Radulich in Broadcasting

Tonight on TV Party Tonight we are reviewing K Street, Steven Soderbergh's ambitious 2003 HBO experiment that blurred the line between fiction and reality long before audiences were ready for it. Set inside a bipartisan Washington lobbying firm, K Street combines fictional characters with real political operatives, including James Carville, Mary Matalin, Howard Dean, Chuck Schumer, and dozens of o...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we review Minions & Monsters (2026), the latest entry in Illumination's billion-dollar franchise and the seventh film overall in the Despicable Me series. Directed by Pierre Coffin and written by Coffin and Brian Lynch, the film features the familiar Minions alongside a voice cast that includes Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Br...

Tonight on Sessions, we sail back to 2022—a year when my personal life was coming apart, my creative world was under siege, and a simple review of The Northman became something much bigger. What started as a movie podcast evolved into a three-hour conversation about friendship, creativity, courage, and what happens when living communities slowly become institutions."We Were Northmen" isn't really...

6 humans find themselves trapped in a digital world with no clear way to escape. What secrets lay hidden in the Digital Circus, and will they ever get back to the real world? Find out as we take a look at the webseries that took the world by storm. Alexis Hejna from Honeysuckle Rose Creations and Jesse Starcher discuss the adventures, the abstractions, and just what made this series from Glitch Pr...

Supergirl is a 2026 superhero film based on the DC Comics character, directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Ana Nogueira. Produced by DC Studios' James Gunn and Peter Safran, it is the second theatrical entry in the new DC Universe (DCU). Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El alongside Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, and Jason Momoa. Adapted...

This week on Damn You Hollywood, we're heading back to the toy box one more time with Toy Story 5. Directed by Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton, the latest installment reunites Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the gang for a new adventure centered around Bonnie's growing attachment to a tablet named Lilypad. Set two years after Toy Story 4, the film explores the increasingly familiar tension between tradition...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, we wrap up our retrospective on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom with a look at Seasons 2 and 3, where the series shifts from an idealistic defense of journalism to a critique of its failures. Season 2 centers on the Genoa scandal, a disastrous report alleging the U.S. military used sarin gas in Afghanistan. Inspired by CNN's real-life Operation Tailwind controversy, the st...

Steven Spielberg returns to one of the defining obsessions of his career with Disclosure Day, a science-fiction thriller inspired by modern UFO disclosure debates and decades of speculation about extraterrestrial life. Written by longtime Spielberg collaborator David Koepp from a story Spielberg reportedly carried with him for years, the film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hews...

This Pride Month, Damn You Hollywood examines three acclaimed queer films from very different worlds: Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Cassandro (2023), and Solo (2023). We explore how each project came together, from the long development of Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack's Oscar-winning AIDS drama, to Roger Ross Williams' adaptation of the real-life lucha libre legend Cassandro, to Sophie Dupuis' inti...

Spider-Noir is an American neo-noir superhero series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+ and Prime Video. Based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir, the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serve as the showrunners of the series, which is produced by Sony Pictures Television in asso...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood, we review Masters of the Universe! Based on Mattel’s iconic franchise, this 2026 fantasy adventure marks the long-awaited return of He-Man to the big screen, nearly forty years after the cult-classic 1987 film. Directed by Travis Knight and starring Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man, the film follows Adam’s journey back to Eternia, where he must embrace his de...

Tonight on the Long Road to Ruin, we look back at Grease and Grease 2! One of the most successful movie musicals ever made spawned one of Hollywood's most infamous sequels, and we're breaking down how it happened. We examine Grease as both a beloved coming-of-age romance and a 1970s nostalgia machine, exploring how a rough-edged stage musical evolved into a polished cinematic fantasy of 1950s adol...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, we're reviewing Season 5 of The Boys, the fifth and final chapter of Eric Kripke's satirical superhero saga based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, the season brings back Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, and the rest of the core c...

Few actors have embodied obsession, corruption, guilt, and authority quite like Harvey Keitel. In this Triple Feature actor focus, we examine three defining performances across three decades of filmmaking: The Duellists (1977), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and Cop Land (1997). From Ridley Scott's visually stunning debut feature, where Keitel plays a Napoleonic officer consumed by honor and vengeance, to...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood, we’re reviewing Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first theatrical Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker and the cinematic continuation of the hit Disney+ series. Directed by Jon Favreau and co-written with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, the film follows Din Djarin and Grogu as they work with the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt while uncovering new Im...

Tonight on the Metal Hammer of Doom, Mark Radulich and Jesse Starcher review Empty Hands, the latest album from Poppy. Once dismissed as an internet-art curiosity built on surreal YouTube performance pieces and synthetic pop aesthetics, Poppy has evolved into one of the more fascinating figures in modern heavy music. Empty Hands pushes deeper into industrial metal, metalcore, glitch electronics, a...

Sessions returns to one of the strongest conversations in the Radulich in Broadcasting Network archive: the Jupiter’s Legacy review with Robert Winfree. What begins as a discussion of a Netflix superhero series becomes a sharper debate about power, restraint, morality, and the terrifying question at the center of the whole thing: if people don’t agree with what those in power are doing, who could...

Tonight on Triple Feature, we’re diving into three 2026 streaming-era genre swings: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Pretty Lethal, and Thrash. On paper, each one has the kind of premise that sells itself before the movie even starts: gangsters, romance, crime, and time travel; ballerinas forced into violent survival mode; and a hurricane-flooded coastal town where sharks are suddenly part...

Justified: City Primeval is an American neo-Western crime drama television miniseries developed by showrunners Dave Andron and Michael Dinner. The series continues the story from Justified taking inspiration from the Elmore Leonard novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and short story "Fire in the Hole". Timothy Olyphant returns to star as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, with Paul Calderón...

On this episode of Damn You Hollywood, Robert Winfree, Jason Teasley and Mark Radulich review Mortal Kombat II (2026), the long-awaited sequel to the 2021 reboot based on the legendary video game franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, the film brings back Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Joe Taslim and...

Tonight on Comic Stripped we head to Antarctica to compare Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber’s acclaimed indie noir graphic novel Whiteout with the 2009 film adaptation starring Kate Beckinsale. Originally published by Oni Press, Whiteout helped define the late-90s crime-comic boom with its blend of procedural mystery, environmental horror, and psychological isolation. But when Warner Bros. brought the...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, Jesse and Mark revisit Season One of HBO’s The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama that premiered June 24, 2012. Starring Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, the series follows the staff of fictional network ACN as they attempt to produce serious journalism inside a system driven by ratings, corporate pressure, and personal dysfunction. Featuring Emily Mortimer,...

Three very different 2026 releases, one shared question: what does modern genre filmmaking actually produce anymore? Amazon’s The Bluff, directed by Frank E. Flowers and produced by the Russo Brothers, was built as a global star vehicle for Priyanka Chopra—an efficient pirate revenge story designed for streaming scale. Netflix countered with War Machine, Patrick Hughes’ $80M military sci-fi specta...

Three takes on lava-driven disaster, each reflecting its moment in Hollywood. In 1997, Dante’s Peak (directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) leaned on scientific realism and modest character drama, earning solid box office returns and a reputation as the more grounded of the twin volcano films. That same year, Volcano (Mick Jackson, with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne He...

Apex (2026) is a survival action thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by Jeremy Robbins, starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana. Released on Netflix on April 24, 2026, the film follows a rock climber pushed to her limits in the wilderness—only to find herself hunted by a man who turns survival into sport. What begins as isolation and endurance quickly becomes a brutal...