New Release

This week on New Release … repliCANs Ashley and Drew go looking for deadly machines posing as humans (where’s Derrick, by the way?). Blade Runner is Ridley Scott’s follow-up to Alien and Harrison Ford’s first movie post Indy … so … fair to say expectations are high. Combine that pedigree with techno-future sets, an epic jazz-synth score by Vangelis, and the philosophical heft of a Phillip K. Dick...

This week on New Release … regular terrestrials Ashley, Derrick, and Drew make a special new friend that teaches them how to love again. He’s a little quirky, but boy does this guy have heart. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial might just be the most influential movie of the 80s, and we’re here to celebrate its 40th anniversary. Full stop. Where the heck would we be without Elliot and co biking through th...

This week on New Release … macho macho mediums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew cross over from the audio realm to the spiritual plane. Oooooo . Do not adjust your tracking. Follow us into the light. It’s safe here, we promise. All we ask is that you to listen to us review one the freakiest ghost movies of the 80s and beyond. Poltergeist unfolds in thrilling fashion with cutting edge special effects and...

This week on New Release … timeHoppers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are running up that hill to 2022 only to find themselves spit back out in 1986. Finally, we return to Hawkins (and beyond) for Volume 1 of Stranger Things Season 4. Was it worth the wait … or has our 80s nostalgia well run dry? Spoiler alert: It overfloweth! More blood, more perms, more demented twists and turns than most dare conjur...

This week on New Release … southpaws Ashley, Derrick, and Drew enter the ring to trade blows with the Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa. This is our 111th episode of the podcast and somehow our FIRST Sylvester Stallone movie! What the hell, man. Is Rocky III a worthy entry in the most influential sports movie franchise of all time OR a bloated song & dance affair that signals the beginning of the end...

This week on New Release … real steelers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew plop headfirst back into the 80s with Arnold’s epic breakout performance. Conan the Barbarian remains a larger than life figure in our imaginations some four decades later because of the immense presence of the one-and-only Schwarzenegger. Bodybuilder. Movie Star. Governator. God. At this point what milestones are left for Arnie to...

This week on New Release … 80s babies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew phone home to where it all began. Hop on your Schwinns and join us as we preview an unprecedented fun-run of sci-fi and action movies that hit theaters in the Summer of 1982 . More rippling muscles, bumps in the night, and synthesized cityscapes than you can count on ten glowing fingertips. Has it really been 40 years since Kurt Russe...

This week on New Release … scum bums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take a road trip East bound and down South. Honk-honk . Burt Reynolds and Sally Field star in Smokey and the Bandit —the second-biggest movie of 1977. Move over Star Wars , there’s a new mustache rodeo rolling through town. We bring our deep personal history with hot cars and diablo sandwiches to the table for this extra saucy discours...

This week on New Release … padawans Ashley, Derrick, and Drew react to one of the most influential films of all time as if they’ve never seen it before. The Force is NOT strong with these ones. However, we do our damndest to capture how exciting it must’ve been to see George Lucas’ space opus in theaters 45 years ago. The immense world building and cutting edge special effects combined with so man...

*Special new New Release* This week thrashers Derrick and Drew talk skate while Ashley vacays at an undisclosed tropical paradise. Happy Birthday! Left on our own, the D-boys figure it’s high time to pop back to the present for a new doc chronicling the legendary rise of Tony Hawk. Until the Wheels Fall Off starts in the late 70s, with some scrawny kid attempting goofy tricks, and then keeps going...

This week on New Release … thirst traps Ashley and Drew (where’s Derrick?) develop a taste for something sick and sticky sweet—no, we’re not talking about Canadian maple syrup. With Rabid , bastion of body horror David Cronenberg places a blood-sucking protuberance in the unlikeliest of places—just you wait! Part zombie / part pandemic / part revenge flick, there’s a lot of meat to suck off this h...

*w/ Special Guest Jamie!* This week on New Release … pencil nuts Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and James galavant around a polluted, nightmarish hellscape meticulously crafted by David Lynch in his feature debut. Eraserhead is dark and twisted and uncompromising in its vision, whatever that may be, to whomever may consume it. It’s art that uses a stark imagery and persistent sound to overwhelm the senses...

This week on New Release … hipcats Ashley, Derrick, and Drew shake their groove things back to a funkadelic decade they never got to experience first hand. High time to hit the late 70s, ya dig? And what better way to kick off a new semester of New Release than by previewing the MONUMENTAL and weird films that came out during this Spring of of ‘77 season. Starting with an industrial nightmare dram...

This week on New Release … student bodies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew blast into outer space with their old friend Jason Voorhees. This tenth installment in the historic Friday the 13th franchise may very well be the sexiest, bloodiest, and certainly the dumbest Jason movie to date. Speaking of dates, this movie takes place 455 years in the future—for some reason—creating a true Sci-Fi-Slasher-Skine...

This week on New Release … home invaders Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are busting open a modern masterpiece and mining it for cinematic gold. What a dazzling display of camera work, performance, and taut screenwriting to be had in David Fincher’s thriller Panic Room . Jodie Foster fights for her life AND the life of her daughter, played by a plunky newcomer Kristen Stewart—K-Stew for short. Will this...

*Holy shit!* 100 weeks straight of putting out a new episode of New Release and somehow it feels like we’re just getting started. On this very special episode … OGs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go places and do things never before heard on this intergalactic, multi-planetary audio program. We share our ‘Top 5 Movies that Made Us Love Movies’ lists. Followed by a rousing game of ‘Name that New Release...

This week on New Release … button mashers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take on the most anticipated video game adaptation since Mortal Kombat . Will the tension and horror of Resident Evil the game translate to the big screen or fall flat like a zombie with its head cut off? Milla Jovovich and Michelle Rodriguez bring their action A-games to what isn’t considered an A-list movie by many people. But t...

This week on New Release … bloodsuckers Derrick, Drew, and super returning guest Jamie break out their finest leathers for a sick night out at the movies. We’re here for Aaliyah as ‘Queen of the Damned’ and as ‘Mother of All Vampires’ and harbinger of ‘Hell on Earth’. Bring it on, we say. What happens when a flamboyant vampire decides to step out of the shadows and announce themselves as a hardcor...

This week on New Release … spring chickens Ashley, Derrick, and Drew say goodbye to 1999 and howdy-doody to 2002. What a time to be alive. Our high school experience kicks into overdrive as we choose a NR Teen Movie Award winner and reveal the next five movies we’ll be slaying on the podcast. I hope you like early aughts special effects, alt rock soundtracks, and lots of people in leather. Giddy u...

This week on New Release … schemers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew follow the exploits of a few bad kids in the big apple with too much hormone on their hands. Cruel Intentions answers the question of what happens when you take the hottest teen ‘throbs of the late 90s and have them engage in hard drugs and light incest. Gellar, Phillippe, Witherspoon, and more find themselves entangled in a twisted gam...

*w/ Special Guest Jamie!* This week on New Release … candy queens Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and James find themselves one hell of a sticky situation. Jawbreaker is a wolf with sharp fangs dressed in Cher’s wardrobe from Clueless . Because it’s R-rated, this teen comedy gets to go places its peers can’t, like getting away with murder. Rose McGowan, Judy Greer, and lots of other fresh faces turn up in...

This week on New Release … atomic babes Ashley, Derrick, and Drew emerge from a long period of self-isolation to see what’s changed over the years. For starters, how did Brendan Fraser go from 90s phenom to fish out of work? Blast from the Past pairs Miss Clueless with knock-off Tarzan for a rom-com unlike any you’ve ever seen. That is, of course, assuming you’ve been living in a bomb shelter your...

*w/ Special Guest Jamie!* This week on New Release … heartthrobs Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and James ditch the glasses and let their hair down. God, it’s important to look hot when analyzing a stone-cold classic like She’s All That . We got all your favorite 20-something teen icons—Freddie P, P-Dub, Matty Lillard, and RLC—coming together to turn an ugly duckling into a beautiful Laney swan. Will the...

This week on New Release … second stringers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew get called up to play with the A-squad. Varsity Blues , starring James Van Der Beek, among others, is god’s gift to sports and teen movies all in one tight package. We go deep into what football means to small towns in Texas and why parents have nothing better to do than drink Lone Star and watch their boys run Oop-de-Oops at pr...

*Season 3 Premiere* This week on New Release … old timers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go back to school for six weeks of the most memorable teen movies ever. In this very special episode, we reveal our first new time period of the year and preview which movies we’ll be hitting the multiplex to see. If you like high school drama half as much as us, you’ll love what we have in store for you this semes...