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Three playful movie reviewers break down a wide variety of film franchises by dedicating a podcast to every single sequel, remake, reboot, and spin-off in a series. Conversations are in-depth and cover production history, literary sources, gossip, merchandising, and good old fashioned personal opinion with loads of humor and critical insight. No cinematic universe is too obscure or sacred!
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Basic Instinct 2 from 2022-02-16T03:10:52
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 w...
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Books & Nachos' Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from 2022-02-10T22:09:38
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 Sor...
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Basic Instinct from 2022-02-08T23:38:34
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 stea...
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My Bloody Valentine 3D from 2022-02-02T02:24:42
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 celebr...
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My Bloody Valentine (1981) from 2022-01-25T07:00
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 do...
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Scream (2022) from 2022-01-19T03:46:35
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 a...
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The Night Flier (Stephen King Series) from 2022-01-12T03:39:11
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 k...
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The King’s Man from 2022-01-04T07:00
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...
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Dolan’s Cadillac from 2021-12-29T01:50:14
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 new...
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Spider-Man: No Way Home from 2021-12-22T00:41:57
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 int...
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Quicksilver Highway from 2021-12-14T23:26:54
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 ...
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Nightmares & Dreamscapes from 2021-12-08T02:38:55
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. W...
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Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City from 2021-11-30T21:54:32
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 th...
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The Martian from 2021-11-24T04:00
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 Stu...
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Paranormal Activity - A Podcast Preview from 2021-11-19T16:00
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.&nbs...
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The Right Stuff from 2021-11-16T22:45:48
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 pu...
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Loki (Season 1) from 2021-11-03T03:51:32
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 th...
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Dune (2021) from 2021-10-26T22:38:15
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 Villeneuv...
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Halloween Kills from 2021-10-19T21:18:16
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 citizen...
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No Time to Die from 2021-10-12T22:00
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 ch...
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American Psycho II: All American Girl from 2021-10-09T00:47:44
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 <...
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage from 2021-10-05T07:00
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 re...
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American Psycho from 2021-09-29T03:18:47
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 ...
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The Haunting of Hill House (2018) from 2021-09-21T23:10:24
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 minis...
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The Haunting (1999) from 2021-09-15T03:00
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 T...
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Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings from 2021-09-08T04:00
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 Listen
Candyman (2021) - A Podcast Preview from 2021-09-04T03:38:33
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 To...
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The Haunting (1963) from 2021-08-31T15:00
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 Jac...
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Straw Dogs (2011) from 2021-08-25T01:25:27
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 ...
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The Strangers -- A Podcast Preview from 2021-08-21T03:44:14
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 Th...
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Straw Dogs (1971) from 2021-08-18T04:00
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 ho...
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The Suicide Squad from 2021-08-11T14:33:08
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’...
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The Green Knight from 2021-08-03T23:12:40
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. &nbs...
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Snake Eyes - G.I. Joe Origins from 2021-07-28T03:37:04
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 popu...
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Company of Heroes from 2021-07-20T19:00
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 Stua...
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Black Widow from 2021-07-13T21:00
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 Nata...
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Yakuza: Like A Dragon from 2021-07-07T03:36:29
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 D...
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Like A Dragon from 2021-07-07T03:36:29
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 D...
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F9 - The Fast Saga from 2021-06-30T04:00
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 ...
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Dead Rising: Endgame from 2021-06-23T04:24:30
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 seque...
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Dead Rising: Watchtower from 2021-06-16T01:00
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...
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It from 2021-06-08T07:00
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 franchis...
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Dolores Claiborne from 2021-06-02T04:26:08
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 ha...
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Army of the Dead from 2021-05-25T07:00
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 colorfu...
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Spiral: From the Book of Saw from 2021-05-19T04:58:03
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....
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier from 2021-05-12T03:00
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 ...
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Without Remorse from 2021-05-05T02:00
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...
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Mortal Kombat (2021) from 2021-04-28T04:02:56
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 ...
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Monster Hunter from 2021-04-21T04:34:43
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...
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Godzilla vs. Kong from 2021-04-07T03:46:22
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 ev...
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Godzilla: King of the Monsters from 2021-03-31T02:33:43
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 burs...
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Zack Snyder's Justice League from 2021-03-24T05:01:58
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 A...
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WandaVision from 2021-03-17T05:03
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 slummin...
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Coming 2 America from 2021-03-10T00:16:59
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.&...
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Coming To America from 2021-03-03T03:15:42
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...
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The Stand (2020) from 2021-02-23T18:23
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 ...
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Gerald's Game from 2021-02-17T04:49:50
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 consen...
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Sleepwalkers from 2021-02-10T05:09:54
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. ...
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Needful Things from 2021-02-03T04:31:50
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 can sh...
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Bloodrayne: The Third Reich from 2021-01-20T01:50:07
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 bis...
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Bloodrayne: Deliverance from 2021-01-13T02:42:38
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 Deli...
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Bloodrayne from 2021-01-06T05:52:01
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 ...
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Wonder Woman 1984 from 2020-12-30T05:20
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 ...
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Tenet {Christopher Nolan Series} from 2020-12-23T05:55:54
If we live in a Twilight world, why doesn’t Edward sparkle anymore?
Golden Years from 2020-12-16T05:19:31
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-age...
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Golden Years {Stephen King Series} from 2020-12-16T05:19:31
A storyline to make Blanche, Rose, Dorothy and Sophia green with envy
Another 48 Hours from 2020-12-09T01:52:19
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 ...
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Another 48 Hours {48 Hours Series} from 2020-12-09T01:52:19
Roooooxanne! You don’t have to give this a red arrow
48 Hrs. {48 Hours Series} from 2020-12-02T04:59
I want y'all to know there's a new sheriff in town… and his name is Eddie Murphy!
The Craft: Legacy from 2020-11-25T01:18
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 wi...
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The Craft: Legacy {The Craft Series} from 2020-11-25T01:18
Prep yourself for the woke wiccans!
The Craft {The Craft Series} from 2020-11-18T04:17:32
By the power of three times three, make them see, make them see
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) from 2020-11-11T02:24:06
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 i...
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004) {Manchurian Candidate Series} from 2020-11-11T02:24:06
Make America Enslaved Again
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) {Manchurian Candidate Series} from 2020-11-04T01:10:32
Now Playing is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful podcast we've ever heard.
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) from 2020-11-04T01:10:32
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 ...
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Something Big is Coming.... Now Playing's CLOVERFIELD Retrospective! from 2020-10-31T03:32:04
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 franchi...
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Tremors: Shrieker Island {Tremors Series} from 2020-10-28T03:10:54
Aruba... Jamaica... Ooh I want a snake hunt...
Tremors: Shrieker Island from 2020-10-28T03:10:54
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 ocea...
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Tremors Bonus: Michael Gross **SPOILER** Interview {Tremors Series} from 2020-10-22T05:32
Arnie talks to Burt Gummer himself: Michael Gross!
Tremors Bonus: Michael Gross **SPOILER** Interview from 2020-10-22T05:32
Arnie talks to Burt Gummer himself: Michael Gross!
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Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell {Tremors Series} from 2020-10-20T21:00:56
What’s good for the Graboid is good for the Gummer
Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell from 2020-10-20T21:00:56
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 ad...
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Tremors 5: Bloodlines from 2020-10-14T02:19:38
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...
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Tremors 4: The Legend Begins {Tremors Series} from 2020-10-07T02:03:37
Once Upon A Time In Perfection
Tremors 4: The Legend Begins from 2020-10-07T02:03:37
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 ...
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Tremors 3: Back to Perfection {Tremors Series} from 2020-09-29T23:55:59
I think we’re more than six degrees away from Kevin Bacon’s original Tremors with this Gross family reunion.
Tremors 3: Back to Perfection from 2020-09-29T23:55:59
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...
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Tremors II: Aftershocks from 2020-09-22T22:46:31
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 Baco...
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Tremors (1990) from 2020-09-16T02:54:09
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 cre...
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The Last House on the Left (1972) - Podcast Announcement and Warning {Trailer} from 2020-09-11T18:45
One, two... Fred and Krug are coming for you!
The Last House on the Left (1972) - Trailer from 2020-09-11T18:45
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 Le...
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The New Mutants {X-Men Series} {Marvel Series} {Comic Book Movies Series} from 2020-09-09T01:48:18
The Fault In Our Bears
The New Mutants from 2020-09-09T01:48:18
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 generati...
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Bill and Ted Face The Music {Bill and Ted Series} from 2020-09-01T23:27:04
Yes Way! 2020 has a brand new theatrical movie to review!
Bill and Ted Face The Music from 2020-09-01T23:27:04
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...
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Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey from 2020-08-26T02:32:50
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...
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure {Bill and Ted Series} from 2020-08-19T01:31:59
“We will have a most triumphant time!”
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure from 2020-08-19T01:31:59
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 wit...
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Secret Window {Stephen King Series} from 2020-08-12T00:17:10
How much is that doggie in the window… oh wait! Nevermind.
Secret Window from 2020-08-12T00:17:10
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...
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The Langoliers from 2020-08-05T00:52:39
Cancelled TV stars Bronson Pinchot (Perfect Strangers), David Morse (St. Elsewhere), and Patricia Wettig (thirtysomething) fight becoming a thing of the past after tra...
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit {Jack Ryan Series} {Tom Clancy Series} from 2020-07-29T00:46:52
The Reborn Identity
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit from 2020-07-29T00:46:52
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 the...
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The Sum of All Fears {Tom Clancy Series} {Jack Ryan Series} from 2020-07-21T23:40:20
Good Nuke Hunting
The Sum of All Fears from 2020-07-21T23:40:20
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...
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Clear & Present Danger {Tom Clancy Series} {Jack Ryan Series} from 2020-07-15T00:52:44
Just Say No Recasting
Clear & Present Danger from 2020-07-15T00:52:44
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...
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Patriot Games {Tom Clancy Series} {Jack Ryan Series} from 2020-07-08T01:25:08
Get off my franchise!
Patriot Games from 2020-07-08T01:25:08
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 th...
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The Hunt for Red October {Tom Clancy} {Jack Ryan} from 2020-07-01T00:43:34
Sonofabitch, I found Red Sonja instead!
The Hunt for Red October from 2020-07-01T00:43:34
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 ups, ...
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The Breakfast Club {John Hughes Movies} -- Our *1,000th* movie review podcast! from 2020-06-24T02:04:09
To celebrate Now Playing’s 1000th Show… Detention!
The Breakfast Club -- Our *1,000th* movie review podcast! from 2020-06-24T02:04:09
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 ...
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Escape from L.A. {John Carpenter Reviews} {Escape From Series} from 2020-06-17T00:26:06
Nobody walks in LA…
Escape from L.A. from 2020-06-17T00:26:06
… 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 is...
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Escape from New York {John Carpenter Reviews} {Escape From Series} from 2020-06-10T02:42
NO! SLEEP!! Til Hartford!!!
Escape from New York from 2020-06-10T02:42
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 to...
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The Dark Half {Stephen King Series} from 2020-06-03T02:53
Sometimes the greatest remedy for writer’s block is the chopping block
The Dark Half from 2020-06-03T02:53
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 physic...
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The Tommyknockers from 2020-05-27T03:41:08
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)&nb...
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Contagion {Viral Outbreak Retrospective} from 2020-05-20T04:15:56
Don't socially distance yourself from this topical movie review!
The Andromeda Strain (2008) {Viral Outbreak Retrospective} {Andromeda Strain Series} from 2020-05-13T03:59:56
Cancel the Clorox shots and get me some Bacteria from Hell!
The Andromeda Strain (2008) from 2020-05-13T03:59:56
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...
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Outbreak {Viral Outbreak Retrospective} from 2020-05-06T02:40:12
Just when you thought it was safe to head back to the movie theater…
Warning Sign from 2020-04-29T01:27:03
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 mor...
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The Andromeda Strain (1971) {Viral Outbreak Retrospective} {Andromeda Strain Series} from 2020-04-22T02:30:47
? How do you solve a problem like Andromeda ?
The Andromeda Strain (1971) from 2020-04-22T02:30:47
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 brou...
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Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Support Podcasts) {Trailer} from 2020-04-17T23:24:35
(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. Strang...
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The Satan Bug from 2020-04-15T05:59
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 ...
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Panic in the Streets from 2020-04-08T03:09:20
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 ...
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In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission from 2020-03-31T23:38:09
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 ga...
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In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds from 2020-03-25T00:33:21
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? Lundg...
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In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale from 2020-03-18T05:11
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 w...
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The King of Fighters from 2020-03-11T02:02:42
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 Listen
Kong: Skull Island from 2020-03-04T00:23
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 Ko...
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King Kong (2005) from 2020-02-26T00:41:54
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 Serk...
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Sonic the Hedgehog from 2020-02-19T02:58:28
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 ...
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Birds of Prey from 2020-02-11T07:00
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 o...
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King Kong Lives from 2020-02-05T02:14:59
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 ...
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King Kong (1976) from 2020-01-29T01:51:36
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...
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Bad Boys For Life from 2020-01-22T00:46
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 Mia...
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King Kong Escapes from 2020-01-15T01:29:58
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...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla from 2020-01-07T22:45:20
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 iconi...
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The Rise of Skywalker from 2019-12-25T04:06:24
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 (...
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Black Christmas (2019) from 2019-12-17T23:29:05
‘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...
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Son of Kong from 2019-12-11T00:47:08
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 dif...
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King Kong (1933) from 2019-12-04T00:37:47
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 fran...
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Ratchet & Clank from 2019-11-27T01:55:52
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)...
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Charlie's Angels (2019) from 2019-11-20T04:10:22
'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 ar...
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Doctor Sleep from 2019-11-13T04:23:54
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...
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Terminator: Dark Fate from 2019-11-06T00:51:35
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 now...
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3 From Hell from 2019-10-30T03:42
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 flo...
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Trick or Treat! Put a donation in Now Playing's bag and get treated with our ZOMBIELAND 2 review! from 2019-10-26T01:50:50
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 ma...
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Doom: Annihilation from 2019-10-23T01:19:31
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 ...
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Now Playing's ZOMBIELAND Review -- Available now! from 2019-10-19T01:48:11
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 w...
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Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle from 2019-10-16T03:36:56
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...
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Charlie's Angels (2000) from 2019-10-02T03:07:24
"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 rem...
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Rambo: Last Blood from 2019-09-25T02:22
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 ...
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Charlie's Angels (1976) from 2019-09-18T01:39:27
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...
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It: Chapter 2 from 2019-09-11T03:42:13
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 Derr...
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The Angry Birds Movie 2 from 2019-08-20T23:12:27
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 fr...
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The Kitchen from 2019-08-14T00:05:02
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 ...
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw from 2019-08-07T04:33:04
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&n...
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The Angry Birds Movie from 2019-07-31T00:58
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 boat...
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Spider-Man: Far From Home Movie Review from 2019-07-10T01:23:12
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 let...
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Annabelle Comes Home from 2019-07-02T15:20
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 Ann...
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Toy Story 4 from 2019-06-30T23:19
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 roa...
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The Curse of La Llorona from 2019-06-25T22:22:34
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 ...
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Toy Story 3 from 2019-06-18T23:19:12
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 ...
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Dark Phoenix from 2019-06-12T00:10:50
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...
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Toy Story 2 from 2019-06-04T22:50:18
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 increasi...
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John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum from 2019-05-22T03:09:46
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. T...
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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu from 2019-05-15T01:12:45
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 sar...
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Pokemon Heroes (Latios and Latias) from 2019-05-07T22:29:50
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 ...
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Avengers: Endgame from 2019-05-01T01:38:14
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, a...
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Hellboy (2019) from 2019-04-24T03:52:42
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 fro...
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Pet Sematary (2019) from 2019-04-16T21:10:03
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 to...
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Pokemon 4Ever from 2019-04-02T19:43
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 c...
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Pokemon 4Ever (Celebi – Voice of the Forest) from 2019-04-02T19:43
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 speed...
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Pokemon 3: The Movie (Entei – Spell of the Unown) from 2019-03-26T23:18:23
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 lone...
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Pokemon: The Movie 2000 (The Power of One) from 2019-03-19T20:24:47
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...
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Captain Marvel from 2019-03-13T04:26:58
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&...
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Pokemon: The First Movie (Mewtwo Strikes Back) from 2019-03-05T22:48:40
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 sec...
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Happy Death Day 2 U from 2019-02-20T01:30:24
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 ab...
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Happy Death Day from 2019-02-12T23:41:57
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 d...
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Groundhog Day from 2019-02-05T15:05
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 hi...
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Leprechaun Returns - Behind the Scenes Interviews from 2019-02-02T00:18:01
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 re...
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Hitman: Agent 47 from 2019-01-16T01:10:11
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...
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse from 2018-12-18T21:40
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 Spi...
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Ralph Breaks the Internet from 2018-11-28T00:33:46
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 hav...
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Wreck-It Ralph from 2018-11-21T02:08:41
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 ...
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Silent Hill: Revelation from 2018-11-13T22:54:40
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 kidna...
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Silent Hill from 2018-11-06T22:20:35
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&nb...
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Hereditary from 2018-11-01T01:12:15
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 becom...
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Children of the Corn: Runaway from 2018-10-30T08:13
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 Ha...
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Halloween (2018) from 2018-10-24T03:32:16
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 b...
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House of the Dead II from 2018-10-02T22:08:27
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 Emmanue...
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House of the Dead from 2018-09-25T21:49:46
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 S...
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The Predator from 2018-09-18T18:33
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 franc...
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D.O.A. - Dead Or Alive from 2018-09-04T23:03:57
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 P...
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Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge from 2018-08-29T00:21:28
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 budg...
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Tekken 2: Kazuya's Revenge (Movie Review) from 2018-08-29T00:21:28
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 budget prequ...
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Tekken (2009) Movie Review from 2018-08-22T00:27:11
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 Jin...
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Teen Titans GO! To the Movies from 2018-08-07T22:30
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 Won...
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Mission: Impossible - Fallout from 2018-08-01T01:21:45
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 daredev...
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Mission: Impossible -- Fallout (Podcast Review) from 2018-08-01T01:21:45
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 actor...
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Need For Speed from 2018-07-24T22:32
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 reco...
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It Came From the Desert (Movie Review) from 2018-07-17T21:35
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 2...
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Ant-Man And The Wasp from 2018-07-11T00:40
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 screen t...
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Alone in the Dark II (Movie Review) from 2018-07-03T21:01:38
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...
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Alone in the Dark from 2018-06-26T22:12:24
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 revi...
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Incredibles 2 from 2018-06-20T00:56:47
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 glob...
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation from 2018-06-12T23:55
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 heroes...
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Mortal Kombat from 2018-06-06T02:09:52
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 un...
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Solo: A Star Wars Story from 2018-05-30T03:12:52
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 ...
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Deadpool 2 from 2018-05-23T01:15:23
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 mor...
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Wing Commander from 2018-05-15T18:50:45
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 Me...
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from 2018-05-08T21:40:52
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...
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Goodfellas - A Patron Podcast Preview from 2018-05-06T21:37:24
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 Pes...
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Avengers: Infinity War from 2018-05-02T00:52:03
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,...
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within from 2018-04-24T22:34:20
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...
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Doom (2005) from 2018-04-10T22:51:34
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 bad...
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Ready Player One from 2018-04-05T01:00
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 cul...
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Pacific Rim: Uprising from 2018-03-28T02:00
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 ha...
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Tomb Raider from 2018-03-20T21:31:21
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 ...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life from 2018-03-13T22:14
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 sai...
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Death Wish (2018) from 2018-03-06T23:56:34
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 C...
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2018-02-28T02:59:37
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 b...
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Black Panther from 2018-02-20T23:29:33
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 h...
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li from 2018-02-13T22:14:16
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. D...
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Street Fighter from 2018-02-07T00:20:42
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 w...
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Double Dragon from 2018-01-31T00:33:48
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 f...
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Super Mario Bros. from 2018-01-23T23:53:19
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 th...
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters from 2018-01-16T23:19:13
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...
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Insidious: The Last Key from 2018-01-09T23:48:21
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 ...
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The Disaster Artist from 2018-01-01T04:27
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, steppin...
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The Last Jedi from 2017-12-20T04:23:20
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 Su...
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12 Monkeys from 2017-12-12T22:13
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...
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Death Sentence from 2017-12-05T20:49:13
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 Wis...
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Death Wish V: The Face of Death from 2017-11-28T21:18
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 ...
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Justice League from 2017-11-21T23:08:07
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, a...
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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown from 2017-11-14T23:00
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 Film...
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Thor: Ragnarok from 2017-11-08T06:39:21
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 no...
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Leatherface (2017) from 2017-10-24T21:26:02
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-...
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Death Wish 3 from 2017-10-17T22:30
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...
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Blade Runner 2049 from 2017-10-10T19:53:55
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 ...
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Death Wish II from 2017-10-03T20:04:06
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 crimin...
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Bloody Birthday from 2017-09-26T20:06:27
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 19...
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Kingsman: The Golden Circle from 2017-09-24T22:42
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. No...
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Death Wish (1974) from 2017-09-19T21:16:14
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...
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Happy Birthday to Me from 2017-09-12T19:05:12
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. Th...
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Radio Free Albemuth from 2017-08-29T21:11:36
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 propella...
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Total Recall (2012) from 2017-08-22T21:04
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 t...
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Annabelle: Creation from 2017-08-15T21:34:17
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 ...
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The Dark Tower from 2017-08-09T04:09:31
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 o...
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T2: Trainspotting from 2017-07-25T22:12
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 star...
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Trainspotting from 2017-07-18T19:26:59
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 v...
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Spider-Man: Homecoming from 2017-07-11T21:41:02
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 ...
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Baby Driver from 2017-07-04T20:13:19
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 o...
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Transformers: The Last Knight from 2017-06-27T19:33:31
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 ...
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Bad Boys 2 from 2017-06-20T18:47
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 wer...
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Wonder Woman (1975) Bonus Episode: Soundtrack Interview with Neil S. Bulk from 2017-06-09T18:30:03
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 season...
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Wonder Woman (2017) from 2017-06-06T19:24:28
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...
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The New Original Wonder Woman (1975) from 2017-05-30T20:31:33
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 ev...
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Wonder Woman (1974) from 2017-05-23T20:22:30
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 Wo...
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Inland Empire from 2017-05-16T21:15:17
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 v...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 from 2017-05-10T04:25:16
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 cra...
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Mulholland Dr from 2017-05-02T22:39
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 ...
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The Fate Of The Furious from 2017-04-25T17:21
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 nam...
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The Straight Story from 2017-04-18T21:31:28
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...
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Lost Highway from 2017-04-11T20:52
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...
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Hotel Room from 2017-04-04T22:10:40
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....
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me from 2017-03-28T22:09:46
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 ...
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Dance With the Devil (Perdita Durango) from 2017-03-21T22:29:20
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. H...
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Wild at Heart from 2017-03-14T23:17:33
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. ...
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Silver Bullet from 2017-02-28T23:19:16
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...
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Twin Peaks from 2017-02-24T14:50:16
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 o...
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Blue Velvet from 2017-02-21T22:06
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 on...
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John Wick: Chapter 2 from 2017-02-14T23:00
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 bac...
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter from 2017-01-31T21:34:25
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 y...
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Resident Evil: Retribution from 2017-01-24T20:22
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 R...
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Resident Evil: Afterlife from 2017-01-17T10:13
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...
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Resident Evil: Extinction from 2017-01-10T21:46:44
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 ...
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse from 2017-01-04T00:02:45
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 re...
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Resident Evil from 2016-12-28T00:35:51
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 ...
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Rogue One - A Star Wars Story from 2016-12-21T02:00
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 t...
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Children of Dune from 2016-12-13T22:23:44
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 tw...
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Chopping Mall -- Interviews with director Jim Wynorski and writer Steve Mitchell from 2016-12-08T22:29:50
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 thi...
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Dune (2000) from 2016-12-07T04:15:15
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...
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Dune (1984) from 2016-11-29T23:41:24
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...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off from 2016-11-25T06:00
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...
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The Elephant Man from 2016-11-22T20:51:54
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....
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Eraserhead from 2016-11-15T20:59:05
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...
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Doctor Strange from 2016-11-09T04:30:43
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 fe...
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Rob Zombie's 31 from 2016-10-31T20:52:34
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...
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Sinister 2 from 2016-10-30T16:44:21
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 fol...
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Pet Sematary Two from 2016-10-26T05:55
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 wa...
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Pet Sematary from 2016-10-18T09:00
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...
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie from 2016-10-04T18:56
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...
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Creepshow 3 from 2016-09-27T17:25
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 chara...
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Blair Witch from 2016-09-20T20:07
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 ori...
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off - 30th Anniversary Soundtrack from 2016-09-18T00:00
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...
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Creepshow 2 from 2016-09-13T20:54
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, Rom...
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Stand by Me from 2016-08-31T00:52
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....
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The Shawshank Redemption from 2016-08-16T22:40
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 Acto...
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Suicide Squad from 2016-08-10T01:00
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...
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Jason Bourne from 2016-08-02T21:19
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 ...
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Star Trek Beyond from 2016-07-28T23:00
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 ...
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The Last Starfighter from 2016-07-27T01:07
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 i...
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The Bourne Legacy from 2016-07-19T18:30
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 ...
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The Bourne Ultimatum from 2016-07-12T11:56
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 fi...
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Short Circuit 2 from 2016-07-07T19:00
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 ...
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The Bourne Supremacy from 2016-07-06T03:59
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 Greengras...
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Short Circuit from 2016-06-30T14:00
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 aliv...
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The Bourne Identity (2002) from 2016-06-28T22:20
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, t...
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The Bourne Identity (1988) from 2016-06-21T19:51
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-p...
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The Conjuring 2 from 2016-06-14T21:08
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 re...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows from 2016-06-07T22:47
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 som...
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X-Men: Apocalypse from 2016-06-01T02:27
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 o...
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army from 2016-05-24T21:19
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 origi...
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Captain America: Civil War from 2016-05-11T05:45
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 o...
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The Running man from 2016-05-03T11:00
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 printin...
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American Splendor from 2016-04-19T21:45
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 Giamat...
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The Spirit (2008) from 2016-04-12T23:28
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's ...
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The Spirit (1987) from 2016-04-05T19:30
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 core S...
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice from 2016-03-29T14:00
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?...
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen from 2016-03-15T16:00
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 ...
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Justice League of America from 2016-03-01T20:34
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...
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Legends of the Superheroes from 2016-02-24T00:25
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 Superfri...
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Princess Mononoke from 2016-02-02T21:36
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...
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Masters of the Universe from 2016-01-26T22:00
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 cr...
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Hobo with a Shotgun from 2016-01-20T01:01
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...
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Machete Kills from 2016-01-13T00:47
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. Me...
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Star Wars Holiday Special from 2015-12-29T09:00
"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 tw...
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The Force Awakens from 2015-12-23T02:28
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 billio...
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The Clone Wars from 2015-12-15T22:19
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 ani...
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Revenge of the Sith from 2015-12-01T08:00
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 or...
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Attack of the Clones from 2015-11-24T23:00
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 ...
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The Phantom Menace from 2015-11-17T12:00
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...
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It Follows from 2015-11-04T02:44
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 mad...
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Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 from 2015-10-27T21:20
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 Wi...
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The Blair Witch Project from 2015-10-20T22:50
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 ...
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Ewoks: The Battle for Endor from 2015-10-13T07:00
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 ...
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The Ewok Adventure (Caravan of Courage) from 2015-10-07T05:23
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 cre...
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Return of the Jedi from 2015-09-30T05:34
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 tw...
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The Empire Strikes Back from 2015-09-22T07:00
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 ...
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The Transporter: Refueled from 2015-09-08T20:00
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:...
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Transporter 3 from 2015-09-01T23:14
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 entangle...
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Transporter 2 from 2015-08-25T21:53
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 secon...
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The Transporter from 2015-08-18T23:21
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...
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Fantastic Four (2015) from 2015-08-12T00:05
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...
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MIssion: Impossible - Rogue Nation from 2015-08-04T23:19
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 h...
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol from 2015-07-28T22:18
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? An...
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Mission: Impossible III from 2015-07-14T23:05
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...
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Terminator: Genisys from 2015-07-08T02:40
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 Cour...
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Mission: Impossible II from 2015-06-30T22:01
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 directo...
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Mission: Impossible from 2015-06-23T23:30
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:...
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Insidious: Chapter 3 from 2015-06-17T02:07
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 i...
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Firestarter: Rekindled from 2015-06-10T05:15
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 powe...
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Firestarter from 2015-06-03T05:39
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 pyrokinet...
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The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence) from 2015-05-26T06:00
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 watchin...
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Mad Max: Fury Road from 2015-05-19T06:00
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, ...
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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome from 2015-05-12T06:00
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 establis...
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Avengers: Age of Ultron from 2015-05-05T12:00
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 ...
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Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior from 2015-04-28T06:00
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 Warrio...
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Steven Spielberg's Duel from 2015-04-14T06:00
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 Wee...
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Fast & Furious 6 from 2015-03-31T06:00
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 V...
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Fast and Furious from 2015-03-17T06:00
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! ...
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The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift from 2015-03-10T06:00
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 ne...
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2 Fast 2 Furious from 2015-03-04T06:00
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 Fur...
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The Incredibles from 2015-02-28T06:00
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 h...
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The Fast and the Furious from 2015-02-25T06:00
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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Kingsman: The Secret Service from 2015-02-21T06:00
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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Before Midnight from 2015-02-04T06:00
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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Before Sunset from 2015-01-28T06:00
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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Before Sunrise from 2015-01-21T06:00
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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The Dead Zone from 2015-01-14T04:00
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 oth...
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Ocean's Thirteen from 2015-01-06T22:00
"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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Ocean's Twelve from 2014-12-30T22:00
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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Ocean's Eleven (2001) from 2014-12-23T22:00
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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Ocean's 11 (1960) from 2014-12-16T22:00
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 himsel...
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Maniac (2012) from 2014-12-09T22:00
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 ev...
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Maniac (1980) from 2014-12-02T22:00
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 t...
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Big Hero 6 from 2014-11-19T06:00
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 Marve...
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Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys from 2014-11-15T06:00
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 t...
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Interstellar from 2014-11-10T13:00
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 ...
The Prestige from 2014-11-04T13:00
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 P...
Memento - Chronological Review from 2014-10-21T19:00
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 c...
Memento - Reversed Review from 2014-10-21T16:00
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 c...
Children of the Corn: Genesis from 2014-10-08T04:00
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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The Conjuring from 2014-10-03T22:00
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...
Children of the Corn (2009) from 2014-09-30T12:00
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 f...
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Children of the Corn: Revelation from 2014-09-26T12:00
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, feat...
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Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return from 2014-09-23T12:00
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-wro...
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Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror from 2014-09-16T12:00
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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Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering from 2014-09-09T12:00
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 import...
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Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest from 2014-09-02T12:00
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 Cor...
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Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice from 2014-08-26T12:00
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 ...
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Children of the Corn (1984) from 2014-08-19T12:00
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 tel...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) from 2014-08-12T06:00
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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Guardians of the Galaxy from 2014-08-04T12:00
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 ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III from 2014-07-22T06:00
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 th...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze from 2014-07-15T06:00
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 ...
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) from 2014-07-08T06:00
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 ...
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Transformers: Age of Extinction from 2014-07-01T06:00
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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Maximum Overdrive from 2014-06-17T12:00
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 ...
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2010: The Year We Make Contact from 2014-06-10T06:00
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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2001: A Space Odyssey from 2014-06-03T06:00
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 Spielber...
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X-Men: Days of Future Past from 2014-05-27T06:00
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 superte...
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Godzilla (2014) from 2014-05-22T06:00
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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Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace from 2014-05-20T12:00
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...
The Lawnmower Man from 2014-05-13T12:00
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 bearin...
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 from 2014-05-06T06:00
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 Web...
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Sometimes They Come Back...for More from 2014-04-29T12:00
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...
Sometimes They Come Back...Again from 2014-04-22T12:00
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 im...
Sometimes They Come Back from 2014-04-15T12:00
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...
Captain America: The Winter Soldier from 2014-04-08T12:00
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 t...
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The Mangler Reborn from 2014-04-01T12:00
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...
Fight Club from 2014-03-28T06:00
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, revolutiona...
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The Mangler 2 from 2014-03-25T12:00
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 dow...
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The Mangler from 2014-03-18T12:00
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 a...
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Graveyard Shift from 2014-03-11T12:00
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 wor...
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The Night Shift Collection: The Woman in the Room, The Boogeyman, and Disciples of the Crow from 2014-02-25T12:00
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 au...
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Robocop (2014) from 2014-02-19T06:00
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 t...
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Robocop: Prime Directives - Crash and Burn from 2014-02-15T06:00
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 th...
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Robocop: Prime Directives - Resurrection from 2014-02-12T06:00
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 wi...
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Robocop: Prime Directives - Meltdown from 2014-02-08T06:00
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 p...
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Robocop: Prime Directives - Dark Justice from 2014-02-05T06:00
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 obsol...
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Robocop (1987) from 2014-01-15T06:00
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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The Wolf of Wall Street from 2014-01-07T06:00
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-l...
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Gremlins 2 from 2014-01-01T06:00
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 retu...
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The Shining (1997) from 2013-12-17T12:00
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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The Shining (1980) from 2013-12-10T12:00
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 -- ...
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'Salem's Lot (2004) from 2013-12-03T12:00
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 from 2013-11-26T12:00
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. B...
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Salem's Lot (1979) from 2013-11-19T12:00
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, ...
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Thor: The Dark World from 2013-11-12T12:00
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...
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The Return of Swamp Thing from 2013-11-05T06:00
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 blosso...
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Fright Night 2: New Blood from 2013-10-31T06:00
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, no...
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Swamp Thing from 2013-10-29T06:00
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 eve...
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Carrie (2013) from 2013-10-21T12:00
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 ...
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Carrie (2002) from 2013-10-15T12:00
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 c...
The Rage: Carrie 2 from 2013-10-08T12:00
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, Carri...
Carrie (1976) from 2013-10-01T12:00
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 Ki...
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The Lords of Salem from 2013-09-26T12:00
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....
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Insidious: Chapter 2 from 2013-09-24T06:00
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 th...
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The Chronicles of Riddick from 2013-09-03T06:00
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'...
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Pitch Black from 2013-08-27T06:00
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 ...
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Kick-Ass 2 from 2013-08-20T06:00
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 n...
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The Wolverine from 2013-08-13T06:00
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 pro...
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The Losers from 2013-07-23T12:00
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 Salda...
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Pacific Rim from 2013-07-16T06:00
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 t...
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V For Vendetta from 2013-07-09T12:00
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 Wachow...
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A History of Violence from 2013-07-02T12:00
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...
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Road to Perdition from 2013-06-25T12:00
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 Godfathe...
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Man of Steel from 2013-06-18T06:00
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 ...
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Superman Returns from 2013-06-11T06:00
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 ...
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace from 2013-05-28T06:00
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 ...
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Star Trek Into Darkness from 2013-05-20T12:00
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 D...
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Iron Man 3 from 2013-05-07T12:00
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 year...
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Superman III from 2013-04-30T06:00
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 ...
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Drag Me to Hell from 2013-04-25T06:00
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 ...
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Superman II from 2013-04-23T06:00
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...
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Superman and the Mole Men from 2013-04-09T06:00
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 ...
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G.I. Joe: Retaliation from 2013-04-02T06:00
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 ...
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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra from 2013-03-26T06:00
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 Trans...
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G.I. Joe: The Movie from 2013-03-19T06:00
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 ...
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Constantine from 2013-03-06T06:00
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 Bros...
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A Good Day to Die Hard from 2013-02-20T06:00
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 ...
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Live Free or Die Hard from 2013-02-12T23:00
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 Li...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance from 2013-02-05T17:00
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 Zeu...
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Die Hard 2: Die Harder from 2013-01-29T17:00
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...
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The Detective from 2013-01-15T17:00
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 ...
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Texas Chainsaw 3D from 2013-01-09T06:00
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 ser...
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New Year's Evil from 2013-01-01T06:00
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 ma...
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Silent Night from 2012-12-25T06:00
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 ver...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker from 2012-12-22T06:00
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 Pi...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation from 2012-12-19T06:00
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 ...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! from 2012-12-12T06:00
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 o...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 from 2012-12-05T06:00
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 notoriet...
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Silent Night, Deadly Night from 2012-11-28T06:00
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...
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Quantum of Solace from 2012-11-21T06:00
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 ...
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Casino Royale (2006) from 2012-11-17T06:00
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. Righ...
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Die Another Day from 2012-11-14T06:00
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 t...
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The World Is Not Enough from 2012-11-10T06:00
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. N...
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Tomorrow Never Dies from 2012-11-07T06:00
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 sec...
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License to Kill from 2012-10-30T06:00
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 ...
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The Living Daylights from 2012-10-23T06:00
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 fe...
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Trick 'R' Treat from 2012-10-18T06:00
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. ...
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A View to a Kill from 2012-10-16T06:00
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 time...
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Never Say Never Again from 2012-10-09T06:00
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 ...
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The Cabin in the Woods from 2012-10-05T12:00
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 ...
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For Your Eyes Only from 2012-09-25T06:00
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 ...
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The Spy Who Loved Me from 2012-09-11T06:00
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 the...
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The Man With the Golden Gun from 2012-09-04T06:00
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,...
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Live and Let Die from 2012-08-31T06:00
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 o...
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Diamonds Are Forever from 2012-08-28T06:00
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, bringin...
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service from 2012-08-24T06:00
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...
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You Only Live Twice from 2012-08-21T06:00
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 Bo...
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Casino Royale (1967) from 2012-08-17T06:00
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...
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Thunderball from 2012-08-14T06:00
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 seq...
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Goldfinger from 2012-08-10T06:00
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, ...
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From Russia With Love from 2012-08-07T06:00
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 exchan...
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The Dark Knight Rises from 2012-07-23T06:00
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. N...
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The Dark Knight from 2012-07-17T06:00
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 statu...
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Batman Begins from 2012-07-10T06:00
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 acto...
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The Amazing Spider-Man from 2012-07-06T06:00
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. I...
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Spider-Man 3 from 2012-07-02T22:00
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. I...
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Spider-Man 2 from 2012-06-29T06:00
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 primar...
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Spider-Man (2002) from 2012-06-26T06:00
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-Ma...
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Spider-Man: The Dragon's Challenge from 2012-06-22T06:00
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 tw...
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Spider-Man (1977) from 2012-06-19T06:00
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 Mar...
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Batman & Robin from 2012-06-07T06:00
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 h...
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Batman Forever from 2012-06-05T06:00
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 n...
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Batman : Mask of the Phantasm from 2012-05-31T16:00
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...
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Batman Returns from 2012-05-29T06:00
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 revi...
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Batman (1989) from 2012-05-22T06:00
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 ki...
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Batman (1966) from 2012-05-15T06:00
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...
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The Avengers from 2012-05-06T12:00
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 cha...
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Captain America: The First Avenger from 2012-05-01T12:00
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 introd...
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Iron Man 2 from 2012-04-17T12:00
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 M...
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The Incredible Hulk from 2012-04-10T12:00
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 disap...
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The Death of the Incredible Hulk from 2012-03-20T22:00
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 t...
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The Trial of the Incredible Hulk from 2012-03-13T22:00
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 o...
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The Incredible Hulk Returns from 2012-03-06T23:00
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-M...
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The Return of the Incredible Hulk (Death in the Family) from 2012-03-02T23:00
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...
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The Incredible Hulk (1977) from 2012-02-28T12:00
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...
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Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance from 2012-02-20T06:00
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. J...
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Ghost Rider from 2012-02-15T06:00
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 fi...
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Dr. Strange (1978) from 2012-02-07T12:00
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 ...
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Captain America (1990) from 2012-01-31T12:00
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 superhe...
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Captain America II: Death Too Soon from 2012-01-24T12:00
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-...
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Captain America (1979) from 2012-01-17T12:00
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 Wond...
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Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. from 2012-01-11T06:00
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 wa...
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Rocky Balboa from 2012-01-04T06:00
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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Punisher: War Zone from 2011-11-23T06:00
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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The Punisher (2004) from 2011-11-16T06:00
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 ...
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The Punisher (1989) from 2011-11-09T06:00
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 Lundgr...
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Hannibal Rising from 2011-10-31T06:00
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 Ris...
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Red Dragon from 2011-10-25T06:00
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 stor...
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The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) from 2011-10-20T06:00
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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Silence of the Lambs from 2011-10-11T06:00
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 pictu...
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Blade: Trinity from 2011-09-13T06:00
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 P...
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Fright Night (2011) from 2011-08-23T06:00
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 ...
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Final Destination 5 from 2011-08-19T06:00
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 ...
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Fright Night Part II from 2011-08-16T06:00
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 come...
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The Final Destination from 2011-08-12T06:00
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 ...
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Fright Night from 2011-08-09T06:00
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 ne...
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Fright Night (1985) from 2011-08-09T06:00
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 ...
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Final Destination 3 from 2011-08-05T06:00
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 ...
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Cowboys & Aliens from 2011-08-02T06:00
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 b...
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Final Destination 2 from 2011-07-29T06:00
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 ...
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer from 2011-07-26T12:00
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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Final Destination from 2011-07-22T06:00
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 ...
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Fantastic Four from 2011-07-19T06:00
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 alt...
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The Fantastic Four from 2011-07-12T06:00
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 leg...
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon from 2011-07-05T06:00
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 kep...
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen from 2011-06-27T06:00
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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Green Lantern Review from 2011-06-23T06:00
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 Lanter...
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Transformers from 2011-06-21T06:00
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 pro...
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Transformers: The Movie from 2011-06-14T06:00
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 vo...
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X-Men: First Class from 2011-06-04T06:00
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, beh...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2011-05-27T06:00
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 t...
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X-Men: The Last Stand from 2011-05-20T06:00
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 fore...
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X2: X-Men United from 2011-05-13T06:00
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, ...
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Generation X from 2011-04-29T06:00
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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Howard the Duck from 2011-03-10T06:00
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 impo...
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The Adjustment Bureau from 2011-03-06T06:00
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 clean...
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A Scanner Darkly from 2011-02-19T06:00
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 concernin...
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Minority Report from 2011-02-05T06:00
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'...
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Total Recall from 2011-01-15T06:00
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 comp...
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Blade Runner from 2011-01-08T06:00
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 flo...
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Tron Legacy from 2010-12-21T06:00
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 hol...
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Black Christmas (2006) from 2010-12-13T23:00
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
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Black Christmas (1974) from 2010-12-08T23:00
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
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Rambo: First Blood Part II from 2010-11-13T06:00
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 ge...
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First Blood from 2010-11-05T06:00
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 Stal...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning from 2010-10-22T06:00
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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) from 2010-10-15T06:00
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 Pla...
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The Social Network from 2010-10-12T06:00
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 ...
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation from 2010-10-08T06:00
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-...
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Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3 from 2010-10-01T06:00
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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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 from 2010-09-24T12:00
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 ...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 {Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series} from 2010-09-24T12:00
Incoming Podcast!
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) from 2010-09-17T12:00
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 terr...
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) {Texas Chainsaw Massacre Series} from 2010-09-17T12:00
It's gonna be FUUUUUUNNNN!
Lost Boys: The Thirst from 2010-09-10T12:00
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 problems...
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Lost Boys: The Tribe from 2010-09-03T22:00
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 wa...
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Lost Boys: The Tribe {Lost Boys Movie Series} from 2010-09-03T22:00
It's ironic...usually you pay more for Angus, but here it was all they could afford
The Lost Boys from 2010-08-27T12:00
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 Emers...
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The Lost Boys {Lost Boys Movie Series} from 2010-08-27T12:00
Have you ever looked up from his oiled breasts to notice how bad he's lip syncing?
Scott Pilgrim vs the World from 2010-08-14T12:00
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 ...
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X-Files: I Want to Believe from 2010-08-05T12:00
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 developme...
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X-Files: I Want to Believe {X-Files Movie Series} from 2010-08-05T12:00
They should have quit while they were a head (hah!)
X-Files: Fight the Future from 2010-07-28T12:00
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 my...
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X-Files: Fight the Future {X-Files Movie Series} from 2010-07-28T12:00
We can't handle (or understand) the truth.
Inception {Christopher Nolan Series} from 2010-07-17T12:00
All these movies with dreams and yet still no going to school without your pants on.
Predators {Predator Series} from 2010-07-11T12:00
Yo, Adrien. Christian Bale called. He wants his Batman voice back
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem from 2010-07-06T12:00
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 Fox ...
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Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem {Predator Series} from 2010-07-06T12:00
How cool would it have been if the alien chestbursted out of a Bigfoot. We could have seen a sasqualien!
Alien vs. Predator from 2010-06-30T12:00
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 already ...
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Alien vs. Predator {Predator Series} from 2010-06-30T12:00
A pyramid under the Antarctic ice sounds like a James Bond villain's lair
Alien vs. Predator {Predator Series} {Alien Series} from 2010-06-30T12:00
A pyramid under the Antarctic ice sounds like a James Bond villain's lair
Predator 2 from 2010-06-24T12:00
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 th...
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Predator 2 {Predator Series} from 2010-06-24T12:00
Arnold isn't available? Then get me Danny Glover!!
The Karate Kid (2010) from 2010-06-12T12:00
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 Ku...
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The Karate Kid (2010) {Karate Kid Series} from 2010-06-12T12:00
Let that be a lesson to you kids - always hang up your jacket
Nightmare on Elm Street Bonus: Never Sleep Again from 2010-06-09T22:00
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!
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Nightmare on Elm Street Bonus: Never Sleep Again {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-06-09T22:00
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!
The Next Karate Kid from 2010-06-04T12:00
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 ...
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The Next Karate Kid {Karate Kid Series} from 2010-06-04T12:00
Repeat after me - the sun is warm, the grass is green
The Karate Kid Part III from 2010-05-28T12:00
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 defe...
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The Karate Kid Part III {Karate Kid Series} from 2010-05-28T12:00
We will never be able to think about Mac and Cheese the same way again
The Karate Kid Part II from 2010-05-21T12:00
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 La...
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The Karate Kid Part II {Karate Kid Series} from 2010-05-21T12:00
Some drunk people think the drum technique is a great dance move
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) from 2010-05-19T12:00
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 raunchie...
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) {Human Centipede Series} from 2010-05-19T12:00
Please do not listen to this if you are under 18 or find the subject matter objectionable
The Karate Kid (1984) {Karate Kid Series} from 2010-05-15T22:00
Fear does not exist on this podcast! Pain does not exist on this podcast!
The Karate Kid (1984) from 2010-05-14T22:00
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 on, ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) from 2010-05-01T12:00
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 Elm S...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-05-01T12:00
Why are you wearing headphones? You haven't downloaded us yet.
Freddy vs. Jason - Freddy Focus from 2010-04-23T12:00
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 of...
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Freddy vs. Jason - Freddy Focus {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} {Friday the 13th Series} from 2010-04-23T12:00
This is a whole new episode of Now Playing. No, really, it is!
Wes Craven's New Nightmare from 2010-04-16T12:00
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 i...
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Wes Craven's New Nightmare {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-04-16T12:00
Doesn't Wes Craven realize the trail of breadcrumbs got Hansel and Gretel hopelessly lost?
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare from 2010-04-09T12:00
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 th...
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Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-04-09T12:00
Now, wait a minute...hasn't Freddy been dead this entire series?
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child from 2010-04-02T12:00
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 h...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-04-02T12:00
Good to see Quato is getting some work
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master from 2010-03-26T12:00
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 aga...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-03-26T12:00
I wonder if the Roach Motel was a brokered product placement...
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors from 2010-03-19T12:00
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 th...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-03-19T12:00
The only thing that can defeat Freddy is a good mix of hair metal and holy water
A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge from 2010-03-12T12:00
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 i...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-03-12T12:00
Revenge? Really? Seems more like a return or a reprisal...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) from 2010-03-05T12:00
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 i...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2010-03-05T12:00
We're your boyfriends now, Nancy!
Shutter Island from 2010-02-20T23:00
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 commercia...
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Shutter Island {Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Films} from 2010-02-20T23:00
Shutter Island? Whaddya wanna go theah foah?.
The Departed from 2010-02-12T12:00
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, M...
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The Departed {Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Films} from 2010-02-12T12:00
The rat symbolizes obviousness.
The Aviator from 2010-02-05T12:00
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 a...
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The Aviator {Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Films} from 2010-02-05T12:00
DON'T DRINK THAT! IT'S NOT LEMONADE!
Gangs of New York from 2010-01-29T12:00
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 B...
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Gangs of New York {Martin Scorsese Leonardo DiCaprio Films} from 2010-01-29T12:00
Lucky, this is Cameron Diaz. Cameron, this is Lucky. Now Lucky, put down the cereal and teach Cameron an Irish accent please.
Back to the Future Part III {Back to the Future Series} from 2010-01-22T12:00
Listen or we'll hunt you down like a duck
Back to the Future Part III from 2010-01-21T12:00
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 concl...
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Back to the Future Part II {Back to the Future Series} from 2010-01-15T12:00
Great Scott! A Pair O' Docs!
Back to the Future Part II from 2010-01-14T12:00
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 conti...
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Back to the Future {Back to the Future Series} from 2010-01-08T12:00
What are you listening to, butthead?
Back to the Future from 2010-01-07T12:00
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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Avatar {Avatar Series} from 2009-12-19T12:00
How can the graphics have more dimensions than the characters?
Saw VI {Saw Movie Series} from 2009-12-11T12:00
A steam cage maze? remember the good old days when it was just two guys, a crap-filled toilet, and a gun?
Saw III {Saw Movie Series} from 2009-11-20T12:00
Jigsaw's brain is exposed in a room THAT dirty? Even if it helps the tumor, the infection will be terrible!
Saw II {Saw Movie Series} from 2009-11-13T12:00
Wouldn't you try to find a mirror before slicing off a piece of your own neck?
Saw {Saw Movie Series} from 2009-11-06T12:00
Somehow I don't see the Betty Ford clinic adopting Jigsaw's methods for "curing" drug addicts.
Halloween II (2009) from 2009-10-30T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween (2007) from 2009-10-23T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween (2007) {Halloween Series} from 2009-10-23T12:00
If you are a character in a Rob Zombie movie - you might be a redneck
Halloween: Resurrection from 2009-10-16T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween: Resurrection (2002) {Halloween Series} from 2009-10-16T12:00
Dangertainment Tonight
Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later from 2009-10-09T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later (1998) {Halloween Series} from 2009-10-09T12:00
Nobody doesn't like Jamie Lee
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers from 2009-10-02T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) {Halloween Series} from 2009-10-02T12:00
Given the pattern of these subtitles, shouldn't the next one be called The Trail of Michael Myers?
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers from 2009-09-25T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) {Halloween Series} from 2009-09-25T12:00
This time it's personal. Wait, wait, so was the last time...and the time before that
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers from 2009-09-18T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) {Halloween Series} from 2009-09-18T12:00
Michael Myers is going after his niece. Will she cry uncle?
Halloween III: Season of the Witch from 2009-09-11T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) {Halloween Series} {John Carpenter Films} from 2009-09-11T12:00
This movie gives a whole new meaning to the term 'bugging out'.
Halloween II (1981) from 2009-09-04T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween II (1981) {Halloween Series} {John Carpenter Films} from 2009-09-04T12:00
Think of the bright side. If he does attack you here, you are already in the hospital!
Halloween (1978) from 2009-08-28T12:00
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 Hal...
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Halloween (1978) {Halloween Series} {John Carpenter Films} from 2009-08-28T12:00
It's a nice 3 bedroom, 2 bath. A bit of a fixer upper. The gutters are falling down, and there's a murderer living inside. But you can't beat the payment!
The Devil's Rejects from 2009-08-21T12:00
In anticipation of Rob Zombie’s upcoming movie Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look back Rob Zombie’s initial foray into horror with the films House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Dev...
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The Devil's Rejects {Rob Zombie Movies} {Firefly Series} from 2009-08-21T12:00
You're gonna teach me to do what with that chicken?
House of 1000 Corpses from 2009-08-14T12:00
In anticipation of Rob Zombie’s upcoming movie Halloween II, the hosts of Now Playing look back Rob Zombie’s initial foray into horror with the films House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel The Dev...
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House of 1000 Corpses {Rob Zombie Movies} {Firefly Series} from 2009-08-14T12:00
What do these people have in common: Billy Joel, Ric Ocasek, Chris Robinson, and Rob Zombie have in common?
Terminator Salvation from 2009-05-24T12:00
Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we will be looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Today we finish our series watching Terminator Salvation. ...
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines from 2009-05-21T12:00
Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we continue looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Twelve years after Terminator 2 dominated box offices, Ar...
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines {Terminator Series} from 2009-05-21T12:00
When playing with your Terminatrix, always remember the safe word.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day from 2009-05-18T12:00
Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we are looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. This time we look at the biggest movie of 1991, and the film t...
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day {Terminator Series} from 2009-05-18T12:00
Time for a Pepsi and a five dollar footlong!
Terminator from 2009-05-14T12:00
Welcome to the Now Playing Terminator retrospective series, where we will be looking back at all the films in the Terminator franchise. Today we start off with the original Terminator, released ...
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Terminator {Terminator Series} from 2009-05-14T12:00
The only things that can make it through the time machine are organic materials and hair gel.
Star Trek (2009) from 2009-05-09T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek (2009) {Star Trek Series} from 2009-05-09T12:00
It's taken 11 movies but the mystery is finally uncovered...her first name is Nyota.
Star Trek: Nemesis from 2009-05-01T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek: Insurrection from 2009-04-24T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek: Insurrection {Star Trek Series} from 2009-04-24T12:00
Warning - firmer breasts do not make effective flotation devices
Star Trek: First Contact from 2009-04-17T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek: First Contact {Star Trek Series} from 2009-04-17T12:00
That'll do, Geordi. That'll do.
Star Trek: Generations from 2009-04-10T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! Where we are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May...
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Star Trek: Generations {Star Trek Series} from 2009-04-10T12:00
Holodecks, warp drives and human replicant androids they can do, but curing male pattern baldness still eludes them.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country from 2009-04-03T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country {Star Trek Series} from 2009-04-03T12:00
The Klingon doth quotes Shakesphere too much, methinks
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier from 2009-03-27T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier {Star Trek Series} from 2009-03-27T12:00
Ok, Bill, fine. You can direct.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home from 2009-03-20T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home {Star Trek Series} from 2009-03-20T12:00
Chekov - San Francisco in the 1980s, perhaps leather pants wasn't the best choice....
Star Trek III: The Search For Spock from 2009-03-13T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek III: The Search For Spock {Star Trek Series} from 2009-03-13T12:00
Hey - you're not Kirstie Alley!
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan from 2009-03-06T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing’s Star Trek Retrospective Series! We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan {Star Trek Series} from 2009-03-06T12:00
Waiter, I'll have the Kobayashi Maru
Star Trek: The Motion Picture from 2009-02-27T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Star Trek Retrospective Series. We are reviewing every movie in the Star Trek movie series in anticipation of the new Star Trek movie being released on Friday, May 8th, ...
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture {Star Trek Series} from 2009-02-27T12:00
We get to the point faster than Kirk gets to the Enterprise!
Friday the 13th Series Wrap-Up from 2009-02-20T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Series Wrap-Up {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-02-20T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th (2009) {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-02-15T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th (2009) from 2009-02-14T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Freddy vs. Jason (Jason Focus Review) from 2009-02-12T23:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Freddy vs. Jason (Jason Focus Review) {Friday the 13th Series} {Nightmare on Elm Street Series} from 2009-02-12T23:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Jason X {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-02-10T23:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday from 2009-02-06T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Jason Goes To Hell--The Final Friday {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-02-06T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan from 2009-02-04T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-02-04T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood from 2009-01-30T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VII--The New Blood {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-30T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives from 2009-01-28T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-28T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning from 2009-01-23T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-23T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter from 2009-01-21T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-21T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part III from 2009-01-16T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part III in 3-D {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-16T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part II from 2009-01-14T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th Part II {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-14T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th (1980) from 2009-01-09T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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Friday the 13th (1980) {Friday the 13th Series} from 2009-01-09T12:00
Welcome to Now Playing's Friday the 13th retrospective, where we are reviewing every movie in the Friday the 13th series in anticipation of the new Friday the 13th movie being released on Friday...
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