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Episode #306 Monkey Man (2024)

This week we check out the directorial debut of Dev Patel with Monkey Man (2024)

A young man ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he's beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, he discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city's sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Release date: April 5, 2024 (Canada)

Director: Dev Patel

Budget: 10 million USD

Producers: Dev Patel, Jordan Peele, Samarth Sahni, Basil Iwanyk, MORE

Distributed by: Universal Pictures

Box office: $34.7 million

Episode #305 Just Some Bullshit

We are back! Dustin and James catch up on what they have been watching.

Episode #304 BeeKeeper (2024)

One man's brutal campaign for vengeance takes on national stakes after it's revealed he's a former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

Release date: January 12, 2024 (Canada)

Director: David Ayer

Budget: 40 million USD

Distributed by: Amazon MGM Studios

Cinematography: Gabriel Beristain

Music by: David Sardy; Jared Michael Fry

Episode #303 Rumble in The Bronx (1996)

Hong Kong policeman Keung (Jackie Chan) arrives in New York for the wedding of his uncle Bill (Bill Tung), a grocer who recently sold his Bronx store to the fetching Elaine (Anita Mui). After a biker gang bursts into the store to wreak havoc, Keung springs into action, giving up his vacation to defend the weak and protect the innocent with his extraordinary martial arts skills. As Keung investigates local gangs, he learns more about a criminal syndicate that needs to be brought to justice.

Release date: February 23, 1996 (Canada)

Director: Stanley Tong

Languages: English, Cantonese, Chinese, Portuguese, Italian, Mandarin

Budget: 7.5 million USD

Box office: 76 million USD

Distributed by: Orange Sky Golden Harvest, New Line Cinema, Hollywood Pictures

Episode #302 Shadow Warriors (1997)

This week we are scraping the bottom of the cheap dvd bin to see if we can find some gold. Dustin is join this week by Andy (AKA Warchild)

Hulk Hogan leads an elite Navy SEALS team chosen for an audacious mission to rescue a group of nationals being held captive by a drug lords soldiers who want their leader released.

• Director

  • Jon Cassar

• Writers

  • Calvin Clements Jr.

  • Michael Berk

  • Douglas Schwartz

• Stars

  • Hulk Hogan

  • Carl Weathers

  • Shannon Tweed

 

Episode #301 The Glimmer Man (1996)

This week we drop in on our friend Steven Seagal

A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole (Steven Seagal) is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell (Keenen Ivory Wayans). Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.

Release date: October 4, 1996 (USA)

Director: John Gray

Budget: 45 million USD

Box office: 41.8 million USD

Distributed by: Warner Bros.

Music by: Trevor Rabin

Episode #300 300 (2007)

Our 300th Episode!!! We are so original that we are cover 2007th 300 for our 300th episode. 

In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy.

Release date: March 9, 2007 (USA)

Director: Zack Snyder

Sequel: 300: Rise of an Empire

Distributed by: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures

Adapted from: 300

Box office: $456 million

Episode #299 Lady Dragon (1990)

This week we do a Patreon pick with 1990's Lady Dragon starring Cynthia Rothrock & Richard Norton

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An old master heals a left-for-dead widow (Cynthia Rothrock) and teaches her how to kickbox for revenge.Description

Initial release: 1990

Director: David Worth

Episode #298 Shoot'Em Up (2007)

This week we have Alex and Dean from Return Revenge Resurrection to cover this over the top action packed movie!

After saving a newborn infant from assassins, carrot-crunching gunman Mr. Smith (Clive Owen) teams up with a prostitute named DQ (Monica Bellucci) to protect the baby from further attacks. With hit man Hertz (Paul Giamatti) hot on their trail, Smith and DQ uncover a dying senator's plot to harvest bone marrow from babies just like the one in their arms.

Release date: September 7, 2007 (USA)

Director: Michael Davis

Box office: 26.8 million USD

Distributed by: New Line Cinema

Music by: Paul Haslinger

Produced by: Susan Montford; Don Murphy; Rick Benattar;

Episode #297 Transformers (2007)

Not sure why, but this week we watched Transformers (2007)

The fate of humanity is at stake when two races of robots, the good Autobots and the villainous Decepticons, bring their war to Earth. The robots have the ability to change into different mechanical objects as they seek the key to ultimate power. Only a human youth, Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) can save the world from total destruction.

Release date: July 2, 2007 (Canada)

Director: Michael Bay

Budget: 147 million USD

Sequel: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Distributed by: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks