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Die Hard On A Blank

Philip Gawthorne and Liam Billingham

Welcome to the party, pals! This is DIE HARD ON A BLANK, the podcast that explores the influence of DIE HARD on action cinema -- one action movie at a time. In each episode of DIE HARD ON A BLANK, hosts Philip Gawthorne and Liam Billingham discuss one major mainstream action movie that was released after DIE HARD. Phil and Liam break down the story, heroes, villains, action, humor and the 'DIE HARD DNA' that infuse each film, including common cast and crew members. They rate each film and

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1:52:55

DÉJÀ VU with Scout Tafoya!

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2026/01/28

It’s Die Hard in a multiverse! This week we’re discussing Tony Scott’s “science-fact” time-travel movie DÉJÀ VU with the help of special guest Scout Tafoya! After a catastrophic terrorist attack on a ferry in New Orleans leaves hundreds of innocent people dead, local ATF agent Doug Carlin (Denzel Washington) becomes drawn into the massive, multi-jurisdictional investigation into the bombing. During this process, FBI agent Paul Pryzwarra (Val Kilmer) invites Doug to join a cutting-edge, secretive

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1:21:15

INSIDE MAN with Randy Wilkins!

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2026/01/14

It’s Die Hard in a bank! This week we’re discussing Spike Lee’s outstanding heist movieINSIDE MAN with the help of our own “inside man” Randy Wilkins, a frequent Spike collaborator who actually worked on this movie!When calculating master thief Dalton Russell (Clive Owen) puts in motion what he claims is the perfect robbery and takes multiple hostages inside a Wall Street bank, eccentric NYPD detective Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) is assigned to lead the hostage negotiations. However, the

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8:55

Die Hard On The Radio 2: Radio Harder!

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2025/12/22

It's DIE HARD on the Radio, Part 2: Radio Harder! We were invited back on OJ Borg's show on BBC Radio 2 where we gave OJ an 'Xmas Action Movie Quiz' for Midnight Mastermind! Check out the video (or just listen!) here and find out if the scores DID really change.See you in the new year! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:29:50

16 BLOCKS with Mitchell Beaupre!

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2025/12/17

It’s Die Hard on the streets! This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re discussing Richard Donner’s 2006 action-thriller/character study 16 BLOCKS, a film that some fans consider an alt-universe DIE HARD sequel! To get to the bottom of this we enlisted special guest Mitchell Beaupre, head of editorial at Letterboxd and an avowed 16 BLOCKS (and FREEJACK) fan! Aging, alcoholic New York City detective (Jack Mosley) is a depressed deadbeat waiting for death when he’s given an unwanted but seemingly routine

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1:12:27

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE!

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2025/12/03

It’s Die Hard in a diner! This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re discussing David Cronenberg’s masterful 2005 film A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE, a story that begins (and ends) with a DIE HARD-type scenario…and goes deep and hard on the consequences of surviving such an event.Mild mannered family man Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) owns and runs a diner in the small, Norman Rockwellian town of Millbrook, Indiana, where he lives a quiet, happy life with his wife Edie (Maria Bello) and their two children, teenage

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1:16:57

HOSTAGE with Jim Penola!

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2025/11/19

It’s Die Hard in a mansion!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re discussing the 2005 Bruce Willis action-thriller HOSTAGE! And to break it all down we brought in special guest Jim Penola!After a fatal miscalculation in a previous siege, hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) quits the LAPD and becomes the police chief of a small, quiet, remote California town. However, Talley is thrust back into the limelight when a trio of young criminals rob the mansion of the wealthy local figure Walter

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1:10:21

ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (2005)!

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2025/11/05

It’s Die Hard in a police station!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re battening down the hatches with Ethan Hawke and Laurence Fishburne as we discuss the 2005 remake of ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13!After a botched undercover drug bust results in the deaths of two of his fellow team members, traumatized Detroit cop Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) now works an unambitious desk job, where he oversees a quiet, remote precinct that’s about to be decommissioned. However, when a busload of prisoners – including

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12:20

48 Hours Of Buddy Movies' Season 3 Announcement!

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2025/11/03

We got 12 more movies coming to our patreon 48 Hours of Buddy Movies! Subscribe here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:34:42

COLLATERAL!

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2025/10/22

It’s Die Hard in a taxi!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re taking a ride with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx as we discuss Michael Mann’s exemplary 2004 thriller COLLATERAL!Fastidious cab driver Max (Jamie Foxx) picks up a mysterious passenger named Vincent (Tom Cruise), who, impressed with Max’s driving and knowledge of the sprawling city, offers to hire him for the night while he makes a few stops around LA. However, Max soon discovers that Vincent is in fact a contract killer, who then forces Max

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1:15:43

PHONE BOOTH with Miami Nice (Blake Howard and Katie...

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2025/10/08

It’s Die Hard in a phone booth!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re in a glass case of emotion with special guests Katie Walsh and Blake Howard as we discuss the 2002 high-concept thriller PHONE BOOTH, starring Colin Farrell and Forest Whitaker!Slick, sleazy, unscrupulous celebrity publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) lies for a living, hustling on behalf of his clients while strutting the streets of New York, and constantly making and taking phone calls with the help of a young intern named Adam

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1:33:40

REIGN OF FIRE with Rob Hackett!

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2025/09/24

It’s Die Hard with dragons!After a summer hiatus, DIE HARD ON A BLANK is back with a vengeance and we’re bringing the heat…because this week we’re exploring Rob Bowman’s 2002 monster mash REIGN OF FIRE, with the help of returning special guest Rob Hackett!As a young boy, Quinn Abercromby is visiting the construction of an underground tunnel in London, when he stumbles on a horrifying discovery – a dormant dragon – who attacks and kills the construction workers, including his mother. Twenty years

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1:27:12

LETHAL WEAPON 2 (A 48HBM/DHOAB crossover event!)

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2025/08/13

DHOAB is on summer hiatus! However, to continue to hear our beautiful voices, sign up for 48 HOURS OF BUDDY MOVIES at patreon.com/48hoursofbuddymovies. Use code DHOABBREAK40 to get your first month for $3! To wet your whistle, we're giving you our episode on LETHAL WEAPON 2 today, for free.This week on 48 HOURS OF BUDDY MOVIES, we tackle one of the defining entries in the genre — LETHAL WEAPON 2! For Liam, this one’s personal: a formative film that helped shape his love of buddy movies and action

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1:37:04

PANIC ROOM with Shahir Daud!

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2025/07/30

It’s Die Hard in a brownstone!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK we’re breaking into PANIC ROOM with the help of a specialist: Shahir Daud - filmmaker, Fincher fanatic and host of the long-running show THE ONLY PODCAST ABOUT MOVIES!On their first night after moving in to a luxurious New York ‘townstone’, recently divorced single mother Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) and her 11 year-old daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart) are terrorized by a trio of mysterious burglars. When Meg and Sarah become aware of the

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1:20:05

BLACK HAWK DOWN!

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2025/07/16

It’s Die Hard in a war zone!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK…it’s war! Not just on screen, but also between Phil and Liam, have very different opinions about this divisive film!During a disastrous mission in Somalia, a group of U.S. soldiers find themselves besieged by scores of enemy militia in the city of Mogadishu, a situation that is compounded when not one but two Black Hawk helicopters crash in the middle of the war zone. With the situation worsening by the minute, inexperienced Staff Sgt Matt

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1:34:45

THE LAST CASTLE with Jason Bailey!

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2025/07/02

It’s Die Hard in a military prison!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK, we are storming THE LAST CASTLE with returning special guest Jason Bailey, author of GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony and the Life of a Legend.When decorated three-star U.S. Army General Eugene Irwin (Robert Redford) is sentenced to a term in a military prison overseen by Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), both men gradually slide into a destructive power struggle…and when Irwin witnesses Winter’s brutal tactics firsthand, he eventually leads

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1:29:38

SWORDFISH!

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2025/06/18

It’s Die Hard in a bank!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK, we plug into SWORDFISH — the slick, post-Matrix cyber-thriller produced by Joel Silver and directed by Dominic Sena. With Hugh Jackman hacking mainframes under extreme duress, John Travolta dropping pseudo-Brechtian monologues, Halle Berry delivering the most famous topless scene of the early 2000s, and Don Cheadle constantly violating people’s civil rights, it’s a film that dares to ask: does it matter if a movie makes no sense, as long as

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1:26:53

3000 MILES TO GRACELAND!

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2025/06/04

It’s Die Hard in Las Vegas!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK, we strap on our snakeskin boots and bullet belts for a dive into 3000 MILES TO GRACELAND - the loud, chaotic, Elvis-themed heist movie that somehow manages to sneak in a surprising amount of DIE HARD DNA!Two career criminals, Michael Zane (Kurt Russell), and Thomas Murphy (Kevin Costner) team up to pull a casino robbery in Las Vegas during an Elvis convention. However, the botched heist results in a high body count and in the aftermath,

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1:43:37

CHILL FACTOR with Matt Strohl!

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2025/05/21

It’s Die Hard on an ice cream truck!I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK, we’re trying to keep our collective cool as we discuss the 1999 buddy-comedy/action-misfire CHILL FACTOR! Joining us on our adventure is none other than special guest Matthew Strohl, a professor at the University of Montana and author of the books Hard to Watch and Why It’s Ok To Love Bad Movies! When an experimental military chemical weapon nicknamed "Elvis" accidentally falls

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13:04

48 HOURS OF BUDDY MOVIES SEASON 2 ANNOUNCEMENT

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2025/05/16

Join us for a very special bonus episode as we announce the next season of 48 HOURS OF BUDDY MOVIES, then subscribe at patreon.com/48hoursofbuddymovies! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:57:31

ARLINGTON ROAD with Bilge Ebiri!

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2025/05/07

It’s Die Hard on a suburban street!This week on DIE HARD ON A BLANK, we’re looking into the most sinister street in America…ARLINGTON ROAD! And to investigate this mysterious neighborhood we enlisted special guest and returning DHOAB all-star Bilge Ebiri!After saving their son’s life, widowed college professor and terrorism expert Michael Faraday (Jeff Bridges) gradually begins to suspect that his seemingly perfect new neighbors - Oliver and Cheryl Lang (Tim Robbins and Joan Cusack) - are involved

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