Movie Review Archives

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

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

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

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

Screamers

Type 6 Screamers look like DVR boxes. You have been warned.

Reviewed Jan 21, 2011

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms. Genres: Horror, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, War

Total Recall (1990)

Man, I just pulled my Quato

Reviewed Jan 14, 2011

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Blade Runner

Anyone else see a unicorn run through here?

Reviewed Jan 7, 2011

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. Genres: Drama, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release, Thriller

TRON: Legacy

In Cyberspace, no one can hear you over the techno.

Reviewed Dec 20, 2010

Sam Flynn, the tech-savvy and daring son of Kevin Flynn, investigates his father's disappearance and is pulled into The Grid. With the help of a mysterious program named Quorra, Sam quests to stop evil dictator Clu from crossing into the real world. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Black Christmas (2006)

Scott Farkus had yellow eyes, so Billy has yellow skin?

Reviewed Dec 13, 2010

As the residents of sorority house Pi Kappa Sigma prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins a series of obscene phone calls with dubious intentions... Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Black Christmas (1974)

Can you guess what the gift is, Agnes?

Reviewed Dec 8, 2010

As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls. Genres: Christmas/Holiday, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Theatrical Release

Tron

Check out the data discs on her!

Reviewed Dec 3, 2010

When brilliant video game maker Flynn hacks the mainframe of his ex-employer, he is beamed inside an astonishing digital world and becomes part of the very game he is designing. In his mission through cyberspace, Flynn matches wits with a maniacal Master Control Program and teams up with Tron, a security measure created to bring balance to the digital environment. Genres: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Theatrical Release

Rambo

Education or exploitation?

Reviewed Nov 26, 2010

In Thailand, ex-Green Beret John James Rambo joins a group of mercenaries to venture into war-torn neighboring Myanmar to rescue a group of Christian aid workers who have been kidnapped by a ruthless local infantry unit. Genres: Action, Theatrical Release, Thriller, War

Rambo III

Best. Tank vs helicoptor scene. Ever!

Reviewed Nov 19, 2010

Combat has taken its toll on Rambo, but he's finally begun to find inner peace in a monastery. When Rambo's friend and mentor Col. Trautman asks for his help on a top secret mission to Afghanistan, Rambo declines but must reconsider when Trautman is captured. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller, War

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Now that is a knife!

Reviewed Nov 12, 2010

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller, War

First Blood

Featuring David Caruso without sunglasses!

Reviewed Nov 5, 2010

When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. Genres: Action, Adventure, Theatrical Release, Thriller, War

Saw 3D

If it's Halloween, then it's Now Playing Podcast reviewin...

Reviewed Oct 31, 2010

As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror. Genres: Crime, Horror, Theatrical Release