The Cinema Craptaculus Podcast Network

SNEAK PEEK EPISODE Subscribe to PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED to never miss an episode. This week we're going out for REVENGE!! It’s the movie that revived Keanu Reeves career…again! It made over $66 million at the box office but started a franchise that has made over 1 billion dollars. Besides Keanu Reeves it stars Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, Adriene Palicki, and William Dafoe. It’s the first JOHN WICK! He...

Ty Freer (writer) joins John & Dave to jump into the action of Chris Hemsworth’s latest Netflix shenanigans! The Russos take off the superhero costumes and replace superhero powers with super powered guns in EXTRACTION 2! Here's the rapid recap to catch you up! At the end of EXTRACTION 1, Chris Hemsworth’s character Tyler Rake (wait, that’s really his name? Anyway…) Tyler Rake fell off a bridg...

Like sands through the hourglass, the Geeks ponder the incredible popularity of soap operas. WHO are Smoore’s favorite soap characters? HOW GOOD is HH’s impression of one daytime’s best heroes? WAS Doc really named after a telenovela character? Tune in for these answers and more as Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe! Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on...

This week we’re bromancing the action! At its release, it was the most expensive Indian movie to date. And you just watch the ½ hour sequence before the opening credits and you’ll instantly see why! This Telugu-language epic is based on the imaginary friendship to two of India’s revolutionaries. It’s RRR Available on Netflix, RRR cost about 72 million dollars to make and has made more than double...

Tara’s book “Tips for Your Last Year on Earth” so instead of reading, we’re watching two movies about the last days on earth! The first, WHITE NOISE, is a satirical contemplation of modern life, major fears and denying death in a Netflix Original Movie starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle. Directed by Noah Baumbach this movie premiered during the death throes of summer on August 31s...

Steph, John and Dave move in only to discover WE HAVE A GHOST! Here’s the Rapid Recap as written by Netflix RAPID RECAP Seeking a fresh start in Chicago, the Presley family moves into a dusty fixer-upper they soon realize comes with a catch: a ghost in the attic named Ernest (David Harbour). Despite Ernest's attempts at scaring teenage son Kevin (Jahi Winston), the detached, music-obsessed teen so...

Tara, Dave & Adam trip out into the woods for a black bear double fur-ture because it’s the year of the bear! Well, maybe not officially, but it feels that way in the movies! Well, it may not feel exactly like that – but we have a theme with these two movies here and we’re sticking to it. The first, COCAINE BEAR, Elizabeth Banks take on Jaws remake that takes place in a national park in 1986....

Can James Gunn save DC Studios? After the bold slate of films and series announced, the Geeks take a hard and hopeful look at the ambitious plans laid out by the new WB leadership supercharge the Superfriends. Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe! Subscribe to Cinema Craptaculus on iTunes or Spotify Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCraptaculus Follow John on Twitter @johnhhford...

It’s Valentine’s Day Season so John, Steph & Dave pack their overnight bags to stay at the Rom-Com b&b that's YOUR PLACE OR MINE! Peter (Ashton Kutcher) is a successful marketing brand expert, who lives in New York city and runs from every relationship as fast as he can get into it. Debbie (Reese Witherspoon) is a successful single mother who left her dreams behind in order to be a respons...

Love … exciting and -- GONE? Are romantic movies going extinct? Dennis Hensley, host of game shows and the Dennis Anyone? podcast joins the geeks to see if Hollywood still cares about love in films, where we can find them, and why we still need them. Romance, wherefore art thou? It’s a special Valentine’s Day episode of Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe! Subscribe to Cinema Crapta...

We extend you an invitation to the Netflix Original Movie that has the sexiness and intrigue of an Anne Rice book written for 3rd grade fans of Bridgerton! It’s THE INVITATION everyone! Here’s the Rapid Recap (according to Google) to catch you up! After the death of her mother and having no other known relatives, Evie (Nathalie Emmanuel) takes a DNA test and discovers a long-lost cousin she never...

Yippee Kay Yay and ho-ho-ho! Doc, John HH, and Smoore haul out the holly for a holiday party offering up gift ideas for the geek in your life. And are Die Hard and Love, actually really Christmas movies? You’ll find out as it’s My Big Fat Geek Christmas on Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe! iTunes https://apple.co/34WS22m Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6JkObSg6o3RdKcSmJ5zeZ...

SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW Listen to this special preview and then subscribe to PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-also-watched/id1646796443 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AnBRm8v09vlTEA9W56gdW?si=ede2f61b506d40a2 Tara, Adam & Dave deck out the holidays with two Christmas movies! The first is a Netflix Original Movie starring Lindsay Lohan in a holid...

It's a Holiday Special Christmas Special Special!! John and Dave are joined by JDH to open Santa’s sack and peek inside to two classic Christmas specials – Frosty the Snowman and The Year without a Santa Claus! FROSTY THE SNOWMAN In this 1969 cartoon classic, Frosty gains sentience when a quote magical unquote hat lands on his frosty dome. He comes to life to instantly learn that he’s going to die...

SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW Listen to this special preview and then subscribe to PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-also-watched/id1646796443 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AnBRm8v09vlTEA9W56gdW?si=ede2f61b506d40a2 Tara, Adam & Dave summon the dark forces for two light hearted Halloween tales – Disney+’s Hocus Pocus 2 and then they also watched the 19...

Halloween traditions and craziness – it’s the U.S. vs. the UK! Well, likely the United Kingdom brought the traditions, and the United States brought the craziness! British voice-over actor Simon Wells joins John and Doc as they trace the spooky history of Halloween from its early origins to its massive popularity and childhood hilarity. Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!

Steve Silverman (World Gone Good podcast) joins us for another night of Halloween frights! And this time promises to be the last of the Michael Myers Halloween saga. And after all the various timelines and alternate sequels, this is the irrefutable moment when HALLOWEEN ENDS! (See how we did that there?) Or is it? Every week, on WORLD GONE GOOD, Steve features unique stories from incredible everyd...

SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW Listen to this special preview and then subscribe to PEOPLE ALSO WATCHED on Itunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-also-watched/id1646796443 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5AnBRm8v09vlTEA9W56gdW?si=ede2f61b506d40a2 Tara, Adam & Dave pull the strings on two Pinocchio movies! The first is the live action...is it live action?...remake from Robert Zemecki...

Mergers! Struggling streamers! Cinema chains closing! Oh, my! Maybe the Geeks should open their own cinema chain or hey, even better, start their own streaming service and call it Geeks+. Join John HH and Doc as they untangle the high stakes drama of cinemas and streaming services in what seems to be more and more like a cage match for survival! Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!...

Tara, John & Dave travel to Granite City *cough* gotham *cough* to see if we can get the oldest superhero in town to yell at us for being on his lawn! He’s been a grumpy old boxer! He’s been a grumpy old Vet! Now he’s a grumpy old superhero AND super villain!?! It’s Sylvester Stallone in SAMARITAN! Here’s the Rapid Recap to catch you up! Thirteen-year-old Sam Cleary (Javon Walton) suspects that hi...

Andy Frye, Forbes sportswriter and novelist, joins the Geeks as they take a time-traveling journey back to the grunge-rocking, non-social media world of 1990s! With Andy’s new novel “Ninety Days in the 90s” out, it’s pretty fly as they ask what it would be like to travel back to your 90s self and explore a world of grunge rock, hip-hop, Must See TV! Don’t go there, because it must’ve been hella ha...

First there was Predator. Then Predator 2. Then Predators. Then The Predator. In this latest installment 20th Century went against Horror movie sequel naming conventions (see Scream and Halloween) and came up with a completely new title - PREY! Here’s the Rapid Recap to catch you up! In the Predator franchises’ 5th movie (if you don’t count the Alien Vs. Predator series) we go back in time to 1719...

What if John Wick were a woman and instead of gun play, there was a lot of sword play? No one was asking for it, but Hulu answers that question anyway in the direct to streaming action movie – THE PRINCESS! Here’s how —IMDB describes the movie: When a strong-willed princess (played by Joey King) refuses to wed Julius, a cruel sociopath (cruelly played by Dominic Cooper), the princess is locked in...

The Geeks may be worlds apart, but they still can run up that hill and into the upside-down world of Netflix’s hottest series. Order up some pizza before the fourth clock chimes as The Expanded Universe explores Stranger Things Season 4! iTunes https://apple.co/34WS22m Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/6JkObSg6o3RdKcSmJ5zeZ3?si=qO56jiXeTueoRIvQYZCEsQ Twitter @Craptaculus Instagram @ CinemaCrap...