Did Valentine’s Day lack that spark of danger you crave? Why not spice up your life by joining in a round of Gerald’s Game ? Carla Gugino leaves her Spy Kids at home, and consents to some light bondage in a remote Maine cabin, in an effort to save her marriage to yuppie Bruce Greenwood. What happens when she’s left shackled to the bedpost with no one but a feral dog and figments of an overactive imagination to hear her cries? Find out if Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are turned on by the ...
Feb 17, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 1080
Madchen Amick saw her fair share of weirdness living in Twin Peaks , but nothing could prepare her for a date in the pet cemetery with one of Stephen King’s Sleepwalkers . Will the virginal high school student survive a makeout session with a feline vampire intent on stealing her breath? And can the Now Playing hosts stop gasping over the dated computer effects, and numerous incestuous lovemaking scenes between mother and son? The cat definitely doesn’t have the tongues of Arni...
Feb 10, 2021•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 1078
Stephen King is hosting a fire sale in Castle Rock – the fictional Maine setting for some of his most iconic stories. Now everything… and everyone… must go, unless local sheriff Ed Harris can shut down the dirty dealings of sinister new shopkeep (and O.G. exorcist) Max Von Sydow! Will these small town residents sell out their neighbors for the chance to own enchanted objects that corrupt their hearts and minds? And will podcasters Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie get all they wish for out of the 1...
Feb 03, 2021•2 hr 36 min•Ep. 1076
Arnie, Justin, and Stuart have shed a lot of tears while suffering through the 11 previous Uwe Boll video game adaptations, but the divisive director/producer can’t hurt the podcasters anymore if they can survive Far Cry . Til Schweiger ( Inglourious Basterds ) stars as the mercenary boat skipper who takes on an island of mutants like in the original installment of the first-person shooter. Can the aspiring action hero score any points with movie audiences ready to go Postal&nb...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1074
Is Bloodrayne storming the Nazi death camps because she wants to take down The Third Reich and stop Hitler from becoming a vampire? Or because the bisexual bloodsucker is kinky for more steam room threeways? Director Uwe Boll wants to have it three ways too, as he reuses the sets and cast of this video game adaptation to simultaneously make a Bloodrayne “spoof” with obese asskicker Blubberella, and a Spielberg-trolling expose of Auschwitz gas chamb...
Jan 20, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 1072
Almost everything has changed for Bloodrayne now that the daywalking vampire has left her European medieval castle, and traveled to the American frontier town of Deliverance , for a “high midnight” showdown with an undead Billy The Kid. Should gamers continue to feed their quarters into a series saddled with tax cheat Uwe Boll? Or does the much-maligned director prove to be better at shooting Spaghetti Westerns than Tolkien fantasies and zombie raves? Find out if the Now ...
Jan 13, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1070
Kristanna Loken trades her Terminatrix leathers for a sword and fangs to star as the half-human, half-vampire assassin Bloodrayne . Does the video game vixen score many points with PlayStation fans by beating up on fat rocker Meatloaf, or picking a fight with everyone’s favorite pacifist Sir Ben “Gandhi” Kingsley? And can anyone win against an End Boss as bad as director Uwe Boll, whose track record in the Now Playing Arcade automatically has the hosts reaching for their bows and Red...
Jan 06, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 1068
Before we leave behind a stressful year of coronavirus and social turmoil, Now Playing needs to travel back in time to 1984 , and see if Wonder Woman can provide the big screen fireworks that quarantined audiences have been missing. Will heartbroken Gal Godot really give up her tiara and Amazonian strength for the chance to be with Steve Trevor (Chris Pine)? And was it always Kristin Wiig’s wish to get into shape wearing a grody to the HBOMax cheetah outfit? F...
Dec 30, 2020•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 1066
John David Washington had some trouble infiltrating hate groups as a BlacKkKlansman , but that’s child’s play compared to the lengths he goes to unlock the secrets of Tenet . Christopher Nolan’s 11th big screen adventure is his most twisted look at time yet – an IMAX sized optical illusion that reflects back on James Bond flicks while simultaneously pushing audiences into the uncertain future of a new quantum Cold War. Wishing you had that PhD in Physics while you watched...
Dec 23, 2020•3 hr 48 min•Ep. 1064
CBS attempted to change its image as “the old persons’ network” in 1991 when it greenlit Stephen King’s Golden Years , a series about a top secret lab experiment that rapidly de-ages an elderly janitor. Can the 8 episodes of this prematurely cancelled TV drama find new life edited down into a four hour movie? And why is Felicity Huffman footing the bill for this afflicted man’s flight from justice, particularly when he no longer qualifies for senior citizen discounts? Get nostalgic for Kin...
Dec 16, 2020•2 hr 51 min•Ep. 1062
Eddie Murphy was the biggest comedy star of the 1980s when he decided to spend Another 48 Hrs razzing rednecks and dodging bullets back in San Francisco. Now Nick Nolte is the one who stands to go to jail, after false charges are brought against the cop while he chases phantom drug dealer The Iceman. Can director Walter Hill keep the boys competitive with the big action sequels of the era, or does the pair spend too much time repeating the first movie’s greatest hits to keep pace with Lethal Wea...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 1060
It’s detective Nick Nolte’s worst nightmare – spending 48 Hrs handcuffed to scene stealer Eddie Murphy in his movie debut. How much damage can the pair do in two days as they tear through San Francisco looking for Warriors James Remar and David Patrick Kelly, and a Porsche full of money? And should director Walter Hill get his dick bronzed for pioneering the action-comedy formula that paved the way for Lethal Weapon, Rush Hour, and all those future foul-mouthed buddy cop franchises? Spend a litt...
Dec 02, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 1058
It’s taken almost 25 years for The Craft to conjure a sequel, but now the Legacy of the 1996 wicca hit continues with a new generation of female spellcasters joining the circle. Can four teen witches work together to defeat sinister stepfather David Duchovney, and some toxic high school boys? Or will Lily, the new Witch of the West, lose confidence in her powers after mother Michelle Monaghan, Mission Impossible 3, spills a dark family secret? Find out if Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob are in a bind a...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 27 min•Ep. 1056
Blessed be! Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are under the spell of The Craft, the first high school movie of the ’90s to stick up for the wiccans. Strange things start happening when naturally gifted magick user Robin Tunney blows into an LA Catholic school from the North, and joins a coven of weirdos led by Wicked Witch of the West Fairuza Balk. Is hunky football jock Skeet Ulrich the snake-in-the-grass that will undo all this supernatural Girl Power? Or were the foursome mistaken for ever putting the...
Nov 18, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 1054
Most Americans remember the First Gulf War as a quick and decisive U.S. victory, but director Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs) sees it as the beginning of a White House corporate takeover in his 2004 version of Manchurian Candidate. Should shellshocked Denzel Washington get back on his meds, and stop accusing fellow soldier Liev Schrieber of being a sleeper agent? Or is this Vice Presidential hopeful really in the pocket of Big Pharma, or worse; his mother Meryl Streep!? Find out if this re...
Nov 11, 2020•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 1052
Election got you stressed? Tune out today’s political noise and vote to reinstate the 1962 Manchurian Candidate instead. Can troubled soldier Frank Sinatra stop Deep State Communists from using a brainwashed Korean War vet to gain control of the White House? And would the country be any better off run by Angela Lansbury, who uses her windbag husband and the power of television to promote Red Scare fake news and Murder, She Wrote reruns? Find out if Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie endorse this paranoid ...
Nov 04, 2020•2 hr 38 min•Ep. 1050
Something big is crashing down on Now Playing in time for Halloween! Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are here to declassify all three installments of JJ Abrams’ super secret Cloverfield monster franchise starting with the original 2008 found footage blockbuster! What happens when a goodbye party for a New York businessman headed to Japan turns into a ticker tape welcome parade for America’s first kaiju? Does funnyman TJ Miller have enough batteries in his camera to document all the action of this Manha...
Oct 31, 2020•14 min•Ep. 1049
Aloha from Shrieker Island, a tropical paradise where Wall Street suits pay for the pleasure of blasting bio-engineered Graboids all weekend long! That is, until the big worms dig under the ocean and take over a neighboring wildlife preserve. Fortunately Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) has gone native, and left his Arizona compound to hunt his nemesis one last time! Are his odds improved by bringing along Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Jackie Cruz (Orange Is The New Black), and a badass chick with a...
Oct 28, 2020•2 hr 34 min•Ep. 1048
Arnie talks to Burt Gummer himself: Michael Gross! {Tremors Series}
Oct 22, 2020•49 min•Ep. 1046
It will be A Cold Day In Hell before Burt Gummer lets the IRS take away his Nevada land and business! Which is why he and faithful cameraman Jamie Kennedy have signed on for a seventh Tremors adventure. How are Graboids and Ass Blasters thriving in the snowy mountains of the Canadian Arctic? And can Burt be much help to the bug hunt once he’s diagnosed with worm poisoning, and needs to extract antibodies from his underground enemy in order to live? Find out if the podcasters warm up to the next ...
Oct 20, 2020•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1045
Monster hunter Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) traces the Bloodlines of his subterranean nemesis all the way back to a slimy cave in Africa in the safari-minded sequel Tremors 5. How much bigger and badder has Graboid evolution become on the Dark Continent, with the introduction of nocturnal Ass Blasters and detachable snake tentacles? And what kind of relationship does the cranky survivalist hope to forge with flamboyant new cameraman Jamie Kennedy (Scream)? Go off the grid with Arnie, Jakob, and S...
Oct 14, 2020•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 1043
Audiences may have first learned about Graboids in Tremors, but The Legend Begins 100 years prior in a prequel where Burt Gummer’s great grandfather (also Michael Gross) finds his Nevada silver mine overrun with “dirt dragons”. Can a Mexican prospector, badass gunslinger, and community of rejected immigrants find the firepower to defeat these mythical snakes before their American Dream is swallowed whole? And do Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart cotton to this fourth film in the franchise devolving into ...
Oct 07, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1041
Michael Gross and most of the original cast head Back To Perfection, Nevada for more Graboid hunting in Tremors 3. Too bad the man-eating worms are now considered an endangered species, and Burt and the locals are mandated to capture the desert pests humanely or be evicted. Is a flashy tour guide able to steer the franchise in an eco-friendly new direction? And are the monsters still a blast once they mutate again, and take to the air with the power of their farts? Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart aren’...
Sep 29, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1039
Those initial Tremors may be over, but Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart are now bracing for Aftershocks. Fred Ward takes the franchise south of the border for a cheap Mexican vacation without Kevin Bacon. What does it mean for the monster hunt when those wormy, underground Graboids take to the surface and metamorphosize into bipedal Shriekers? Has Earl done himself any favors by calling in the comedic firepower of guns enthusiast Michael Gross? Find out how much heat is coming off this straight-to-tape ...
Sep 22, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1037
What’s shaking at Now Playing these days? Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie are moving to Perfection, Nevada to join the cult devoted to Tremors. The fun begins with a fresh look at the original 1990 creature feature, in which bickering handymen Kevin Bacon and Fred Ward contend with a stampede of supersized, subterranean worms gobbling up their town. Can the Footloose hunk make moves on a geologist while wriggling out of a tight spot? And are Michael Gross (Family Ties) and country singer Reba MacEntire...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 1035
A decade before his landmark slasher A Nightmare On Elm Street gave ’80s mallrats insomnia, writer/director Wes Craven invited hippies inside The Last House On The Left for a tour of extreme horror movie violence. What happens when four escaped psychopaths accept hospitality from the parents of the 17-year-old girl they just murdered? Does revenge taste even more delicious served up as a home cooked meal on turned tables? Find out if this 1972 grindhouse class...
Sep 11, 2020•10 min•Ep. 1034
After ghosting audiences for the last three years, The New Mutants are finally ready to shut the history books on a half century of Boomer adventures, and let today’s generation have their say about the X-Men. Will the five central Millennials prove to be superheroes or snowflakes once nightmare creatures pop the protective bubble surrounding their world? And is she-wolf Rahne (Maisie Williams) the next Hugh Jackman, or do expectations flame out like Berto (Henry Zaga) when these kid...
Sep 09, 2020•2 hr 56 min•Ep. 1033
Current events putting you in a heinous mood? Never fear fiftysomething metalheads Bill and Ted have seen the future, and return to the big screen ready to perform a song destined to heal an off-kilter universe. Have Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter grown up in the 29 years since their last cinematic adventure? And can daughters Billie and Thea traverse time and sign Jimi Hendrix, Mozart, and Death (William Sadler) to play in their dad’s defunct band Wyld Stallyns? It’s easier to Face The Music with...
Sep 01, 2020•2 hr 10 min•Ep. 1031
Sequels are always in danger of repeating themselves, but the problem becomes twofold for Bill and Ted when evil lookalike automatons hijack their second movie, and send the layabouts on a Bogus Journey to Hell! Can the wannabe rockers beat Death (William Sadler) at his own game, and get back to San Dimas in time to play a historic Wyld Stallyns concert? And is it beneficial for the boys to quit playing air guitar, and physically climb that Stairway To Heaven to plead their case to God? Find out...
Aug 26, 2020•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 1029
Strange things are afoot at Now Playing! For the next three weeks Jakob, Stuart, and Arnaldo Carvalho, Esq. are catching up on the cinematic exploits of SoCal slackers Bill and Ted, starting with their 1989 Excellent Adventure. Can these clueless metalheads pass their history final by hopping in a time-traveling phone booth, and bringing legendary figures like Socrates and Napoleon Bonaparte to a 20th Century mall? And how accurate was this film’s prediction that Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter wou...
Aug 19, 2020•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 1027
