Sound Speed Action: Movies, TV & Streaming Reviews

A spoiler-heavy breakdown of Curry Barker's 2026 psychological thriller "Obsession," the indie horror movie everyone is about to be talking about. Friend of the podcast Chris Cheng is back for this one. ⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This is a full spoiler review. See the movie first. Our friend of the podcast Chris went to see the 2026 psychological thriller (it's also kinda horror too, ri...

A new podcast episode of "Sound Speed Action," a review episode on the movie "In The Grey" (2026), is now available everywhere you get your podcasts! Episode 68 – Review: In The Grey (2026) Guy Ritchie movies are special. There is always something fun about them. I got hooked with the one-two punch that opened his career, "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" and &quot...

⚠️ FULL SPOILERS. If you haven't read the book or seen Project Hail Mary yet, do that first, then come back. Andy Weir fans have been waiting for this one. The 2021 bestselling novel finally makes its big screen debut and this is the kind of movie that reminds you what movie magic can actually feel like. Ryan Gosling (star and producer), Sandra Hüller (Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest),...

A new special topic episode of Sound Speed Action is out now everywhere you get your podcasts! The big ongoing story in the entertainment world has been the fate of Warner Bros. Discovery. Paramount has acquired Warner Bros. Discovery after a long bidding war with Netflix. Netflix is being called the loser in all of this. Look, either of these companies getting their hands on this archive of conte...

Psychological thrillers are having a massive moment, but finding a truly successful book to film adaptation remains a rare feat. Today we discuss how director Paul Feig, known for his range in films like Bridesmaids and A Simple Favor, took the beloved source material by author Freida McFadden and elevated it for the big screen. While the book set a high bar, this cinematic version manages to heig...

4 years later and James Cameron is back with another headspinning installment of having us enter back into his worl of Pandora. Yes today's SPOILER REVIEW episode of "Sound Speed Action" is covering the mega-movie event of 2025 that was "Avatar: Fire and Ash". That of course means returning to the podcast after our review of "Avatar: Way of Water" 3 years ago is o...

Are Jason Momoa, Dave Bautista, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck bringing back the golden age of cinema? We dive deep into "The Wrecking Crew" and "The Rip" to see if the buddy action movie is finally back for good. The latest episode of Sound Speed Action is up and also a heads up this episode does include some minor spoilers for the streaming movies The Rip and The Wrecking Crew....

Today’s episode was recorded in August 2025. BlackBerry is an unusual, against-the-grain movie, much like the ground-shaking device it’s about. I’m very happy to have my father, Esmail Amid-Hozour, back on the podcast, along with my dear friend Kathy Garber, to break down this 2023 indie film and what makes it work, and where it stumbles. Director Matt Johnson pulls off something genuinely impress...

The latest episode and final episode of 2025 of Sound Speed Action is live, and what a way to end the year. One Battle After Another caps off an incredible run of movies and stands as our clear favorite of the year. What a film. Marc and I break down this ambitious, unsettling, and often darkly funny work from director Paul Thomas Anderson, and the more we talk about it, the more impressive it bec...

“Predator: Badlands” is one of those rare movies. You already expect something good after “Prey,” but then you watch this and it turns out to be one of the most satisfying action films of the year. Disney clearly believed in it too, bumping the budget to about 105 million, which is a big jump from “Prey’s” 65 million. Dan Trachtenberg is officially three for three. “Prey,” “Killer of Killers,” (al...

Episode 59 – Halloween Spoiler Review: Weapons (2025) IMPORTANT NOTE: This spoiler review episode focuses on an original horror film and includes language, topics, and descriptions that are dark, graphic, violent, and disturbing. Listener discretion is advised. You are not ready. Weapons (2025) is one of the most original, creative, and unsettling movies to come out in years. From Barbarian direct...

Episode 58 - Special Episode: Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Jurassic Park is one of those franchises that I absolutely love, where Spielberg helped define the summer blockbuster movie season. The first two especially are amazing. Jurassic Park III was a flop. Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom were chapters that brought new life and characters into the franchise. Dominion was overstuffed but had fu...

Episode 57 - SPOILER Review: Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Just when it was starting to look pretty bleak for comic movies (over saturation, becoming extremely dark, forgettable stories, visual effects suffering from unsustainable output stretching visual FX artists too thin), it looks like studios are getting the message. First "Superman" from DC/Warner Brothers and now for today&#...

Episode 56 – Review: The Accountant 2 (2025) Back in 2016, Ben Affleck surprised a lot of people with "The Accountant", a sleek, mysterious action thriller where he played Christian Wolff, a math savant with deadly skills. That film, written by Ozark series creator Bill Dubuque, had an incredible cast (John Lithgow, J.K. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Anna Kendrick, Jean Smart) and a vibe that s...

SPOILER WARNING for the latest podcast episode of "Sound Speed Action": Dead Reckoning came out two years ago, but The Final Reckoning just hit theaters a week ago. If you haven’t seen it yet, pause this episode and come back, because we’re diving deep into both films. The final chapter of our Mission: Impossible recap covers Dead Reckoning (2023) and The Final Reckoning (2025). It’s wild to think...

2018’s “Mission Impossible: Fallout” is the focus of today’s episode of Sound Speed Action, and the question is not just whether it’s the best in the series—but is it one of the greatest action epics ever made? It took six movies for the franchise (and two for director Christopher McQuarrie and Cruise) to find their groove, and this is the moment it all clicks. The action! The cast! The music! Eve...

“Sound Speed Action” is back with the newest episode in our countdown to Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. Now we’re entering Christopher McQuarrie mode with the next film: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015). Writer and veteran Hollywood script doctor Christopher McQuarrie directs his first Mission Impossible and assembles a great team behind the camera to inject more energy into this...

We’re back with a new episode of Sound Speed Action as we continue our countdown to Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning . Up next is what feels like an amazing reset for the series — Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011). This is where the franchise really starts to take off. The quality of action and entertainment jumps several levels in this installment. You get the brilliant work of dir...

For this episode of Sound Speed Action , we're continuing our countdown to Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning . We’re joined by returning guest and friend of the pod, Chris Cheng, to break down the franchise’s third installment — Mission Impossible III (2006). It’s a movie of firsts: JJ Abrams (of Lost and Alias fame) makes his feature film directorial debut, Simon Pegg arrives as tech whiz B...

A new episode (the 50th episode! 🥳) of Sound Speed Action is out, and we continue our Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning countdown series — and today we’re covering the standout (for better and worse) of this franchise: Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)! Wow, yeah — the sequel to the first Mission: Impossible is very much its own unique thing. Let’s take the first Mission: Impossible movie — a...

A new podcast episode of "Sound Speed Action" is out now — and with it we start at the beginning with the 1996 thriller “Mission Impossible” to kick off this series. Brian DePalma (Scarface, Carlito’s Way) adapts the beloved thriller series for the big screen in a way that no one else can. He has a style all to himself. A really fun thing with this movie is that there is always so much detail and...

May 23 is just around the corner! That means the eighth installment ("The Final Reckoning") to the Mission Impossible franchise is almost here. Here we preview a special series of episodes of the podcast coming soon where we are going to revisit the Mission Impossible franchise and recap each of these entertaining movies that are so WILDLY different from each other and yet are endless entertaining...

Episode 47 - Classic Recommendation: Swingers (1996) Can we tell you something? “You are so money and you don’t even know it!” Let us take you back to 1996, when Jon Favreau ( Chef, The Mandalorian, Iron Man ), Vince Vaughn ( Wedding Crashers, The Lost World ), and Doug Liman ( Edge of Tomorrow, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity ) arrived on the film scene with this gem of a movie. This one ha...

Episode 46 - SPOILER Review: Companion (2025) IMPORTANT NOTE: This is a spoiler review of Companion (2025), a thriller (or is it? Still not sure on the genre…) that is as twisted as it is unique. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, bookmark this episode and come back later. This is one of those films best experienced knowing absolutely nothing. No trailers. No previews. Just trust me. Listener and...

Episode 45 - Review: Wolfman (2025) Remember back in 2017 when Universal tried launching their Monsters Universe of movies with “The Mummy” starring Tom Cruise? Even with the attempt to sneak in Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, that movie became an epic mess. “Wolf Man” is a second bite at the apple for Universal, with Leigh Whannell (“Saw” writer and “Upgrade”, “The Invisible Man” director)...