The Last Action Heroes

Action Hero: Riley Hale We are THE LAST ACTION HEROES, the “heroic everyman thrust into an impossible situation and just making it up as we go” of movie podcasts. We are dedicated to ranking the very best and worst of action hero cinema protagonists…and so far…we’re not dead. This episode we are blasting out of this crashing plane on ejector seats and landing deep in the desert of Utah as we take...

Action Hero: The Warriors CAN YOU COUNT, SUCKAS?????!!! We are The Last Action Heroes, a baseball bat wielding, bottle smashing, bloodied fist of a movie podcast and we say the future of action movie heroes is ours if you can count! Now look what we have here before us: This episode we are ducking and weaving through enemy territory for one night only on the mean streets of New York and looking to...

Action Hero: Morgan Adams PSA: as any sea-dawg worth his salt knows, you can’t embark on a voyage without a good stash of rum…and so, for this voyage on the good ship TLAH the rum was plentiful. Maybe too plentiful. Caution: side effects include giggling, arguments, nonsense and spontaneous rapping. Listener discretion is advised. Avast ye and welcome to The Last Action Heroes, a swashbuckling, ey...

Action Hero: Sarah Connor & T800-101 We are The Last Action Heroes, a mini gun toting, motorbike riding, unstoppable killing machine of a movie podcast on a mission to rate the very best and worst of action cinema protagonists from across the ages. In our first episode of season 3 we decided there’s no fate but what we make for ourselves so we travelled back in time from the future war to warn...

Action Hero: Nada Welcome to The Last Action Heroes, an ass kicking, bubble gum chewing, tight jean wearing movie podcast on a mission to rate the very best and worst of action cinema protagonists across the ages.  In this episode we throw on some cool as fuck sunnies and wake up to fight the oppression of 80s extreme capitalism in John Carpenters 1988 cult classic THEY LIVE.  Down on hi...

Action Hero: John Wick We are The Last Action Heroes, a kung fu fighting, gun wielding, professional killer of a movie podcast on a mission to rate the very best and worst of action cinema protagonists. This episode we are kicking back with none other than the Baba Yaga!! We’ve got our feet up in her cosy little chicken legged house, the fire’s roaring and we’re watching TV. Would the Baba Yaga ha...

Action Hero: Ghost We are The Last Action Heroes, a tough talking, hard hitting movie podcast on a mission to rate the very best and worst of action cinema protagonists. This episode we settle on the moody shores of proto-North America circa 1000AD, as a horde of blood thirsty goth’s…sorry…Vikings make landfall and do what Vikings do best: give out hugs and teddy bears to the locals. Wait…we got t...

Action Hero: Ash Williams We are THE LAST ACTION HEROES, a hard hitting movie podcast where we rate the very best and worst of action cinemas greatest leading men and women. Most as we can figure the year is 1300AD and we’re being dragged to our death. But how the hell did we get here? Best ask loud mouth braggart ASH WILLIAMS as we give him the TLAH tear down for a place in our ultimate action he...

Action Hero: John Rambo Leaving behind the glittery pop punk stylings of modern Gotham, The Last Action Heroes go on the run in this months episode, heading into the rain soaked forests of North America with action hero royalty: Rambo: First Blood (1982). Action heroes don’t come more recognisable than this! But is this the Rambo we all know and love? Who actually did draw first blood? (Spoiler: N...

Action Hero: Harley Quinn This month we’re on a flamboyant mission to uncover if Harley Quinn, a potty-mouthed fashionista could possibly be one of this generations ultimate action heroes! Join us as we talk Birds of Prey (and The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), or Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. We never did get to the bottom of that whole title thing. Anyway… We dive deep into discus...

Action Hero: "Tequila" Yuen Grab yourself a baby and a shotgun and get ready to cook some fools as THE LAST ACTION HEROES PODCAST takes a bullet dodging leap back through time to the seedy underworld of 90’s Hong Kong for a bullet ballet of epic proportions. In this explosive fourth episode of Season 2 we’re in for some X rated action…no, not that kind…though we do have some sexy sax and synth! Gi...

Action Heroes: Korben & Leeloo Wind blows...fire burns....THE LAST ACTION HEROES PODCAST kicks ass!!! In our third episode of Season 2 we head into a 90s vision of the far future where everything is neon coloured and everyone is hot ‘n’ horny, as we join not one, but two heroes in their adventure to save the world: one a superpowered, genetically engineered bioweapon with fluorescent orange ha...

Action Hero: Jack Burton Escaping the deserts of the American mid-west to the haunted underworld realms of Chinatown, San Francisco, this is THE LAST ACTION HEROES PODCAST Season 2 and we’re talking to whoever’s listening out there. We’re heading into our second episode with a heavy hitter (and even louder mouth), of the 80’s as they take a shot at the TLAH leaderboard with a machine gun in one ha...

Action Heroes: Val & Earl Listen? You feel that? That distant rumbling….that quaking beneath your feet? That’s right! It’s The Last Action Heroes crashing into 2022 with our brand new second season!!This time the gloves are off as we change things up and pit a bevy of cinematic heroes against each other, Mano e Mano from across the ages of the HCU (Hollywood Cinematic Universe…shut up it’s a t...

They say Chuck Norris once took on The Last Action Heroes…and the fallout could be heard for miles. Chuck Norris never talks of the events that happened that day…they just haunt him. Like a bad dream. Kind of like his 1986 comedy caper ‘FIREWALKER’ which gets the TLAH teardown this episode. Max (Chuck Norris) and Leo (Louis Gosset Jr) are two down on their luck fortune hunters: losing money and ma...

Some say they can’t be killed. Some say they drink blood. Others simply say they are psychotic vigilantes…watchful protectors over the best and worst of retro action cinema. We are THE LAST ACTION HEROES and this episode we’re suiting up to stalk the shadowy, crime ridden streets of Gotham in Tim Burton’s 1989 franchise maker BATMAN!! Orphaned at an early age, lonesome brooding billionaire Bruce W...

Okaerinasai! Following a brief summer hiatus, The Last Action Heroes are back baby! This time we are taking on the Yakuza as we are escorted to the Land of The Rising Sun by renegade cop and dad with a mullet Michael Douglas in the 1989 Ridley Scott noir thriller BLACK RAIN. After witnessing a bloody and brutal Yakuza killing in a bustling New York restaurant, Detectives Nick Conklin and Charlie V...

The boys are back in town! Going back to our roots for this episode THE LAST ACTION HEROES take to the grimy, crime ridden streets of San Francisco in a beat-up blue Cadillac convertible as we check out the gritty 1982 odd-couple classic 48HRS.Whilst investigating a simple case of credit card fraud, grizzled San Francisco cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) has a bloody encounter with recently escaped con...

At the center of the universe, at the border between the light and the dark stand 4 brave warriors. For countless ages, they have kept the world of 80's movie podcasts in harmony. But the armies of darkness do not rest and the capture of streaming services is ever most in their minds. For those who control the streams, will come the power. The power to be supreme... the power to be almighty... the...

Who's the MEANEST?! Who's the PRETTIEST?! Who's the BADDEST mofo low-down around this town?! Who are we? THE LAST ACTION HEROES!!! This time we are cruising the mean streets of 80's Harlem, giving fools a beatdown as we go in search of 'The Glow' in our quest to become the master in 1985's iconic THE LAST DRAGON!'Bruce' Leroy (he even uses nicknames like TLAH) Green is a shredded, montage owning b...

Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun FLASH!!! AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Get your brightly coloured spandex sequin suit on and prepare for blast-off as THE LAST ACTION HEROES launch into space for the epic 1980 space opera extravaganza that is FLASH GORDON!Pew! Pew! Pew! The earth is under attack. A ruthless galactic dictator, who rules a nearby star system with an iron fist, is bored and he has chosen our plane...

In this episode of The Last Action Heroes we move away from our recent American musclebound action and take a trip cross the pond to experience the trials and tribulations of living your best British spy life as we delve into the first James Bond epic of the decade with 1981's FOR YOUR EYES ONLY. From the depths of the Ionian sea, to the snowcapped peaks of Italy, join agents, 006JESPER, 007BJORN,...

HI-YAH!!!!! Get your black belt on and your roundhouse kicks ready as The Last Action Heroes delve into the seedy under belly of Hong Kong to infiltrate the dangerous mixed martial arts tournament of Kumite in BLOODSPORT! Follow Ray JESPson, Senso DANaka, Chong LEON and BJORN Claude Van Damme as they fight to survive their way through the 1988 martial arts classic that made 'The Muscles From Bruss...

Jatimatic SMG...check! Hand grenades...check! Aviators...check! The Last Action Heroes blast into 2021 with a brand new episode!! We're kicking the New Year off in style cruising the crime addled, neon-noir soaked streets of 1986 Los Angeles as we give cult classic, Sylvester Stallone sizzle reel actioner COBRA, The Last Action Heroes teardown. Crime is a disease...meet the cure. Marion 'Cobra' Co...

Ho Ho Ho! Hope you got a machine gun (and a spare vest handy!) because The Last Action Heroes are getting festive this episode as we  crawl our way through the air vents and elevator shafts of Nakatomi Plaza with DIE HARD.  We follow NY police-cop (the cop who can't be stopped) John McClane as he gets caught up in a desperate fight for survival against a terrorist group as they seize con...