This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to avoid getting infected by the Rage Virus and discuss 2002's 28 Days Later as the third entry in the series, 28 Years Later, opens in theaters. Cillian Murphy stars as Jim, a bike courier who awakens from a coma to find the world gone to hell. An experimental virus, dubbed the Rage Virus, has escaped a UK lab and has spread across the entire country, almost instantly turning anyone infected into a violent monster. Jim finds a few fello...
Jun 20, 2025•52 min•Season 3Ep. 25
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the jungle and discuss 1995's Congo for its 30th anniversary. Based on the 1979 novel by Michael Crichton, an expedition heads deep into the jungles of the Congo. Peter Elliott (Dylan Walsh) wants to bring his research gorilla, Amy, whom he has taught to communicate in sign language, back to where he believes she was born. Karen Ross (Laura Linney) is looking for a missing expedition sent by her company, TraviCom, which was after s...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 20 min•Season 3Ep. 24
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get their asses to Mars and discuss 1990's Total Recall, which just turned 35. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and based on the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" , Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Douglas Quaid, a construction worker who visits a company called Rekall, who can implant memories into clients minds. Wanting a Martian spy adventure due to his constant dreams of Mars, the process unlocks Quaid's actual me...
Jun 06, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 23
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go undercover with Fletch as the movie turns 40, releasing on May 31st, 1985. Based on the first book in the Fletch series by Gregory Mcdonald, Chevy Chase is Irwin P. Fletcher aka Fletch. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes under the pseudonym "Jane Doe", Fletch goes undercover and uses fake identities and disguises to pursue his leads. While investigating drug trafficking on the beaches of Los Angeles, Fletch is approached by A...
May 30, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 22
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris return to 1984 to watch The Karate Kid, just in time for Karate Kid: Legends hitting theaters. The movie that kicked off the entire "Miyagi-verse," which includes Cobra Kai and the original sequels, The Karate Kid , stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who travels from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles with his mother, Lucille (Randee Heller). Daniel catches the eye of cheerleader Ali Mills (Elisabeth Shue) but also Johnny Lawrence (...
May 29, 2025•2 hr 15 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris's mission, should they choose to accept it, is to discuss Mission: Impossible 2, which turns 25 this week and we also have what is being billed as the final entry in the franchise, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning hitting theaters. Tom Cruise was back as Ethan Hunt, this time on the trail of a rogue IMF agent, Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), and tries to stop him before he can come into possession of a deadly genetically engineered vi...
May 23, 2025•1 hr 27 min•Season 3Ep. 21
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the mind of a killer and discuss Mindhunters, which came out in the US 20 years ago this week (after being released in almost every other country around the world in 2004). Directed by Renny Harlin, Mindhunters follows a group of FBI agents training to be profilers under the unorthodox methods of Jake Harris (Val Kilmer), who places his trainees in elaborate simulations. As a final test, the group is left on a remote island off the coa...
May 16, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Season 3Ep. 20
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are in Boston for PAX East and discuss 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to get into the video game mindset. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Prince Dastan, who leads an assault against the holy city of Alamut for the Persian Empire and discovers a mysterious dagger. When accused of killing his father, King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup), he flees with Alamut's princess, Tamina (Gemma Arterton). He learns the dagger allows the wielder to travel 1...
May 09, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 19
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Chicago for the Chuck Norris classic Code of Silence, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Norris plays Eddie Cusack, the head of a squad of Chicago cops who finds himself in a gang war when a drug bust goes bad and crime boss Luis Camacho (Henry Silva) wants revenge on the mob. Cusack also finds himself shunned by his fellow cops when he refuses to back corrupt cop Cragie (Ralph Foody), who kills an unarmed bystander during th...
May 02, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 18
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris stack up for The Raid , aka The Raid: Redemption , as a new Gareth Evans movie, Havoc , arrives on Netflix. The breakout for Evans and star Iko Uwais, Uwais stars in The Raid as Rama, a rookie cop in the Mobile Brigade Corps. His unit assaults the apartment block belonging to ruthless crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetapy), but it becomes a fight for survival when Tama mobilizes all the criminal residents in the building to attack the squad. Zach an...
Apr 25, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 3Ep. 17
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris pay tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by watching him in one of his most fun roles, the boastful swordsman Madmartigan in 1988's Willow . Warwick Davis stars as Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer with aspirations of being a great sorcerer. When a human baby washes ashore near the Nelwyn village, Willow is tasked to try and return her, but finds himself caught up in a much bigger mission that has the entire world's fate in the balance. W...
Apr 24, 2025•2 hr 16 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris don homemade superhero suits to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Kick-Ass. Directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as high school nerd Dave Lizewski, who decides to take his love of comic books into the real world and become a superhero named Kick-Ass. Unfortunately for Dave, he stumbles into a war between mobster Frank D'Amico (Mark Strong) and the father/dau...
Apr 18, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 16
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris board Air Force One as another ass kicking president, Viola Davis in G20, hits Prime Video. Harrison Ford is President James Marshall, who finds himself having to go full John McClane when terrorists led by the ruthless Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) manage to hijack Air Force One. President Marshall has to fight to rescue his family and stop a genocidal neo-Soviet leader from being released. Zach and Chris discuss all the great "That Guy" act...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 15
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris delve into the seedy underbelly of Sin City to celebrate the movie's 20th anniversary. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, Sin City adapts several of Miller's noir comic book stories with an all-star cast, including Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Benicio Del Toro, Jessica Alba, Powers Boothe, Nick Stahl, and Rutger Hauer. Zach and Chris talk about the bizarre structure of the "Recut, Extended...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 14
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris experience Turtle Power and celebrate the 35th anniversary of 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Required viewing for all '90s kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fused the original, gritty comics with the more kid-friendly animated series and found the Turtles meeting reporter April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) and coming into conflict with the Foot Clan, led by their intimidating leader Shredder (James Saito). Zach and Chris discuss Raph almost g...
Mar 28, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Season 3Ep. 13
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris hunt the final Sony's Spider-Man Universe film, Kraven the Hunter, with special guests Phil and Joe from Digital Pimp. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Sergei Kravinoff, who gains animalistic superpowers as a teenager via a serum that saves him from a lion mauling while on a hunt in Africa. Determined to fight against everything his gangster father, Nikolai (Russell Crowe), stands for, Sergei travels the globe putting criminals on his "lis...
Mar 27, 2025•2 hr 18 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris dodge Death and talk about Final Destination , which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Kicking off a horror franchise that continues this year with Final Destination: Bloodlines in May, the original film stars Devon Sawa as Alex Browning, who has a premonition of the plane his class is traveling to Paris on exploding after take-off and freaks out. He, along with several of his classmates and a teacher, Valerie Lewton (Kristen Cloke) are k...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 12
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to survive underground with Stallone and discuss the 1996 disaster movie Daylight, which just got released on 4K . Stallone stars as Kit Latura, the disgraced former chief of the New York Emergency Medical Services. When an explosion collapses both ends of one of the tunnels that leads from New York City to New Jersey, Kit springs into action to try and rescue the survivors, an eclectic group including a group of juvenile prisoners, an e...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Season 3Ep. 11
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pay homage to the late Gene Hackman by discussing his co-starring role with Will Smith in the 1998 Tony Scott thriller, Enemy of the State. Smith plays Robert Clayton Dean, a labor lawyer in Washington D.C. who inadvertently comes into possession of evidence of the NSA Assistant Director Thomas Reynold (Jon Voight) overseeing the murder of a congressman. When the NSA believes Dean is hiding the tape from them, they put him under surveillance...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 3Ep. 10
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are on the case to discuss the first adaptation of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, the 2012 Tom Cruise movie, as season 3 of the Amazon series just kicked off. Based on the Jack Reacher novel One Shot, a troubled Army sniper, James Barr (Joseph Sikora), is arrested for killing five people in Pittsburgh. He asks for Jack Reacher (Cruise), who shows up ready to confirm Barr's guilt based on an incident during the Iraq War. Instead, he uncover...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 9
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris go intergalactic with 2015's Jupiter Ascending, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. Mila Kunis stars as Jupiter Jones, who discovers she's intergalactic royalty and the owner of Earth. The squabbling Abrasax siblings try to manipulate or kill Jupiter to get Earth under their control, but luckily for Jupiter, she has a protector in Caine Wise (Channing Tatum), a genetically modified half-human/half-canine soldier. While watching the m...
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 15 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris experience an Experiment In Fear and discuss 1988's Monkey Shines as a new evil monkey hits theaters with The Monkey. Directed by the great George A. Romero, Monkey Shines stars Jason Beghe as Allan Mann, a track star and law student. After being hit by a truck while on a morning run, Allan is left paralyzed from the neck down and in the care of an uncaring nurse and his overbearing mother. His friend Geoffrey offers him Ella, a Capuchin mon...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 3Ep. 8
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate Valentine's Day with the 1981 slasher classic My Bloody Valentine . Filmed in Canada, My Bloody Valentine came out as the 80s slasher boom kicked off, following the success of movies like Halloween and Friday the 13th. In the town of Valentine Bluffs, a tragedy at the local mine during a Valentine's Day dance results in miner Harry Warden becoming a cannibalistic psychopath. He kills the mine's supervisors and threatens the town th...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Amish country and discuss the 1985 Harrison Ford movie Witness, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Ford is John Book, a Philadelphia Detective Captain who is investigating the murder of an undercover cop in a bathroom in 30th Street Station. The only witness is Samuel Lapp, an 8-year-old Amish boy who reveals that the murderer is Lt. McFee (Danny Glover), who is part of a group of corrupt cops who stole valuable chemicals use...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hunt witches with Vin Diesel for The Last Witch Hunter, recently released on 4K . Coming out in 2015 and based on Vin Diesel's Dungeons & Dragons character, "Melkor the Witch-Hunter", Diesel stars as Kaulder, an immortal warrior who works with an organization called the Axe & Cross to keep humanity safe from magical threats. When a group of evil witches plot to bring back the Witch Queen (Julie Engelbrecht) and unleash a plague upon ...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 5
For this month's Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris watch the Universal Monsters classic The Wolf Man with the Leigh Whannell reimagining hitting theaters earlier this month. Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Larry Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales, and his father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains). While visiting a Romani fortune teller with the daughter of the local antique dealer, Gwen Conliffe (Evelyn Ankers), Larry is attacked by a wolf and bitten in the chest but manages to k...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 25 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris feel the Fear and dive into Mark Wahlberg's first time playing a psychotic villain, as he does it again this weekend in theaters in Flight Risk. Wahlberg plays David McCall, a seemingly perfect boyfriend to teenager Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon). As the couple becomes more intimate, David's darker tendencies start to surface. William Peterson plays Nicole's father, Steven, Amy Brenneman plays her stepmother, Laura, and Alyssa Milano play...
Jan 24, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 3Ep. 4
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th scareiversary of 1995's Demon Knight , the first feature film from the cult favorite HBO series Tales from the Crypt. William Sadler stars as Brayker, the protector of a powerful key that keeps the Earth from falling into a demon-filled apocalypse. Billy Zane is The Collector, a high-level demon sent from Hell to kill Brayker and anyone else in his way to possess the key. Brayker and a group of eccentric characters are tra...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 3Ep. 3
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris assemble their heist crew and talk Den of Thieves as Den of Thieves 2: Pantera hits theaters this weekend. Starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., Butler is Big Nick, the head of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit, who is after Ray Merrimen (Schreiber) whose crew of ex-Marines are looking to rob millions from the LA branch of the Federal Reserve. Behind the scenes, though, Donnie Wilson (Jackson J...
Jan 10, 2025•55 min•Season 3Ep. 2
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris look back at 2024 and talk about some of their picks for the best and worst movies of 2024. On the best side, there are movies like Dune: Part Two, Deadpool & Wolverine, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Fall Guy, Late Night with the Devil , and Alien: Romulus . Some of the guys' least favorite movies include Argylle , Joker: Folie a Deux , and Rebel Moon: Part Two — The Scargiver. Let us know what some of your favorite and least favorite movie...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Season 3Ep. 1
