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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

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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32:33

The Spring of 1977 will change movies forever 😲

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2022/03/29

This week on New Release … hipcats Ashley, Derrick, and Drew shake their groove things back to a funkadelic decade they never got to experience first hand. High time to hit the late 70s, ya dig? And what better way to kick off a new semester of New Release than by previewing the MONUMENTAL and weird films that came out during this Spring of of ‘77 season. Starting with an industrial nightmare drama from the twisted mind of Drew’s favorite director, then moving onto something set a long time ago in a

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79:18

Jason X (2002) 🪦 "Evil gets an upgrade"

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2022/03/22

This week on New Release … student bodies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew blast into outer space with their old friend Jason Voorhees. This tenth installment in the historic Friday the 13th franchise may very well be the sexiest, bloodiest, and certainly the dumbest Jason movie to date. Speaking of dates, this movie takes place 455 years in the future—for some reason—creating a true Sci-Fi-Slasher-Skinemax hybrid. And even though the sex in this flick errs on the softcore side, the violence is always a

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81:32

Panic Room (2002) 🚪 "It was supposed to be the safest...

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2022/03/15

This week on New Release … home invaders Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are busting open a modern masterpiece and mining it for cinematic gold. What a dazzling display of camera work, performance, and taut screenwriting to be had in David Fincher’s thriller Panic Room. Jodie Foster fights for her life AND the life of her daughter, played by a plunky newcomer Kristen Stewart—K-Stew for short. Will this mother-daughter duo outwit the terrible tandem of nutbags trying so desperately to flush them out of the

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97:26

100th Episode Extravaganza!! 🎉

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2022/03/08

*Holy shit!* 100 weeks straight of putting out a new episode of New Release and somehow it feels like we’re just getting started. On this very special episode … OGs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go places and do things never before heard on this intergalactic, multi-planetary audio program. We share our ‘Top 5 Movies that Made Us Love Movies’ lists. Followed by a rousing game of ‘Name that New Release Moment’. You like ‘Rank the Blank’? Then you’ll love hearing us rank the Rank the Blanks. All capped

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65:00

Resident Evil (2002) 🧪 "Survive the horror"

New Release ·

2022/03/01

This week on New Release … button mashers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take on the most anticipated video game adaptation since Mortal Kombat. Will the tension and horror of Resident Evil the game translate to the big screen or fall flat like a zombie with its head cut off? Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez bring their action A-games to what isn’t considered an A-list movie by many people. But that’s never stopped us from having a lively chat about something we surely loved when we were younger

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90:23

Queen of the Damned (2002) 🫀 "The Mother of All...

New Release ·

2022/02/22

This week on New Release … bloodsuckers Derrick, Drew, and super returning guest Jamie break out their finest leathers for a sick night out at the movies. We’re here for Aaliyah as ‘Queen of the Damned’ and as ‘Mother of All Vampires’ and harbinger of ‘Hell on Earth’. Bring it on, we say. What happens when a flamboyant vampire decides to step out of the shadows and announce themselves as a hardcore rock star at the Death Valley music fest? All whole bunch of fang-filled Wah-Wah-Wah action is Wha-t

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