Action, Action

This week on the podcast we watch a big one, Terminator 2: Judgment Day. 

In this sequel set eleven years after "The Terminator," young John Connor (Edward Furlong), the key to civilization's victory over a future robot uprising, is the target of the shape-shifting T-1000 (Robert Patrick), a Terminator sent from the future to kill him. Another Terminator, the revamped T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger), has been sent back to protect the boy. As John and his mother (Linda Hamilton) go on the run with the T-800, the boy forms an unexpected bond with the robot.

This week on Action, Action we catch watch the co-director of John Wick, David Leitch, latest film Atomic Blond.

Sensual and savage, Lorraine Broughton is the most elite spy in MI6, an agent who's willing to use all of her lethal skills to stay alive during an impossible mission. With the Berlin Wall about to fall, she travels into the heart of the city to retrieve a priceless dossier and take down a ruthless espionage ring. Once there, she teams up with an embedded station chief to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.

This week on Action, Action we watch the 2015 first person action movie Hardcore Henry.

A man wakes up in a Moscow laboratory to learn that he's been brought back from the dead as a half-human, half-robotic hybrid. With no memory of his former life, a woman who claims to be his wife tells him that his name is Henry. Before she can activate his voice, armed thugs storm in and kidnap her. As Henry starts to understand his new abilities, he embarks on a bloody rampage through the city to save his spouse from a psychopath (Danila Kozlovsky) who plans to destroy the world.

This week on the podcast we catch up with one of the last big action releases of 2019, 6 Underground. 

Six individuals from all around the globe, each the very best at what they do, have been chosen not only for their skill, but for a unique desire to delete their pasts to change the future.

It's our 2019 end of the year wrap up. On this episode we look back a the year that was and what we are looking forward to in 2020

This week we wrap up Christmas with 1992's Batman Returns.

When Max, an entrepreneur, and criminal Penguin team up to wreak havoc in Gotham City, Batman decides to stop them. Catwoman's alter ego, Selina Kyle, seeks revenge on Max for trying to kill her.

Ho Ho Ho, Merry Christmas! It's the second week of December and we are headed to Finland. This week we watched 2010s Rare Exports. 

In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

It's the holiday season so we are working our way through some Christmas movies. Up first, Reindeer Games. 

When his former cellmate, Nick, is killed during a prison riot, Rudy takes it as an opportunity to meet Nick's girlfriend. His plan goes awry when he finds himself being forced into a casino robbery.

This week we check in on the first Fast & Furious spin off, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. 

Brixton Lorr is a cybernetically enhanced soldier who possesses superhuman strength, a brilliant mind and a lethal pathogen that could wipe out half of the world's population. It's now up to hulking lawman Luke Hobbs and lawless operative Deckard Shaw to put aside their past differences and work together to prevent the seemingly indestructible Lorr from destroying humanity.

This week we watch the indie hit, 2012's Chronicle.

 

Three high school friends stumble upon a discovery that empowers them with superhuman powers. What begins as fun and games soon turns into a dark nightmare as they lose control over themselves.