Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris face some Deadites and discuss Evil Dead II, as the latest entry in the series , as Evil Dead Burn hits theaters. A "sequel" to the original The Evil Dead, the film stars Bruce Campbell as Ash Williams, who travels to a secluded cabin with his girlfriend, Linda (Denise Bixler).  After playing a recording he finds from the cabin's owner, P...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate  Independence Day  and discuss the 90s summer blockbuster classic as it turns 30. Coming from Roland Emmerich and really kicking off the 90s disaster movie boom,  Independence Day  finds the Earth under attack from an alien force with ships that have the ability to destroy a major city in minutes.  Will Smith...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris soar into 1984's  Supergirl  as the latest version of the Woman of Tomorrow opens in theaters. Helen Slater made her film debut as Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, who heads to Earth from "Innerspace" to recover the Omegahedron, a powerful device that keeps her home of Argo City functioning.  The Omegahedron falls into the hands of S...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris go undercover with Arnold and watch 1986's Raw Deal, which turned 40 this month. Arnold plays Mark Kaminski, a former FBI agent turned small-town sheriff.  When an old friend, Harry Shannon (Darren McGavin), approaches him to help get revenge on the Chicago mob after his son is murdered at a safe house, Mark fakes his death and becom...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the zombie apocalypse and discuss George A. Romero's Day of the Dead, which just got a new 4-disc 4K release from Scream Factory . The third film in Romero's zombie franchise, Day of the Dead follows a group surviving in an underground facility in Florida.  A group of scientists is studying the dead and trying to find a cure (at...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head back to 1979 and discuss the team-up of JJ Abrams and Steven Spielberg, 2011's Super 8 for its 15th anniversary, and with a new Spielberg alien movie in theaters, Disclosure Day . Inspired by movies like  E.T., The Goonies, and  Stand By Me, Super 8  follows a group of friends filming a zombie movie in their small...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Eternia and discuss Cannon's take on Masters of the Universe as the new movie featuring He-Man and the gang hits theaters. Dolph Lundgren stars as He-Man, who battles with Man-At-Arms (Jon Cypher) and Teela (Chelsea Field) to free their homeworld of Eternia from the grip of Skeletor (Frank Langella) and his minions.  Coming across...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris ride with Johnny Blaze and discuss  Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, as Nicolas Cage returns as a live-action superhero in Prime Video's  Spider-Noir. The follow-up to 2007's  Ghost Rider  and the second (and final) movie under the Marvel Knights banner, Cage returns as Johnny Blaze, cursed with the demonic Ghost Ride...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Chris is joined by special guest Addam to watch the 2015 video game adaptation,  Hitman: Agent 47, as Hitman developer IO Interactive launches its new game, 007 First Light. In the second attempt to bring Agent 47 to the big screen, Rupert Friend takes over from Timothy Olyphant as 47, the genetically enhanced assassin.  In a twist on Ter...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hit the track to discuss 2008's Speed Racer, which just arrived on 4K . Based on the classic anime series and directed by The Wachowskis, Emile Hirsch stars as Speed Racer, who races for his family's Racer Motors.  Tempted to become sponsored by Royalton Industries, Speed's refusal causes Royalton CEO E.P. Arnold Royalton (Roger Allam) to...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the Danger Zone and discuss the 1986 classic  Top Gun  as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Tom Cruise stars as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, who, along with his best friend and Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), is given the opportunity to attend Top Gun, aka Naval Fighter Weapons School,...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris take on the mob with Frank Castle and discuss 2008's  Punisher: War Zone  as we gear up for  The Punisher: One Last Kill  on May 12th and The Punisher's appearance in  Spider-Man: Brand New Day  later this summer. The third movie based on the Marvel Comics vigilante,  Punisher: War Zone sees the late Ray Stev...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Mexico City on a mission of vengeance with Denzel Washington and discuss the 2004 Tony Scott movie,  Man on Fire,  as a new version of the story hits Netflix. Based on the novel by A.J. Quinnell, Denzel Washington stars as John Creasy, a former Marine and CIA operative who is racked by guilt from his past actions and has beco...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the Ghang-gheng and discuss Jean-Claude Van Damme's directorial debut,  The Quest,  which turns 30 this weekend. In addition to directing, JCVD stars as Chris Dubois, a thief in 1925 New York City who protects a gang of children.  Forced to flee after stealing cash owned by the mob, Chris finds himself left on Muay Thai Is...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, with Lee Cronin's The Mummy out in theaters this month, Zach and Chris went back to where it all began and watched the original 1932 classic, The Mummy. Starring Boris Karloff, coming off his star-making turn in Frankenstein, as Imhotep, he's an Egyptian high priest who was cursed and buried alive when he tried to use the sacred Scroll of Thoth to bring...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris slam evil and discuss 1996's  The Phantom,  which just got released on 4K . Billy Zane plays Kit Walker, aka The Phantom, a pulp superhero who battles pirates and other evildoers from his island home of Bengalla.  When evil businessman Xander Drax (Treat Williams) begins hunting for a trio of powerful artifacts, the Skulls of To...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are on patrol with the Crimson Bolt and discussing 2010's  Super  as a slew of violent superhero content is out now, including the premiere of the final season of  The Boys. Directed and written by James Gunn, Rainn Wilson plays religious short-order cook Frank Darbo.  When his wife Sarah (Liv Tyler) slips back into her for...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, fresh from PAX East, Zach and Chris are still in a gaming state of mind and discuss 2023's  The Super Mario Bros. Movie  as  The Super Mario Galaxy Movie  hits theaters. Starring Chris Pratt and Charlie Day as Mario and Luigi, the Mario Brothers are sucked into a warp pipe under Brooklyn and end up in the Mushroom Kingdom.  While Lui...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 35th anniversary of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Secret of the Ooze, right after hosting a panel at PAX East on the history of TMNT games. Released a year after the first live-action TMNT, The Secret of the Ooze finds Shredder back for revenge and acquiring the same green ooze that transformed the Turtles and Splinter, whi...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris experience some March Madness with the 2017 black comedy,  Mom and Dad. Directed by Brian Taylor, formerly of Neveldine/Taylor and  Crank  fame, Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair star as parents Brent and Kendall Ryan, who, along with seemingly every other parent on the planet, go into a homicidal madness that makes them want to...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to the end of the rainbow and 1993's horror/comedy cult classic, Leprechaun , as we just celebrated St. Patrick's Day, and the movie has gotten a new 4K (and VHS!) release from Lionsgate Limited . In one of his defining roles, Warwick Davis stars as The Leprechaun, a malevolent supernatural being who is obsessed with his gold coins, killi...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris make an Executive Decision to talk about the 90s action thriller as it turns 30, and with both Monarch: Legacy of Monsters and The Madison bringing us a bunch of Kurt Russell on streaming. Kurt stars as Dr. David Grant, an intelligence consultant to the US government who is called in when a plane flying from Athens to Washington D.C. is hijack...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, with  The Bride!  hitting theaters and bringing some of the classic monsters into the 1930s, Zach and Chris discuss 1987's The Monster Squad,  which brought the likes of Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster into the 80s. Directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Shane Black,  The Monster Squad  sees a group of kids obsesse...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to the mean streets of Vancouver and discuss the 1995 Jackie Chan classic  Rumble in the Bronx,  which just celebrated the 30th anniversary of its US debut. The film that brought Jackie Chan into the mainstream in the West,  Rumble in the Bronx  finds the martial arts legend playing Keung, who comes to the US to attend...

To celebrate the Lunar New Year this month, Zach and Chris watched the 2024 Chinese action comedy Panda Plan for the latest Everything Action Commentary. Jackie Chan stars as a fictionalized version of himself, who is invited to an island zoo to adopt a new baby panda with extremely rare eye color.  The celebration is interrupted by armed mercenaries, who have been hired by a wealthy client t...