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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Dec. 25, 2022
'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 Galaxy Holiday Special. Can M…
The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
Dec. 25, 2022
Happy Life Day Everybody! '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 Gal…
Avatar: The Way of Water
Dec. 21, 2022
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 that nemesis Stephen Lang and h…
Metropolis - A Podcast Preview
Dec. 16, 2022
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 the future fall like the Tower of Ba…
Knives Out
Dec. 13, 2022
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 mystery. Daniel “007” Craig stars…
Confess, Fletch
Dec. 7, 2022
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. Is the Mad Men star too suave to …
Fletch Lives
Nov. 30, 2022
Schlong of the South 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. Will the in…
Fletch Lives (Corrected Audio Version)
Nov. 29, 2022
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. Will the investigative reporter …
Fletch
Nov. 22, 2022
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 chameleon unmask the real reason…
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
Nov. 15, 2022
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 Panther . But can anyone stop the advanc…
The Wicker Man (1973) - A Podcast Preview
Nov. 12, 2022
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 legacy as one of the greatest…
Collateral Damage
Nov. 8, 2022
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 shadow of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Can…
Werewolf by Night
Oct. 31, 2022
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 of the MCU. Can he outsmart …
Black Adam
Oct. 26, 2022
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 ancient Middle Eastern country…
Halloween Ends
Oct. 19, 2022
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 with psycho babysitter Corey. C…
Hellraiser (2022) - A Podcast Preview
Oct. 14, 2022
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 drug addict become the pin-up …
The 6th Day
Oct. 12, 2022
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 stop a clone from co-optin…
End of Days
Oct. 5, 2022
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 the Austrian bodybuilder as fait…
Eraser
Sept. 28, 2022
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 escape into Witness Protection b…
True Lies
Sept. 21, 2022
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 comedic 1994 blockbuster True Lie…
Last Action Hero
Sept. 14, 2022
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 Mistake for the movie icon to…
Join Stuart, Arnie, and Brock for some Ooky, Spooky fun!
Sept. 10, 2022
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 reviewing six Addams films, from th…
Red Heat
Sept. 7, 2022
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 Soviet strongman learn the American …
Raw Deal
Aug. 31, 2022
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 graces of the FBI (and his nagging…