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Better Late Than Blockbuster
by Dana and Evan
A brother and sister movie podcast discussing movies we've missed, loved, and forced each other to watch. New episodes every other week!
Episodes
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Summer Blockbusters: What We (Didn't) Miss This Summer | Better Late Than Blockbuster
We're baaaaaaaack! We catch up on our summer movie watching by discussing all the movies we saw in theaters this summer and some we finally caught up on at home. We also take a deep dive into the little discussed movie of the summer, Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." If you need yet another take...
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OPPENHEIMER: A NOT-SO-SECRET NOLAN EPISODE | BETTER LATE THAN BLOCKBUSTER
In keeping with the tradition of this podcast's namesake, we are 3 months late publishing our final birthday month episode. However, the timing couldn't be more perfect since we are merely days away from Christopher Nolan's latest film The Odyssey. We take advantage of Nolan's famous nonlinear…
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Birthday Month: National Treasure | Better Late Than Blockbuster
On this special episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we celebrate Evan's birthday by talking his favorite movie: National Treasure. We discuss Nic Cage, Mission Impossible-Lite movies, and reveal just how much of Evan's personality we can credit to this film.
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Birthday Month: Remember The Titans | Better Late Than Blockbuster
It's our BIRTHDAY MONTH! To celebrate, for the month of March we're going off script by picking special movies that mean a lot to us. Some movies mean a lot to both of us, and that's why we're starting with Remember The Titans. A movie played on repeat during our childhood, we talk why it's...
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Gladiator: We Were Entertained | Better Late Than Blockbuster
In this episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster we discuss the swords and sandals epic Gladiator. We both owed this film a watch since one of us hadn't seen it and it turns out watching this on a charter bus on a high school field trip is not the ideal viewing experience. Listen to us debate...
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JAWS: We Thought We'd Seen This One | Better Late Than Blockbuster
We know, we know. We thought we'd already gotten the most embarrassing confession out of the way. Turns out seeing all of the iconic scenes over and over does not mean you've seen the movie. In this episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we discuss finally giving JAWS a proper watch and finding...
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No Time for Notes: Interstellar, Nolan Worship, and Sibling Commentary | Better Late than Blockbuster
In this episode of Better Late than Blockbuster, we quickly forget how to podcast like normal people. Dana finally admits that it took her nearly a decade to watch Interstellar, and what starts as a planned episode, turns into a live reaction to the movie. We spiral into a pseudo watch-along…
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Mission Impossible: This Was Supposed to Self-Destruct Before We Watched It | Better Late Than Blockbuster
In this episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we catch up to Mission Impossible. A film it took one of us 30 years to see, and the other only (ahem)... 29. We talk why it's ok for spy movies to be about style over substance, remember how the internet apparently worked in 1996, and of course…
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Goodfellas: Two People, Zero Prior Viewings | Better Late Than Blockbuster
In this episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we finally tackle Goodfellas. Yes, somehow neither of us had seen it. We talk first-time reactions, realizing how much pop culture has been borrowing from this movie for decades, and how Scorsese changed mob movies (scratch that, movies) forever…
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Jurassic Park: First Watch Shame & Fossil Obsession | Better Late Than Blockbuster
There's "late to the party," and then there's this. In this episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we finally address the most embarrassing confession yet: Dana had never seen Jurassic Park. Ever. Not even once. Meanwhile, Evan takes us on a journey of how fossils shaped his personality, takes…
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Bonus Episode: Top 5 of '25 | Better Late Than Blockbuster
Happy New Year! In this special episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we each share our top 5 movies of 2025, counting down the films that stuck with us long after the credits rolled. No spoilers, no plot breakdowns, just pure movie love, strong opinions, and a few surprises along the way.…
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Christmas Vacation: A Holiday Classic or Just Fine? | Better Late Than Blockbuster
On the very first Holiday Edition of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we finally discuss how long it took us to catch up with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, a film everyone assumes you've seen. Is it a holiday classic? Maybe? Culturally mandatory? Yes. Plus, we rank our top 5 Christmas…
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A Few Good Men: The Ultimate Sibling Debate | Better Late Than Blockbuster
In this episode, we finally tackle A Few Good Men, a movie only one of us believes is culturally mandatory viewing. We debate its place in the pop-culture canon, take a surprising detour into Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, and make the case that Tom Cruise is the greatest movie star of all time.…
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Napoleon Dynamite: Too Close to Home | Better Late Than Blockbuster
We finally hit play on Napoleon Dynamite expecting laughs and got hit with a full-scale nostalgia attack. Front doors like ours. Classrooms like ours. Awkward kids like...well...us. We talk about how this movie didn't just make us laugh, it somehow unlocked our childhood memories.
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Heat: We Get the Hype Now | Better Late Than Blockbuster
We finally watched Heat...and now we understand why film people get insufferable about it. So naturally, this episode is us becoming those people. Perfect casting, iconic diner tension, and a level of rewatchability that might say concerning things about us. Get ready for terrible Pacino...
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No Country for Old Men: No Score? No Problem! | Better Late Than Blockbuster
Welcome to our most uplifting episode yet, the one were we talk about fate, violence, despair, and existential dread! In this installment of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we discuss No Country for Old Men, a movie so tense it feels like cardio. We talk perfect movie length, immaculate tension…
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Emergency Episode: A Public Apology for Crimes Against Cinema Terminology | Better Late Than Blockbuster
Look, Dana said "cinematographies" in the very first episode and it's been haunting her ever since. So, before the internet drags us, here's a mini episode where we confess, apologize, and then loudly praise our favorite cinematographers to restore balance.
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Se7en: What's in the Box...? (Our Regret for Not Seeing It Sooner) | Better Late Than Blockbuster
In the second ever episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we finally tackle David Fincher's Se7en, only three decades after the rest of the world. One of us went in as blind as Detective Mills on his first day, and the other couldn't stop looking over their shoulder to see how the other was...
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The Dark Knight: Why So Late?
One of us had never seen The Dark Knight...until now. In the very first episode of Better Late Than Blockbuster, we dive headfirst into Gotham to see if Christopher Nolan's 2008 superhero epic still holds up. Spoiler alert: it absolutely does. From Heath Ledger's legendary performance to the...
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What is Better Late Than Blockbuster about?
A brother and sister movie podcast discussing movies we've missed, loved, and forced each other to watch. New episodes every other week!
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Better Late Than Blockbuster is created and hosted by Dana and Evan.
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