Coolest Alive

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...

On episode #303, we are going cosmic with Silver Surfer: Black, a visually explosive, soul-searching graphic novel that drops Marvel’s loneliest god into the void and forces him to confront who he really is. Donny Cates and Tradd Moore turn space into something psychedelic, brutal, and strangely intimate. This episode dives into why Silver Surfer: Black stands as both a superhero story and a...

On episode 302 of Coolest Alive, we rewind to one of Disney’s most underrated emotional gut-punches: Meet the Robinsons. Beneath the bright sci-fi chaos is a deeply human story about failure, belonging, and the radical power of optimism. This episode explores why “Keep Moving Forward” isn’t just a slogan, but a philosophy, and how this film quietly became one of the most li...

Episode #301 kicks off loud with Black Tape by The Explosion, a record that captures pure forward momentum at the exact moment punk flirted with the mainstream without losing its teeth. It’s all urgency, heart, and fists-in-the-air conviction, the sound of a band sprinting toward something bigger while still bleeding from the underground. Today’s episode celebrates why this album still...

The MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE Teaser Trailer just dropped and the Coolest Man Alive, Jesse Blaze Snider is genuinely bubbling like a kid in a candy store over EVER ELECTRIFYING FRAME! As an old-school He-Man fan, Jesse gives it a so far, so good and chats up all the exciting possibilities! As well as celebrating some of the exciting possibilities for AVENGERS DOOMSDAY, while measuring expectations,...

On episode #299 of Coolest Alive, host Jesse Blaze Snider's assessment of  Sean Combs: The Reckoning. Executive-produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and directed by Alexandria Stapleton, this explosive four-part Netflix miniseries (released December 2, 2025) chronicles Sean “Diddy” Combs’ rise from Harlem kid to Bad Boy Records mogul, discovering stars like Mary...

Episode #298 PROOF BIGFOOT “EXISTS” Directed by Blair Witch Project co-creator Eduardo Sánchez, Exists is the 2014 found-footage Bigfoot horror that delivers raw, woods-bound terror as five friends head to a remote Texas cabin, hit something on the road, and face a vengeful, primal Sasquatch (played by suit actor Brian Steele). With GoPro-style chaos, night-vision scares, and br...

Criminal is the acclaimed, creator-owned noir crime series by Eisner-winning writer Ed Brubaker and masterful artist Sean Phillips, launching in 2006 with interconnected tales of betrayal, fate, and the criminal underworld in a shared gritty universe, starting with arcs like “Coward” (a heist thriller), “Lawless” (revenge in the shadows), and “The Dead and the Dying&r...

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie is the wildly inventive 2014 animated blockbuster that turned a toy franchise into a creative triumph, starring Chris Pratt as ordinary Emmet, Elizabeth Banks as fierce Wyldstyle, Will Ferrell as tyrannical Lord Business, and voices like Will Arnett’s brooding Batman in a meta adventure about imagination versus conformity. Grossing...

Episode #295 celebrates Skid Row’s explosive 1989 self-titled debut album, the gritty hard rock masterpiece that launched the New Jersey band, featuring Sebastian Bach’s soaring vocals, Rachel Bolan and Dave “The Snake” Sabo’s songwriting, and produced by Michael Wagener, into multi-platinum stardom with massive hits like the rebellious anthem “Youth Gone Wild,&...

In this episode of Coolest Alive, Bugs Bunny & Daffy Duck, leads Slimer, Michael Angelo, Alf, and more, plus a bunch of Smurfs & Muppet babies in one big animated animated masterpiece, that everyone should see (especially for the modern day irony of so much of it, since it was made to help fight the "War On Drugs".)-- "Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue" is the PERHAPS THE MOST EPIC ANIMATED...

Wildcard Friday closes the week strong on episode #293 of COOLEST ALIVE with Being Eddie, the raw, intimate Netflix documentary on comedy icon Eddie Murphy. Premiered limited theatrical November 7, 2025, streaming November 12, 2025, it traces Eddie’s rise from 17-year-old stand-up phenom in NYC clubs to SNL breakout at 19, through blockbusters (Beverly Hills Cop, Coming to America), family,...

Thursday gets gritty and brutal on episode #292 of COOLEST ALIVE, featuring Bone Tomahawk, the 2015 Western-horror hybrid that redefined slow-burn savagery. Written and directed by S. Craig Zahler (his debut), with a stacked cast: Kurt Russell as grizzled Sheriff Franklin Hunt, Patrick Wilson as injured deputy Arthur O’Dwyer, Matthew Fox as suave gunslinger John Brooder, Richard Jenkins as q...

Midweek comic thunder on COOLEST ALIVE! We’re diving into Thor: The Devourer King, the epic opening arc of Donny Cates’ Thor run (issues #1-6 of Thor Vol. 6, 2020), w/ art by Nic Klein & colors by Matthew Wilson (making every cosmic panel explode). Collected in trade paperback November 3, 2020. Thor, now King of Asgard, faces Galactus as the Herald of Thunder in a battle against th...