Just Play It

If we had one wish, it would be that October had 4 more weeks in the month, but our time has run out. It's Halloween and Just Play It saved the best for last. On the finale of spooky szn, Nick and James stumble across a One Wish Willow in a sassy crystal shop and total mess up their wish which gives them a rollercoaster of red flags they should've clocked. But they ignored those warnings...

If you thought spooky season couldn't get any better with Jennifer's Body and Alien: Resurrection, the Just Play It Podcast is here to show you that we're ready to TOP THAT. Teen Witch enters Poptober not on a broom, but instead with a choppy slow motion rooftop dirty dancing number. We don't know what is scarier: Louise Miller's lack of respect & measure for the incre...

Our franchise of the year comes to a close as it is on a crash course with spooky season. Dr. Corndog and Cap'n pop resurrect the Sigourney Weaver saga in the xenomorph infested franchise. We go from RIP to Ripley being absolutely back, and a little bit crazy (we like that). We rank the four Sigourney (Si-FOUR-ney) movies up against each other, discuss how we oddly enjoyed this film and decla...

Poptober is back and as always, we kick off this treat-or-treat filled month by brining the HEAT with a hot movie and a pipin' hot review fueld by Hot Ones Hot Sauce, sparked by the motivational words of some Twentieth Century Fox Marketing Guy back in the 2000s as he once famously said - "Megan Fox Hot". Jennifer's Body is our first movie of spooky season '26 and the boys...

Things get a little nutty this year as we make the annual visit to the Disney Channel. Our DCOM wheel-o-movies landed on the The Proud Family Movie. It was the send off to the popular TV series that ran from 2001 to 2005 and it features the Proud family getting scammed into a trap vacation by the peanut obsessed Dr. Carver who is the descendant of the real life famous agricultural scientist and in...

Crime rates are down and Marvel is back UP with Spider-man swinging through town. New York City's favorite web-head is here to give us everything we want in a Spider-man film. From Destin Daniel Cretton comes the box office (HULK) smash hit, Spider-man: Brand New Day. We find Spidey living with the results of his ultimate sacrifice from No Way Home. Peter Parker deals with a Punishing, and to...

It's that time again to wake up from your cryo-sleep and... OH MY GOD! What the heck happened here? Where are my fellow Aliens cast-mates? What is going on?!?! Holy mother of a queen xenomorph, this is bad. Welp, time to buzz the hair and get back into some dark hallways, because here we go again....AGAIN. The Just Play It pod crashes onto Fiorina 161 to figure out just what is going on with...

What would you do... if you had the power of a young Denise Richards & Paul Walker, mixed in with some raunchy humor, B-movie horror gore, a robotic dinosaur on loan and a lion? Well with a short production window, you too could harness the magic of the 1990s B-movie wonder known as Tammy and the T-Rex, or Tanny and the Teenage T-Rex. It's an absolute master class in cinematic unpredictab...

X-Men fans unite! Just Play It reunites with the original mutants to hit the midpoint of our trilogy of the year. We unpack this '03 gem discussing how it improved upon its original predecessor, how it handles multiple plot lines, and why Bryan Singer is STILL a problem. Hope you can see where you're going because JPI is BAMF'n right toward ya with a rewatch and official review of X...

Star Wars week comes a bit later this year courtesy of the first theatrical Star Wars movie to be released in 7 years. The Mandalorian and Grogu meet The Corn Dog and Cap'n Pop. Just Play It has a bounty on the Jon Favreau & Dave Filoni family fun adventure film so Nick and James bump the sickest Shakari synth track in the Razor Crest on the way to the theaters. We discuss the discourse a...

The students become the masters in this one. James and Nick use the cosmic key to rift into 1987 to check out what was going on in the universe of Cannon Films. What they found was 80s movie gold in the form of oiled up muscles, convenient plot devices, and a furry little fella named Gwildor. Just Play It gives Masters of the Universe (1987) a first watch and review. The only thing we have left to...

The Boys of JPI meet the Boyz of the Hood in this one. We do a first watch, a thorough review, and a complete breakdown of John Singleton's breakout Oscar nominated film, Boyz N The Hood. From a non-negotiable director fresh out of college, to real life gang related danger, to insane true story side character side quests, we discuss it all in this episode. An impossible feat resulted in one o...

Just Play It comes riiiiippin' back into action with the Ripster herself and lucky for all of you, there is no 57 year wait for this one. James & Nick board the Sulaco and gear up for battle as they watch, breakdown, and review the "greatest sequel of all time", Aliens (1986) directed by James Cameron. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justpla...

We bust out our pens and start journaling our inner monologues as we watch a Gen Z childhood classic, Diary of a Wimpy Kid. It's Just Play It's first watch of this coming of age comedy and we ask the questions: What the heck is Greg's problem? Why is Rowley such a GOATed friend? And when is Loded Diper's next gig? Get your weed whacker ready and throw on your serape, because it...

The boys are tux'd and suited up for this one. We tuned in live to the 98th Academy Awards in our very first livestream ever. We made our picks of the winners for 10 categories during our 'Best Picture' episode and now we find out live who was right and who was wrong. See our instant reactions to the hits and misses as we watch our televisions of Hollywood's biggest night. Than...

One flew east, one flew west, and Just Play It flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Just like Michael Keaton said to Jack Nicholson in 1989's batman, "LET'S GET NUTS!" We get a little looney with our Oscar Movie of the Year. The mythical wheel landed on the 48th Academy Awards' Best Picture Winner - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, blessing us with a first watch and revi...

Did you know that this was Michael Mann's theatrical directorial debut? Did you know they had real cops and robbers in this film? Did you even know this film existed? Well neither did we, which is why just played it. This week, Nick & James crack open a film called Thief starring James Caan to see if it can steal our attention and get away clean with our praise. Thanks for tuning in. For...

On this episode, the X-Men meet the JPI-Men in the clash of the millennium. It's the concession stand kids vs the black leather mutants. James & Nick tackle the original X-Men trilogy in 2026 leading up to their appearance in Avengers: Doomsday. We discuss little known fun facts, the Bryan Singer controversy, and how this movie kicked off a quarter century run for Hugh Jackman's Wolv...

A new season means a new franchise of the year, and that year is 2122. Welcome aboard the Nostromo where the boys of the Just Play It podcast run, hide, and fight for their lives watching a cinematic classic, Alien. We explain the origins of the movie, how it came to be made, and discuss how much this movie holds up. Get ready to grab your flamethrower and crack some eggs because Nick and James ar...

We've primed ourselves for this moment. Corndogs have been dipped, the kernels have been popped, the game has been preee'd. The epic stage is set for Just Play It to announce the winners for the 3rd annual Poppys & Cornys, to crown the biggest piece of crap fictional character, and to decide who is coming out on top of the 2nd annual cinematic crossover of characters combat tournamen...

The third movie in the Wrap Party Trilogy is here! We welcome you to our end of the year bash where we get to pregame before the finale with the ultimate quiz gauntlet, high stakes prizes, the annual logline AI image generator, and of course the Best Weapon and Best Fighter Tier Lists from all the movies we watched in the year 2025. A good old fashioned pregame is the only way to get ready for wha...

Christmas has come early! We have quite the gift for you. Two gifts to be exact! First off, we watched our very first Hallmark Christmas movie, and by golly, what is there to say? No seriously! We're at a loss for words. To make up for these loss of words, we decided to treat you to a double duty episode where we get a head start on our end of the year wrap party. We discuss our final reranki...

Great Scott! It's the end of the road Marty! Or I thought we didn't need roads... wait a minute, we're on a train track! Heading straight towards the end of season 3, with our franchise of the year. Doc and Marty are very much back, but this time in cowboy hats and Nee-Kays. Cap'n Pop and The Corndog watch the finale to the Back to the Future franchise and they discuss if it st...

Just Play It lives out the dream going trick or treating on Elm Street, but little did we know, we got a burn victim running around in an ugly Christmas sweater! Nick & James join an angry mob of gasoline toting parents and head straight to the boiler room for this one. We watched for the first time Wes Craven's 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. We share thoughts, reactions, reveal i...

Have we seen this movie? Nope! But did we like it? Yup! The Just Play It crew avoid eye contact with a hungry-hungry UAP in this genre morphing horror-western! The ghoulish fool and the spookie dookie take a wild trip to the Burbank Fry's Electronics to check out Jordan Peele's blockbuster movie, Nope. We get into the details of this film that make it so cool. We can't tell what wou...