WarGames

Podcast Release Date:

Feb 14, 2025

Hacker Movies Series Episode 1

Ferris Bueller’s Day After

Matthew Broderick logs into a high-security military base to find the next Galaga and winds up playing WarGames with A.I. capable of global thermonuclear annihilation. Can the geeky teen and girlfriend Ally Sheedy (Breakfast Club) track down the creator of this doomsday device and fix the faulty programming before Dabney Coleman (9 To 5) and the clueless military brass escalate things to Defcon One?  Arnie, Stuart, and Justin take you behind Hollywood’s firewall to access cinema’s biggest hacker films when you register as a donating Now Playing user. 

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