Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are heading to PAX Unplugged in Philadelphia. To get into the board gaming mood, they discuss the 1995 classic Jumanji. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji stars Robin Williams as Allan Parrish, who is sucked into the titular jungle-themed board game in 1969 and trapped in its dangerous world for 26 years.  When siblings Judy...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their homemade knives and dive into 2003's The Hunted, which just released on 4K for the first time. Directed by the late William Friedkin, The Hunted stars Benicio Del Toro as Aaron Hallam, a former special forces soldier who suffers from PTSD and goes rogue, killing several people in state parks in Oregon.  His former mentor, L....

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach, Chris, and special guest Justin celebrate Thanksgiving by watching Eli Roth's 2023 holiday slasher movie. Originally a fake trailer from Grindhouse, Thanksgiving followed Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun to become a full film.  Set in Plymouth, MA, a tragic accident during a Thanksgiving night sale riot at RightMart causes several deaths.&nbsp...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris unleash hell and dive into 2000's Gladiator as the sequel, Gladiator II, hits theaters this weekend. Directed by Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe stars as Maximus Decimus Meridius, a beloved Roman general who is betrayed by the spiteful son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris), Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who steals power for himself. ...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris determine who is the Best of the Best as the 80s martial arts classic turns 35. Starring Eric Roberts, James Earl Jones, and real-life competitive martial artist Phillip Rhee, Best of the Best is loosely based on Rhee's time in the 1980 Asia Games Tae Kwan Do championship as a member of Team USA vs South Korea.  In the movie, Rhee is Tomm...

This week for the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to San Fransokyo and discuss Big Hero 6, which came out 10 years ago this week. The first (and so far only) Marvel Comics movie from Disney Animation Studio, Big Hero 6 is very loosely based on a comic of the same name and follows teenage science genius Hiro Hamada (Ryan Potter) as he investigates his brother Tadashi's (Daniel Henney) de...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris want to play a game and discuss 2004's Saw, which just celebrated its 20th anniversary. Kicking off a massive franchise, Saw started simple with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes) and Adam (Leigh Whannell) finding themselves chained to the pipes of a dingy bathroom and realizing they are the latest victims of the Jigsaw Killer (Tobin Bell), who...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris use Time Displacement Equipment to jump back to 1984 and celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Terminator. In the movie that turned James Cameron and Arnold Schwarzenegger into household names, Arnold stars as the villainous Terminator, a killer cyborg sent back in time to kill the mother of the future leader of the human resistance in a war b...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get meta to talk about Wes Craven's New Nightmare , which celebrated its 30th anniversary. Existing in the "real world," Heather Langenkamp plays herself, an actress in Los Angeles who has terrible nightmares about a darker and more sinister version of Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund).  Wes Craven is writing a new movie in the series, but...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to lose their heads while discussing the 1999 Tim Burton movie Sleepy Hollow.  Loosely based on the classic Washington Irving short story, Johnny Depp plays Ichabod Crane, a police constable from New York City in 1799 who is dispatched to the small town of Sleepy Hollow, where a series of bizarre murders have taken place.  Tr...

For a special bonus commentary, Zach and Chris are joined by special guests Addam and Justin to celebrate Chris' birthday and watch the 1990 Cynthia Rothrock "classic," China O'Brien .  Directed by Robert Clouse, the director who brought us both Enter the Dragon and Gymkata, Rothrock stars as a police officer and martial arts instructor, China O'Brien.  After an accidental shooting, O'Br...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris kick off the spooky season with 1988's The Blob, which has a new limited edition 4K steelbook release . A remake of the 1958 Steve McQueen starring classic, the 1988 The Blob was directed by Chuck Russell and stars Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith.  When a satellite carrying a biological experiment gone wrong crashes near the small town of...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach, and Chris are joined by special guest Justin to dish out some vigilante justice and discuss 2014's The Equalizer, which came out ten years ago this week. Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a former black ops operative trying to live a quiet life in Boston working at Home Mart (legally distinct from Home Depot).  When a young woman he's befrien...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Timecop . JCVD stars as Max Walker, an agent for the Time Enforcement Commission, the agency that controls time travel.  Max uncovers a plot by the sleazy presidential candidate and senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) to exploit time travel to fund his presidential ca...

With the first animated Transformers movie in almost 40 years hitting theaters this weekend with Transformers One, Zach and Chris return to the original for this week's Everything Actioncast and talk The Tranformers: The Movie. Coming between the second and third seasons of the classic 80s cartoon series, The Transformers: The Movie is set in the far-off future of 2005, where the Decepticons have...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their katanas and discuss the certified Cannon Classic Ninja III: The Domination, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The third and final entry in the "Ninja Trilogy" produced by The Cannon Group, which includes Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination stars Lucinda Dickey as Christie, a telephone line...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to get fragged and discuss 2009's Gamer, which came out 15 years ago this week. Starring Gerard Butler as Kable, he's a death row inmate who is the star of the "video game" Slayers, created by tech billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall).  Kable is controlled by Simon (Logan Lerman) and fights in real-life death matches against o...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hit the ice to talk about the 1995 Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Sudden Death, which was just released on 4K for the first time. Van Damme plays Darren McCord, a former firefighter turned fire marshall who works at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena.  Getting tickets for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhaw...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris help you deal with any lingering Olympics fever by watching the 1997 Die Hard knock-off, Blast, starring Johnny Cage himself, Linden Ashby. Set during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the US women's swim team is taken hostage by terrorists led by Omodo (Andrew Divoff). The only hope for the hostages inside the pool facility is Jack Bryant (A...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris crank the Cantopop and unleash a flock of doves to talk about John Woo's 1989 action classic The Killer as a new version, directed by Woo himself, hits Peacock. Chow Yun-Fat stars as a skilled hitman, Ah Jong (or Jeff depending on your version) who blinds a singer, Jennie (Sally Yeh) while on a job.  Feeling guilty, he seeks her out and b...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, whoever wins, we lose because we're talking about 2004's AVP: Alien vs. Predator, which came out 20 years ago this week. There's also a new Alien movie, Alien: Romulus, in theaters right now. Directed by schlockmeister Paul WS Anderson, AVP: Alien vs Predator pits the two intergalactic entities against each other in an Antarctic pyramid discovered by Weyland...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get shell-shocked by the 2014 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , which came out 10 years ago this week. The new TMNT animated series, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , is also out on Paramount+. Produced by Michael Bay, Megan Fox stars as April O'Neil, who is trying to break her way into becoming a legitimate reporter at Chann...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the MCU multiverse and discuss Deadpool  & Wolverine (Spoilers!) The only MCU film of 2024, Deadpool & Wolverine finds Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) trying to save his universe, the Fox Marvel/X-Men universe, after the death of its "anchor being", the Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) who died in Logan is causing the universe to slowly...

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their claws and discuss 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine , the first time Wade Wilson/Deadpool and Wolverine shared the screen before this weekend's Deadpool & Wolverine. The fourth film released in Fox's X-Men franchise, X-Men Origins: Wolverine sought to show the origins of Logan (Hugh Jackman) and how he became the adamantium-cla...

For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris are joined again by special guest Phil from Digital Pimp to watch another terrible comic book movie, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. In the final Superman film starring Christopher Reeve, the madmen at The Cannon Group acquired the rights to Superman, even though they were hemorrhaging money, and pitted the Man of Steel against a radioa...