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Everything Actioncast: Congo (1995)

June 13, 2025

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)

June 6, 2025

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: Air Force One (1997)

April 11, 2025

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris board Air Force One as another ass kicking president, Viola Davis in G20, hits Prime Video. Harrison Ford is President James Marshall, who finds himself having to go full John McClane when terrorists led by the ruthless Egor Korshunov (Gary Oldman) manage to hijack Air Force One.  President Marshall […]

Musical Montage: The Neville Brothers “Bird on a Wire”

April 7, 2025

Taking its title from the Leonard Cohen song, the 1990 movie Bird on a Wire featured a new version of the song from The Neville Brothers on its soundtrack.  The movie stars Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, with Gibson’s character in witness protection and Hawn as his ex-girlfriend whom he unexpectedly runs into.  The pair is […]

Everything Action Theater: Judgement Night (1993)

April 3, 2025

A cult classic of the 1990s, you can watch 1993’s Judgement Night in the latest Everything Action Theater.  Starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, and Jeremy Piven, the quartet are suburban friends heading into Chicago via RV to watch a boxing match.  Along the way, they make a wrong turn and end up on […]

Everything Actioncast: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

March 28, 2025

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris experience Turtle Power and celebrate the 35th anniversary of 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Required viewing for all ’90s kids, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fused the original, gritty comics with the more kid-friendly animated series and found the Turtles meeting reporter April O’Neil (Judith Hoag) and […]

Musical Montage: Go West “King of Wishful Thinking”

March 24, 2025

Celebrating its 35th anniversary this past weekend, 1990’s Pretty Woman kicked off with Go West’s “King of Wishful Thinking”, which played during the movie’s opening credits.  Go West was formed in 1982 and features the duo of Peter Cox and Richard Drummie.  The duo had released two albums before the release of Pretty Woman and “King of […]

Musical Montage: Kaoma “Lambada”

March 17, 2025

Becoming an international dance craze in the late 80s and early 90s, the Lambada, aka “The Forbidden Dance,” spawned two films released on the same day in 1990 and a worldwide pop hit, “Lambada” by the band Kaoma.  The Lambada originated in Brazil and spread to other countries, especially the Philippines, Latin America, and the […]

Everything Actioncast: Daylight (1996)

March 14, 2025

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try to survive underground with Stallone and discuss the 1996 disaster movie Daylight, which just got released on 4K. Stallone stars as Kit Latura, the disgraced former chief of the New York Emergency Medical Services.  When an explosion collapses both ends of one of the tunnels that […]

Musical Montage: Aaliyah “Are You That Somebody?”

March 10, 2025

Coming off the soundtrack for 1998’s Doctor Dolittle, “Are You That Somebody?” from Aaliyah is a pretty sultry R&B/Hip-Hop jam for a goofy Eddie Murphy movie.  Written and produced by Timbaland and Static Major, “Are You That Somebody?” was included on the Doctor Dolittle soundtrack album, which was a huge success, peaking at #4 on the Billboard […]