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We have to give credit to John Carpenter for imagining a future society so fanatically devoted to escape rooms that they turn an entire city into a game (the film was originally called Escape from a Room , but John Carpenter found himself with enough budget leeway to rent the entirety of Ed Koch’s New York City). Of course, things go wrong and the players, trapped in an escape room to fiendishly c...

whatever. Masters of the Universe , a film that trades on the audience’s nostalgia for a cartoon and its line of toys from forty years ago, has one joke. That joke goes like this: Isn’t Masters of the Universe dumb? Isn’t this shit just, like, completely fucking ridiculous? Or maybe the joke goes like this: A 21st century human being, gifted with free will and the miracle of incarnation, capable o...

old dogs in the time funnel. Look: if you’re going to talk about Battle Beyond the Stars one week, it seems only right to follow it up with that movie’s slightly disgraceful cousin, Ice Pirates. Originally conceived as a serious bit of space opera, it ended up as a mildly raunchy farce with a faint air of Mel Brooks comedy. Listen below or find us on your Podcast Herpe of choice. DAC Episode 434 -...

see ya george peppard Star Who? A New What? Get in the back of the Falcon, G. Lucas, because why would you watch war among the stars when you can experience a battle… beyond the stars? Seriously, this movie rules. It’s got George Peppard as a space cowboy, Robert Vaughn as a jaded mercenary, Richard Thomas as the guy from IT… and it’s got a whole pile of low-budget space battles. Adam and Aidan ha...

a live rock. For this week’s episode, Adam and Aidan turn their backs on the past to discuss Project Hail Mary , the big sci-fi blockbuster of 2026. In the near future, Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) is stuffed onto a space ship and sent eleven light years away to see about saving the Earth from tiny sun-munching microbes. There he meets a sentient rock with the same mission. Cuteness and feels ensue...

live dog, cat ears. Set in a world where more people need assassinating than a John Wick spinoff, Baby Assassins is pure joy. Yugo Sakamoto’s first installment in the BACU (three movies and a series so far) follows Chisato (Akari Takahishi) and Mahiro (Saori Izawa, who also has a career as a stunt artist), two aimless slackers who are just as happy laying around on the couch as they are murdering...

an undead lion Can someone explain Nicholas Cage’s accent work? DAC Episode 430 - Vampire's Kiss (1988) Adam P Knave and Aidan Morgan Download

1982. The year that brought you E.T. , The Thing and Blade Runner also brought you Sydney Pollack’s Tootsie . What do these movies have in common? They’re all going to be remade by Lee Cronin in 2027. Listen below as Adam and Aidan break down the script and examine the remarkable technologies that gave us Dabney Coleman’s moustache. And more! Also, why do I keep typing Tootise instead of Tootsie?...

seven live lions. ruffalo hologram not pictured. Are you looking closely? Well that’s a shame, because you’re looking at one of the steepest downgrades of a franchise whose greatest peak could best be described as “foothills”. 2016’s Now You See Me 2 introduces Lizzy Caplan in place of Isla Fisher, which is a delightful addition (it also gives Woody Harrelson more to do with the introduction of a...

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what is going on with ethan’s hair in this movie? It’s not the crewcut-adjacent trims of 1,3,5 and 7. it’s not the gorgeous flop of 2,4 and 6. this shaggy deal looks like it’s trying to integrate both sides of the hunthair persona. pick a lane, hunt. a solomon lane. Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is unhinged. It insists that it’s a separate entity from Dead Reckoning Part One but spends...

woah fellas, let’s not bother hayley atwell, she’s blameless here The best thing about the seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible is its strange status as ‘Part One’ of a one-part story. The eighth movie, when it eventually arrived, had grown a protective shell around itself during the many delays in its production, leaving part one wriggling and vulnerable, a larva of pure setup crawling...

footloose, footloose, kick off your sunday shoes Children, gather ‘round, and I will tell you of a time before plagues and strikes, before LLMs crawled over our data like soul-eating spiders, back when greedy corporations made honest blockbusters, the kind you could see in an actual movie theatre. The very last of those films was called Mission: Impossible - Fallout, and it starred a man who fell...

when your trying to survive a high-speed chase but your knee is soooo itchy. Has superspy ETHAN HUNT finally met his MATCH in nasally toned apostate SOLOMON LANE??? No. DAC Episode 413 - Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) Adam P Knave and Aidan Morgan Download

ethan hunt struggling with ethan hunt for ethan hunt supremacy. More like GOAT Protocol, amirite? The last MI installment before the McQuarrie half of the franchise, Ghost Protocol is a banger of a blockbuster. A blocker of a bustbanger? A buster of a bangblocker? Whatever, it’s great. Let me outline the greatness for you: Tom Cruise has let his hair grow out again. This is always a win. The actio...