New Release

This week on episode #215 of New Release … Edgerton lords Ashley and Drew unpack another sci-fi book adaptation. What’s in the box?! Is this new Dark Matter show dead or alive or somehow in both states at the same time? We go deep on Schrödinger and Pavlov and Pellegrino and all the best minds in science from decades past. What if someone was out there living an alternate version of your life? A y...

This week on episode #214 of New Release … medium-sized hosts Ashley and Drew invite you to a special Demonic Spring edition of the podcast. Abraxas aka “Mr. Wriggles” joins us—in spirit—as we discuss Late Night with the Devil on Shudder. What did we think of the talk show gimmick, the 70s vibes, and all the chaos and violence that unfolds LIVE on TV? Tune in to find out. And, as if that wasn’t en...

This week on episode #213 of New Release … doeboys Ashley and Drew instantly develop a love/hate relationship with some new Netflix stalker show. Baby Reindeer dramatizes the true story of a struggling comedian getting stalked, and the complicated feelings he has toward this newfound hyper-focused fame. Is an onslaught of attention from a convicted felon and compulsive liar disturbing? Yeah, sure....

This week on episode #212 of New Release … horn unadorned Ashley and Drew confront Darkness in its truest form. And happy birthday, by the way! Legend (1986) is one of those twisted fantasy movies that was supposedly aimed at kids but somehow gets more and more disturbing with age. Ashley takes us back to her first impressions of this childhood favorite and shares how it feels to return to where s...

This week on episode #211 of New Release … action junkies Jamie and Drew go to the movies to see Dev Patel’s directorial debut. Monkey Man is a classic revenge tale that goes hard and leaves you feeling bloodied and battered in the best possible ways. We discuss how this compares to other modern action flicks—or Wicks—and why simplicity is a virtue. Plus, anytime we have the host of Movie Shots Cl...

This week on episode #210 of New Release … bugs Drew and Jenn try to wrap their tiny earth-sized brains around the biggest questions in the universe. 3 Body Problem on Netflix is probably the most ambitious book adaptation since Game of Thrones , and that’s no coincidence. Benioff & Weiss + Alexander Woo attempt to squeeze many pages, many years, many characters, and many sciences into eight hours...

This week on episode #209 of New Release … Pooh-heads Jenn, Mo, and Drew dive back into the Poohniverse of badness. But is Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 actually bad in a good way this time … maybe even so good-bad it’s great?! Find out, as we have fun fun fun dissecting this perverted take on a beloved figure from one year past. Reanimated, murderous, chainsaw wielding Blood and Honey Pooh i...

This week on episode #208 of New Release … beta mutants Derrick and Drew go back to a time when superheroes were cool 😎 X-Men ‘97 picks up right where X-Men: The Animated Series left off in the late 90s, and doesn’t miss a beat. That theme song still hits hard and so does its vibrant 2D art style. We discuss what updates were made to bring our favorite mutants back for a modern audience and wheth...

This week on episode #207 of New Release … cannon fodder Derrick and Drew don’t watching anything new. But that’s because we’re so enthralled with Shōgun we figured we’d talk about it twice! We discuss our favorite bits from the first 4 episodes of this historical samurai drama before diving, angelically, into the great expanse of steaming TV coming out in the next month or two. What will we do ne...

This week on episode #206 of New Release … barbarians Ashley, Derrick!, and Drew find themselves at the center of a power struggle that will define global politics for centuries to come. Set in Japan in the year 1600, Shōgun begins with families of Japan on the brink of civil war. Meanwhile, outside forces from the west encroach on their territory, posing an existential threat. Tensions run high....

This week on episode #205 of New Release … earbenders Drew and special guest Jamie BINGE all of Netflix’s Avatar: The Last Airbender live action adaptation and … we have thoughts. James brings here OG fan perspective to the chat, while Drew keeps wanting to compare it to grownup fantasy, like Game of Thrones . What is this big-budget production trying to be—and for whom, we ask?! It’s been a wild...

This week on episode #204 of New Release … polar bears Ashley and Drew plunge into the dark crevices of Ennis in search of hard truths. Another case on True Detective: Night Country may be closed, but did we get the right answers to the wrong questions? Were the who-and-what-donnits of the season five four finale satisfying or half-baked? Listen closely to find out. Then search ‘ New Release ’ on...

This week on episode #203 of New Release … newlysaids Ashley and Drew sign up for a high-risk podcast assignment. Our mission, should you choose to listen, is to review the remake of the spy romance that spawned the sexiest, most scorching supercouple of the early aughts. In 2005, Brangelina was born. In present day, Donald Glover & Maya Erskine take over as the titular Mr. and Mrs. Smith . We dis...

This week on episode #202 of New Release … curmudgeons Ashley and Drew join Larry David as he screams his futile screams into the dying light of Hollywood. Farewell, fuckers. Curb Your Enthusiasm is back for one final round of your petty everyday frustrations taken to the extreme. And then some. We discuss whether we find Larry’s misanthropy cathartic, annoying, or a big fat dose of BOTH. Whether...

This week on episode #201 of New Release … thirst traps Ashley and Drew drink the Elordi milkshake—THEY DRINK IT UP! Saltburn isn’t exactly a new release, but it is by far the movie I’ve had the most conversations about since it arrived on Prime last Christmas. Like how could we let one more week go by without paying our respects to this groundbreaking piece of cinema. Let us bathe in the afterglo...

OH MY GOD we made it to 200 episodes (!!) and what better way to celebrate than a convoluted metaphor involving pizza, TV, and death—the three things New Release is known for. Join chefs Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and James on a culinary odyssey that spans a lifetime of NR lore and concludes in our final destination—TV Tombstones. What is a TV Tombstone, you ask? Well it’s definitely not just a top 4...

This week on episode #199 of New Release … Ashley is back, baby, and we’re venturing deep into the darkness of the Alaskan winter landscape. The mystery of True Detective: Night Country appears vast and open-ended thus far, which makes it all the more fun to puzzle out what’s coming next. We have our theories, but mostly, we’re prepared to go down any icy road that Jodie Foster wants to take us on...

This week on episode #198 of New Release … portends Drew and James meander their way through the 2024 release schedule to the best of their abilities—with incomplete information. The format: We go head-to-head in a no-holds-barred fight to pick the things we’re most looking forward to before the other can steal them away. Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you like drama), we have completely differ...

This week on episode #197 of New Release … moviemongers Drew and James say goodbye to 2023 in style. We each select 5—count ‘em—5—each—so 10—viewing experiences we can’t shake. Is that a good thing? Usually, but not always. Drew gets scared, Jamie moves to her own beat, and both of us are blown away by the movie event of the summer. Whatever could it be?! This is our last chance to look back befor...

Twas the day after Christmas and a podcast now must come out … so I gather with 6 to 7 friends for an unwitting recording sesh at my house. Now Jamie, now Megan, now Jenn … on Copus, on Lindsey, on Merrill … offer us your favorite holiday movie or at least describe your apparel. Down the chimney this episode will do its best to make sound … but if like Phoebe Cate’s dad in Gremlins it gets stuck a...

Cyberpunks Ashley and Drew are finally free to discuss the end of A Murder at the End of the World . We put a bow on this half-baked whodunit and decide what—if anything—is satisfying about the show’s final 42 minutes. All I can say for now is we’ve been working really hard to develop our own ‘Alternative Intelligence’ and soon this podcast will be powered completely by ‘Drash’—a perfect synthesis...

New Release presents Episode #3 in our second annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries. The Sacrifice Game wastes no time giving us the gift of gore sorely lacking from our Killer Christmas season so far … and we welcome it with open arms. I don’t know about you, but I need satanic panic, demonic possession, and sweet 70’s stylings in all my Feliz Navidad fare going forward. Find out what else goes down...

New Release presents Episode #2 in our second annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries. There’s Something in the Barn might be Gremlins -lite, according to Ashley, but that’s more than enough reason for us to give it a whirl. We examine the delicate balance between Man and Barn Elf and decide which rules are made to be broken. Who says Santa’s little helpers can’t rave like the rest of us? Furthermore,...

New Release presents Episode #1 in our second annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries. It’s a Wonderful Knife is the slasher version of an all-time holiday classic—at least that’s the pitch. Lessons must be learned the hard way, angels fall, and Justin Long’s teeth shine bright. Regardless of whether this shameless mashup succeeds or fails, Ashley and I have one hell of a time kicking off KILLER CHRIST...

This week on New Release (episode #191) … timelords Jamie, Jenn, and Meg are joined by their companion Drew for a TV event 60 years in the making. Dr. Who has featured so many wonderful D&C pairings over the decades—I gather—but the return of David Tennant’s Doctor (Who) and Catherine Tate’s Companion (Donna) is a BIG DEAL. That’s why we’ve tapped some of the biggest Who-heads in the game—along wi...