Rocky
Yo! Hey! Boxing movies, y'know? Whoa! What? Hey! Best picture?! Whoa, thanks!
Mar 12, 2017•1 hr 37 min
The Franchise
A podcast about movies that couldn't be left at one.
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Episodes
Crank and Crank: High Voltage
Neveldine and Taylor recruit Jason Statham for a couple of fun days out. And we recruit Isaac Lopez (@kickisaacout) for a fun podcast about them! Who can recognize the most porn stars? Find out here.
Mar 05, 2017•1 hr 37 min
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2
The least epic book of all time gets the treatment it doesn't deserve. Blade 2 Zombies! Crazy Cat Ladies! And Dark Peeta! PLUS, we make our 2017 Oscar predictions.
Feb 26, 2017•1 hr 32 min
The Hunger Games and The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
We dig into our first YA adaptation, Lion's Gate savior The Hunger Games. It's all here. The highs (Jennifer Lawrence, PSH), the lows (Lenny Kravitz?, the lesser Hemsworth) and everything in between (Rue). Let the games begin.
Feb 19, 2017•1 hr 36 min
Lethal Weapon 3, Lethal Weapon 4 and the Lethal Weapon TV Show
Rene Russo. Chris Rock. Jet Li. Joe Pesci with bleach-blonde hair. And then a demotion to network television. Lethal Weapon slides downhill.
Feb 12, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Lethal Weapon and Lethal Weapon 2
We're revisiting some old friends on Joel Silver's sticky, disgusting casting couch. Murtaugh and Riggs! A family man and a suicidal Nazi with a barely hidden Australian accent. Okay, okay, okay.
Feb 05, 2017•1 hr 38 min
Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde 2: Red White & Blonde and Legally Blondes
We mansplain the Legally Blonde franchise to you!
Jan 30, 2017•1 hr 40 min
Sudden Impact and The Dead Pool
Clint takes the director's chair and decides the best thing to do would be filming a gang rape. So there's that. But then Jim Carrey, Liam Neeson and Patricia Clarkson come along to liven things up a bit. The Young Pope. Sundays and Mondays at 9 on HBO.
Jan 22, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Magnum Force and The Enforcer
FORCE!!! First, Clint Eastwood participates in Battle of the Network Stars and then he checks out Tyne Daly's ass. Somehow, it's all very racist and occasionally boring.
Jan 15, 2017•1 hr 34 min
Dirty Harry
Clint Eastwood finally hits our shores. With a chair. And a pretty sweet handgun. Do you feel lucky?
Jan 09, 2017•1 hr 25 min
Home Alone 3, Home Alone 4 and Home Alone: The Holiday Heist
Raja Gosnell edits his way to the driver's seat and is most definitely NOT Indian. Then we turn on the boob tube for Kevin Returns and a sweet little ghost story with Malcolm McDowell.
Jan 01, 2017•1 hr 27 min
Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost In New York
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL!!! Macauley Culkin run around a whole lot! Plus, we debate the merits of the first one and totally agree that the second one is a mess. BUZZ, YOUR GIRLFRIEND! WOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFF!
Dec 25, 2016•1 hr 41 min
Westworld and Futureworld
Straight from the loony bin, we're back! And we're talking all things Westworld, Michael Crichton, Peter Fonda being terrible, Yul Brynner's odd sashay with Blythe Danner and especially Spa World. Oh yes. Spa World. Plus, we talk a little TV. Wiki-wild. Wiki-Wild-Wild-West.
Dec 22, 2016•1 hr 13 min
Alien vs Predator: Requiem and Predators
Aaron Farinelli is back to talk mandibles with us this week. First, those pesky xenomorphs are back and this time there's teen drama! Then, Adrian Brody growls his way through Nimrod's jungle.
Dec 11, 2016•1 hr 37 min
Predator 2 and AVP: Alien vs. Predator
Danny Glover is an action star and the hellish LA streets of 1997. And then your boy and mine, Paul W.S. Anderson, turns the lights out for a brawl to end them all. At least until the sequel. Whoever wins, we lose.
Dec 04, 2016•1 hr 35 min
Predator
Get in the chopper. It's testosterone in overdrive this week.
Nov 27, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me and Austin Powers in Goldmember
We slog through the drudgery that is the Austin Powers franchise, a half-assed sprawl of sex and poop jokes. "Get in my belly," it says, and we try our hardest not to be swallowed up.
Nov 20, 2016•1 hr 23 min
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
It's our most shagadelic episode yet! With all that that entails. Yeah, baby. Yeah.
Nov 13, 2016•1 hr 33 min
Chinatown and The Two Jakes
We cover one of the best movies of all time! Then we cover its Jack Nicholson-helmed sequel, which is not one of the best movies of all time. Really not. Like, way not.
Nov 06, 2016•1 hr 30 min
Friday the 13th Remake and Rankings
Michael Bay invades Crystal Lake. PLUS: We rank all 11 (12?) Friday the 13th movies.
Nov 03, 2016•54 min
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday and Jason X
Jason turns out to be a little wormy thing. Then he goes to space. Oh, New Line Cinema. What hath thee wrought?
Oct 30, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood and Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan
JASON VS. CARRIE! Um, I mean Tina. JASON FIGHTS A BOAT! CRACK! HEROIN! And the beginning of the "Kane Hodder era" if that means anything to anybody.
Oct 25, 2016•1 hr 25 min
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOBS. And then a good movie. Check it out. Two of the absolute strangest films (I mean movies) of this franchise.
Oct 15, 2016•1 hr 32 min
Friday the 13th Part III and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
A YOYO FLYING AT YOU!!!!!!!! And then The Final Chapter. Part 4 of 11. With Corey Feldman and 80s Crispin Glover, the greatest actor of all time.
Oct 09, 2016•1 hr 28 min
Friday the 13th and Friday the 13th Part 2
We enter the spookiest month of the year by covering a major horror franchise! It's got boobs, decapitations and ratty old sweaters. And a guy in a wheelchair taking a machete to the face. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT?
Oct 02, 2016•1 hr 26 min
The Fugitive and U.S. Marshals
Tommy Lee Jones wins an Oscar! For a sixties TV adaptation?! And then RDJ gets PISSED. But Wesley Snipes owns.
Sep 25, 2016•1 hr 20 min
Fletch and Fletch Lives
Chevy Chase makes a masterpiece. Then he goes insane.
Sep 18, 2016•1 hr 30 min
The Matrix Reloaded & The Matrix Revolutions
ROBOT OCTOPI! MONICA BELLUCCI! HUNDREDS OF HUGO WEAVINGS! Oh my.
Sep 11, 2016•1 hr 34 min
The Matrix
We try to suss out whether The Matrix is still good. And whether The Wachowskis and Keanu and Laurence Fishburne were ever good. But at least we still love Carrie Anne Moss.
Sep 04, 2016•1 hr 26 min
Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We dip our toes into the DCU with these two giant monstrosities. And we can finally say goodbye to the consistent bummer that was the Superman franchise. PLUS: An exciting interview with director Zack Snyder.
Aug 28, 2016•1 hr 39 min
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