New Release

This week on *NEW* New Release (episode #165) … godpodders Ashley and Drew are hanging up their time traveling jumpboots in favor of present day period pants. Or something like that. ‘Tis the bitter end of our nostalgic old school movie era on New Release … as we make way for the dawn of streaming content. Same as 2001: A Space Odyssey … we will grapple with the mysteries of how life evolves and p...

This week on New Release (episode #164) … yay-slayers Ashley and Drew bring back the fantasy teen TV show that changed everything—only to shove a pointy stake in its heart. After seven years, two networks, countless apocalypses, and the death and rebirth of Buffy , it’s finally time to say goodbye to Sunnydale. We discuss whether this finale stuck the landing or overslayed its welcome. What was it...

This week on New Release (episode #163) … former teens Ashley and Drew take one last trip to Capside. For six angst-filled seasons, Dawson’s Creek tackled the most important issues facing young adults today, back then. Hormones. False idols. Ennui. One love triangle to rule them all. Dawson-Joey-Pacey—will they/won’t they—it’s all coming to a head. What would Spielberg do if he was trapped in bagg...

This week on New Release … bad glitches Ashley, Derrick, and Drew dive back into The Matrix . Reloaded . Sequel season continues as we pick up where Neo and co left off back in 1999. Some humans are free, choice is illusory, love conquers all … these movies are either like super deep or super shallow depending on how you look at it. Still, if you’re here for kung-fu action combined with car chases...

This week on New Release (episode #161) … baby mutants Derrick and Drew go back to a special time in superhero cinema. Before we had a 30+ film MCU there was only X2 . Well, there was Superman and Batman and Spider-Man and X1 but still, seeing comic book characters on the big screen in 2003 felt more exciting, somehow. Wolverine, Prof X, Rogue, Jean, Magneto, all your faves are back … along with n...

This week on New Release (episode #160) … endangered strangers Ashley and Drew take shelter from the storm in a shabby roadside motel. Identity is a who’s-who of notable actors (Cusack, Liotta, Peet, to name a few) caught in a really twisted game of Clue . Who put Miss Scarlet’s head in the laundry room with a baseball bat? You’ll never guess … the real killer is … unless you see the twist coming...

This week on New Release (episode #159) … daggum diggers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are working their butts off to build character, s’posedly. Holes is an artifact of a time before Shia became a Transformer , a Nymphomaniac , a meme, a criminal, and a father. LaBeouf baggage aside, this Disney book adaptation is wholesome fun for the whole fam. Does its plot make a lick of sense? Are these characte...

This week on New Release (episode #158) … bonebags Ashley and Drew hop aboard Captain Spaulding’s fried chicken and murder ride. House of 1000 Corpses is pretty much what you’d expect—in the best way—from Rob Zombie’s moving making debut. His hardcore rock and horror sensibilities and sick sense of humor all shine through in this Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Music Video production. We talk about w...

This week on New Release (episode #157) … Wickotine addicts Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are back in 2023 for the biggest action event of the year! JW4 goes harder than ever on that martial arts meets gun-fu fighting style the series has perfected over the course of nine years now. What a beautiful and engrossing world the creators have given us. But with all that eye candy to digest, we’re left wond...

This week on New Release (episode #156) … soot balls Ashley, Derrick, and Drew plunge into the beautiful and frightening spirit world. Splish-splash . Spirited Away might be the most well known of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s incredibly deep film catalog, and deservingly so. The level of emotional and visual immersion you feel following young Chihiro on her journey to find herself and save h...

This week on New Release (episode #155) … hostfaces Ashley and Drew take a stab at the plucky franchise that’s been schooling us in horror for over 25 years. Scream VI —The New Class or The College Years—is a direct sequel to last year’s requel that introduced Jenna Ortega and company to the legacy franchise. We share our thoughts on the new ‘Core 4’ dynamic, run through the kills, and play Guess...

This week on New Release (episode #154) … poshcasters Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are joined by superstar guests Jamie and Jenn to kick around an old favorite. Bend It Like Beckham is multi-cultural celebration of women pursuing their dreams. What a joy to watch something from the early aughts that hasn’t turned cringe over the years. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, the strong Indian influence gives th...

This week on New Release (episode #153 overall and #2—of 2—in our BAD NEWS BEARS miniseries) … apex podcasters James, Jenn, and Drew form a line for the latest, greatest movie about a big animal doing massive amounts of cocaine. Cocaine Bear is what it says it is. Based on approximately 1% of a real news story from the 80s—where a bear died after ingesting drugs that fell from the sky—this piece o...

This week on New Release (episode #152) … old ass pledges Derrick and Drew join a brotherhood of misfits. Old School takes one dumb idea—what if middle-aged men started a frat—and expands that into a feature length adult comedy. The performances by Ferrell, Wilson, and Vaughn are on point, as always, but how does everything else hold up? Boys will be boys, I guess, no matter what age they reach. T...

This week on New Release (episode #151 overall and #1—of 2—in our BAD NEWS BEARS miniseries) … Pooh aficionados Jenn, Mo, and Drew go knee-deep in a new honey pot of horror. W-t-P: Blood and Honey shamelessly exploits our history with a boy and his beloved bestie bear to mixed success. Sure, we’ve always wondered if Pooh had abandonment issues and now we have our answer. Hell yes. And Piglet, too....

This week on New Release (episode #150) … convicts Ashley and Drew double down with their bad selves. Infinity Pool puts viewers in the uncomfortable position of watching what happens to your humanity when you see a perfect duplicate of yourself—being executed—in your place. Is that the ultimate thrill, the vacation of a lifetime, or the beginning your inevitable decent into nothingness? We’re so...

This week on New Release (episode #149) … love gurus Ashley, Derrick, and Drew dispense with all the dating DON’Ts you can handle. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days started as a joke of a picture book, but then quickly inspired one of the biggest romcom pictures of the early aughts. The pairing of Hudson & McConaughey delighted audiences to the tune of mega millions and cranked their collective star po...

This week on New Release … numskulls Ashley, Derrick, and Drew face their worst fears. Logs. Final Destination 2 is a tragic tale about having your spring break ruined by a stupid highway disaster. Not fair, man. Cheating death is what we’ve been training our whole lives for. All you have to do is break the order or save a baby or drive into a lake. If that fails, then fast forward to the next mov...

This week on New Release (episode #147 overall and #2—of 2—in our SUNDANCE ‘03 miniseries) … local yokels Ashley and Drew go all-in on the indie experience. All the Real Girls is a sweet slice of Southern life starring Paul Schneider (who you may know from Parks & Rec), Zooey Deschanel, and Danny ‘Bust-Ass’ McBride. There’s a naturalism and beauty to the way writer-director David Gordon Green capt...

This week on New Release (episode #146 overall and #1—of 2—in our SUNDANCE ‘03 miniseries) … festies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew hit the road to Park City, Utah for the annual Sunny-D indie film festival. Let’s start with American Splendor , the bold and authentic biopic/documentary film that won over audiences and jury members alike. We get into what makes this unusual mix of storytelling styles so...

This week on New Release … lil’ runts Derrick and Drew traverse the violent underbelly of Rio de Janeiro. City of God captures the extreme highs and extreme lows of life in the favela. We follow The Tender Trio, Rocket, Carrot, Benny, Li’l Dice, Knockout Ned, and dozens more characters playing the shitty hands they were dealt as best they can. Their stories are told with so much energy and verve a...

*Season 4 Premiere* This week on New Release … old fools Ashley, Derrick, and Drew look ahead to looking back at a life changing year for movies. 2003 perfectly encapsulates the beautiful mess that is early aughts cinema. We get to bounce between formative indies like Thirteen and Lost in Translation to the dramatic conclusions of both the Lord of the Rings and Matrix franchises. And who could for...

New Release presents Episode #4—the final one—of our first annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries … nogged-up Drew welcomes Jamie and Meg to the party to ring in Christmas with a POW , pal! Join us for our yearly tradition of marveling over Bruce Willis’ greased up tank and totally bare feet in Die Hard . Nakatomi Plaza is the only place to be this holiday season … come on up to the 30th floor and don...

New Release presents Episode #3 of our first annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries … attic addicts Ashley, Derrick, and Drew watch in horror as a groundbreaking slasher movie gets remade and butchered time and time again. Four years before Halloween , Black Christmas laid the groundwork that so many future psycho killers would follow. Obscene phone calls (coming from where???). Memorable deaths. Fema...

New Release presents Episode #2 of our first annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries … animatronic Ashley, Derrick, and Drew, with a special call-in by Jamie, bite off two giant patties of holiday beef to gnaw on this week. Hopper from Stranger Things dons a Santa suit in the action-packed Violent Night (in theaters now). Meanwhile, a robot terminator Santa axe murders hipsters in Christmas Bloody Chri...