This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris determine who is the Best of the Best as the 80s martial arts classic turns 35. Starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, and real-life competitive martial artist Phillip Rhee, Best of the Best is loosely based on Rhee's time in the 1980 Asia Games Tae Kwan Do championship as a member of Team USA vs South Korea. In the movie, Rhee is Tommy Lee, who is joined by Roberts' Alex Grady, Chris Penn's Travis Brickley, John Dye's Virgil Keller,...
Nov 15, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 43
This week for the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to San Fransokyo and discuss Big Hero 6, which came out 10 years ago this week. The first (and so far only) Marvel Comics movie from Disney Animation Studio, Big Hero 6 is very loosely based on a comic of the same name and follows teenage science genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) as he investigates his brother Tadashi's (Daniel Henney) death in a mysterious fire and the theft of his miraculous "microbot" technology that is in the hands ...
Nov 08, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 42
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris want to play a game and discuss 2004's Saw, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Kicking off a massive franchise, Saw started simple with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) finding themselves chained to the pipes of a dingy bathroom and realizing they are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), who has been capturing people and putting them into gruesome challenges, almost none of whom survive.&nb...
Nov 01, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 2Ep. 41
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris use Time Displacement Equipment to jump back to 1984 and celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Terminator. In the movie that turned James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger into household names, Arnold stars as the villainous Terminator, a killer cyborg sent back in time to kill the mother of the future leader of the human resistance in a war between humanity and machines. The Resistance sends a soldier named Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) ...
Oct 25, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 40
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get meta to talk about Wes Craven's New Nightmare , which celebrated its 30th anniversary. Existing in the "real world," Heather Langenkamp plays herself, an actress in Los Angeles who has terrible nightmares about a darker and more sinister version of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund). Wes Craven is writing a new movie in the series, but it seems like his script is becoming a reality, and Freddy is threatening Heather and her son Dylan ...
Oct 18, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 2Ep. 39
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to lose their heads while discussing the 1999 Tim Burton movie Sleepy Hollow. Loosely based on the classic Washington Irving short story, Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, a police constable from New York City in 1799 who is dispatched to the small town of Sleepy Hollow, where a series of bizarre murders have taken place. Trying to use new scientific methods to solve the crime, Ichabod slowly realizes that there is somethi...
Oct 11, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 38
For a special bonus commentary, Zach and Chris are joined by special guests Addam and Justin to celebrate Chris' birthday and watch the 1990 Cynthia Rothrock "classic," China O'Brien . Directed by Robert Clouse, the director who brought us both Enter the Dragon and Gymkata, Rothrock stars as a police officer and martial arts instructor, China O'Brien. After an accidental shooting, O'Brien leaves the big city and returns home to Beaver Creek, UT, where she finds her father (David Blac...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 39 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris kick off the spooky season with 1988's The Blob, which has a new limited edition 4K steelbook release . A remake of the 1958 Steve McQueen starring classic, the 1988 The Blob was directed by Chuck Russell and stars Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith. When a satellite carrying a biological experiment gone wrong crashes near the small town of Arborville, CA, the residents start to be devoured by the titular monster, which gets bigger with ea...
Oct 04, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 37
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach, and Chris are joined by special guest Justin to dish out some vigilante justice and discuss 2014's The Equalizer, which came out ten years ago this week. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a former black ops operative trying to live a quiet life in Boston working at Home Mart (legally distinct from Home Depot). When a young woman he's befriended, Alina (Chloe Grace Moretz), is brutally beaten by her Russian pimp, Robert decides to use his s...
Sep 27, 2024•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 36
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Timecop . JCVD stars as Max Walker, an agent for the Time Enforcement Commission, the agency that controls time travel. Max uncovers a plot by the sleazy presidential candidate and senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) to exploit time travel to fund his presidential campaign and eliminate anyone in his way. While trying to stop McComb, Max realizes he may have ...
Sep 26, 2024•1 hr 48 min
With the first animated Transformers movie in almost 40 years hitting theaters this weekend with Transformers One, Zach and Chris return to the original for this week's Everything Actioncast and talk The Tranformers: The Movie. Coming between the second and third seasons of the classic 80s cartoon series, The Transformers: The Movie is set in the far-off future of 2005, where the Decepticons have taken control of Cybertron. As the war between the Autobots and Decepticons reaches a climacti...
Sep 20, 2024•1 hr 17 min•Season 2Ep. 35
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their katanas and discuss the certified Cannon Classic Ninja III: The Domination, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The third and final entry in the "Ninja Trilogy" produced by The Cannon Group, which includes Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination stars Lucinda Dickey as Christie, a telephone line repair technician and aerobics instructor who becomes possessed with the spirit of an evil ninja th...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 34
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to get fragged and discuss 2009's Gamer, which came out 15 years ago this week. Starring Gerard Butler as Kable, he's a death row inmate who is the star of the "video game" Slayers, created by tech billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). Kable is controlled by Simon (Logan Lerman) and fights in real-life death matches against other inmates. If Kable survives 30 matches, he will be released from prison. Meanwhile, ...
Sep 06, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 33
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hit the ice to talk about the 1995 Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Sudden Death, which was just released on 4K for the first time. Van Damme plays Darren McCord, a former firefighter turned fire marshall who works at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. Getting tickets for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks, he brings his children to the game but unfortunately a disgruntled Secret Service agent, Joshua ...
Aug 30, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Season 2Ep. 32
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris help you deal with any lingering Olympics fever by watching the 1997 Die Hard knock-off, Blast, starring Johnny Cage himself, Linden Ashby. Set during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the US women's swim team is taken hostage by terrorists led by Omodo (Andrew Divoff). The only hope for the hostages inside the pool facility is Jack Bryant (Ashby), a former Olympic bronze medalist in Tae Kwan Do, who became an alcoholic janitor and whose ex...
Aug 29, 2024•1 hr 48 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris crank the Cantopop and unleash a flock of doves to talk about John Woo's 1989 action classic The Killer as a new version, directed by Woo himself, hits Peacock. Chow Yun-Fat stars as a skilled hitman, Ah Jong (or Jeff depending on your version) who blinds a singer, Jennie (Sally Yeh) while on a job. Feeling guilty, he seeks her out and begins a romantic relationship with her, taking what he thinks is one last job to make enough money t...
Aug 23, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 31
This week on the Everything Actioncast, whoever wins, we lose because we're talking about 2004's AVP: Alien vs. Predator, which came out 20 years ago this week. There's also a new Alien movie, Alien: Romulus, in theaters right now. Directed by schlockmeister Paul WS Anderson, AVP: Alien vs Predator pits the two intergalactic entities against each other in an Antarctic pyramid discovered by Weyland Industries. The company's head, Charles Weyland (Lance Henriksen) wants to claim the structur...
Aug 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 30
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get shell-shocked by the 2014 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , which came out 10 years ago this week. The new TMNT animated series, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , is also out on Paramount+. Produced by Michael Bay, Megan Fox stars as April O'Neil, who is trying to break her way into becoming a legitimate reporter at Channel 6 News and investigating a series of high-tech crimes around New York City perpetrated by The Foo...
Aug 09, 2024•56 min•Season 2Ep. 29
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the MCU multiverse and discuss Deadpool & Wolverine (Spoilers!) The only MCU film of 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine finds Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) trying to save his universe, the Fox Marvel/X-Men universe, after the death of its "anchor being", the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) who died in Logan is causing the universe to slowly die. Rogue TVA agent Paradox (Matthew Macfadyen) wants to speed up the process with a device ...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their claws and discuss 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine , the first time Wade Wilson/Deadpool and Wolverine shared the screen before this weekend's Deadpool & Wolverine. The fourth film released in Fox's X-Men franchise, X-Men Origins: Wolverine sought to show the origins of Logan (Hugh Jackman) and how he became the adamantium-clawed amnesiac we met in the first X-Men movie, which includes his relationship with his brother Sabre...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 27
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris are joined again by special guest Phil from Digital Pimp to watch another terrible comic book movie, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. In the final Superman film starring Christopher Reeve, the madmen at The Cannon Group acquired the rights to Superman, even though they were hemorrhaging money, and pitted the Man of Steel against a radioactive glam rock villain, Nuclear Man (Mark Pillow) as part of Lex Luthor's (Gene Hackman) scheme.&nb...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 41 min
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris face the dark side of nature and the 90s disaster classic Twister, as its sequel, Twisters , hits theaters this weekend. Bill Paxton stars as former storm chaser Bill Harding, who reunites with his ex-wife Jo (Helen Hunt) to make sure she has finalized their divorce papers, but he gets pulled back into chasing tornadoes when he finds out Jo and her team have built "Dorothy," a device he and Jo designed to study tornadoes from within. B...
Jul 19, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 26
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris join the Starleague to defend The Frontier and talk about 1984's The Last Starfighter, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Lance Guest stars as Alex Rogan, who wishes to escape his trailer park home and unexpectedly gets his chance when, after beating the record on the arcade machine Starfighter, he's recruited by intergalactic hustler Centauri (Robert Preston) to put his skills to the test for real, become a Starfighter for the plane...
Jul 12, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 25
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the world of evil karate to talk about The Karate Kid Part III, which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, and it's also just in time for the start of the sixth and final season of Cobra Kai. Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita return as Daniel LaRusso and Mr. Miyagi, fresh from their trip to Okinawa in The Karate Kid Part II. Instead of going to college, Daniel buys a rundown store on the wrong side of town and tries to open a bon...
Jul 05, 2024•57 min•Season 2Ep. 24
For this month's Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris catch Digital Pimp's Joe and Phil in their web to watch the 2024 theatrical bomb turned Netflix hit, Madame Web. Dakota Johnson stars as Cassie Webb, a paramedic in New York City in 2003. After a near-death experience while on a rescue call, Cassie starts to experience deja vu and slowly realizes she is getting glimpses of the future. When she has visions of three young girls (Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O'...
Jun 28, 2024•2 hr 8 min
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
