Stuart Atkinson

X-Men

The greatest trick Magneto ever pulled was convincing the...

Reviewed May 6, 2011

Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Generation X

Max Headroom, Ace Ventura, and Freddy Krueger all rolled ...

Reviewed Apr 29, 2011

A group of young mutants--humans with a genetic variation that gives them superpowers and makes them feared by the population at large--begin training at a school for heroes. Their studies are interrupted when they must rescue one of their number from a mad scientist who can enter others' dreams. Genres: Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Superhero, TV Movie

Deep Blue Sea

The sharks are smarter than the screenwriters

Reviewed Apr 25, 2011

Researchers on the undersea lab Aquatica have genetically altered the brains of captive sharks to develop a cure for Alzheimer's disease. But there's an unexpected side effect: the sharks got smarter, faster, and more dangerous. After a big storm damages their remote research facility, they must fight for their lives. Genres: Action, Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Scream 4

We don't need friends, we need you to download this podcast!

Reviewed Apr 22, 2011

Ten years after the original Woodsboro murders, one of the survivors returns home to promote their new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Brown Arrow

Jaws: The Revenge

Caribbean Shark! Now you're going on a lark! Michael Cain...

Reviewed Apr 19, 2011

After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more lives. Genres: Adventure, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Scream 3

At least this movie doesn't have John Waters in it

Reviewed Apr 15, 2011

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Jaws 3-D

Lea Thompson's first Enchantment Under the Sea Dance

Reviewed Apr 12, 2011

A giant thirty-five-foot shark becomes trapped in a SeaWorld theme park and it's up to the sons of police chief Brody to rescue everyone. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Scream 2

Tori Spelling will not be playing Marjorie in the Now Pla...

Reviewed Apr 8, 2011

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Jaws 2

Just when you thought it was safe to donate to the podcas...

Reviewed Apr 5, 2011

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters. Genres: Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Scream (1996)

Who knew Jiffy Pop could add so much tension to a scene?

Reviewed Apr 1, 2011

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game. Genres: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Jaws

The true Amityville Horror

Reviewed Mar 29, 2011

When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again. Genres: Adventure, Horror, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Kick-Ass

No, you won't find Now Playing Podcast on MySpace...it's ...

Reviewed Mar 25, 2011

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so. Genres: Action, Crime, Superhero, Theatrical Release

Man-Thing

He who knows good movies burns at a screening of Man-Thing!

Reviewed Mar 18, 2011

Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear. Genres: Action, Adventure, Direct to Video/Streaming, Horror, Romance, Science Fiction, Superhero

Brown Arrow

Howard the Duck

Trapped in a podcast we never made...

Reviewed Mar 9, 2011

A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar-smoking drake, Howard, from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet, but then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam... Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Science Fiction, Superhero, Theatrical Release

The Adjustment Bureau

Listening to this podcast is part of your plan

Reviewed Mar 5, 2011

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved. Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Adjustment Team by Philip K. Dick

Are our lives predetermined down to the smallest details?

Reviewed Mar 4, 2011

Posing the question of who truly controls our destiny, Adjustment Team is a remarkable short story by the prolific science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Ed Fletcher is a real estate salesman with a steady routine. When he leaves late for work one day, his entire life is thrust off-kilter. Arriving at his office, Ed realises the entire world has been transformed into a horrifying black-and-white nightmare. Rushing to get help, Ed begins to question the philosophy of life and, on the brink of a psychotic breakdown, he realises that he might not be in charge of his own fate. First published in 1954, Adjustment Team was adapted into the science fiction romantic thrillerThe Adjustment Bureau in 2011. Genres: Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Sci-Fi, Short stories

The Golden Man by Philip K. Dick

Omniscient mutant has the key to the future?

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011

A science fiction story set in the future where the a government agency hunts mutants created by a nuclear war. The story centers around one mutant, a tall golden god-like man named Cris and his ability to see the future instead of the past. Genres: American, Anthologies, Dystopia, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Short stories

Next

We guess Cage didn't see this one coming.

Reviewed Feb 25, 2011

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller, Time Travel

A Scanner Darkly

Keanu has never been so animated

Reviewed Feb 18, 2011

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result. Genres: Animation, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Paycheck by Philip K. Dick

Before the bullets and the doves, there was just a man, a...

Reviewed Feb 11, 2011

Genres: Short stories

Paycheck

Given a choice, which movie of his do you think Affleck w...

Reviewed Feb 11, 2011

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water. Genres: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

Minority Report

Precog sounds like a plumbing term.

Reviewed Feb 4, 2011

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

The Minority Report by Philip K Dick

The precogs have determined you must read this story

Reviewed Feb 4, 2011

Genres: Crime prevention, Short stories

Impostor

Mr. Monk and the Case of the Reshot Footage

Reviewed Jan 28, 2011

A top-secret government weapons designer is arrested by a clandestine government organization on suspicion of being a clone created by the hostile alien race wanting to take over Earth. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller