Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris catch a ride with 1986's The Hitcher as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Rutger Hauer stars as John Ryder, a terrifying hitchhiking serial killer who targets Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell), who is on the road trying to deliver a car from Chicago to San Diego.  Ryder starts to stalk and terrorize Jim, pushing him to the edge and trying t...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris deal with a Broken Arrow situation and discuss John Woo's 1996 action classic for its 30th anniversary. Christian Slater and John Travolta star as Riley Hale and Vic "Deak" Deakins, who co-pilot the stealth bomber.  On an exercise where they are transporting live B83 nuclear bombs, Deak turns traitor and tries to kill Riley, ultimately ej...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris use some movie magic and discuss the 1986 action thriller F/X, which came out 40 years ago this week. Bryan Brown stars as Rollie Tyler, a movie special effects artist who is recruited by the Department of Justice to help fake the murder of a mafia informant in witness protection.  Rollie pulls off the job, but the DoJ tries to kill him,...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris make things look like an accident and discuss 2011's  The Mechanic,  which came out 15 years ago this week, and just as a new Statham movie, Shelter,  hits theaters. A remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film, Jason Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a "Mechanic" who is contracted to pull off elaborate assassinations, most of w...

With 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple coming out this month, Zach and Chris checked out another movie that features a "rage virus", 1988's Primal Rage, for the first Everything Action Commentary of 2026. A joint Italian-American production, Primal Rage stars Patrick Lowe as Sam Nash, a Florida International University student and reporter/photographer for the school paper, alongside his friend Fran...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to the fog-covered streets of 2006's Silent Hill as Return to Silent Hill is out in theaters. Directed by Christophe Gans, Silent Hill mostly tries to adapt the first game in the long-running video game series, but pulls in elements and creatures from other installments.  Radha Mitchell stars as Rose Da Silva, whose adopted daughter,...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get caught in a time loop and discuss 2014's  Edge of Tomorrow,  as the anime adaptation of  All You Need is Kill  is now out in theaters. Tom Cruise stars as Major William Cage, a military PR officer who is the talking head for the battle against the "Mimics", a hostile alien race that has invaded Earth and destroyed most...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris perform an incantation and discuss the cult classic  Warlock,  which is celebrating the 35th anniversary of its domestic theatrical release this weekend. Basically a horror/supernatural The Terminator, the late Julian Sands stars as The Warlock, who escapes imprisonment in 1691 Boston and ends up in 1991 Los Angeles.  Tasked by...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris close out 2025 with a massive recap of their picks for the best and worst movies of the year.  Between Weapons, Sinners, Superman, Fantastic Four: First Steps, KPop Demon Hunters, Friendship, and more, there were plenty of great movies that hit theaters and streaming, while films like The Electric State, I Know What You Did Last Summer, M...

For the final Everything Action Commentary of 2025, Zach and Chris are joined by special guests Joe and Sam to finish the holiday tradition of watching every Home Alone movie with the 2012 TV movie, Home Alone: The Holiday Heist. This time, instead of the McCallisters, the Baxter family moves from California to Maine shortly before Christmas.  Unknown to the family, however, is that their new...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris plan to take down some scores and discuss 1995's  Heat,  which is celebrating its 30th anniversary. Based on his earlier TV movie L.A. Takedown , Michael Mann's  Heat  is a crime/heist classic that has inspired countless films and video games since.  Robert De Niro plays criminal Neil McCauley, who leads a group of pro...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the Amazon and discuss 1997's Anaconda, which just received a 4K release, and the new meta reboot is coming out on Christmas. A documentary crew heads down the Amazon to try and find a fabled lost tribe, but gets hijacked by snake poacher Paul Serone (Jon Voight), who forces the crew to help him hunt down a massive, record-breaking a...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, with Five Nights at Freddy's 2 hitting theaters, Zach and Chris dive into one of FNAF's knockoffs, 2023's Freddy's Fridays . Coming from some of the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood Honey series, Freddy's Fridays finds a man named Todd Fischer (Jase Rivers) luring sex workers into a creepy murder basement and then forcing them to read Latin text,...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the ring for Rocky IV, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Written and directed by Stallone, Rocky IV sees Rocky Balboa living large as the reigning heavyweight boxing champion.  When the Soviet Union introduces its new contender, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren), they want to have an exhibition match with Rocky.  Rocky decli...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate Thanksgiving/Black Friday with 2009's Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Kevin James is Paul Blart, a mall security guard with dreams of being a police officer, despite failing out of the academy.  On the busy Black Friday shopping day, armed criminals storm the mall with a scheme to rob millions in credit card funds and take several of...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris climb into some mech cockpits and discuss 1990's Robot Jox, which is celebrating its 35th anniversary. One of the final films from Charles Band's Empire Pictures, Robot Jox is set in a world that was devastated by a nuclear war 50 years earlier.  All conflicts between the two factions that control Earth, The Market and The Confederation,...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris tune into everyone's favorite dystopian game show, The Running Man , as the new Edgar Wright-directed take on the Stephen King novel hits theaters. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Ben Richards, who is wrongfully imprisoned when he refuses to fire on unarmed civilians during a food riot and is dubbed "The Butcher of Bakersfield" when the footage...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, the hunt is on as Zach and Chris discuss 2010's  Predators  as  Predator: Badlands  is now out in theaters. Produced by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimrod Antal, Predators finds a group of killers and soldiers dropped onto an intergalactic game preserve, where they realize they are the prey for a trio of intergalactic hunters. ...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate Halloween with the final (at the time) Jigsaw game,  Saw 3D,  which came out 15 years ago this week. Wrapping up the original Saw series, Saw 3D , aka Saw: The Final Chapter , finds Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) trying to kill Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) to clear up any loose ends so he can escape before he's arrested a...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris attended Angela's Halloween party and watched the 1988 cult classic,  Night of the Demons. Starring Amelia Kinkade as Angela Franklin, she and her friend Suzanne (Linnea Quigley) throw a Halloween party in the abandoned mortuary known as Hull House.  While attempting to conduct a séance, the group accidentally unleashes a demoni...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris check into  Motel Hell  to discuss the 1980 cult horror comedy for its 45th anniversary. Rory Calhoun stars as Vincent Smith, a genial-seeming farmer and hotel proprietor famous in his area for his various meat products. What no one knows is that Vincent and his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) are kidnapping and butchering people as the s...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to get lost in  The Fog,  the 2005 remake of the John Carpenter cult classic that came out 20 years ago this week. Tom Welling and Maggie Grace star as Nick Castle and Elizabeth Williams, two residents of Antonio Island. While the town is gearing up for its centennial celebration, a mysterious fog bank rolls in, bringing veng...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris race to stop the Apocalypse with Arnold and discuss 1999's  End of Days,  which was just released on 4K. Arnold plays the awesomely named Jericho Cane, a former cop turned alcoholic private security agent. After stopping an attack on a wealthy investment banker, Jericho and his partner Bobby Chicago (Kevin Pollack) start to investiga...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to get mauled by  Cujo  as another dog-based horror movie, Good Boy,  hits theaters. Based on a novel that Stephen King has no memory of writing because of his alcohol addiction, Cujo follows the Trenton family, Vic (David Hugh Kelly), Donna (Dee Wallace), and Tad (Danny Pintauro), and a rabies-infected St. Bernard named...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go up, up, and away with Superman,  now available on HBO Max and physical media. (Spoiler Warning) The first theatrical entry in the new DC Universe, David Corenswet portrays the latest Man of Steel, who intervenes in an international conflict, and the repercussions provide Lex Luthor (Nicholas Hoult) with the opportunity he has been sche...