the originals and is set on a road trip?... oh no. We've been here before and it wasn't pret...
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Season 17
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Episode 4
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49:11
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked (2011)
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHONThe next logical step in this series based around Chipmunk children who can sing: they all have to survive the trials and tribulations of a desert island.Dave, Alvin, Sim...
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Season 17
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Episode 3
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51:33
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHONHistory has been made: the first ever Squeakquel. They said they were mad... but Hollywood made it happen.Following Alvin and the Chipmunks' rise to fame in the first fil...
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Season 17
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Episode 2
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47:26
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's all been building up to this one... the journey of Dave Savil and his borderline psychotic break, where Chipmunks take over the man's life.There's Alvin, Simon and T...
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Season 17
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Episode 1
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1:12:50
Which Mad Max movie is the best? Mad Max Franchise Ranking/Overview
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONThe (fury) road has come to an end. With five films down, it has been an emotional journey for the two men.The marathon has taken them across a sandy landscape, touching on four separate...
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Season 16
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Episode 6
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59:56
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONI guess every franchise has to do one... prequel. BUT, a prequel for one of the most interesting and open-ended characters in the franchise? Maybe sold on this one.Almost a decade after ...
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Season 16
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Episode 5
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1:10:25
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONMad Max in the 21st century - what could this possibly look like? An insane world opened up for the wasteland to thrive and expand.Max enters a world entirely over-run by sand and close ...
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Season 16
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Episode 4
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1:04:33
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONThe world of Mad Max has been corrupt by a sickness. Not radiation poisoning, but rather, the cocaine-fueled 80s - at it's gotten into every pore of this sequel.A war has passed, and Max...
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Season 16
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Episode 3
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50:26
Mad Max 2 (1981)
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's madder. It's Maxer. It's 2er.Max is now a lonely, hardened, high-definition man - taking on the wasteland that was thrust upon him.The world has deeply entered an apocalypse, an...
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Season 16
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Episode 2
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41:40
Mad Max (1979)
MAD MAX FRANCHISE MARATHONIt's about time the Australian boys take on a franchise from their great nation. Time for a visit to the motherland. Warm your engines, because they're taking on Mad Max.The first Mad Ma...
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Season 16
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Episode 1
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1:06:47
Which Hostel movie is the best? Hostel Franchise Overview/Ranking
HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThe Hostel world-tour is complete and it's time to put it all into perspective. How do these films fare as a franchise?A quicky, but a goody; this trilogy of torture is taken from undergr...
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Season 15
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Episode 4
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41:09
Hostel: Part III (2011)
HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONWhat happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.A Hostel direct-to-DVD sequel - did not know this was going to happen. The Elite Hunting Club has expanded to the city of sin, and we follow a group ...
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Season 15
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Episode 3
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37:30
Hostel: Part II (2007)
HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONThis one's for the girls.A feminist masterpiece? Not quite. But this follow up is a nice counterpart to the heavily dude-oriented first film, with possibly a lot more to say: about female-foc...
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Season 15
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Episode 2
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55:30
Hostel (2005)
HOSTEL FRANCHISE MARATHONMoving on from the spawn of Satan entering the world of the living, to the living entering a hell-on-earth: a new marathon is under way, and it's Hostel.Eli Roth's second major film, spaw...
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Season 15
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Episode 1
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1:08:32
Which Omen movie is the best? The Omen Franchise Overview/Ranking
THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHON6 films, touching 6 decades, with 6 takes on the anti-Christ (to varying degrees of quality)Some friends are only with you for a short time, and some are with you for life. Damien is on...
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Season 14
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Episode 7
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57:29
The First Omen (2024)
THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHONFinally we're at the final Omen film, and for some reason, it likes to go by as 'The First Omen'. It's okay; aging is scary, we get it.The long anticipated PREQUEL. Will it have the pre...
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Season 14
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Episode 6
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1:14:51
The Omen (2006)
THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHONThe only film to my knowledge to be solely made because of the novelty of it's release date - having come out 06/06/06; what a hell of a time.The Omen sees on one fateful night, the reb...
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Season 14
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Episode 5
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55:00
Omen IV: The Awakening (1991)
THE OMEN FRANCHISE MARATHONWhat else could the antichrist have to say on the big screen? So it's about time he shifts to the small screen... with this made-for-TV 'movie'.Following the death of Damien Thorn, the ...
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Season 14
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Episode 4
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48:05