Recovered

Dan and Keith speed into the far flung future year of 2000 as envisioned by 1975, for the dystopic blood sport of Death Race 2000. Car-based gladiators slaughter their way through a cross-country race of miles and mayhem in a world dominated by the cruelty of minority rule fascism, where the resistance can't stop fighting each other long enough to make a difference, people are weirdly okay wi...

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Your wife tried to kill you Can you escape to reality? Total Recalls  Get your ass to Mars and seeeeeeee Dan and Keith take on two very rough adaptations of Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Arnold Schwarzenegger's hyper-violent 90s classic Total Recall, and Colin Farrell's 2012 remake. Not only do we tackle who did w...

Grab your hook and your beard of bees as Dan and Keith return to horror through Candyman! First we dive into the Clive Baker-inspired 90s original, as Virginia Madsen is haunted by the iconic Tony Todd through the ghettos of Chicago, then jump aaaaallll the way to 2021 as Jordan Peele helps usher in Nia DaCosta's remake that turns out to be a surprise sequel... a "requel," as they&a...

Our two-part look into the legacy of the Seven Samurai continues as Dan and Keith take on the western so nice they made it twice, The Magnificent Seven! The manliest men of the early sixties put a cowboy twist on Kurosawa's samurai epic, then a surprising number of decades later, Denzel Washington reunites with Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day and The Equalizer, to bring modern audienc...

In a topic too big for one episode, Dan and Keith travel back to feudal Japan to revisit Akira Kurosawa's classic, The Seven Samurai, and the films it inspired. There's a lot to break down: legendary warriors, a town in crisis, and a debate among our co-hosts on Toshiro Mifune's wardrobe choices for the big siege, and then it's time to jump forward to 21st century China for The...

It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to unpack Muppets on Recovered 'cast tonight. Dan and Keith re-examine that old, forgotten emotion of "joy" as they revisit Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie and Jason Segel's tribute/reboot, The Muppets. Brace for hot takes on quality of cameos and quantity of Gonzo. Is there ever such a thin...

Dan and Keith take on Ghostbusters, the franchise that went from Original to Reboot and back again through the 1984 classic, the 2016 reboot Answer the Call, and the 2021 requel Afterlife. And if you have a dose of some movie ghosts, I think you'd better call... Chris Stewart, host of leading Ghostbusters podcast The Crossrip. Our hosts and special guest dig into the complicated making of the...

Get ready for a lot of "Not good but as good as it gets" takes as Dan and Keith dig into three different Punisher movies. Dolph Lundgren goes straight to video, Thomas Jane has the darkest origin with the least amount of Punishing, and Ray Stevenson tries to actually be in a comic book movie. Who does it best? Or least worst? We try to find an answer, with much love for two random mobste...

Long time Bond fan Dan walks lifetime Bond hater Keith through vintage Bond flick Thunderball, and the decades-long legal battle that resulted in there being two of them. Plus why it took so long to get Blofeld and SPECTRE into the Craig era Bonds the Thunderballs that could have been, and why Dan wouldn't be the best underwater cinematographer, all while breaking down two spins on "Bond...

What is best in life? Is it either cinematic adaptation of Conan the Barbarian? Dan and Keith are here to find out as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Momoa each take on the titular barbarian, to... mixed results. Also we touch on the scope of this podcast and Keith learns about Horse Girl movies. Come on, you know you want to how we ended up there.

Dan and Keith take on cult 80s horror flick April Fool's Day and its straight-to-DVD remake, asking the question: when the thing a movie's famous for is a twist ending, CAN you do a remake? Are you counting on your audience not having seen the original? In which case, why a remake? Also, Dan begins his crusade to get a DVD release of the criminally underrated fantasy/action series G Vs E...

Hit the Holiday Road as Dan and Keith re-examine an old idea from times past, before the Plague Days... "Vacations." Our hosts head back to the early 80s to see how Chevy Chase's road trip shenanigans in National Lampoon's Vacation have aged, then hop to the 2010s as Ed Helms leads a new generation of Griswalds in a sequel/remake hybrid we have since learned is now called a &qu...

Come with me, and you'll be, in a world of dueling chocolate factories! Recovered takes on two very different approaches to Roald Dahl's immortal children's adventure book-slash-Saw precursor horror tale Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, or as 70s cinema knew it, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Two Wonkas enter, one Wonka leaves! Then the other one does. We don't have t...

It's heist time! Dan and Keith travel back to the long ago 1960s for Michael Caine and Noel Coward in The Italian Job, then hop to the not-quite-so-long-ago 2003 for an all-star crew in a remake that's trying to be a remake in as few ways as possible. Cunning plans, betrayals, feature-length ads for Mini-Coopers, and Dan and Keith disagreeing about heist movies. Come on the ride!

Recovered gets paranoid as Dan and Keith dive into two paranoid journeys into mind control with the Manchurian Candidate, the movie whose twist became the lexicon. Frank Sinatra and Denzel Washington unravel conspiracies, lost loves are found and lost again, while Angela Lansbury and Meryl Streep pull the strings. Who wore it best? Whose sinister conspiracy reigns supreme? Is there a point to hidi...

What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than with two takes on pickaxe murder enthusiast  Harry Warden in My Bloody Valentine? Dan and Keith dig into the mine murders of the 1981 original, and how much the 2009 remake, from that brief period when Hollywood really wanted the guys from Supernatural in their horror movies, relied on 3D effects that you likely won't see streaming it at...

Welcome to Recovered, breaking down Hollywood’s favourite trend, the remake! This week, Dan and Keith invite you to “Get over here” as they dig into the two attempts to make a movie out of Mortal Kombat. [Dan, you have a better Mortal Kombat joke in you, find it before we publish this. -K]