Everything Actioncast

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris get locked up with Jean-Claude Van Damme and watch 1990's  Death Warrant,  which just celebrated its 35th anniversary. Van Damme plays Louis Burke, a Mountie from Quebec who takes down the ruthless serial killer, The Sandman (Patrick Kilpatrick). Sixteen months later, he agrees to go undercover in a California prison where sever...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris wield The Glaive and discuss the 1983 fantasy cult classic  Krull,  which was recently released on 4K for the first time . Set on the planet Krull, an evil alien force led by The Beast (Trevor Martin) invades, and the planet's two kingdoms hope to ally against them by having Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony) and Prince Colwyn (Ken Mar...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to avoid the wrath of Frendo and discuss  Clown in a Cornfield,  which hit theaters earlier this year and is out on Blu-ray/4K  . (Spoiler Warning) Based on the YA horror novel by Adam Cesare , Clown in a Cornfield  follows teenager Quinn Maybrook (Katie Douglas) and her father Glenn (Aaron Abrams) as they move from Phi...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris bike into the wasteland and discuss 2015's  Turbo Kid,  which just celebrated its tenth anniversary. Initially starting as a potential segment in The ABCs of Death, T is for Turbo , the directing team of Roadkill Superstars, turned the short into a full-length feature.  Munro Chambers stars as The Kid, a survivor in the post-apo...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, as summer winds down and the back-to-school season begins, Zach and Chris watched the 1987 action comedy The Principal . Jim Belushi stars as Rick Latimer, who gets sent to be the principal of the crime-ridden Brandel High after an arrest for fighting at a local bar.  Working with the school's head guard, Jake Phillips (Louis Gossett Jr.), Rick tri...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris battle for Earthrealm and discuss 1995's  Mortal Kombat,  which just turned 30. One of the best video game adaptations ever made,  Mortal Kombat  finds Liu Kang (Robin Shou), Johnny Cage (Linden Ashby), and Sonya Blade (Bridgette Wilson) in the Mortal Kombat tournament hosted by the sorcerer Shang Tsung (Cary-Hiroyuki Tagaw...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are blowing stuff up with Bob Odenkirk and discussing 2021's  Nobody  as  Nobody 2  arrives in theaters this weekend. Odenkirk plays Hutch Mansell, a former "auditor" for various government agencies who retired and lives a mundane, boring life in the suburbs.  After a home invasion, he lets his old skills slip as he tr...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enroll at Pacific Tech and talk about 1985's  Real Genius  for its 40th anniversary. Val Kilmer stars as Chris Knight, a senior who takes physics prodigy Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret) under his wing as the pair work as part of a team developing a powerful laser.  The team is unaware that their professor, Jerry Hathaway (William...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pull the ripcord on 1994's Drop Zone, starring Wesley Snipes, which just released on 4K . Snipes plays US Marshal Pete Nessip, who is escorting a computer hacker, Leedy (Michael Jeter), on a plane with his brother and fellow Marshal, Terry (Malcolm Jamal Warner).  The aircraft is hijacked, with the hijackers kidnapping Leedy and skydiving...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get Fantastic and talk about the 2005 version of  Fantastic Four  as the new movie featuring Marvel's First Family,  The Fantastic Four: First Steps,  opens in theaters. Opening in July 2005,  Fantastic Four  was part of the Fox side of Marvel movies, which also included the X-Men movies, Daredevil, and  Elek...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Addam to watch the 2012 martial arts movie The Man with the Iron Fists.   Directed, written by, and starring RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan, RZA is The Blacksmith aka Thaddeus Henry Smith.  Working in "Jungle Village" making fantastical weapons for whoever pays, he's trying to raise enough money to fr...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head back to Southport and discuss the 1997 slasher movie  I Know What You Did Last Summer  as the legacy sequel hits theaters. When four friends (Jennifer Love Hewitt, Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Ryan Phillippe) hit someone with their car after a night of partying on July 4th, they decide to dump the body in the o...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get seduced by 1995's  Species,  which came out 30 years ago this week. When SETI receives a transmission from an alien race with instructions for how to create a human/alien hybrid, an experiment is conducted that creates "Sil" (Natasha Henstridge), who escapes the lab she's contained in and disappears into Los Angeles.  The he...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Isla Sorna and discuss the 2001 film Jurassic Park III.   The first movie in the series not to be based on a Michael Crichton novel and not directed by Steven Spielberg, with Joe Johnston stepping behind the camera and bringing back Sam Neill's Alan Grant.  Needing cash to keep his fossil dig going, Grant reluctantly agr...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris revisit M3GAN's original rampage from 2022 as she returns to theaters this weekend in M3GAN 2.0. One of the biggest recent hits for Blumhouse,  M3GAN  stars Allison Williams as Gemma, a robotics engineer and toy designer who gains custody of her niece, Cady (Violet McGraw), after Cady's parents are killed in a car crash.  Unprep...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris call the Ninjazords and watch 1995's Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie, which came out 30 years ago this month. Released between the second and third season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the movie finds Tommy (Jason David Frank), Kimberly (Amy Jo Johnson), Billy (David Yost), Adam (Johnny Young Bosch), Rocky (Steve Cardenas) and...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to avoid getting infected by the Rage Virus and discuss 2002's  28 Days Later  as the third entry in the series,  28 Years Later,  opens in theaters. Cillian Murphy stars as Jim, a bike courier who awakens from a coma to find the world gone to hell.  An experimental virus, dubbed the Rage Virus, has escaped a UK la...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the jungle and discuss 1995's Congo for its 30th anniversary. Based on the 1979 novel by Michael Crichton, an expedition heads deep into the jungles of the Congo.  Peter Elliott (Dylan Walsh) wants to bring his research gorilla, Amy, whom he has taught to communicate in sign language, back to where he believes she was born.&nbsp...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get their asses to Mars and discuss 1990's  Total Recall,  which just turned 35. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and based on the Philip K. Dick short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" , Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Douglas Quaid, a construction worker who visits a company called Rekall, who can implant memories into clients...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go undercover with  Fletch  as the movie turns 40, releasing on May 31st, 1985. Based on the first book in the  Fletch  series by Gregory Mcdonald, Chevy Chase is Irwin P. Fletcher aka Fletch. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes under the pseudonym "Jane Doe", Fletch goes undercover and uses fake identities and...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris return to 1984 to watch The Karate Kid,  just in time for  Karate Kid: Legends  hitting theaters. The movie that kicked off the entire "Miyagi-verse," which includes Cobra Kai and the original sequels, The Karate Kid , stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who travels from Newark, New Jersey, to Los Angeles with his mother...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris's mission, should they choose to accept it, is to discuss Mission: Impossible 2,  which turns 25 this week and we also have what is being billed as the final entry in the franchise,  Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning  hitting theaters. Tom Cruise was back as Ethan Hunt, this time on the trail of a rogue IMF agent, Sean A...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the mind of a killer and discuss Mindhunters,  which came out in the US 20 years ago this week (after being released in almost every other country around the world in 2004). Directed by Renny Harlin, Mindhunters follows a group of FBI agents training to be profilers under the unorthodox methods of Jake Harris (Val Kilmer), who place...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are in Boston for PAX East and discuss 2010's Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time  to get into the video game mindset. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Prince Dastan, who leads an assault against the holy city of Alamut for the Persian Empire and discovers a mysterious dagger.  When accused of killing his father, King Sharaman (Ronald Pickup...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Chicago for the Chuck Norris classic Code of Silence, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Norris plays Eddie Cusack, the head of a squad of Chicago cops who finds himself in a gang war when a drug bust goes bad and crime boss Luis Camacho (Henry Silva) wants revenge on the mob.  Cusack also finds himself shunned by his fell...