Stuart Atkinson

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

Texas Chainsaw 3D

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Reviewed Jan 8, 2013

A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound wealth comes at a price as she stumbles upon a horror that awaits her in the mansion’s dank cellars. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

New Year’s Evil

Make a New Year's resolution to listen to Now Playing Pod...

Reviewed Dec 31, 2012

During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Silent Night

This and a Home Alone reboot? Malcolm McDowell has gone f...

Reviewed Dec 24, 2012

As their small Midwestern town prepares for its annual Christmas Eve parade, a sheriff and his deputy discover that a maniac in a Santa suit is murdering those he judges as naughty. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker

It wishes it was a real movie...

Reviewed Dec 21, 2012

A toy maker's creations display some very human -- and deadly -- tendencies. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Science Fiction

Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation

This film really bugs us...

Reviewed Dec 18, 2012

A reporter investigating the bizarre death of a woman who leaped from a building in flames finds herself mixed up in a cult of witches who are making her part of their sacrificial ceremony during the Christmas season. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror

Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out!

Over the river and through the Hollywood hills, to grandm...

Reviewed Dec 11, 2012

Ricky Caldwell, the notorious 'Killer Santa Claus', awakens from a six-year coma after being kept alive on life-support by a slightly crazed doctor experimenting with ESP and other special abilities. Ricky targets a young, clairvoyant blind woman, named Laura, whom is traveling with her brother Chris, and his girlfriend Jerri to their grandmother's house for Christmas Eve, and Ricky decides to go after her, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror

Brown Arrow

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2

PODCAST DAY!

Reviewed Dec 4, 2012

Ricky is released from a mental hospital, taking with him the memory of his brother Billy's death and embarking on a journey of relentless revenge. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Comedy, Horror, Theatrical Release

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Santa punishes those who haven't listened to the latest N...

Reviewed Nov 27, 2012

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders his parents, little Billy Chapman then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Thriller

Skyfall

Sometimes the old podcasts are the best podcasts.

Reviewed Nov 22, 2012

When Bond's latest assignment goes gravely wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 headquarters is attacked. While M faces challenges to her authority and position from Gareth Mallory, the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, it's up to Bond, aided only by field agent Eve, to locate the mastermind behind the attack. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Quantum of Solace

Quantum: noun, quantity or amount. Solace: noun, comfort ...

Reviewed Nov 20, 2012

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined. Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Casino Royale (2006)

Call this podcast a Vesper, because once you've listened ...

Reviewed Nov 16, 2012

Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Die Another Day

Don't Jinx it, just listen!

Reviewed Nov 13, 2012

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The World Is Not Enough

You know exactly where to put this... On your iPod!

Reviewed Nov 9, 2012

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Tomorrow Never Dies

We'll podcast anything these days

Reviewed Nov 6, 2012

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

GoldenEye

If you think for one moment we don't have the balls to gi...

Reviewed Nov 2, 2012

When a powerful satellite system falls into the hands of Alec Trevelyan, AKA Agent 006, a former ally-turned-enemy, only James Bond can save the world from a dangerous space weapon that -- in one short pulse -- could destroy the earth! As Bond squares off against his former compatriot, he also battles Xenia Onatopp, an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

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

Licence to Kill

With the price of gas today perhaps it does have cocaine ...

Reviewed Oct 30, 2012

After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered. Bond goes rogue and seeks vengeance on those responsible, as he infiltrates Sanchez's organization from the inside. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Can some hard pipe hitting mothers take out the zombies?

Reviewed Oct 26, 2012

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. Genres: Action, Horror, Theatrical Release, Zombie

The Living Daylights

Hey, it's actors we've seen in other stuff!

Reviewed Oct 23, 2012

After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Night of the Living Dead (1990)

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Reviewed Oct 19, 2012

In this remake of the classic 1968 film, a group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and use them for food. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Zombie

Trick ‘r Treat

Don't push stop on this review before midnight. It's trad...

Reviewed Oct 18, 2012

Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers pull a mean prank, and a bitter old recluse receives an uninvited guest. Genres: Comedy, Direct to Video/Streaming, Fantasy, Halloween, Horror, Zombie