Rena Riffel shoves fellow Cheetah’s dancer Elizabeth Berkley down the stairs and out of the spotlight as she makes the bootleg sequel Showgirls 2 all about her overlooked supporting character. Will the aging stripper achieve the fame she’s coveted for the last 16 years by leaving Vegas and baby daddy Glenn Plummer behind and earning a spot on a late-night avant-garde TV dance show?  Become a Now Playing Podcast Patron in March 2025, and find out if Arnie, Marjorie, and Stuart are going to Hell for betting on Penny’s From Heaven as a winning bonus show.

You’re a whore darlin’, so don’t pretend like you can’t find the coin to hear Now Playing Podcast go down on Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 bomb Showgirls. Did Elizabeth Berkley manicure her nails just so she could claw her way to the top of a Vegas nudie revue and erupt victorious from a sparkling volcano?  And does the dialogue that Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) got paid $2 million to write taste as delicious as Doggy Chow coming out of Gina Gershon’s crooked mouth? Nothing is left to the imagination when you become a Now Playing Podcast Patron this March.

Sandra Bullock does her best to keep a Caribbean vacation liner afloat after leech-covered psycho Willem Dafoe wires her boat to Speed 2 collision with an oil tanker in this infamous 1997 sequel. Does director Jan De Bont jump a shark trying to engage Cruise Control and sail this doomed voyage into familiar commercial waters?  And did the mega-expensive production hit the metaphorical iceberg the moment it recast fun-loving action dude Keanu Reeves with sullen Lost Boy Jason Patric?  Get back on the bus with Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart to find out now!

Keanu Reeves has to keep the Speed of a Los Angeles city bus above 50 mph, or he’ll set off another bomb planted by madman Dennis Hopper in the surprise blockbuster of Summer 1994. Should passenger Sandra Bullock be trusted to take the wheel and avoid all the oncoming gridlock and freeway construction when she can’t keep her eyes off her hunky co-star?  And how did this modestly budgeted action flick become cinematographer Jan De Bont’s ticket to a big-time Hollywood directing career?  You pay no fare to hear the answers to this pop quiz now.

Now Playing Podcast continues its dive into Jigsaw’s world with Saw II, the sequel that expands the game from one grimy bathroom to an entire house full of traps. This time, Detective Matthews (Dreamcatcher’s Donnie Wahlberg) finds himself pulled into Jigsaw’s latest test, while a group of strangers scrambles to survive a nerve gas–filled nightmare. With Tobin Bell (Rudy) returning as the calm, calculating mastermind and the mythology growing more intricate, Saw II aims to prove the original wasn’t a one-off shocker. Does this sequel smartly escalate the concept and deepen the puzzle, or does it trade tension for bigger, bloodier set pieces? The hosts examine the twists, the traps, and whether this second round ups the stakes or simply repeats the game.