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 survei...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Feb 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast 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. Wh...
Feb 27, 2025•2 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
Feb 21, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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 s...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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 c...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 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 manage...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 25 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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 charac...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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 (Jac...
Jan 10, 2025•55 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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...
Jan 03, 2025•1 hr 28 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast For the final Everything Actioncast of 2024, Zach and Chris are getting locked up with Tango & Cash, which celebrated its 35th anniversary earlier this week. Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell co-star as Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash, two cops from opposite sides of Los Angeles with drastically different styles but an equal amount of massive drug busts. Unknown to both cops, crime kingpin Yves Perret (Jack Palance) oversees all the criminal enterprises they are disrupting, and he plots f...
Dec 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris return to Pandora to discuss 2009's Avatar, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Directed by James Cameron, Sam Worthington is Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine who heads to the planet Pandora to pilot the "Avatar" of his murdered scientist brother. The Avatars are genetically grown bodies that are human and Na'vi hybrids, the Na'vi being the indigenous species on Pandora, and that person's mind can be transferred between bodies.&n...
Dec 20, 2024•1 hr 23 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Continuing the annual holiday tradition, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Joe Penta for another Home Alone movie commentary, this time the 2002 made-for-TV sequel, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House . Returning to the McCallister family, Peter (Jason Beghe) and Kate (Clare Carey) are finalizing a divorce, with Peter shacking up with his rich new girlfriend Natalie (Joanna Going). Natalie is hosting a royal family at her massive mansion, and Peter invites the kids to spend Christ...
Dec 19, 2024•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hunt down malfunctioning robots and discuss 1984's Runaway, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, Tom Selleck stars as Jack Ramsey, the lead officer of the "Runaway" division in the far-flung future of 1991. Tasked with stopping out-of-control robots, Ramsey and his new partner Karen Thompson (Cynthia Rhodes) discover an evil scientist named Dr. Luther (Gene Simmons) has created chips that...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are heading to PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. To get into the board gaming mood, they discuss the 1995 classic Jumanji. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji stars Robin Williams as Allan Parrish, who is sucked into the titular jungle-themed board game in 1969 and trapped in its dangerous world for 26 years. When siblings Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce) find the Jumanji board, they release Allan but also a ho...
Dec 06, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their homemade knives and dive into 2003's The Hunted, which just released on 4K for the first time. Directed by the late William Friedkin, The Hunted stars Benicio Del Toro as Aaron Hallam, a former special forces soldier who suffers from PTSD and goes rogue, killing several people in state parks in Oregon. His former mentor, L.T. Bonham (Tommy Lee Jones) is brought in to the help the FBI track Hallam and it becomes a deadly c...
Nov 29, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach, Chris, and special guest Justin celebrate Thanksgiving by watching Eli Roth's 2023 holiday slasher movie. Originally a fake trailer from Grindhouse, Thanksgiving followed Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun to become a full film. Set in Plymouth, MA, a tragic accident during a Thanksgiving night sale riot at RightMart causes several deaths. One year later, people connected to the riot start to be gruesomely murdered by a killer in a John...
Nov 28, 2024•2 hr 52 min•Transcript available on Metacast This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris unleash hell and dive into 2000's Gladiator as the sequel, Gladiator II, hits theaters this weekend. Directed by Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe stars as Maximus Decimus Meridius, a beloved Roman general who is betrayed by the spiteful son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who steals power for himself. Fleeing his executioners and discovering his family murdered, Maximus is sold into slavery and becom...
Nov 22, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 39 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast 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 ...
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