Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris stack up for The Raid , aka The Raid: Redemption , as a new Gareth Evans movie, Havoc , arrives on Netflix. The breakout for Evans and star Iko Uwais, Uwais stars in The Raid  as Rama, a rookie cop in the Mobile Brigade Corps.  His unit assaults the apartment block belonging to ruthless crime lord Tama (Ray Sahetapy), but it becomes...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris pay tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by watching him in one of his most fun roles, the boastful swordsman Madmartigan in 1988's Willow . Warwick Davis stars as Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer with aspirations of being a great sorcerer.  When a human baby washes ashore near the Nelwyn village, Willow is tasked to try and return he...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris don homemade superhero suits to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Kick-Ass. Directed by Matthew Vaughn and based on the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr., Kick-Ass stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson as high school nerd Dave Lizewski, who decides to take his love of comic books into the real world and become a superhero named Kick-Ass.  Unf...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris board Air Force One  as another ass kicking president, Viola Davis in  G20,  hits Prime Video. Harrison Ford is President James Marshall, who finds himself having to go full John McClane when terrorists led by the ruthless Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) manage to hijack Air Force One.  President Marshall has to fight to rescu...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris delve into the seedy underbelly of Sin City  to celebrate the movie's 20th anniversary. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, Sin City adapts several of Miller's noir comic book stories with an all-star cast, including Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, Clive Owen, Rosario Dawson, Elijah Wood, Benicio Del Toro, Jessica Alba, Powers Boo...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris experience Turtle Power and celebrate the 35th anniversary of 1990's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Required viewing for all '90s kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fused the original, gritty comics with the more kid-friendly animated series and found the Turtles meeting reporter April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) and coming into conflict with the Foot...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris hunt the final Sony's Spider-Man Universe film, Kraven the Hunter,  with special guests Phil and Joe from Digital Pimp. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Sergei Kravinoff, who gains animalistic superpowers as a teenager via a serum that saves him from a lion mauling while on a hunt in Africa.  Determined to fight against everything...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris dodge Death and talk about Final Destination , which is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Kicking off a horror franchise that continues this year with Final Destination: Bloodlines in May, the original film stars Devon Sawa as Alex Browning, who has a premonition of the plane his class is traveling to Paris on exploding after take-off and frea...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to survive underground with Stallone and discuss the 1996 disaster movie Daylight,  which just got released on 4K . Stallone stars as Kit Latura, the disgraced former chief of the New York Emergency Medical Services.  When an explosion collapses both ends of one of the tunnels that leads from New York City to New Jersey, Kit spri...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pay homage to the late Gene Hackman by discussing his co-starring role with Will Smith in the 1998 Tony Scott thriller, Enemy of the State. Smith plays Robert Clayton Dean, a labor lawyer in Washington D.C. who inadvertently comes into possession of evidence of the NSA Assistant Director Thomas Reynold (Jon Voight) overseeing the murder of a c...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are on the case to discuss the first adaptation of Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, the 2012 Tom Cruise movie, as season 3 of the Amazon series just kicked off. Based on the Jack Reacher novel One Shot,  a troubled Army sniper, James Barr (Joseph Sikora), is arrested for killing five people in Pittsburgh.  He asks for Jack Reacher (C...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris go intergalactic with 2015's Jupiter Ascending,  which celebrated its 10th anniversary. Mila Kunis stars as Jupiter Jones, who discovers she's intergalactic royalty and the owner of Earth.  The squabbling Abrasax siblings try to manipulate or kill Jupiter to get Earth under their control, but luckily for Jupiter, she has a prote...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris experience an Experiment In Fear and discuss 1988's Monkey Shines as a new evil monkey hits theaters with  The Monkey. Directed by the great George A. Romero, Monkey Shines  stars Jason Beghe as Allan Mann, a track star and law student.  After being hit by a truck while on a morning run, Allan is left paralyzed from the neck dow...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate Valentine's Day with the 1981 slasher classic My Bloody Valentine . Filmed in Canada, My Bloody Valentine  came out as the 80s slasher boom kicked off, following the success of movies like Halloween  and  Friday the 13th.   In the town of Valentine Bluffs, a tragedy at the local mine during a Valentine's Day...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Amish country and discuss the 1985 Harrison Ford movie Witness,  which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Ford is John Book, a Philadelphia Detective Captain who is investigating the murder of an undercover cop in a bathroom in 30th Street Station.  The only witness is Samuel Lapp, an 8-year-old Amish boy who reveals that t...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hunt witches with Vin Diesel for The Last Witch Hunter, recently released on 4K . Coming out in 2015 and based on Vin Diesel's Dungeons & Dragons character, "Melkor the Witch-Hunter", Diesel stars as Kaulder, an immortal warrior who works with an organization called the Axe & Cross to keep humanity safe from magical threats.  When...

For this month's Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris watch the Universal Monsters classic The Wolf Man with the Leigh Whannell reimagining hitting theaters earlier this month. Lon Chaney Jr. stars as Larry Talbot, who returns to his ancestral home in Wales, and his father, Sir John Talbot (Claude Rains).  While visiting a Romani fortune teller with the daughter of the local antique d...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris feel the Fear and dive into Mark Wahlberg's first time playing a psychotic villain, as he does it again this weekend in theaters in Flight Risk. Wahlberg plays David McCall, a seemingly perfect boyfriend to teenager Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon). As the couple becomes more intimate, David's darker tendencies start to surface. William Peter...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th scareiversary of 1995's Demon Knight , the first feature film from the cult favorite HBO series Tales from the Crypt. William Sadler stars as Brayker, the protector of a powerful key that keeps the Earth from falling into a demon-filled apocalypse.  Billy Zane is The Collector, a high-level demon sent from Hell to kill...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris assemble their heist crew and talk Den of Thieves as Den of Thieves 2: Pantera hits theaters this weekend. Starring Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., Butler is Big Nick, the head of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Major Crimes Unit, who is after Ray Merrimen (Schreiber) whose crew of ex-Marines are looking to rob mil...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris look back at 2024 and talk about some of their picks for the best and worst movies of 2024. On the best side, there are movies like Dune: Part Two, Deadpool & Wolverine, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, The Fall Guy, Late Night with the Devil , and Alien: Romulus . Some of the guys' least favorite movies include Argylle , Joker: Folie a Deux , and R...

For the final Everything Actioncast of 2024, Zach and Chris are getting locked up with Tango & Cash, which celebrated its 35th anniversary earlier this week. Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell co-star as Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash, two cops from opposite sides of Los Angeles with drastically different styles but an equal amount of massive drug busts.  Unknown to both cops, crime kingpin...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris return to Pandora to discuss 2009's Avatar, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary. Directed by James Cameron, Sam Worthington is Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine who heads to the planet Pandora to pilot the "Avatar" of his murdered scientist brother.  The Avatars are genetically grown bodies that are human and Na'vi hybrids, the Na'vi...

Continuing the annual holiday tradition, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Joe Penta for another Home Alone movie commentary, this time the 2002 made-for-TV sequel, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House . Returning to the McCallister family, Peter (Jason Beghe) and Kate (Clare Carey) are finalizing a divorce, with Peter shacking up with his rich new girlfriend Natalie (Joanna Going). ...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hunt down malfunctioning robots and discuss 1984's Runaway, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Written and directed by Michael Crichton, Tom Selleck stars as Jack Ramsey, the lead officer of the "Runaway" division in the far-flung future of 1991.  Tasked with stopping out-of-control robots, Ramsey and his new partner Karen Thompso...