Everything Actioncast

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris kick off the spooky season with 1988's The Blob, which has a new limited edition 4K steelbook release.

A remake of the 1958 Steve McQueen starring classic, the 1988 The Blob was directed by Chuck Russell and stars Kevin Dillon and Shawnee Smith.  When a satellite carrying a biological experiment gone wrong crashes near the small town of Arborville, CA, the residents start to be devoured by the titular monster, which gets bigger with each victim it absorbs.  Bad boy biker Brian (Dillon) and cheerleader Meg (Shawnee Smith) get thrown together by the Blob's rampage and have to survive both the monster and the government agents who have arrived to quarantine and contain the creature, with the entire town considered expendable.  The guys talk about Kevin Dillon's "death-defying" motorcycle jump, the gruesome practical effects, the early death of a character that seems like a main character, and more.

You can watch The Blob on Paramount+ or Peacock.  Next week, we're discussing Tim Burton's homage to Hammer Horror with Sleepy Hollow, which is getting a 25th anniversary 4K on October 8th.

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach, and Chris are joined by special guest Justin to dish out some vigilante justice and discuss 2014's The Equalizer, which came out ten years ago this week.

Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall, a former black ops operative trying to live a quiet life in Boston working at Home Mart (legally distinct from Home Depot).  When a young woman he's befriended, Alina (Chloe Grace Moretz), is brutally beaten by her Russian pimp, Robert decides to use his skill set to "equalize" the situation and inadvertently starts a one-man war with the Russian mob.  The Russian kingpin sends the ruthless enforcer Teddy (Marton Csokas) to remedy the problem.  The guys talk about the mini Equalizer subplots in the movie, pre-Stranger Things scumbag David Harbour, Denzel's Sherlock Holmes vision, weaponized home improvement stores, and more.

Watch The Equalizer on Fubo, Paramount+, and the Roku Channel.  Next week, Zach and Chris are kicking off an all-horror movie October with the 80s remake of The Blob, which is getting a limited edition 4K steelbook release.

You can find Justin on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/JJLomasEntertainment and on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jjlomasentertainment

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For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Jean-Claude Van Damme classic, Timecop.

JCVD stars as Max Walker, an agent for the Time Enforcement Commission, the agency that controls time travel.  Max uncovers a plot by the sleazy presidential candidate and senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver) to exploit time travel to fund his presidential campaign and eliminate anyone in his way.  While trying to stop McComb, Max realizes he may have a chance to save his wife Melissa (Mia Sara), who was murdered shortly before he joined the TEC.  While watching the movie, Zach and Chris try to figure out how the time travel rocket sled works, who the random guy stealing Confederate gold was at the beginning of the movie, depression mullets, Ron Silver's dystopian henchmen, and more.

You can watch Timecop on Amazon, PlutoTV, The Roku Channel, or Peacock and sync up the movie to the commentary track to watch along.

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With the first animated Transformers movie in almost 40 years hitting theaters this weekend with Transformers One, Zach and Chris return to the original for this week's Everything Actioncast and talk The Tranformers: The Movie.

Coming between the second and third seasons of the classic 80s cartoon series, The Transformers: The Movie is set in the far-off future of 2005, where the Decepticons have taken control of Cybertron.  As the war between the Autobots and Decepticons reaches a climactic showdown, both sides are threatened by the arrival of Unicron (Orson Welles). This massive planet-sized robot devours planets for fuel.  The guys talk about the brutal deaths of most of the well-known Transformers characters, the excellent soundtrack, the celebrity voice cast, Unicron's inner workings, and much more.

Next week, we're weaponizing a hardware store and discussing The Equalizer (2014) to celebrate the Denzel action movie's 10th anniversary.

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris sharpen their katanas and discuss the certified Cannon Classic Ninja III: The Domination, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

The third and final entry in the "Ninja Trilogy" produced by The Cannon Group, which includes Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja, Ninja III: The Domination stars Lucinda Dickey as Christie, a telephone line repair technician and aerobics instructor who becomes possessed with the spirit of an evil ninja that causes her to seek out and kill the police officers responsible for the ninja's death.  This is complicated because Christie starts seeing one of those cops, Billy Secord (Jordan Bennett).  Sho Kosugi, who starred in the previous two Ninja Trilogy movies, co-stars as Yamada, a good ninja who travels from Japan to destroy the evil ninja.  Zach and Chris talk about the infamously awesome opening golf course rampage, Christie's insane apartment, the unsexiness of V8, the constant introduction of new evil ninja powers, and more.

You can watch Ninja III: The Domination on the Internet Archive.  Next week, we roll out and discuss The Transformers: The Movie as Transformers One hits theaters as the first full animated Transformers movie in almost 40 years.

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris try not to get fragged and discuss 2009's Gamer, which came out 15 years ago this week.

Starring Gerard Butler as Kable, he's a death row inmate who is the star of the "video game" Slayers, created by tech billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall).  Kable is controlled by Simon (Logan Lerman) and fights in real-life death matches against other inmates.  If Kable survives 30 matches, he will be released from prison.  Meanwhile, his wife (Amber Valletta) works in Castle's other game, Society, which is basically Second Life, but the players control actual people.  The guys discuss if the avatars in Society have actual shifts or have to work until their player logs out, the nightmare UI of the year 2034, Michael C. Hall's dance number, the random actor appearances, and more.

You can rent Gamer on platforms like Amazon, Google, or Apple TV.  Next week, we're talking about the final chapter of Cannon's "Ninja Trilogy," Ninja III: The Domination, as it celebrates its 40th anniversary.

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris hit the ice to talk about the 1995 Jean-Claude Van Damme classic Sudden Death, which was just released on 4K for the first time.

Van Damme plays Darren McCord, a former firefighter turned fire marshall who works at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena.  Getting tickets for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Chicago Blackhawks, he brings his children to the game but unfortunately a disgruntled Secret Service agent, Joshua Foss (Powers Boothe)  has chosen the game as an opportunity to take the visiting Vice President hostage and extort billions from secret government funds.  In Die Hard fashion, Darren becomes the one man who can save the day, stop the terrorists, and rescue his kids.  Zach and Chris discuss the convoluted nature of Powers Boothe's plan, the epic Van Damme vs Icee the Penguin fight, Van Damme's MacGyver abilities, the terrible-looking helicopter finale, and more. 

You can buy the new 4K of Sudden Death from Amazon or rent the movie from your digital service of choice.

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For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris help you deal with any lingering Olympics fever by watching the 1997 Die Hard knock-off, Blast, starring Johnny Cage himself, Linden Ashby.

Set during the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, the US women's swim team is taken hostage by terrorists led by Omodo (Andrew Divoff). The only hope for the hostages inside the pool facility is Jack Bryant (Ashby), a former Olympic bronze medalist in Tae Kwan Do, who became an alcoholic janitor and whose ex-wife is one of the hostages. Outside the facility, Rutger Hauer is Leo, a Native American (?) hostage negotiator with a personal vendetta against Omodo.  While watching the movie, the guys realize the pool facility in the film is a literal prison and discuss Andrew Divoff's constantly shifting accent, if Rutger Hauer chose his character backstory and wardrobe, a surprise Tommy Jarvis appearance, and more.  

You can watch Blast on Prime Video, Tubi, and The Roku Channel, or you can watch here on YouTube courtesy of PopcornFlix:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R2UGNR0L2M 

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris crank the Cantopop and unleash a flock of doves to talk about John Woo's 1989 action classic The Killer as a new version, directed by Woo himself, hits Peacock.

Chow Yun-Fat stars as a skilled hitman, Ah Jong (or Jeff depending on your version) who blinds a singer, Jennie (Sally Yeh) while on a job.  Feeling guilty, he seeks her out and begins a romantic relationship with her, taking what he thinks is one last job to make enough money to pay for a corneal transplant.  On his trail is Inspector Li (Danny Lee), who reluctantly grows a respect and friendship with Jeff as the two cross paths and battle hordes of Triad henchmen.  The guys talk about how cool Chow Yun-Fat is and his various looks, the incredible, over the top action, the dramatic shifts in tone, the wacky Disney nicknames Jeff and Li give each other, why it's basically impossible to find legally and more.

You can watch The Killer on Archive.org here: https://archive.org/details/the.-killer  Next week, we're talking about the ridiculous JCVD classic Sudden Death, as it gets a 4K release.

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This week on the Everything Actioncast, whoever wins, we lose because we're talking about 2004's AVP: Alien vs. Predator, which came out 20 years ago this week. There's also a new Alien movie, Alien: Romulus, in theaters right now.

Directed by schlockmeister Paul WS Anderson, AVP: Alien vs Predator pits the two intergalactic entities against each other in an Antarctic pyramid discovered by Weyland Industries.  The company's head, Charles Weyland (Lance Henriksen) wants to claim the structure in his name as one last grand action before he dies from a terminal disease and he assembles a team that includes scientists, drillers and Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan), an expert guide in arctic environments.  The group explores the pyramid but soon finds themselves caught between the Xenomorphs and the Predators, with the pyramid being a training ground for young Predator warriors to prove themselves or die in a rite of passage.  Zach and Chris discuss how there was over a decade of hype for this battle from the comics and games, the lack of any interesting kills thanks to the PG-13 rating, how the Antarctic environment doesn't affect anything, how quickly most of the Predators die, and more.

You can watch AVP: Alien vs Predator on Hulu.  Next week, we're talking about John Woo's action classic The Killer as the new version, also directed by Woo, hits Peacock.

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