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Stone Cold

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Directors: Craig R. Baxley, Philippe Mora

Cast

 

Brian Bosworth (Joe Elkhart, Joe Huff/John Stone)

Brian Bosworth

Joe Elkhart, Joe Huff/John Stone

Lance Henriksen (Chains Cooper)

Lance Henriksen

Chains Cooper

William Forsythe (Ice)

William Forsythe

Ice

Craig R. Baxley

Craig R. Baxley

Pregaming for Stone Cold

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Catching up in anticipation of our Stone Cold rewatch.

MacGruber

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Directed byJorma Taccone

Screenplay by

• Will Forte
• John Solomon
• Jorma Taccone

Starring

• Will Forte
• Kristen Wiig
• Ryan Phillippe
• Val Kilmer
• Maya Rudolph
• Powers Boothe

 

Distributed byUniversal Pictures

Release dates

• March 15, 2010 (SXSW)
• May 21, 2010 (United States)

Running time

91 minutes [1]CountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$10 million[2]Box office$9.3 million[3]

Pregaming for MacGruber

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Lets get ready for next weeks episode featuring MacGruber with a pre chat about all the other stuff we've been watching.

 

 

Raid 2

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8/10IMDb

 

82% Rotten Tomatoes

 

71%Metacritic The Raid 2 

 

90% liked this film Google users

 

Description

After surviving a bloody fight with powerful gangsters, rookie Jakarta cop Rama (Iko Uwais) thinks he can resume a normal life. However, his exploits during that fateful incident have attracted the attention of criminals even more deadly than the last. His family at risk, Rama has no choice but to go under cover. He gets himself thrown in prison, where he befriends the son of a prominent crime kingpin. Rama must lay his own life on the line to finally destroy the criminal empire.

Release date: March 28, 2014 (USA)

Director: Gareth Evans

Budget: $4.5 million

Music by: Joseph Trapanese; Aria Prayogi; Fajar Yuskemal

Box office: $6.6 million (excluding Indonesia and Japan)

Pregaming For The Raid 2

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It's our weekly discussion of what were watching with a few games thrown in.

Invasion USA

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Retired CIA agent Matt Hunter (Chuck Norris) is forced back into the business when a villain from his past re-emerges. Soviet Mikhail Rostov (Richard Lynch), a terrorist whom Matt once caught, wants to exact revenge. After failing to find Matt at his Everglades home, Rostov and his army of Communist

Release date: September 27, 1985 (USA)

Director: Joseph Zito

Music by: Jay Chattaway

Box office: $17,500,000 (US)

Story by: Aaron Norris; James Bruner

Budget: $12 million

Trapped In Paradise (Again) With Talking Back Podcast

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This week we talk with Dean from The Talking Back Podcast about the most excellent holiday movie ever made, Trapped In Paradise.

5.9/10 IMDb

5% Rotten Tomatoes 

63% JustWatch

81% liked this film

Google users

Fresh out of prison, Alvin (Dana Carvey) and Dave Firpo (Jon Lovitz) pull their brother Bill (Nicolas Cage) back into a life of crime. But the siblings' foolproof bank heist takes a tailspin when Alvin gets lost in the getaway car. That's how the criminal nitwits wind up trapped in the snowbound bur… MOREDescription

Initial release: November 21, 1994

Director: George Gallo

Music by: Robert Folk

Box office: $6 million

Hallmarks: Fir Crazy

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This week on the Podcast we go way into left field and watch what is considered to be one of the worst Hallmark Christmas movies of all time, Fir Crazy.

 

6.4/10IMDb

68%JustWatch

 

87% liked this film Google users

 

Description

A woman who has always hated Christmas is forced to take over running her father's struggling tree lot when he breaks his leg. Helping people find the perfect decoration for their homes inspires a newfound love of the season and she starts to fall for a repeat customer - but she also has to save the… MORE

Initial release: November 24, 2013

Director: Craig Pryce

Armageddon

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6.7/10 IMDb

38% Rotten Tomatoes

42% Metacritic

87% liked this film

Google users

NASA astronauts observe that a large asteroid will hit earth in the next eighteen days and destroy life. They realise that their only hope of survival is Harry Stamper, an oil driller.Description

Release date: July 1, 1998 (Canada)

Director: Michael Bay

Featured song: I Don't Want to Miss a Thing

Story by: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh

Box office: $553.7 million

Screenplay by: Jonathan Hensleigh; J. J. Abrams