The Rock arrives as a movie star in the goofy barbarian actionerTHE SCORPION KING from 2002! This spinoff of the MUMMY franchise centers the pro wrestler to see if he has legs as an A-list star, and (spoiler alert) the guy has got the goods! We talk all about the Rock's career, review some of the history of the sword-and-sandal genre, and then take on two games: RISE OF THE AKKADIAN on Gamecube and SWORD OF OSIRIS for Game Boy Advance!

Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 

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Next week's episode: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 

Our buddy Jeffrey Chatman joins us this week to talk about the splashy sequel THE MUMMY RETURNS! Made less than 2 years after the original became a sleeper hit, the movie falls into a lot of traps that sequels often do, resulting in some predictable plot beats and some legendarily shoddy CGI. But is there anything worth salvaging from this quickie sequel or is is better left to rot in its tomb? We're covering that plus two games for the Game Boy Color and PS2, the latter of which finally lets us play as the Mummy himself!

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Next week's episode: The Scorpion King

This week we're unearthing a new four-part miniseries exploring the 1999 reboot of the Universal classic THE MUMMY! Starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz, the rip-snorting crowd-pleaser became a generational favorite and something of an awakening moment for a large portion of the population, launching a huge franchise in the process. We're checking out the first film in the series, as well as its accompanying PS1 and GBC game adaptations!

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Next week's episode: The Mummy Returns

Guys! The guardians! They're rising! And we're here to capture the holiday-ish magic! 

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Next week's episode: The Mummy 

Merry Christmas and a bah, humbug to you all! This week we're fully embracing our Christmas cheer (or lack thereof) by checking out the 2009 iteration of Charles Dickens' timeless classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL! Robert Zemeckis' stop-motion animated film features Jim Carrey as Scrooge, but don't expect the manic energy he brought to the Grinch: this is Carrey at his most stately and subdued, and weather that works for this adaptation is a matter for debate. But we'll get into it, just before checking out the Nintendo DS-exclusive game adaptation, which features minigames, puzzles, and the full text of the original book! 

Hosted by Steve Guntli, Jennifer "JBan" Bannister, and Justin Wilhelm 

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Next week's episode: Rise of the Guardians 

Dr. Seuss' timeless holiday classic gets a loud and abrasive feature-film adaptation with Ron Howard's HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS from 2000! Jim Carrey is putting in some work behind all of that amazing (and apparently agonizing) makeup, but is that enough to get past the film's harsh and weirdly creepy tone? We'll get into it, before we check out the game adaptation for the Dreamcast and PS1! 

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Next week's episode: A Christmas Carol (2009)

What's this? Why it's an episode on the exquisite animated holiday staple THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, the perfect way to bring us into a month of Christmas movies! We cover the entire grueling saga of getting Henry Selick and Tim Burton's vision to the screen, and wax nostaligic about the incredible animation and timeless Danny Elfman score. Then, we're checking out two long-belated video games that continue the story of the film: the Xbox game action game OOGIE'S REVENGE and the GBA Metroidvania THE PUMPKIN KING!

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Next week's episode: How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Don't you dare interrupt our groove, because this week is all about Disney's fun and featherlight comedy THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE! Despite it's loose and silly trappings, this was actually one of the most troubled Disney animated productions ever, and it was almost a very different movie than the one we ended up with. We're joined this week by actor and improviser Ananya Roy to revisit this 2000 animated classic, and to check out the PS1 game adaptation, which bears a striking resemblence to the game of a certain purple dragon, and we're not mad about it. 

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Next week's episode: A Nightmare Before Christmas 

Catch the excitement! Catch the adventure! Catch... the baffling vanity project and massive box office bomb HUDSON HAWK! This week, we talk about the film that almost killed Bruce Willis' career before it had even really begun, a wildly expensive, tonally scattershot action comedy that suffered more behind-the-scenes drama than almost any other film of the 90s! And since this is the early 90s, any movie released in the summer has to have an obligatory Nintendo game, so we're checking that out as well! 

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Next week's episode: The Emperor's New Groove

We're going big this week, and we do mean big: we're talking about Guillermo Del Toro's giddy genre throwback PACIFIC RIM, in which massive mechs pummel the crap out of gargantuan monsters, and we just get to sit back and enjoy the popcorn. It's a film that seems tailor-made for a video game adaptation, and yet the film produced only one half-hearted effort that isn't even available anymore; thankfully, our own game wizard Justin helped us dig up a copy so we can give you the full scoop. 

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Next week's episode: Hudson Hawk