The VHS Strikes Back

The VHS Strikes Back EPS47 The guys are back reviewing the 2002 Horror Thriller - The Ring tarring Naomi Watts. Does it still have the same pull it did 18 years ago? The guys get a nice review of the show and Chris wants more horror! Plot Summary: Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers (including her niece). There is an urban legend about this t...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS46 Chris Dave had to change this weeks review. Originally Chris picked Death Warrant but due to being to difficult to get online the guys changed to another Van Damme classic and his most famous role - Bloodsport (1987). This available on Netflix for anybody who wants to sample this classic martial arts movie. Plot Summary: Frank Dux has spent most his life being trained by...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS45 After we asked our twitter followers to choose a physiological thriller they chose Se7en. A film Chris and Dave have only seen once. A cult classic from the mid 90’s Plot Summary: A film about two homicide detectives' (Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt) desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS44 Dave picks a Chick Flick but quietly Chris loves them. Starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. But this turns into a more intense review due to one character in particular.  Plot Summary: The owner of a large bookstore chain starts putting the owner of a small local bookstore out of business. Meanwhile they have been corresponding over the internet without knowing who either of...

The VHS Strikes Back Eps 43 Chris gets Dave to review one of his top 3 movies of all time Beverly Hills Cop (1984). Does the usual heel reviewer meet his match with this one? Plot Summary: Axel Foley is a Detroit cop who meets up with his old high school friend Michael Tandino. When Michael is killed at Axel’s apartment, Foley seeks revenge in Beverly Hills. IMDB: 6.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 82/100% M...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS42 - Top Gun (1986) Chris and Dave go back on a movie that created the Tom Cruise phenomenon. Top Gun (1986). Chris has never seen the full movie before and Dave hadn’t seen it for a longtime. Plot Summary: Code-named "Maverick", Pete Mitchell, the impetuous daredevil Navy-pilot ace, is accepted into Miramar's elite Fighter School, also known as "Top Gun". There, as the imp...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS41 It’s Chris’ turn to get Dave back and boy does he do just that. The guys go back to 1991 and the Vanilla Ice led movie Cool As Ice (1991). Plot Summary: The old teen rebel saga is updated for the rap crowd, unfortunately rapper Vanilla Ice is the teen. Ice shows up on a neon-yellow motorcycle which gets everyone's attention, including the female honor student who has nev...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS41  Dave stitches Chris up this week with the 1975 Rock/Stage movie starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon and Richard O’Brien - The Rocky Horror Show (1975). Both od th guys have never watched this before the review.  Plot Summary: On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an empty stretch of road outside Ohio's merry Denton, blissfully-affianced, prudish, b...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS39 This week due to being requested by some of our podcasting friends and our great listener Glyn we have gone with Gymkata (1985). A martial arts movie based around a real world gymnast Kurt Thomas. My god did we have some fun with this one. Plot Summary: Johnathan Cabot is a champion gymnast. In the tiny, yet savage, country of Parmistan, there is a perfect spot for a "st...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS38 Chris has been house bound due to his shoulder op and messaged Dave he was watching Back to the Future 2 and there we have this weeks review. It’s a movie both of the guys love does it still stand up 30 years later? Plot Summary: Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. M...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS37 Our good friend Tony Farina suggested Masters of the Universe starring Dolph Lungdren. Chris and Dave have some fun reviewing this one.  Plot Summary: On the planet Eternia, Skeletor and his dark army overthrow the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull expecting to acquire her power. He-Man, his old friend Duncan "Man-at-Arms" and his daughter Teela are attacked by Skeletor...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS36 Dave’s choice this week, he knows Chris hates horror movies so he’s picked Hellraiser (1987). Chris gets his notebook out. Thats not aways a good sign. Plot Summary: When Kirsty's father, Larry, and stepmother, Julia, move into Larry's childhood home, Kirsty and her boyfriend take a room nearby. Unfortunately for all involved, Larry's house is already occupied: before th...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS35 Chris picks a classic from his youth - Over The Top (1987)) starring Sylvester Stallone. This arm-wrestling romp was a childhood favourite of Chris’ but Dave doesn’t remember it as well. Plot Summary: Lincoln Hawk (Stallone) is a struggling trucker who arm wrestles on the side to make extra cash while trying to rebuild his life. After the death of his wife, he tries to m...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS34 Dave ends his trilogy of movies with the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels comedy Dumb and Dumber (1994). Plot Summary: Harry and Lloyd are two good friends who happen to be really stupid. The duo set out on a cross country trip from Providence to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner, a beautiful woman named Mary Swanson. After a trip of on...

The VHS Strikes Back EPS33 Dave and Chris bring From Dusk till Dawn (1996) to the table with this review. a Culture classic with famous Salma Hayek snake dance that made her a household name. Does it hold up 24 years later? Plot Summary: After a bank heist in Abilene with several casualties, the bank robber Seth Gecko and his psychopath and rapist brother Richard Gecko continue their crime spree i...

The VHS Strikes Back Eps32 Dave gets his wish and brings to the table one of his favourite Kung-Fu movies of all time - Snake in the Monkeys Shadow (1979).  Chris - well I would give the show a listen.... Plot Summary: A snake style expert travels the lands, imposing his mastery on others, until he runs into a monkey expert living on the edge of a small town, who defeats him soundly. The snak...

The VHS Strikes Back Eps31 This week Chris and Dave are back reviewing the 1989 classic - Roadhouse starring Patrick Swayze. Chris has fond memories of this film and many a bad shoulder injury due to some of the memorable scenes. Dave hasn't seen this for years but does it still stand up?  Email: thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com www.twitter.com/vhsstrikesback

The VHS Strikes Back Eps30 Chris and Dave review the absolutely epic Gangster movie - The Godfather (1972). Dave has never seen this classic and Chris ranks it in his exclusive top 5 movies of all time! Plot Summary: The Godfather "Don" Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter's wedding. Michael, Vito's youngest son and a decorated WW I...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps29 Chris gets his wish and concludes ones of his greatest trilogies - No Retreat No Surrender 3: Blood Brothers. The guys rip this to pieces but does it turn Dave from being a bad movie to something he liked? Plot Summary: Two feuding brothers (one a policeman, the other a martial arts expert) of different political views, join forces to avenge the death of their father,...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS28 For our Christmas Day movie review we have gone back to Eddie Murphys breakout role in the 1983 Trading places with co-star Dan Aykroyd. Does this movie stand up and will Chris finally enjoy one of these festive period movies Dave had chosen? Plot Summary: Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers M...

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS27 As we are in the middle of Christmas season we continue our reviews on the theme with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. A movie both of the guys loved but years later does it still hold up? Plot Summary: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids....

The VHS Strikes Back - EPS26 Dave sets Chris up with a pop culture classic - Gremlins (1984). Having never watched it before will Chris go full on heel with this much loved Steven Spielberg produced monster romp? What do you think? Plot Summary: When Billy Peltzer is given a small creature called a Mogwai by his father, he is unaware of the carnage he is about to encounter. There is a huge respons...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps25 Chris and Dave are back reviewing the icon ‘Christmas Movie’ starring Bruce Willis - Die Hard (1988). The guys walk through this absolute iconic movie - vest and all. Plot Summary: NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation. While they are at the Nakatomi headquarters for a Chri...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps24 Dave and Chris review the classic comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles starring Steve Martin and John Candy. Chris gets teary at the end of this movie every time and Dave gets R-Rated.  Plot Summary:  All that Neal Page wants to do is to get home for Thanksgiving. His flight has been cancelled due to bad weather, so he decides on other means of transport. As...

The VHS Strikes Back - Eps23 Dave and Chris are back reviewing: Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) This is a dual show review across both of their podcasts - The VHS Strikes Back and Comics In Motion For this special episode the guys are joined by two podcasting friends and more importantly Star Wars fans/nerds Mike Burton from the Genuine Chit Chat Podcast and Scott Weatherley from the 20th Century Gee...