Be Kind, Please Rewind!

Join us as we kick off our next set of 100 episodes! Where to start? How about one of the worst racing movies of all time: Steel Chariots (1997)?

A made-for-tv cluster of a movie, Steel Chariots is the Fox Tuesday Night Movie that asked: what if Days of Thunder had less talent, more Baywatch DNA, and a Randy Travis sermon?

The plot is sibling rivalry, pit lizards, overcoming bruises, and marking off "Winning a Championship" on your to-do list. With a script that feels like it was written by the Hallmark card company, what could possibly go wrong!

Recorded just weeks prior to the recent announcement of Days of Thunder 2 (!!!), this week we take a deep dive into an all-time NASCAR racing classic, Days of Thunder (1990), starring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes (Princess Bride!), and John C. Reilly.

So join us for our 100th episode as we celebrate fast cars, faster montages, and monkeys playing with footballs!

We're back! This week we tackle Cannonball Run 2 (1984), where we find more celebrities and more chaos than the original. Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise return, alongside a ton of cameos that fans of the '80s will love. So bad that it's good? Let's find out!

What if Ocean's 11 was about race cars? You'd have The Cannonball Run (1981), an action-comedy film based on the 1979 running of the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash. Yes, that's right, this movie is based on an actual true story.

Featuring an amazing cast of Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Roger Moore (playing not-James Bond), Farrah Fawcett (Beauty), Jackie Chan, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin (Rat Pack!), and Adrienne Barbeau (Swamp Thing), the movie is a cross-country outlaw road race beginning in Connecticut and ending in California.

Enjoy the absurdity!

Buckle up for Greased Lightning (1977), a biographical film where the iconic Richard Pryor stars as Wendell Scott, a real-life pioneer who started as a WWII vet and moonshine runner in Danville, Virginia, and eventually became the first Black driver to win a NASCAR national series race.

Does this movie do justice to a fascinating real-life story? Does this movie have an intended audience? Join us as we take a look and find out!

Join us as we fire up the engines for the 1973 film, The Last American Hero, starring a young Jeff Bridges as Elroy 'Junior' Jackson, a backroads bootlegger who yearns to make it in racing.

Loosely based on the real-life NASCAR legend Junior Johnson and a famous article by Tom Wolfe, this is far from a perfect biopic and probably never stood a chance at being a financial success.

Today we're firing up our engines for a full-throttle comedy ride with Stroker Ace (1983), starring the one and only Burt Reynolds. Directed by Reynolds' long-time collaborator Hal Needham (Smokey and the Bandit and The Cannonball Run), Stroker Ace has become a cult classic over the years. Everyone loves Lugs (Jim Nabors)!

In the film, Reynolds place 3-time Winston Cup champion, Stroker Ace. A hotshot both on and off the track, Ace finds himself trapped in a fried chicken sponsorship conundrum as he drives for Clyde Torkle (Ned Beatty).

In today's episode, we suffer through the failed reboot of the Leprechaun series, Leprechaun Origins (2014).

No longer starring Warwick Davis, the role of the "leprechaun" goes to Dylan Postl (famous for playing the role of a leprechaun in WWE). Unlike the wise-cracking Leprechaun from the first 6 movies, Postl's creature does not speak or do anything resembling entertainment.

The result is a move that could have fatally wounded the franchise. Thankfully, it received a more proper reboot a few years later.

Join us as we dive into the chaotic world of Leprechaun 6: Back 2 tha Hood (2003), the 6th installment in the cult horror-comedy franchise where Warwick Davis returns (for the final time!) as the pint-sized, rhyming Leprechaun.

Unfortunately, he does virtually no rhyming in this film, which is easily the worst Leprechaun movie of the original six films starring Warwick.

Welcome back as we take our chances with the outlandish Leprechaun in the Hood (2000). The fifth entry in the franchise, this film lowers the stakes, bringing our favorite little Leprechaun back to earth and into the streets of Los Angeles, where the Leprechaun seeks to reclaim his stolen flute from Ice-T and a group of aspiring rappers!

If nothing else, be sure to catch the final scene in the movie, "The Leprechaun Rap"!

"Lep in the hood, come to do no good!"