New Release

New Release presents Episode #1 of our first annual KILLER CHRISTMAS miniseries … all month long we’re wrecking your halls with HOWWLS and OWWWies . This week, naughty little helpers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go abroad to ring in Christmas in Paris. Joyeux Noël, witches. A year before the release of Home Alone —aka ‘Mommy I Missed the Plane’—something called Dial Code Santa Claus (among other name...

This week on New Release … trout sniffers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew galavant around NYC playing a deadly game of cat and mouse. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is exactly the same as Home Alone except the Wet Bandits be Sticky and that misunderstood Old Man is now a Pigeon Gal. New city, same old Kev. Armed with a Talkboy and wads of cash, it’s time for this plucky kid to kick ice cream and eat but...

This week on New Release … count Derrick and coo-coo Drew explore the tragic origins of an OG vampire. Bram Stoker’s Dracula , directed by The Godfather himself, is a gothic romance spanning oceans of time. Costumes, hair, blood, boobs … Coppola dials everything up to the absolute max in this beautiful movie—except for maybe Keanu’s energy. Dude is chill AF considering the circumstances. Regardles...

This week on New Release … Disney babies Ashley, Drew, and special call-in guest Jamie discuss an animated film for the first time ever on the podcast. What? How is that possible? Right from the jump, Aladdin is magical musical adventure ride we wouldn’t dare get off. Robin Williams slays as Genie. The vibrant desert setting is intoxicating. The romance is borderline PG-steamy. And Jafar can suck...

This week on New Release … scumbags Ashley and Drew finally get down on some classic Tarantino pulpy-puppy goodness. Reservoir Dogs is a heist movie minus the heist that focuses more on colorful characters and whiz-bang smack talk than action. The story unfolds through flashbacks intercut with the aftermath of a robbery gone south. The music, the pop culture speeches, the buckets of blood … all of...

*Happy Halloween* This week on New Release … three podcasters, Ashley, Derrick, and Drew, disappear into the woods recording an overnight episode. This tape is all that remains. What you are about to hear is their farewell to The Blair Witch Project and all the wonderful times they had along the way. Why is Drew at wit’s end again with Derrick? Where did Ashley sneak off to? Whose tongue is that o...

This week on New Release … ghoul-kids Ashley, Derrick, and Drew cancel their appointment with Dr. Giggles so they can talk about 90s horror movies that are actually good. We reveal the fright flicks that got stuck in our blood and guts and dark crevices of our gooey baby brains and never went away. Who can forget their first encounter with a killer clover sucker or high school witch pack or Rebecc...

This week on New Release … hookers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew get freaked out by another Clive Barker classic. Candyman terrorizes the residents of Cabrini-Green and anyone who dare doesn’t believe. Candyman holds the power of hypnotism in one hand and a bloody hook in the other. Candyman is a misunderstood artist. Candyman eats bees for breakfast. Candyman comes when you say his name five times! O...

Big BnBers Ashley and Drew couldn’t resist talking about one of the scariest, most surprising horror movies to show up in a long time. So here we, twice in one week, coming to you (a)live from New Release studios … located down the stairs, in the basement, behind a false wall, past the bloody mattress, down more stairs, watch out for the cages, follow the flicker of an old VHS player and the not-s...

This week on New Release … chain gang Ashley, Derrick, and Drew return to the soft, fleshy underbelly of the human condition. Hellraiser (2022) , on Hulu, is a reimagination, let’s call it, of the provocative world and mythos created by Clive Barker back in 1987. This new version features a delightfully deviant performance by Jamie Clayton as ‘The Hell Priest’ aka ‘Lady Pinhead’. The Cenobite desi...

This week on New Release … born stars Ashley and Drew peep one gem of a performance by Mia Goth. Pearl takes us on a twisted, technicolor journey all the way back to 1918. There, we learn more about the monster from Ti West and Mia’s previous movie ‘X’. Scarecrows and gators and pitchforks DIE DIE! Follow us down the yellowdick road as we rank eras of adult filmmaking and lament a certain loss of...

This week on New Release … double Ds Derrick & Drew team up with Evan & Jake of the Handsome Hockey Podcast to discuss the best (???) hockey movie of all time. How does The Mighty Ducks hold up 30 years after it introduced a whole generation of kids to the grandeur of Canada’s national pastime. Puck please! Join us as we celebrate how these scrappy little Duckies inspired so many people to strap o...

This week on New Release … gods of grunge Derrick and Drew—with Mark on the hotline—explore Seattle’s dating scene in the early 90s. Singles is a regular who’s-who of famous actors and music legends from the Pacific Northwest. Where else can you see Bridget Fonda performing alongside the lead singer of Soundgarden? Or Eddie Vedder giving Matt Dillon dating tips? Somehow Cameron Crowe made the ulti...

This week on New Release … hellcats Ashley and Drew strap in for a wicked good time at the Boiler Room. Hellraiser III picks up where Pinhead and co left off in their quest to unleash mankind’s deepest, darkest impulses. Mini meathooks ripping through flesh. Killer compact discs. More leather than Mad Max . This movie is the ultimate exercise in, ironically, lack of restraint. If you like your bad...

This week on New Release … special agents Derrick, Drew, and a mystery caller return to Twin Peaks. In Fire Walk With Me —a prequel movie to the show—we follow Laura Palmer, played by Sheryl Lee, in her final days before her tragic ‘wrapped in plastic’ introduction. Being a Lynch picture, this nightmare story presents more questions than answers, using dream logic to show, best he can, the duality...

This week on New Release … lucky duckies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew time jump from one dope decade to the next. The Fall of 1992 will take you back to school, back to hell, and back to Twin Peaks. The seasonal vibes are strong as we cover our first Tarantino one week and first animated Disney flick shortly thereafter. We got range, y’all! You like serious horror? Here’s some candy, man. You like ho...

This week on New Release … beastie boys Ashley, Derrick, and Drew end the summer of 1982 much like it began. From master of muscles Conan to Dar’s mix-mastering of dope beasts, we’ve come full circle on our quest to crown an adventure movie champion. Do you prefer Arnold’s massive pythons or The Beastmaster’s wily ferrets? We also get to rehash one of our favorite 80s topics … how in the hell is t...

This week on New Release … stiffs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take another stab at their old pal Jason Voorhees. We got him this time, guys, seriously. Friday the 13th Part 3 is the third F13 movie to be featured on our podcast but it’s the first 3D flick we’ve ever set our sights on. Prepare yourself for some eye-popping descriptions of, well, eyes popping, among many other protruding parts. Is the...

This week on New Release … wasteoids Ashley, Derrick, and Drew peep the high school movie that taught high movies how to be cool. I’m sure you remember Fast Times for Spicoli, the pool scene, or Damone’s terrible rules of seduction … but there’s way more to it than that. It’s a coming of age story that genuinely cares about the emotional journey Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character is on. There’s no s...

This week on New Release … gearheads Ashley and Drew inject pure cinematic gasoline into their veins. The Road Warrior (aka Mad Max 2) picks up right where its post-apocalyptic predecessor left off—only now with more octane! More explosive chases, more flamboyant baddies, and more leather than a Def Leppard concert. Mel Gibson doesn’t need to speak, really, to be a perfect vehicle for the archetyp...

This week on New Release … ass-kicking cowboys Derrick and Drew are joined by *all-star guest Jamie* to give Chuck Norris his overdue-due. This (forced) viewing of Forced Vengeance is a big milestone for the soft-spoken pedestrian Texan ranger. Finally, Señor Norris—like JCVD and Seagal before him—can proudly say he’s been featured on New Release. A regular Mustache vs Butt vs Ponytail hoedown. Sa...

This week on New Release … freaky felines Ashley, Derrick, and Drew reunite for a walk on the wild side. Grrrrr . Is Cat People the horniest movie we’ve watched for the podcast? Yes. Does it have its fair share of ups and downs? Wink-wink . You bet. BUT it also blends horror and fantasy in ways that at least some of us finds oddly satisfying. There’s the sultry New Orleans scenery, oyster diners,...

This week on New Release … power users Ashley and Drew go deep inside the game grid … searching for Derrick … who knows? TRON, starring Jeff Bridges, has to be one of the most visually groundbreaking and revolutionary experiences ever captured on screen. For real? For real. We discuss how these trippy computer effects hold up today and how it all stacks up against CGI in modern films. Move over Ma...

This week on New Release … Hellfire wannabes Derrick and Drew, along with *super special returning guest Jenn* visit the Upside Down for a final(?) battle with Vecna. We have so much ground to cover with our Hawkins friends still spread out from the West Coast to Mother Russia. Now, with only one season to go, the endgame is upon us and everyone’s in over their heads. Eddie shreds, Dustin cheers,...

This week on New Release … thingamabobbers Ashley and Drew (Derrick’s gone fishin’) thaw out a John Carpenter masterwork of gore and suspense. The Thing dives headlong into human psyche and inhuman anatomy in equal measures. What it leaves to your imagination on one hand, it doubles down on in dog heads with the other. Who says you can’t split the baby. Kurt Russel goes all in on hair, beard, and...