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This week on New Release … regular diehards Derrick and Drew are joined by super special guest Jamie, the diehardiest of the bunch. Die Hard 2 brings Bruce and company back together for another explosive Christmastime event but this time … it’s at an airport! Yes, it’s true that DH2 has a lot in common with the OG but it’s also bloodier, brawnier, and gives fewer (yet more) fucks than ever before....

This week on New Release … gearheads Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go ‘round and ‘round on a Tom Cruise NASCAR movie that time mostly forgot. Still, it is interesting to see Tom re-team with the director of Top Gun to make Days of Thunder just a few years later. How much tread is left on those hotshot tires … we’re about to find out. Not to mention the injection of real-life romance this movie gets fr...

This week on New Release … goofballs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew check out a long overdue sequel to the movie that introduced Gizmo—so cute, so cuddly, so dangerous! Does Gremlins 2: The New Batch capture what we loved about the original or does it quickly jump all sorts of sharks? (Damn, how was there not a shark-gremlin in this sucker?). We run through our favorite new monsters and highlight the s...

This week on New Release … total dicks Ashley, Derrick, Drew are joined by special guest Brian to talk about a movie he calls … ‘perfect’. Is Dick Tracy starring Warren Beatty, Al Pacino, and Madonna a comic masterpiece or a disturbing look back in time? How bout both! We discuss the impressive set design, makeup, and over-the-top performances by all sorts of old Hollywood heavyweights. Then Brian...

This week on New Release … glassbreakers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are in hot pursuit of an ice cold … man. ‘The Iceman’, let’s call him. Another 48 Hrs. brings Eddie Murphy and Nick Nolte back together for two more days of poor police work and confounding case developments. All I know is we have our work cut out for us trying to decipher anything that doesn’t go BANG or BOOM in this sucker. Oh di...

This week on New Release … headcases Ashley, Derrick, and Drew blast off to Mars for the adventure of a lifetime. Total Recall , with Arnold Schwarzenegger, features some of the most eye-popping special effects you’ll ever see combined with a plot that’ll make you question everything you think you know. This classic sci-fi is a mindfuck every way to Sunday. It also serves as a coming out party of...

This week on New Release … McFly boys Ashley, Derrick, and Drew look back at the final film in the franchise that taught us everything we know about time travel. Back to the Future Part III drops Marty and Doc and all of our favorites into a ruckus frontier town in 1885. Whereupon gunfights and horse chases and Delorean-fueled adventures are sure to ensue. Luckily, we get out of the episode alive...

This week on New Release … wigglers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go on a whacky adventure with two huge movie stars from the 90s. Bird on a Wire has pretty much ever kind of action you could dream up … and then some. Multiple car, moped, helicopter, and plane chases. Shoutouts at a repair shop, animal shelter, zoo, and god knows where else. Then, at the center of all this craziness, is an entertainin...

This week on New Release … A+ students Ashley, Derrick, and Drew are given one of their most dangerous assignments yet. To really understand Class of 1999 we must compare our high school experiences to the hellscape that is Kennedy High. What would you do if your teachers were robots that got off on punishing and/or killing students? Would you … drop out, get addicted to Edge, or fight back? If yo...

This week on New Release … gravediggers Ashley, Derrick, and Drew enjoy three or four scary stories for the price of one. Tales from the Darkside: The Movie is a horror anthology, like many others, that relies more on special effects and cheap thrills than character development but we’re cool with that. Give me a killer cat and gargoyle queen in the same sitting any day of the week. Mummies and wi...

This week on New Release … combatants Ashley, Derrick, and Drew make their triumphant return to 2021—for one week only—to engage in (or with) Mortal Kombat . Considering how much we love this game franchise and the first movie, we have sky-high expectations for this one. Is that a recipe for disappointment … or will the new hard-R version deliver all the gore and fatalities the PG-13 original neve...

This week on New Release … beach bums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew celebrate a certain someone’s b-day with a movie about their favorite sport. Side Out is THE definitive beach volleyball movie (sorry, Top Gun ) but is it … good? We grill Ashley on the accuracy and attitude on display in this overlooked sports movie to find out how well it matches her experience. On a scale of bump-set-kill, this mov...

This week on New Release … wannabe drapes Ashley, Derrick, and Drew have their square moviegoing tastes challenged by cult filmmaker John Waters. Cry-Baby stars Johnny Depp as the sensitive bad boy who sings like the lovechild of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. It’s your classic orphan-meets-orphan romance where the only thing keeping Cry-Baby and Allison apart is being basic. Find out if two kids...

This week on New Release … locals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew stay home to watch a TV-movie event that will surely have everyone talking tomorrow. After Twin Peaks aired on ABC in primetime—on a calm Sunday night—TV was never the same. Seriously. Only David Lynch could make something this weird and disturbing in a way that’s also entertaining enough to become an instant hit. We love Lynch like crazy...

This week on New Release … teenage mutant ninja talkers Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and special guest Brian! (from VCRWORLD ) mainline a childhood standard. You can’t have the 90s and you can’t pizza without paying respect to our heroes in a half shell, our boys in green, our beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . We’ll share our earliest ooze-filled memories, then get real with each other by answering...

This week on New Release … callpeople Ashley, Derrick, and Drew ring in the 50th episode of New Release by watching one of the most iconic rom-coms of all time! Join along as we look back on how Pretty Woman turned Julia Roberts into an American sweetheart and help us renegotiate the terms of her week-long liaison with Richard Gere. Would you pay $3000/week for chemistry like theirs? Before you de...

This week on New Release … volcanologists Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go back to where it all started for the definitive 90s movie couple. Joe Versus the Volcano is the first of three hit rom-coms to star Hanks & Ryan, and it is by far the weirdest. In short, Tom Hanks’ Joe, after being diagnosed with a terminal “Brain Cloud”, gets offered an Amex card and free vacay … so long as he agrees to sacrif...

This week on New Release … party animals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew crash the biggest bash of the school year. Watching House Party is the next best thing to actually going to a shindig these days, so we’re extending a virtual invite your way. Lace your kicks, air out your Hammer pants, and get ready to boogie with Kid ‘n Play like it’s 1990! Forget curfew because this thing runs from now to questi...

This week on New Release … sea captains Ashley, Derrick, and Drew hop aboard a Russian sub in hopes of preventing all-out nuclear war. Aside from that, The Hunt for Red October is our chance to finally meet this Jack Ryan character we’ve heard so much about. Alec Baldwin goes (under) toe-to-toe with Sean Connery but all they really wanna do is go fishing together. This tense thriller had us pullin...

This week on New Release … champions Ashley, Derrick, and Drew kick the dust off a sadistic sports/dystopian movie you may not have heard of. The Blood of Heroes follows a bruising team of Juggers as they roam the desolate Outback hoping to improve their lowly stations in life—one game of dunk the dog skull at a time. We evaluate the entertainment value of this brutal fake movie sport versus favor...

This week on New Release … monstrosities Ashley, Derrick, and Drew take a trip to Midian, where all night dwellers live in relative harmony—until humans arrive. Nightbreed is an unrestrained horror-fantasy hybrid ripped from the wicked imagination of Clive Barker—the man responsible for Pinhead and some of the sickest monsters ever brought to life on screen. We choose our favorite fiends from an a...

This week on New Release … ponytail historians Ashley, Derrick, and Drew wake up from a long slumber to kick some serious B-movie butt. Hot off Hard to Kill , we try our damndest to figure out how Steven Seagal became an overnight action sensation back in the day. Hunky or clunky, we have to know? All that plus a tag-team deathmatch among your favorite action and martial arts stars from the 90s. W...

This week on New Release - Best Year Ever! … cinephiles Ashley, Derrick, and Drew reminisce about the wonders of moviegoing. Sure, we do that every week but this one is special because we’re watching Cinema Paradiso , a movie about movies and the warm bath of nostalgia they evoke. We look back on our earliest and fondest trips to the cinema and pine for a time when it’s safe to return. Whether you...

This week on New Release - Best Year Ever! … brainiacs Ashley, Derrick, and Drew wake up from one of most twisted, confusing dreams they’ve ever had. Or was it all a movie? Brain Dead is one part Eternal Sunshine two scoops Shudder Island covered in Twilight Zone hot mess fudge. Is it palatable? Yes. Does it come highly recommended? Probably not. Nevertheless, the star power of Bill, Bill, and Bud...

This week on New Release - Best Year Ever! … seismologists Ashley, Derrick, and Drew plan a relaxing getaway to Perfection only to be interrupted some gross-ass uninvited guests. Tremors … they’re creepy, they’re crawly, they’re smelly, and nobody’s safe until every last one of them is blown to smithereens. Of course, all the ammo in the world ain’t enough unless you can outsmart these giant mothe...