1999: The Podcast
1) MUPPETS FROM SPACE - with Ethan Warren
Muppets From Space was the 95th-highest grossing movie of 1999, opening in 4th place behind juggernauts American Pie, Wild Wild West, and The Phantom Menace. Directed by Tim Hill, the co-developer an...Show More
2) GALAXY QUEST - with Annie Berke
Galaxy Quest was one of the great summer movies of 1999. Except it was released, for some reason, at Christmas. Lovingly sending up television sci-fi of a certain era - and heavily grounded in Star T...Show More
3) THE 13th WARRIOR - with Peter Raleigh
August 1999's The 13th Warrior was (mostly) directed by legendary Predator and Die Hard director – and occasional felon – John McTiernan, and released just three weeks after his other (far more succes...Show More
4) AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY WHO SHAGGED ME - with Siri Dahl
We are kicking off the summer by returning to the box office top 10 for the first time since Runaway Bride with one of the 1999’s big summer blockbusters, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me! Austi...Show More
5) JOE THE KING - with Zaki Hasan
Joe the King was the directorial debut of long-time career supporting actor and occasional indie leading man Frank Whaley, who also wrote the script based partly on his own life. It stars Noah Fleiss...Show More
6) THE LIMEY: "Bang" - with Devan Scott
The Limey was 170th highest grossing movie of 1999, finishing just one spot ahead of cult favorite Jawbreaker Released October 8th in just 17 theaters and going on to make $3.2 million on a $10 milli...Show More
7) VAL KILMER: 1959-2025
Actor Val Kilmer died on April 1st of this year, after a long battle with throat cancer. He was 65. Kilmer's film career began in the 1980s with iconic turns in the likes of Top Gun and Real Genius, b...Show More
8) SWEET AND LOWDOWN: "All That Jazz" - with Liz Whitmere
Sweet and Lowdown opened on December 3rd in just 3 theaters and taking in an impressive 31,562 dollar per screen average Written and directed by Woody Allen, it stars Sean Penn as fictional jazz guita...Show More
9) FOR LOVE OF THE GAME: "Baseball" - with Jack Krestel
57th on the 1999 box office chart, For Love of the Game marked director Raimi’s first foray into big-budget, mass-market filmmaking (which would ultimately pave the way for being handed the enormous t...Show More
10) TWILIGHT (1998) - Gene Hackman Special
There were no movies starring the late Gene Hackman that were released in the US in 1999, but two of his films released in the US in 1998 – Tony Scott’s Enemy of the State and Robert Benton’s Twilight...Show More