One of the biggest hits for 90s R&B superstars En Vogue, “Don’t Let Go (Love)” came off the soundtrack for the 1996 heist movie Set It Off. The movie starred Jada Pinkett Smith, Queen Latifah, Vivica A. Fox and Kimberly Elise as friends who decide to start robbing banks in Los Angeles. Fox’s character uses […]

We’re discussing The Equalizer this week on the Everything Actioncast, but on the much more dramatic side of Denzel Washington’s filmography is the 1987 biopic Cry Freedom, directed by Richard Attenborough.  Washington played Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist in South Africa who was killed while in police custody.  Kevin Kline played reporter Donald Woods, who […]

Sampling “Soula Bossa Nova” by Quincy Jones, Ludacris went full Austin Powers for the lyrics and music video for his single, “Number One Spot.”  Released as the second single off Ludacris’ album The Red Light District, the song reached #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ended the year at #99 on the yearly Hot […]

Coming out 15 years ago today, on September 9th, 2009, the movie 9 heavily featured “Welcome Home” by Coheed and Cambria in its trailers and soundtrack.  Produced by Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov, the movie was a feature-length version of director Shane Acker’s Oscar-nominated short film and followed a group of rag dolls called “Stitchpunks” […]

Best known for “Barbie Girl,” Aqua had a few other hits on their resume, including “Turn Back Time,” featured on the soundtrack for 1998’s Sliding Doors.

One of the biggest hits of the summer, Twisters leaned more into country for its soundtrack compared to its Van Halen powered predecessor, with Luke Combs providing “Ain’t No Love in Oklahoma” as the leading single.

Coming out 30 years ago today, Airheads features Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser, and Steve Buscemi as the fictional rock band The Lone Rangers, and the actual band White Zombie appears in the movie and on the movie’s soundtrack. 

In the early days of Dreamworks Animation, the company consistently tried to outdo Disney. For 2000’s The Road to El Dorado, they not only brought in Elton John a la The Lion King for multiple songs on the movie’s soundtrack but animated him into the movie itself as the narrator.

The live-action Inspector Gadget turns 25 this week, and, as was the style in 1999, it had a boy band pop song for its main soundtrack song, “I’ll Be Your Everything” by Youngstown.

One of the deeper cut tracks from The Karate Kid universe, “Listen to Your Heart” by Little River Band appeared over the end credits of The Karate Kid Part III.

Although she left the group the same year Lethal Weapon 2 opened, co-star Patsy Kensit’s band Eighth Wonder had a song on the movie’s soundtrack, “I’m Not Scared.”