The Terminator film series is a wild mess of continuity, but this super interesting fan theory only focuses on the original The Terminator (1984) and also helps explain away some of the weirdness of the legendary Terminator 2. And most importantly, the theory actually holds up and doesn't require a whole bunch of extra explanation or other BS, just…

We were having a weird day and bounced around from a tribute to the late Michael Madsen to potential new James Bonds, William S. Burroughs, and weird old biker movies, and a new one, too. Sometimes, we're just, like, not super focused or whatever. "What are you rebelling against, Johnny?" "Whaddaya got?"…

People have been making movies about vampires literally since the advent of the medium, and they've been reinvented and the stories retold with different twists and turns and takes, and sometimes, even some originality, through every era of film. Sinners is the latest and extremely welcome entry in the bloodsucker canon, but the 1980s and 1990s wer…

Whether it's a strange old man's DeLorean or Superman flying around the globe backwards, time travel mechanisms were a big deal in the movies of the 80s and 90s. So of course we have to pit one of the best — Back to the Future — against one of the...least adored — TimeCop. Sort of. And we get into a bunch of other time travel flicks and TV, too.…

Everyone has THEIR Batman, depending on which one they grew up with. For our parents, it was the goofy, campy, weird, and sometimes extremely creepy Adam West groovy Batman. For a lot of us, there will be none other than the 1989 Tim Burton Batman with Michael Keaton in the batsuit. For a precious few, Val Kilmer is the defacto Caped Crusader. Then…

For eons, the Star series knew their place. Trek was serious sci-fi, and there was a lot of it, and a huge amount of it was kinda lousy. Comparatively, for a long, long time, there were only three Star Wars movies — and then six — and most of them were pretty great. But times have changes. The Star Wars universe has been diluted by a new, awful tri…

From Tyrone Power, to George Hamilton, to Antonio Banderas, and from Errol Flynn to Kevin Costner to Russel Crowe, they're two classic characters that have been on the silver screen since the beginning of film, and they both played a big part in the 1990s movie landscape.Par Mr. Falcon

If you know the particular hell of working retail, or if you're currently in said hell, this episode is for you.Par Mr. Falcon

What is there to say...it's one of, if not the greatest piece of American cinema ever made. It changed the way movies were made and how people thought of the organized crime in the 1940s and 50s, while also weaving one of the greatest family sagas ever put to film. Find out what it's like for some to watch this gem for the first time after 40!…

A shitsplat town where the biggest attraction for the young locals is a dilapidated demolition derby track run by a super young Jamie Lee Curtis, who is in a semi-sordid love triangle with Patrick Swayze (who is married to Jennifer Jason Leigh) and C. Thomas Howell playing an 18-year-old HS grad ready to sow his oats and figure out what he wants to…

This year is the half-century mark — the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg's original summer blockbuster: Jaws. You can hear the music, can't you? It changed the way we watch movies and the way movies were made. It was full of happy accidents and success out of necessity — and it was followed by three astonishingly bad sequels, establishing yet …

Sometimes a director's cut is the filmmaker's vision more fully realized, sometimes it's just a bunch of lousy alternate takes and extended scenes cut back into a movie that was well paced and tight, and other times, it adds some seriously moral ambiguity that makes you feel a little queasy, even when you watch the regular version. We're talking ab…

Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don't turn it off! It wasn't my war! You asked me I didn't ask you! And I did what I had to do to win, for somebody who wouldn't let us win! Then I come back to the world, and I see all those maggots at the airport, protestin' me, spittin', callin' me a baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to prote…

Back in the heydey of TV movies — flicks with low budgets and no cursing with "adult themes" that aired on ABC or CBS late at night. As a kid you would see them, or parts of them, and be irrevocably scarred. Here, we examine the TV movie classic Buried Alive (1990) starring Tim Matheson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and William Atherton (the dude who play…

They came out fairly close together, and both tackle the subject of synthetic realities, simulations in which a society of people are living without being away of their situation. One takes the techno-futurist route — The Matrix (1999), and the other takes a more surrealistic sci-fi approach, and made way less money — Dark City (1998). But the latt…

Two of Paul Verhoeven's most revered films of the 1990s, Total Recall (1990) and RoboCop (1987), got horrible, shitty, utterly forgettable remakes in the 2010s. But can we learn something more about these beloved originals by examining some of the many ways in which the remakes absolutely sucked? We're gonna find out.…

It was a thing, for a while. Back in the ol' 1990s. Filmmakers got so turgid with the cheapo possibilities of early CG that they went mad and made a spate of giant killer animal movies. Giant gorillas, giant alligators in misnamed features, giant snakes vs. JLo...and so many, many more.Par Mr. Falcon

He was one of the biggest movie stars of the 80s and 90s, and the roles he played have left a lasting impact on movies and the people who grew up with them. From playing Madmartigan in Willow and outshining Tom Cruise as Iceman in Top Gun, to resurrecting Jim Morrison and hunting lions with Michael Douglas, we take a tour through the career of the …

Every once in a while, buying an old movie with a great cast and an intriguing plot pays off, even if you've never heard of it before. Shoot To Kill (1988) is an action/adventure/mystery/crime/survival flick starring Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown and the legendary Sydney Poitier, who starred in this film after taking a hiatus from actin…

They're not real bands, but their songs are real, and they kinda sorta performed them. Some of their songs even made it to the radio and into the cultural fabric. These are your favorite fictional bands from your favorite music movies from the Blues Brothers and Eddie and the Cruisers to Spinal Tap and The One-ders. If only they can escape the deat…

From the old TV movie Trial of the Incredible Hulk to the Ben Afleck CG bombfest to the current Man Without Fear, Charlie Cox, the superhero Daredevil has had a strange presence on the screen over the past 40 years. We take a look at the good things that have been done with the character, and we'l lalso talk about the playground fight, Colin Farrel…

What happens when you take an aging hair metal frontman who can't act, cover him with fake tattoos and piercings in 1998, put him in a violently low-budget horror movie, and feed him some of the worst dialog ever written? You get Strangeland, a Seven wannabe that hits on all the most important concerns parents of teens have today: chat rooms, body …

It's another case of two movies with extremely similar plots being made right on each others heels in the 1999, but in completely different ways. Marvel at Bruce Willis' weird hairpiece, at how damaged the young Haley Joel Osment appears, watch Kevin Bacon dig a big goddamn hole in his yard while his creepy kid is played by an actor nobody remember…

A remake/reboot of the somewhat bizarre, Queen-scored, yet wonderfully endearing 1980s fantasy flick Highlander is apparently on its way, for real this time. The original really shouldn't have work, NONE of the sequels worked, and the TV show spinoff had a rabid, but small fanbase. But Henry Cavill is — most likely — starring in a remake of the OG …

Look, it was a really good run — 27 movies over seven decades is nothing to sneer at. But as producers of the James Bond films quest once again to find a new actor to step into the 007 tux, one must ask the question: In the 2020s, do we really need a new Bond? Must the epic series continue, or should Bond be allowed to retire into the desert foreve…

Ah the cinematic experience that was Wolf Man (2025) — we waited months and months through delay after delay for a werewolf movie that...wasn't actually a werewolf movie because it had a similar but really different monster, but it was also trying to be a cabin-in-the-woods movie, and a boring one, yet it was called Wolf Man despite being about nei…

The movies in the 80s — horror movies, family movies, movies about talking pets, and cartoons about talking dinosaurs — they were all somehow incredibly, hauntingly dark as shit. Here are some of the movies from our childhood that left a dent, a scar, a mangled bit of psyche in their wake. Do we have any in common?…

It's 1997. You pop a VHS that contains from-cable-recorded copies of Glimmer Man, Fire Down Below, and On Deadly Ground and watch them in succession until you can't take any more horrendous dialog and fake New York accents...or berets and sleeveless cardigans. You switch the input back to TV, and after the screen flickers blue for a moment, and the…

There are some actors who were big bright shooting stars, gleaming for a couple years and then gone. Then, there are some actors whose faces we have literally been looking at on screen for our entire lives. Nic Cage is one of those screaming, crying, wacky faces. We take a thorough look at the high notes and some of the lesser known notes of his lo…

At one point, a young Leonardo DiCaprio was in consideration to play Patrick Bateman in American Psycho (2000), the surprisingly excellent adaptation of a horribly difficult book to adapt with the same title by Brett Easton Ellis. The role of Bateman, of course, went to Christian Bale. Now, as news circulates that we may be getting a new adaptation…

Martin Scorsese has directed a lot of hits, and a few downright classics, but there are also a few semi-forgotten gems in his filmography, the best of which is The Color of Money (1986). It was a weird move for the already accomplished director: a movie about pool hustlers starring an aging Paul Newman and a up-and-coming Tom Cruise and Mary Elizab…

There's yet another reinvention of the Man of Steel on the horizon with James Gunn's forthcoming Superman (2025), so we're taking a look back and the film's we've gotten so far, and imagining the ones we haven't. If we had the talent to do it ourselves, or at least the power to order talented people to do our bidding, what would be our perfect Supe…

It's an odd genre of movies — Christmas movies. They are dramas, romances, horror, action, and some of the most saccharine sap you'll ever come across, but they're all Christmas movies. So, what exactly makes a movie a "Christmas movie" and where do we draw the line? And, of course, we run down our all time favorite Christmas movies — and we get in…

They're both ridiculous buddy cop team-up movies from the 1980s and 1990s, but of very different star caliber and budget. Tango & Cash (1989) saw Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell join forces as two LAPD super cops who are framed by Jack Palance's crime boss, who has a weird thing for mice and CCTV monitors. Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) sees p…

Ah yes, the family-friendly mildly supernatural vehicle for a young Tom Hanks just breaking his way into feature films from the TV world. We all have such fond memories of Big (1988), but have you ever really thought about the psychological damage inflincted on the characters involved? And what the hell happened to Josh after the movie was over — a…

It's difficult to overstate the sheer awesomeness of the original Predator (1987). It's just about the perfect action movie, and it's a blending of sci-fi, action, and horror that is extremely rare in all of movie history, not to mention a lightning-in-a-bottle cast that could only work in the late 1980s. So why has every single sequel (yeah, Dave'…

Kevin Bacon was in not one but two white water rafting slash canoeing movies in his career — one when he was still an up and comer and another when he was an established and bankable movie star. One is a neat little '90s thriller with Meryl Streep, the other is a strange coming of age movie with a super young pre-Hobbit, pre-Rudy Sean Astin. Take a…

We all have them — movies that we're embarrassed to admit that we have watched 100 times alone in the dark of night. We do not speak of them — the universally hated comedies, the saccharine rom-coms, the terrible fantasy flicks. But they betray something about our character, don't they...our guilty pleasure movies. Tom and Dave talk about some of t…

Apparently, once upon a time, the plan was to have Oscar-winner Denzel Washington star alongside Morgan Freeman in Se7en instead of Brad Pitt. We got to talking about what that would be like — and it was a whole lot of fun.Par David Maccar

It happens every once in a while — two movies with nearly the same subject matter are release within months of each other. One is well received and becomes a big hit, and the other one is largely unsuccessful and forgotten. And it's not always the first movie to come out that wins. Dave and Tom take a look at the beloved '90s western Tombstone (199…

WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS!!!! There are two kinds of people who grew up in the late 1980s and 90s: Goonies people, and Monster Squad people. Dave and Tom are most definitely Monster Squad people. This movie started off as a reboot of the classic Universal monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Wolfman, The Gillman (The Creature from the Black Lag…

If you know, you know. If you don't, then when you get the THAT scene in Bone Tomahawk (2015), you're gonna know. But this flick isn't all about that one scene. The horror is wrapped in an extremely solid Western deftly acted by a tremendous cast. It's also absolutely insane and will have you peeking through the gap in your fingers more than once. …

Monster Movies! They're the cornerstone of any nutritious Halloween season breakfast. What's your favorite "monster movie"? Dave and Tom throw up their picks and then move on to a couple of super niche werewolf movies from the 1980s: Wolfen (1983) and Silver Bullet (1985). One features Albert Finney, his tremendous flowing mane, his impeccable fash…

Ah slasher movies — a gem of a horror subgenre born of the exploitation flicks of the 1970s and then the sequel crazy home video horror machine of the 1980s. There's a lot to laugh about, and a lot to make fun of, but these characters have stuck around through decades, endless sequels, remakes, and reboots — and they just won't die! We take a look …

Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931), The Wolf Man (1941), The Mummy (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) — while Universal Studios certainly had more monsters in its catalog back in the 1940s and 1950s, that was the core group that changed cinema and created horror cinema — with sound. These classics follow…

Since Saving Private Ryan premiered in 1998, two actors with small parts have been causing confusion among audiences. The German soldier affectionately known as Steamboat Willie whom Capt. Miller (Tom Hanks) sets free after being capture by the squad is often though to be the same soldier who brutally stabs Mellish (Adam Goldberg) in the movie's fi…

Is End of Watch (2012) one of the most underrated buddy-cop movies of all time? Tom gave it a watch — a movie he admits he would probably have never watched on his own — and is back with a first-viewing reaction of this excellent flick from writer and director David Ayer starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two LAPD street cops who get way …

Which is more of a comedy classic, Wayne's World (1992), or The Hangover (2009)? Which is more iconic, There's Something About Mary (1998), or Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)? Which holds up better, American Pie (1999) and Encino Man (1992), or Superbad (2007) and The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)? We dig through the funniest, gun splittin…

"I'm Lin. You Jackson? You look like a Jackson. That must make you Frank Ducks." "No, it's Dux." "Oh, right. Like put up your dukes." Say 'Mite! SAAAYYY IIIIIITTTTTTTT!Par David Maccar

The improbable success story of an underground comic about giant mutant turtles who lived in the sewers of New York City, who are also teenagers, and also ninjas just will never not be popular. Ever since they hit the big and small screens in the late 1980s, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been everywhere in one incarnation after another. As …