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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Joe Griffin, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

So this week, John Suits’ Breach.

Earth is dying. Mankind’s last hope lies in the stars. On board one of the last colony ships ferrying the handful of survivors to their new world, something inhuman is stirring. The vessel’s maintenance crew find themselves in a battle against an alien entity, with the fate of mankind in the balance.

At time of recording, it was ranked 69th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 2nd September 2021.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
• Breach at The Internet Movie Database.
• The Bottom 100 at time of recording.
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• John Suits talks to 411 Mania about filming Breach, December 2020.
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• Rachel Nichols talks to Bleeding Cool about making Breach, December 2020.
• Donald Liebenson at Vulture ranks the best and worst of Bruce Willis’ recent output, September 2021.
• Elisabeth Vicentelli at The New York Times places Breach in the context of Bruce Willis’ recent filmography, December 2020.
• Nicole Spirling at The New York Times reports on the streaming success of Contagion during the early days of the pandemic, March 2020.
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