Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, this week with special guests Donal Sweeney and Andy Melhuish, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.
This week, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine.
In the mid-to-late-nineties, Mark Kerr was the great hope of the emerging combat sport of mixed martial arts, the champion of a sport that was working its way to the centre of the culture. Unable to even conceive of defeat, Kerr was on the cusp of greatness. However, Mark very quickly discovers that sometimes the most brutal fights take place outside the ring.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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384. Spaceballs (#—)
Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Donal Sweeney, 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.
This week, a special commentary on Mel Brook’s Spaceballs.
A long time ago in a franchise not so far away, the evil Spaceballs travel from planet to planet, harvesting their atmospheres to sustain their own lifestyle. They kidnap Princess Vespa from the Planet Druidia, prompting her father to hire the devilish rogue Lone Star to rescue her. So begins an epic adventure about the power of Schwarz.
At time of recording, it was not ranked on the list of the best movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
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