Listener Requests by Sean Ray

Brown Arrow

Cliffhanger (1993)

No, Sly, they didn’t name the Rocky Mountains after you.

Reviewed Aug 28, 2026

A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money. Genres: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Brown Arrow

Over the Top

I Don’t Brake For Bad Scripts

Reviewed Jul 10, 2026

Lincoln Hawk a hard-luck big-rig trucker takes us under the glaring Las Vegas lights for all the boisterous action of the World Armwrestling Championship. Relying on wits and willpower, Hawk tries to rebuild his life by capturing the first-place prize money, and the love of the son he abandoned years earlier into the keeping of his rich, ruthless father-in-law. Genres: Action, Drama

I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

A crow on the thatch, soon death lifts the latch

Reviewed May 1, 2026

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence. Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Day of the Woman (a.k.a. I Spit on Your Grave (1978))

“It’s so sweet, it’s painful.”

Reviewed Apr 24, 2026

A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge. Genres: Horror

Moneyball

Takes Me Out Of The Ballgame

Reviewed Nov 2, 2025

The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players. Genres: Drama

Maniac Cop

Blue Lives Molder

Reviewed Oct 31, 2025

A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City. Genres: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery

The Green Inferno

My Body, Main Course

Reviewed Aug 27, 2024

A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished. Genres: Adventure, Horror

Dog Day Afternoon

He Made Them An Offer They Actually COULD Refuse.

Reviewed Jul 26, 2024

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

The Treasure of the Severest Padre

Reviewed Jun 30, 2024

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo. Genres: Action, Crime, Drama

Drive

Everything Ken wasn’t allowed to do in the pink Corvette

Reviewed Mar 22, 2024

Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Driver

Love Means Never Having To Say “Slow Down, Dammit”

Reviewed Mar 15, 2024

The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective. Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Thief

Crime doesn’t pay, but it looks incredible doing it

Reviewed Jan 5, 2024

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

The Usual Suspects

The Greatest Flick The Devil Ever Pulled?

Reviewed Nov 10, 2023

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess. Genres: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Seven Samurai

And no, Tom Cruise is not one of them

Reviewed Aug 25, 2023

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food. Genres: Action, Drama

Platoon

Natural Born Killers

Reviewed May 19, 2023

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. Genres: Action, Drama, War

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Wait Til They Get A Load Of Me!

Reviewed May 20, 2022

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward. Genres: Drama

Dressed to Kill

A podcast that will play with your Peter      

Reviewed Jan 28, 2022

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness. Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Schindler’s List

Lost World

Reviewed Nov 12, 2021

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II. Genres: Drama, History, War

The Conversation

The proof that Shirley was cheating on Laverne

Reviewed Aug 13, 2021

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. Genres: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Con Air

Forget Bastille Day--July 14 is Con Air Day!

Reviewed Jul 14, 2021

Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam. Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

The House That Jack Built

So that's where Uma Thurman has been all this time!

Reviewed Oct 23, 2020

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years. Genres: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller

Clerks

We hate loiterers, but love an audience. Isn't it ironic?

Reviewed Sep 4, 2020

Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives. Genres: Comedy

Escape from New York

NO! SLEEP!! Til Hartford!!!

Reviewed Jun 9, 2020

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back. Genres: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Dragged Across Concrete

Is hitting the road with Mad Mel an idea as bad as lasagn...

Reviewed Mar 6, 2020

Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows. Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Taxi Driver

Yes, Now Playing Podcast is talkin’ to you!

Reviewed Oct 11, 2019

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. Genres: Crime, Drama

Miami Vice

Time is luck (so feel blessed you live in an era without ...

Reviewed Sep 13, 2019

A case involving drug lords and murder in South Florida takes a personal turn for undercover detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs. Unorthodox Crockett gets involved romantically with the Chinese-Cuban wife of a trafficker of arms and drugs, while Tubbs deals with an assault on those he loves. Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Eyes Wide Shut

A doctor’s strange love 

Reviewed Jul 12, 2019

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head. Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Locke

Honk if you love concrete

Reviewed Jan 29, 2019

Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul. Genres: Drama, Thriller

Face/Off

🎜Papa's got in brand new drag 🎝

Reviewed Jan 22, 2019

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge. Genres: Action, Crime, Science Fiction

Apocalypse Now

Our motto: Coppola Now!

Reviewed Nov 18, 2018

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory. Genres: Drama, War