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This week on New Release … bad glitches Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are back in 2021 partying like it’s 1999. A lot has changed since the first Matrix came out and blew everyone away with its stylized action and philosophical bent. However, The Matrix Resurrections ain’t about to forget for a second where it came from. It’s a commentary on itself and the dorm room discussions that followed and the c...

This week on New Release … undercover Arnold lovers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew re-enroll in a classroom classic. Our podcast has chronicled Schwarzenegger’s epic journey from Conan to Terminator to Mars to playing Mr. Kimble in … Kindergarten Cop . A perfect way for us to say goodbye to 1990 and hello to whatever timeline we end up in next. Let’s find out if this lovable childhood flick still tickl...

This week on New Release … Ashley, Derrick, and Drew don’t want no shrubs . Nope, they want to reconnect with the strange humanity of a boy given scissors for hands. Edward Scissorhands aches with sadness and beauty and the specific brand of weirdness only Tim Burton brings to the screen. A potent cocktail. And a Christmas movie. What more could you want? Get with the program by searching ‘ New Re...

This week on New Release … mall Santas Ashley, Derrick, and Drew preview the home stretch of 1990. There are only THREE films left before we ring in a new year but boy are we excited to unwrap them with you. Here’s a hint: one features a character who could moonlight as a Christmas tree shaper and another stars somebody in really, really good shape. We’ll also fill you in the latest mall shenaniga...

This week on New Release … dirty birdies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew enjoy an all-expense paid winter getaway hosted by Annie Wilkes, our #1 podcast fan. Only catch? Our legs are shattered six different ways to Sunday and nobody knows we’re here. But that free soup! Anyway, if it’s been a while since you last saw Kathy Bates’ iconic turn in Misery , then consider this your reminder to revisit one of...

This week on New Release … hunters from the future Ashley, Derrick, and Drew stalk another sequel to a past classic. What Predator 2 lacks in Arnold-ness, it makes up for in blood, guts, and gunfire. Sort of. There are some badass elements here, for sure, even if the setting and story are convoluted as all hell. Danny Glover does what he can to fill the massive shadow left by Arnie’s absence, but...

This week on New Release … filthy animals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew stay up way past their bedtimes to watch a movie that audiences are going gaga over. Home Alone is a kid’s dream come true with a survivalist twist. Will Kevin successfully fend off two bumbling home invaders using his wits … or will the Wet Bandits rain on his pizza parade? This showdown for all ages packs more punch than its pin...

This week on New Release … good guys Ashley, Derrick, and Drew ring in November of 1990 by digging up old childhood trauma. Child’s Play 2 follows in the tiny footsteps of the original, iconic killer doll movie and cements what will be another two-plus decades (and counting) of Chucky stuff. Will Derrick ever escape the red-haired skeleton in his closet or is the thought of an innocent toy coming...

This week on New Release … chiropractors Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go on the trip of a lifetime with Tim Robbins. Full of haunting imagery, psycho dread, and tension of flesh and mind, Jacob’s Ladder is the perfect capstone on our monthlong odyssey into horror hell. We try our best to parse what’s real versus imagined and what difference it makes anyway. This movie won’t give you nightmares, it IS...

This week on New Release … cellar dwellers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go rootin’ around in the recesses of the SKU (Stephen King Universe) to earn an honest night’s wage. Graveyard Shift is a monster movie with horrifying acting and darn good creature effects, I must say. If you can stomach the cartoonish characters long enough to get to good gory bits, you might have a surprising fun time. If not,...

This week on New Release … undead Ashley, Derrick, and Drew resuscitate a remake of the zombie movie that started it all. This Night of the Living Dead stays quite faithful to Romero’s original, but with more gore, sick makeup, and a slightly faster action than before. Whether or not this new version *needs* to exists is up for debate, as is what in the hell is wrong Mr. Cooper. If you like your z...

This week on New Release … hot corn eaters Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go on a little vacation to Nilbog, where you are what you’re eaten by … or eaten as … or something like that. Troll 2 might not make a lick of sense or have acting or be scary at all, but what it lacks in traditional quality, it makes up for in unintentional edible value. Is this THE definitive GOOD-BAD-BAD-GOOD movie of all time...

This week on New Release … frighteners Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go Fall-out previewing the upcoming crop of new films. Brace yourself for trolls, zombies, demonic dolls, AND one of the most beloved Holiday movies of all time. Would you rather be home alone or spend a few weeks at casa de Kathy Bates? So many important topics to cover, including sharing our favorite Thanksgiving meals. Say your pr...

This week on New Release … house hunters Ashley, Derrick, and Drew find the perfect piece of property in San Francisco. Only problem, they’ll need a couple tenants to help cover the costs. Why not Michael Keaton? He pays in cash and doesn’t seem sketchy at all. Oh your primary reference is a chimpanzee? That’s cool. Pacific Heights pits Matthew Modine & Melanie Griffith against the deranged Keaton...

The week on New Release … wiseguys Ashley, Derrick, and Drew break bread and stack dough—Di Niro, know what I mean, along with Pesci and Liota starring in the Martin Scorcese gangster classic GoodFellas . Best mob movie of all time, says who? Says you, or else. An epic movie like this deserves the royal treatment, but we don’t pull punches either. This Henry Hill character’s a real piece of work,...

This week on New Release … undercover prisoners Ashley and Drew (where’s Derrick?) are forced to re-evaluate one of their childhood action heroes. How does the version of Jean-Claude Van Damme we get in Death Warrant compare to Bloodsport or Lionheart or even Street Fighter ? Let’s just say our feelings were mixed. If you’ve even been let down by someone you love, then join us for a healing JCVD t...

This week on New Release … disaffected disc jockeys Derrick, Ashley, and Drew (D.A.D.) tune into a pirate radio frequency they can’t get enough of. Pump Up the Volume features Christian Slater as a shock jock of sorts named “Happy Harry Hard-on” aka “Hard Harry”. Slater channels all the teen rage and cynicism he displayed in Heathers , except he’s now found a more healthy / less murder-y way to ge...

This week on New Release … disfigured crusaders Ashley, Derrick, and Drew discover an overlooked superhero story that pops and sizzles on the big screen. Darkman , directed by Sam Raimi, is scientifically incapable of being boring. After all, this is the guy who brought you Evil Dead and eventually Spider-Man . Pair Raimi’s frenetic energy with Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand and you won’t be ab...

This week on New Release … firecrackers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew bite off a big ole hunk of burning Cage & Dern love. Wild at Heart is a road romance unlike any you’ve seen before because Lynch movies are always singular in nature. He pours high octane gasoline on the lit fuse that is Nic Cage and let’s the blood, sex, and heavy metal ensue with reckless abandon. There are inexplicable perversion...

The week on New Release … catatonic crusaders Ashley, Derrick, and Drew look pure evil in the face and live to talk about it, mostly. The Exorcist III , aka the good Exorcist sequel, departs from the original in several clever ways. Is it horror or is it a psychological serial killer thriller? Don’t put Damien in a box. There’s a lot of twisted humor, artful cinematography, and one or two cameos y...

This week on New Release … adrenaline junkies Ashley, Derrick, and Drew get down with a movie that takes on life, death, and life after death. Flatliners is a deeply weird, star-studded affair with all the subtly of a defibrillator. You get Keifer Sutherland in a pissing contest with Kevin Bacon while Julia Roberts tries—and fails—to keep us grounded. All I can say is you’re about to come back fro...

This week on New Release … burnouts Ashley, Derrick, and Drew took a week off going to the movies so we could look back (and forward) on this one-of-kind summer of film. What do Mogwai, Mars, and Bruce Willis have in common with NASCAR? Hell if we know, but they’ll end up getting run over by the GHOST of Patrick Swayze in the end. Now, with the more mainstream fare out the way, ‘tis time for the S...

This week on New Release … troublemakers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew try to survive 82 minutes with the most obnoxious kid ever captured on screen. Are we a match for Junior—the Problem Child in question—or will we be asking for refunds by the time it’s all said and done? If nothing else, we can decide whether this diaper dandy deserves its perfect 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes. Eager to hear us punch...

This week on New Release … webmasters Ashley, Derrick, and Drew (with a special mystery guest appearance) crawl into a world of creepiness. Is Arachnophobia the most viscerally freaky creature feature ever made? Thanks to the use of hundreds of real spiders, this movie taps into a universal terror in a surprisingly realistic way. And then there’s also an iconic John Goodman performance to lighten...

This week on New Release … lost souls Ashley (who’s back!), Derrick (who’s dead), and Drew (who’s in limbo) discuss the biggest breakout hit of 1990. Ghost , which made over 500 million at the box office, is a supernatural love story starry Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. I’m sure you’ve seen it, but if you haven’t, I bet you’re familiar with the famous erotic pottery scene. We discuss phallic clay...