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•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 34•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 33•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 32•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 48 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 31•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 30•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 29•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 28•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 41 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 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•2 hr 37 min•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 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•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 
