Episodes

Henrique and David answer listener Trenk’s request with The Last Boy Scout (1991), Tony Scott’s bruising Los Angeles action comedy written by Shane Black. Bruce Willis stars as disgraced Secret Service agent turned private detective Joe Hallenbeck, while Damon Wayans plays former pro quarterback Jimmy Dix. When Jimmy’s girlfriend Cory is murdered after obtaining evidence of a sports-gambling conspiracy, the mismatched pair follows the trail toward team owner Sheldon Marcone and Senator Calvin Ba...

Henrique and David enter Lincoln High for Class of 1984 (1982), Mark L. Lester’s confrontational school thriller starring Perry King as idealistic music teacher Andrew Norris. Norris quickly clashes with gifted but dangerous student Peter Stegman, played by Timothy Van Patten, whose punk gang controls the school through intimidation and drug dealing. Roddy McDowall plays exhausted science teacher Terry Corrigan, with Merrie Lynn Ross, Lisa Langlois and a young Michael J. Fox rounding out the cas...

Henrique celebrates his birthday with Puppet Master 4 (1993), the deeply personal comfort-horror choice directed by Jeff Burr. Gordon Currie stars as young artificial-intelligence researcher Rick Myers, whose work attracts murderous Totems sent by the demon god Sutekh. When Andre Toulon’s animated puppets awaken, Blade, Tunneler, Pinhead, Six Shooter and the newly created Decapitron become unlikely protectors. Chandra West, Ash Adams, Teresa Hill and Guy Rolfe join the Full Moon Features ensembl...

Henrique and David launch their back-to-school action theme with listener Wolf’s recommendation, Toy Soldiers (1991). At Virginia’s Regis School, a private academy for rebellious boys, Colombian terrorist Luis Cali takes students and staff hostage while pursuing a federal judge’s son. Sean Astin stars as Billy Tepper, the troublemaker who organizes his friends inside the school, while Andrew Divoff plays Cali and Louis Gossett Jr. brings authority and warmth to Dean Parker. The review follows Bi...

Henrique and David conclude their Martin Mull tribute with My Bodyguard (1980), Tony Bill’s Chicago coming-of-age drama written by Alan Ormsby. Chris Makepeace plays new student Clifford Peache, whose refusal to pay protection money makes him a target for bully Melvin Moody, played by Matt Dillon. Clifford responds by hiring feared loner Ricky Linderman—Adam Baldwin in his film debut—only to discover that the student behind the rumors is grieving, guarded and far more vulnerable than his reputat...

Henrique and David continue their Martin Mull tribute—after debating “Mull-Gust” versus the less painful “Mulling Around”—with Clue (1985). Six strangers arrive at secluded Hill House in 1954 under familiar aliases: Miss Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, Mrs. White, Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum and Mr. Green. When blackmailer Mr. Boddy is killed, butler Wadsworth races the guests and household staff through a stormy mansion to identify the murderer before the bodies multiply. Tim Curry leads Jonathan Ly...

Henrique and David enter the Hollywood studio system for The Player (1992), Robert Altman’s darkly comic adaptation of Michael Tolkin’s novel. Tim Robbins stars as Griffin Mill, an executive who rejects screenplays for a living and begins receiving threatening postcards from an angry writer. When Griffin confronts the wrong suspect, David Kahane, their encounter ends in murder—and the executive tries to protect his career while detectives, blackmail and a possible replacement close in. The hosts...

Henrique and David celebrate Martin Mull with Mr. Mom (1983), the family comedy that gave Michael Keaton his first top-billed feature role. Keaton plays Jack Butler, a Detroit auto engineer who loses his job and becomes a stay-at-home father while his wife, Caroline, returns to advertising. Teri Garr brings warmth and frustration to Caroline as both spouses discover that trading familiar roles changes the household, their confidence and their marriage. The review revisits Jack’s spectacular lear...

Henrique and David close their summer-favorites series with I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), the seaside slasher that followed four friends bound by a deadly secret. Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Freddie Prinze Jr. play Julie, Helen, Barry and Ray, whose Fourth of July celebration ends with a hit-and-run and a pact to hide the body. One year later, a message—and a killer carrying a fisherman’s hook—draws them back together. Director Jim Gillespie turns So...

Henrique and David take the back roads with Monster Man (2003), writer-director Michael Davis’ collision of road-trip comedy, monster-truck mayhem and extreme horror. Eric Jungmann plays cautious Adam, Justin Urich is his obnoxious friend Harley and Aimee Brooks joins them as hitchhiker Sarah. Their cross-country drive becomes a fight for survival when a deformed killer in an enormous truck begins stalking them through isolated highways, bars, woods and a deeply unsettling roadside motel. The ho...

Henrique and David return to the summer of 1962 for The Sandlot (1993), David Mickey Evans’ beloved story of childhood friendship and baseball. Tom Guiry plays Scotty Smalls, a new kid who cannot catch a ball and struggles to meet anyone in his neighborhood. Mike Vitar’s gifted Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez welcomes him onto a rowdy sandlot team, opening a season of night games, rivalries, fireworks, swimming-pool schemes and adventures beyond the outfield fence. The hosts praise how the film makes ...

Henrique and David chase the storm with Twister (1996), Jan de Bont’s Oklahoma disaster adventure starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary Elwes. Hunt plays meteorologist Jo Harding, whose obsession with tornadoes is rooted in a terrifying childhood loss. Paxton is Bill, her estranged husband and former storm chaser, who arrives seeking divorce papers with therapist Melissa Reeves—only to be pulled back toward Jo, their research team and a dangerous outbreak. The mission centers on Dorothy, a c...

Henrique and David begin their summer series at Camp Firewood with Wet Hot American Summer (2001), David Wain and Michael Showalter’s absurd comedy about the last day of camp in 1981. Janeane Garofalo plays director Beth, Michael Showalter is romantically frustrated counselor Coop and David Hyde Pierce appears as astrophysics professor Henry Newman. Around them, unfinished romances, neglected campers, talking vegetables and an approaching piece of Skylab turn one day into escalating comic chaos....

Henrique and David close their Roger Corman tribute with The Raven (1963), the colorful AIP horror comedy that turns a few lines of Edgar Allan Poe into a battle between rival sorcerers. Vincent Price plays the grieving Dr. Erasmus Craven, whose quiet life changes when Dr. Adolphus Bedlo—Peter Lorre, temporarily transformed into a raven—arrives seeking help against the powerful Dr. Scarabus, played by Boris Karloff. Richard Matheson’s screenplay treats the premise as black comedy rather than a l...

Henrique and David continue their Roger Corman tribute with The Slumber Party Massacre (1982), Amy Holden Jones’s lean, inventive entry in the early-1980s slasher boom. Michele Michaels stars as Trish Devereaux, a high-school student hosting friends while her parents are away. Their ordinary night becomes a siege when escaped killer Russ Thorn, played by Michael Villella, stalks the neighborhood with a power drill. Rita Mae Brown’s screenplay gives the familiar premise personality through its en...

Henrique and David continue their Roger Corman tribute with Frankenstein Unbound (1990), Corman’s return to directing after a long absence and his final credited feature behind the camera. John Hurt stars as Dr. Joe Buchanan, a scientist whose futuristic weapons project disrupts time and sends him from 2031 to 1817 Switzerland, where Victor Frankenstein and his creation are real—and Mary Shelley has not yet written the story that will make them immortal. Adapted from Brian Aldiss’s novel by Corm...

Henrique and David begin their Roger Corman tribute with Humanoids from the Deep (1980), the notorious coastal creature feature released by New World Pictures. In the fishing town of Noyo, genetically altered salmon help create amphibious humanoids that threaten residents just as a proposed cannery divides the community. Doug McClure stars as fisherman Jim Hill, Ann Turkel plays scientist Dr. Susan Drake and Vic Morrow is the volatile Hank Slattery. Director Barbara Peeters builds the town, its ...

Henrique and David roll the dice on Game Night (2018), John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein’s action comedy about friendly competition becoming dangerously real. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as Max and Annie, a married couple whose weekly gathering is disrupted by Max’s charismatic brother Brooks. Kyle Chandler plays Brooks, while Jesse Plemons steals scenes as Gary, the unsettling police-officer neighbor desperate to rejoin the group. Brooks promises an elaborate kidnapping myster...

Henrique and David enroll at Pendleton University for Urban Legend (1998), Jamie Blanks’s campus slasher from the post-Scream revival. Alicia Witt stars as Natalie Simon, who suspects that a killer in a hooded parka is staging murders from familiar folklore. Rebecca Gayheart plays Natalie’s friend Brenda Bates, while Jared Leto—repeatedly nicknamed “Morbius” by the hosts—is student journalist Paul Gardner. The cast makes Pendleton a horror fan’s playground: Robert Englund teaches a class on urba...

Henrique and David take their seats at Hawthorn for The Menu (2022), Mark Mylod’s blackly comic horror thriller about fine dining, class and creative obsession. Anya Taylor-Joy plays Margot, an unexpected guest accompanying Nicholas Hoult’s devoted foodie Tyler to an exclusive island restaurant. Ralph Fiennes is chef Julian Slowik, whose meticulously arranged courses reveal that the evening’s wealthy diners have entered something far more dangerous than a tasting menu. Seth Reiss and Will Tracy’...

Henrique and David open the hive on The Beekeeper (2024), David Ayer’s fast-moving revenge thriller built around Jason Statham’s particular action-star strengths. Statham plays Adam Clay, a quiet tenant who tends honeybees on land owned by Eloise Parker. When a sophisticated call-center scam empties Eloise’s accounts and contributes to her death by suicide, Clay reveals that “beekeeper” once described a far more dangerous occupation. Kurt Wimmer’s screenplay imagines the Beekeepers as independen...

Henrique and David join the Buckman family for Parenthood (1989), Ron Howard’s ensemble comedy-drama about the fear, joy and uncertainty of raising children. Steve Martin plays Gil Buckman, a loving father determined not to repeat the mistakes of his own childhood. Mary Steenburgen is his wife Karen, and Jason Robards plays Gil’s emotionally distant father Frank, anchoring a family tree whose branches reveal very different ideas about responsibility. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel’s screenplay f...

Henrique and David hike back into the era of cable-ready family comedies with Bushwhacked (1995), Greg Beeman’s story of a careless courier who accidentally becomes a wilderness mentor. Daniel Stern stars as Max Grabelski, a deliveryman framed for murder after accepting a suspicious job. Fleeing toward Devil’s Peak, he is mistaken for celebrated outdoorsman Jack Erickson and sent into the mountains with Ranger Troop 12. Max knows nothing about hiking, scouts or responsibility, but the children i...

Henrique and David return to the remote-island mystery of April Fool’s Day (1986), Fred Walton’s playful slasher starring Deborah Foreman, Griffin O’Neal and Tom Wilson. Foreman plays Muffy St. John, who welcomes eight visiting college friends to her family’s secluded mansion for an April Fool’s weekend. A ferry accident, practical jokes and a trail of apparently murdered guests turn the getaway into a whodunit, while Amy Steel’s Kit and her boyfriend Rob try to understand what is happening. The...