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“So you’re saying this is better than the Escape Plan franchise?” - EricOn this week’s episode, We ❤️ Movies month continues as we chat about one of the best sports dramas of all time, Rocky! How incredible is all the human, non-boxing stuff here? Isn’t this film way better since we have all these salt-of-the-earth actors (and non-actors) filling the frame? Could these shooting locations have doubled in Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero? How great is Butkus Stallone? And was there ever a better heavyweight than Burgess Meredith? PLUS: Adrian invents Star Trek slash fiction! Rocky stars Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Al Silvani, Stan Shaw, and Butkus Stallone as Butkus the Dog; directed by John Avildsen.This episode is brought to you in part by Gametime! Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code WHM for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply.And also in part by Storyblocks! For a limited time, they’re offering 15% off a

This is and extended preview of our WHM episode on Sudden Death (1995). To access the full show, click through here to sign up for our Patreon!“Powers Boothe is gonna show how bad JCVD is...” - Chris on the acting legendOn this special patrons-only WHM, we’re chatting about the outrageous JCVD Die Hard knock-off, Sudden Death! Where does this movie fall quality-wise in the JCVD filmography? In what world would the Vice President of the United States attend a professional hockey final? Was that whole opening scene actually supposed to be a monologue that JCVD just couldn’t nail? How ridiculous is it when he gets in goal? How great is Powers Boothe as the villain? Does this movie contain a very rare cinematic step-dad who’s actually a good guy? Should the script have condensed these two kids into one character? And do Zambonis really have big beer coolers on the front of them like that? PLUS: Cold popcorn delivery men? Is it too late for a career change? We’d join that union!Sudden Death stars Jean-Claude Van

On this edition of On-Screen Live, we're joined by artist and friend, Felipe Sobreiro to chat about his kick-ass comic work, along with an awesome-looking new project he’s got a Kickstarter for at the moment! He stuck around to help us review Clayface and the new restoration of the definitive cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils, and he humored Andrew and Eric by listening to them ramble about Tulsa King for a fashion! Click through here and kick in to Felipe’s Space Hell Kickstarter if you can. Let’s make this book a reality! Be sure to visit the WHM Merch shop over on Dashery and check out all the latest show-related designs you can slap on t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, stickers, whatever! Make your friends jealous by flaunting some WHM merch today!Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

“This whole tracking shot is brilliant, it’s a super-flex” - EricOn this episode, we’re kicking off We ❤️ Movies month with a chat about the total banger that is Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil! How absolutely off-putting is Captain Hank Quinlan in this movie? Is the opening tracking shot one of the most impressive feats in all of Old Hollywood? Wow, talk about bad luck with Janet Leigh and scuzzy, roadside motels, huh? And what on Earth was Quinlan thinking with that gross chili analogy? PLUS: Charlton Heston’s Mike Vargas purchases one product too many from the Acme Corporation!Touch of Evil stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, and Orson Welles as Captain Hank Quinlan; directed by Orson Welles.Today’s episode is sponsored by HIMS! Visit hims.com slash whm to get personalized, affordable care for weight loss, hair loss, sex, testosterone, and more. That’s H-I-M-S dot com slash whm Hims.com sla

“We’re going back to the Hood with a significantly smaller budget!” - Andrew On this week’s episode, we’re closing out the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular by having our good buds, James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca from Dead Meat, back on to chat about the next chapter in the Leprechaun saga, Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood! Why does the movie wait a full 30 minutes to really get the Leprechaun action going? Why are they bothering with this storybook device at the start? Is the cold open actually the end of a better Leprechaun movie? Is Laz Alonso the third most recognizable person to star in a Leprechaun film? And is this movie better or worse than the Leprechaun’s first adventure in the Hood? PLUS: You can check out Fresh Meat now, streaming exclusively on Pijama! Click through here to rent it!Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood stars Tangi Miller, Laz Alonso, Page Kennedy, Sherrie Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Stikcy Fingaz, Keesha Sharp, Sonya Eddy, and Warwick Davis as the Leprechuan; directed by

On this edition of On-Screen Live, we're playing catch-up on some stuff we've seen over the last few weeks, including the most divisive narrative of the year, Digger; the non-fiction smash hit, You Can See Everything; the R Pats-starring media thriller, Primetime, and two Halloween-time horror series that just dropped, Brad Caleb Kane's new Crystal Lake series on Peacock, and the Mike Flanagan-developed Carrie miniseries! We're also going over the weekend box office, and more!Be sure to visit the WHM Merch shop over on Dashery and check out all the latest show-related designs you can slap on t-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, stickers, whatever! Make your friends jealous by flaunting some WHM merch today!Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.

“This is an ‘I Got It By the Way’ situation” - Steve The 2026 Halloween Spooktacular continues this week as we’re chatting about the better-than-the-original sequel, Child’s Play 2! How hilarious is it that this toy company insists on rebuilding the cursed doll to calm their shareholders? Why do these foster parents have so much terrifying clown stuff and breakable antiques in their home? Does Chucky have the strength of a man or the strength of a cursed doll? How much funnier is this one than the first? And has our society hidden a bygone era from us, where clowns were allowed to walk around and participate in society like it was totally normal? PLUS: A long jag on those gross airplane bottles of Fireball! Child’s Play 2 stars Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Grace Zabriskie, Peter Haskell, Beth Grant, Greg Germann, and Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky; directed by John Lafia.This episode is sponsored by Rocket Money! Let Rocket Money help you reach your financial goals faster.

“Oh, they’re not doing re-shoots here…” - AndrewOn this week’s episode, the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular is just getting warmed up as we break down one of our all-time slasher faves, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives! How hilarious is this cold open with Tommy Jarvis and Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter? Is there another stunt in this franchise that comes close to the awesome RV flip in this movie? Is this the funniest Friday the 13th script? Has there been a better pop song used in these movies than Alice Cooper’s “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” that we get at the end credits here? Is that cemetery groundskeeper a fart head? And how about that sheriff’s murder, huh? PLUS: Apparently Thom Mathews and James Karen corresponded with one another long after The Return of the Living Dead kick-started their friendship!Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives stars Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Karen, C.J. Graham, Kerry Noonan, Renée Jones, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Vincent Guastaferro, Tony Goldwyn, Nancy Mc

[You are listening to an extended preview of our We ❤️ Movies episode on Scream (1996)! If you want access to the whole show, along with hours of exclusive bonus content you can't get anywhere else, click this link to sign up for our Patreon!]“This cheerleader is vicious!” - Andrew on that bathroom sceneOn this month’s We ❤️ Movies, our Halloween Spooktacular takes over as we’re covering one of the absolute best horror films of the 1990s, Wes Craven’s Scream!How incredible is that cold open? Did Chris really hear a lewd sound when Tatum bites it? How fantastic are all these huge, tube TVs? Not to mention all the magnificent houses! How cool was it seeing Henry Winkler pop up as Principal Himbry? And how many times, collectively, have the four of us seen this film? PLUS: More talk about the denim industry than you’d expect! And definitely way more talk about the Harry Keitel film, Smoke!Scream stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Jami

On the fall premiere of On-Screen Live, we're breaking down a great number of films we caught at this year's New York Film Festival! The NYFF64 lineup is a great place to turn when clocking what good-to-great films are coming down the pike toward the end of this year, or into early next. On this episode, we're giving our thoughts on films like James Gray's masterful, '80s-set, New Yawk crime drama, Paper Tiger; the documentary that's rocking the film world and beyond, a jarring non-fiction title that is meeting the moment, NAZA; Werner Herzog's funny, sweet, oddball return to narrative filmmaking, the excellently-titled, Bucking Fastard; William Greaves and David Greaves's miracle of documentary cinema, the absolutely stunning Once Upon a Time in Harlem; Andor's Tony Gilroy's return to the director's chair after 14 years, the wild Pedro Pascal classical cellist drama, Behemoth!; and much, much more!On-Screen Live is our industry business and current release show where we chat about box office, react to new t

“I’ve seen this movie dozens of times” - AndrewOn this week’s episode, we’re kicking off the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular in grand fashion as we go long on Peter Jackson’s super-fun, paranormal comedy, The Frighteners!Should they have tried to nail down a set of ghost rules for our spooky characters? Couldn’t Universal have waited and released this banger in October, instead of the summer, especially when Peter Jackson & Co. hadn’t finished the special effects?! How fantastic is Michael J. Fox leading this movie? Should the studio have let Jackson go even wilder with the horror elements? Is this movie, fun as it is, possibly overstuffed? Are there many things more spooktacular than Jake Busey’s terrifying, vacant stare? And who wants to make a rezzy and grab dinner at Excalibur’s? PLUS: A Spooktacular round of the VHS Trailer Game! The Frighteners stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, John Astin, Chi McBride, Jim Fife, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey,

“Unfortunately, they forgot to make this a movie…” - EricOn this week’s show, we’re chatting about the total misfire that is Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li! Holy smokes, what were they thinking here? What in the world with this narration? Why was the late, great Michael Clarke Duncan the only actor who understood the assignment here? Was the Chris Klein performance one of the inspirations for Tim Heidecker’s classic ‘Decker’ character? And why the heck did they make M. Bison an Irish guy? PLUS: Do you have to take Pokémons to the vet?Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li stars Kristin Kreuk, Chris Klein, Robin Shou, Moon Bloodgood, Josie Ho, Taboo, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Neal McDonough as Mike Bison; directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak.This episode is brought to you in part by Instant Hydration! For a better way to stay hydrated, go to INSTANTHYDRATION DOT COM SLASH WHM and use my promo code WHM for over 40% off your first subscription order - it’s Instant Hydration’s best offer available!Be sure to

“They’re making sure you got every dumb detail of that first movie” - Andrew on the opening flashbackOn this week’s show, we’re chatting about the second entry in the massively successful sci-fi horror franchise, Resident Evil: Apocalypse! How janky is the CGI on those Licker monsters in the church? How hard is it to say ‘Raccoon City’ with a straight face? Shouldn’t the Raccoon City News be hosted by cute, little raccoons? How many people remembered the story from the first game? And could Nemesis have pulled it off working for MI6? PLUS: The season 17 start of the VHS Trailer Game! Resident Evil: Apocalypse stars Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory, Oded Fehr, Thomas Kretschmann, Sophie Vavasseur, Raz Adoti, Mike Epps, Sandrine Holt, Matthew G. Taylor, Zack Ward, Iain Glen, and Jared Harris as Dr. Ashford; directed by Alexander Witt.This episode is brought to you in part by HIMs weight loss. Visit hims.com slash WHM to get a personalized, affordable plan that gets you. That’s H-I-M-S dot com slash WHM! Hims.co

“I do have to imagine life with good, old Dan Challis… was a nightmare.” - ChrisOn this week’s episode, we’re heading back to Santa Mira to chat about a cult classic par excellence, one of the most misunderstood, under-watched horror sequels of all time, Halloween III: Season of the Witch!Is the public opinion on this movie one of the biggest 180s in horror history? How incredible is Tom Atkins, and his mustache, in this? Why would you bring sexy lingerie on a trip to uncover why your father was murdered? How about that wild-ass score by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth? Why are all the murder-bots set to ‘pulverize’ mode? Does Dr. Challis have a Bond/Moneypenny thing with this coroner character? And how great is Dan O’Herlihy as the villainous Conal Cochran? PLUS: The Devil gets cancelled!Halloween III: Season of the Witch stars Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelson, Michael Currie, Ralph Strait, Jade Barber, Brad Schacter, Gary Stephens, Nancy Kyes, Al Berry, and Dan O’Herlihy as Conal Cochran; directed by Tommy Lee Wa

Recorded Live at the Den Theatre in Chicago, IL, 22 March, 2026“Way too much oral stuff in this movie!” - EricOn this week’s WHM Live episode, it’s our raucous show from Chicago where we were talking a blue streak about the beloved Tom Hanks comedy, Big! How eerie is the third act of this movie? Shouldn’t Susan have been a bit more creeped out by Josh’s apartment? Is there a more terrifying sight than Robert Loggia being nice to people? How great would it be to have a 1980’s Jon Lovitz as a coworker? Couldn’t they have thrown more lines to James Eckhouse? What would it be like watching the gut-wrenching, Lars von Trier-esque, family drama that Mercedes Ruehl and the rest of the Baskin family is going through? And did Hollywood decree there could only be one be-mulleted, red-headed, DSB actor at a time? PLUS: Should New Jersey give Jason Voorhees his own highway rest stop? Big stars Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, John Heard, Jared Rushton, David Moscow, Jon Lovitz, Mercedes Ruehl, James Eckhouse, Debra Jo Rupp

You're listening to an extended preview of our September WLM on The Guest! To access the full, commercial-free show, click through to our Patreon and sign up now!“I love this sad sack shit” - Eric on the father in this movieOn the first We ❤️ Movies episode of season 17, we’re chatting about a total all-timer cult classic, Adam Wingard’s The Guest!Is this the single best Dan Stevens performance we’ve seen so far? How incredible is this soundtrack and score combo? Is this family too into Halloween? Is Leland Orser’s character the biggest “loser dad” guy in a while? Was there ever a man cooler than Lance Reddick—especially when he was wearing boss-ass dusters like the one he sports in this film? And who hasn’t known a townie scum bag like old Craig here? PLUS: That poor, elderly couple just wanted to celebrate their wedding anniversary at that quiet diner!The Guest stars Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Sheila Kelley, Leland Order, Chase Williamson, Joel David Moore, Ethan Emery, Tabatha Shaun, AJ Bow

“I always wanted to see a cop car crash because of this movie!” - Eric on Midnight RunOn this very special episode of WHM, which also happens to be the Season 17 premiere(!), we’re so stoked to be chatting with John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writing/directing duo behind hilarious films like Game Night and Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, about their new action-packed buddy comedy, Mayday, while also breaking down one of their, and our, favorite buddy action/comedies, the great Midnight Run!How much of a fantastic casting decision was it pairing Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin? Has anyone actually been on a plane with a spiral staircase? Was there anyone better than Dennis Farina? How great is all the location shooting here? And good lord, look at all the places De Niro is finding to smoke in this movie! PLUS: Check out John & Jonathan’s hilarious new action comedy, Mayday, available on Apple this Friday, September 4th!Midnight Run stars Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, John A

Recorded Live at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis, MN, 20 March, 2026“This show is rated PG-45…” - Steve on our live show contentOn this Summer Live episode, it’s our rowdy show from the great city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where we were touring in March of this year, chatting about the beefy, early-Arnold epic, Conan the Barbarian! How incredible is James Earl Jones’ wig in this movie? What’s with this feral dog man in the scouting party at the beginning? Did Arnold really punch that camel in the face? Should Sven-Ole Thorsen ever be this clean-shaven in a movie? And who among us wouldn’t join James Earl Jones’ snake cult? PLUS: Burgess Meredith as Conan’s father? It could’ve happened!Conan the Barbarian stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones, Max von Sydow, Sandahl Bergman, Ben Davidson, Cassandra Gava, Gerry Lopez, Valérie Quennessen, and Mako as The Wizard; directed by John Milius.This episode is brought to you by Storyblocks! Head to STORYBLOCKS DOT COM SLASH WHM ot access the human-made stock

Recorded Live at the Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles, CA, 22 February, 2026“Travolta just chops him in the neck!” - Steve on Bob Gunton’s character’s demiseOn this week’s Summer Live episode, we’re releasing our Broken Arrow show from earlier this year, recorded in our favorite room to play on tour, the world-famous Hollywood Improv!We were there playing to a packed house to chat about this near-forgotten John Travolta/Christian Slater action film that contains more than its fair share of character actors! Is it sad that audiences probably remember this movie better than they remember another, superior, John Woo-in-America entry, Hard Target? How hilarious is the moment when that old timer gets taken out by the terrorists at his camp site? No shade to stuff like Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, but can we get Samantha Mathis in bigger movies like this again? Is there a better actor to play a cinematic weasel than Bob Gunton? And would this film have been better if Christian Slater’s character was in possession of a

Recorded Live at the Bell House in Brooklyn, NY, 6 December, 2025“These domes are too cheap to colonize Mars!” - SteveOn this Summer Live episode, it’s our 15th Anniversary Show from the Bell House where we were in rare form chatting about the Arnold sci-fi classic, Total Recall!How hilarious is Arnold as this vague construction guy? Was this movie the Ground Zero for that Arnold Soundboard craze? Why does the Recall office only have the single chair if they’re the latest craze in techno-tainment? Why did they let Arnold get the procedure while wearing jeans and a corduroy jacket? And should we be calling these guys mutants? PLUS: The finale of the season sixteen VHS Trailer Game! Total Recall stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside, Rachel Ticotin, Marshall Bell, Mel Johnson Jr., Michael Champion, Roy Brocksmith, Dean Norris, Debbie Lee Carrington, Robert Costanzo, and Ronny Cox as Cohaagen; directed by Paul Verhoeven.This episode is brought to you by HIMs. Ready to reach your goals? Vis