Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast
The hosts of Now Playing Podcast dive deep into every franchise from Bond, DC and Marvel to Mad Max, Andromeda Strain to Wolverine, breaking down each film with sharp insight, behind-the-scenes stories, and a lot of humor. If a movie has a sequel (or three), they've probably reviewed it with real research, real opinions, and zero patience for bad movies.
Episodes
Masters of the Universe (2026)
Fistos of Fury
Manchild Nicholas Galitzine (Red, White & Royal Blue) dares to stand in Dolph Lundgren’s spot and attempt to wield the Sword of Power in the 2026 reboot of Masters of the Universe. Will his newfound muscles and brute strength impress boyhood crush Teela (Riverdale’s Camila Mendes), Man-At-Arms Idris Elba (Thor), and disapproving dad James Purefoy (Resident Evil)? Or has Jared Le
Roar - The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made (preview)
Now Playing Podcast needs YOUR support to keep operating! Our Spring Donation Drive is coming to an end. This is your last chance to help keep us stay independent and hear 50 hours of bonus reviews, including the movie Stuart has been passionate to talk about for years, THE MOST DANGEROUS MOVIE EVER MADE: ROAR! Hear this preview and donate now!
He-Man and She-Ra: The Secret of the Sword
By The Power of Filmation
Before the Masters of the Universe conquer 2026 movie theaters, Arnie, Marjorie, and Stuart dish about the 1985 animated feature that reveals He-Man and She-Ra are twins. Is The Secret of the Sword that Adora is a real-life Eternia princess who’s been kidnapped and gaslighted by evil adoptive parents Hordak and Shadow Weaver… or just that Mattel would do anything to sell
Intermission #4: Maclunky, Walkie-Talkies, and the Death of Movies
The fourth Intermission finds the hosts debating film preservation, 4K restorations, AI upscaling, George Lucas's Star Wars revisions, Spielberg's E.T. walkie-talkies, and whether modern transfers are preserving movies or changing them. Plus, Jason completes a year-and-a-half watch-through of the entire Kristy Swanson filmography, Arnie revisits 1995's Mortal Kombat, listener Tom Ross hosts a triv
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
The old protect the young, and the young develop poor eating habits.
The Mandalorian and Grogu have left Disney+ behind to take orders from sci-fi queen Sigourney Weaver (Alien) in a big-screen 2026 Star Wars movie. But does Pedro Pascal need to go rescue little "Stinky the Hutt" now that he’s grown into big, buff Jeremy Allen White (The Bear)? And can director Jon Favreau (Elf) find The Way to ba
The Birds by Daphne du Maurier
Before Alfred Hitchcock turned birds into cinematic terror, The Birds was a bleak, intimate apocalypse story from author Daphne du Maurier. In this special Now Playing Podcast Book Review, Arnie looks at the 1952 short story that inspired Hitchcock’s classic film and finds something very different: a grim survival tale closer to War of the Worlds, I Am Legend, and Night of the Living Dead than the
Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Season 3
Is this The Way to make a follow-up to a hit show?
Bo-Katan Kryze (Katee Sackhoff) aims to bring the various Mandalorian factions together and reclaim their homeworld in Season Three of the popular Star Wars series. Does that mean The Armorer can give Pedro Pascal a pass for peeking out from under his helmet and pushing his foundling child Grogu to become his combat-ready apprentice? Or would Grog
Mortal Kombat II
Nic is not the only Cage who made garbage action flicks in the 1990s
Karl Urban (The Boys) goes from Comic-Con has-been to fighting for Earth in a life-or-death tournament called Mortal Kombat II. Does this aging Gen X-er still have enough fight to defeat classic video game characters like fan-wielding Kitana, toothy Baraka, and big, bad Outworld villain Shao Khan? And can director Simon McQuoid b
The Devil Wears Prada 2
Kenneth Branagh’s Adoing Nothing
Anne Hathaway (The Dark Knight Rises) returns to Runway Magazine in The Devil Wears Prada 2, where the collapse of print media may finally threaten the icy reign of editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep). But after the death of a publishing mogul leaves Miranda’s future uncertain, will the fashion queen be forced to trade first-class flights and chauffeured town ca
Book Review: The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Devil Wears Prada has become iconic. Anne Hathaway’s cerulean sweater. Meryl Streep’s silver hair and clipped “that’s all” dismissal. The pop songs, the score, the fashion world excess. Just hearing the title instantly conjures images from the film for millions of people.
And while it’s common knowledge that Streep’s Miranda Priestly was inspired by Vogue editor Anna Wintour, fewer people real
Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett
Temuera Morrison is ready to throw The Book at Tatooine spice dealers as he steps from his Bacta tank and back into the role of Boba Fett for a 2022 Disney+ miniseries. But how did the badass bounty hunter escape Return of the Jedi’s Sarlacc Pit to claim Jabba the Hutt's throne from Bib Fortuna? And does he really need to interrupt Grogu’s Force training with Luke Skywalker and call in Pedro Pasca
The Devil Wears Prada
Sachs And The City
Anne Hathaway’s wannabe writer Andy finds both her outfits and work ethic clashing with boss-from-hell Meryl Streep in the 2006 comedy The Devil Wears Prada. Can bitchy first assistant Emily Blunt and diva fashion director Stanley Tucci help the aspiring journalist dress the part and fit in at high-pressure Runway magazine? And will boyfriend Adrian Grenier (Entourage) get tosse
Intermission #3: Stu Cru - Still Standing
Stuart went back in the hospital this month for another surgery. But he's back home and ready to tell all his Stu Cru supporters about it on the third episode of Intermission. He gives more detail on his health, the complications that followed his initial surgery, and the major procedure he recently underwent to reclaim his life.
It's a harrowing story but one with an uplifting end, and maybe ev
Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Interview with Thomas Dekker
Actor Thomas Dekker (The Sarah Connor Chronicles, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2010) joins Now Playing Podcast to revisit the Elm Street remake on its anniversary. He shares how he landed the role, what it was like filming in Chicago, and how the movie evolved from a darker original script into the final theatrical version. Dekker discusses reshoots, studio notes, changes to Freddy’s performance, and
Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Season 2
Three Mando and a Baby
Pedro Pascal and “Baby Yoda” (Grogu) search for a Jedi ally in The Mandalorian Season 2 on Disney+. But what does it mean to be The Mandalorian when Katee Sackhoff’s Bo-Katan removes her helmet, and Temuera Morrison straps back on his Boba Fett armor to join the quest? Is it more fun watching a legacy Star Wars character fly in and take down Moff Gideon's Dark Troopers, or s
Normal
I guess you think you're... you know, like an authority figure, with that stupid fuckin' uniform, huh buddy?
Bob Odenkirk goes from Nobody to playing a “Normal” small-town interim sheriff. Teaming up again with Derek Kolstad, does he bring the same mix of dry humor and sudden violence that made their last series work? And with Henry Winkler in the wintery mix, are we getting something closer to th
Star Wars: The Mandalorian - Season 1
No Child Left Behind
Pedro Pascal strapped on the helmet to become The Mandalorian and help launch the Disney+ streaming service back in 2019. Is there a beating heart underneath the Beskar steel armor that convinces the cold-blooded bounty hunter to betray his client, Werner Herzog, and prevent "Baby Yoda" from falling into the hands of Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul)? Listen Now to find ou
Star Wars: Andor - Season 2
The Devil Wears Ghorman Twill
Four years of Star Wars spy missions have Andor (Diego Luna) ready to ditch the Rebellion with equally traumatized girlfriend Bix (Morbius' Adria Arjona). Can schemer Stellan Skarsgård keep his agents in position like the bugged antiques in his shop until he has all the Death Star intel? And is Mon Mothma too busy throwing her teenage daughter's wedding to notice best
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
Now You’re Playing With Millennials
Princess Peach (Anya Taylor-Joy) and Toad (Keegan-Michael Key) rocket into another Galaxy to rescue her kidnapped sister Rosalina (Brie Larson) in the 2026 Super Mario Brothers Movie sequel. Can brothers Mario and Luigi (Chris Pratt and Charlie Day) keep the Mushroom Kingdom safe as Bowser (Jack Black) returns to full size and escapes to a homemade planet built
Intermission #2 - Streaming Killed the Video Store
Stuart's Burning Down the House on this episode...
What did we lose when video stores disappeared, and can streaming ever replace it? Arnie, Stuart, and Justin dive into that, along with immersive theater, playoff hockey, and a round of listener trivia that puts their movie knowledge to the test.
And this is still a new podcast format for us, so let us know if you enjoy the show. We welcome your f
Star Wars: Andor - Season 1
Do NOT confuse this title for another Caravan of Courage on the Ewok moon
Before he was the martyr of Rogue One, Diego Luna was a desperate thief who accidentally lit the spark of the Rebellion in the 2022 series Andor. Is he better off making Death Star parts in prison with Andy Serkis, or facing the consequences of the Imperial robbery he pulled for chameleon Stellan Skarsgård? And can Senator M
Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi
Qui-Gon but Not Forgotten
Ewan McGregor returns to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in a 2022 miniseries that gives him another chance to school his rogue Padawan, Hayden Christensen, for rebranding himself as Darth Vader. But is the Force strong enough with this middle-aged Jedi Master to save little Princess Leia (Bird Box’s Vivien Lyra Blair) after she’s kidnapped by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Fle
Star Wars: The Acolyte
The Hate U Give Disney Ends All Their Hopes (T.H.U.G. D.E.A.T.H)
Lee Jung-jae (Squid Game) attempts to save twin sisters from a witch coven and bring them into the Jedi fold, only to watch his Acolyte turn to the Dark Side in this Star Wars prequel. Can Amandla Stenberg (The Hate U Give) as former Jedi Osha be Forced to return to the Order and stop her sister Mae before she assassinates a meditati
The Bride! (2026)
Speaking In Tongues
Mary Shelley possesses Hamnet star Jessie Buckley and turns her into The Bride!, a politically charged sequel to her 1818 novel Frankenstein. But would the reinvigorated woman prefer not to be engaged to Christian Bale’s Monster when his idea of romance is stomping on mobsters' heads while pretending he’s tap dancing in a movie musical? And is director Maggie Gyllenhaal a mad s
Scream 7
Bring Your Daughter To the Slaughter
Neve Campbell sat out Ghostface’s rampage in New York City so she could raise Isabel May to become her Final Girl replacement in Scream 7. Has Matthew Lillard risen from the dead to stalk veteran survivors like Courtney Cox, Mason Gooding, and Jasmin Savoy Brown in a brand new suburbia? And why did O.G. screenwriter Kevin Williamson take another stab at direct
Intermission #1 - Fall of the Alamo
Welcome to the very first episode of Now Playing Podcast: Intermission, our new monthly free-form show where the structure is looser, it's far less edited, and anything can happen!
This month:
Arnie goes nuclear over Alamo Drafthouse’s new mid-movie cell phone ordering system and why he canceled his Season Pass.
Brock and Stuart break down Oscar season, from the Best Picture nominees to which film
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Raging Ghoul
Robert DeNiro couldn’t speak the Queen’s English even before Kenneth Branagh stitched his lips onto other body parts for a 1994 retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Will the miscast actor need to hide at the North Pole to escape the embarrassment of his screen romance with Helena Bonham Carter? Or was this a worthy creation denied life at the box office because of the bad pres
The Bride (1985)
Fleshdance
Rock star Sting denies his Frankenstein creation Clancy Brown (Shawshank Redemption) a happy wedding day so that the mad scientist can be the one to kiss The Bride. But will Jennifer Beals (Vampire’s Kiss) find reanimated life enjoyable with The Police frontman watching every breath she takes with suitor Cary Elwes (Princess Bride)? And can little person David Rappaport (Time Bandits) s
Dracula (2025)
Vlad The Impersonator
Director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element) spins Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel Dracula into “A Love Tale,” released in US cinemas in time for Valentine’s Day 2026. Is Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out) damned to walk the world a lonely vampire because he picked Roseanna Arquette’s daughter over God in a 1480 Ottoman battle? And how strong a perfume does the 400-year-old bloodsuck
Fatal Frame
Never Been Kissed
Arnie, Stuart, and Justin peer through their spirit camera to find the ghosts haunting a 2014 movie adaptation of the cult video game Fatal Frame. Is the graduating class of a Japanese Catholic school dying because a curse makes girls go mad and suicidal like Shakespeare’s Ophelia? And is Ju-On Black Ghost director Mari Asato more interested in making a sequel to The Grudge than
Return to Silent Hill
There’s Something About Mary
Director Christophe Gans makes a Return To Silent Hill 20 years after adapting the first video game into a hit movie. Sean Bean and his bifurcated daughter have moved on so that struggling artist Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) can save muse Hannah Emily Anderson (Jigsaw) from cult sacrifice. Is everyone seeing crazy things because the water is contaminated? Or is a dude wit
Darkman III: Die Darkman Die
I’ve Got 99 Minutes And My Bitch Face Runs
Jeff Fahey (Lawnmower Man) screams Die Darkman Die in 'roid rage after trying to usurp the super-strength of the titular B-movie vigilante. Will star Arnold Vosloo (GI Joe: The Rise ofCobra) find a friend in Darlanne Fluegel (TV’s Wiseguy), the doctor who first cut his nerves to make him immune to pain? And does Darkman 3 work as a retelling of Beauty An
Darkman II: The Return of Durant
Always replace your divots (never your lead actors)
Larry Drake (Dr. Giggles) gives the finger to audiences who assumed his mob kingpin died in the last movie’s climactic chopper crash. Darkman 2 features The Return of Durant (and the exit of Liam Neeson, Francis McDormand, and director Sam Raimi). Can new face Arnold Vosloo (The Mummy) use his mask-making machine to infiltrate his nemesis’s gang
Darkman
The Phantom Menace
Liam Neeson needs thicker skin after Larry Drake (TV’s LA Law) burns down his laboratory and turns him into the vigilante Darkman. But will girlfriend Frances McDormand (Fargo) still want to marry the nerd after he disguises his disfigured looks under masks, and goes after the goons that work for shady real estate developer Colin Friels? And did writer-director Sam Raimi create
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
You Only Live Twice
Daniel “007” Craig loses faith in his abilities to solve a third Knives Out Mystery after murdered monsignor Josh Brolin rises from the grave in Wake Up Dead Man. Is Sheriff Mila Kunis right to slap the cuffs on Josh O’Connor after the doubting priest confesses to a violent past? Or should she be looking at suspicious parishioners like bitter Glenn Close, jilted Jeremy Renner,
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Feliz Na’vi Dads
Pandora will be turned into Fire and Ash if Giovanni Ribisi and Edie Falco learn the secret to breathing the planet’s toxic air from feral human Spider (Jack Champion). Can adoptive father Sam Worthington protect “monkey boy” from being reclaimed by bio-parent Stephen Lang, or getting whacked by his grieving wife Zoe Saldana? And who exactly gave birth to 76-year-old “teenager”
Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
Charlie’s (Avenging) Angels
Rohan Campbell goes from ending the Halloween franchise to taking an axe to Christmas in the 2025 reboot of Silent Night, Deadly Night. Is the traumatized orphan crazy for wanting to wear a Santa suit and murder festive folks in small-town America? Or is that gruff voice in his head only interested in The Naughty - child snatchers, heartless foster moms, wife murdere
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse
Josh Hutcherson plays different hunger games at a second pizzeria that has child abduction and possessed animatronics on the menu in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Are Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Freddy Fazzbear even more lethal now that they’re controlled by The Marionette, a forgotten telepathic mascot out to make neglectful parents pay? And will crabby teacher Wayne Knight
Until Dawn
Grindhouse Day
Five friends stranded at a sunken mining town must survive Until Dawn if they hope to escape a fatal time warp created by head shrinker Peter Stormare (Fargo). Does director David F. Sandberg (Annabelle Creation) help his horror movie feel more like a video game by hitting the reset button every time his cast is violently killed off, giving the characters another chance to go back a
Frankenstein (2025)
Father Knows Beast
Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) fulfills his dream to bring Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein to life as a 2025 Netflix creation. Does Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) play God just to get back at bad dad Charles Dance (Golden Child), or to impress failed nun Mia Goth (X), or because Christoph Waltz (Spectre) has funded the perfect mad scientist lab to fry up bits of fallen so
The Running Man (2025)
America’s Got Tumult
Glen Powell (Twisters) follows in the footsteps of Arnold Schwarzenegger by continuing the weird flex he began on a lethal reality show called The Running Man. Will TV producer Josh Brolin (Avengers: Endgame) cancel his star contestant before he sparks a political uprising with prepper Michael Cera (Arrested Development)? And does Stephen King’s downer dystopian novel from 198
Predator: Badlands
Get to da Yowcha!
The Predator has left behind his typical prey on Earth to hunt a new trophy in the Badlands of the deadliest planet in the universe. But after eight movies, is the masked alien at last ready to be the hero of his own franchise, and beat a band of Weyland-Yutani robots to a massive, unkillable monster? And are Elle Fanning (Super 8) and a spitting space monkey the tools needed
Predator: Killer of Killers
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Motherf*ckers
Before the Predator conducts his 2025 theatrical hunt in the Badlands, his animated counterparts are hosting a contest on Hulu where the winner is proclaimed Killer of Killers. How much competition will a Viking mother, an exiled Japanese brother, and an aspiring WWII pilot be for the homicidal aliens once they’re ripped away from historical battles an
Marvel Zombies
What If…. Stan Lee was replaced by George Romero?
Now Playing Podcast has been overrun by Marvel Zombies just in time for Halloween, and somehow it’s all up to Jersey brat Kamala Khan (aka Ms Marvel) to save the day. Can she transmit an S.O.S. to allies in space before Shang-Chi, Red Guardian, Spider-Man, Thor, Riri “Ironheart” Williams, and dozens of other Avengers are overtaken by an undead hor
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The Enemy of The Entity Is My Friend
Brock, Arnie, and Stuart are at last ready to have The Final Reckoning with the eighth Mission: Impossible film, as well as its daredevil star, Tom Cruise. Does the world still need Ethan Hunt to dangle from dogfighting airplanes, dive solo into deep-sea submarine wrecks, or impersonate others in lookalike masks? Or would it be better to let artificial intelli
TRON: Ares
My So-Called Artificial Life
Jared Leto aims to be a permanent part of the Tron universe by reconfiguring his rock star image into cyber-soldier Ares. But is he right to have bad feelings about the commands of generational villains Evan Peters (X-Men Days of Future Past) and Gillian Anderson (X-Files)? Or should he follow the directives of Flynn fangirl Greta Lee (Past Lives), and return to the Gr
Inferno
You’ve Got Plague
Tom Hanks is back as Robert Langdon, this time recovering from amnesia in an Italian hospital while the clock ticks down to the release of a deadly virus. But why did Ron Howard skip a novel to make Dan Brown’s fourth book, Inferno, the conclusion to the movie trilogy? And is Felicity Jones (Rogue One) any help stopping a madman obsessed with Dante, or aiding the symbologist as
Angels & Demons
Catch Me if you Conclave
Ron Howard follows up his biggest box office hit with a 2009 Da Vinci Code sequel that sends Tom Hanks and Ewan McGregor racing through Rome on a mission to solve more ancient riddles. Will taking time for some Vatican cardio in between his Louvre lectures make the Harvard symbologist fit enough to stop an Illuminati bomb plot? Arnie, Jason, and Justin try not to suffoc
The Da Vinci Code
Joe Versus the Vatican
Symbologist Robert Langdon made his big-screen debut in The Da Vinci Code, the controversial adaptation of a Dan Brown bestseller that risked turning art history into a global conspiracy and created a PR nightmare for the Catholic Church. With Tom Hanks rocking the most unpopular haircut since Samson, and director Ron Howard treating every line like it came straight from the
The Long Walk
Step Brothers
Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence asks audiences to take a Long Walk in Stephen King’s shoes for the 2025 movie adaptation of the horror writer’s 1979 dystopian novel. Why has Mark Hamill gone to the Dark Side, using brute force to make 50 teenage boys march down America’s post-apocalyptic highways until only one is left standing? And who in this fresh-faced cast, which includ
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The Warren Reports
Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson have been Conjuring stories of demonic possession on movie screens for the last 12 years. Will their career as the preeminent paranormal investigators of the 1960s and 70s end in tragedy now that a Pennsylvanian family needs their help fighting off an axe-wielding ghost in 1986? And can Ed and Lorraine keep shielding adult daughter Judy from a st
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer
Window of Opportunity
Stephen King didn’t write The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, but this 2003 TV movie attempts to complete the picture of his haunted house, Rose Red. Was the place born from the sin of kinky Steven Brand (Hellraiser: Revelations), who delights in tying up and torturing his new bride and comely maids? Or is the mansion on the side of the wronged women, and helping Ellen (soap star L
Rose Red
Bringing Down The House
Stephen King invited audiences back to network television in 2002 for a three-night tour of his haunted house, Rose Red. But did the author successfully refurbish Shirley Jackson’s classic Hill House tale by having an autistic girl be the one to stoke the appetite of a soul-eating Seattle mansion? Or is sitcom star Nancy Travis working from an outdated blueprint as she send
Nobody 2
Nobody Asked for This
After finding inner peace with a body count, Nobody Bob Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell is chasing something even harder: a quiet family vacation. But when a crooked sheriff (Fargo’s Colin Hanks) and a deranged smuggler (Basic Instinct’s Sharon Stone) crash the party, Hutch has to remind everyone that violence is his love language. Listen to the Now Playing Podcast hosts now to find
Nobody
Nobody Copies John Wick and Gets Away With It
Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) might look like your average suburban dad, but Nobody will think that after witnessing his brutal bus beatdown and action flick transformation. Can the unassuming funnyman fight back against the Russian mafia on his own, or does he need the help of his shotgun-wielding octogenarian papa Christopher Lloyd (Back To The Fut
Dreamcatcher
Plop Goes The Weasel
Thomas Jane (The Mist), Jason Lee (Chasing Amy), Timothy Olyphant (Justified), and Damian Lewis (Billions) arrive at a cabin in the woods to drink beer, sing “Blue Bayou”, and process childhood trauma. But their annual hunting trip gets hijacked by space aliens exploding out their asses in the 2003 nightmare film Dreamcatcher. Can Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan and Oscar w
The Fantastic Four: First Steps
The Baby Bunch
The MCU takes its First Steps into Phase Six by bringing comic's premiere family, The Fantastic Four, back into the fold. But was newborn Franklin also mutated by the cosmic storm that stretched the talents of Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), disappeared Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), got Ebon Moss-Bachrach (The Bear) rock hard, and made Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things) so hot? And how we
Thunderbolts*
What About Bob?
Marvel Studios turns to treacherous CIA director Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Seinfeld) to help them identify New Avengers to replace their most iconic superheroes, and carry the franchise forward. But will longtime MCU fans buy a ticket (or even a box of Wheaties) for a ragtag assembly of antiheroes known as the Thunderbolts? Listen Now to find out if former Black Widow Florence Pugh, he
Superman (2025)
At last, I finally understand the dangers of investing in Krypto
Director James Gunn leaves Guardians of the Galaxy behind to launch DC Studios, starting with the 2025 resurrection of Superman. But can David Corenswet be a Man of Steel to Metropolis after Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) smears his good name in a social media campaign that questions why dad Bradley Cooper sent him to Earth? And is the
Species: The Awakening
Chariots of Desire
Now Playing Podcast closes out the Species retrospective with The Awakening, a made-for-Sci-Fi Channel entry that trades franchise continuity for a new setting, new characters, and the same familiar formula. Set in Mexico, this fourth installment brings in Chariots of Fire’s Ben Cross and Star Trek: Enterprise’s Dominic Keating but can they add class to this low-budget fourquel?
Species III
College hook-up culture meets the world’s worst grad school project.
Natasha Henstridge cashed a big check for a tiny role in Species III, a bargain-bin sequel that trades theaters for dorm rooms and solid science for sci-fi nonsense. Sil’s alien legacy lives on through her daughter, but with less money to burn, things get even dumber. There’s still plenty of aliens, skin, and bad choices to
Book Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
Do you think you know what they did last summer? Think again!
Our 2025 Summer/Fall Donation Drive kicks off today with our review of I Know What You Did Last Summer, the 1997 slasher that made hook hands cool again. But before the gore, there was... guilt? In this bonus episode, Arnie digs into the 1973 young-adult novel by Lois Duncan. But slasher fans be warned: there's no fisherman, no slickers
Species II
Houston, we have a baby mama problem.
What happens when a space mission goes wrong, and the astronauts bring back more than just Mars rocks? You get Species II, a bigger, bolder, and weirder follow-up that doubles down on the sleaze, the sci-fi, and the mutant mating. Today, our hosts dive into this sequel, pondering the true mystery: why should Peter Boyle and James Cromwell ever be in the same m
Species
Came to mate, stayed to mutilate.
30 years ago, Species slithered onto screens with a deadly combo: sexy aliens, mad science, and a cast way too good for this movie. Today Now Playing Podcast kicks off a four-part retrospective of this cult-favorite creature feature franchise, asking the hard questions: Was Sil just misunderstood? Is Alfred Molina okay? And why does the government’s top plan alway
Ballerina
Black Ops Swan
Lionsgate’s still milking the John Wick cow, even if Keanu's nowhere in sight. First, they gave us The Continental (because who hasn’t wanted a TV show about hotel management?), and now comes Ballerina, the big-screen spin-off where Ana de Armas pirouettes while wielding flamethrowers, claymores, knives, guns. Lots of guns. Does she have what Wick needs? Join Justin, Jason, and Arni
Karate Kid: Legends
Cobra Why
The Karate Kid franchise has had nothing but victories lately. The 2010 remake was a box-office success, and fans flocked to YouTube and Netflix for Cobra Kai. Now, Sony wants to high-kick this franchise back into theaters and combine the universes, having both Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan as teachers to young Li Fong (Ben Wang). But with those senseis relegated to glorified cameos, and
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Kids, the story of how I met your mother includes a drifter with no phone and a body count
Now Playing Podcast has a bonus Friday episode, free for all listeners! This time, the hosts take aim at Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, the 2016 Tom Cruise action sequel. Does the second Reacher film live up to the first, or should it have followed its own advice and stayed away? Find out in this all-new revie
Jack Reacher
He's an expert at finding a parking spot in Pittsburgh. Which is no easy feat, let me tell you!
In this week’s new podcast, we’re taking aim at Jack Reacher. Tom Cruise stars as the mysterious drifter and former military investigator in this gritty action thriller. It also marks the first time Cruise teamed up with director Christopher McQuarrie, a partnership that would lead to several Impossible
Final Destination: Bloodlines
Blood is thicker than water, but both make a mess when you splatter.
It’s been an entire generation since the last Final Destination crushed the box office in 2011. Now Death is back and stalking an entire family tree. Grandma survived a toppling tower in the ‘60s and now Death wants her, and her heirs. Can Tony Todd, in his final performance, help break the Bloodlines’ curse? Log on and join us n
The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Limp Wick
John Wick may be dead…but the franchise is very much alive. With spin-off films like Ballerina, Caine, and an anime Wick prequel on the way and John Wick 5 already in the works, the high-octane universe of assassins, coins, and Continental rules isn't slowing down anytime soon. But before we return to the big screen, we’re flashing back to the 1970s for the Peacock mini-series The Contin
Apollo 13
Houston, we have a podcast!
Houston, Stuart has a problem… with our co-host in the ICU, Arnie, Brock, and Justin have come together to discuss a film that’s all about survival, perseverance, and the triumph of the human spirit: Apollo 13. As the acclaimed Ron Howard/Tom Hanks collaboration marks its 30th anniversary, the hosts revisit this beloved biopic to see if it still soars. Strap in and list
Sinners
From cotton fields to coffin lids
Sinners isn’t just a vampire movie—it’s a Southern Gothic opera about bloodlines, betrayal, and the price of your soul. On this episode, Justin, Marjorie, and Arnie dive into Ryan Coogler’s (Black Panther) first original feature, where Michael B. Jordan (Creed) plays war-torn twins battling both the past and the undead in 1930s Mississippi. Hailee Steinfeld (Hawke
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
How To Overfeed Your Dragon
Chris Pine (Star Trek) and Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar) learn there’s no Honor Among Thieves when accomplice Hugh Grant (Heretic) sends them to prison so he can lay sole claim on the spoils of a heist. Does the wise-cracking bard have the charisma points to pull off a revenge campaign that rescues daughter Chloe Coleman (My Spy) using insecure wizard Justice Smith (Detec
Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness
50 Shades of Grayson Azriel
The third Dungeons & Dragons movie is steeped in sin as it partners a quartet of bloodthirsty bandits with a celibate knight on a quest to rescue his father from a kinky underworld. Is returning director Gerry Lively faithful to the letter of the 3rd edition game supplement The Book of Vile Darkness, which first let players fall under the spell of a black magic text
A Minecraft Movie
Cocky Blockers
Jack Black attempts to build a cinematic universe out of chickens cooked in lava, rampaging pigs and zombies, and other doodads mined from the biggest video game of all time. But is it wise to spend $150 million on A Minecraft Movie that just looks like pixelated 8-bit graphics? And is any of the Overland’s wild architecture as creative as the fringed leather wardrobe that Jason Ma
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British heavy Bruce Payne (Passenger 57) is the only cast member willing to return for a Dungeons & Dragons sequel now that the 2005 campaign is being launched on SyFy Channel. Can new director Gerry Lively (Darkness Falls) do a better job of advancing the fantasy role-playing game into a credible cinematic universe b
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The Desolation of Snails
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Mazes and Monsters
That Thing You Pardieu
College kid Tom Hanks plays RPG Mazes And Monsters and quickly descends into madness and murder in this notorious 1982 TV movie. Did Maze Controller Chris Makepeace (Meatballs) make the fantasy too real by swapping out dice bags and painted figurines for a live-action campaign inside a dangerous cave? Or did the future Oscar winner simply get too wrapped up in a delusional
Ouija: Origin of Evil
Goodbye Friend
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Ouija
Hi Friend
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