MacGuffin Studios is a growing home for podcasts built by people who genuinely love movies and aren’t afraid to poke them with a stick. We develop shows with distinct voices, thoughtful perspectives, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting. From cinematic landmarks to the glorious trainwrecks found at the bottom of the bargain bin, our hosts dive in with curiosity, respect for the craft, and the occasional raised eyebrow.
Our Shows
Hosted by Dave Michaels and Bryan Betz, The B-Movie Boys is a bi-weekly deep dive into the wild, weird, and wonderfully low-budget corners of cinema. Each episode, the boys break down a different B-Movie in full, irreverent detail before scoring it across ten carefully crafted categories, including Entertainment Value, Low-Budget Ingenuity, Technical Incompetence, The Holy Trinity (Blood, Boobs, and Booms), and more.
With a mix of film school analysis and fanboy enthusiasm, Dave and Bryan live by the credo: Tear down the good and celebrate the bad.
Good Journey.
Beer Me a Movie took its name from an Andy Bernard bit on The Office. In this case, it meant “Hey, give me a movie!”
Each week, Dave and Bryan surprised each other with a film selection to discuss. add in a randomly selected listener submission for the final episode of each month, and you have a recipe for chaos. the hosts were regularly blindsided. Sometimes pleasantly. Sometimes… not.
Each episode, They’d assigned point values across multiple (very scientific) categories to arrive at a final score. If that score matched Rotten Tomatoes, they had to drink. No loopholes. No mercy.
The show has wrapped production, but the archive remains a monument to cinematic debate and whatever happens when film criticism collides with brown liquor.
For four years, The Caped Podcasters was our weekly dive into the world of comic book movies. Broadcasting from the Fortress of Poditude, we broke down a different Marvel, DC, or independent comic adaptation each episode.
Think of it like a book club without the reading. Or a director’s commentary, but by a-holes.
Though no longer in weekly production, the show now lives on exclusively on Patreon, where fans can hear new episodes and access special content from the multiverse of MacGuffin Studios.