Everything Actioncast: 28 Days Later (2002)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to avoid getting infected by the Rage Virus and discuss 2002’s 28 Days Later as the third entry in the series, 28 Years Later, opens in theaters. Cillian Murphy stars as Jim, a bike courier who awakens from a coma to find the world gone to hell. An experimental […]
Everything Actioncast: Congo (1995)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head into the jungle and discuss 1995’s Congo for its 30th anniversary. Based on the 1979 novel by Michael Crichton, an expedition heads deep into the jungles of the Congo. Peter Elliott (Dylan Walsh) wants to bring his research gorilla, Amy, whom he has taught to […]
Everything Actioncast: Total Recall (1990)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris get their asses to Mars and discuss 1990’s Total Recall, which just turned 35. Directed by Paul Verhoeven and based on the Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Douglas Quaid, a construction worker who visits a company called […]
Everything Actioncast: Fletch (1985)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris go undercover with Fletch as the movie turns 40, releasing on May 31st, 1985. Based on the first book in the Fletch series by Gregory Mcdonald, Chevy Chase is Irwin P. Fletcher aka Fletch. A reporter for the Los Angeles Times who writes under the pseudonym “Jane Doe”, Fletch goes […]
Everything Action Commentary: The Karate Kid (1984)
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris return to 1984 to watch The Karate Kid, just in time for Karate Kid: Legends hitting theaters. The movie that kicked off the entire “Miyagi-verse,” which includes Cobra Kai and the original sequels, The Karate Kid, stars Ralph Macchio as Daniel LaRusso, who travels from Newark, New Jersey, to […]
Everything Actioncast: Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris’s mission, should they choose to accept it, is to discuss Mission: Impossible 2, which turns 25 and we also have what is being billed as the final entry in the franchise, Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning hitting theaters. Tom Cruise was back as Ethan Hunt, this time […]
Everything Actioncast: Mindhunters (2004)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris enter the mind of a killer and discuss Mindhunters, which came out in the US 20 years ago this week (after being released in almost every other country around the world in 2004). Directed by Renny Harlin, Mindhunters follows a group of FBI agents training to be […]
Everything Actioncast: Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris are in Boston for PAX East and discuss 2010’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time to get into the video game mindset. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Prince Dastan, who leads an assault against the holy city of Alamut for the Persian Empire and discovers a mysterious […]
Everything Actioncast: Code of Silence (1985)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris head to Chicago for the Chuck Norris classic Code of Silence, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Norris plays Eddie Cusack, the head of a squad of Chicago cops who finds himself in a gang war when a drug bust goes bad and crime boss Luis […]
Everything Actioncast: The Raid (2011)
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris stack up for The Raid, aka The Raid: Redemption, as a new Gareth Evans movie, Havoc, arrives on Netflix. The breakout for Evans and star Iko Uwais, Uwais stars in The Raid as Rama, a rookie cop in the Mobile Brigade Corps. His unit assaults the apartment […]
Everything Action Commentary: Willow (1988)
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris pay tribute to the late, great Val Kilmer by watching him in one of his most fun roles, the boastful swordsman Madmartigan in 1988’s Willow. Warwick Davis stars as Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn farmer with aspirations of being a great sorcerer. When a human baby washes […]