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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

62:59

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) 🦇 "Here they grow...

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2021/06/22

This week on New Release … goofballs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew check out a long overdue sequel to the movie that introduced Gizmo—so cute, so cuddly, so dangerous! Does Gremlins 2: The New Batch capture what we loved about the original or does it quickly jump all sorts of sharks? (Damn, how was there not a shark-gremlin in this sucker?). We run through our favorite new monsters and highlight the silliest gags in a movie chock full of cartoonish violence. What do you get when you put a gremlin in a

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66:29

Dick Tracy (1990) 🕵️ "I'm on the way"

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2021/06/15

This week on New Release … total dicks Ashley, Derrick, Drew are joined by special guest Brian to talk about a movie he calls … ‘perfect’. Is Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Madonna a comic masterpiece or a disturbing look back in time? How bout both! We discuss the impressive set design, makeup, and over-the-top performances by all sorts of old Hollywood heavyweights. Then Brian takes us back to why he loved this movie so much as a kid. Admit it, you wanted Tracy’s cool wrist

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55:56

Another 48 Hrs. (1990) 🚔 "The boys are back in town"

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2021/06/08

This week on New Release … glassbreakers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are in hot pursuit of an ice cold … man. ‘The Iceman’, let’s call him. Another 48 Hrs. brings Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte back together for two more days of poor police work and confounding case developments. All I know is we have our work cut out for us trying to decipher anything that doesn’t go BANG or BOOM in this sucker. Oh did I mention Eddie Murphy’s in it? If you like mismatched cops that are buddies, theoretically, then

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67:51

Total Recall (1990) 🤯 "Get ready for the ride of your...

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2021/06/01

This week on New Release … headcases Ashley, Derrick, and Drew blast off to Mars for the adventure of a lifetime. Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger, features some of the most eye-popping special effects you’ll ever see combined with a plot that’ll make you question everything you think you know. This classic sci-fi is a mindfuck every way to Sunday. It also serves as a coming out party of sorts for Arnold the comedian. Your Johnny Cab awaits! Just search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to

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66:15

Back to the Future Part III (1990) 🚂 "Great Scott!"

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2021/05/25

This week on New Release … McFly boys Ashley, Derrick, and Drew look back at the final film in the franchise that taught us everything we know about time travel. Back to the Future Part III drops Marty and Doc and all of our favorites into a ruckus frontier town in 1885. Whereupon gunfights and horse chases and Delorean-fueled adventures are sure to ensue. Luckily, we get out of the episode alive without taking too many shots at this flawed but lovable movie. Hop in the passenger seat and brace

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58:08

Bird on a Wire (1990) 🚁 starring Mel & Goldie

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2021/05/18

This week on New Release … wigglers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go on a whacky adventure with two huge movie stars from the 90s. Bird on a Wire has pretty much ever kind of action you could dream up … and then some. Multiple car, moped, helicopter, and plane chases. Shoutouts at a repair shop, animal shelter, zoo, and god knows where else. Then, at the center of all this craziness, is an entertaining but totally cringey romance between two iconic actors. Bet you can guess which one goes by Mr. Wiggly

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64:28

Class of 1999 (1990) 🙅 "The ultimate teaching machine"

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2021/05/11

This week on New Release … A+ students Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are given one of their most dangerous assignments yet. To really understand Class of 1999 we must compare our high school experiences to the hellscape that is Kennedy High. What would you do if your teachers were robots that got off on punishing and/or killing students? Would you … drop out, get addicted to Edge, or fight back? If you or anyone you know is struggling in school, we can help. For all the answers, search ‘New Release’

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59:53

Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990) 💀 "Four...

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2021/05/04

This week on New Release … gravediggers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew enjoy three or four scary stories for the price of one. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a horror anthology, like many others, that relies more on special effects and cheap thrills than character development but we’re cool with that. Give me a killer cat and gargoyle queen in the same sitting any day of the week. Mummies and witches and Steve Buscemi say bye! Join us around the campfire by searching ‘New Release’

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66:15

Mortal Kombat (2021) 🥶 "Get over here!"

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2021/04/27

This week on New Release … combatants Ashley, Derrick, and Drew make their triumphant return to 2021—for one week only—to engage in (or with) Mortal Kombat. Considering how much we love this game franchise and the first movie, we have sky-high expectations for this one. Is that a recipe for disappointment … or will the new hard-R version deliver all the gore and fatalities the PG-13 original never could? What happens when you pit a childhood favorite against an adult newcomer in a match to the

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56:34

Side Out (1990) 🏐 "Summer just got a lot hotter"

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2021/04/20

This week on New Release … beach bums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew celebrate a certain someone’s b-day with a movie about their favorite sport. Side Out is THE definitive beach volleyball movie (sorry, Top Gun) but is it … good? We grill Ashley on the accuracy and attitude on display in this overlooked sports movie to find out how well it matches her experience. On a scale of bump-set-kill, this movies scores huge in the beach wardrobe department, but what else? Find out who comes out on top by

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58:20

Cry-Baby (1990) 😢 "Good girls want him bad"

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2021/04/13

This week on New Release … wannabe drapes Ashley, Derrick, and Drew have their square moviegoing tastes challenged by cult filmmaker John Waters. Cry-Baby stars Johnny Depp as the sensitive bad boy who sings like the lovechild of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. It’s your classic orphan-meets-orphan romance where the only thing keeping Cry-Baby and Allison apart is being basic. Find out if two kids from opposite sides of the tracks can shed society’s labels and form a dynamic duo with staying power

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73:32

Twin Peaks (1990) 🌲🌲 "Who killed Laura Palmer?"

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2021/04/06

This week on New Release … locals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew stay home to watch a TV-movie event that will surely have everyone talking tomorrow. After Twin Peaks aired on ABC in primetime—on a calm Sunday night—TV was never the same. Seriously. Only David Lynch could make something this weird and disturbing in a way that’s also entertaining enough to become an instant hit. We love Lynch like crazy and this was our first real opportunity to get into what makes him so special as an artist. The music,

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80:13

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) 🐢 “Cowabunga!”

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2021/03/30

This week on New Release … teenage mutant ninja talkers Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and special guest Brian! (from VCRWORLD) mainline a childhood standard. You can’t have the 90s and you can’t pizza without paying respect to our heroes in a half shell, our boys in green, our beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We’ll share our earliest ooze-filled memories, then get real with each other by answering the most important question facing any friend group: Which turtle are you? Relive the radical days of

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60:45

Pretty Woman (1990) 💃 starring Julia Roberts &...

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2021/03/23

This week on New Release … callpeople Ashley, Derrick, and Drew ring in the 50th episode of New Release by watching one of the most iconic rom-coms of all time! Join along as we look back on how Pretty Woman turned Julia Roberts into an American sweetheart and help us renegotiate the terms of her week-long liaison with Richard Gere. Would you pay $3000/week for chemistry like theirs? Before you decide, stroll down to the mall and get yourself a makeover that will have everyone on Rodeo Drive doing a

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63:57

Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) 🌋 starring Tom Hanks &...

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2021/03/16

This week on New Release … volcanologists Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go back to where it all started for the definitive 90s movie couple. Joe Versus the Volcano is the first of three hit rom-coms to star Hanks & Ryan, and it is by far the weirdest. In short, Tom Hanks’ Joe, after being diagnosed with a terminal “Brain Cloud”, gets offered an Amex card and free vacay … so long as he agrees to sacrifice himself by jumping into a volcano. Man, if I had a dime for every— Along the way he meets three

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62:49

House Party (1990) 🔊 starring Kid 'n Play

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2021/03/09

This week on New Release … party animals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew crash the biggest bash of the school year. Watching House Party is the next best thing to actually going to a shindig these days, so we’re extending a virtual invite your way. Lace your kicks, air out your Hammer pants, and get ready to boogie with Kid ‘n Play like it’s 1990! Forget curfew because this thing runs from now to question mark. We trace how House Party laid the foundation for party movies like Superbad and Can’t Hardly

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65:50

The Hunt for Red October (1990) ⚓️ "The hunt is on"

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2021/03/02

This week on New Release … sea captains Ashley, Derrick, and Drew hop aboard a Russian sub in hopes of preventing all-out nuclear war. Aside from that, The Hunt for Red October is our chance to finally meet this Jack Ryan character we’ve heard so much about. Alec Baldwin goes (under) toe-to-toe with Sean Connery but all they really wanna do is go fishing together. This tense thriller had us pulling Crazy Ivans left and right, starboard and port side, firing our magnetohydrodynamic drives on all

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58:15

The Blood of Heroes (1990) ☠️ "winning is everything"

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2021/02/23

This week on New Release … champions Ashley, Derrick, and Drew kick the dust off a sadistic sports/dystopian movie you may not have heard of. The Blood of Heroes follows a bruising team of Juggers as they roam the desolate Outback hoping to improve their lowly stations in life—one game of dunk the dog skull at a time. We evaluate the entertainment value of this brutal fake movie sport versus favorites such as Quidditch, BASEketball, and more. Will our heroes prove worthy of whatever spoils remain …

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61:09

Nightbreed (1990) 👹 "a new reason to fear the night"

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2021/02/16

This week on New Release … monstrosities Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take a trip to Midian, where all night dwellers live in relative harmony—until humans arrive. Nightbreed is an unrestrained horror-fantasy hybrid ripped from the wicked imagination of Clive Barker—the man responsible for Pinhead and some of the sickest monsters ever brought to life on screen. We choose our favorite fiends from an all-star lineup, then struggle over whether we’re mortals destined to live in the light … or creatures

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67:19

Hard to Kill (1990) 😴 starring Steven Seagal

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2021/02/09

This week on New Release … ponytail historians Ashley, Derrick, and Drew wake up from a long slumber to kick some serious B-movie butt. Hot off Hard to Kill, we try our damndest to figure out how Steven Seagal became an overnight action sensation back in the day. Hunky or clunky, we have to know? All that plus a tag-team deathmatch among your favorite action and martial arts stars from the 90s. Who prevails when Chuck Norris meets Lucy Lawless and Van Damme in a dark alley? If you like them apples,

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