Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris shrink down to talk about the 1989 classic Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. Starring Rick Moranis in one of his most iconic roles, Wayne Szalinski, he's an inventor trying to perfect his latest gadget, a shrink ray that will reduce the size of objects.  When his daughter Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robe...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris jump back into the world of Richard B. Riddick for both the 20th anniversary of The Chronicles of Riddick and the debut of The Boys season 4, which stars Riddick co-star Karl Urban. Set five years after Pitch Black, infamous convict Riddick (Vin Diesel) has been hiding out from mercenaries but gets drawn into a larger universal conflict and on...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, shit gets real as Zach and Chris talk about the 2003 Michael Bay extravaganza Bad Boys II as the fourth movie in the franchise, Bad Boys: Ride or Die hits theaters. Seven years after the first movie, Mike Lowery (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are a part of the Tactical Narcotics Team in Miami, trying to track down and stop the kingpin ship...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to "Another Time, Another Place" to discuss Walter Hill's 1984 cult classic, Streets of Fire. Starring Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Amy Madigan, and Rick Moranis, Streets of Fire is a "Rock n Roll Fable" that follows solider Tom Cody, who takes a job to rescue his kidnapped ex-girlfriend and massive rock star Ellen Aim (Lane) f...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris head to the battlefields of the future with Terminator: Salvation, which celebrated its 15th anniversary this month. Starring Christian Bale as John Connor and Sam Worthington as Marcus Wright, the movie took place in the far-off future of 2018 and followed Skynet's latest attempt to destroy the human resistance battling them for the...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris send their minds 10 years into the past to discuss X-Men: Days of Future Past for its 10th anniversary. The follow-up to X-Men: First Class, Days of Future Past combined the new cast introduced in Matthew Vaughn's movie with the OG Fox X-Men cast for a battle across time as Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) gets his consciousness sent back to 1973 to p...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris return to the start of the Monsterverse to discuss Godzilla for its 10th anniversary. Directed by Gareth Edwards, Godzilla kicked off the Monsterverse as a pair of giant kaiju called MUTOs emerge and wreak havoc across the globe. Their appearance also draws the attention of Godzilla, who hunts the MUTOs down as they challenge his role as the a...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Mummy. A "remake" of the 1932 Boris Karloff Universal Monsters classic, Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, Arnold Vosloo, John Hannah, and Oded Fehr star in the action-packed update that was a massive hit in 1999 and spawned sequels, a spin-off franchise, a theme park ride, and an animated series.  Zach an...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris track some bounties with the first episode of 1981's The Fall Guy as the Ryan Gosling/Emily Blunt movie hits theaters. Starring Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, he's a Hollywood stuntman for hire who moonlights as a bounty hunter tracking down criminals who skip bail.  Joined by his cousin Howie (Douglas Barr) and his stunt partner Jody (Heath...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris defend the hive and discuss The Beekeeper , which came out on Blu-ray and 4K . Jason Statham stars as "Adam Clay," a former operative known as a Beekeeper and who is also a literal honey-producing beekeeper.  When his elderly friend, played by Phylicia Rashad, takes her own life after being robbed of her life savings in a phishing scam, C...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris head to Crystal Lake to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Friday the 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter . Picking up immediately where Friday the 13th Part III left off, Jason Voorhees (Ted White) is presumed dead and brought to the local morgue.  Waking up, he kills some of the hospital staff. He returns to his stomping grounds around...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are on the trail of Ice-T and talking about 1994's Surviving the Game, which came out 30 years ago this week. Ice-T is Jack Mason, a homeless man living in Seattle who is approached to be a hunting guide for a group of wealthy hunters.  Accepting the job, Mason soon learns that the hunters are after normal game, they hunt humans, and Maso...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the post-apocalypse (?) of 1979's Max Max to celebrate the 45th anniversary of George Miller's classic.  Miller's debut film, Mad Max is set in a dystopian Australia on the brink of societal collapse.  Mel Gibson stars as Max Rockatansky, one of the few remaining police officers trying to maintain law and order.  A sad...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pull out some 2x4s and deal out some vigilante justice to talk about 2004's Walking Tall , which just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as Chris Vaughn, a Special Forces soldier who returns to his hometown in hopes of working at the town's cedar mill like his father.  Chris finds that the mill has been close...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to the Florida Keys and visit The Road House to talk about Doug Liman's reimagining of the cult 80s classic Road House. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Elwood Dalton, a disgraced UFC fighter who takes a job bouncing for The Road House bar in the Florida Keys community of Glass Key.  Dalton soon learns that an evil business magnate, Ben Bran...

To celebrate the release of the new Road House on Amazon this week, Chris, along with special guests Justin and Addam watched the original 1989 Road House for the latest Everything Action Commentary. Starring Patrick Swayze as America's greatest bouncer, Dalton, he's hired to try and clean up the Double Deuce, a bar where "they sweep up the eyeballs at the end of the night".  While training a...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the cornfield to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Children of the Corn, which originally hit theaters on March 9th, 1984. One of several 80s adaptations of Stephen King works, Children of the Corn stars Peter Horton and Linda Hamilton as Burt and Vicky, a couple driving to Seattle who get waylaid in Nebraska when they accidentally r...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, the Spice must flow as Zach and Chris talk about David Lynch's Dune as we prepare ourselves for Dune: Part Two in theaters.  Starring Kyle Maclachlan, in his film debut, as Paul Atreides, the movie attempts to condense Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic into just slightly over two hours instead of the luxury of two, almost three hour movies like Denis Villeneu...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris attempt to answer the question "Who is Darkman?" as they dive into Sam Raimi's 1990 cult classic superhero movie. Getting released on 4K this week from Shout Factory , Darkman stars Liam Neeson as Dr. Peyton Westlake, a scientist trying to develop a synthetic skin replacement who is attacked by the sinister Robert Durant (Larry Drake) and his...

For the latest Everything Action commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate this month's Lunar New Year with another Jackie Chan movie, last year's team-up with John Cena, Hidden Strike . Chan is a former Chinese special forces soldier who now runs a private security unit while Cena is a former Marine turned mercenary.  Their paths collide in the Middle East on the "Highway of Death" as Chan's "Dra...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris revisit the 2014 remake of Robocop , which just celebrated its 10th anniversary. Starring Joel Kinnaman as Alex Murphy, 2014's Robocop sees the Detroit cop almost killed by a car bomb after he gets too close to taking down the local crime boss, Vallon (Patrick Garrow).  Luckily (or maybe unlucky) for Alex, he's selected to be the first cy...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris bop their way back to 1979 to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Walter Hill's cult classic, The Warriors , which debuted on February 9th, 1979. The titular Warriors are a gang from Coney Island who attend a massive meeting of almost every other gang in New York City to hear a plan from the leader of the city's most powerful gang, Cyrus (Roger...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris put on their best pair of Oxfords and a freshly tailored bespoke suit to talk about 2015's Kingsman: The Secret Service in honor of the latest Matthew Vaughn spy flick, Argylle, hitting theaters. Based on the Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons comic (which director Matthew Vaughn also worked on), Kingsman: The Secret Service stars Taron Egerton as G...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris smash their way back to 2009 to discuss the Marvel animated feature, Hulk Vs. Celebrating its 15th anniversary this week, Hulk Vs. was one of several Marvel animated movies produced by Lionsgate, starting with Ultimate Avengers in 2006 .  Hulk Vs. is actually two short films combined into one feature, Hulk vs Thor and Hulk vs Wolverine.&n...

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, Zach and Chris kick off another year of Everything Action Commentaries with I, Frankenstein. Aaron Eckhart stars as Frankenstein's Monster aka Adam Frankenstein, who, following the events of the Mary Shelley novel, becomes embroiled in the eternal war of gargoyles and demons.  200 years after his creation, Adam takes it upon himself to hunt down an...