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James & Nick 'trick or trick' in the wrong neighborhood. This one being Santa Carla, the murder capital of the world. But weirdly enough it looks like the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk (BOARDWALK!). The JPI boys vamp it up this week jumping off a foggy bridge into a first watch of The Lost Boys. Music by these extremely talented artists: "Spooky Swing (Electro Swing Mix)" - Ca...

IT'S MORBIN' TIME! Time for us to Morb out to the places we will be Morb. Can you you feel it Morbin' in the air tonight? Oh MORB! Halloween season kicks off here at the Just Play It Podcast and boy howdy it is a banger. To start the great month of October, we watched Morbius and during our first-watch reaction & movie-review breakdown episode, you will witness the very first Ho...

Steven Seagal is here to blow up the Alaskan landscape with oil, fire, shell casings and explosives. In order to save the environment, you gotta play a little dirty! James & Nick hop on a snowmobile to the last frontier of Hollywood, also known as, 1990s martial arts(?) movies! After a first watch, we share our reactions and thoughts on the only movie Steven Seagal ever directed. In this monum...

Just Play It watched 3 Fantastic movies so far this year, so why not make it a Fantastic 4th trip to the Baxter Building to round out 2025. This time though, we had to search the corners of the internet to find this hidden, no buried, gem of Roger Corman's unreleased Fantastic Four movie from 1994. Or as the Chief Corndog himself would call it, The Fantastic 199FOUR. We get into the complicat...

Halloween comes early this year as James and Nick return to the annual tradition of watching a Disney Channel Original Movie. This year our trusty wheel gave us a bit of a scare landing on the fourth installment of a beloved DCOM classic franchise, Return to Halloweentown. A movie that's just a bit past our time, with a recast main character and leans on post-Potter influence, what can go wro...

We herald a Galactus size episode to fully get into The Fantastic Four: First Steps.  James' in theaters pick of the year is the latest MCU project featuring the live-action Incredibles. We get immersed into conversation completely breaking down this movie and discussing how well it captures Marvel's first family. Strap in for a complete review, the latest in movie news, and if this movi...

Justin Time-berlake stars in the 2011 sci-fi, Andrew Niccol directed movie, In Time. Just in time for Nick's birthday (close enough), we celebrate with his movie pick (#NicksPick) of year 3 for Just Play It. Does 'In Time' stand the test of time? Is it a forgotten gem? We take a timeout to breakdown this movie in full and discuss. Times up! Cuz you're on JPI's time. Thanks...

We're so Back to the Future, Marty! It's Part II, Marty! MARTY! Wake up it's time to fast forward the clock, garbage-up Mr. Fusion, and tell Griff to BEAT IT! James and Nick get back into the DeLorean after a stint in a suspended animation kennel to revisit and rewind the clock in the franchise of the year. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justpl...

It's Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man and Cap'n Pop and the Corndog himself! Here on a whacky 90s adventure. Crank your hog into the not so distant future of 1996 to drop some Crystal Dream, mack on some macho man cheese, and see Daniel Baldwin in a Japanese Kevlar trench coat. Just Play It gives its review after a first watch of this Mickey Rourke meets Don Johnson ride. Thanks for...

Before they brought you Sharknado, the guys at The Asylum decided to become 'The Quick and the Angry' with a knock off Paul Walker, an acidic Doc Hudson, the most corrupt small time parole officer ever and MICKEY F***IN' STYLES. James and Nick go straight to video this week reusing cars and passing by in a red Taurus 3 times. They couldn't BUST the BLOCK, so they said "wel...

Nick and James wandered into a store just looking for some Old E, instead they found themselves as accomplices to movie snackin' and a car jackin'. We give Menace II Society a first watch, review, and what we took away from the ending. Get ready, it's going to be a ruthless ride, you strapped? Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justplayitpodcast &a...

Happy Star Wars week, part III! Just Play It goes Rogue and watches the best Star Wars Story LucasFilm has to offer. We discuss if it can go head-to-head against Empire and what makes this movie stand out. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justplayitpodcast & X (fka Twitter) @justplayitpod

Ronin De Niro has got one more score to settle before he hits his angry dad phase in his career. Just Play It discovers this little known action movie with a killer cast, excellent stunt driving, and good ole fashioned twists. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justplayitpodcast & X (fka Twitter) @justplayitpod

Baby Mac, Big Mac, Mac Daddy, Mickey Deez, don't matter, this movie DELIVERS not quality, but content. What started as an idea to bring the late 80s its "own version" of a classic Steven Spielberg story, ends in a fiery explosion caused by tasteless misfires, bad effects, and a priceless 'so bad that it's good' experience. James, Nick, and Ronald McDonald invite you t...

What do you get when you combine Tupac, Janet Jackson, and the United States Postal Service? You get road trip featuring romance, fighting, and a very confusing route from Los Angeles to Oakland. Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram & YouTube @justplayitpodcast & X (fka Twitter) @justplayitpod

Surfs up! It's CLOBBERIN' time as Nick and James got some serious double duty this episode. We take a look at Tim Story's two Fantastic Four movies from the 2000s to highlight their triumphs and study their missteps. We also reveal the results from the blind Oscar's predictions and check in with our multiversal-selves. Another pair of textbook "NCU" movies to add to t...

Oscars Week is here! As we prepare for the 97th Academy Awards this weekend, we do our annual tradition of a Best Picture review. Our Wheel-o-Best-Pictures landed on the 78th Academy Awards, which means we watched, reviewed, and totally broke down Crash. We were not ready for this kind of content. Get ready for a crash-course on a car-crash of a movie trying(?) to tackle a topic for some not-so-go...

You'll never guess that there's a huge problem in the small Chinese area of San Francisco. Good thing ole Jack Burton is here to do absolutely nothing, and ask 'what the hell?'. James, Nick, Wang, and Egg Shen are here to actually do something about it. A fresh look, a deep dive, and a full review that's all in the reflexes is here! Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow u...

We are so BACK for 2025 as we jump in Doc Brown's DeLorean to head back in time 40 YEARS to look at the wildly successful, impossibly produced, and absolute masterpiece, Back to the Future. This is our franchise of year for twenty-twenty five so squeeze in as we hit the road. But ya know, eventually we won't need roads, amirite? Thanks for tuning in. For more, follow us on Instagram &amp...

We've primed ourselves for this moment. Corndogs have been dipped, the kernels have been popped, the game has been preee'd. The epic stage is set for Just Play It to announce the winners for the 2nd annual Poppys & Cornys, to crown the biggest piece of crap fictional character via a divisional bracket, and to decide who is coming out on top of the first ever cinematic crossover of ch...

Merry Christmas you filthy corndogs. You get one more present to unWRAP. Our end of the year, end of the season bash is here and lucky all of us, we get it in two parts. We welcome you to pregame with us where we do the ultimate quiz gauntlet with high prize stakes, the logline AI image generator is back, we jump into the Bargain Bin to finalize a few questionable movies review scores, and we do n...

Jack is BACK for Just Play It. Upon Nick's confusion from last year of which late 90s Jack Frost movie we were watching, it's official - the chiller killer's time has come. We discuss Michael Cooney's wacky, campy Christmas killer snowman movie after a first watch. It flopped with critics, went straight to video, and is giving us the holiday fear almost 30 years later. The only...

Nick & James be hoppin' trains, planes, and switchin' lanes as we head towards the end of the year at 78 miles per hour in a burnt Chrysler. #HOBOlife. It's a first watch for Jimmy Crack Corn & a first watch (in about 15 years) for ole Nickers. Come along and join the trip, we got a seat saved for ya in Doobby's Taxiola. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thanks for tuning in...

Nick and James reach their destiny this week. It's the end of the franchise of the year as it is also the end for Indy, or is it? No it probably is. We dive into Dial on a first watch, discuss its place in the franchise and determine if this movie is really as bad as they say. Hop in an old airplane with us and take a plunge back in time as we take a look back at the entire franchise we enjoy...

James & Nick drive Uncle Ben's Oldsmobile Delta 88 into the creepy woods to find themselves at the end of the road for spooky szn. What lies ahead is evil, it is dead, and it is downright hilariously messed up. Slap a chainsaw to your arm & call me George of the Jungle, because we gotta watch out for that tree! Music by these extremely talented artists: "Spooky Swing (Electro Swi...