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New Release

Where we make our favorite new TV shows feel SPECIAL (and sometimes movies). Instant reactions. Deep dives. Theories. What more could you want? Featuring Drew, Ashley, Derrick, Jamie, and others! newrelease.substack.com

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

58:03

Friday the 13th Part 3 - 3D (1982) 🏕 "A new dimension...

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2022/08/16

This week on New Release … stiffs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take another stab at their old pal Jason Voorhees. We got him this time, guys, seriously. Friday the 13th Part 3 is the third F13 movie to be featured on our podcast but it’s the first 3D flick we’ve ever set our sights on. Prepare yourself for some eye-popping descriptions of, well, eyes popping, among many other protruding parts. Is the extra dimension a cheap gimmick, a mad stroke of genius, or the true inspiration for Avatar

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70:01

Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 👙 "It's awesome,...

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2022/08/09

This week on New Release … wasteoids Ashley, Derrick, and Drew peep the high school movie that taught high movies how to be cool. I’m sure you remember Fast Times for Spicoli, the pool scene, or Damone’s terrible rules of seduction … but there’s way more to it than that. It’s a coming of age story that genuinely cares about the emotional journey Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character is on. There’s no shaming or stigmatizing the ladies in this movie for being curious about sex. God forbid. And how

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68:37

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1982) 🚚🔥...

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2022/08/02

This week on New Release … gearheads Ashley and Drew inject pure cinematic gasoline into their veins. The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2) picks up right where its post-apocalyptic predecessor left off—only now with more octane! More explosive chases, more flamboyant baddies, and more leather than a Def Leppard concert. Mel Gibson doesn’t need to speak, really, to be a perfect vehicle for the archetypal loner with nothing left to live for. Thus, he travels the desolate landscape scavenging fuel like a

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78:19

Forced Vengeance (1982) 🤠 starring Chuck Norris

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2022/07/26

This week on New Release … ass-kicking cowboys Derrick and Drew are joined by *all-star guest Jamie* to give Chuck Norris his overdue-due. This (forced) viewing of Forced Vengeance is a big milestone for the soft-spoken pedestrian Texan ranger. Finally, Señor Norris—like JCVD and Seagal before him—can proudly say he’s been featured on New Release. A regular Mustache vs Butt vs Ponytail hoedown. Sail with us to Hong Kong as we settle some debts and spin kick some very bad men in the face. We got

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58:14

Cat People (1982) 😻 "An erotic fantasy"

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2022/07/19

This week on New Release … freaky felines Ashley, Derrick, and Drew reunite for a walk on the wild side. Grrrrr. Is Cat People the horniest movie we’ve watched for the podcast? Yes. Does it have its fair share of ups and downs? Wink-wink. You bet. BUT it also blends horror and fantasy in ways that at least some of us finds oddly satisfying. There’s the sultry New Orleans scenery, oyster diners, and a surprising amount of gore to sink your teeth into in this forgotten creature feature. You’ll also

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65:29

TRON (1982) 🫥 "A world inside the computer"

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2022/07/12

This week on New Release … power users Ashley and Drew go deep inside the game grid … searching for Derrick … who knows? TRON, starring Jeff Bridges, has to be one of the most visually groundbreaking and revolutionary experiences ever captured on screen. For real? For real. We discuss how these trippy computer effects hold up today and how it all stacks up against CGI in modern films. Move over Marvel, because there’s something so satisfying about the pixelation and imperfections in this outdated

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88:06

Stranger Things 4 - Vol 2 (2022) 🎸 "It's time"

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2022/07/05

This week on New Release … Hellfire wannabes Derrick and Drew, along with *super special returning guest Jenn* visit the Upside Down for a final(?) battle with Vecna. We have so much ground to cover with our Hawkins friends still spread out from the West Coast to Mother Russia. Now, with only one season to go, the endgame is upon us and everyone’s in over their heads. Eddie shreds, Dustin cheers, Nancy saws, Steve drives, Robin stumbles, Max dreams, Lucas punches, Erica kicks, and that’s just one

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63:54

The Thing (1982) 🥶 "Man is the warmest place to hide"

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2022/06/28

This week on New Release … thingamabobbers Ashley and Drew (Derrick’s gone fishin’) thaw out a John Carpenter masterwork of gore and suspense. The Thing dives headlong into human psyche and inhuman anatomy in equal measures. What it leaves to your imagination on one hand, it doubles down on in dog heads with the other. Who says you can’t split the baby. Kurt Russel goes all in on hair, beard, and gruff, all while donning a flamethrower like he’s born to be styled and hog wild. This motley crew of

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63:16

Blade Runner (1982) 🦄 starring Harrison Ford

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2022/06/21

This week on New Release … repliCANs Ashley and Drew go looking for deadly machines posing as humans (where’s Derrick, by the way?). Blade Runner is Ridley Scott’s follow-up to Alien and Harrison Ford’s first movie post Indy … so … fair to say expectations are high. Combine that pedigree with techno-future sets, an epic jazz-synth score by Vangelis, and the philosophical heft of a Phillip K. Dick story at its core and surely this movie has all the makings of summer’s next big blockbuster. Well …

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71:41

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) 👽 "Phone home"

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2022/06/14

This week on New Release … regular terrestrials Ashley, Derrick, and Drew make a special new friend that teaches them how to love again. He’s a little quirky, but boy does this guy have heart. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial might just be the most influential movie of the 80s, and we’re here to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Full stop. Where the heck would we be without Elliot and co biking through the woods and over the moon and reminding us that the sky should evoke wonder, not fear. Open your mind

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64:21

Poltergeist (1982) 📺 "They're here"

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2022/06/07

This week on New Release … macho macho mediums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew cross over from the audio realm to the spiritual plane. Oooooo. Do not adjust your tracking. Follow us into the light. It’s safe here, we promise. All we ask is that you to listen to us review one the freakiest ghost movies of the 80s and beyond. Poltergeist unfolds in thrilling fashion with cutting edge special effects and strobing mise en scène that’ll knock your tube TV socks off. It’s all on display. Lightning, evil trees,

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84:16

Stranger Things 4 - Vol. 1 (2022) 🙃 "Every ending has...

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2022/06/01

This week on New Release … timeHoppers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are running up that hill to 2022 only to find themselves spit back out in 1986. Finally, we return to Hawkins (and beyond) for Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4. Was it worth the wait … or has our 80s nostalgia well run dry? Spoiler alert: It overfloweth! More blood, more perms, more demented twists and turns than most dare conjure to their weak minds. Who knew these sweet kids who grew up over a gate to hell would find themselves

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69:21

Rocky III (1982) 🥊 "The Italian Stallion is back!!"

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2022/05/24

This week on New Release … southpaws Ashley, Derrick, and Drew enter the ring to trade blows with the Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa. This is our 111th episode of the podcast and somehow our FIRST Sylvester Stallone movie! What the hell, man. Is Rocky III a worthy entry in the most influential sports movie franchise of all time OR a bloated song & dance affair that signals the beginning of the end of our beloved underdog’s journey? Leave it to us to decide where Hulk Hogan’s Thunderlips and Mr. T’s

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71:37

Conan the Barbarian (1982) 🗡 "Thief. Warrior....

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2022/05/17

This week on New Release … real steelers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew plop headfirst back into the 80s with Arnold’s epic breakout performance. Conan the Barbarian remains a larger than life figure in our imaginations some four decades later because of the immense presence of the one-and-only Schwarzenegger. Bodybuilder. Movie Star. Governator. God. At this point what milestones are left for Arnie to achieve? In addition to our titular, pec-tacular star, we put ourselves in the shoes of the supporting

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38:33

The Summer of 1982 rules so hard 🚲

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2022/05/10

This week on New Release … 80s babies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew phone home to where it all began. Hop on your Schwinns and join us as we preview an unprecedented fun-run of sci-fi and action movies that hit theaters in the Summer of 1982. More rippling muscles, bumps in the night, and synthesized cityscapes than you can count on ten glowing fingertips. Has it really been 40 years since Kurt Russel first wielded a flamethrower in the snow and Sean Penn finally gave stoner beach bums the role model

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Smokey and the Bandit (1977) 🏁 "A slap-bang 1,800...

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2022/05/03

This week on New Release … scum bums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take a road trip East bound and down South. Honk-honk. Burt Reynolds and Sally Field star in Smokey and the Bandit—the second-biggest movie of 1977. Move over Star Wars, there’s a new mustache rodeo rolling through town. We bring our deep personal history with hot cars and diablo sandwiches to the table for this extra saucy discourse. You’ll find out which one of us goes pedal to the metal for Burt’s big dad energy and who prefers a

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76:57

Star Wars (1977) 🌓 "May the Force be with you"

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2022/04/26

This week on New Release … padawans Ashley, Derrick, and Drew react to one of the most influential films of all time as if they’ve never seen it before. The Force is NOT strong with these ones. However, we do our damndest to capture how exciting it must’ve been to see George Lucas’ space opus in theaters 45 years ago. The immense world building and cutting edge special effects combined with so many zany characters makes for a once-in-a-generation moviegoing experience. To be honest, we have no idea

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82:09

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022) 🛹

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2022/04/19

*Special new New Release* This week thrashers Derrick and Drew talk skate while Ashley vacays at an undisclosed tropical paradise. Happy Birthday! Left on our own, the D-boys figure it’s high time to pop back to the present for a new doc chronicling the legendary rise of Tony Hawk. Until the Wheels Fall Off starts in the late 70s, with some scrawny kid attempting goofy tricks, and then keeps going and going up until skateboarding is an Olympic sport. Like The Last Dance did for MJ, this movie

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64:51

Rabid (1977) 🩸 "Pray it doesn't happen to YOU"

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2022/04/12

This week on New Release … thirst traps Ashley and Drew (where’s Derrick?) develop a taste for something sick and sticky sweet—no, we’re not talking about Canadian maple syrup. With Rabid, bastion of body horror David Cronenberg places a blood-sucking protuberance in the unlikeliest of places—just you wait! Part zombie / part pandemic / part revenge flick, there’s a lot of meat to suck off this hambone. It won’t always make sense and the character motives are murky at best, but there’s a certain DIY

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82:15

Eraserhead (1977) ✏️ "A film by David Lynch"

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2022/04/05

*w/ Special Guest Jamie!* This week on New Release … pencil nuts Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and James galavant around a polluted, nightmarish hellscape meticulously crafted by David Lynch in his feature debut. Eraserhead is dark and twisted and uncompromising in its vision, whatever that may be, to whomever may consume it. It’s art that uses a stark imagery and persistent sound to overwhelm the senses until you can’t help but submit to its will. You’ll laugh nervously, cover your eyes, and gag, at

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