The Binge

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim leave the familiar cabin behind as the Deadites invade a Los Angeles apartment building in Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise (2023), starring Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, Morgan Davies, Gabrielle Echols, and Nell Fisher. Ten years after Evil Dead returned the franchise to its brutal horror roots, Evil Dead Rise changes the formula again. The woo...

Action movie legend Dolph Lundgren joins Cheers to the Franchise for a special bonus interview! From his unforgettable performance as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV to his decades-long career in Hollywood, Dolph Lundgren has become one of the most recognizable faces in action cinema. In this special episode, Joshua sits down with Dolph Lundgren for a conversation about his career, his experiences in the f...

The night he came home. This Halloween, Cheers to the Franchise returns to Haddonfield for John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) , the low-budget horror classic that introduced Michael Myers, Laurie Strode, and one of cinema's most terrifying masked killers. Nearly 50 years later, does Halloween still deserve its reputation as one of the greatest horror films ever made? From Carpenter's unforgettable...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim return to the cabin with a completely new group of victims for Fede Álvarez's Evil Dead (2013), starring Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez, Lou Taylor Pucci, Jessica Lucas, and Elizabeth Blackmore. More than 20 years after Army of Darkness , Evil Dead returned to theaters without Bruce Campbell's Ash Williams at the center and without Sam Raimi behin...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Cheers to the Franchise! In this special bonus episode, Joshua Ryan sits down with the director of Christmas at the Kringles for an exclusive conversation about the holiday film, its production, and the creative process behind bringing a horror Christmas story to the screen. From the challenges of filmmaking to the decisions that shape the finished mo...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim leave the cabin behind and follow Ash Williams straight into the Middle Ages for Sam Raimi's Army of Darkness (1992), starring Bruce Campbell, Embeth Davidtz, Marcus Gilbert, Ian Abercrombie, and Richard Grove. After two movies of demonic possession, dismemberment, and cabin-bound carnage, Raimi takes his franchise somewhere completely unexpect...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim return to the cabin for Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987), starring Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley, and Ted Raimi. Six years after The Evil Dead , Raimi returned with a bigger budget, a wilder sense of humor, and a willingness to put Bruce Campbell through absolute hell. The result is a movie that blurs horror, slapstick, a...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim crack open the Book of the Dead and head to a cabin in the Tennessee woods for Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead (1981), starring Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Richard DeManincor, Betsy Baker, and Theresa Tilly. Made by a group of young filmmakers on a shoestring budget of roughly $375,000, The Evil Dead turned an isolated cabin, relentless practica...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim follow Elle Woods from Harvard to Washington, D.C. with the 2003 sequel Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde , starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld. Their lawyer is back too, although this time even professional legal expertise might not be enough to defend the movie. After the original turned Elle Woods into one...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim head to Harvard Law School with Robert Luketic's 2001 comedy Legally Blonde , starring Reese Witherspoon as the endlessly determined Elle Woods. And this time, they're joined by an actual lawyer to find out just how much of Elle's legal education would survive in a real courtroom. More than 25 years later, Legally Blonde remains one of the defi...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim finish the Lethal Weapon franchise with Richard Donner's 1998 sequel Lethal Weapon 4 , once again starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Rene Russo, Joe Pesci, Chris Rock, and Jet Li in his Hollywood debut. More than a decade after Riggs and Murtaugh first became partners, Lethal Weapon 4 brings the entire gang together for one last adv...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim continue the Lethal Weapon franchise with Richard Donner's 1992 sequel Lethal Weapon 3 , once again starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. By the third movie, Lethal Weapon has officially gone full comedy. Riggs and Murtaugh are still chasing criminals and blowing things up, but the increasingly ridiculous banter, returning Leo Getz, and expande...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim continue the Lethal Weapon franchise with Richard Donner's 1989 action sequel starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Lethal Weapon 2 brings Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh back for another round, but this time the franchise lightens things up, leaning further into the comedy and chemistry between its two leads while somehow making the action eve...

This week on Cheers to the Franchise , Joshua and Tim kick off the Lethal Weapon franchise with Richard Donner's 1987 action classic starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover. Nearly 40 years later, Lethal Weapon remains one of the defining buddy cop movies, a perfect collision of explosive action, dark humor, and the unforgettable chemistry between Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh. But does this belove...

This week on The Binge, we revisit Super Mario Galaxy — a movie so aggressively forgettable that you might struggle to remember anything about it before the episode is even over. We break down what works, what doesn't, and why a movie featuring some of the most iconic video game characters of all time somehow manages to leave almost no lasting impression whatsoever. Plus, we discuss the animation,...

This week on The Binge, we revisit The Super Mario Bros. Movie — the 2023 animated blockbuster that brought Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and the Mushroom Kingdom back to the big screen 30 years after Hollywood's infamous first attempt. We break down what works, what doesn't, and whether Nintendo and Illumination finally cracked the code for bringing Super Mario to the movies. Plus, we dis...

This week on The Binge, we revisit Super Mario Bros. — the 1993 live-action movie that turned Nintendo's bright, colorful video-game world into a strange, grimy dystopian adventure starring Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, and a whole lot of decisions nobody saw coming. We break down what went wrong, what has become oddly fascinating over time, and whether this infamous adaptation deser...

his week on The Binge, we revisit Punisher: War Zone — the 2008 reboot that traded slow-burn revenge for exploding heads, broken bones, and one of the most unapologetically violent comic-book movies ever made. We break down Ray Stevenson's take on Frank Castle, whether this is the closest any movie has come to capturing the brutal, comic-book version of The Punisher, and why the film's over-the-to...

This week on The Binge, we take a look at The Punisher — the 2004 Marvel adaptation that gave Frank Castle a new face, a new origin, and a very different kind of revenge story. We break down whether Thomas Jane was the right choice to play Frank Castle, whether this version of the character ever truly feels like The Punisher, and why the movie leans more into a slow-burn revenge thriller than the...

This week on The Binge , we revisit The Punisher — the 1989 Marvel action movie starring Dolph Lundgren as Frank Castle, years before the MCU turned comic-book films into Hollywood's biggest genre. We break down what works, what doesn't, and why this version of The Punisher has become one of Marvel's most forgotten movies. Plus, we discuss Lundgren's brutal take on Frank Castle, the missing skull...

This week on The Binge, we dig into Jackass: Best and Last — the final chapter in the Jackass franchise and a farewell to the original crew's decades-long run of painful stunts, disgusting pranks, and complete chaos. We break down whether this final collection of footage works as a proper sendoff, what separates it from Jackass Forever , and whether there was still enough left in the tank for one...

This week on The Binge, we revisit Jackass Forever — the long-awaited reunion that brought Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Wee Man, Chris Pontius, and the gang back together for another round of outrageous stunts, painful pranks, and absolute insanity. We break down what worked, what surprised us, and whether the franchise still had enough left in the tank after more than a decade away. Plus, we discus...

This week on The Binge, we revisit Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa — the hidden-camera road comedy that somehow became the weirdest mainstream success of the Jackass franchise. We break down what works, what doesn't, and whether Bad Grandpa succeeds as more than just another collection of gross-out pranks. Plus, we talk about Johnny Knoxville's surprisingly committed performance, the emotional core...

This week on The Binge, we revisit Jackass 3D — the movie that weaponized 3D technology for flying dildos, exploding toilets, and pure cinematic stupidity. We break down what works, what doesn't, and whether Jackass 3D was actually the perfect use of the short-lived 3D movie craze. Plus, we talk about the franchise evolving with bigger budgets, slow-motion stunt cinematography, the danger of escal...

This week on The Chaser, we rank the 10 best films directed by Steven Spielberg — from groundbreaking blockbusters to some of the most emotional and influential movies ever made. We debate the masterpieces, the overrated picks, the hidden gems, and the films that completely changed Hollywood forever. Plus, we talk about Spielberg's unmatched impact on modern cinema, the evolution of his filmmaking...