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THE BIG 4-0

This is a podcast called THE BIG 4-0 with Ron and Peter. Every week we take a look at a seminal - or maybe not so seminal - movie that came out this week, 40 years ago. Some we love, some we hate, some we"ve never seen before, some we haven"t seen in over 30 years, and some we wish we"d never seen. We discuss the film, its critical and commercial reception, and how that (and our) perception has perhaps shifted over the years. We also touch on any noteworthy current films and movie news in each

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01:22:19

DOWN AND OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS / THE BEST OF TIMES

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2026/01/23

Another week, another mic check, and two more midling early 1986 films. These two celebrate their BIG 4-0's next week, but we're celebrating early because Ron has a vacation coming up and we don't want to deprive our beloved listeners of any episodes. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week with F/X and HANNAH AND HER SISTERS.

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01:14:28

TROLL / BONUS: DEAD-BANG (1989)

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2026/01/18

Because we live in The Worst Timeline, we can not wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to IRON EAGLE this week as planned/deserved (we will wish it a belated BIG 4-0 when streamers deem it worthy to be available for rental...). So, to help ring in TROLL's BIG 4-0, we are finally getting around to the oft-mentioned-on-the-pod 1989 Don Johnson cop thriller DEAD-BANG. Please remember to Rate, Like, Subscribe - and bear with Ron's new mic issues (it wouldn't be a new year/new season of THE BIG 4-0 without

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01:21:50

THE CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR / HARDBODIES 2

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2026/01/11

Happy New Year, BIG 4-0 Heads! Happy 2026, happy 1986, and happy Season 4 of THE BIG 4-0! This week, kicking off 1986, Ron and Peter review CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR and HARDBODIES 2. We also discuss ROOFMAN, THE LONG WALK, DIE MY LOVE (all 2025 films), THE WOLF OF WALL STREET, SUPERBAD, THE LAST BOY SCOUT, and TANGO & CASH. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back next week to wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to IRON EAGLE and TROLL!

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02:13:49

BEST & WORST OF 1985 / THE HOWLING II / BONUS: THE...

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2025/12/27

This week, it's THE BIG 4-0's Season 3 finale! Join Ron and Peter as they count down their favorite and least favorite films of the year (1985), and we sneak in one last 1985 film with THE HOWLING II, and a bonus review of THE HOWLING (1981) just to be completists. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe - and have happy holidays!- and we'll see you the new year: 1986!!

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02:24:06

THE COLOR PURPLE / ENEMY MINE / BONUS: LETHAL WEAPON

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2025/12/18

This week week on 12/18 and 12/20, respectively, we celebrate The BIG 4-0's of Steven Spielberg's THE COLOR PURPLE and Wolfgang Petersen's ENEMY MINE; and Ron celebrates his Big 4-7, so we take a look at one of his all-time favorite films - and it just so happens he and Peter were able to see it on the big screen for the first time in 37 years this past weekend - the greatest buddy cop movie of all-time: LETHAL WEAPON. We also talk KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFAIR and Kiefer

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01:17:03

OUT OF AFRICA / POLICE STORY

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2025/12/13

This week Ron and Peter wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in the 1985 Best Picture winner OUT OF AFRICA, and Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY. Peter also touches on ZOOTOPIA 2 and Ron talks FLIGHT RISK. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe. Next week we'll be back to wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to THE COLOR PURPLE and ENEMY MINE, and we'll have a special discussion on the LETHAL WEAPON films in honor of Ron's BIG 4-7!

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01:32:29

CLUE / JEWEL OF THE NILE

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2025/12/12

Due to ANOTHER computer glitch, we are reposting our Happy BIG 4-0 to CLUE and JEWEL OF THE NILE, Originally posted 11/30/2025. Also discussed on this episode: THE EXPENDABLES 4 and BULLET TO THE HEAD.Next Week: OUT OF AFRICA and POLICE STORY

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01:33:07

RUNAWAY TRAIN / SPIES LIKE US

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2025/12/12

Due to a computer glitch, we are reposting our Happy BIG 4-0 to RUNAWAY TRAIN and SPIES LIKE US, Originally posted 11/23/2025. Also discussed on this episode: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, EDDINGTON, and LIFE OF CHUCK.

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01:43:33

REPOST: RUNAWAY TRAIN / SPIES LIKE US (ORIGINALLY...

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2025/12/05

Due to an apparent computer error, we are reposting this episode. Chronologically, it comes BEFORE the most recently posted CLUE / JEWEL OF THE NILE episode. Sorry about that! On this episode we also discussed some football, PREDATOR: BADLANDS, EDDINGTON, and LIFE OF CHUCK. Please Rate, Like, and Subscribe. Again, our next episode is the already-posted CLUE / JEWEL OF THE NILE, and as noted on that episode, we'll be back next week with OUT OF AFRICA and POLICE STORY!

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01:36:03

CLUE / JEWEL OF THE NILE

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2025/12/05

It's the return of THE BIG 4-0! Fat and fresh from a Thanksgiving break, Ron and Peter are back to wish a happy 40th to the sequel to last year's ROMANCING THE STONE, JEWEL OF THE NILE. And the boardgame adaptation CLUE. Ron, still on a Stallone kick, also touches on THE EXPENDABLES 4 and BULLET TO THE HEAD, we give Kate a happy birthday call, and we ruminate on some new ideas for the podcast. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to fire in a happy BIG 4-0 to OUT

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01:49:23

RUNAWAY TRAIN / SPIES LIKE US

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2025/11/22

Happy BIG 4-0 to Jon Voight and Eric Roberts in what may just be the Golan-Globus Cannon Corp's most acclaimed film, the Oscar nominated RUNAWAY TRAIN. Does it deserve those Oscar noms? Tune in to find out! Also, Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd in the semi-cult hit - as long as you grew up in a five year window surrounding this film, we guess - SPIES LIKE US. Does it deserve that status?? You know what to do. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to tackle

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02:11:00

ONCE BITTEN / ROCKY IV / BONUS: ROCKY BALBOA

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2025/11/15

Happy BIG 4-0 to Jim Carrey's teen sex comedy meets vampire spoof ONCE BITTEN (we also discuss his big screen breakthrough ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE) and Sylvester Stallone in one of the biggest hits of his career ROCKY IV (we also look back at ROCKY BALBOA and CLIFFHANGER). Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to wish a happy BIG 4-0 to RUNAWAY TRAIN and SPIES LIKE US.

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02:17:50

DEATH WISH 3 / TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. / BONUS:...

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2025/11/07

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter wish two quintessential '80s cult films a happy 40th birthday: DEATH WISH 3 and TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. We spend the first 20 minutes - impromptuly - discussing the new Bruce Springsteen biopic DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, and biopics and The Boss in general. If that's not your bag, feel free to skip ahead the 22-minute mark or so (though know we're silently judging you and you should reconsider your taste in music). Please remember to Rate, Like,

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01:45:51

BONUS: JASON X (2002) / FREDDY VS JASON (2003)

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2025/10/28

In honor of Halloween in just a few days - and spurred by our recent NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET 2 watch - this week on a halloween-themed bonus episode of THE BIG 4-0 we take a look at the technical final FRIDAY THE 13th film in the original series/timeline, 2002's JASON X, where they actually do the joke and send Jason into space; as well as the following year's FREDDY VS JASON, in which the titular horror icons finally face-off in the long-gestating/clamored-for-by-fans showdown. We also

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01:46:35

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 2 / RE-ANIMATOR (with STEVE!)

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2025/10/18

This week, just in time for Halloween, we're blowing out 40 BIG ones for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE and RE-ANIMATOR. Our buddy Steve, who helped us ring in the original NIGHTMARE's BIG 4-0 last year, joins us again to eat Robert Englund's cake... Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we might be back next week with a bonus episode for Halloween... You'll have to wait and see. Or should we say, "Ghoul hack to bait and screeeeeam"?? No

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02:17:35

BONUS: STONE COLD (1991) / I COME IN PEACE (1990)

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2025/10/12

This week Ron and Peter fire in a bonus episode with a Craig R. Baxley double feature: 1990's Dolph Lundgren-staring I COME IN PEACE and 1991's badass action opus STONE COLD, which tried to turn former football wunderkind Brian Bosworth into a 1990's action hero; but quintessential '80s/'90s bad guys Lance Henriksen and William Forsythe - and Baxley's action, which does for the 1990's what COMMANDO did for the '80s - easily steal the film from "The Boz".

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01:25:48

SILVER BULLET / REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS...

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2025/10/05

It's the return of THE BIG 4-0! We're actually celebrating these birthdays a week early, but it's been three weeks and we missed you guys! So, get ready to blow out 40 big ones for Fred Ward in the would-be Blue Collar Bond or Urban Indiana Jones wannabe franchise-starter, REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS...; and Corey Haim and Gary Busey in Stephen King's SILVER BULLET. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and so as not to be away so long again, we'll be back next

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02:05:29

INVASION USA / COMMANDO / JAGGED EDGE

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2025/09/14

It's an action extravaganza this week on THE BIG 4-0 as Ron and Peter wish an explosive happy 40th birthday to two movies with enough tossed grenades, wasted ammo, and cars exploding on contact for the entire decade - with two of the decades biggest action stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris - in the '80s action-flick prototypes COMMANDO and INVASION USA. We also throw some birthday cake at Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges in JAGGED EDGE. Please remember to Rate Like, and Subscribe; and we'll

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01:38:15

AMERICAN NINJA / AFTER HOURS / SUMMER RENTAL (and...

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2025/08/31

After last week's break, THE BIG 4-0 returns to wish a happy belated birthday to John Candy's (first) bid to carve out a career as the slapsticky dad in the bumbling vacation comedy SUMMER RENTAL. We also wish an early happy BIG 4-0 to Martin Scorsese's one-night-tapped-in-SoHo surrealist dramady, AFTER HOURS. And, of course, this week's birthday boy is none other than The Koff (as we like to call him) in the omnipresent video-store-shelf slice of 1980s action cheese, AMERICAN NINJA

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02:12:36

TEEN WOLF / BETTER OFF DEAD / YEAR OF THE DRAGON (RIP...

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2025/08/16

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter bid farewell to a childhood hero of Peter's, Hulk Hogan, as summer of 2025 continues to take a 1980's icon from us on a weekly bases. We also try to figure out if YEAR OF THE DRAGON is funnier than TEEN WOLF and BETTER OFF DEAD, and Ron's daughter Summer pops in halfway through our TEEN WOLF review. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we may have a week off coming up for the Labor Day holiday - we'll see - but we'll be back

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