Episode 079 - Death Race 4, Backtrace, Escape Plan 2, Late Phases - a podcast by Mike Parkin
from 2019-01-27T22:15:18
It looks like Stallone is following Bruce Willis into the dark realms of DTV, and this week we cover two films in which he's given prominent billing when in fact he's taking a back seat for much of the running time. So this week, Mike and Rich take a belated look at ESCAPE PLAN 2 (available on Netflix), which also manages to rope in the likes of Dave Bautista and Titus Welliver, as well as BACKTRACE, in which a amnesiac Matthew Modine tries to remember where he hid the takings of a heist gone wrong. Not only that but we have the latest chapter in the Death Race franchise, DEATH RACE: BEYOND ANARCHY - starring a guy with a forgettable name and directed by Don Michael Paul, who has a good pedigree of delivering exciting DTV action. As a lead in to our review, Mike delivers a BEGINNERS GUIDE to the franchise to-date. We also review the Australian Alien Invasion movie OCCUPATION! Our DTV THROWBACK this week is the werewolf movie LATE PHASES, which can be found on Amazon Prime, and we also take a look at the short film, BLUEPRINT.
Have a listen, enjoy, sorry about the abrupt ending!
FOOTNOTES:
COMING SOON:
THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT
THE MAIN REVIEWS:
THE DTV THROWBACK
LATE PHASES (aka NIGHT OF THE WOLF)
Further episodes of The DTV Digest
Further podcasts by Mike Parkin
Website of Mike Parkin