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Now Playing - The Movie Review Podcast

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The hosts of Now Playing Podcast dive deep into every franchise from Bond, DC and Marvel to Mad Max, Andromeda Strain to Wolverine, breaking down each film with sharp insight, behind-the-scenes stories, and a lot of humor. If a movie has a sequel (or three), we’ve probably reviewed it with real research, real opinions, and zero patience for bad movies.

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01:31:37

Patriot Games

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2020/07/08

Paramount was eager to adapt more Tom Clancy novels after Red October/ brought home a boatload of cash. But is it as much fun to play Patriot Games/ with so many important pieces missing from the sequel? Gone are the Cold War politics, sleek submarine technology, and Alec Baldwin as our nerdy CIA analyst hero. Will Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart remain loyal to the past, or go with Harrison Ford as an older Jack Ryan defending his family and seaside home from crazy Sean Bean (Lord of the Rings/) and a

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01:23:43

The Hunt for Red October

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2020/07/01

Sean Connery has stolen a Soviet nuclear submarine, and now every Cold War naval vessel is on The Hunt For Red October. Tom Clancy’s 1984 bestseller was designed to torpedo Rambo shoot ’em ups, and take the action genre into a new decade of thinking man ‘techno-thrillers’. But did Alec Baldwin study enough about his co-star to turn his untested CIA analyst into the next James Bond? Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart are ready to track every move in Jack Ryan’s 30 year movie career, starting with this 1990

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02:24:56

The Breakfast Club -- Our *1,000th* movie review...

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2020/06/24

Join all seven podcasters as they sit down for the first time to give a collective review ofThe Breakfast Club. Does John Hughes’ seminal teen drama of the 1980s still have something important to say about cliques and class division 35 years later? What were the hosts like in high school, and has recording one thousand shows together felt like punishment or a unique bonding experience? You won’t need to return to your locker for that bag of grass in order to spend the day giggling as Now Playing

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01:29:59

Escape from L.A.

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2020/06/17

… except Snake Plissken, after President Cliff Robertson tasks him to recover a top secret weapon from revolutionaries hiding out at the former Happiest Place On Earth. But SoCal’s new prison island proves to be a decidedly sunnier and funnier place than the Big Apple penitentiary of 15 years ago. Can Kurt Russell’s one-eyed badass fend off deranged plastic surgeon Bruce Campbell, surf tsunamis with Peter Fonda, and hang with outlaw Pam Grier? And is Escape From LA a sequel to, or parody of, John

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01:22:22

Escape from New York

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2020/06/10

How prophetic is John Carpenter’s 1981 vision of future Manhattan – so crime-ridden it’s become a maximum security prison? And how easily can Kurt Russell shake off his Disney kid image to star as Snake Plissken, the one-eyed convict coerced by Lee Van Cleef to rescue the Commander-In-Chief from crime lord Isaac Hayes? Start spreadin’ the news, the podcast is ready to play. Be a part of it and Listen Now! {Escape From Series} {John Carpenter Series}

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01:28:55

The Dark Half

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2020/06/03

Novelist Timothy Hutton starts to go a little cuckoo whenThe Dark Halfof his creative mind – the part responsible for writing all of his salacious bestsellers – takes physical form and strikes out at the family and friends that push the author to be more wholesome. Is this latest Stephen King story just a thinly veiled tell-all of the horror writer’s struggles with alcohol and alter ego Richard Bachman? Or should we consider this more like a new chapter in director George Romero’s Living Dead saga

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01:34:18

The Tommyknockers

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2020/05/27

Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart continue to dig into Stephen King’s extensive filmography, this week reaching the much-maligned adaptation ofTommyknockers. Marg Helgenberger (CSI)and Jimmy Smitts (LA Law)cause a meltdown in their little Maine town when they excavate a UFO in their backyard. Were fans too quick to bury this ABC-TV miniseries? Why would anyone want E.T. to go home when the aliens make such ingenious modifications to lipstick, magic shows, and Coke machines? Answer that knockin’ at the door

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01:27:15

Contagion

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2020/05/20

Businesswoman Gwenyth Paltrow comes into contact with a novel virus. Now can an all-star cast stop herContagion from spreading worldwide? And why does Matt Damon have a “Borne” immunity? Now Playing’s Viral Outbreak Retrospective reaches its dramatic conclusion with a podcast review of Steven Soderbergh’s sprawling, newly relevant 2011 medical thriller. Join Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob as they analyze the ways the fictional MEV-1 outbreak mirrors today’s COVID-19 pandemic. Listen Now! {Viral Outbreak

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01:24:09

The Andromeda Strain (2008)

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2020/05/13

The Andromeda Strainhas mutated again! Michael Crichton’s landmark 1969 novel came back in 2008 as a two-night TV mini-series produced by Ridley and Tony Scott! But is this cast of sitcom stars – including Eric McCormack (Will & Grace), Ricky Schroder (Silver Spoons), Christa Miller (Scrubs), and Andre Braugher (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) – capable of selling the science to a cable television audience? Follow Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart into the wormhole as they continue contact tracing the history of

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01:32:33

Outbreak

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2020/05/06

The 1990s gets a whole lot grungier after an infected African monkey is smuggled into Northern California, and causes a deadlyOutbreak. Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo star as divorcing virologists tasked with flattening the curve of a super-Ebola before nervous military brass Morgan Freeman and Donald Sutherland opt to level the hot zone and everyone inside with jetfire. Find out if Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob think this 1995 medical thriller is nothing to sneeze at when you download the latest

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01:14:01

Warning Sign

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2020/04/29

Gag me with a spoon! Those glow-in-the-dark boils under your eyes aren’t just an ‘80s fashion statement, but aWarning Signthat your local agro-research lab is cooking up more than genetically modified food. Before he keptLaw & Orderon television, sheriff Sam Waterston shot it out with enraged scientists infected with Borna disease in this fourth installment of theNow Playing Viral Outbreak Retrospective. Is this another brainless zombie movie? Or can Jakob, Arnie, and Stuart sink their teeth

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01:31:01

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

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2020/04/22

A whole new kind of sickness struck the 1970s with the release ofThe Andromeda Strain. Four scientists hunker down in a top secret lab to study the space plague inadvertently brought to Earth by a fallen satellite. Can they find a cure for the killer alien bug before politicians use nukes to inoculate the planet? And will this first film adaptation of Michael Crichton’s bestseller develop a fatal case of disco fever coming from the director of musicalsWest Side StoryandThe Sound of Music? Find out

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00:12:40

Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying...

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2020/04/17

(or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Support Podcasts Stanley Kubrick and Peter Sellers help folks see the lighter side of apocalypse with their 1964 Cold War classic Dr. Strangelove. What happens when a paranoid general (Sterling Hayden) decides to protect American bodily fluids by ordering fighter pilot Slim Pickens to drop 50 megaton bombs on unsuspecting Soviet targets? Can George C. Scott and a Nazi scientist convince the US President there’s an upside to starting World War III? Find out when

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01:15:54

The Satan Bug

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2020/04/15

Pandemic movies infect the Swingin’ Sixties courtesy ofThe Satan Bug– a 1965 spy caper that becomes the second installment of Now Playing’s Viral Outbreak Retrospective. TV star George Maharis (Route 66) attempted to be an epidemiological James Bond when he slipped on an isolation suit, and hunted down the reclusive billionaire who broke into a top secret bioweapons lab to release a highly lethal virus. Find out if Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart wash their hands of these dirty double crosses when you take

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01:13:39

Panic in the Streets

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2020/04/08

Finding yourself indoors with plenty of time to catch up on movies? Avoid thePanic in the Streets, and join Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob as they analyze Hollywood portrayals of pandemics through the ages with a topical Viral Outbreak Retrospective. The seven part series begins in 1950 with an Oscar-winning film noir classic directed by Elia Kazan (On The Waterfront). Can public health official Richard Widmark quarantine city slicker Jack Palance before the mobster infects all of New Orleans with plague

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01:08:10

In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission

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2020/03/31

No one was playingDungeon Siegein 2014, much less joining Uwe Boll on hisLast Missionto make a respectable fantasy film out of the role playing video game.Prison Breakstar Dominic Purcell discovers his tattoos can now open portals to ancient Bulgaria. Is the modern day assassin much help to two Ehb princesses out to overthrow a traitorous king and his fire-breathing dragon? Or should he aim his pistol at the power-mad director instead? The hit job on this thirdIn The Name Of The Kingchapter costs

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01:17:43

In the Name of the King 2: Two Worlds

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2020/03/25

Dolph! Uwe! What happens whenTwo WorldHeavyweight movie punchlines unite for one epically bad sequel to fantasy flopIn The Name of the King? Lundgren stars as the unlikely son of Jason Statham, called from modern day Vancouver to wage war on a witch and her cannibal army in the medieval land of Ehb. Chosen Ones Justin, Stuart, and Arnie command you to fulfill the prophecy, take another drink from this never ending Boll of poison, and keep listening to the Now Playing Arcade until we’ve reached the

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01:21:03

In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale

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2020/03/18

WhatIn The Name of The Kingis Uwe Boll up to now?! Someone gave the notoriously awful director $60 million to turn video gameDungeon Siegeinto a wannabeLord of the Rings. He’s even convinced Jason Statham to star as a martial-arts wielding peasant caught between goodfella magician Ray Liotta and a royally miscast Burt Reynolds in the battle to be crowned Worst Supporting Actor. Will Arnie have to travel to the pits of Mordor to burn this DVD, or is this the epic to finally free Boll from movie jail

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01:29:43

The King of Fighters

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2020/03/11

Justin, Stuart, and Arnie invite listeners to another dimension, where fighting games made for the high end Neo Geo 24 bit system become major movie events! CanThe King of Fightersat least claim victory over those flop film adaptations ofStreet Fighter, Double Dragon, andTekken? Ray Park (aka Darth Maul) has stolen three legendary artifacts that enable him to turn a friendly martial arts tournament into career suicide. Find out how Maggie Q (Nikita) and futureDeadpool 2director David Leitch survived

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01:42:05

Kong: Skull Island

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2020/03/04

Legendary Pictures was definitely chasingAvengersmoney when they hired Loki (Tom Hiddleston), Captain Marvel (Brie Larson), and Nick Fury (Samuel L Jackson) to coerce big apeKongto join a MonsterVerse superteam. But they might have more luck winning the Vietnam War than lasting three days onSkull Islandwith bonkers POW John C Reilly and a nest of subterranean, flesh-eating lizards. Be glad you have Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie to keep you safe on this eighth wonderful installment of the King Kong

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