Now Playing -- The Movie Review Podcast

This is Sparta?  Because it kinda looks like a place you’d put a dollar in his g-string. Gerard Butler leads 300 Spartans to a glorious seaside death in Zack Snyder’s blockbuster adaptatio...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/300-e2qjo6b

Would you dream of reading 300 pages about the actor who played Freddy? This year the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise turns 40 years old, and Now Playing host Arnie has been celebrating all ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Hollywood-Monster-A-Walk-Down-Elm-Street-with-the-Man-of-Your-Dreams-by-Robert-Englund-and-Adam-Goldsher-e2qdbob

Knull in Void Tom Hardy has a Last Dance with his shadow self Venom as the symbiotic pair hot step across the country evading Chewitel Ejiofer (Serenity) and alien enthusiast Juno Temple (Ted L...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Venom-The-Last-Dance-e2qac04

Bad To The Lucky Bone Who is The Crooked Man who dares to make a Hellboy sequel without Ron Perlman, Guillermo del Toro, or even David Harbour?  Why it’s creator Mike Mignola, bringing his o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hellboy-The-Crooked-Man-e2q0e1j

The Lost Boys Stephen King’s 1975 vampire novel Salem’s Lot won’t stay dead, coming back for a fourth time as a 2024 feature film exclusively on Max. So why did the studio lock this new e...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Salems-Lot-2024-e2pn4ph

Born This Way Joaquin Phoenix indulges in a Folie A Deux (aka “Madness of Two”) by restaging the Joker sequel as a musical duet with psycho fangirl Lady Gaga. Will the jury in his high-prof...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Joker-Folie--Deux-e2pd54f

I’d still take 8 years of civil war over 8 hours at the DMV Rosario Dawson (Ahsoka) attempts to mend her broken family and America’s political divide in a post-apocalyptic Demilitarized Zon...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/DMZ-e2p3ta3

Roll Models The story of Autobots and Decepticons begins with the 2024 animated epic Transformers One. What makes lowly miner droid Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) so optimistic that he will find t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Transformers-One-e2oqcig

The Silence of the Low Men Stephen King tries his hand at touching coming-of-age drama with the 2001 adaptation of Hearts In Atlantis. So why are the Now Playing Podcast hosts so terrified by t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hearts-in-Atlantis-e2oh835

”I’m Ready for My Close-Up, Mr. Murnau” The silent movie Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror may be a counterfeit version of Dracula, but it boasts the most authentic undead performance in ci...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Shadow-of-the-Vampire-e2o823e

Little Miss Sunset Six kidnappers abduct Abigail in a get-rich-quick scheme that backfires once they realize the wee ballerina is Dracula’s Daughter. Can ex-junkie Melissa Berrera (Scream), b...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Abigail-e2nv3lg

My Body, Main Course Will it be another cannibal holocaust for tweeting college activists after their 2015 plane ride crashes into the very same Green Inferno that Ruggero Deodato documented in...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Green-Inferno-e2nm8i8

No Animals Weren’t Harmed In The Making Of This Movie Four documentary filmmakers disappear into the “green inferno” of the Amazon rainforest and end up the main dish in a Cannibal Holoca...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Cannibal-Holocaust-e2ndhsu

Custodians of the Galaxy Cate Blanchett steps away from her Oscar bait prestige pictures to go vault hunting with fellow Academy Award winner Jamie Lee Curtis in a s***hole adaptation of Border...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Borderlands-e2n55uj

Echidna not, we’re back in the Now Playing Arcade Those schmucks Stuart, Justin, and Arnie tried taking an extended break from video game movies but are finally ready to knuckle down and revi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Knuckles-e2mt2r3

At last, we get the live-action remake of Fox and the Hound. Ryan Reynolds makes a big gambit to save the MCU from the Phase Four doldrums by reviving Hugh Jackman and the rest of 20th Century ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Deadpool-and-Wolverine-e2mknv8

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatheads Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) might shoot fireworks into tornadoes for free on YouTube, but Universal Pictures insists that storm chasers return to the big s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Twisters-e2mc7jr

Funnel of Love Bill Paxton (Aliens) and Helen Hunt (TV’s Mad About You) rekindle their whirlwind romance as they tail tornadoes across Oklahoma in the 1996 blockbuster Twister. Will rival sto...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Twister-e2m3m7i

My Heart Will Go On (but my franchise won’t) Sandra Bullock does her best to keep a Caribbean vacation liner afloat after leech-covered psycho Willem Dafoe wires her boat to Speed 2 collision...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Speed-2-Cruise-Control-e2lrig6

Uneasy Riders Keanu Reeves has to keep the Speed of a Los Angeles city bus above 50 mph, or he’ll set off another bomb planted by madman Dennis Hopper in the surprise blockbuster of Summer 19...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Speed-e2liijg

The Cane Mutiny Stephen King turned ABC-TV into the Weather Channel with his three-night prime-time event: Storm of the Century. But record snowfall and gale-force winds are just a tempest in a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Storm-of-the-Century-e2l9tl0

Deep Throat Slashes Mia Goth has got that X factor that Now Playing Podcast likes in a Scream Queen, so our Summer 2024 Platinum Donation Drive features the horror trilogy she made with directo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/X---A-Podcast-Preview-e2l59k6

A Tree Grows On Brosnan Pierce Brosnan retires from James Bond duties to write books for Stephen King in the 2011 cable miniseries Bag of Bones. But is the ghost haunting his New England cottag...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bag-of-Bones-e2l10hh

He’s the DJ, I’m the Slapper Oscar viewers might’ve turned on Will Smith, but Martin Lawrence is still Ride Or Die for 2022’s Best Actor winner as the long-time co-stars head into a fou...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bad-Boys-Ride-or-Die-e2kp5ed

The Scribe Who Loved Me Henry Cavill may never get to be 007, but he’s tailor-made for a stylish 2024 Kingsman spin-off from Matthew Vaughn. Is his literary superspy Argylle a stunningly accu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Argylle-e2kgah7

We Don’t Need Another Hardy Director George Miller crafts the fifth installment of his Mad Max Saga into an origin story for one-armed trucker Furiosa. Anya Taylor-Joy (Queen’s Gambit) take...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Furiosa-A-Mad-Max-Saga-e2k7ctg

Bye Bye Birdie Brandon Lee returns from the grave through the power of The Crow to bring vengeance upon the Detroit punks who ruined his Halloween wedding. But can director Alex Proyas (Dark Ci...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Crow-1994---A-Podcast-Preview-e2k2fle

Killers Of the Woodpecking Loon Alaqua Cox leaves New York City to reinvent herself as a Native American superhero, but that won’t stop her bad deeds in Hawkeye from coming back on her like a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Echo-e2jui9m

The End of the Road Danny Glover might be too old for Lethal Weapon, but he’s still hip enough to monetize Death Race 4, a new generation turning to the Dark Web for pay-per-view entertainmen...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-Beyond-Anarchy-e2jl8po

Ford Vs Kalahari Convict Luke Goss hits a speed bump on his road to freedom after Death Race 3 relocates the masked driver and his pit crew to a perilous African penitentiary. Can mechanic Dann...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-Inferno-e2jcc55

The Gangrene Mile Long before Jason Statham strapped on a metal mask and drove a monstrous Mustang around a penitentiary track, bank robber Luke Goss (Hellboy 2) got fans of reality TV bloodspo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-2-e2j4904

It’s the end of the World as we know it…  … but host Stuart feels fine about wrapping up his six-podcast exploration of Frank Herbert’s epic science fiction saga with a look at the fin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Chapterhouse-Dune-e2j19ce

The Ride of Frankenstein Jason Statham and Tyrese hone their Fast & Furious driving skills as director Paul WS Anderson (Resident Evil) reinstates Roger Corman’s campy bloodsport Death Race a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-e2iosbq

Make America Race Again Roger Corman re-stages his cinematic Death Race a half-century after ruling the drive-ins of the 1970s. But can new Frankenstein Manu Bennett (The Hobbit) keep pace with...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-2050-e2ifoe0

Road Kill Bill  David Carradine risks life and limb to become the most celebrated driver of Death Race 2000.  But does this automotive Frankenstein actually score more points with peace-lovin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Race-2000-e2i6qit

How many licked Titans does it take to get to the center of Hollow Earth? Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) and her Monarch scientists know it’s a bad idea to bring together Godzilla x Kong after the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Godzilla-x-Kong-The-New-Empire-e2hso7a

The Comeback of the Original Spice Girls  Stuart is back airing his blasphemous opinions about Frank Herbert’s Dune-verse with a podcast review of fifth installment Heretics of Dune,  Thing...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Heretics-of-Dune-by-Frank-Herbert-e2hrfh9

Call Me By Your Mouse Emperor Christopher Walken and Harkonnen hardasses Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Austin Butler (Elvis) are ready to turn the page on House Atreides as Part 2...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dune-Part-Two-e2hjr96

NYPD Blue Balls  Eight months before starring as Al Bundy on Married… With Children, Ed O’Neill tried to keep pace with Gene Hackman in a TV spin-off of French Connection. Did NBC execs ca...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Popeye-Doyle-e2h9u87

He’s strong til the finish, cause he eats his spinach (and stopped shooting heroin), he’s Popeye the Jailer Man! Gene Hackman crosses the pond to catch The Frog that avoided capture during ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/French-Connection-II-e2gvntl

Sadly, not the same Frog who hooked you up with a Rainbow Connection Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) pioneers ‘70s buddy cop formula with his five-time Oscar-winning breakout film Th...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-French-Connection-e2gmdcj

The sleeper has awakened.     Stuart invites readers and sci-fi fans to follow him inside the wormhole once more as he renews his mission to cover Frank Herbert’s entire Dune literary sag...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-God-Emperor-of-Dune-e2gl81v

Closing Time Tom Hiddleston keeps on slippin’ slippin’ into the future (as well as 19th Century Chicago) in the concluding season of his Disney+ series Loki. Can Oscar winner Ke Huy Quon st...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Loki-Season-2-e2gc9vo

Insects & The City Dakota Johnson is clairvoyant EMT Madame Web, the only one who sees a future for marginal Spider-Man characters starring in their own Sony features. Can the fashionista param...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Madame-Web-e2g2b7h

The Kingdom of the Club Girl Skulls While under house arrest, Shia LaBeouf looks out Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and finds more than meets the eye to David Morse (Green Mile) in the 2007 t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Disturbia-e2fo63m

DePalma Does Hollywood Director Brian DePalma (Carrie) reopens Rear Window 30 years later to give struggling actor Craig Wasson (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3) a peek at murder in the Hollywood H...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Body-Double-e2ff7om

The Dog Who Knew Too Much Photojournalist Jimmy Stewart breaks his leg in the line of duty and winds up stuck at the Rear Window of his Greenwich Village apartment, suspecting a neighbor of mur...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Rear-Window-1954-e2fam4a

Trading Places Boris Karloff’s Universal Monster was thought dead but emerges from a scorching sulfuric bath looking like Lon Chaney Jr in the 1942 sequel Ghost of Frankenstein. Should this ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ghost-of-Frankenstein-e2erb3o

Well, that’s one way to break a hung jury! Boris Karloff ends his run as a Universal Monster by getting the Son of Frankenstein to perfect the electrical waves powering his reanimated body. B...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Son-of-Frankenstein-e2ehgvb

Wedding Crashers Elsa Lanchester dons the most famous beehive hairdo in movie history to walk down the aisle with Boris Karloff in The Bride of Frankenstein. Can director James Whale marry his ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bride-of-Frankenstein-e2e75r1

The Original Champion Bodybuilder Lightning has struck Now Playing in 2024, prompting Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob to have alive-ly debate about Frankenstein… starting with the Big Guy’s 1931 d...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Frankenstein-1931-e2dubrs

Spongebob No Chance Jason Mamoa does his best to salvage The Lost Kingdom of DC’s Justice League saga in this deep-sixed 2023 sequel to Aquaman. Is estranged brother Patrick Wilson better ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Aquaman-and-the-Lost-Kingdom-e2dmlv2

Squid Games Alan Moore’s Watchmen disbanded in 1985, but their legacy lives on in a 2019 HBO miniseries where a Rorschach-inspired militia and the offspring of Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons) try t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Watchmen-2019-e2desvo

Christmas with the Cranks The walls are coming down on civilization’s last city as Patricia Clarkson (Green Mile) and her wicked scientists race the clock to extract The Death Cure from Maze ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Maze-Runner-The-Death-Cure-e2d5qqr

Here Comes The Hot Steppers  Dylan O’Brien and his Maze Runner friends leave the labyrinth only to find themselves navigating a charred landscape full of rage virus zombies in second chapter...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Maze-Runner-The-Scorch-Trials-e2cs1dl

Thinking Outside The Box  Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart survived the harrowing gladiator matches of The Hunger Games only to stumble into a labyrinth of dangers in the 2014 adventure The Maze Runne...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Maze-Runner-e2cg45t

The Town That Dreaded Markdowns Director Eli Roth (Hostel) has a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving now that a decades-long mission to expand his Grindhouse joke trailer has finally bless...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thanksgiving-e2c879q

Charlie’s Bangles Brie Larson mixes it up for the sequel to her 2019 Captain Marvel debut by bringing estranged niece Teyonah Parris (WandaVision) and gushing fangirl Iman Vellani (Ms Marvel)...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Marvels-e2bue1f

It’s Not Easy Being Green  Sam Jackson returns from the far corners of the cosmos to help extra-terrestrial bud Talos (Ben Mendelsohn) stop a Secret Invasion of Earth by shape-shifting Skrul...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Secret-Invasion-e2bkelp

Choke-E-Cheese and the Riflefire Explosion Security guard Josh Hutcherson (Hunger Games) spends Five Nights At Freddy’s looking for the reason why his younger brother went missing back in the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Five-Nights-at-Freddys-e2bahvn

The Coyote of Wall Street Martin Scorsese is back with longtime acting muses Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert DeNiro in the 2023 Oscar hopeful Killers of The Flower Moon. This time Leo is the taxi ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Killers-of-the-Flower-Moon-e2b1332

Can God be Love if He lets such awful things air on network television? Ron Perlman (Hellboy) is the Tak of the Town after his attempt to become the next Pennywise in the 2006 Stephen King effo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Desperation-e2an2v3

Sometimes dead is better than straight-to-streaming  Look what the cat dragged into Paramount Plus: a 2023 prequel to Stephen King’s beloved 1983 novel Pet Sematary.  Long before the infamo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pet-Sematary-Bloodlines-e2adj1s

See saw with a seesaw Saw is back, as is series star Tobin Bell as “Jigsaw” John Kramer. In this film, set mere weeks after the events in the original Saw, Kramer travels to Mexico seeking ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Saw-X-e2a40jk

I Know What You Did Last Century The Phantom Killer returns to Texarkana nearly 70 years after first turning a quaint community into The Town That Dreaded Sundown.  But could the original culp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Town-That-Dreaded-Sundown-2014-e29qgdv

The Texas Trombone Massacre Texarkana becomes The Town That Dreaded Sundown after a psycho with a sack over his head starts terrorizing couples necking in secluded makeout spots. Can Oscar-winn...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Town-That-Dreaded-Sundown-1976-e29h7fb

A Hard Habit to Break Valak continues to spread the evil of The Conjuring Universe throughout the churches of Europe in the 2023 sequel The Nun II. Can Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) return her ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Nun-II-e2989c4

Law & Order: MCU Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) sees her dreams of headlining a fun lawyer show get contaminated after cousin Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) accidentally turns her into...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/She-Hulk-Attorney-at-Law-e2900ee

Now if someone would design a video game preparing the next generation for service work!  A college dropout’s devotion to a PlayStation racing simulator unexpectedly paves the way for his ca...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Gran-Turismo-e28maie

Livin’ La Vida Locust A recent college graduate (Cobra Kai’s Xolo Mariduena) goes looking for work that will keep a roof over his family’s heads, and scores a lifetime appointment as Blue...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Blue-Beetle-e28dduh

As if vampires are the worst thing you’d encounter on a cruise ship. Dracula had to find dry land before he could start sucking London dry in Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel, which means s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Last-Voyage-of-the-Demeter-e288tfo

The 40 Year Old Terrapin Fanboy producer Seth Rogan brings Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Rafael back to big screens to frolic in the radioactive green ooze that first transformed them ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Mutant-Mayhem-e284t3q

Sisterhood of the Traveling Partition 16-year-old cosplayer Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) fulfills her ambition to be like idol Brie Larson after she straps on her great-grandmother’s magic brac...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ms--Marvel-e27t4th

The Shawshank Reinvention Prison guard Tom Hanks walks the condemned down The Green Mile to the electric chair for a living, but takes a different path after meeting magical healer Michael Clar...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Green-Mile-e279f32

…or How I Learned to Start Worrying And Make A Bomb Christopher Nolan offers an intimate look at the Father of the Atomic Age in his epic new biopic Oppenheimer. Is Cillian Murphy even scarie...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Oppenheimer-e27bveu

Because it’s a global crisis when Tom Cruise loses his keys Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart accept a seventh assignment to review a Mission: Impossible movie… make that half a movie… as Part 1 o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible---Dead-Reckoning-Part-One-e273lpu

Paint It Black Patrick Wilson steps away from the Conjuring universe and returns to his roots via The Red Door to direct the Lambert family through another Insidious ordeal. Does eldest son Dal...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Insidious-The-Red-Door-e26r4cf

You can now get our bonus review podcasts individually in our Patreon Digital Store! Hear OVER FOUR HUNDRED bonus movie review podcasts. Alien! Child's Play! Planet of the Apes! Psycho! And, yes,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Get-over-400-Bonus-Now-Playing-Podcasts-in-our-Patreon-Store-e26p6f3

New Jack Hustler Tommy Lee Jones and his U.S. Marshals are on the hunt for a new outlaw in the 1998 sequel to The Fugitive. Is Wesley Snipes able to keep pace with Harrison Ford as he flees a p...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/U-S--Marshals-e26hpo9

Presumed Guilty Harrison Ford goes on the lam after being wrongly sentenced to Death Row in The Fugitive, the 1993 blockbuster movie adaptation of the hit 1960s TV show.  Can the convicted sur...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Fugitive-e2694qe

Bratman Returns Time is running out for the DCU unless The Flash (2023) can reverse the damage done by problematic star Ezra Miller, and deliver some meta-human box office. Does grabbing an ext...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Flash-2023-e25vl9k

Bumble in the Jungle The planet-eating Unicron will devour all of Earth unless Optimus Prime and his Autobots help promote the Rise of the Beasts - the next phase of Transformers evolution. Do ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Transformers-Rise-of-the-Beasts-e25mf5l

Blame It On The Boogie Chris Messina (Birds of Prey) wonders if psychotic patient David Dastmalchian (Suicide Squad) might be innocent of killing his three children after The Boogeyman he descr...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Boogeyman-e25gs3h

The Spider And The Fly Girl Miles Morales swings Across The Spider-Verse to reconnect with best friend Gwen Stacey five years after collecting the Oscar for his first animated adventure. Has th...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-Across-the-Spider-Verse-e25b5us

Mercury In Retrograde Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are Flash-ing back to 1990, an era of television when there was only one DC comic book character on prime time. Soap star John Wesley Shipp spent ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Flash-1990-e24usse

Infiniti War Jason Momoa starts a street fight that stretches from East LA to Antarctica in Fast X, and Vin Diesel is furious after his family gets framed for terrorism in Rome. Can Brie Larson...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fast-X-e24jhh0

What happens when you teach Critical Wraith Theory Arnie, Stuart, and Justin are done reviewing video game movies if they can make it through Detention, an award-winning 2019 ghost story that s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Detention-e246205

We Are Groot-ful You Came Back James Gunn gives his Guardians of the Galaxy an epic send-off before he abadons Marvel for a suicidal mission to save the DCU. Volume 3 has the lovable A-holes re...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Vol--3-e23pr7m

Oculus Riffs Park ranger Sam Richardson (Veep) wonders if there are Werewolves Within his chipper New England community after finding a trail of bodies in the snowy wilderness. Will a night of ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Werewolves-Within-e23dhln

Having a good blockhead for business The walls close in on video game entrepreneur Taron Egerton (Kingsman) after he risks everything to travel behind the Iron Curtain and secure the rights to ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tetris-e2311aj

How to Skin Friends and Influence People Count Dracula would like to believe the sun rises and sets around him in all his many screen adventures, but the spotlight finally falls on overshadowed...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Renfield-e22kmk5

Now You’re Re-playing With Power Chris Pratt gives voice to Nintendo’s mascot in the splashy new Super Mario Bros Movie. But did the Brooklyn plumber level up from poorly rendered previous ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Super-Mario-Bros--Movie-2023-e226bqt

Look Who’s Stalk-ing The sole survivor of a police standoff at a rural daycare imposes her own brand of justice on the adult world by indoctrinating Children of the Corn farmers into a Nebras...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Children-of-the-Corn-2023-e21o5sb

John Wick is the stair-master It's been four years since John Wick's last Chapter, but in that time the appetite for the series has only grown. The super-assassin out-grossed super-heroes B...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/John-Wick-Chapter-4-e21af32

Taste The Rainbow, Marvel Lovers Zachary Levi’s boyish superhero Shazam unleashes the Fury of the Gods onto Philadelphia after he accidentally frees the three Daughters of Atlas from a celest...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Shazam--Fury-of-the-Gods-e20sr6o

Ghostface Takes Manhattan Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) might’ve left behind the slaughter of Woodsboro in Scream VI, but college in the Big Apple will continue to test her knowledge of scary movi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Scream-VI-e20dp2e

Killmonger vs. Kang: Rumble in Wakanda Whenever his back was against the ropes Michael B. Jordan always had Sylvester Stallone and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler in his corner.  But Creed...

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Bat Man Forever Think you know everything about Bram Stoker’s infamous vampire after a century of big screen adaptations? The 2014 prequel Dracula Untold promises to shed new light on the leg...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dracula-Untold-e1vln3g

Catch Me If You Kang Marvel superheroes Ant-Man and the Wasp experience big problems after they, and immediate family members, get shrunk inside a trippy universe teeming with warfare and talki...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ant-Man-and-the-Wasp-Quantumania-e1vb3bu

I never drink… wine (unless it comes from the Coppola vineyard) Gary Oldman turns his back on God and Bela Lugosi’s tailor to play Bram Stoker’s Dracula in curlers and a red kimono. But i...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bram-Stokers-Dracula-e1uvpu8

Stayin’ Alive Frank Langella might be 500 years old, but he still struts into 20th Century London ready to disco the night away in the 1979 incarnation of Dracula. Can Saturday Night Fever di...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dracula-1979-e1ukd7r

The Big Slurp Lon Chaney Jr. knew the pressures of living up to an iconic father’s legacy even before he agreed to be the Son of Dracula in 1943. Can the second generation horror star pioneer...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Son-of-Dracula-e1u9jgn

Daddy’s Little Ghoul Bela Lugosi is dead, but Countess Marya Zeleska is ready to don her father’s cape and step into the spotlight as the next Universal Monster, Dracula’s Daughter. Will ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Draculas-Daughter-e1tvbal

The Original Pain in the Neck Dracula became the premier Universal Monster in 1931 when he leapt from the Broadway stage onto film screens for the first official adaptation of Bram Stoker’s n...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dracula-1931-e1tkphq

Where’s the beef? Charlton Heston got his damned dirty paws on the 1966 sci-fi novel Make Room! Make Room! and turned it into Soylent Green, his third foray into cinematic dystopia.  Is it e...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Soylent-Green---A-Podcast-Preview-e1tf31f

Somehow I didn’t imagine the children of the night making such New Age music Director Werner Herzog revives the uniquely German take on the Dracula myth with his 1979 remake of Nosferatu The ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Nosferatu-the-Vampyre-e1tal5o

The oldest movie we will ever review! (Probably) A decade before Universal Studios made Dracula the centerpiece of their stable of movie monsters, German visionary FW Murnau put his own spin on...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Nosferatu-1922-e1t209u

Daniel Craig is back as the famed Knives Out detective Benoit Blanc, crashing the private Greek isle of billionaire Edward Norton (Fight Club) to see which of his “disruptor” friends is plann...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Glass-Onion-A-Knives-Out-Mystery-e1spk5r

'Tis the Season to experience your favorite Marvel a-holes clumsily learning that meaning of gift giving, and experiencing the fellowship of kidnapping, in the Disney+ event The Guardians of the ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Holiday-Special-e1smv9q

James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora by Way of Water with his long-anticipated sequel to Avatar. Are the domestic dreams of Na’vi couple Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana torpedoed now t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Avatar-The-Way-of-Water-e1shk6a

Crime!  Inflation!  Oppression!  Yes, today’s headlines look bad, but not as bleak as the Metropolis that director Fritz Lang envisioned all the way back in 1927.  Will the skyscrapers of t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Metropolis---A-Podcast-Preview-e1scdh2

Quantum of Malice Star Wars fanboys had their Knives Out for Rian Johnson in 2019, but the writer/director survives their harsh verdicts of The Last Jedi by following it up with a hit murder my...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Knives-Out-e1s7b07

Jon Hamm is urged to “Confess, Fletch” after a coed is found murdered in his Boston rental apartment.  But the real mystery is whether movie fans will accept someone new in the title role. ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Confess--Fletch-e1rt88r

Chevy Chase finds a dead woman in his bed, the Ku Klux Klan on his lawn, and televangelists on his TV praying for his inheritance, now that Fletch Lives in a bequeathed Louisiana plantation.  Wi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fletch-Lives-e1rk0fv

Beverly Hills Copycat Chevy Chase takes a vacation from Saturday Night Live and National Lampoon movies to star as investigative reporter Fletch in this beloved 1985 mystery.  Can the comedic ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fletch-e1r5i47

Waiting To Impale Wakanda Forever mourns the loss of King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), but that doesn’t mean a worthy successor can’t slip into the cat suit and become the next Black Pant...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Black-Panther-Wakanda-Forever-e1qqoqv

Edward Woodward (TV’s original Equalizer) travels to a remote Scottish island in search of a missing schoolgirl and finds The Wicker Man instead. Does the original 1973 cult film live up to its...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Wicker-Man-1973---A-Podcast-Preview-e1qkvmq

He’ll be back…. in inferior Terminator sequels and straight-to-streaming crap. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s movie star reputation took a big hit when Collateral Damage was released in the shad...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Collateral-Damage-e1qf62m

Jack Russell: The Furred Avenger Gael Garcia Bernal (Coco) might look like a typical Marvel superhero in the daylight, but he becomes a Werewolf By Night in order to protect the other monsters ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Werewolf-by-Night-e1q1kmd

The S stands for Hurt Dwayne Johnson cooks up a different kind of Shazam for the DC Cinematic Universe as the homicidal metahuman Black Adam explodes onto the big screen. Is he the hero that an...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Black-Adam-e1pooft

Out of Shape Jamie Lee Curtis tried to move on from the curse of Michael Myers, but another Haddonfield Halloween Ends in blood and screams after granddaughter Allyson goes trick-or-treating wi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Halloween-Ends-e1pefjb

Hulu tries to rescue the Hellraiser franchise from a purgatory of underwhelming sequels by re-configuring the original 1987 Clive Barker gorefest into an elevated 2022 reboot. Will a recovering d...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hellraiser-2022---A-Podcast-Preview-e1p99rd

Total Remake Arnold Schwarzenegger sees double after corrupt CEO Tony Goldwyn (Scandal) and geneticist Robert Duvall (The Godfather) duplicate his DNA in The 6th Day. Can the aging action star ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-6th-Day-e1p4nrt

It’s the End of Days for Schwarzenegger’s movie career unless he can update his 80s action hero image for the gritty new millennium. Will it take a miracle for the Now Playing hosts to accept...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/End-of-Days-e1oq8e9

Arnold Schwarzenegger refuses to remove “action hero” from his identity as he suits up for summer 1996 blockbuster Eraser. Can he, James Caan, and the US Marshals help a comely whistleblower ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Eraser-e1ofr8b

Jamie Lee Curtis hides an affair from husband Arnold Schwarzenegger, oblivious that he too conceals a double life as a spy capable of terminating her boyfriend Bill Paxton in the deceptively come...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/True-Lies-e1o5dr6

Arnold Schwarzenegger might’ve been a kindergarten cop, but he has no authority over the 10-year-old boy jawing in his ear throughout his 1993 box office bomb The Last Action Hero. Was it a Big...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Last-Action-Hero-e1nq912

As the Fall season begins, so comes time for ooky, spooky fun with Now Playing! Our Fall/Winter 2022 Donation Drive is underway, kicking off with our Silver Level: The Addams Family! We're review...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Join-Stuart--Arnie--and-Brock-for-some-Ooky--Spooky-fun-e1nkffb

Arnold Schwarzenegger peels back the Iron Curtain, steps naked from a Russian sauna, and  brings some Red Heat to the mean streets of Chicago in this 1988 buddy-cop action flick.  Can the Sovie...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Red-Heat-e1ng4l1

Arnold Schwarzenegger made a Raw Deal with producer Dino DeLaurentiis when he opted to star in this 1986 flop instead of a third Conan film. Can the muscle bound lawman get back in the good grace...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Raw-Deal-e1n68tm

Twenty years before he was California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger went Commando to assassinate the deposed President of a fake Latin American country in this 1985 shoot-’em-up. Did the ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Commando-e1mt0rs

Lances With Wolves Centuries before targeting Arnold Schwarzenegger in the South American jungle, the Predator was making Native Americans their Prey in this prequel set in the year 1719. Can C...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Prey-e1mjoqv

Superman and Batman have been taken prisoner, so it’s up to their dogs Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) and Ace (Kevin Hart) to lead the rescue team in the first big screen adventure for the DC League o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/DC-League-of-Super-Pets-e1maq1v

Before there was a League of DC Superpets, there was Underdog… the clumsy police beagle turned into a flying canine crime fighter by mad scientist Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones). But can Walt...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underdog-e1m1d70

Midnight Sun puts a new light on Stephanie Meyer’s first novel by retelling Twilight through the silver eyes of Edward the vampire.  Will fans still swoon over his love affair with Bella Swan ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Midnight-Sun-by-Stephenie-Meyer-e1ls99k

After five years living in the shadows, Kate Beckinsale returns to the Underworld universe ready to kick Lycan ass and win the Blood Wars for the vampires. But can the single mother prevent enemi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underworld-Blood-Wars-e1loa6l

Bella Swan grows up fast in Breaking Dawn - dealing with marriage, motherhood, and rigor mortis all in one giant Twilight conclusion. Will author Stephanie Meyer give her undead Heathcliff and Ca...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Breaking-Dawn-by-Stephenie-Meyer-e1ljkub

Breaking bones, not Breaking Dawn Six years after putting Underworld on ice, Kate Beckinsale is slipping on a leather catsuit and Awakening to the joy of blasting more werewolves. But how will ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underworld-Awakening-e1lev9m

Double Rainbow Chris Hemsworth and ex-girlfriend Natalie Portman attempt to bury the hatchet after she lifts his hammer and becomes another Thor in the latest Marvel adventure Love & Thunder. I...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thor-Love-and-Thunder-e1l55q0

The romance between sullen teen Bella and immortal vampire Edward gets overshadowed by the backstories of several supporting characters in Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer’s third Twilight novel.  Wil...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Eclipse-by-Stephenie-Meyer-e1kvp3k

Egypt’s first superhero… or a Chicago gangsta stuck in da Nile? Oscar Isaac (Ex Machina) spends his days hawking trinkets at a museum gift shop, and his nights sleepwalking around the globe...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Moon-Knight-e1ks0sr

‘I’m sorry I can’t be the right monster for you Bella” Bella Swan can’t wait to die so she can spend all future birthdays sucking face with vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen in the seco...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-New-Moon-by-Stephenie-Meyer-e1klpv4

With all of the Toy Story seemingly told, Pixar rockets back into the past to give us a cinematic origin story for Buzz Lightyear voiced by Chris Evans. Can the cocky Space Ranger learn to work w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Lightyear-e1kia5n

“Do I dazzle you?” Stephanie Meyer drove a stake into typical literary depictions of vampires when she published her 2005 bestseller Twilight.  What is it about Bella Swan that makes the c...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Twilight-by-Stephenie-Meyer-e1kc40r

Fellowship of the Wild Things Kate Beckinsale steps away from the Underworld franchise so that her real life ex Michael Sheen can get some time in the sun as star of prequel Rise of the Lycans....

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underworld-Rise-of-the-Lycans-e1k91qa

Dinosaurs have escaped Jurassic World and claimed Dominion over all of the Earth in the sixth chapter of Steven Spielberg’s popular franchise. Is CEO Campbell Scott out to save humanity by brin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Jurassic-World-Dominion---A-Podcast-Preview-e1k24du

Scott Speedman may have morphed into the perfect halfbreed boyfriend for vampire Kate Beckinsale at the end of Underworld, but there has been no Evolution in her clan’s thinking when it comes t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underworld-Evolution-e1ju8kn

Long before Bella had to choose between vampire and werewolf boyfriends, Kate Beckinsale was two-fisting pistols to save star-crossed Lycan lover Scott Speedman from her judgey undead family in U...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Underworld-e1jl8df

Turns out Jack Nicholson did not forget Chinatown as advised, but pulled double duty 16 years later as director and star of the sequel The Two Jakes. Did Harvey Keitel hire our heartbroken privat...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Two-Jakes-e1jb6c7

Forget it, Jake. It’s Podcasting. Jack Nicholson goes sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong in the Oscar-winning 1974 noir Chinatown. Can the private eye connect the dots between the mi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Chinatown-e1j1jn2

Smokin’ In The Girls’ Room 11-year-old Charlie McGee might look like just another snowflake who can’t manage her emotions, but tell her she’s no Drew Barrymore and you’ve got a real F...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Firestarter-2022-e1imfnl

The Imitation Game Dr. Strange presents the illusion that his latest Marvel movie is a routine affair, but In the Multiverse of Madness might actually be another zombie splatter comedy from Evi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dr--Strange-In-the-Multiverse-of-Madness-e1ibria

“We cannot protect the young from harm.  Pain must and will come.” JK Rowling collaborates with a pair of theater veterans to tell her eighth Hogwarts adventure Harry Potter and the Cursed...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-Review-Harry-Potter-and-the-Cursed-Child--Parts-One-and-Two-The-Official-Playscript-of-the-Original-West-End-Production-e1i47is

No Rest Ye Merry Gentleman Jeremy Renner cuts his Yuletide New York vacation short after fangirl archer Hailee Steinfeld (Bumblebee) starts wearing his infamous Ronin suit to fight crime in the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hawkeye-e1i1t98

Leaving Los Angeles Is The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent driving Nicolas Cage into a booze-fueled early retirement (or did he just make too many embarrassing flops)? Now the Oscar winner ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Unbearable-Weight-of-Massive-Talent-e1hnog1

Listen Now and Get a Piece of The Rock Nic Cage first used his “massive talent” to become an action star in the 1996 Michael Bay extravaganza The Rock. Can his Beatles-loving biochemist tea...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Rock-e1hdb46

Round Two with the Blue Sega’s speedy mascot races back to movie theaters to offer an encore helping of attitude in Sonic The Hedgehog 2. This time the video game icon not only battles Jim Ca...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-2-e1h43hf

Intravenous with a Vampire Oscar-winning joker Jared Leto sinks his teeth into another comic book villain role as Morbius, a hematologist who turns into a “living vampire” after tinkering w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Morbius-e1gpu3a

Dolph Lungren trains young gamers to become masters of a zombie universe in Dead Trigger, the 2017 film adaptation of a popular first-person shooter made for smartphones.  Can a Disney star, an ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dead-Trigger-e1gf6p9

Michael Fassbender learns the homicidal impulses that landed him on Death Row in 2016 can be traced back to the Assassin’s Creed he pledged to free-will-loving vigilantes in 1492. Can Oscar-win...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Assassins-Creed-e1g3mrq

How To Get Away With Murder… and get Jammin’ Ninja Super Cake Yakuza director Takashi Miike tries his hand at a different type of video game adaptation by bringing Ace Attorney Phoenix Wrig...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ace-Attorney-e1fpv74

They Still Call Me Bruce Robert Pattinson spent the last two years suiting up as The Batman so that he might score a hit movie for DC, and rescue a Gotham City drowning in drugs, violent crime,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Batman-e1feq5c

When Harlow sunflowers bloom, hipsters are doomed Nearly 50 years after she left Leatherface dancing in the street, final girl Sally Hardesty returns to face another Texas Chainsaw Massacre in ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Texas-Chainsaw-Massacre-2022-e1f3eac

Who knew using the DaVinci Code shaved $2 billion off your next Papa John’s order? Tom Holland leaves Spider-Man and the MCU behind to head into the Uncharted waters of a popular Playstation ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Uncharted-e1epj3i

If she likes taking unnecessary risks so much, she shoulda made a sequel to Sphere Sharon Stone could have screwed like a mink, raised rugrats, and lived happily ever after with Michael Douglas...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Basic-Instinct-2-e1ef1de

Now Playing's sister podcast BOOKS & NACHOS is back!  On this show you can hear Arnie, Stuart, and Brock review JK Rowling's smash first novel: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. It's a comp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Books--Nachos-Review-of-Harry-Potter-and-the-Philosophers-Stone-e1e7ohb

Michael Douglas has survived many big screen fatal attractions with dangerous blondes, but the slick yuppie courts a date with the sharp end of an ice pick after he beds Sharon Stone in the steam...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Basic-Instinct-e1e4p4r

Roses are red, violets are blue, pickaxes are painful, and reboots are too With “horror holidays” like Halloween, April Fool’s Day, and Friday the 13th routinely being celebrated with 21s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/My-Bloody-Valentine-3D-e1dq28h

Twenty years after a cave-in turned a coal miner into a cannibal, legendary psychopath Harry Warden returns to paint his hometown red in the 1981 original My Bloody Valentine. So why don’t movi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/My-Bloody-Valentine-1981-e1dfhi1

What do you mean you like TikTok more than scary movies?! Neve Campbell, David Arquette, and Courtney Cox are ready to Scream for the fifth and possibly final time as a serial killer in a Ghost...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Scream-2022-e1d53iv

He brings the Mile High Club and the six feet under crowd together Tabloid journalist Miguel Ferrer (Robocop) is on the trail of The Night Flier, a serial killer who drains victims of blood dur...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Night-Flier-Stephen-King-Series-e1crav9

100 years before Eggsy joined Colin Firth as a member of the Kingsmen, Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List) and his servants founded the secret spy organization inside a Savile Row tailor’s shop ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Kings-Man-e1chk38

Mobster Christian Slater has spent a lifetime outfitting his enemies with cement shoes, so it’s poetic justice that vengeful construction worker Wes Bentley (American Beauty) rigs a newly paved...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dolans-Cadillac-e1c8tn1

Peter Parker fears there’s No Way Home to his happy life with MJ (Zendaya) after Dr. Strange casts a magic spell that brings all the previous Spider-Man heroes and villains into the MCU.  Is i...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-No-Way-Home-e1c1cna

Where we’re going, there are no roads... It can be a bumpy ride trying to follow Stephen King works on their journey from page to screen. What happens when the macabre Maine author has a head...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Quicksilver-Highway-e1bnisl

Award-winning acting talent (and Steven Weber) try to wake up the Stephen King retrospective with 8 tales of horror taken from the short story collection Nightmares & Dreamscapes. What happens wh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Nightmares--Dreamscapes-e1bdei9

Take me down to the Raccoon City where the folks are green and the cops are pretty The Umbrella Corporation may have left town (and taken original star Milla Jovovich with them), but there’s ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-Welcome-To-Raccoon-City-e1b27p1

Astronaut Matt Damon proves he has the “right stuff” to survive an extended stay on the Red Planet in Ridley Scott’s acclaimed 2015 blockbuster The Martian.  Justin, Jakob, and Stuart cont...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Martian-e1aoou6

A San Diego couple buy a video camera to document the Paranormal Activity visiting their bedroom late at night, and end up making the most  profitable horror movie of all time.  How did raw foo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Paranormal-Activity---A-Podcast-Preview-e1an0lk

These days they’ll let any 90-year-old who ever pretended to fly a starship go up in a rocket. But you had to have The Right Stuff if you hoped to survive the first messy attempts to put a man ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Right-Stuff-e1acnmn

Eons before the assembly of the Avengers, ten celestial caretakers known as Eternals came together to protect and guide human development on Earth. Did Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao (Nomadlan...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Eternals-e1a1811

Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob played a nasty trick on listeners when they pulled Loki from the Summer 2021 schedule at the last minute.  Now they make up for lost time by diving into the first six ep...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Loki-Season-1-e19mmto

Timothee Chalamet may look scrawny to Jason “Aquaman” Mamoa, but prophecy foretells the Call Me By Your Name star to be the savior of Dune in 2021. Can director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dune-2021-e19bu36

It’s easy to blame Haddonfield’s high body count on local boogeyman Michael Myers, but many of the latest Halloween Kills are being committed by a violent mob of formerly decent citizens. Did...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Halloween-Kills-e1918go

Diamonds may be forever, but Daniel Craig only has one more shot at bringing James Bond to life in No Time To Die. Will longtime nemesis Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) ruin the superspy’s chances at...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/No-Time-to-Die-e18n2lv

That '70s girl takes after that '80s psycho Folks might think of Mila Kunis as a typical All American Girl, but the 70’s Show actress proves she can be an American Psycho II after homicidal y...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/American-Psycho-II-All-American-Girl-e18hb7f

Tom Hardy was struggling to make room for Venom in his life even before natural born killer Woody Harrelson, his screaming mad girlfriend Naomi Harris (Skyfall), and a blood red baby symbiote cra...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Venom-Let-There-Be-Carnage-e18ckud

Christian Bale might look like just another vapid investment banker, but behind his well-groomed features and aerobicized body lies the mind of an American Psycho. So how did predatory Patrick Ba...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/American-Psycho-e181orv

Shirley Jackson’s novel The Haunting of Hill House stood as a horror classic for nearly 60 years before director Mike Flanagan (Hush) expanded its walls into a 10 episode miniseries for Netflix...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Haunting-of-Hill-House-2018-e17mktv

Producer Steven Spielberg and director Jan DeBont (Speed) poured a lot of time and money into remodeling Shirley Jackson's classic ghost story into the much reviled 1999 remake of The Haunting. �...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Haunting-1999-e17chok

Could the next Legend of the Marvel Cinematic Universe be an unassuming San Francisco parking valet who prefers late night karaoke to taking down his father's infamous Ten Rings terrorist cell? �...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Shang-Chi-and-the-Legend-of-the-Ten-Rings-e172hp5

Who can take a franchise, sprinkle it with dew, and get whole new generations buzzing about a gutted corpse or two?  Executive producer Jordan Peele can, because he mixes love for a 1992 Tony To...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Candyman-2021---A-Podcast-Preview-e16stnq

Paranormal investigators engineer a blind date between a homeless wallflower and the noisy poltergeists of Hill House in The Haunting - the original 1963 movie adaptation of Shirley Jackson's cla...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Haunting-1963-e16oujs

40 years after nerdy Dustin Hoffman made his stand on foreign soil, preppy screenwriter James Marden borrows those iconic cracked spectacles so he can spar with some backwoods football jocks he c...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Straw-Dogs-2011-e16d8op

Lock the doors, bar the windows, and strap on a pair of headphones!  Now Playing is prepping a retrospective of recent Home Invasion Classics, starting with the original 2008 shocker The Strange...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Strangers----A-Podcast-Preview-e167sjl

Dustin Hoffman discovers that Jolly Old England is no refuge from the violence and social unrest of 1971 in the original Straw Dogs.  Writer/director Sam Peckinpah pioneered the home invasion ho...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Straw-Dogs-1971-e1637s5

Marvel might not always appreciate the irreverent humor of director James Gunn, but DC is happy to bring the Guardians of the Galaxy mastermind on board The Suicide Squad. Idris ‘Black Superman...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Suicide-Squad-e15odc2

Dev Patel sets out to prove he's more than a Slumdog Millionaire by pushing away from King Arthur's Round Table, and picking up a sword to do battle with The Green Knight.  Will Stuart, Jakob, a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Green-Knight-e15e2rg

Having crapped out on two previous live-action G.I. Joe adaptations Hasbro is ready to roll the dice again, betting big on Snake Eyes. This mute ninja is arguably the most popular Joe, but is he ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Snake-Eyes---G-I--Joe-Origins-e1545v3

WWII strategy video game Company of Heroes moves the battle lines from computer consoles to movie screens with a stealth 2013 cinematic adaptation.  But will Justin, Arnie, or Stuart decorate ri...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Company-of-Heroes-e14pfhl

Scarlett Johansson breaks away from the Avengers after seven Marvel movies together so that her Russian secret agent Black Widow can finally headline her first solo adventure. Will Natasha Romano...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Black-Widow-e14e0lh

A Japanese gangster helps a little girl navigate a treacherous red light district in search of her missing mother in the sprawling adaptation of 2006 video game Yakuza (aka Like A Dragon).  Will...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Yakuza-Like-A-Dragon-e1422vu

Is new father Dominic Toretto and his family of furious drivers slowing down 20 years into The Fast Saga?  Only when they rocket to space and race their souped-up vehicles in zero gravity!   T...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/F9---The-Fast-Saga-e13mbek

Everyone in 2021 wants to blame Bill Gates for putting microchips in vaccination shots, but the practice was pioneered by Allstate pitchman Dennis Haysbert in the 2016 Dead Rising sequel Endgame....

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dead-Rising-Endgame-e139b4v

Why are the Dead Rising all over East Mission, Oregon if the government has a miracle drug that can prevent zombie outbreaks?  It’s all part of Operation Watchtower, a top secret plan to give ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dead-Rising-Watchtower-e12trpd

It’s not The Devil, but Now Playing’s loyal listeners, that made Arnie, Majorie, and Stuart do another Conjuring film after so many hellish experiences in the franchise.  This time the Warre...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Conjuring-The-Devil-Made-Me-Do-It-e12elc5

Blood-soaked prom queen... tween pyromaniac... axe wielding book critic… just some of the scary women that have leaped from the pages of Stephen King’s horror fiction onto the big screen. Now...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dolores-Claiborne-e1213jc

George Clooney and his Ocean’s co-stars made casino heists look easy, but they never had to crack a safe being guarded by an Army of the Dead. Can Dave Bautista and his colorful crew of mercena...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Army-of-the-Dead-e11m2gu

Ladies and gentlemen, I have one piece of advice for you. No matter what Jigsaw tells you, there's no escape from a Jigsaw trap. None! Oh, there's pain in a Jigsaw trap, but you don't want pain.....

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spiral-From-the-Book-of-Saw-e115o8s

Anthony Mackie shields himself from the pressure of becoming the next Captain America by taking to the sky as The Falcon for Marvel’s second Disney+ miniseries, and it’s made Sebastian Stan a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Falcon-and-the-Winter-Soldier-e10pml9

Tom Clancy techno-thrillers typically feature desk-bound diplomats on the hunt for missing subs and rogue nukes, but the stakes are much more personal for Michael B Jordan (Creed) as he seeks ven...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Without-Remorse-e109mo0

It’s been a hot minute since movie theaters hosted a Mortal Kombat tournament, but now the notoriously violent video game reboots itself on IMAX screens and HBO as an R-rated cinematic free-f...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mortal-Kombat-2021-evr12t

Milla Jovovich and director Paul WS Anderson are hoping to recapture lightning in a bottle as they leave behind the zombie hordes of Resident Evil to chase bigger video game beasties in the 2020 ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Monster-Hunter-evr16b

Adam Sandler tries his hand in the Now Playing Arcade with the 2015 video game farce Pixels.  Space invaders have brought classic coin-op characters to life, and now Pac-Man is gobbling up Manha...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pixels-evr15k

Godzilla Vs. Kong is a rivalry as old as the Hollow Earth (or at least the Japanese showdown of 1963), and now their battle to be crowned King of the Monsters is 2021’s biggest movie event.  ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Godzilla-vs--Kong-evr12d

Godzilla won the box office when he took down a MUTO (and most of San Francisco) in his 2014 Hollywood comeback. Now Mothra, Rodan, and all of the Big Lizard’s former co-stars burst forth from...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Godzilla-King-of-the-Monsters-evr12e

It was a decisive victory for The Legion of Doom when Warner Bros. executives handed Zack Snyder’s unfinished superhero team-up Justice League to Avengers mastermind Joss Whedon. Internet...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Zack-Snyders-Justice-League-evr16n

It wasn’t so long ago that Elizabeth Olsen was blowing up the big screen in epic films like Avengers: Endgame.  What curse has befallen her career that Scarlet Witch is now slumming it in a ch...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/WandaVision-evr16t

30 years after finding the perfect wife in New York City, Eddie Murphy’s King Akeem is once again Coming 2 America to meet the son he sired with one-night stand Leslie Jones.  Will Millennia...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Coming-2-America-evr12g

Eddie Murphy let his soul glow in a new romantic light for the 1988 fairy tale Coming To America, starring as an African royal looking for his bride in downtrodden Queens, New York. Will any wom...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Coming-To-America-evr16v

Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie are not going to Stand for another crummy TV miniseries, so CBS better hope their nine-hour take on Stephen King’s beloved novel doesn’t choke like a Langolier down...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Stand-2020-evr15f

Did Valentine’s Day lack that spark of danger you crave? Why not spice up your life by joining in a round of Gerald’s Game? Carla Gugino leaves her Spy Kids at home, and consents to some ligh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Geralds-Game-evr127

Madchen Amick saw her fair share of weirdness living in Twin Peaks, but nothing could prepare her for a date in the pet cemetery with one of Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers.  Will the virginal hig...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Sleepwalkers-evr14n

Stephen King is hosting a fire sale in Castle Rock – the fictional Maine setting for some of his most iconic stories. Now everything… and everyone… must go, unless local sheriff Ed Harris c...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Needful-Things-evr12f

Arnie, Justin, and Stuart have shed a lot of tears while suffering through the 11 previous Uwe Boll video game adaptations, but the divisive director/producer can’t hurt the podcasters anymore ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Far-Cry-evr1cr

Is Bloodrayne storming the Nazi death camps because she wants to take down The Third Reich and stop Hitler from becoming a vampire?  Or because the bisexual bloodsucker is kinky for more ste...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bloodrayne-The-Third-Reich-evr125

Almost everything has changed for Bloodrayne now that the daywalking vampire has left her European medieval castle, and traveled to the American frontier town of Deliverance, for a “high mid...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bloodrayne-Deliverance-evr15i

Kristanna Loken trades her Terminatrix leathers for a sword and fangs to star as the half-human, half-vampire assassin Bloodrayne. Does the video game vixen score many points with PlayStation fa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bloodrayne-evr12o

Before we leave behind a stressful year of coronavirus and social turmoil, Now Playing needs to travel back in time to 1984, and see if Wonder Woman can provide the big screen fireworks that q...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wonder-Woman-1984-evr12r

John David Washington had some trouble infiltrating hate groups as a BlacKkKlansman, but that’s child’s play compared to the lengths he goes to unlock the secrets of Tenet.  Christopher No...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tenet-evr13q

CBS attempted to change its image as “the old persons’ network” in 1991 when it greenlit Stephen King’s Golden Years, a series about a top secret lab experiment that rapidly de-ages an e...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Golden-Years-evr16i

Eddie Murphy was the biggest comedy star of the 1980s when he decided to spend Another 48 Hrs razzing rednecks and dodging bullets back in San Francisco. Now Nick Nolte is the one who stands to g...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Another-48-Hours-evr126

It’s detective Nick Nolte’s worst nightmare – spending 48 Hrs handcuffed to scene stealer Eddie Murphy in his movie debut. How much damage can the pair do in two days as they tear through S...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/48-Hrs-evr124

It’s taken almost 25 years for The Craft to conjure a sequel, but now the Legacy of the 1996 wicca hit continues with a new generation of female spellcasters joining the circle. Can four teen w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Craft-Legacy-evr13a

Blessed be! Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are under the spell of The Craft, the first high school movie of the ’90s to stick up for the wiccans. Strange things start happening when naturally gifted ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Craft-evr147

Most Americans remember the First Gulf War as a quick and decisive U.S. victory, but director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) sees it as the beginning of a White House corporate takeover in...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Manchurian-Candidate-2004-evr13c

Election got you stressed? Tune out today’s political noise and vote to reinstate the 1962 Manchurian Candidate instead. Can troubled soldier Frank Sinatra stop Deep State Communists from using...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Manchurian-Candidate-1962-evr12h

Something big is crashing down on Now Playing in time for Halloween! Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are here to declassify all three installments of JJ Abrams’ super secret Cloverfield monster franch...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Something-Big-is-Coming-----Now-Playings-CLOVERFIELD-Retrospective-evr128

Aloha from Shrieker Island, a tropical paradise where Wall Street suits pay for the pleasure of blasting bio-engineered Graboids all weekend long! That is, until the big worms dig under the ocean...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-Shrieker-Island-evr14o

Arnie talks to Burt Gummer himself: Michael Gross! {Tremors Series}

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-Bonus-Michael-Gross-SPOILER-Interview-evr122

It will be A Cold Day In Hell before Burt Gummer lets the IRS take away his Nevada land and business! Which is why he and faithful cameraman Jamie Kennedy have signed on for a seventh Tremors adv...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-A-Cold-Day-In-Hell-evr12p

Monster hunter Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) traces the Bloodlines of his subterranean nemesis all the way back to a slimy cave in Africa in the safari-minded sequel Tremors 5. How much bigger and ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-5-Bloodlines-evr12q

Audiences may have first learned about Graboids in Tremors, but The Legend Begins 100 years prior in a prequel where Burt Gummer’s great grandfather (also Michael Gross) finds his Nevada silver...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-4-The-Legend-Begins-evr17v

Michael Gross and most of the original cast head Back To Perfection, Nevada for more Graboid hunting in Tremors 3. Too bad the man-eating worms are now considered an endangered species, and Burt ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-3-Back-to-Perfection-evr135

Those initial Tremors may be over, but Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart are now bracing for Aftershocks. Fred Ward takes the franchise south of the border for a cheap Mexican vacation without Kevin Bacon...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-II-Aftershocks-evr12n

What’s shaking at Now Playing these days? Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie are moving to Perfection, Nevada to join the cult devoted to Tremors. The fun begins with a fresh look at the original 1990 cr...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tremors-1990-evr12m

A decade before his landmark slasher A Nightmare On Elm Street gave ’80s mallrats insomnia, writer/director Wes Craven invited hippies inside The Last House On The Left for a tour of extrem...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Last-House-on-the-Left-1972---Trailer-evr121

After ghosting audiences for the last three years, The New Mutants are finally ready to shut the history books on a half century of Boomer adventures, and let today’s generation have their sa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-New-Mutants-evr14e

Current events putting you in a heinous mood? Never fear fiftysomething metalheads Bill and Ted have seen the future, and return to the big screen ready to perform a song destined to heal an off-...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bill-and-Ted-Face-The-Music-evr13n

Sequels are always in danger of repeating themselves, but the problem becomes twofold for Bill and Ted when evil lookalike automatons hijack their second movie, and send the layabouts on a Bogus ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bill-and-Teds-Bogus-Journey-evr17s

Strange things are afoot at Now Playing! For the next three weeks Jakob, Stuart, and Arnaldo Carvalho, Esq. are catching up on the cinematic exploits of SoCal slackers Bill and Ted, starting with...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bill--Teds-Excellent-Adventure-evr16u

Johnny Depp has trouble telling fact from fiction after hayseed stalker John Turturro shows up on his porch, and accuses the New England writer of stealing his short story Secret Window.  But i...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Secret-Window-evr14g

Cancelled TV stars Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers), David Morse (St. Elsewhere), and Patricia Wettig (thirtysomething) fight becoming a thing of the past after traveling through a rip in time...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Langoliers-evr1pt

Chris Pine (Star Trek) may be the fourth actor to play Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, but he’s the first incarnation of the Tom Clancy character to challenge Jason Bournes spy movie supremacy in th...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Jack-Ryan-Shadow-Recruit-evr142

Ben Affleck goes from Chasing Amy/ and following J-Lo around the block, to pursuing neo-Nazis hoping to detonate a dirty bomb on American soil in The Sum of All Fears/. Was this fourth Jack Ryan ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Sum-of-All-Fears-evr191

Harrison Ford was in no Clear and Present Danger/ of being replaced by any other movie star in 1994, but CIA analyst Jack Ryan does solicit help from another popular Tom Clancy character for his ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Clear--Present-Danger-evr13o

Paramount was eager to adapt more Tom Clancy novels after Red October/ brought home a boatload of cash. But is it as much fun to play Patriot Games/ with so many important pieces missing from the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Patriot-Games-evr136

Sean Connery has stolen a Soviet nuclear submarine, and now every Cold War naval vessel is on The Hunt For Red October. Tom Clancy’s 1984 bestseller was designed to torpedo Rambo shoot ’em up...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Hunt-for-Red-October-evr13b

Join all seven podcasters as they sit down for the first time to give a collective review of The Breakfast Club.  Does John Hughes’ seminal teen drama of the 1980s still have something import...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Breakfast-Club----Our-1-000th-movie-review-podcast-evr18b

… except Snake Plissken, after President Cliff Robertson tasks him to recover a top secret weapon from revolutionaries hiding out at the former Happiest Place On Earth. But SoCal’s new prison...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Escape-from-L-A-evr13e

How prophetic is John Carpenter’s 1981 vision of future Manhattan – so crime-ridden it’s become a maximum security prison?  And how easily can Kurt Russell shake off his Disney kid image t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Escape-from-New-York-evr1ai

Novelist Timothy Hutton starts to go a little cuckoo when The Dark Half of his creative mind – the part responsible for writing all of his salacious bestsellers – takes physical form and st...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Dark-Half-evr1ap

Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart continue to dig into Stephen King’s extensive filmography, this week reaching the much-maligned adaptation of Tommyknockers. Marg Helgenberger (CSI) and Jimmy Smitts ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Tommyknockers-evr13g

Businesswoman Gwenyth Paltrow comes into contact with a novel virus. Now can an all-star cast stop her Contagion from spreading worldwide? And why does Matt Damon have a “Borne” immunity? No...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Contagion-evr13h

The Andromeda Strain has mutated again!  Michael Crichton’s landmark 1969 novel came back in 2008 as a two-night TV mini-series produced by Ridley and Tony Scott!  But is this cast of sitcom...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Andromeda-Strain-2008-evr17o

The 1990s gets a whole lot grungier after an infected African monkey is smuggled into Northern California, and causes a deadly Outbreak.  Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo star as divorcing virolog...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Outbreak-evr1a2

Gag me with a spoon! Those glow-in-the-dark boils under your eyes aren’t just an ‘80s fashion statement, but a Warning Sign that your local agro-research lab is cooking up more than genetic...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Warning-Sign-evr15q

A whole new kind of sickness struck the 1970s with the release of The Andromeda Strain. Four scientists hunker down in a top secret lab to study the space plague inadvertently brought to Earth b...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Andromeda-Strain-1971-evr16s

(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Support Podcasts Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers help folks see the lighter side of apocalypse with their 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove. What ha...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dr--Strangelove-or-How-I-Learned-to-Stop-Worrying-and-Support-Podcasts-Trailer-evr13m

Pandemic movies infect the Swingin’ Sixties courtesy of The Satan Bug – a 1965 spy caper that becomes the second installment of Now Playing’s Viral Outbreak Retrospective. TV star George ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Satan-Bug-evr143

Finding yourself indoors with plenty of time to catch up on movies?  Avoid the Panic in the Streets, and join Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob as they analyze Hollywood portrayals of pandemics through ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Panic-in-the-Streets-evr15m

No one was playing Dungeon Siege in 2014, much less joining Uwe Boll on his Last Mission to make a respectable fantasy film out of the role playing video game. Prison Break star Dominic Pur...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/In-the-Name-of-the-King-3-The-Last-Mission-evr194

Dolph!  Uwe! What happens when Two World Heavyweight movie punchlines unite for one epically bad sequel to fantasy flop In The Name of the King?  Lundgren stars as the unlikely son of Jason ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/In-the-Name-of-the-King-2-Two-Worlds-evr1ba

What In The Name of The King is Uwe Boll up to now?!  Someone gave the notoriously awful director $60 million to turn video game Dungeon Siege into a wannabe Lord of the Rings. He’s even ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/In-the-Name-of-the-King-A-Dungeon-Siege-Tale-evr13r

Justin, Stuart, and Arnie invite listeners to another dimension, where fighting games made for the high end Neo Geo 24 bit system become major movie events! Can The King of Fighters at least cl...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-King-of-Fighters-evr18a

Legendary Pictures was definitely chasing Avengers money when they hired Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), and Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) to coerce big ape Kong to join a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Kong-Skull-Island-evr14h

Lord of the Rings mastermind Peter Jackson emerged from Middle Earth with enough box office clout and Oscar statues to get any movie made he wanted. So why reteam with Gollum (aka Andy Serkis), ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-2005-evr1vt

Sega has taken company mascot Sonic The Hedgehog to the next level with a brand new live-action feature. That means Arnie, Justin, and Stuart are racing back to the Now Playing Arcade to cover ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Sonic-the-Hedgehog-evr15t

Time to find out who the real Harley Quinn is! Margot Robbie emancipates herself from that less-than-fantabulous group of metahumans known as Suicide Squad to fly with new crew Birds of Prey. D...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Birds-of-Prey-evr14r

Does the thought of a well-endowed female gorilla make your heart pump a little faster? One supersized simian is certainly warm to Lady Kong’s form - picking himself up from the broken pavement...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-Lives-evr14c

Long before she became a fixture on American Horror Story, Jessica Lange practiced her screaming skills as the aspiring actress abducted by King Kong in a colorful 1976 remake. Is the big ape ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-1976-evr154

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence declare themselves Bad Boys For Life as they relaunch the irreverent action franchise that made them box office titans a quarter century ago. But did Miami detect...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bad-Boys-For-Life-evr14j

America wanted their big gorilla back for a popular Saturday morning cartoon, but King Kong Escapes for one last Japanese adventure. Villainous Dr. Who (no relation to the BBC Timelord) needs t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-Escapes-evr15j

Don’t panic! King Kong has broken free of his American handlers and heads to Japan for fisticuffs with local lizard Godzilla.  Should Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob drop a nuke on these two iconic m...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-vs--Godzilla-evr151

Now Playing has one last podcast for 2019, dedicated to all those dirty birdies who love the oogy mind of Stephen King. Writer Paul Sheldon (James Caan) finds himself in Misery after he’s pul...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Misery-evr1an

The Emperor Strikes Back!  Zombie Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) steps from the shadows with secrets that could force last Jedi Rey (Daisy Ridley) to turn to the Dark Side and bad boy Kylo Ren (Adam ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Rise-of-Skywalker-evr16m

‘Twas the night of Black Christmas, and all through Blumhouse, strange creatures in hoodies, sought coeds to roust.  But the remake has armed all the women with care, in the hopes it’s the ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Black-Christmas-2019-evr13i

Life is tough for the Son of Kong. Everyone expects him to follow in his father’s massive footsteps, and scale the box office heights of the first film. But this quickie sequel has different ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Son-of-Kong-evr15b

Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart find themselves in an Empire State Of Mind as they begin a four month wrestling match with King Kong - the Eighth Wonder of the World!  This towering franchise has cas...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/King-Kong-1933-evr14k

Playstation heroes Ratchet and Clank starred in 12 video game adventures together before making the quantum leap to movie theaters for a fast-paced (and okay, financially unsuccessful) 2016 ani...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ratchet--Clank-evr16q

'70s TV execs discounted Aaron Spelling's idea for a Charlie's Angels show because there was no man to come and save them. Well, a lot has changed in the last 40 years and the women are just fi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Charlies-Angels-2019-evr178

Little Danny barely escaped Jack Nicholson and the ghosts of the Overlook Hotel back in 1980. Now grown-up Dan Torrance (Ewan McGregor) - nicknamed Doctor Sleep - is fighting the demon of alcoh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Doctor-Sleep-evr1as

Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) thought she saved humanity from a SkyNet future of robot domination. So it’s ironic that new cybernetic menace Legion has come online in the year 2020, and it’s ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Terminator-Dark-Fate-evr19p

For nearly a decade Devil's Rejects stars Bill Moseley and Sid Haig, plus series creator Rob Zombie, said the series--like its main characters--was dead.  10 years and several flops later, the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/3-From-Hell-evr16g

Rule #1 when you’re producing a sequel: Bring back everyone that made the first film successful. It took a decade, and probably more than a few Twinkies, but director Ruben Fleischer has manag...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Trick-or-Treat--Put-a-donation-in-Now-Playings-bag-and-get-treated-with-our-ZOMBIELAND-2-review-evr12l

Now Playing Arcade podcasters Justin, Arnie, and Stuart thought that first-person shooter Doom had already done a bang-up job destroying the video game’s appeal on the big screen with the Dwa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Doom-Annihilation-evr157

Rule #1: if you want to survive the 2009 horror-comedy Zombieland: Find a Friend in Now Playing!     Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart will be doing lots of cardio to keep pace with the last four hum...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Now-Playings-ZOMBIELAND-Review----Available-now-evr1o1

Charlie's Angels returned in 2003...and so did Demi Moore. The superstar actress' Q-Score had fallen in the decade since her big hits Indecent Proposal and Ghost, but she was set to rise agai...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Charlies-Angels-Full-Throttle-evr138

It’s Arthur Fleck, better known as Joker!  Before becoming Batman’s #1 nemesis, the Clown Prince of Crime was just a struggling stand-up comic doing his best to make the public smile on the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Joker-evr155

"Girl Power!" The sentiment continues, but the look has changed dramatically since the era of Spice Girls and, this week's movie review, 2000's Charlie's Angels. Listen now as our hosts remember...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Charlies-Angels-2000-evr17a

It's been 11 years. The world has changed. John Rambo, however, has not--he's just tried to keep a lid on it. That lid blows when his "niece" is abducted by a Mexican cartel, and Rambo is out f...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Rambo-Last-Blood-evr15r

Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy...   With those words Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg created a television sensation:  Charlie's Angels. It w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Charlies-Angels-1976-evr134

It’s 2016, and The Losers Club is all grown up and ready for a rematch with It. Chapter II finds Pennywise waking from his 27 year nap hangry, homicidal, and hot to dance with old Derry foes ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/It-Chapter-2-evr163

30 years after massacring trees and dominating bookshelf space everywhere, Stephen King’s monster novel It transformed into the biggest horror movie of all-time! Chapter One focuses on The Lo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/It-2017-evr172

Were executives at the ABC network Pennywise or pound foolish for thinking Stephen King’s gory, gigantic novel IT could float on 1990s prime time television alongside family-oriented hits Wh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/It-1990-evr167

Mortal enemies come together like bacon and eggs in The Angry Birds Movie 2, as cranky cardinal Red (Jason Sudeikis) and green pig Leonard (Bill Hader) team up to stop mysterious balls of ice fro...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Angry-Birds-Movie-2-evr17g

DC Comics cooks up a new take on the gangster genre with the release of The Kitchen. Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss star as a trio of marginalized mob wives who must find ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Kitchen-evr1ab

Someone opened a cold can of whoopass, and now "Mike Oxmall" and "Franz Grubar" - a crime fighting duo better known as Hobbs & Shaw - are storming the multiplex and hijacking the Fast and Furi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fast--Furious-Presents-Hobbs--Shaw-evr1c1

The Now Playing Arcade is making Justin, Stuart, and Arnie see Red… and all the other Angry Birds that appear in the blockbuster 2016 animated movie! Can this short-tempered cardinal stop a boa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Angry-Birds-Movie-evr15o

Only witches can make a "weeping book", but Hollywood often wrings tears from Stephen King readers with their many poor adaptations. Will Blumhouse - the studio behind Paranormal Activity and ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mercy-evr13s

Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart get lost in The Mist as they find their way back to the Stephen King retrospective. It took Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont more than a decade to bring t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Mist-evr15v

Peter Parker leaves his friendly neighborhood Spider-Man alter ego behind for a journey Far From Home meant to alleviate the loss of mentor Tony Stark. But S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Nick Fury won’t le...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-Far-From-Home-Movie-Review-evr180

While Ed and Lorraine Warren are off “conjuring” up their next big screen supernatural adventure, daughter Judy and her groovy babysitters are back Home trying to contend with Annabelle. I...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Annabelle-Comes-Home-evr177

Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks) has come to a critical spork in the road.  Can the cowboy doll continue down his path of being Bonnie’s neglected plaything now that fate, and a raucous family road t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Toy-Story-4-evr182

The Conjuring cinematic universe has certainly given Marjorie, Arnie, and Stuart a lot to cry about over the years. Is it a blessing or a curse that a blubbering Spanish spectre named La Lloron...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Curse-of-La-Llorona-evr141

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Pixar’s playthings are ready to toy with your emotions once again as they prepare to spend infinity and beyond in the attic. But will their friendship survive after...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Toy-Story-3-evr19a

Before the Marvel Cinematic Universe overhauls the X-Men, those first movie mutants rise up from the ashes of the Fox franchise for a last stand with Dark Phoenix. What happens when a space miss...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dark-Phoenix-evr1cl

Sheriff Woody (Tom Hanks) might have patched things up with arrogant astronaut Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), but who’s going to fix all the wear and tear that longtime play has had on his increas...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Toy-Story-2-evr1d4

Every child imagines that their stuffed animals and action figures have a secret life, but the official Toy Story wasn't recorded until Pixar created the first computer animated feature film. Cow...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Toy-Story-evr15s

Who can defeat The Avengers? Leave it to hitman extraordinaire John Wick! The sleeper hit series has, with its third "chapter", topped Avengers from their spot atop the box office charts. That s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/John-Wick-Chapter-3-Parabellum-evr18f

Did Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds feel it in his jellies when he signed on to be the voice of electric mouse Detective Pikachu in his first live-action adventure? Or is the sarcastic actor talk...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-Detective-Pikachu-evr165

Team Rocket is at it again! Spies Annie and Oakley have abducted the dragon protectors of a tranquil canal city. Good thing Pokemon Heroes Ash, Brock and Misty are here to ensure that Legendary...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-Heroes-Latios-and-Latias-evr14b

It was inevitable that the Marvel Cinematic Universe would reach an Endgame after producing 21 blockbusters over the course of 11 years. Can Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow, an...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Avengers-Endgame-evr17k

The world’s greatest paranormal investigator is back on the big screen! Hellboy heads to England on a quest to wield Excalibur, and stop King Arthur’s witchy nemesis Milla Jovovich from unl...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hellboy-2019-evr192

The ground has been pretty sour for Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie as they’ve trudged through some pretty rocky Stephen King film adaptations. Have their fortunes improved now that they’ve returned...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pet-Sematary-2019-evr18i

All hands on deck! Detective Comics has added a new superhero to its cinematic family. SHAZAM! might not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but this week he’s pushed his way pa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Shazam-evr18g

It may feel like Stuart, Arnie, and Justin have talked about Pokemon 4Ever, but Ash and Pikachu still have a long road to travel before they complete their cinematic journey. Perhaps they can sp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-4Ever-evr17d

Ash and Pikachu are off pursuing new Championship dreams in the distant land of Johto when Pokemon 3 brings them face-to-face with the Unown! How will the travelers fare against a lonely orphan...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-3-The-Movie-Entei--Spell-of-the-Unown-evr1ao

Pikachu, his trainer Ash Ketchum, and all the classic pocket monsters proved they were no fad of the 1990s when they stormed the new millennium with another hit animated film.  Pokemon 2000 see...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-The-Movie-2000-The-Power-of-One-evr1a6

Before they reach their End Game, Marvel Studios takes audiences back to where it all began for S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Nick Fury (Samuel “Mother-Flerken” Jackson) - a 1995 close encounter with ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Captain-Marvel-evr1eu

Also includes reviews of "Pikachu's Vacation" and "Origin of Mewtwo"   Arnie, Justin, and Pika-Stu are strapping on the boxing gloves and going head-to-head with Pokemon - the second most popu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pokemon-The-First-Movie-Mewtwo-Strikes-Back-evr160

Now Playing is adding more Stephen King to their movie diet - starting with an adaptation of the horror scribe’s best-selling weight loss plan Thinner. Magic man Tadzu Lempke can help you melt...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thinner-evr19v

Happy Death Day blew out the candles and got its wish--major profit for Blumhouse, but what will happen when the movie itself loops and begins a sequel? And how much did the trailers lie about t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Happy-Death-Day-2-U-evr1gl

Happy Death Day is a lighthearted whodunit slasher film, equal parts Groundhog Day, Friday the 13th, and Sixteen Candles. We follow college student Tree (Jessica Rothe) as she relives the same da...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Happy-Death-Day-evr17c

Harold Ramis and Bill Murray collaborated often in the ‘80s, producing beloved films like Caddyshack and Ghostbusters. Their final team-up was in 1993’s Groundhog Day. The high concept pr...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Groundhog-Day-evr17j

The Leprechaun is back, and he's on the attack! Leprechaun Returns is a new film rebooting franchise continuity and picking up after the events of the original 1993 Leprechaun. Intrigued? Our rev...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Leprechaun-Returns---Behind-the-Scenes-Interviews-evr13u

Tom Hardy didn’t have to drive like Mad Max to get moviegoers’ attention in 2014. Watch the method actor slip behind the wheel of indie Locke and get taken on a harrowing ride through one man...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Locke-evr18n

Now Playing is about to unleash a Biblical plague better known as Face/Off - one of the 1990’s wildest action flicks! Hong Kong export John Woo created the ultimate body swap movie when he di...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/FaceOff-evr18j

Agent 47 is back and balder than ever in a 2015 relaunch of the Hitman franchise.  Can Homeland actor Rupert Friend make a stronger impression than Timothy Olyphant as the legendary cloned ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hitman-Agent-47-evr150

Justin, Arnie, and Stuart use the 42nd installment of the Now Playing Arcade to celebrate being 47… that is, video game Hitman: Codename 47. Die Hard 4 villain Timothy Olyphant hoped to mak...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hitman-evr140

The Last Knight left many Transformers fans feeling stung, but Hasbro hopes to reawaken nostalgia for the 1980s toy line with their retro-minded solo film Bumblebee. Can the lovable VW bug connec...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bumblebee-evr1c2

DC Comics invites audiences to dive under the sea and get chummy with Aquaman - a character who got a lot of sand kicked in his face back in the days of Superfriends.  Now tough guy Jason Momo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Aquaman-evr1dm

Thanos may have turned Tom Holland and half the Marvel Universe into ash last summer, but you can still find a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man on the big screen when you enter Into The Spider-V...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-Into-the-Spider-Verse-evr1vm

Mark Wahlberg aimed to please fans of the popular shooter Max Payne, but his 2008 movie adaptation missed its target audience and clipped the wings of a potential franchise. Will this vigilante ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Max-Payne-evr13p

The Rocky series continues to go the distance with its eighth installment: Creed II. But is this really Adonis Creed’s story, or is it Rocky’s, as old nemesis Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) b...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Creed-II-evr16h

Wreck-It Ralph not only Breaks The Internet with his second movie, he shatters Thanksgiving box office records. But never fear… it’s Tech Support Tuesday, and hosts Justin, Arnie, and Stuart ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ralph-Breaks-the-Internet-evr16o

Good video games typically "go Turbo" and become crummy movies, but Walt Disney animators try to "Fix-It" with Wreck-It Ralph - a love letter to classic coin-ops. Can an 8-bit villain voiced by...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wreck-It-Ralph-evr14q

It’s homecoming weekend in Silent Hill, as teenage runaway Sharon reunites with her darkside doppelganger Alessa for a 2012 sequel in 3-D!  Will the Revelation that cultists have kidnapped ad...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Hill-Revelation-evr159

The Now Playing Arcade finally has a reason to put down the flamethrower!  Hosts Arnie, Stuart, and Justin stumble through the falling ash of Uwe Boll films to arrive at Silent Hill - the rare...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Hill-evr1aa

Because we consider you family, Now Playing is releasing a bonus podcast review of Hereditary for your Halloween enjoyment.  Will Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob lose their heads over what’s become t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hereditary-evr19o

Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie tried to Runaway from their Stephen King duties in 2018, but the tenth installment of Children of the Corn has found its way onto the Now Playing calendar in time for Hal...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Children-of-the-Corn-Runaway-evr18l

Return to Haddonfield with Brock, Arnie, and Stuart as they celebrate the 40th anniversary of Halloween with a podcast review of the blockbuster 2018 requel (rebooted sequel)! Former babysitter...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Halloween-2018-evr17h

Notorious filmmaker Uwe Boll has gone Postal - firing back at his many critics with a raunchy adaptation of one of the most offensive video games ever made. Can one unlucky Dude with a shotgun (Z...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Postal-evr1h1

WE are Now Playing, and this week WE are watching Venom - the gooey space alien who tries to survive a new movie without Spider-Man as his host.  WE will see if reporter Tom Hardy and his black-...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Venom-evr168

Uwe Boll’s reviled adaptation of Sega’s House of the Dead video game won’t stay dead, lumbering back to life with a SyFy Channel sequel. AMS agents Nightingale (Saw 2 babe Emmanuelle Vau...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/House-of-the-Dead-II-evr14s

The 1996 shooter House of the Dead invited gamers to pick up light guns and mow down scores of charging zombies.  But the 2003 movie adaptation has podcasters Justin, Arnie, and Stuart taking ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/House-of-the-Dead-evr16l

30 years after his foul-mouthed mercenary Hawkins was slaughtered in a South American jungle, actor Shane Black returns to write and direct the fourth installment in The Predator franchise. Wil...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Predator-evr1b0

Are podcasters Arnie, Marjorie, and Stuart ready to put their faith in The Nun after spitting on most of The Conjuring universe?  The latest installment in the franchise traces the origins of de...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Nun-evr1je

D.O.A. brought a healthy dose of T&A to fighting games in 1996, and the same holds true for the campy 2006 movie adaptation.  Everything jiggles when a trashy American wrestler (Jamie Presley), ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/D-O-A----Dead-Or-Alive-evr1o5

Because the first Tekken movie didn’t prove fatal, podcasters Arnie, Justin, and Stuart must now survive Kazuya’s Revenge!  But could the emotionless amnesiac drifting through this low budge...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tekken-2-Kazuyas-Revenge-evr17p

Arnie, Justin, and Stuart climb into yet another arcade arena for a round with Tekken - the classic 1996 fighting game that inspired a not-so-classic 2010 science fiction flick. Can lowly thief J...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tekken-evr17e

The 1994 strategy video game Warcraft expanded into the worlds of novels, trading cards, and online multiplayer spin-offs before finally reaching movie screens in 2016. The long awaited battle ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Warcraft-evr14m

Robin is tired of being Batman’s sidekick, so he and the other Teen Titans are taking their hit Cartoon Network show To The Movies.  Trouble is, Hollywood still doesn’t consider the Boy Wond...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Teen-Titans-GO--To-the-Movies-evr1en

Tom Cruise recovers from the Fallout of recent flops, and a shattered ankle, by leaping back to the top of the box office with his tried and true Mission: Impossible franchise.  The daredevil ac...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible---Fallout-evr19e

Electronic Arts was eager to get racing game Need For Speed into multiplexes after watching Vin Diesel's family of car thieves make bank.  But can Aaron Paul break box office records with rapp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Need-For-Speed-evr1cp

Cinemaware turned to 1950s monster movies for inspiration when developing a 1989 computer game about giant ants attacking small town America. Now It Came From The Desert comes full circle as a 20...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/It-Came-From-the-Desert-Movie-Review-evr19j

The box office for 2015’s Ant-Man might be considered small in comparison to other Avengers films, but Marvel banks that the second Paul Rudd adventure will make a bigger impact on the big scre...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ant-Man-and-The-Wasp-evr1du

Podcasters Justin, Arnie, and Stuart are still shooting daggers at notorious filmmaker Uwe Boll, this time for making them watch a sequel to reviled video game movie Alone in the Dark. Christian ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Alone-in-the-Dark-II-Movie-Review-evr19b

Uwe Boll is easily the most prolific creator of video game movies, but does he also deserve his reputation as Worst Filmmaker Ever?  The Now Playing Arcade takes up the question with a review of...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Alone-in-the-Dark-evr1gg

It took 14 years for Pixar and director Brad Bird to create a sequel for popular superhero family The Parrs. Now mother Helen (Holly Hunter) steps back into the role of Elastigirl to lead a globa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Incredibles-2-evr1b7

George Clooney and his crew are sitting out the latest caper so that little sister Debra (Sandra Bullock) and seven criminally-minded gal pals have a chance to steal the spotlight. Ocean’s 8 ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Oceans-8-evr186

It sure looked like Liu Kang (Robin Shou) won the Mortal Kombat tournament last film, but that’s not stopping his demonic foes from continuing their assault on Earth. Now the only way our heroe...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mortal-Kombat-Annihilation-evr1ad

Video games finally broke through at the box office in 1995 with the release of Mortal Kombat - director Paul WS Anderson’s cinematic take on the popular Midway fighting game. Earth will fall u...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mortal-Kombat-evr15a

One of the most popular characters in the Star Wars universe has gone Solo.  Harrison Ford earned fame and fortune playing an irascible space bandit in four sci-fi blockbusters. Now rising star ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Solo-A-Star-Wars-Story-evr1dl

This show description is guest written by Deadpool.   You know who's big? I am! Not in that way, get your mind out of the gutter! (Okay, I'm big in that way too.) But my first movie was more pop...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Deadpool-2-evr1dg

Game developer Chris Roberts was on course to deliver the first major science fiction film of 1999 when he personally piloted his massively popular flight simulator Wing CommanderPhantom Menace�...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wing-Commander-evr1cn

20 years after computer programmer Jordan Mechner released Prince of Persia for the Apple IIe, the Disney Company paid the kingly sum of $200 million to launch his video game swashbuckler Dastan ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Prince-of-Persia-The-Sands-of-Time-evr19f

The Godfather enjoyed the reputation of being the greatest gangster film ever made for nearly 20 years before director Martin Scorsese ordered actors Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, and Joe Pesci to...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Goodfellas---A-Patron-Podcast-Preview-evr16d

Ten years ago Marvel Comics gambled their entire existence, using all their remaining IP as collateral, on the idea that they could make superhero films better than anyone else. 18 movies later, ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Avengers-Infinity-War-evr1ti

No one was better suited to convert the role playing mechanics of the best-selling Final Fantasy series into stirring cinema than game creator Hironobu Sakaguchi.  But dreams of writing and dire...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Final-Fantasy-The-Spirits-Within-evr1d3

32 years after making its debut as a city-leveling coin-op video game, Rampage bursts onto the big screen as a brand new movie. So why are Dwayne Johnson, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Joe Manganiel...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Rampage-evr1a5

Long before he took on a Rampage of giant gorillas, wolves and lizards, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson led a squadron of Doom-ed Marines to Mars for another blowout with video game baddies. The...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Doom-2005-evr15g

Get ready to “clan up” with Arnie, Justin, and Stuart for a podcast review of Ready Player One. Steven Spielberg’s latest sci-fi adventure imagines the future of entertainment to be pop cu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ready-Player-One-evr1ks

These days Pacific Rim director Guillermo del Toro focuses more on The Shape of Water than plugging breaches in ocean floors, but that doesn’t mean his Pan-Pacific Defense Corps has disbanded....

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pacific-Rim-Uprising-evr1n7

It’s been 15 years since Lara Croft last raided movie theaters, but now a new Oscar-winning actress is picking up the controls and racing into action. Tomb Raider 2018 - an origin story for the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tomb-Raider-evr184

Angelina Jolie reprised her role as England’s most scantily clad excavator for her second and final Tomb Raider adventure. Cradle of Life finds Lady Croft diving into sunken ruins with Greek sa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Lara-Croft-Tomb-Raider---The-Cradle-of-Life-evr14p

Movies with action heroes from the 1980s die pretty hard at the box office these days, but Bruce Willis aims to change all that with a 2018 reboot of Death Wish. The aging tough guy stars as a Ch...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-2018-evr19s

Five years after busty British archaeologist Lara Croft stole the hearts of PlayStation owners, the planets aligned to bring the video game vixen to the big screen in the skin of Oscar-winning ba...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Lara-Croft-Tomb-Raider-evr1am

Chadwick Boseman bounds to the screen as Black Panther - the latest Marvel superhero to leap from comic pages into his own blockbuster movie. Will the newly crowned African Avenger continue to hi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Black-Panther-evr18t

It took 15 years for filmmakers to hit the reset button on Street Fighter, with a second movie ditching JCVD’s paramilitary squad in favor of an origin story for kung fu pianist Chun-Li.  Does...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Street-Fighter-The-Legend-of-Chun-Li-evr1bh

Podcasters Justin, Stuart, and Arnie have been taken hostage by Street Fighter, the infamous 1994 movie adaptation of the popular arcade fighting game. How much Van Damme-age can the boys withst...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Street-Fighter-evr1c3

The fly-kicking Lee Brothers were quick to mimic Mario’s leap from coin-ops and cartoons to a live-action feature film… and just as quick to fail. The 1994 action flick Double Dragon finds ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Double-Dragon-evr17f

Pixelated plumbers Mario and Luigi spent a decade warping through various video games, cartoons, and comic books before finally arriving on the big screen as Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo in the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Super-Mario-Bros-evr179

The Now Playing Arcade is now open!  Justin, Stuart, and Arnie are reviewing every movie based on a video game in a new retrospective that kicks off with The King Of Kong. Is this 2006 document...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-King-of-Kong-A-Fistful-of-Quarters-evr15p

Before elderly psychic Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) faced her mortality battling "Veilhead" in Insidious, she had to confront literal and figurative skeletons in her family closet. New prequel The L...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Insidious-The-Last-Key-evr158

Cult audiences love midnight movie The Room for being crazy melodrama, but the story of how it got made might be even more nuts.  Does James Franco show his talent, or just his ass, stepping int...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Disaster-Artist-evr1eh

Audiences have been tearing delusional actor/writer/director Tommy Wiseau apart for the last 14 years over his self-funded melodrama The Room. Can you ever really trust anyone who would recommen...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Room-evr1at

Episode VIII finds General Leia (Carrie Fisher), Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), Finn (John Boyega), and a dwindling number of Resistance fighters beating a hasty retreat from the rising armies of Sup...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Last-Jedi-evr170

In 12 Monkeys Bruce Willis plays James Cole - a man from the future who’s come to witness the start of an extinction-level pandemic. Or he’s insane, filled with a Cassandra complex. He enco...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/12-Monkeys-evr162

Saw director James Wan wished to leave the horror genre behind when he signed on to adapt Death Sentence - author Brian Garfield's previously unmade sequel novel to Death Wish. A buttoned-dow...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Sentence-evr1f8

It was Charles Bronson's wish to never reprise the role of vigilante Paul Kersey after Death Wish IV. So movie producers found $5 million reasons for the 72 year old actor to star as their Face o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-V-The-Face-of-Death-evr187

How does a DC Comics super-team come together when the Man of Steel is dead, Batman is suicidal, Wonder Woman won't lead, and the most promising recruits are an aloof Merman, a renegade robot, an...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Justice-League-evr1vc

Paul Kersey gets topical with his fourth killing spree in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown! This time he's going to whack the crack dealers in Los Angeles. It's the type of film only Cannon Films cou...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-4-The-Crackdown-evr1be

The God of Thunder was ready to change his image after Now Playing and so many others hammered his solo films as the silliest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Third effort Ragnarok not only pu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thor-Ragnarok-evr17u

Seven Year's Later...it's again Halloween; it's again Now Playing reviewing Saw! The "torture porn" genre had fallen out of vogue, and Saw's grosses fell to match. Now, not quite a decade later...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Jigsaw-evr1ct

Texas Chainsaw 3D was a success in 2013, but the fast-tracked sequel got mired in studio bureaucracy and changes in creative teams. Finally, nearly five years later, comes Leatherface--a preque...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Leatherface-2017-evr1fv

Paul Kersey has returned to New York (or London). He didn't come intending to fight a gang war, but he finds his war buddy gunned down. It's a fight Kersey didn't start, but he intends to finish ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-3-evr1g5

In the early '80s, the dawn of home video, it would be easy to think movies had a lifespan of only four years. But Ridley Scott's creation Blade Runner escaped box-office failure to find its o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Blade-Runner-2049-evr1la

Paul Kersey has lived a peaceful life for years in Los Angeles with his girlfriend, his daughter, and his housekeeper. Yet his tranquil existence will once more be shattered by a group of crimina...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-II-evr16r

Three children were all born during the solar eclipse. Does that mean these little sociopaths have no soul? Their birthday wish...is for you to die! That's the plot of Bloody Birthday, a 1981 fi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bloody-Birthday-evr1br

Fledgling spy Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) barely had time to assume his place as Galahad before chirpy drug czar Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore) reduced the whole Kingsman Round Table to rubble. Now...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Kingsman-The-Golden-Circle-evr17b

In 1974 Charles Bronson made his entry in the self-defense/revenge genre with Death Wish. The film is a gritty look at a New Yorker who is pushed to the breaking point by the city's rampant crim...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Death-Wish-1974-evr183

First came Halloween. Then Friday the 13th. Soon after, no holiday was safe! New Year's Evil, Mother's Day, Graduation Day. Prom Night...all became occasions for slasher fests. Then in 1981 it...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Happy-Birthday-to-Me-evr1ed

Marvel's Inhumans are the result of combining alien DNA with humans. In that way they're neither human nor alien, they're inhuman. Likewise Marvel's Inhumans is a halfbreed--it's neither telev...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Inhumans-evr1cu

Philip K. Dick's novel Radio Free Albemuth was published in 1985, three years after the author's death and nine years after the book was written. Yet with the author's name as propellant, this ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Radio-Free-Albemuth-evr1eg

Do you remember Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1990 movie Total Recall? If not, Columbia Pictures will remind you with their wholesale retelling of that film. Featuring Colin Farrell in the lead this m...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Total-Recall-2012-evr190

Annabelle was a prequel to The Conjuring. Now we go even further back in time with Annabelle: Creation--the story of the doll's manufacture and first possession. These films hit big at the bo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Annabelle-Creation-evr198

Over the span of 34 years Stephen King wrote his Dark Tower saga of books, amassing more than 4,000 pages of lore. The story features the last legendary Gunslinger on a quest to ward off evil f...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Dark-Tower-evr1ch

Christopher Nolan's latest film tells of the English army's rescue from German assault at Dunkirk. The director is relying on visual spectacle over star power, choosing mostly unknown actors for...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dunkirk-evr1ak

Trainspotting was a breakthrough film, gaining acclaim for both director Danny Boyle and star Ewan McGregor. Now, twenty years after their original tale of Scottish heroin addicts, the stars and...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/T2-Trainspotting-evr1a3

In 1996 director Danny Boyle exploded on the indie film scene with his octane-fueled heroin comedy-drama Trainspotting. Based on the eponymous novel by Irvine Welsh, the film has a unique vibe, ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Trainspotting-evr173

Spider-Man has finally come home! While Marvel Studios started without its most popular characters, an agreement between studios (aided by some North Korean hackers) has now made it so Marvel's m...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-Homecoming-evr1k6

No, Baby Driver is not about an infant taking his parents' car for a spin. Baby Driver is the latest film from Scott Pilgrim vs the World and Shaun of the Dead auteur Edgar Wright. For ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Baby-Driver-evr14u

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise. To commemorate, Paramount and Bay have released the fifth movie in the series: The Last Knight. And this seems t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Transformers-The-Last-Knight-evr1db

Bad Boys exploded in 1995. The career surge it caused for both stars Smith and Lawrence, as well as for director Bay, meant an eight-year wait for the sequel. In 2003 the Boys were back and it...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bad-Boys-2-evr1hn

In 1995 Will Smith was a sitcom star with a rap career. Martin Lawrence was host of HBO's Def Comedy Jam, and his own show Martin where he would cross-dress to play Sheneneh. And Michael Bay w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Bad-Boys-evr17l

Fans of the 1975 Wonder Woman series have to be excited for the Wonder-ful release from La La Land records: The Wonder Woman 3-CD set. This release has music cues and score from all three seasons...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wonder-Woman-1975-Bonus-Episode-Soundtrack-Interview-with-Neil-S--Bulk-evr1g7

Sometimes a movie becomes something more than a film--it becomes a movement. That seems to be the case with Wonder Woman. It has become celebrated as not only a great DC movie but also the first ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wonder-Woman-2017-evr1ek

Cathy Lee Crosby's Wonder Woman series didn't take off. But one year later ABC was ready to try again with The All-New Original Wonder Woman. It was a huge success and this is the series everyon...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-New-Original-Wonder-Woman-1975-evr1lj

When you think of Wonder Woman on ABC in the '70s no doubt you think of Lynda Carter in her red, white, and blue outfit, spinning through costume changes. But do you remember ABC's first Wonder ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wonder-Woman-1974-evr19c

In 2006 David Lynch finally completed and released Inland Empire -- an experimental film that took him nearly three years to create. If it isn't the largest of Lynch's strange and surreal vision...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Inland-Empire-evr1hq

James Gunn defied all expectations. 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy was the first Marvel studios film to go cosmic, and with stars like a raccoon and a talking tree, it could have easily crashed....

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-Vol--2-evr1a0

After Twin Peaks' inglorious end it seemed a safe assumption that David Lynch and the ABC network were through with each other. Yet in the late '90s ABC hired Lynch to make a pilot for a new TV s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mulholland-Dr-evr1ge

For several films where Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto was a car-driving superhero. Now, in The Fate of the Furious he's back on the wrong side of the law, working for a mysterious hacker named Cy...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Fate-Of-The-Furious-evr166

After the violent, explicit Lost Highway it seems whiplash-inducing that David Lynch's next film would be a G-rated family film for Disney. But that's what The Straight Story is. There are no d...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Straight-Story-evr1g2

David Lynch's theatrical follow-up to the maligned Fire Walk With Me was Lost Highway -- a supernatural horror-thriller. The film stars Bill Pullman as Fred Madison, a man who may have killed h...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Lost-Highway-evr193

Twin Peaks was far from David Lynch's only television effort. Not only did Mulholland Dr. start as a television pilot, but Lynch also produced On the Air and, in 1993, Hotel Room. That latter ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hotel-Room-evr1ah

Twin Peaks television ratings weren't enough for ABC to keep the show on the air. That cancellation left fans biting their nails with a cliffhanger that seemed would never be resolved. One year ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Twin-Peaks-Fire-Walk-with-Me-evr1de

When credits rolled on David Lynch's Wild at Heart it seemed like no sequel was necessary. But Wild at Heart novelist Barry Gifford continued Sailor and Luna's tales in a series of books. He als...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dance-With-the-Devil-Perdita-Durango-evr1gi

David Lynch was hitting a career peak in 1990. First, his show Twin Peaks became a national obsession.  Then his new film Wild at Heart won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.  But thi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Wild-at-Heart-evr18d

For eighteen years Hugh Jackman has played Logan - the popular X-Men hero also known as Wolverine. His first appearance in 2000's X-Men helped launch the modern age of cinematic superheros. But ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Logan-evr1j1

In the 1970s Stephen King gave his version of a vampire tale with 'Salem's Lot.  In the '80s he wrote another classic horror monster story. The novella was called "The Cycle of the Werewolf", bu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silver-Bullet-evr1gq

February 24 is Twin Peaks day.    It's designated as such because the first episode of Twin Peaks is set on February 24, 1989--the day Laura Palmer's body washed up on the shore of the small t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Twin-Peaks-evr19i

Before Twin Peaks there was Blue Velvet -- David Lynch's first tale of  Kyle MacLachlan investigating a small town murder. This violent, sexy, surreal film has been ranked one of Lynch's best...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Blue-Velvet-evr1i4

John Wick thought he'd left his killer lifestyle behind. After avenging his beloved pet he was ready to literally bury his past...but the underworld is not yet done with him. Keanu Reeves is back...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/John-Wick-Chapter-2-evr1jl

John Wick exploded out of nowhere. This film was announced in September, 2014 for release just a few weeks later. And thanks to the star power of Keanu Reeves, a strong trailer, and a high conce...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/John-Wick-evr1g4

Fifteen years ago Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich transformed Resident Evil from a successful video game franchise to a hit movie series. They released a new film every two to three years,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-The-Final-Chapter-evr1ci

Ten years after Resident Evil first hit screens it came back for Retribution!  This fifth movie brings back actors, and plot points, from previous installments. Can the return of Michelle Rodrig...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-Retribution-evr1k0

It was no surprise that Resident Evil would return for a fourth film. That original series creator Paul W.S. Anderson returned, however, was surprising. Bringing James Cameron's 3-D cameras he a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-Afterlife-evr19l

Alice goes Beyond Thunderdome on the Fury Road in Resident Evil: Extinction -- a Mad Max movie for gamers (it even ends with a final fight in a cage!) In this post-apocalyptic wasteland a group o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-Extinction-evr1hd

The first Resident Evil film ended with what seemed like the end of the world -- Alice alone in a desolate, abandoned Raccoon City.  Picking up from that very moment Apocalypse reveals all is ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-Apocalypse-evr1ef

In 1995 Paul W.S. Anderson scored a major hit with Mortal Kombat, a box office hit grossing more than double any other video game adaptations.  In 2002 Capcom hoped Anderson could beat his own h...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Resident-Evil-evr1kh

Fans of Star Wars comics, books, video games, and cartoons have long known the universe is ripe for adventures outside of the Skywalker family tree. But with Rogue One this type of story comes to...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Rogue-One---A-Star-Wars-Story-evr196

The original Dune mini-series broke Sci-Fi channel records for viewing. Three years later they attempted to hit that same peak with the sequel Children of Dune.  Combining the stories of two Fra...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Children-of-Dune-evr1hs

In this holiday season you can head to your local Chopping Mall to pick up the new Blu-Ray release of this 1986 horror cult classic. A brand new transfer and lots of bonus features accompany this...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Chopping-Mall----Interviews-with-director-Jim-Wynorski-and-writer-Steve-Mitchell-evr199

The Dune novels have built a universe full of history and lore. So many details and characters exit that it seemed even David Lynch had trouble squeezing Frank Herbert's original novel into two ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dune-2000-evr1dq

Frank Herbert's novel Dune had a long path from the novel to film. After a series of false starts it finally hit theaters in 1984 directed by Oscar nominated director David Lynch.  The director...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dune-1984-evr1a7

As the school year ended in 1986 John Hughes gave the world a film honoring playing hooky -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  On the surface this is a fluffy comedy about three teens set loose in Chic...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-evr1h0

I am not an animal! I am a human being!  That quote from David Lynch's The Elephant Man has become part of the American lexicon, quoted in literally hundreds of movies and television shows.  Bu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Elephant-Man-evr1d9

David Lynch is a popular director of such films as The Elephant Man, Dune, Wild at Heart and Mulholland Drive. And he became a household name with his 1990 TV Series Twin Peaks where "Who killed ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Eraserhead-evr18s

Fourteen movies into the Marvel Cinematic Universe comes the Strangest movie yet -- Doctor Strange. This film eschews all the other movies' science fiction basis to bring that magic feeling to ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Doctor-Strange-evr1b3

After swearing he was done with horror movies, director Rob Zombie scared up some crowd-funded money to make a tale of Halloween murder-- 31.  Featuring a group of carnies trapped by psychotic...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Rob-Zombies-31-evr1jc

It took three years for Blumhouse to scare up a sequel to Sinister. Original creator Scott Derrickson had moved on to make Dr. Strange, but he returned to co-write and produce this follow-up. B...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Sinister-2-evr1cs

The Pet Sematary series returned from the grave in 1992. The three years in the ground (or the video stores) did it no favors as the return looked little like the '89 original. Gone was the ent...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pet-Sematary-Two-evr1c4

One of the most acclaimed horror films of this decade was Sinister. On the surface this Blumhouse production seems little different than many haunted house films like Paranormal Activity and ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Sinister-evr1bs

In 1983 King published Pet Sematary - the book he dubbed to scary to print, with a title too difficult to spell.  The book was a smash success.  Six years later the film adaptation was released...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pet-Sematary-evr1c6

By 1983 Stephen King had been christened the "King of Horror", his every book a bestseller, and his three films hits.   John Carpenter was an acclaimed horror director who created the modern sla...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Christine-evr1pc

From the minds of Stephen King and George Romero comes Tales from the Darkside: The Movie...a horror anthology like no other.  Well, scratch that, it's like several others--including Romero's ow...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tales-from-the-Darkside-The-Movie-evr1fi

Nearly 20 years after the last Creepshow left theaters a third installment creeped onto video shelves. Five more tales of terror await, but now they are all intertwined with crossover characters...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Creepshow-3-evr1bo

The studio made it in secret. No one knew that Adam Wingard's new horror film The Woods was actually the third installment of the Blair Witch film series. This one goes back to the original 199...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Blair-Witch-evr1hp

When you think of Ferris Bueller what comes to mind? Is it "Oh Yeah"? Or perhaps the Star Wars theme playing while Cameron's Ferrari shot above the city streets. And the iconic parade scene with ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off---30th-Anniversary-Soundtrack-evr1au

Five years after Stephen King and George Romero revived the horror anthology with Creepshow, New World Pictures released the sequel. The poster looked the same, but there was a new director, Rome...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Creepshow-2-evr1mp

Stephen King was a master of written horror, and George Romero a master of cinematic scares. And in 1982 those two combined forces to bring you Creepshow -- five tales of terror, written by King...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Creepshow-evr1fu

They didn't market Stand by Me as a Stephen King film. In 1986 a period piece drama didn't fit with King's history of films, including axe murderers, ghosts, zombies, vampires, and killer semis. ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Stand-by-Me-evr1ja

A Nazi in hiding is uncovered by a suburban boy, and the result is blackmail and bloodshed. That is the story of Apt Pupil, Bryan Singer's directorial follow-up to his breakthrough The Usual Susp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Apt-Pupil-evr1bj

The Shawshank Redemption has been voted the #1 movie of all time by IMDB.com users. It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Shawshank-Redemption-evr1i2

Earlier this year DC brought Batman back to the big screen in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.  Now it's time for his nemesis to get the spotlight. Suicide Squad stars villains like Joker, H...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Suicide-Squad-evr1j8

It's been nine years since Matt Damon last played Jason Bourne. But now he is back, ready to uncover new secrets about Treadstone and what turned David Webb into Jason Bourne. Do Greengrass and D...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Jason-Bourne-evr171

On Thursday, September 8, 1966, Star Trek beamed into people's homes for the first time.  Since then, Star Trek has become a cultural phenomenon spanning 725 television episodes across six serie...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Star-Trek-Beyond-evr1ar

A long time ago, in a trailer park far, far away... a teen named Alex beat the high score on the Starfighter arcade. But it wasn't just a game--it was a proving grounds for fighters to join an in...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Last-Starfighter-evr1a4

The Bourne Ultimatum proved its box office dominance, and director Paul Greengrass and star Matt Damon were ready leave Jason Bourne behind. But Universal Pictures wasn't going to let that stop t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bourne-Legacy-evr1fl

Three years after Bourne was supreme at the box office, star Matt Damon reteamed with director Paul Greengrass for the series' third installment  -- The Bourne Ultimatum.  This film promises t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bourne-Ultimatum-evr1mk

Just two short years after Short Circuit electrified audiences Johnny 5 returned in Short Circuit 2. This time Johnny is in the big city and realizing what it means to be human...or in his case,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Short-Circuit-2-evr1dv

Universal had little confidence in making The Bourne Identity, but after its huge success they fast-tracked the sequel: The Bourne Supremacy. This follow-up teamed Damon with Paul Greengrass, wh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bourne-Supremacy-evr1us

Robocop. R2-D2. HAL 9000.  The T-1000. Johnny 5.   Yes, in the pantheon of great movie robots, there is no denying S.A.I.N.T. model Number Five deserves prominent mention. He came alive in 1986...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Short-Circuit-evr1l0

In 2002 a new action franchise was Bourne. Starring Matt Damon as Jason Bourne, The Bourne Identity modernized and heavily revised Robert Ludlum's original novel. Despite a modest budget, the fi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bourne-Identity-2002-evr1k5

Jason Bourne has existed in Robert Ludlum novels for over 35 years. For mainstream audiences, however, he came to life when Matt Damon starred as the amnesiac secret agent in 2002. That action-pa...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Bourne-Identity-1988-evr19d

After three years and one Fast and Furious film, James Wan is back with a sequel to The Conjuring.  The original horror film scared up lots of dough for Universal, so now the series returns wit...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Conjuring-2-evr1ud

In this sequel to 2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Donatello, Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo are back again to save New York from Shredder. But while this film has the same look and some...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Teenage-Mutant-Ninja-Turtles-Out-of-the-Shadows-evr18v

Director Bryan Singer is back to take the X-Men to the '80s for a totally tubular fight against Apocalypse! The film debuts the fan-favorite mutant villain on film. It also features the return of...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/X-Men-Apocalypse-evr1dt

The original Hellboy film didn't set the box office on fire. But like a necromancer, director and writer Guillermo del Toro brought the demonic comic hero back on screens in 2008. With the origin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hellboy-II-The-Golden-Army-evr1gu

Dark Horse Comics was once best known for its series based on popular movie properties like Star Wars, Predator, and Alien. That reputation slowly changed as the publisher's original characters g...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hellboy-evr1b1

Is this movie Captain America 3 or Avengers 3?  Cap is back and he’s brought the whole team. Iron Man, Ant-Man, Black Widow, Vision, Scarlet Witch, and half a dozen other costumed heroes appe...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Captain-America-Civil-War-evr1t0

No one was interested in making movies based on the writings of Richard Bachman. His novels Rage, The Long Walk, Roadwork, and The Running Man were modest sellers that often had only one printing...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Running-man-evr1ko

From 1974 to 1982 Stephen King published 12 books, most of them bestsellers. Yet only three movies were based on his writing during that same period: Carrie in 1976, The Shining in 1980, and Cree...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Cujo-evr18e

Harvey Pekar was an independent comic writer, a notorious talk show guest, and a general grump. And with the film American Splendor he added another title--movie star. Pekar himself and Paul Giam...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/American-Splendor-evr1bl

Frank Miller was given a director's credit on Robert Rodriguez's Sin City. With that film's success Miller went on to direct his own feature film. The result was The Spirit, based on Will Eisner'...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Spirit-2008-evr18q

When fans think of The Spirit they probably think of Will Eisner’s 1940’s comic book crimefighter. Or they may think of Frank Miller’s 2008 film adaptation of the same name. Only the hard c...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Spirit-1987-evr1hv

It took fifteen years of development, but now the World's Finest heroes are together on screen with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Can the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel share the screen?�...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice-evr1tr

It took fifteen years of development, but now the World's Finest heroes are together on screen with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Can the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel share the screen?�...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice-evr1ul

It took fifteen years of development, but now the World's Finest heroes are together on screen with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Can the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel share the screen?�...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-v-Superman-Dawn-of-Justice-evr1cq

Watchmen was an acclaimed '80s comic series. It helped legitimize comics as a literary medium, and remained a bestseller for over 20 years. Yet with its complex, nonlinear narrative, all attempts...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Watchmen-evr1ej

After the success of the X-Men superhero properties were in demand. But before hero teams like Justice League, Watchmen, and Avengers could assemble, there was The League of Extraordinary ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-League-of-Extraordinary-Gentlemen-evr1gp

Created by comic book superstars J Scott Campbell, Jim Lee, and Brandon Choi, Gen 13 was Wildstorm Comics' risque Gen-X version of the X-Men. After only a few years in publication the series' suc...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Gen-13-evr1g9

DC has had over 15 years of television dominance. From Smallville to Arrow, The Flash, and Supergirl, the heroes of DC Comics have come to life on the small screen. But not every attempt to brin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Justice-League-of-America-evr1bt

In 1976 Wonder Woman spun into America's homes on CBS. In 1978 Superman took flight in theaters. So to capitalize on this success Hanna-Barbera brought a live-action Superfriends to TV with ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Legends-of-the-Superheroes-evr19t

This show description is guest written by Deadpool.   Oh, hello there! Deadpool here. It took ten years but I've finally got my own solo film! Now, I know I'm awesome, but even I'm shocked at ho...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Deadpool-evr19g

Neil Gaiman's Stardust began in 1997 as a DC comic book fairy tale. In 1999 it was then published as an illustrated novel. Finally in 2007 it was adapted to the screen, directed by Matthew Vaugh...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Stardust-evr1bk

Studio Ghibli and director Hayao Miyazaki are highly regarded among anime fans. But none of their previous successes compared to 1997's mythological Princess Mononoke. The film became Japan's to...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Princess-Mononoke-evr197

Masters of the Universe was a beloved toy line and a hit '80s cartoon. Its 1987 live-action movie, however, is not so fondly remembered. This Dolph Lundgren vehicle broke its movie studio but cre...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Masters-of-the-Universe-evr19m

It started with a contest, a fan-submitted new "fake" trailer for Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse double feature. It ended up, like Machete, being made into a full movie! The...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hobo-with-a-Shotgun-evr1ca

The original film promised Danny Trejo would return as Machete, and that promise was kept! Machete Kills, released in 2010, boasts an even bigger line-up of stars than the original. Mel Gibson,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Machete-Kills-evr1ka

He knows the score. He gets the babes. He kills the bad guys. He is Machete! The character was originally seen in a joke trailer in the Rodriguez/Tarantino Grindhouse double feature. Then in 2010...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Machete-evr1c5

"If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it."  So said Star Wars creator George Lucas regarding the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. The two hou...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Star-Wars-Holiday-Special-evr1fp

Lucas promised it would never happen. He repeatedly swore that Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith was the last Star Wars film.  Ever!      What a difference $4 billion makes!    Now...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Force-Awakens-evr1v1

In 2005 Revenge of the Sith was touted as the last Star Wars film.  Ever. So fans were surprised and amazed in 2008 when the announcement came that Star Wars: The Clone Wars would be an animated...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Clone-Wars-evr1hk

Apollo Creed was a major part of the Rocky series through the character's death in Rocky IV. Now his son Adonis takes center stage in Creed -- the seventh movie to feature Sylvester Stallone...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Creed-evr1a9

George Lucas wrapped up his six-part Star Wars saga with Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. This film needed to create the links between Lucas' two prequel films and his much-beloved ori...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Revenge-of-the-Sith-evr1n9

The Phantom Menace opened to a big box office...and a big backlash. But for 2002's follow-up Attack of the Clones director George Lucas pulled out all the stops. Fans finally got to see in live ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Attack-of-the-Clones-evr1q3

Star Wars returned to the big screen in 1999 with Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Sixteen years after Return of the Jedi the hype and anticipation were at manic levels. The result was the highest ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Phantom-Menace-evr1pp

Despite being a box office draw for 50 years, James Bond's last outing Skyfall shattered all expectations, making over $1 billion worldwide. That set expectations exceedingly high for the next B...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spectre-evr1bg

It's a long-standing horror movie trope: teens who have sex are murdered. Friday the 13th, Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and dozens more films followed this pattern...but no film has made...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/It-Follows-evr1aj

Artisan Entertainment and Haxan Films wasted no time releasing a sequel to The Blair Witch Project. Intending to capitalize on the first film’s huge success they rushed Book of Shadows: Blair W...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Book-of-Shadows-Blair-Witch-2-evr1ac

In 1999 two great fears gripped the American people -- Y2K and The Blair Witch Project. This little movie was made for only $20,000 but it became a Sundance darling. Released by Artisan it went o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Blair-Witch-Project-evr1bd

1984's television movie The Ewok Adventure was a smash success for ABC, and soon George Lucas was working on a sequel. The result is Ewoks: The Battle for Endor. A darker continuation of the pr...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ewoks-The-Battle-for-Endor-evr1ce

George Lucas didn't want to do any more Star Wars movies after Return of the Jedi, but he wasn't done in that universe. Inspired by kids' affection for the furry Ewoks Lucas ordered the creation...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Ewok-Adventure-Caravan-of-Courage-evr1kc

George Lucas concluded the Star Wars trilogy in 1983 with Return of the Jedi -- a film thought for many years to be the final Star Wars movie ever. Needing to tie up every plot thread in two hou...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Return-of-the-Jedi-evr1e5

When it was released The Empire Strikes Back was the highly anticipated sequel to the biggest movie of all time. And it became widely known as the best Star Wars movie ever made. With creator G...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Empire-Strikes-Back-evr1l7

Star Wars.  It twice became the biggest movie of all time. It has launched a billion dollar empire of movies, toys, and merchandise. It has even started a religion. But now, under the ownership ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Star-Wars-evr1cb

It's been seven years since the last Transporter film was released.  In that time the series continued on television, but now is racing back to theaters with The Transporter: Refueled.  This...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Transporter-Refueled-evr1i7

In 2008 Jason Statham came back for one last ride in Transporter 3.  This time Frank has to drive the daughter of a Ukranian politician to Odessa, avoiding danger and romantic entanglements alo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Transporter-3-evr1bf

The first Transporter film was a modest theatrical success, but thanks to DVD sales put star Jason Statham back in the driver's seat.  Again directed by Louis Leterrier, the second Transporte...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Transporter-2-evr1f1

If you need someone or something moved quickly, Frank Martin is your man.  This former Special Ops soldier has moved to France and now works as a freelance driver for big spending criminals.  H...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Transporter-evr1ae

It's been 20 years since Roger Corman first made (but never released) the world's first Fantastic Four film, and now we get our fourth.  Gone is the humor of the Tim Story duology; instead, C...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fantastic-Four-2015-evr1et

In Tom Cruise's fifth Mission: Impossible film he finally goes up against the original television series' legendary foe -- The Syndicate.  This evil group of spies and assassins has infiltrate...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/MIssion-Impossible---Rogue-Nation-evr1j4

Tom Cruise's MIF Agent Ethan Hunt is back with a mission to literally stop the end of the world.  Disavowed by his agency, can Ethan stop a madman from launching a nuclear missile?  And do newc...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible---Ghost-Protocol-evr1od

The second phase of Marvel Studios' Cinematic Universe is going out small.  Compared to their other Phase 2 films, the hero is smaller, the budget is smaller, the box office is smaller.  But it...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Ant-Man-evr1t2

IMF agent Ethan Hunt has had enough combat.  He wants to settle down, get married, and train new agents instead of going in the field himself.  But when his star pupil is captured by a ruthless...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible-III-evr1dc

It may have taken 13 years, but Arnold Schwarzenegger is back as the T-800 in his movie series that absolutely will not stop ever -- The Terminator. In the new movie Genisys Kyle Reese (Jai Court...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Terminator-Genisys-evr1mq

Tom Cruise's character Agent Ethan Hunt has a new mission - stop a rogue IMF agent from releasing a deadly biological weapon -- and protect the woman he loves.  With John Woo in the director's c...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible-II-evr1ru

Mission: Impossible was a smash hit TV series in the 1960s and 70s, and it even had a revival in the late 80s.  But in the 90s, producer and star Tom Cruise tried to do the impossible:  create...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mission-Impossible-evr1gv

It's like a riddle:  When does Chapter 3 come before Chapter 1?  When it's an Insidious sequel!  The new film may be titled Insidious: Chapter 3 but the film is actually a prequel to the o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Insidious-Chapter-3-evr1f4

Firestarter: Rekindled has Malcolm McDowell and Dennis Hopper starring in a movie based on the works of Stephen King!  If this movie came out in 1982 it may have had the star power, and budget...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Firestarter-Rekindled-evr1ho

In 1984 Stephen King had been given the moniker "The King of Horror."  Movies on his books had more hits than misses, and his every novel was a bestseller, including the tale of a pyrokinetic gi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Firestarter-evr1es

Warning: This podcast deals with a movie that has no plot, hammy acting, and a hack script we wouldn't want to wipe our asses with. It's not even funny bad, it's just a boring, miserable watching...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Human-Centipede-3-Final-Sequence-evr1fq

It's been 30 years since the last Mad Max film, but creator George Miller was compelled to go again into the post-apocalyptic Outback. The film suffered production troubles, extensive reshoots, a...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mad-Max-Fury-Road-evr1gh

Star Mel Gibson and director George Miller returned to the world of Mad Max one final time in 1985. With a budget larger than the previous two films combined, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome establish...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mad-Max-Beyond-Thunderdome-evr1n4

The 2015 summer movie season kicks off in a big way with the next Marvel Cinematic Universe film Avengers: Age of Ultron. Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, the Hulk, Black Widow, and Hawkeye are b...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Avengers-Age-of-Ultron-evr1vj

With the success of Mad Max director George Miller had his pick of films to direct, but he chose to return to the post-apocalyptic Australian outback for a second Mad Max film -- The Road Warrior...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mad-Max-2-The-Road-Warrior-evr1g1

In 1979 a low budget film exploded from down under to become the most profitable film of all time--Mad Max! Shot for less than half a million Australian dollars the movie launched Mel Gibson to s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Mad-Max-evr1b8

Before making it big with Jaws Steven Spielberg was honing his directing skills on television. Spielberg's first feature-length film was, in fact, Duel a made-for-television ABC Movie of the Week...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Steven-Spielbergs-Duel-evr1ve

Universal thought the Fast and Furious franchise was unstoppable. With each new sequel grossing more than the previous instalment, they fast tracked Furious 7, even if it meant losing long time s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Furious-7-evr1f6

With Fast Five director Justin Lin opened the car racing franchise up to a wider audience. With in his final film in the series, Fast & Furious 6, Lin tried to continue that trend, setting Vin Di...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fast--Furious-6-evr1vf

Director Justin Lin had one thought going into his third Fast and Furious movie--what if they didn't make it a Fast and Furious film. Rather than focusing on fast cars and racing, Fast Five becom...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fast-Five-evr1b9

After the third Fast and Furious movie crashed at the box office the series could have run out of gas for good--until original stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker returned to give it a jump start! W...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fast-and-Furious-evr1fh

The third Fast and Furious film took a sharp turn, leaving the series' previous actors in the dust to tell a new story about a rebellious teen racing on the streets of Tokyo. The series has a new...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Fast-and-the-Furious-Tokyo-Drift-evr1gd

We live in a world where collusion among the rich destroy the middle class and keep the poor as working cattle. Everyone knows that. But in They Live it's revealed that the elite are actually wor...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/They-Live-evr1l4

When The Fast and The Furious raced up the box office Universal Pictures thought they had a franchise on their hands and hit the NOS for a sequel--with or without Vin Diesel. So for 2 Fast 2 Furi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/2-Fast-2-Furious-evr1b2

Pixar films including Toy Story, Monsters Inc., and Finding Nemo, had been smash hits. But could this success that worked on toys, fish, bugs, and beasts, work for a movie starring a roster of hu...

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An undercover police officer infiltrates a group of thieves, but can he resist the lure of the subculture and do his duty? No, we're not talking the Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze film Point Break--...

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From the director of X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass comes Kingsman: The Secret Service. Like Kick-Ass, this film is also based on an original comic by Mark Millar, but now the pair are focusing ...

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The making of this film is unlike any other: director Richard Linklater and his stars convened annually over the span of twelve years to make a movie about a boy growing into a man. The sheer sco...

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It's been 18 years since Céline and Jesse met on that Vienna-bound train, both in real life and for the two fictional characters played by Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke. But where has time taken t...

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It was unexpected that Before Sunrise, the 1995 indie romance film, would get a sequel. Long discussed by stars and director alike, the thought of Céline and Jesse reuniting on screen seemed imp...

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It is rare for a romance film to get a sequel, but Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise actually got two! Released in 1995, the movie tells of two strangers, Jesse and Céline, and their one night ...

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After the box office success of Carrie and The Shining move movies based on Stephen King's writings were a guarantee. And following in the footsteps of Brian DePalma and Stanley Kubrick came othe...

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"You think we need one more? You think we need one more. All right, we'll get one more." That quote, from 2001's Ocean's Eleven, seems like it could be the attitude going into Steven Soderberg's ...

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Director Steven Soderbergh won big with his Vegas film Ocean's 11. So three years later he decided to double down, getting back the whole cast from the first film, including Clooney, Pitt, Damon,...

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In 2001 it's doubtful anyone was begging for a remake of the 60's Rat Pack film Ocean's 11. It was the cast that grabbed moviegoers' attention, filled with leading men George Clooney, Matt Damon,...

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A young farmer must learn magic and join with a rouge warrior to travel to far away lands and save the world. No, this isn't a review of Star Wars, but Willow--the 1988 action-fantasy film based ...

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Before there was Clooney, Pitt, and Damon there was Sinatra, Martin, and Davis starring in Ocean's 11. This 1960 crime caper was the first film to feature The Rat Pack, with Ol' Blue Eyes himself...

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Horror film remakes have been non-stop for a decade. Of course the big films were redone, including Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Friday the 13th, and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Yet eve...

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1980 saw the release of several memorable slasher films, including Friday the 13th, Silent Scream, New Year's Evil, and Prom Night. Yet of all the 1980s slashers none may be more controversial th...

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It's considered by many to be Stephen King's best novel of all time -- The Stand. King's fourth novel told of a superflu that wipes out humanity and sets the stage for an epic battle of good vers...

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Ever since Disney purchased Marvel Comics a family-friendly superhero cartoon was all but guaranteed. But it's not the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, or the X-Men who star in Disney's first Marvel...

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George Lucas' 1977 space fantasy Star Wars changed the way American audiences consumed films. More, though, it also changed the landscape for movie merchandising, with more money being made on to...

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Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar tells of an Earth that is dying; those who don't starve to death will suffocate in an atmosphere turning toxic. Our only hope comes in the form of Cooper (M...

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After bringing respectability back to the Dark Knight with the 2005 film Batman Begins Nolan reteamed with two of that film's leading actors, Christian Bale and Michael Caine, for The Prestige--...

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After directing the indie hit Memento director Christopher Nolan was chosen by producer Steven Soderbergh to direct Insomnia--a crime thriller based on the 1997 Norwegian film of the same name....

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In 2001 Christopher Nolan broke into mainstream filmmaking with Memento--a noir murder mystery about a man who had no short-term memory trying to find his wife's killer. With a quirky concept an...

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In 2001 Christopher Nolan broke into mainstream filmmaking with Memento--a noir murder mystery about a man who had no short-term memory trying to find his wife's killer. With a quirky concept an...

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Christopher Nolan is one of the most acclaimed directors currently working in American cinema. His films bend the mind and break the box office--his Batman film The Dark Knight is the fourth high...

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Last summer's supernatural horror film The Conjuring scared up big profits for Warner Bros. Pictures. While ghostly Bathsheba terrorized the house, it was possessed doll Annabelle that stole the ...

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When Tim and Allie's car breaks down on the desert streets of California the only help they can find is from nearby farmer Preacher and his Ukrainian wife Oksana. But one night in that house may ...

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Last summer a low budget horror film surprised box office pundits and horror fans alike. The weekend the big-budget films RED 2 and R.I.P.D. opened, the box office champion was The Conjuring. Di...

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Stephen King's short story "Children of the Corn" ties Carrie for being adapted for screens three times. The first was the "Dollar Baby" Disciples of the Crow, then in 1984 came the well-known fi...

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This week listeners get two servings of Corn as Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart return to review the seventh Children of the Corn film, Revelation. Set not in Gatlin, Nebraska but rather in Omaha, featu...

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The Children of the Corn are all grown up, but original cult leader Isaac is back to lead them! The role of the original corn killer was reprised by John Franklin who not only starred but co-wrot...

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Allison knows her brother has joined a cult of young people who worship He Who Walks Behind the Rows, but she doesn't know that he's slated to be sacrificed on the eve of his eighteenth birthday....

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The ghost of a child evangelist possesses the youth of Grand Island, Nebraska. Can medical student Grace stop this preaching poltergeist before he possesses the body of her daughter? More importa...

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It's not unusual for the children of Gatlin to kill their parents. What is unusual is for those children to then move to a foster home in Chicago. But that is what happens in Children of the Corn...

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Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice was released to little fanfare and was barely in theaters. The sequel had no involvement by original author Stephen King, and no returning members of t...

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More than 20 films have been adapted from short stories in Stephen King's 1978 collection Night Shift, but almost half of those films are based on one tale: "Children of the Corn." The story tell...

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Platinum Dunes Studios has released more franchise reboots than original films, attempting to update horror classics Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a new ...

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When teased at the end of Thor: The Dark World, the Guardians of the Galaxy looked like a bunch of a-holes. But this past weekend Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot proved their w...

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to their animated roots for 2007's computer-rendered TMNT. With a complex plot that spans millennia, involves an immortal Aztec and his stone statue genera...

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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Excellent adventure continue with their third live-action film. It's a New York Ninja in Lord Norinaga's Court when the teens time travel to feudal Japan. Is thi...

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was a sure thing. The original became the most profitable independent film of all time, the toys were still selling well, and the Turtles w...

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Leonardo. Donatello. Michelangelo. Raphael. To an art student these names may conjure the image of the Renaissance masters but to generations of children these name mean only one thing--Teenage M...

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Podcastbots, prepare to roll out! The Transformers are back in Age of Extinction, the fourth live-action robot fight-fest from high-octane director Michael Bay. With the biggest movie opening in ...

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In the trailer for Maximum Overdrive writer/director Stephen King said "I just wanted someone to do Stephen King right." Critics, audiences, and even King himself have since said that King's di...

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In 1986 Stephen King promised to scare the hell out of us, while Marvel's Green Goblin glowed behind him. The film was Maximum Overdrive--an adaptation of the author's short story "Trucks" from t...

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By 1984 Kubrick's 2001 was considered a film classic and the forefather of the modern science fiction film. But while Arthur C. Clarke continued the Odyssey on the page it wasn't until 1984 that ...

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Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey changed film forever. Its effects created a visual language that would later be built on in George Lucas' Star Wars, Ridley Scott's Alien, Steven Spielberg...

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Marvel's Avengers film upped audience expectations by bringing four solo cinematic superheroes together for one explosive adventure. Now Fox tries to go one better by bringing two entire supertea...

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The King of the Monsters was King of the Box Office last weekend. This hotly anticipated reboot of the sixty-year-old monster movie grossed nearly $200 million worldwide, proving audiences still ...

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Stephen King sued to get his name removed from New Line Cinema's film The Lawnmower Man. Then stars Jeff Fahey and Pierce Brosnan moved on to other projects as well. Even director Brett Leonard ...

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There have been a lot of bad Stephen King films, and a lot of films based on the author's works that are virtually unrecognisable from their source material. But of all the films bearing Stephen...

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Rhino. Electro. Green Goblin. In 2012's The Amazing Spider-Man the web head had a hard time defeating one bad guy, but now he is up against three. With The Amazing Spider-Man 2 director Mark Webb...

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At a secret military base in Antarctica an evil force has arrived. Now the survivors of Ice Station Erebus don't know who's human, who's a demon, and who's come back for more...from the dead! Is...

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You can't keep a good greaser down! In the 1950s Tony Reno and his gang died while trying to perform a human sacrifice, but now they're back from the dead to complete their quest for immortality...

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Sometimes the dead stay buried. Sometimes they come back. Based on the Stephen King short story from his Night Shift collection, this CBS TV movie introduces us to Jim Norman, a teacher with a t...

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The First Avenger is back in the latest film from the unstoppable Marvel Cinematic Universe. With a mysterious new assassin out to kill Captain America and S.H.I.E.L.D. turning on him, it's up to...

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You can't keep a good laundry machine down! We may not have Robert Englund or Ted Levine but the titular, demonically possessed, homicidal clothes press is back for blood in The Mangler Reborn. ...

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The first rule of Fight Club is the one that's most broken. Especially in 1999 when this film was new, fans had to share their thoughts and feelings about this anti-consumer culture, revolutionar...

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In the last film The Mangler was a killer laundry press. But that film was made in the 20th Century so now, with The Mangler 2, we get a Mangler for a new generation: a killer computer virus down...

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Workers keep dying at the Blue Ribbon Laundry Service, chewed up by The Mangler--a giant industrial laundry press. Is the machine broken, or is it possessed by a demon? Directed by Tobe Hooper an...

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It’s hard to decide what's worst about working at the Bachman Textile Plant. It could be the lack of air conditioning. It could be the boss who coerces female employees for sex. Actually the wo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Graveyard-Shift-evr1om

What do a man trying to quit smoking, a man running away with his lover, and a troll have in common? They're all stories told in Cat's Eye, the 1985 anthology film starring Drew Barrymore. The fi...

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Stephen King has over 50 feature films based on his writings. But beyond the feature films are hundreds of student-made short films based on King's short stories, completely authorized by the aut...

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Robocop is back! After two theatrical sequels that quickly declined in quality, a syndicated TV series, and a series of TV movies, the cyborg cop is back in theaters with a totally new take on th...

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It's been a long road but we have reached the climax of the Robocop: Prime Directives series. Kaydick and Robocable have infiltrated OCP, planning to use their SAINT computer system to spread the...

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There is a new threat to Delta City, and his name is Kaydick. Having invented Legion, a virus that will destroy both technology and people, Kaydick is ready to annihilate all of humanity, and wit...

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Robocop has been feeling obsolete after a decade of paroling Delta City, but he's not ready to be shut down yet! When he is framed for a series of destructive acts, actually done by his former po...

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Robocop, the franchise, was considered obsolete, broken down, and forgotten in the early 21st century. So what better than to make four films in which Robocop, the character, is considered obsole...

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Clarence Boddicker couldn't kill Officer Alex Murphy--the policeman rose again as the unstoppable Robocop. But what Boddicker started director Fred Dekker finished with Robocop 3. With a new man ...

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When Alex Murphy was killed in the line of duty OCP brought in their best scientists to rebuild him as the bigger, stronger Robocop. When Paul Verhoeven chose to make Total Recall instead of Robo...

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Robocop has been the star of numerous comic books, TV series, cartoons, video games, and more. His legacy is even worthy of a cinematic remake, hitting theaters in February, 2014. It's quite the ...

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While the frequency of their collaborations has slowed, Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are together again in 2013's Oscar-bating docu-comedy The Wolf of Wall Street. DiCaprio plays real-li...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Wolf-of-Wall-Street-evr1gt

It may only take a drop of water to make a new gremlin, but it took six years and a slew of writers, directors, and concepts to make a new Gremlins film. Finally original director Joe Dante retur...

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In the mid 1980s there was no bigger name in film than Steven Spielberg. As a director he had a string of major hits, including E.T. which became the top grossing film of all time. Even films he ...

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Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is considered a horror classic, but original Shining author Stephen King never felt it lived up to his original vision. So in 1997, for the novel's 20th anniversary,...

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Stephen King is a best selling, award winning horror author. Stanley Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. When these two came together a horror classic was born -- T...

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When the first TV miniseries based on 'Salems Lot came out in 1979 Stephen King was an up-and-coming author. His novels had become bestsellers based of popularity of Brian DePalma's film Carrie, ...

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A Return to Salem's Lot has a town called Salem's Lot and vampires. Beyond that, this direct-to-video release has no ties to Tobe Hooper's 1979 TV mini-series or Stephen King's original novel. Bu...

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When Carrie came out in 1976 Stephen King was an unknown author, but after the success of Brian DePalma's film the author was put in the spotlight. His older books became paperback bestsellers, a...

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It will be 2015 before the Avengers assemble on the big screen again, but Disney and Marvel will fill that time with films focusing on individual Avengers and their disassembled heroics. Earlier ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thor-The-Dark-World-evr1l1

In 1982 DC's Swamp Thing seemed ready for the big time with a major motion picture. But with that original film failing to grow on audiences, it would actually be in 1983 that Swamp Thing blossom...

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Charlie Brewster is a teenager with nothing on his mind but his girlfriend Amy. But one night out his bedroom window Charlie sees a woman bitten by a vampire. No one believes Charlie's story, not...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Fright-Night-2-New-Blood-evr1n8

By 1980 Superman had proven audiences of all ages could watch in wonder as comic books came to life on the big screen. But the next DC hero on the big screen wasn't Batman, Green Lantern, or even...

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The posters declare "You Will Know Her Name" but for fans of horror, Brian DePalma, or Stephen King you already know her name--Carrie, the outcast girl whose telekinetic powers will be both her s...

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Everyone is anxiously awaiting Carrie, the 2013 adaptation of Stephen King's story starring Chloë Grace Moretz--in theaters this Friday! But Carrie has already been retold in the 21st century--...

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The Rage: Carrie 2 is not about Carrie White, the star character in Brian DePalma's 1976 film. Nor is it about another girl named Carrie. No, this movie tells the story of Rachel, Carrie White's...

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It's hard to imagine a time when Stephen King wasn't the king of horror fiction. It's hard to imagine a world without such influential stories including The Shining, The Stand, Christine, and Kin...

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The Lords of Salem -- are they an up and coming rock band? Or are they a coven of reincarnated witches who plan to bring the son of Satan to Earth? In Rob Zombie's latest feature film it's both. ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Lords-of-Salem-evr1gs

Insidious Chapter 2 scared more than audiences, it scared up a huge box office return showing that audiences are still hungry for spooky scares and ghost movies! Picking up mere seconds after the...

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James Wan's first film, Saw, redefined horror for the 2000s. By 2011 the Saw films had run their course, and audiences turned their attention to more ghostly horror in the form of the Paranormal ...

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Riddick is a hard man to kill, but Universal Studios and the poor reception of Chronicles of Riddick almost did the job. Through the tenacity of writer/director David Twohy and star/producer Vin ...

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In Pitch Black Riddick was part of a small group of humans who had to survive one long night. Now Riddick is a warrior going to battle against a Necromonger army to save all of civilization! It's...

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A group of space travelers crash land on a deserted planet populated with carnivorous alien monsters. But perhaps even more dangerous to the survivors is Richard B. Riddick - an escaped convict w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pitch-Black-evr1ni

At the end of the first Kick-Ass film Red Mist plotted his revenge while Kick-Ass enjoyed high school with girlfriend Katie and Hit Girl, orphaned with the death of Big Daddy, had to adjust to no...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Kick-Ass-2-evr1q4

Wolverine cannot be killed, and it seems neither can his film franchise. Despite tepid fan response to X-Men Origins: Wolverine a second solo film featuring Hugh Jackman was quickly put into prod...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Wolverine-evr1k9

Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and all their surviving operatives get a sequel in their sixties with RED 2. Do newcomers Anthony Hopkins and Catherine-Zeta Jones inject fresh blood into this franc...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/RED-2-evr1kp

80s action star Bruce Willis may have gotten older, but he's still considered RED - retired and extremely dangerous. Do Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie have a laugh watching senior citizens strap on pis...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/RED-evr1or

Comic book vets Chris Evans and Idris Elba have joined THE LOSERS - a ragtag band of mercenaries out to punish CIA baddie Jason Patric for a failed Bolivian mission. Should Avatar babe Zoe Saldan...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Losers-evr1h8

What is a Pacific Rim? It's a movie pitting giant robots against giant monsters! Transformers versus Godzilla; the Cloverfield monster versus Robot Jox. The concept is not high art. But behind th...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Pacific-Rim-evr1gf

Has sweet little Natalie Portman been palling around with terrorists? A masked swashbuckler known only as V For Vendetta hopes she'll help him rescue future London from dictators, but has Wachows...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/V-For-Vendetta-evr1un

Viggo Mortensen looks like an unassuming small town diner owner, but to a crew of Philly hoods he's a thug with A History of Violence. Does director David Cronenberg split opinion in his radical ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/A-History-of-Violence-evr1og

Tom Hanks is a cold blooded killer heading down the Road to Perdition, hoping to deliver his son from Irish mobsters he once considered family. Has director Sam Mendes made a comic book Godfather...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Road-to-Perdition-evr1qt

With Christopher Nolan's Batman films Warner Bros. set the gold standard for superhero films.   The Dark Knight was a box office hit, a fan favorite, and even won an Academy Award for acting.  ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Man-of-Steel-evr1n0

With Christopher Nolan's Batman films Warner Bros. set the gold standard for superhero films. The Dark Knight was a box office hit, a fan favorite, and even won an Academy Award for acting. Yet t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Man-of-Steel-evr1p3

For 20 years it seemed Nuclear Man and Lex Luthor really had killed Superman. Every attempt to bring the man of steel back to theaters had fallen through. While fellow DC superhero Batman had a m...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-Returns-evr1hu

Steel may not seem like a Superman movie, but in the 1990s it was as close as Warner Bros could muster. With Batman ushering in a new age of comic book movies there were many attempts to revive t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Steel-evr1k4

Richard Donner, Christopher Reeve, even Richard Lester and the Salkinds, all had declared they were done with Superman. After a disappointing Superman 3 and a disastrous Supergirl the franchise s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-IV-The-Quest-for-Peace-evr1jg

It's been four years since J.J. Abrams beamed aboard as new commander of Star Trek promising fast-tracked movies and TV series. But none of that came to fruition and even before Star Trek Into Da...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Star-Trek-Into-Darkness-evr1jr

With Christopher Reeve growing tired of wearing tights Warner Bros and the Salkinds attempted to recreate the magic with Supergirl. In her first starring role Helen Slater plays Superman's cousin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Supergirl-evr1rg

The Avengers broke box office records taking in more at the US box office in the opening weekend than any other film. With such popularity the world was primed for a follow-up. Now, almost one ye...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Iron-Man-3-evr1k3

1983 was a banner year for computing. Microsoft Windows was announced, Lotus spreadsheets were released and the first IBM clone PC was sold by Compaq. And Gus Gorman builds a supercomputer that b...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-III-evr1j5

After a series of blockbuster, large-scale films director Sam Raimi returned to his horror roots with Drag Me to Hell. While there is no cabin, no necronomicon, and no deadites, this film feels v...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Drag-Me-to-Hell-evr1i9

How much would you give up for the woman you love? For Superman the cost of love is his every power as he chooses to relinquish all that makes him super to live a mortal life with Lois Lane. But ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-II-evr1o9

In 1978 director Richard Donner and a team of cutting-edge optical effects artists made audiences believe a man could fly. Perhaps even more impressive, though, is that stars Christopher Reeve, G...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-evr1gr

Superman. In the 1930s the DC character was a breakout success creating a template for superheroes that would be copied for the next century. In the 1970s he made moviegoers believe a man could f...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Superman-and-the-Mole-Men-evr1dj

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra left many audience members cold, but the box office proved there was a hunger for G.I. Joe movies. A sequel was started, but to give the series a boost of star power t...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/G-I--Joe-Retaliation-evr1ip

With Michael Bay's film Transformers Hasbro proved that its toy lines could be turned into profitable movie franchises and Hasbro also had another major toy line in reserve--G.I. Joe! Like Transf...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/G-I--Joe-The-Rise-of-Cobra-evr1gk

Yo Joe! For almost 50 years G.I. Joe action figures have excited and enthralled children, but it was in the 1980s with the Star Wars inspired comic book, toy line, and cartoon that the G.I. Joe i...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/G-I--Joe-The-Movie-evr1fj

When a terrorist plans to destroy Washington D.C. the only hope for the United States is a confederate soldier with a scar on his face and a chip on his shoulder--Jonah Hex. A strange steampunk w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Jonah-Hex-evr1ns

From the pages of DC’s Hellblazer comics, John Constantine was a blonde, British occult detective with a smoking habit and a bad attitude. The comics had a cult following and in 2005 Warner Bro...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Constantine-evr1mr

Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, those are the heroes DC Comics are known for. But there are others. As we build up to Man of Steel this summer, Now Playing hosts Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie are loo...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tank-Girl-evr1oh

25 years ago Bruce Willis delivered his career-making performance as John McClane in the original Die Hard. To celebrate this milestone, John McClane is back, once again showing terrorists that M...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/A-Good-Day-to-Die-Hard-evr1ke

It had been over a decade since Bruce Willis last played gruff, resilient New York cop John McClane and most fans thought the series finished. But in 2007 it was time for McClane to return to Liv...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Live-Free-or-Die-Hard-e183304

John McClane is back, and for his third film, he's going to Die Hard with a Vengeance. He's been called back into action by a mysterious terrorist with ties to McClane's past. Partnered with Zeus...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Die-Hard-with-a-Vengeance-evrfl8

When Die Hard blew up both Nakatomi Plaza and the box office a sequel was fast-tracked and released in 1990. Attempting to top the action and excitement of the original, 20th Century Fox chose a ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Die-Hard-2-Die-Harder-evrfgc

Its title became short-hand for an action movie template that would be followed for a decade. It propelled star Bruce Willis to superstardom, making him never need to work in television again. It...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Die-Hard-e1831la

A homosexual socialite is murdered and dismembered, and it's up to hard-boiled police Detective Joe Leland to figure it out! But there's more to this case than meets the eye, and events will be s...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Detective-evrf1f

After Platinum Dunes recovered Leatherface from direct-to-video hell, they relinquished their rights to the franchise, so Twisted Pictures and Lions Gate Entertainment stepped in to take the seri...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Texas-Chainsaw-3D-evr1ib

In Los Angeles, a man calling himself "Evil" has a novel way to celebrate the coming of a new year--killing a woman every hour as a new time zone enters 1981! In New Year's Evil we follow the man...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/New-Years-Evil-evr1fr

Just in time for the holiday season, genre film studio Anchor Bay released a remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night! Only loosely based on the original, and titled simply Silent Night, the new vers...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night-evr1ld

The Silent Night, Deadly Night films have always been loose with continuity, but in Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker we see yet another exploration of Christmas evil when an angsty Pin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night--Deadly-Night-5-The-Toy-Maker-evr1pm

After three films exploring the homicidal impulses of the Caldwell (or is it Chapman) family, Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 goes a different direction as a wannabe journalist investigates a case o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night--Deadly-Night-4-Initiation-evr1mo

Ricky is back! After being shot at the end of Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, Ricky's brain-dead body is revived after a connection with a blind psychic. With horror vet Bill Moseley taking ov...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night--Deadly-Night-3-Better-Watch-Out-evr1rt

The first Silent Night, Deadly Night film was pulled from theaters due to protests, but in the age of home video it found a second life on VHS. Anxious to capitalize on the first film's notoriety...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night--Deadly-Night-Part-2-evr1ji

In November, 1984 one of the most famous movie slashers hit theaters--Freddy Kruger. But that same day, another serial killer film was released that drew far more attention and ire--Silent Night,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Silent-Night--Deadly-Night-evr1io

After reviewing 25 movies released over the span of 50 years, Now Playing reaches the conclusion of its James Bond retrospective series--Skyfall. Continuing the rebooted spy stories starring Dani...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Skyfall-evr1l2

In 2006 we got a new take on an old hero with James Bond in Casino Royale, but while the film told of the spy's first adventure questions were left unanswered. Who were the mysterious people to w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Quantum-of-Solace-evr1r2

James Bond made his first appearance in Ian Fleming's novels in 1953 in the novel Casino Royale, and in 2006 a brand new James Bond makes his first appearance in a film based on that novel. Right...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Casino-Royale-2006-evr1q1

It's James Bond's first adventure in the 21st century, and Pierce Brosnan's last time playing the role of the British secret agent. Partnered with Halle Berry's NSA agent Jinx Johnson, can the tw...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Die-Another-Day-evr1t6

In Pierce Brosnan's third outing as James Bond he must protect an oil heiress against a mercenary out for revenge, and uncovers a plot that involves a nuclear bomb being detonated in Istanbul. No...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-World-Is-Not-Enough-evr1t5

Bond has taken on evil in many forms, from expansionist communist regimes to maniacal villains who wish to destroy Earth, but can Bond take on the villain of the 90s--the media? In Brosnan's seco...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Tomorrow-Never-Dies-evr1if

After the longest hiatus in the history of the James Bond flm franchise, Bond is back and now portrayed by former Remington Steele actor Pierce Brosnan. In a post-Cold War era, can Bond remain re...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Goldeneye-evr1q5

Dalton is Bond, but no longer 007 when his License to Kill is revoked! When a drug lord goes after Bond's friend, the spy will stop at nothing for revenge. It's a Bond for the 80's, but does it h...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/License-to-Kill-evr1p5

With Roger Moore retiring as James Bond the mantle was passed to British actor Timothy Dalton. Portraying a more modern version of 007, Dalton's Bond had a harder edge and a more action movie fee...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Living-Daylights-evr1ia

Anthology and horror have a long history together in comics, television, and film, with a heyday in the 80s with such films as The Twilight Zone, Nightmares, Cat's Eye, and the Creepshow films. B...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Trick-R-Treat-evr1ij

In 1985 Roger Moore set two records--at 57 years old he was the oldest actor to portray James Bond, and with A View to a Kill his seventh Bond film he played Bond in the official films more times...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/A-View-to-a-Kill-evr1hl

You Only Live Twice declared "Sean Connery IS James Bond"...and then Connery quit and Roger Moore was James Bond. But due to legal wrangling a competing James Bond film was released in 1983 and o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Never-Say-Never-Again-evr1mt

Joss Whedon may have directed the biggest movie of 2012, but it wasn't the only film he released this year. Before Avengers, another Whedon co-written and produced film, Cabin in the Woods, was r...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Cabin-in-the-Woods-evr1qo

After For Your Eyes Only many people thought Roger Moore's Bond was at an All Time High, and with the impending revival of Sean Connery as a competing James Bond Eon was sure to bring back Moore ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Octopussy-evr1m8

After an out of this world adventure, Bond faced a more grounded foe in 1981's For Your Eyes Only. A British spy boat is sunk and Bond must get to its missile control system before the Russians d...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/For-Your-Eyes-Only-evr1i5

James Bond has traveled the world in name of Queen and country, but for his eleventh official movie he has to go where no MI6 agent has gone before--outer space! In Moonraker Bond goes up against...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Moonraker-evr1s1

When both British and Russian nuclear subs disappear, 007 must team up with Soviet Agent Triple X to investigate. But when X discovers Bond killed her lover, things get more complicated. Can they...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Spy-Who-Loved-Me-evr1qh

For Roger Moore's second Bond film every attempt was made to recapture the magic of Goldfinger. With the return of Goldfinger's director Guy Hamilton, another character carrying a golden pistol, ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Man-With-the-Golden-Gun-evr1rl

They tried replacing Sean Connery once and failed. But with Connery's determination to move his career beyond Bond, United Artists had to once again recast the British spy. With the adaptation of...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Live-and-Let-Die-evr1kq

Never Say Never Again isn't the only time Connery played Bond after leaving the role. After George Lazenby's one outing, United Artists decided to take Bond back to its original formula, bringing...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Diamonds-Are-Forever-evr1ik

James Bond is back, but Sean Connery isn't. Instead, wearing the tuxedo and tossing the hat, is George Lazenby, an actor who would play Bond only once. Lazenby was long a punch line for the Bond ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/On-Her-Majestys-Secret-Service-evr1p4

The poster boasted "Sean Connery IS James Bond", and yet You Only Live Twice was released with Eon Productions looking for a replacement actor as Connery had announced he was leaving the role of ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/You-Only-Live-Twice-evr1rs

In 1967 Bond fans were very anxious for the next installment in the series, with Sean Connery returning in You Only Live Twice. But that's not the movie we're reviewing! A few short weeks before ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Casino-Royale-1967-evr1qd

James Bond's fourth theatrical outing has the superspy enjoying the Bahama sun, facing off against SPECTRE to retrieve two stolen nukes! Featuring a bevy of henchmen and extensive underwater sequ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thunderball-evr1kf

Sean Connery's third time was a charm for his James Bond films. With Goldfinger the Bond formula was solidified. The song, the gadgets, the girls, the plots, it all came together for this film, w...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Goldfinger-evr1fo

James Bond is back! In the last film Bond killed SMERSH agent Dr. No, and now No's boss, the mysterious ailurophile Blofeld. His plot--a beautiful Russian double-agent offers to defect in exchang...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/From-Russia-With-Love-evr1it

After years of financial troubles, MGM Studios has finally gotten the next James Bond movie off the ground--this November's Skyfall. And there is no better time for Bond to be back as 2012 is the...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Dr--No-evr1r6

Since Michelle Pfeiffer squeezed into latex in Batman Returns an idea of a Catwoman movie had been teased. Writers, directors, and stars were attached to the project over the years, and it took o...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Catwoman-evr1qa

The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated conclusion to his Batman trilogy, opened last Friday under the pall of a senseless tragedy that occurred at a screening in Colorado. Na...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Dark-Knight-Rises-evr1pa

The Dark Knight opened under the dark cloud of Heath Ledger's death but went on to break box office records and set a new standard for superhero films and cement Christopher Nolan's A-List status...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Dark-Knight-evr1kn

It took eight years after Batman & Robin for the caped crusader to return to theaters with Batman Begins. Directed by a cult director with only two studio films to his name, starring an actor bes...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-Begins-evr1u0

It was to be the biggest Spider-Man movie yet! 3 villains! Green Goblin 2! Sandman! Venom!! If that's not enough trouble for Peter Parker, Mary Jane is also jealous of the new girl Gwen Stacy. It...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Amazing-Spider-Man-evr1m9

It was to be the biggest Spider-Man movie yet! 3 villains! Green Goblin 2! Sandman! Venom!! If that's not enough trouble for Peter Parker, Mary Jane is also jealous of the new girl Gwen Stacy. It...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-3-evr1u5

Raimi's 2002 film Spider-Man went on to be the highest grossing superhero film of all time, and so a sequel was swinging into theaters just 2 years later. Spider-Man 2 brings back all the primary...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-2-evr1fa

Spider-Man is one of the best known comic book superheroes in the world, but his road to the silver screen was a bumpy one. Rights issues, bankruptcy, and technological challenges kept Spider-Man...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-2002-evr1jo

Despite being green lit for a television series, Spider-Man did not live long on CBS before being squashed under the boot of network executives. But the series was given a final hurrah with a two...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-The-Dragons-Challenge-evr1hr

For over a year the hosts of Now Playing have watched and reviewed every movie based off a Marvel Comics series, but now they enter into their last Marvel review series with the most popular Marv...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Spider-Man-1977-evr1lu

After Batman Forever exceeded expectations, a sequel was rushed into production. Trouble on the set led to Val Kilmer being replaced by TV superstar George Clooney, but the real star power was he...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman--Robin-evr1im

After Tim Burton's Batman returned to diminishing results, audiences put off by the salacious Penguin and dark tone, Warner Bros. brought in Lost Boys director Joel Schumacher to give Batman a ne...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-Forever-evr1su

When Batman was a huge success in 1989 a new Batman animated series was immediately approved, but due to the production time of animation it did not premiere until 1992. With a heavy dose of Tim ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman--Mask-of-the-Phantasm-evr1qg

When Batman defied expectations to become the top grossing film of 1989 interest in all things Batman exploded. Batman T-shirts were everywhere, and even the 60s television series enjoyed a reviv...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-Returns-evr1ht

It was a film that couldn't succeed. It was a superhero film starring a comedic actor. It was directed by the quirky, cult Tim Burton. It was a superhero known more for a campy dance than for kic...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-1989-evr1mm

When it comes to box office superheroes, none looms larger than Batman . He dominated theaters in 1989 with Tim Burton's vision of the caped crusader, and in the 21st century Christopher Nolan's ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Batman-1966-evr1mj

THE AVENGERS! Breaking worldwide box office records this super-hero team-up is a film that seems impossible to make, and yet they did! After a year of reviewing movies based on Marvel Comics char...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Avengers-evr1hm

By the summer of 2011 fans were ready for Avengers, but Marvel Studios still had some groundwork to lay before they could assemble. And in July the final character, the First Avenger, was introdu...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Captain-America-The-First-Avenger-evr1s6

In three films Marvel had created a cinematic universe based on science. Iron Man used advanced technology to power an armored suit; Bruce Banner used genetic manipulation and medicine to create ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Thor-evr1rq

The first Iron Man film set the gold (and red) standard for Marvel superheroes in movies, but Marvel Studios knew the pressure was high to build up to The Avengers so just two years later Iron Ma...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Iron-Man-2-evr1sh

Mere months after Iron Man went supersonic at the box office Marvel's second issue of its Avengers movie series smashed its way into theaters--The Incredible Hulk! But after Ang Lee's film disapp...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Incredible-Hulk-evr1i0

Who would win in a fight, Thor or the Hulk? In comic books, team-ups are the stuff of legend, fulfilling geeky desires while also increasing comic sales. But what can easily be done on the page i...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Iron-Man-evr1n2

First Blade, then X-Men, then Spider-Man...Marvel's summer blockbuster films were just getting bigger and bigger, so expectations were high when Hulk smashed out of the small screen and into a bi...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Hulk-evr1nj

A new science experiment holds the key to curing David Banner of the Hulk, but a group of terrorists plan to steal the device and the scientists who created it. In Death of the Incredible Hulk te...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Death-of-the-Incredible-Hulk-evr1nb

After Thor and Hulk was a smash hit in the ratings another Hulk movie was quickly approved. David Banner is arrested for a murder he didn't commit, set up by crime Kingpin Wilson Fisk, and the on...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Trial-of-the-Incredible-Hulk-evr1si

In 1987 The Incredible Hulk Returns and he brought a friend with him--Thor! Comic book crossovers are the thing of geek legend. Everyone wants to know who will win in a fight, Batman or Spider-Ma...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Incredible-Hulk-Returns-evr1kr

In November 1977, The Incredible Hulk premiered on CBS. But just a few weeks later, a second pilot movie aired to gauge audience reception to the now-famous Incredible Hulk formula. David Banner,...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Return-of-the-Incredible-Hulk-Death-in-the-Family-evr1qp

The Incredible Hulk has been a staple in Marvel Comics since his first appearance in 1962, but to many The Hulk is less known for his comic book persona than his portrayal by Lou Ferrigno in CBS'...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Incredible-Hulk-1977-evr1kd

After Ghost Rider set theaters ablaze in 2007 a sequel seemed assured, but it took five years to get here. But now Nicholas Cage returns in the quasi-rebooted Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Jo...

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With a flaming skull, a leather jacket, and a bad bike, Ghost Rider embraced the biker comics counterculture in the 70's and had a resurgance as a dark hero in the 90's. The first Ghost Rider fil...

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In 1978, before the Captain America films, CBS was still trying to replicate the successes of their Wonder Woman and Incredible Hulk TV series, but their next attempt to launch a superhero show d...

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In the early 1990s the country was hungry for more superhero films. Batman had come out and shown us that comic book characters could be done without camp, and studios rushed to get more superher...

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In 1979 Captain America had not one but two TV movies! The first was a pilot for a possible series. The second was Captain America 2 - Death Too Soon! Reb Brown returned as Steve Rogers, the ex-M...

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In the 1940's Captain America was born with a punch to Hitler's jaw. In the 60's he was thawed out again to help lead Marvel's super-team The Avengers. And in the 70's, when superhero shows Wonde...

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During the Cold War, only one man could protect America from the evil terrorist forces of HYDRA - Nick Fury, director of ! But the Berlin Wall fell, HYDRA'S leader Baron Wolfgang von Strucker was...

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In 14 years Sylvester Stallone had made five Rocky films, and for a long time it was easy to assume Rocky V was the last film. A financial failure and derided by critics and fans alike, it seems ...

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After Rocky defeated Drago, and Communism, in Rocky 4, The Italian Stallion returned to his roots for Rocky 5. The director of the original Rocky film, John G. Avildsen, is back in the diretor's ...

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Rocky went the distance with Apollo Creed, found the Eye of the Tiger and beat Clubber Lang, but four his next fight he's taking on the biggest enemy of all--communism! When Russian Olympic Gold ...

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As heavyweight champion Rocky traded his passion for glory. Now he worries more about his product endorsements and his new, plastic surgery enhanced face than his boxing matches. Fortunately Rock...

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Despite losing the boxing match by decision, Rocky was the undisputed box office champion of 1976. So three years later, the Italian Stallion was back on the big screen and this time he was there...

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It's sometimes hard to believe Sylvester Stallone is an Oscar nominated actor and writer. After all, Demolition Man and The Expendables aren't usually the films that get Academy notice. But in hi...

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The Punisher's attempts at a franchise continue to be shot down. While 2004's Punisher film failed to blow up the box office, strong DVD sales convinced Lionsgate to move ahead on a sequel--only ...

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With Blade a cinematic success Artisan Entertainment brought another R-rated Marvel property to the big screen--The Punisher. Starring Thomas Jane in the title role and John Travolta as bad guy g...

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In 1989 the second Marvel Comics hero got his shot at big screen glory -- The Punisher, a murderous vigilante who dispenses the ultimate punishment to criminals. To comic book fans, Dolph Lundgre...

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After Red Dragon's success more Lecter films were guaranteed, and to keep with author Thomas Harris' original vision this time the movie was not just based on one of his novels--the Hannibal Risi...

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Quickly after Hannibal hit theaters production began on yet another installment of the Hannibal Lecter franchise, and this time instead of looking forward to Harris writing another Hannibal story...

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Warning: This podcast deals with subject matter that will be objectionable to the vast majority of listeners. No one under the age of 18 should listen, and those over the age of 18 should listen ...

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When Silence of the Lambs was received with critical acclaim and box office success, audiences waited with baited breath for the reunion of the cannibal and the agent -- Hannibal and Clarice. But...

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It's iconic. Fava Beans and Chianti. Quid Pro Quo. Goodbye Horses. Based on Thomas Harris' second novel, Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster, and director Jonathan Demme came together and made a pictur...

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Before Anthony Hopkins was having fava beans and a nice chianti, Hannibal Lector was played by Brian Cox in Manhunter, a 1986 film from Miami Vice's Michael Mann. A serial killer is on the loose ...

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Daredevil made money but when Affleck became toxic at the box office, Fox studios proceeded with a spin-off rather than a sequel, and despite being dead at the end of Daredevil Jennifer Garner wa...

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After the success of X-Men, 20th Century Fox quickly green-lit another Marvel superhero film--Daredevil! With Ben Affleck still riding his career high after The Sum of All Fears cast as the blind...

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Blade II made over $150 million worldwide, so it was no surprise that two years later Blade was back in theaters. What was surprising is he brought friends, in the form of Jessica Biel, Parker Po...

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Blade was an unexpected hit in 1998, and so in 2002 Wesley Snipes returned to the role for the first sequel in his career. This time, with a still mostly unknown Guillermo del Toro at the helm, a...

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By 1998, the only Marvel Comics character to get a wide theatrical release was Howard the Duck. But Dark Knight writer David Goyer would change all that with Blade, starring Wesley Snipes as the ...

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Dracula, Lestat, Angel, Nosferatu, Spike...Jerry??? While Hollywood continues to mine all vampire properties to build on the current fang mania, the 1985 cult film Fright Night was not one with t...

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Now Playing finishes its Final Destination Retrospective Series with the newest installment in the series. Sam and his coworkers are on their way to a work retreat when a bridge collapse nearly k...

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Despite having dusted Jerry in the first Fright Night film, Charlie Brewster has been convinced by his therapist that there are no such thing as vampires, and yet when Jerry's sister Regine comes...

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In 2009 Rob Zombie returned to the twisted mind of Michael Myers in Halloween 2...and no one cared because horror films had entered a new dimension: 3-D! Capitalizing on this new cinema gimmick w...

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Jerry and Billy would be great neighbors, were it not for all the apple cores they leave in the yard, and the bodies of dead prostitutes they take out in garbage bags. But while the rest of the n...

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You could describe Wendy's life as a roller coaster. She is facing high school graduation, her best friend is about to dump her doe-eyed boyfriend, and she's having psychic visions--of a roller c...

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With stars Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, and directed by Jon Faverau, Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart were roped in to seeing Cowboys & Aliens this past weekend. A mash-up of western and sci-fi based ...

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Death's design was thwarted in the first Final Destination film...or was it? In Final Destination 2, death continues to haunt Ali Larter's Clear to show, as Bludworth said, "You don't even want t...

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The first Fantastic Four film was never released. The second time, the film was released to modest box office and poor reviews. But now Marvel's first family is back, and they've brought friends-...

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In 2000 the new wave of teen horror started by Scream ruled the box office. A slew of imitators jumped on the horror bandwagon only to flame out, but one new series found its legs and continues t...

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After over 20 years of trying, the Fantastic Four have finally arrived on the big screen in this big budget blockbuster! Made by 20th Century Fox, they obviously hoped to have a franchise to alte...

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In this first installment, the Now Playing hosts watch a film never meant to be seen -- 1994's Fantastic Four. Made on the cheap and possibly never intended for release, this film has become lege...

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Transformers: Dark of the Moon made headlines this weekend. Despite Revenge of the Fallen being almost universally hated by critics and Transformers fans alike, the third Bayformers film has kept...

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Tonight Transformers: Dark of the Moon opens in theaters, several days earlier than originally scheduled, but you can prepare for your Transformers experience by joining Arnie, Stuart, and Jerry ...

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Now Playing has a bonus episode for you: BECAUSE YOU DEMANDED IT, Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart take a break from their Marvel Comics based movie reviews to look at a DC Comics property--Green Lantern...

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Continuing our Transformers Retrospective Series, Arnie, Jerry, and Stuart look at Michael Bay's 2007 Transformers, affectionately known among fans as Bayformers! Do director Michael Bay and prod...

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For this first episode we go back to where it all began, with the Transformers 1986 animated theatrical film! The final fight of Optimus Prime vs Megatron, the ascension of Hot Rod, and guest voi...

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The final episode in our X-Men retrospective series is here as the latest X-Men film, X-Men: First Class, is released. With Matthew Vaughn, director of the beloved Kick-Ass comic adaptation, behi...

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Hugh Jackman has gone solo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, a prequel showing Wolverine's life from his boyhood in 19th Century Canada through his memory loss at Three Mile Island. And in place of th...

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With Bryan Singer graduating from Mutant High to direct Superman, and taking most of his production crew with him, it fell to Brett Ratner to complete the X-Men trilogy. The war Magneto had fores...

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Professor X, Magneto, and most of the mutants from X-MEN return to the big screen three years after their debut - sporting higher production values, sharper social commentary, an enlarged cast, a...

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When you think of comic book superhero movies, do you think of concentration camps, human rights, and deep questions, starring both past and future Oscar winning actors? While certainly not the n...

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Before there was X-Men...there was Generation X! For fans of the X-Men who had grown up watching the cartoon and reading the comics there would be a long wait, until 2000, for the X-Men to grace ...

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It has been eleven years since Sydney, Gale, Dewey, and Ghostface took Hollywood, but now they are back home in Woodsboro for Scream 4 where our survivors and a new cast of comely high school stu...

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When Scream 3 came out, it was intended to be the last installment in the Scream series. While we know now that would prove to not be the case, in 2000 Scream 3 looked to be the conclusion of wha...

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Ghostface is back stalking Sydney and her friends, this time at Windsor College. In the script, screenwriter Kevin Williamson calls out that "by definition alone, sequels are inferior films". Doe...

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With Scream 4 coming out, it's time to follow the rules of a Now Playing Retrospective series and rule number 1 is Arnie, Stuart, and Marjorie are looking back at the entire Scream series, arguab...

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He has no powers, no girlfriend, no cool outfit, but /Dave Lizewski can still Kick-Ass in the film directed by future X-Men First Class director Matthew Vaughn. With it's balance of humor and vio...

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Rising from the swamps comes a humanoid creature made of pure plant matter - Marvel's Man-Thing! A cult comic book character, Man-Thing was promoted to Marvel Movie Star in 2005 to capitalize on ...

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Fresh off the success of Return of the Jedi, blockbuster movie producer George Lucas was thought to have the golden touch and be able to do no wrong, but Lucas has always been one to do the impos...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Howard-the-Duck-evr1rp

Potential New York senator Matt Damon finds more than paparazzi on his tail when attempts to date ballerina Emily Blunt disrupt the predestined order of the universe, and draw out a cosmic cleani...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/The-Adjustment-Bureau-evr1ui

Nicolas Cage's movie choices can often be unpredictable, even to a psychic deity like Philip K Dick's The Golden Man. Was playing an omniscient mutant on the run a step in the right direction for...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Next-evr1m1

Keanu, Wynona, and notorious Hollywood bad boys Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr toon in and drop out in this trippily animated adaptation of Philip K Dick's autobiographical novel concerning...

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Was it all about the PAYCHECK for matinee idol Affleck when he signed on to play a classically conflicted Philip K Dick character piecing together memories of a top secret assignment he completed...

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In 2002, Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise synced heads to conjure a Philip K Dick vision of the future where a trio of psychics can convict murderers before a life is taken. But will Now Playing's...

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FORREST GUMP's Gary Sinise is a scientist developing a bomb to eradicate alien invaders, who has the tables turned on him when he is accused of being a robotic assassin sent to blow up Earth's wa...

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In 1995, ROBOCOP star Peter Weller signed up for more cybernetic carnage playing the leader of a space colony overrun by war machines originally designed to protect them from a human enemy. Will ...

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In 1990, Philip K Dick's "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" fuelled a rocket to Mars for action star Arnold Schwartzenegger, landing him one of his biggest box office successes and most compl...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Total-Recall-evr1jn

Harrison Ford took a break from STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES to play cynical bounty hunter Rick Deckard in an expensive adaptation of Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". A flop...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Blade-Runner-evr1ub

Over 27 years after an original film that Disney desperately hopes you don't remember all that well, Tron Legacy hits theaters in a big way. A film generating a lot of buzz and interest in a holi...

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Another holiday season podcast coming to you, as a thanks from us at Now Playing to you for helping nominate us for a Podcast Award at podcastawards.com {Black Christmas Series}

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A black little package for under your tree this holiday season, as a thanks from us at Now Playing to you for helping nominate us for a Podcast Award at podcastawards.com {Black Christmas Serie...

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Light Cycles. Neon Frisbees. Arcade games. These are the iconic and nostalgic images that come to mind when you think of Tron, Disney's "ahead of its time" 1982 cult classic that had Jeff Bridges...

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20 Years after Rambo 3 crashed at the box office like a chopper into a tank, John Rambo returned to the big screen. Stallone, still in the afterglow of his acclaimed return as Rocky Balboa, repri...

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After Rambo First Blood Part II blew up at the box office like napalm on a waterfall it was inevitable that Stallone would reprise the role for another outing. This time, Rambo heads to war-torn ...

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In 1985 Stallone returned to theaters as Rambo. Rambo returned to Vietnam to rescue POWs. And now, Brock, Jakob, and Arnie return to Now Playing to review Rambo: First Blood Part II, and they get...

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John Rambo, as embodied by Sylvester Stallone, is arguably one of the biggest cinematic icons of the 1980s. Oscar-nominated for Rocky, Stallone's non-Rocky film career was on the ropes when Stall...

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After Paranormal Activity upset Saw as the Horror King of Halloween last year, the makers of the Saw film franchise decided that the seventh installment of Saw would be the last, and to provide a...

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After Platinum Dune's Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot cut deep in the box office, another installment was inevitable, but with Leatherface left one-armed, and scene stealing R Lee Ermey's Sheriff ...

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When the fourth Texas Chainsaw Massacre was released quietly to video, it seemed Leatherface's terrorizing of Texas teens had been terminated. Only Michael Bay and his new production company Plat...

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Now Playing has yet another bonus mid-week episode for you: The Social Network, which held the number 1 box office spot for its first two weeks! From David Fincher (Fight Club, Seven) and Aaron S...

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For the 20th anniversary of the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre in 1994, Kim Henkel, writer of the 1974 classic, returned to write and direct the franchise's fourth installment. Starring then-u...

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Leatherface lurked in the corners while contemporary killers Jason and Freddy stole his spotlight, but now New Line Cinema, The House that Freddy Built, has taken Leatherface on to be their next ...

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By 1986 horror was very much in the mainstream. Freddy and Jason were exceptionally profitable franchises, and so it was put on Tobe Hooper to return to Texas and bring back Leatherface and the f...

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In 1974 Tobe Hooper unleashed into theaters horror unlike any seen before and started the modern slasher genre with the seminal horror film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Audiences watched in terro...

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The Lost Boys 2 was Warner Bros’ highest selling DVD release in 2008, so it should surprise no one that Corey Feldman is again back as Edgar Frog. This time, Edgar, faced with financial problem...

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After 20 years and a series of aborted sequels, Lost Boys fans had pretty much given up hope on their favorite vampire saga returning to the big screen. But in 2008 a sequel finally found its way...

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Before he was Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland was David, the charismatic leader of a rebellious vampire tribe in Santa Carla, California in the first Lost Boys movie. When single mother Lucy Emerso...

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Scott Pilgrim jumps out of the comic books and onto the movie screens in Scott Pilgrim vs the World, an imaginative and fast-paced movie directed by Edgar Wright. Does this adaptation work as a m...

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When the X-Files series ended, Mulder was on the run, Scully quit the FBI, and aliens were still planning to take over the Earth. Fans were left in suspense, but after a long period in developmen...

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Federal buildings being bombed, FEMA plotting to overthrow the government, and extra-terrestrials plotting with The Syndicate to turn the human race into drone slaves. In the 90’s, this dense m...

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Bursting onto the scene with Memento, Christopher Nolan has become one of the most watched genre director, breaking the box office with The Dark Knight as well as warping minds with The Prestige,...

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It’s been 20 years since they’ve had their own film, but thanks to Robert Rodriguez the Predators are back on the big screen! Producer Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal are taking the alien...

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Paul W.S. Anderson’s match-up between Aliens and Predators may have left many fans of both franchises out in the cold, but the box office tallies made a rematch inevitable–thus 20th Century F...

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When Freddy and Jason’s team-up killed at the box office, it didn’t take long for 20th Century Fox to green-light another long-anticipated cinematic crossover–Alien vs. Predator. Having alr...

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Remember 1997 when the Jamaican gangs were terrorizing Los Angeles and everyone was carrying guns in the 105 degree heat? Well you can relive those days along with Arnie, Stuart, and Brock as the...

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An invisible alien Predator hunts a team of super-commandos in a Central American jungle, and it must be some hunter to take on Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Richard Chaves, Jesse Ventura, and Arnold...

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Over 25 years after Danielsan first craned kicked his way into movie history comes this remake of The Karate Kid, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan. Shot on location in China and featuring Kun...

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Arnie interviews Heather Langenkamp about the Nightmare on Elm Street documentary Never Sleep Again! And as a bonus, we have a never-before released interview with Robert Englund! {Nightmare on...

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In 1994 The Karate Kid tried to be the comeback kid in this soft rebooting of the series. Gone is the aging protagonist played by Ralph Macchio, and he has been replaced by future Academy Award w...

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Three years after the release of The Karate Kid Part II, Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi were back in California, and in theaters with the aptly named The Karate Kid Part III. Now Daniel must defen...

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In 1984 The Karate Kid crane-kicked the box office, and it didn’t take Mr. Miyagi to realize a sequel would be fast-tracked. Released in the summer of 1986, The Karate Kid Part II took Daniel L...

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It’s the underground horror hit of the year–The Human Centipede. Playing only at midnight showings in select theaters as well as On Demand, this film’s content promises to be one of the rau...

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Did you want to take Karate lessons in 1984? If so, you weren’t alone! When The Karate Kid first came out in it was a smash hit, earning an Oscar nomination for Pat Morita and entering “Wax o...

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Nine, Ten, Freddy’s back in theaters again–and Now Playing is back also with the ultimate review in our Nightmare on Elm Street retrospective series as we review the brand new Nightmare on El...

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Having already fallen for the strong silent type during last year’s Friday The 13th retrospective, Now Playing switches teams for the guy with a good sense of humor in this totally new review o...

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1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you! The reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street hits theaters April. You can start getting ready now with the hosts of Now Playing as we revisit and review all the films ...

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After audiences threw the baby out with the bad slaughter in their mass rejection of Dream Child, New Line knew the days of turning Freddy into Benjamins was drawing short. The sixth entry in the...

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Reigning Dream Master Alice knocked out Kruger the last time, only to find herself knocked up with an unborn son whose prenatal naps mean preternatural nightmares for the teenage baby mama and he...

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In 1987 Freddy was the Box Office Master by scaring up more money than he ever had before, and so in 1988, rushed into production despite such obstacles as a writer’s strike, Freddy was back ag...

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Freddy is back and bigger than ever! (literally. He is taller than a four-story building) And also back are John Saxon and Heather Langenkamp from the first Nightmare on Elm Street movie, and the...

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1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you! The reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street hits theaters April. You can start getting ready now with the hosts of Now Playing as we revisit and review all the films ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-Part-2-Freddys-Revenge-evr1ne

1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you! The reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street hits theaters April. You can start getting ready now with the hosts of Now Playing as we revisit and review all the films ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/A-Nightmare-on-Elm-Street-1984-evr1lk

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are back (as is Leo’s Bah-stan accent) in this noir thriller about an island that serves as a residence for the criminally insane. Scorsese’s most commer...

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Jack Nicholson. Alec Baldwin. Martin Sheen. Matt Damon. Leonardo DiCaprio. It’s an all-star cast, but how well can these movie icons fake a Bah-stan accent? We get to find out in The Departed, ...

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Howard Hughes–director, engineer, nut-job, AVIATOR. Martin Scorsese re-teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio for their second film, a biopic about eccentric millionaire Howard Hughes and the result is ...

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Only a year after the events of 9/11 Martin Scorsese released a film about the people who built New York–Gangs of New York. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis, this film had Oscar ...

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Now Playing is taking a trip Back to the Future! Join us as Brock, Stuart and Arnie take a look back and discuss all three films in this beloved time-travelling comedy adventure series. We conclu...

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Now Playing is taking a trip Back to the Future! Join us as Brock, Stuart and Arnie take a look back and discuss all three films in this beloved time-travelling comedy adventure series. We contin...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Back-to-the-Future-Part-II-evr1tp

Now Playing is taking a trip Back to the Future! Join us as Brock, Stuart and Arnie take a look back and discuss all three films in this beloved time-travelling comedy adventure series. We start ...

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2 years after his last theatrical release, “King of the world” James Cameron is back and once again astounding audiences with bleeding edge special effects in his new epic Avatar, boasting so...

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Jigsaw’s work is almost complete, but from beyond the grave he must attack some of the nation’s biggest problems: predatory mortgage lenders and insurance adjusters. Republicans and Democrats...

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There is a new Jigsaw, and worse he’s being hailed as a hero by the police of Generic City. But FBI Agent Strahm is hot on his trail. Will Strahm succeed where Danny Glover failed? Meanwhile, t...

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At the end of Saw 3 Jigsaw was killed, so why is Donnie Whalburg the New Kid on the Ice Block with a noose around his neck, and will Officer Rigg learn Jigsaw’s lesson in time to save him? More...

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Jigsaw John Kramer is dying of a brain tumor, and it’s up to Dr. Lynn Denlon to keep him alive while they watch Jigsaw’s latest victim Jeff go through a series of tests. Why would Lynn help J...

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With the surprise success of the original Saw, a sequel was inevitable. However who would have guessed it would come out only one year later, or that they would continue being released one-per-ye...

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When Saw came out in 2004 no one expected it to rapidly become the premiere horror franchise of the 21st century, but since then Saw has laid claim to the Halloween holiday, with each year seeing...

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Halloween-Resurrection-evr1tg

With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nowplayingpodcast/episodes/Halloween-H2O-Twenty-Years-Later-evr1t8

With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

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With the release of the latest movie in the Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look into Michael Myers’ family scrapbook, watching and reviewing all ten ...

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