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Clerks III (2022) Director: Kevin Smith Cast: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith Kevin Smith had a heart attack, rewrote his legacy, and somehow made a movie that retroactively makes us like his older films less. This week on Dewey Pod Monster, we close out "April and the Threequel" by finally confronting the most threatened episode in show history: Clerks III...

Robocop 3 (1993) Directed by Fred Dekker Starring: Robert John Burke , Nancy Allen , Rip Torn , Bradley Whitford They PG-13'd a franchise built on ultraviolence, gave Robocop a jetpack, and somehow thought a ninja robot was the answer. Welcome to Robocop 3 . This is the movie that killed Fred Dekker's career, broke Frank Miller's spirit, and somehow still made money. John and Sean stra...

Scream 3 (2000) - Ghostface Goes to Hollywood Directed By: Wes Craven Starring: David Arquette , Neve Campbell , Courteney Cox , some dreamy dude . Ghostface is back and taking his deadly act to the big screen! In this episode of the Dewey PodMonster , we dive into the meta-slasher madness of Scream 3 as part of our "April in the 3" theme month. Directed by horror legend Wes Craven and s...

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) Directed By: Jonathan Mostow Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger , Nick Stahl , Kristanna Loken , That lady with a so-called life . It's another theme month, and we're calling this one "April in the 3" - meaning we're looking at the third movie in a franchise each episode this month. This month, as you can probably guess from the title, w...

Lady Terminator (1989) Directed By: H. Tjut Djalil Starring: Barbara Anne Constable , Christopher J. Hart , Claudia Angelique Rademaker , Clearly a bunch of people you've never heard of before . Our last film for this year's Crummy Movie March is one that took a lot of influence from, and gave a lot of inspiration to, the Terminator franchise. This Indonesian film lifted multiple scenes an...

I Come in Peace / Dark Angel (1990) Directed By: Craig R. Baxley Starring: Dolph Lundgren , Brian Benben , Betsy Brantley , That blue eyed dude from TC 2000 There's only one more movie of Crummy Movie March after this week, which is sad, but at least we get to console ourselves with our first talk about a Dolph Lundgren movie - and this one is definitely a Terminator clone (ripoff, whatever)....

TC 2000 (1993) Directed By: T.J. Scott Starring: Billy Blanks , Bolo Yeung , Jalal Merhi , That guy with the really blue eyes . Crummy movie March... continues? The month - the theme is Terminator Knockoffs and this one kind of follows a story about underground rich people and above ground poor people and the police that keep them apart and then one gets turned into a cybernetic thing... or someth...

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) Directed By: Rob Hedden Starring: Jensen Daggett , Kane Hodder , Todd Caldecott , An annoying old man . That pesky Jason Vorhees is at it AGAIN... This time he hitches his wagon to a senior class cruise out of Crystal Lake and after some tomfoolery he ends up in New York City (Manhattan specifically) to visit Macy's for some shopping, Madison...

Nemesis (1992) Directed By: Albert Pyun Starring: Olivier Gruner , Tim Thomerson , Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , A guy from Cobra Kai and some other shit . Crummy movie March rolls on, and if you hadn't heard - we're double themed up this month because we're looking at shitty Terminator knockoffs! Nemesis is only kind of loosely a Terminator knockoff in the respect that it's a bit of a noir, and it has a...

Shocking Dark aka Terminator II (1989) Directed By: Bruno Mattei Starring: Christopher Ahrens , Haven Tyler , Geretta Geretta , Someone from some other movie We're starting this year's crummy movie March with a movie that we've seen pop up on some actor's IMDB page, and with a title like Terminator II, how could we not be intrigued - considering this crummy movie march theme is Ter...

Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects Directed By: J. Lee Thompson Starring: Charles Bronson , Juan Fernández , Perry Lopez , Eggy Our finale of Bronson month is a dark, gritty Golan-Globus production revolving around pimps and prostitutes, with Charlie smashing mustard (or nacho cheese) covered hotdogs into people's faces. It's probably one of the grimiest movies we've talked about on the show...

Murphy's Law (1986) Directed By: J. Lee Thompson Starring: Charles Bronson , Kathleen Wilhoite , Carrie Snodgress , The Cop - from Clue! Charlie is at it again as a cop, and this time he's accused of killing his soon to be ex-wife. When he's not shot putting his groceries, he's flying helicopters, landing on barns, fighting bikers, and romancing the ladies. IMDB.com has this to say...

Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) Directed By: John Carl Buechler Starring: Terry Kiser , Jennifer Banko , John Otrin , a lady with telekenetic powers The New Blood takes a little bit of a left turn as far as these Friday the 13th movies go. We're introduced to characters who have supernatural powers, birthday parties, and even a dead ninja dad. IMDB.com describes Friday the 13th...

10 to Midnight (1983) Directed by: J. Lee Thompson Starring: Charles Bronson , Lisa Eilbacher , Andrew Stevens , someone you can ask about their diabeetus . Bronson month continues, and we welcome Sam back to the show from "To B or Not To B", "Screen Talk" and "Feature Creatures DTF", to talk about this interesting piece of Charles Bronson's catalog. Probably the...

Death Wish (1974) Directed By: Michael Winner Starring: Charles Bronson , Hope Lange , Vincent Gardenia , The Fly Our newest theme month begins - and this month we're concentrating on the the man who starred in many Cannon and Golan Globus productions - but this film is the one that broke the floodgate. We're talking about Charles Bronson and Death Wish. IMDB.com says this about Death Wish...

The Freeway Maniac (1989) Directed by: Paul Winters Starring: Kathryn Hauber , George Nicholas , Kevyn Shihadeh , A guy who ended up being Michael Myers Continuing our streak of talking about movies that no one has ever heard of, today we're talking about The Freeway Maniac, where little Arthur, traumatized by witnessing his mother and some random trucker rubbing their hands on each other'...

I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (1990) Directed By: Dirk Campbell Starring: Neil Morrissey , Amanda Noar , Michael Elphick , The dude that played C-3P0 After talking about a couple banger films over the last few weeks, we've decided to sift back through the back catalogues of... no one, and talk about a motorcycle that gets infused with the power of Satan, and features a talking turd - because.....

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) Directed By: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Uma Thurman , David Carradine , Michael Madsen , a guy in brownface . Our first two part episode - we tackle volume 2 of this homicide against William, and this time The Bride is back, volume 2 supposedly picks up right after we finished volume 1. We'll see about that. IMDB.com describes this as :" The Bride continues her quest of ve...

Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003) Directed By: Quentin Tarantino Starring: Uma Thurman , David Carradine , Daryl Hannah , a guy who mashed monsters. First show of 2026, and maybe coincidentally we're going to talk about a film that was just released back into theaters as a whole bloody affair! This is also our first two part episode, because next week we'll be talking about volume 2 of this Tarantino epic...

Y2K (2024) Directed by: Kyle Mooney Starring: Jaeden Martell , Rachel Zegler , Julian Dennison , a clueless lady To wrap up December 2025 and break that last remaining bit of Christmas spirit, we're looking at last year's movie Y2K. This is SNL Alum Kyle Mooney's feature film directorial debut, and his re-imagining of what could have been if Y2K hadn't been stomped to death in it&#...

Die Hard (1988) Directed By: John McTiernan Starring: Bruce Willis , Alan Rickman , Bonnie Bedelia , Karl Winslow In our final Christmas episode of 2025, we're settling the age old debate if Die Hard is a Christmas Movie or not. We think most people have seen this movie, and you probably should if you're into this show because we're just gonna give it all away. IMDB.com describe Die Hard as: " A N...

Lethal Weapon (1987) Directed by: Richard Donner Starring: Mel Gibson , Danny Glover , Gary Busey , some guy that awkwardly holds egg nog. Strangely moving into a movie that some might consider a Christmas movie (and I guess we do, or else we wouldn't be talking about it right now) is the venerable Lethal Weapon, where Mel Gibson and Danny Glover are the odd couple of policing. Did this set th...

Santa With Muscles (1996) Directed By: John Murlowski Starring: Hulk Hogan , Don Stark , Robin Curtis , a man who has starred in nothing but trash . You thought Ernest Saves Christmas was bad? Well... that's like... you're opinion man. This week we examine another Christmas disaster, this time starring Hulk Hogan as a mean business owner who loses his memory and helps some orphans (includi...

Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) Directed By: John R. Cherry III Starring: Jim Varney , Douglas Seale , Oliver Clark , not Otho from Beetlejuice We're starting the month of December with an early Christmas gift to you - our first discussion (in I'm sure a long line of) about Ernest movies. This time around, of course it's Ernest Saves Christmas, where Ernest does some shit and Santa and C...

Machete Kills (2013) Directed By: Robert Rodriguez Starring: Danny Trejo , Mel Gibson , Demián Bichir , Some Bed Pooper It's been a while since we've talked about Machete, and this time he's got revenge on his mind. After the events of the first film, Machete gets entangled in the government and is sent on a mission from the President of the USA himself. IMDB.com describes Machete Kills as: " The...