Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2006's The Departed! The Departed is a 2006 American crime drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. It is a remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, and Mark Wahlberg, with Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, and Alec Baldwin in supporting roles. The film takes place in Boston. Irish Mob boss Francis "Fran...
Jan 12, 2017•1 hr 9 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1998's Blade! Blade is a 1998 American vampire superhero film starring Wesley Snipes and Stephen Dorff, loosely based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Snipes plays Blade, a human with vampire traits who protects humans from vampires. The film was directed by Stephen Norrington and written by David S. Goyer. Released on August 21, 1998, Blade became a commercial success by grossing $70 million at the U.S. box office...
Jan 04, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1997's Men In Black! Men in Black is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and produced by Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald. Loosely adapted from The Men in Black comic book series created by artist Lowell Cunningham, the film stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as two agents of a secret organization called the Men in Black who supervise extraterrestrial lifeforms who live on Earth a...
Dec 14, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2008's The Dark Knight! The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero thriller film directed, produced, and co-written by Christopher Nolan. Featuring the DC Comics character Batman, the film is the second part of Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy and a sequel to 2005's Batman Begins, starring an ensemble cast including Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman. In the film, ...
Dec 07, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1994's True Lies! True Lies is a 1994 American action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Art Malik, Tia Carrere, Bill Paxton, Eliza Dushku, Grant Heslov and Charlton Heston. It is a loose remake of the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!. The film follows U.S. government agent Harry Tasker, who balances his life as a spy with his familial duties. True Lie...
Nov 30, 2016•1 hr 14 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2007's Shooter! A marksman living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to find the real killer and the reason he was set up. Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Nov 16, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1995's Braveheart! Braveheart is a 1995 American epic war film directed by and starring Mel Gibson. Gibson portrays William Wallace, a 13th-century Scottish warrior who led the Scots in the First War of Scottish Independence against King Edward I of England. The story is inspired by Blind Harry's epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wa...
Nov 09, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1995's Die Hard With A Vengeance! Die Hard with a Vengeance is a 1995 American action film and the third in the Die Hard film series. It was produced and directed by John McTiernan (who directed Die Hard), written by Jonathan Hensleigh, and stars Bruce Willis as New York City Police Department Lieutenant John McClane, Samuel L. Jackson as McClane's reluctant partner Zeus Carver, and Jeremy Irons as Simon Peter Gruber. It was relea...
Nov 02, 2016•1 hr 6 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2016's Jack Reacher: Never Go Back! Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is a 2016 American action thriller film directed by Edward Zwick and written by Zwick, Richard Wenk and Marshall Herskovitz. A sequel to 2012 film Jack Reacher, the film stars Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Patrick Heusinger, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh and Holt McCallany. The plot follows Reacher going on-the-run with an Army Major who has been wrongly framed for espiona...
Oct 26, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1989's Road House! Road House is a 1989 American action film directed by Rowdy Herrington and starring Patrick Swayze as a bouncer at a newly refurbished roadside bar who protects a small town in Missouri from a corrupt businessman. Sam Elliott also plays a bouncer, the mentor, friend and foil of Swayze's character. The cast also includes Kelly Lynch as Swayze's love interest, and Ben Gazzara as the main antagonist. Make sure to s...
Oct 19, 2016•1 hr 7 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2016's Deepwater Horizon! Deepwater Horizon is a 2016 American biographical disaster film directed by Peter Berg, written by Matthew Sand and Matthew Michael Carnahan, and starring an ensemble cast including Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Dylan O'Brien and Kate Hudson. It is based on the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Principal photography began on April 27, 2015...
Oct 12, 2016•1 hr 10 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down the Lord of the Rings Trilogy! The Lord of the Rings (also promoted as The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy) is a film series consisting of three high fantasy adventure films directed by Peter Jackson. They are based on the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are subtitled The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002) and The Return of the King (2003). They were distributed by New Lin...
Oct 05, 2016•1 hr 14 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2016's The Magnificent Seven! The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 American western action film directed by Antoine Fuqua, and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. A remake of the 1960 western film of the same name, which in turn was a remake of the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai, the film stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett a...
Sep 28, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2010's Inception! Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan, and co-produced by Emma Thomas. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating the subconscious, and is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for a task seemingly-impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's ide...
Sep 21, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2001's Training Day! Training Day is a 2001 American neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, and starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The story follows two LAPD narcotics officers over a 24-hour period in the gang-ridden neighborhoods of the LAPD Rampart Division and South Central Los Angeles. The film was a box office success and earned mostly positive critical appraisal. Washington's...
Sep 14, 2016•1 hr 3 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 1998's Ronin! Ronin is a 1998 American spy action-thriller film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård, Sean Bean, and Jonathan Pryce. Written by David Mamet (under the pseudonym Richard Weisz) from a screenplay by first-time writer John David Zeik, the film centers on a team of hired ex-special operatives trying to steal a mysterious and heavily-guarded briefcas...
Aug 31, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai discuss the Top 8 films that don't quite fit into the rules of the show. Are your favorites on the list? Tune in and find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Aug 31, 2016•59 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down 2011's The Mechanic! The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster. Directed by Simon West, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name, directed by Michael Winner, starring Charles Bronson and Jan-Michael Vincent. Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides or the acts of petty criminals. It was released ...
Aug 24, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Lone Survivor! Lone Survivor is a 2013 American war film written and directed by Peter Berg, and starring Mark Wahlberg,Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana. The film is based on the 2007 nonfiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Set during the war in Afghanistan, Lone Survivor dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings, duri...
Aug 17, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai welcome the hosts of Six Degrees of Feature Film Miss Movies and Stacy Howard break down Cliffhanger! Cliffhanger is a 1993 American action adventure film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, and John Lithgow. Based on a concept by climber John Long, the film follows Gabe (Stallone; who co-wrote the screenplay) a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in the failed heist of a U.S. Treasury ...
Aug 10, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Jason Bourne! Jason Bourne is a 2016 American thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass. Written by Greengrass and film editor Christopher Rouse, it is the fifth installment of the Bourne film series and the direct sequel to 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum. Matt Damon reprises his role as the main character, former CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac Jason Bourne. In the film, Bourne remains on the run from CIA hit squads as he trie...
Aug 03, 2016•1 hr 8 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Star Trek! Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction adventure film directed by J. J. Abrams, written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the 11th film of the Star Trek film franchise and is also a reboot that features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series, portrayed by a new cast and the first in the reboot series. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) ...
Jul 28, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Jack Reacher! Jack Reacher is a 2012 American action thriller film. It is an adaptation of Lee Child's 2005 novel One Shot. Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the film stars Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher and Rosamund Pike as attorney Helen Rodin. Also featured are actors David Oyelowo, Richard Jenkins, Jai Courtney, Werner Herzog, and Robert Duvall. The film entered production in October 2011, and concluded in January 201...
Jul 13, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down The Bourne Supremacy! The Bourne Supremacy is a 2004 American-German action spythriller film starring Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne character. Though it takes the name of the second Bourne novel, its plot is entirely different. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass from a screenplay by Tony Gilroy. Universal Pictures released the film to theaters in the United States on July 23, 2004. It is the second in theBourne film series. I...
Jul 07, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Independence Day: Resurgence! Independence Day: Resurgence is a 2016 American science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and written by Emmerich, Dean Devlin, Nicolas Wright, James A. Woods and James Vanderbilt. It is the sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day and stars Will Smith, Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Jessie Usher,Maika Monroe, Sela Ward, Brent Spiner, and William Fichtner. It was released by 20th ...
Jun 30, 2016•1 hr 15 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Déjà Vu! Déjà Vu is a 2006 American science fiction action film starring Denzel Washington and directed by Tony Scott. The film co-stars Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer, Adam Goldberg and Bruce Greenwood. Déjà Vu involves ATF agent Douglas Carlin, who travels back in time in attempts to prevent a domestic terrorist attack that takes place in New Orleans and to save a woman with whom he falls in love, Claire Kuchever. Filmin...
Jun 23, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Fast Five! Fast Five (alternatively known as Fast & Furious 5 or Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist) is a 2011 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the fifth installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise. It was released first in Australia on April 20, 2011, and then in the United States on April 29, 2011. Fast Five follows Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O'Conner(Paul Walker), and Mia To...
Jun 15, 2016•1 hr 9 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down Commando! Commando is a 1985 American action comedy film directed by Mark L. Lester, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Rae Dawn Chong. The film was released in the United States on October 4, 1985. The film was shot in Los Angeles. The film was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects but lost to Back to the Future. The film's score was provided by James Horner. A critical success and commercial hit, Commando was...
Jun 09, 2016•1 hr 4 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down The Bourne Ultimatum! The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American-German action spy thriller film directed by Paul Greengrass loosely based on the Robert Ludlum novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns and George Nolfi. The Bourne Ultimatum is the third in the Bourne film series, being preceded by The Bourne Identity (2002) and The Bourne Supremacy (2004). The fourth film, The Bourne Legacy, wa...
Jun 02, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Action Movie Anatomy hosts Ben Bateman and Andrew Ghai break down The Nice Guys! The Nice Guys is a 2016 American neo-noir mystery buddy comedy film directed by Shane Black and written by Black and Anthony Bagarozzi. It stars Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley,Keith David and Kim Basinger. The film premiered on May 15, 2016, at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and was released in the United States on May 20, 2016 by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received pos...
May 26, 2016•1 hr 10 min
