Jakob Conkling

The Return of the Living Dead

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Reviewed May 3, 2013

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies. Genres: Comedy, Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Zombie

Superman III

The eye is easily frightened. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reviewed Apr 30, 2013

Aiming to defeat the Man of Steel, wealthy executive Ross Webster hires bumbling but brilliant Gus Gorman to develop synthetic kryptonite, which yields some unexpected psychological effects. Between rekindling romance with his high school sweetheart and saving himself, Superman must contend with a powerful supercomputer. Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Evil Dead (2013)

Donate and you can feast on this!

Reviewed Apr 26, 2013

Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Zombie

Drag Me to Hell

If you don't download this podcast we will put a curse on...

Reviewed Apr 25, 2013

After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. Her only hope seems to lie in a psychic who claims he can help her lift the curse and keep her soul from being dragged straight to hell. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Superman II

Listen and let us know if it tickles.

Reviewed Apr 23, 2013

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a depowered Superman to regain his strength and stop them. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Army of Darkness

Hail to the donors, baby!

Reviewed Apr 19, 2013

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead. Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Theatrical Release, Time Travel, Zombie

Superman (1978)

You will believe a man can podcast!

Reviewed Apr 16, 2013

Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Evil Dead II

Head back into the woods with Now Playing Podcast!

Reviewed Apr 12, 2013

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body. Genres: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Theatrical Release, Zombie

Superman and the Mole Men

Truth, justice, and the podcasting way!

Reviewed Apr 9, 2013

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

The Evil Dead (1981)

Open the book through a donation and we will read the inc...

Reviewed Apr 5, 2013

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Zombie

Prince of Darkness

Now Playing Podcast's like a genie in a bottle...you've g...

Reviewed Apr 4, 2013

A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Time Travel

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love The Rock

Reviewed Apr 2, 2013

Framed for crimes against the country, the G.I. Joe team is terminated by Presidential order. This forces the G.I. Joes into not only fighting their mortal enemy Cobra; they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

After Darkman and The Mummy is Arnold Vosloo typecast as ...

Reviewed Mar 26, 2013

From the Egyptian desert to deep below the polar ice caps, the elite G.I. JOE team uses the latest in next-generation spy and military equipment to fight the corrupt arms dealer Destro and the growing threat of the mysterious Cobra organization to prevent them from plunging the world into chaos. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

G.I. Joe: The Movie

Fa, a long, long way to run. So, a needle pulling thread....

Reviewed Mar 19, 2013

G.I. Joe faces a new enemy as an ancient society of snake people known as Cobra-La try to forcefully take back the earth from those who drove them underground eons ago. Genres: Action, Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Jonah Hex

Who had dirt on Brolin and Malkovich to make this happen?

Reviewed Mar 12, 2013

Gunslinger Jonah Hex is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull, a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slew his wife and child. Genres: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Superhero, Theatrical Release, Thriller, Western

Constantine

Whoa, Keanu totally sees dead people dude!

Reviewed Mar 5, 2013

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles. Genres: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Tank Girl

Isn't Keanu Reeves in this? No, that's Johnny Pneumonic. ...

Reviewed Feb 26, 2013

After a comet disrupts the rain cycle of Earth, the planet has become a desolate, barren desert by the year 2033. With resources scarce, Kesslee, head of the powerful and evil Water & Power Corporation, the de facto government, has taken control of the water supply. Unwilling to cower under Kesslee's tyrannical rule, a pair of outlaws known as Tank Girl and Jet Girl rise up, joining the mysterious rebel Rippers to destroy the corrupt system. Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

A Good Day To Die Hard

Something to listen to while on vacation.

Reviewed Feb 19, 2013

Iconoclastic, take-no-prisoners cop John McClane, finds himself for the first time on foreign soil after traveling to Moscow to help his wayward son Jack - unaware that Jack is really a highly-trained CIA operative out to stop a nuclear weapons heist. With the Russian underworld in pursuit, and battling a countdown to war, the two McClanes discover that their opposing methods make them unstoppable heroes. Genres: Action, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Live Free or Die Hard

Downloading this podcast MIGHT JUST set off the C4 hidden...

Reviewed Feb 12, 2013

John McClane is back and badder than ever, and this time he calls on the services of a young hacker in his bid to stop a ring of Internet terrorists intent on taking control of America's computer infrastructure. Genres: Action, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

Maybe John and Zeus can call in The Wolf to help with Simon.

Reviewed Feb 5, 2013

New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, until a genius named Simon engages McClane, his new "partner" -- and his beloved city -- in a deadly game that demands their concentration. Genres: Action, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Die Hard 2: Die Harder

How can the same thing happen to the same podcast twice?!

Reviewed Jan 29, 2013

One year after his heroics in Los Angeles, John McClane is an off-duty cop who is the wrong guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. On a snowy Christmas Eve, as he waits for his wife's plane to land at Washington Dulles International Airport, terrorists take over the air traffic control system in a plot to free a South American army general and drug smuggler being flown into the US to face drug charges. It's now up to McClane to take on the terrorists, while coping with an inept airport police chief, an uncooperative anti-terrorist squad, and the life of his wife and everyone else trapped in planes circling overhead. Genres: Action, Christmas/Holiday, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Die Hard

Podcast to joy!

Reviewed Jan 22, 2013

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her office's Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down. Genres: Action, Christmas/Holiday, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The Detective

Where's the kaboom? Die Hard films are supposed to have a...

Reviewed Jan 15, 2013

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Day of the Dead (2008)

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Reviewed Oct 31, 2012

When a small Colorado town is overrun by the flesh hungry dead, a small group of survivors try to escape in a last ditch effort to stay alive. Genres: Action, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, Zombie