Matinee Heroes

SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME Welcome to Episode 1 of Season 4 Show Notes We're back, baby!!!  And we have the biggest movie of 2021 - Spider-Man: No Way Home. If you want to watch the show, you can head over to matineeheroes.com/castoff where you’ll find all the links to past and current episodes. Feel free to email MHCastoff@gmail.com to offer up feedback, suggest movies for the Castoff or just to say...

THE COLOR OF MONEY Fast Eddie Felson, he still believes that "money won is twice as sweet as money earned." To prove his point, he forms a profitable yet volatile partnership with Vince, a young pool hustler with a sexy, tough-talking girlfriend. But when Vince's flashy arrogance leads to more than a few lost matches, all bets are off between Eddie and him. Craig and Alan discuss the ego, legacy s...

VANILLA SKY Young, handsome and wealthy, publishing tycoon David Aames can have anything his heart desires. Still, David’s charmed life seems incomplete. One night, David meets the woman of his dreams and believes he may have found the missing piece. But a fateful encounter with a jealous lover suddenly sends David’s world out of control, rocketing him on a roller-coaster ride of romance, sex, sus...

ARGO On Nov. 4, 1979, militants storm the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, taking 66 American hostages. Amid the chaos, six Americans manage to slip away and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador. Knowing that it's just a matter of time before the refugees are found and likely executed, the U.S. government calls on extractor Tony Mendez smuggle the six embassy workers to safety in a daring rescue...

QUIZ SHOW When the network decides to bring in a more telegenic contestant, the WASP-ish Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), to replace Queens-born Herbie Stempel. Stempel takes aim at the show, announcing that the game is rigged. An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee Dick Goodwin is brought in to examine the claim that winners were given the answers. Craig, Alan and g...

ALMOST FAMOUS 15-year-old William Miller’s writing talent and earnest passion for rock music earns him an assignment for Rolling Stone, interviewing and touring with Stillwater. Penny Lane is the young groupie who guides him through the wild world of rock heroes, all-night parties, and the most dangerous intensity of all—love. Craig, Alan, and guest Sam Mattos (@mevsyoupodcast on twitter) discuss...

OUT OF SIGHT When a bank robber and his partner escape from prison, they soon find US marshals hot on their trail. Unexpectedly, however, the robber soon finds himself falling for one of the cops trying to arrest him. Craig and Alan discuss movies for adults, getting over Covid, Elmore Leonard and the movie "Out of Sight" on this week’s Matinee Heroes. Show Notes 0:47 Craig and Alan discuss Alan's...

CONTACT Dr. Ellie Arroway races to interpret a possible message originating from the Vega star system. Once first contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence is proven, Arroway contends with restrictive National Security Advisors and religious fanatics bent on containing the implications of such an event. An incredible message is found hidden in the signal, but will Arroway be the one to answer...

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, they must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War. Craig, Elisabeth Rappe (@elisabethrappe on twitter) and...

TRUE GRIT Mattie Ross is determined to avenge her father's blood by capturing Tom Chaney, the man who shot and killed him for two pieces of gold. Just fourteen, she enlists the help of Rooster Cogburn, a one-eyed, trigger-happy U.S. Marshall with an affinity for drinking and hardened Texas Ranger LaBoeuf to track the fleeing Chaney. Despite their differences, their ruthless determination leads the...

CATCH ME IF YOU CAN Frank Abagnale, Jr. worked as a doctor, a lawyer, and as a co-pilot for a major airline -- all before his 18th birthday. A master of deception, he was also a brilliant forger, whose skill gave him his first real claim to fame: At the age of 17, Frank became the most successful bank robber in the history of the U.S. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty makes it his prime mission to capture F...

JURASSIC PARK Paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are among a select group chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond, assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt. Craig,  Alan and guest Charlie Brigden (...

AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE In the not-so-distant future an advanced prototype robot child named David is programmed to show unconditional love, but his human family find themselves unprepared for the consequences. Suddenly, David is on his own in a strange and dangerous world. Befriended by a streetwise Mecha, David embarks on a spectacular quest to discover the startling secret of his own identi...

LINCOLN With the Civil War raging, and the death toll rising, the president of the United States focuses his energies on passage of the 13th Amendment to abolish slavery in the untold story of the final four months of the man regarded as America's greatest President. Abraham Lincoln Craig, Alan and special guest James Oliphant (@JamesOliphant on twitter), the white house correspondent at Reuters,...

PADDINGTON After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. Although taken in by the Brown family who are charmed by Paddington's amazement at urban living, someone else has her eye on him: A taxidermist who has designs on the rare bear and his hide. Craig, Alan, Elisabeth Rappe (@ElisabethRappe on twitter) and Brend...

APOLLO 13 Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell Fred Haise and Jack Swigert find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, their scheduled moon landing is called off. Tensions within the crew and mounting technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and their safe return to Earth. Craig and guest co-host Mark Woodri...

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS In the early 1960s, during the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity. However, a situation soon tears their friendship apart. Craig and guest co-host Zaki Hassan (@zakiscorner on twitter) discuss lost opp...

DUNE Welcome to Episode 30 of Season 3 Show Notes The spice must flow on the season finale of CastOFF as Steve Kondrick and Cary Gordon recast the original Dune. If you want to watch the show, you can head over to matineeheroes.com/castoff where you’ll find all the links to past and current episodes. Feel free to email MHCastoff@gmail.com to offer up feedback, suggest movies for the Castoff or jus...

DUNE In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul, Leto's son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle...

DOCTOR WHO LIVE FROM FANX SALT LAKE Welcome to Episode 29 of Season 3 Show Notes Live from FanX Salt Lake, Robert Neal and Brandon Ushio recast Doctor Who!! If you want to watch the show, you can head over to matineeheroes.com/castoff where you’ll find all the links to past and current episodes. Feel free to email MHCastoff@gmail.com to offer up feedback, suggest movies for the Castoff or just to...

SCREAM After a series of mysterious deaths, an offbeat group of scary movie fans become the target of a masked killer. As the body count begins, it's clear that the rules must be followed, and everyone's a suspect. Craig and guest co-host Brendan Agnew (@BLCAgnew on twitter) talk about the language of Horror, breaking the rules, the Great Pumpkin and the movie “Scream’ on this week’s Matinee Villa...

ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES Welcome to Episode 28 of Season 3 Show Notes They're crazy and they're kooky - Not our contestants Elisabeth Rappe and Jake Dietz - but the movie their recasting: Addams Family Values! If you want to watch the show, you can head over to matineeheroes.com/castoff where you’ll find all the links to past and current episodes. Feel free to email MHCastoff@gmail.com to offer up fee...

THEY LIVE A wanderer without meaning in his life, discovers a pair of sunglasses capable of showing the world the way it truly is. both the media and the government are comprised of subliminal messages meant to keep the population subdued, and that most of the social elite are skull-faced aliens bent on world domination. With this shocking discovery, Nada fights to free humanity from the mind-cont...

BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA Welcome to Episode 27 of Season 3 Show Notes John Wick takes on Commissioner Gordon in Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Randy REDACTED takes on Tracy Mangum to recast Bram Stoker's Dracula! If you want to watch the show, you can head over to matineeheroes.com/castoff where you’ll find all the links to past and current episodes. Feel free to email MHCastoff@gmail.com to offer up feedb...

THE OMEN American diplomat Robert secretly adopts Damien when his wife, Katherine delivers a stillborn child. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist. Craig is joined  by Avish Parashar and Michael worth of the In a World... Improvised Movie Homages podcast to discuss antichr...