Coolest Alive

It's PEOPLE HUNTIN' WEEK on Coolest Alive! Bringing you 5 Days of Humans Hunting Humans, continuing with the chaotic cult comedy "The Pest"! John Leguizamo plays a fast-talking con man who agrees to be hunted for $50,000 by a deranged German aristocrat, portrayed by the late Jeffrey Jones. Released by TriStar Pictures, it turns the deadly-hunt premise into manic cartoon absurdity, slapstick surviv...

It's PEOPLE HUNTIN' WEEK on Coolest Alive! Bringing you 5 Days of Humans Hunting Humans, continuing with episode #327, a WWE-produced film, starring Stone Cold Steve Austin, "The Condemned", which takes the concept of people huntin' global: death row inmates are dropped onto a remote island and forced to fight to the death while the world watches online. Directed by Scott Wiper, it’s a bruta...

It's PEOPLE HUNTIN' WEEK on Coolest Alive! Bringing you 5 Days of Humans Hunting Humans, continuing with "Surviving the Game", which drops Ice-T into the wilderness as a homeless man lured into what he thinks is a survival retreat, only to learn he’s prey for a group of rich businessmen led by Rutger Hauer and Gary Busey. Directed by Ernest R. Dickerson, the film blends pulp thriller energy...

It's PEOPLE HUNTIN' WEEK on Coolest Alive! Bringing you 5 Days of Humans Hunting Humans, starting with John Woo's work of cinematic art, "Hard Target". Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a drifter who discovers that wealthy thrill-seekers in New Orleans are paying to hunt homeless men for sport. When a woman searching for her missing father uncovers the deadly game, Van Damme’s Cajun street fighter...

On episode #324 of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider brings one of his best friends & BIGGEST INSPIRATIONS, the incredible "Digger Mesch" onto the show to compare & contrast the Toy Industry of the Early 90s w/ the Modern Toy Industry! As well as share stories of Art School, pursuing work with Marvel through ToyBiz, building his own company Art Asylum & now "DIGG DEEP" and specula...

On episode #323 of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider says, "If you want to pretend to be a mutant-animal, then you gotta play the TMNT RPG & 'After the Bomb' from Palladium Books!" The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness RPG, released in 1985, was a groundbreaking tabletop game that captured the gritty, underground feel of the original TMNT comics by Kevin Eastman and Pet...

On this episode of The Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider shares one of the Greatest Characters Ever Filmed. Cool Hand Luke (1967) is a defining film of the 1960s, starring Paul Newman as the rebellious and charismatic Luke Jackson, a man sent to a Florida chain gang for a minor offense. Luke’s indomitable spirit and refusal to submit to authority make him a hero to his fellow inmates an...

On this episode of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider explains why “Preacher: Gone to Texas” is the best gift for all Absurdist Atheists in your life! Preacher: Vol. 1 – Gone to Texas (1996) introduces readers to Jesse Custer, a small-town preacher who becomes the unlikely protagonist in a dark, violent, and often satirical journey. Written by Garth Ennis and illustrated by S...

On episode #320 of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider is gushing about "Over the Hedge" (2006), a comedic animated film from DreamWorks Animation, an instant classic you probably MISSED! The movie follows a group of forest animals as they navigate the perils of suburban life. Led by the savvy raccoon RJ (voiced by Bruce Willis), the gang must adapt to the human-made environment while avoiding...

On this episode of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider is having Musid day with the Greatest 80’s Metal Album EVER?! (Twisted Sister’s “You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll” brings Personal Empowerment!) Released in 1983, You Can’t Stop Rock ‘n’ Roll is the second studio album by the heavy metal band Twisted Sister, a landmark in their rise to...

In episode #318 of COOLEST ALIVE, host Jesse Blaze Snider, in anticipation of Lobo’s big-screen debut in Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, is celebrating the Main Man himself, the galaxy’s loudest, nastiest, most indestructible bounty hunter. From his brutal first appearance in Omega Men to his unhinged ‘90s glory days in Lobo, and his scene-stealing turns in Superman: The Animated S...

In this episode of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider talks about Marathon Man (1974) by William Goldman, a gripping conspiracy thriller that follows grad student and runner Tom “Babe” Levy as he’s pulled into a deadly plot involving Nazi war criminals, stolen diamonds, and a sadistic ex-dentist. Haunted by his father’s suicide, Babe faces betrayal, paranoia, and tortur...

On this episode of the Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider talks about Antlers (2021), produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by Scott Cooper, which is a chilling folk-horror tale set in a decaying Oregon town. Teacher Julia Meadows (Keri Russell) and her sheriff brother Paul (Jesse Plemons) investigate a troubled student tied to a tragic, wendigo-like creature born from family trauma and...

On this episode of Coolest Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider talks about Green Lantern: Rebirth (2004–2005), which is Geoff Johns’ 6-issue miniseries that brought Hal Jordan back from exile, retconned Parallax as a fear entity, and relaunched the Green Lantern Corps. Drawn by Ethan Van Sciver, it reintroduces the Guardians, Kilowog, Sinestro, and the seeds of the Emotional Spectrum. A massive...

On this episode of Coolest Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider explores the brutal power of Hulk Vs. (2009), a double-feature animated anthology pitting the unstoppable Hulk against Wolverine and Thor. In one story, Logan hunts the Hulk through the Canadian wilderness in a savage, Weapon X-tinged clash. In the other, Thor battles the green giant amid Loki’s schemes on Asgard. With voices by Fred Tatas...

On episode #313 of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider dives into the soulful, high-energy world of The Blues Brothers Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1980): the explosive album that turned a Saturday Night Live sketch into a cultural phenomenon and revived classic blues and R&B for a whole new generation. Join us as we break down this iconic double-platinum (and beyond) release from At...

Cowabunga, dudes! Coolest Alive is going full shell-shocked celebration mode for the greatest heroes in a half-shell: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Join me as I geek out over EVERY epic moment, character, cartoon, movie, comic, and pizza-fueled adventure that’s ever rocked my world. From the original gritty Mirage comics to the radical ‘80s/‘90s cartoon classics, the live-act...

In episode #311 of the Coolest Alive, Jesse's wildcard pick, Twisted Sister’s Come Out and Play Music Video Collection, capturing the band’s over-the-top 1980s glam-metal energy through iconic videos tied to their album era, featuring Dee Snider’s larger-than-life presence in comedic setups like scrapyard advice sessions and schoolyard rebellion, all set to anthems that mix heavy...

In this episode of Coolest Alive, Jesse highlights the live-action thriller The Rip, starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck as Miami cop partners whose discovery of millions in cash inside a stash house unravels trust within their team, blending gritty heist tension, sharp banter, and moral ambiguity in a high-stakes Netflix original that delivers rogue-cop drama with explosive action and a killer en...

In episode #309 of Coolest Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider shines a light on Batman: Three Jokers graphic novel, where Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok deliver a gripping, emotional deep dive into the Clown Prince of Crime by revealing three distinct versions of the Joker haunting Gotham, forcing Batman, Batgirl, and Red Hood to confront their traumas and the twisted legacy of the villain in a story that ree...

In this episode of Coolest Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider dives into the animated masterpiece South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, celebrating its bold, musical satire that turned the show’s crude humor into a full-blown feature film packed with hilarious songs, sharp jabs at censorship and celebrity, and unforgettable chaos as the boys sneak into an R-rated movie, leading to war with Canada i...

In episode #307 of Coolest Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider spotlights the high-energy 2004 self-titled debut album from The F-Ups, a mohawked punk-pop outfit of teenagers who burst onto the scene with raw, rebellious anthems like “Lazy Generation” that landed in video games and captured the spirit of early-2000s skate-punk attitude, blending catchy hooks, snotty lyrics, and unpolished fun th...

On this episode of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider is digging into the mythic fault line that runs through modern fandom, starting with what Disney actually ignored when they bought Star Wars: George Lucas. He didn’t just hand over assets and a logo. He left behind story notes, a full plan for the sequel trilogy, a fully written live-action TV series, and a deeper vision of the Force....

On this episode of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider surprises us with Wild Card Friday! It's a celebration of Netflix's SKYSCRAPPER LIVE, a real-time spectacle that transforms performance, risk, and human limitation into must-see television. This episode isn’t just about the event itself, but what it represents: art as something that happens now, without a safety net, demanding your at...

LIVE-ACTION: Episode #304 of the Coolest Alive brings the chaos with Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing, a crime story that barrels forward on bad decisions, bad luck, and pure survival instinct. Set against a gritty, lived-in world, the film blends dark humor, tension, and character-driven madness in a way only Aronofsky can. This episode looks at how Caught Stealing turns disorder into mom...