This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris shrink down to talk about the 1989 classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Starring Rick Moranis in one of his most iconic roles, Wayne Szalinski, he's an inventor trying to perfect his latest gadget, a shrink ray that will reduce the size of objects. When his daughter Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robert Oliveri) and the neighbors Little Russ (Thomas Wilson) and Ron Thompson (Jared Rushton) are accid...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris jump back into the world of Richard B. Riddick for both the 20th anniversary of The Chronicles of Riddick and the debut of The Boys season 4, which stars Riddick co-star Karl Urban. Set five years after Pitch Black, infamous convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) has been hiding out from mercenaries but gets drawn into a larger universal conflict and on the bad side of the Necromongers, a powerful race that is sweeping across the galaxy, conquering an...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 22
This week on the Everything Actioncast, shit gets real as Zach and Chris talk about the 2003 Michael Bay extravaganza Bad Boys II as the fourth movie in the franchise, Bad Boys: Ride or Die hits theaters. Seven years after the first movie, Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are a part of the Tactical Narcotics Team in Miami, trying to track down and stop the kingpin shipping in massive amounts of ecstasy into the city. Unknown initially to the Bad Boys, Marcus' s...
Jun 07, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 21
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to "Another Time, Another Place" to discuss Walter Hill's 1984 cult classic, Streets of Fire. Starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Amy Madigan, and Rick Moranis, Streets of Fire is a "Rock n Roll Fable" that follows solider Tom Cody, who takes a job to rescue his kidnapped ex-girlfriend and massive rock star Ellen Aim (Lane) from the motorcycle gang known as The Bombers, led by the sadistic Raven (Dafoe). Zach and Chri...
May 31, 2024•54 min•Season 2Ep. 20
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris head to the battlefields of the future with Terminator: Salvation, which celebrated its 15th anniversary this month. Starring Christian Bale as John Connor and Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright, the movie took place in the far-off future of 2018 and followed Skynet's latest attempt to destroy the human resistance battling them for the fate of humanity. Anton Yelchin played a young Kyle Reese and Bryce Dallas Howard, Moon Bloodgood, ...
May 30, 2024•2 hr 1 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris send their minds 10 years into the past to discuss X-Men: Days of Future Past for its 10th anniversary. The follow-up to X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past combined the new cast introduced in Matthew Vaughn's movie with the OG Fox X-Men cast for a battle across time as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) gets his consciousness sent back to 1973 to prevent the events that lead to a dark future where mutants (and their human allies) are hunted by th...
May 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 19
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris return to the start of the Monsterverse to discuss Godzilla for its 10th anniversary. Directed by Gareth Edwards, Godzilla kicked off the Monsterverse as a pair of giant kaiju called MUTOs emerge and wreak havoc across the globe. Their appearance also draws the attention of Godzilla, who hunts the MUTOs down as they challenge his role as the alpha predator of the Earth. Aaron Taylor-Johnson is Ford Brody, a Navy EOD soldier who is tryi...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Season 2Ep. 18
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Mummy. A "remake" of the 1932 Boris Karloff Universal Monsters classic, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, John Hannah, and Oded Fehr star in the action-packed update that was a massive hit in 1999 and spawned sequels, a spin-off franchise, a theme park ride, and an animated series. Zach and Chris talk about how the curse to punish Imhotep makes him an unstoppable evil force, try to figur...
May 10, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 17
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris track some bounties with the first episode of 1981's The Fall Guy as the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt movie hits theaters. Starring Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, he's a Hollywood stuntman for hire who moonlights as a bounty hunter tracking down criminals who skip bail. Joined by his cousin Howie (Douglas Barr) and his stunt partner Jody (Heather Thomas), Colt uses his knowledge of stunts to outwit and capture his bounty targets. In the...
May 03, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 16
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris defend the hive and discuss The Beekeeper , which came out on Blu-ray and 4K . Jason Statham stars as "Adam Clay," a former operative known as a Beekeeper and who is also a literal honey-producing beekeeper. When his elderly friend, played by Phylicia Rashad, takes her own life after being robbed of her life savings in a phishing scam, Clay uses all of his formidable skills to kill his way to the top of the scam for revenge. Josh...
Apr 26, 2024•58 min•Season 2Ep. 15
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris head to Crystal Lake to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter . Picking up immediately where Friday the 13th Part III left off, Jason Voorhees (Ted White) is presumed dead and brought to the local morgue. Waking up, he kills some of the hospital staff. He returns to his stomping grounds around Crystal Lake, targeting a group of friends visiting for a party vacation and the Jarvis family who ...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 37 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are on the trail of Ice-T and talking about 1994's Surviving the Game, which came out 30 years ago this week. Ice-T is Jack Mason, a homeless man living in Seattle who is approached to be a hunting guide for a group of wealthy hunters. Accepting the job, Mason soon learns that the hunters are after normal game, they hunt humans, and Mason is the latest quarry. Zach and Chris talk about the movie's all-star cast, Gary Busey's insa...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 14
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the post-apocalypse (?) of 1979's Max Max to celebrate the 45th anniversary of George Miller's classic. Miller's debut film, Mad Max is set in a dystopian Australia on the brink of societal collapse. Mel Gibson stars as Max Rockatansky, one of the few remaining police officers trying to maintain law and order. A sadistic motorcycle gang led by Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) becomes a thorn in Max's side when they fi...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 2Ep. 13
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pull out some 2x4s and deal out some vigilante justice to talk about 2004's Walking Tall , which just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Chris Vaughn, a Special Forces soldier who returns to his hometown in hopes of working at the town's cedar mill like his father. Chris finds that the mill has been closed since he's been away and a sleazy casino is the town's main source of revenue, run by his rich chi...
Apr 05, 2024•55 min•Season 2Ep. 12
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to the Florida Keys and visit The Road House to talk about Doug Liman's reimagining of the cult 80s classic Road House. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Elwood Dalton, a disgraced UFC fighter who takes a job bouncing for The Road House bar in the Florida Keys community of Glass Key. Dalton soon learns that an evil business magnate, Ben Brandt (Billy Magnussen) wants to drive The Road House out of business to build a mega-resort on the lan...
Mar 29, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 11
To celebrate the release of the new Road House on Amazon this week, Chris, along with special guests Justin and Addam watched the original 1989 Road House for the latest Everything Action Commentary. Starring Patrick Swayze as America's greatest bouncer, Dalton, he's hired to try and clean up the Double Deuce, a bar where "they sweep up the eyeballs at the end of the night". While training a crew of bouncers to make the bar safer, Dalton runs afoul of local businessman Brad Wesley (Ben Gaz...
Mar 22, 2024•2 hr 2 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the cornfield to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Children of the Corn, which originally hit theaters on March 9th, 1984. One of several 80s adaptations of Stephen King works, Children of the Corn stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton as Burt and Vicky, a couple driving to Seattle who get waylaid in Nebraska when they accidentally run over a boy named Joseph who stumbles out of the cornfield outside of Gatlin. Looking for a ...
Mar 08, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Season 2Ep. 10
This week on the Everything Actioncast, the Spice must flow as Zach and Chris talk about David Lynch's Dune as we prepare ourselves for Dune: Part Two in theaters. Starring Kyle Maclachlan, in his film debut, as Paul Atreides, the movie attempts to condense Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic into just slightly over two hours instead of the luxury of two, almost three hour movies like Denis Villeneuve has had. The guys talk about how memorable Sting is despite not really doing anything, the disgus...
Mar 01, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 9
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris attempt to answer the question "Who is Darkman?" as they dive into Sam Raimi's 1990 cult classic superhero movie. Getting released on 4K this week from Shout Factory , Darkman stars Liam Neeson as Dr. Peyton Westlake, a scientist trying to develop a synthetic skin replacement who is attacked by the sinister Robert Durant (Larry Drake) and his henchmen. Left with a body that is mostly burned, Peyton seeks his revenge by using his synthe...
Feb 23, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 8
For the latest Everything Action commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate this month's Lunar New Year with another Jackie Chan movie, last year's team-up with John Cena, Hidden Strike . Chan is a former Chinese special forces soldier who now runs a private security unit while Cena is a former Marine turned mercenary. Their paths collide in the Middle East on the "Highway of Death" as Chan's "Dragon" Feng is tasked with transporting the crew of a Chinese oil refinery and Cena's Chris Van Horne ...
Feb 22, 2024•1 hr 51 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris revisit the 2014 remake of Robocop , which just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Starring Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy, 2014's Robocop sees the Detroit cop almost killed by a car bomb after he gets too close to taking down the local crime boss, Vallon (Patrick Garrow). Luckily (or maybe unlucky) for Alex, he's selected to be the first cyborg police officer for Omnicorp. They have robotic drones in war zones around the globe but are leg...
Feb 16, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 7
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris bop their way back to 1979 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Walter Hill's cult classic, The Warriors , which debuted on February 9th, 1979. The titular Warriors are a gang from Coney Island who attend a massive meeting of almost every other gang in New York City to hear a plan from the leader of the city's most powerful gang, Cyrus (Roger Hill). Cyrus proposes that the gangs stop fighting each other and join forces, as their combin...
Feb 09, 2024•1 hr 18 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris put on their best pair of Oxfords and a freshly tailored bespoke suit to talk about 2015's Kingsman: The Secret Service in honor of the latest Matthew Vaughn spy flick, Argylle, hitting theaters. Based on the Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons comic (which director Matthew Vaughn also worked on), Kingsman: The Secret Service stars Taron Egerton as Gary "Eggsy" Unwin, a bit of a chav wasting his life in London until he's recruited by Harry Hart (Co...
Feb 02, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Season 2Ep. 5
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris smash their way back to 2009 to discuss the Marvel animated feature, Hulk Vs. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this week, Hulk Vs. was one of several Marvel animated movies produced by Lionsgate, starting with Ultimate Avengers in 2006 . Hulk Vs. is actually two short films combined into one feature, Hulk vs Thor and Hulk vs Wolverine. Zach and Chris talk about Loki's convoluted plan to weaponize the Hulk, the excellent voice cas...
Jan 26, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, Zach and Chris kick off another year of Everything Action Commentaries with I, Frankenstein. Aaron Eckhart stars as Frankenstein's Monster aka Adam Frankenstein, who, following the events of the Mary Shelley novel, becomes embroiled in the eternal war of gargoyles and demons. 200 years after his creation, Adam takes it upon himself to hunt down and destroy demons but his methods put him at odds with the gargoyles, led by their queen Leonore (Mir...
Jan 25, 2024•1 hr 39 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 35th anniversary of the 80s cult classic skateboarding movie, Gleaming the Cube. Christian Slater stars as Brian Kelly, a punk skateboarder whose only ambition is to read Thrasher magazine and pull off the sickest skateboard tricks with his crew of friends (which includes the one and only Tony Hawk). His adopted brother Vinh (Art Chudabala) is the complete opposite, a responsible and fastidious student. However, Vin...
Jan 19, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris put on their coolest suits and buckle up in a BMW for 2002's The Transporter. With the latest Jason Statham movie, The Beekeeper, out now in theaters, it's the perfect time to talk about the movie that turned him into an action superstar. Co-directed by Louis Letterier and Corey Yuen, The Transporter finds Statham playing Frank Martin, a former Special Forces soldier turned mercenary delivery man, willing to transport anything, no ques...
Jan 12, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 2Ep. 2
This week on the Everything Actioncast, we kick off our new format of diving into specific movies with 1985's Yes, Madam! Michelle Yeoh's latest project is The Brothers Sun on Netflix (out right now) but Yes, Madam! was her first starring role, co-starring with another one of our favorites, Cynthia Rothrock, who made her film debut in the movie. Yeoh plays Inspector Ng from the Hong Kong PD, who is forced to team up with Scotland Yard's Carrie Morris (Rothrock) when a British citizen is mu...
Jan 05, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Season 2Ep. 1
This week on the final Everything Actioncast of 2023, Zach goes solo while Chris is travelling home from the holidays to talk about his Best and Worst Movies of 2023. Best and Worst Movies of 2023: Zach talks about some of the Best Movies of 2023, including John Wick Chapter 4, Extraction 2, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and Godzilla: Minus One and some of the Worst Movies of 2023, including Expend4bles, Hypnotic and The Flash. Also, big news for the Everything Actioncast as it's going to ...
Dec 29, 2023•55 min•Ep. 653
For the final Everything Action Commentary of 2023, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Joe to continue our holiday tradition of watching Home Alone movies with 1997's Home Alone 3. Following a new kid, Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz), he becomes the target of international criminals when he unknowingly discovers a military microchip hidden in an RC given to Alex by his elderly neighbor as payment for shoveling her driveway. Alex gets chicken pox and has to stay home from school an...
Dec 22, 2023•1 hr 53 min
