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Visage and DePlume got back to nature as we tackle Seagal's spiritual action-opus then we pitch our ultimate eco-movie which might include the most disgusting sound ever recorded. Look forward to that.

The more you see the less you know. We've seen Showdown in Little Tokyo a LOT and have less idea about what is happening than we did on first viewing. But who cares? Lundgren, Lee, Carrere, Tagawa and the best villain death we covered in 23 episodes. Then we go a little crazy with our pitch. Ahem. 

Michael Jai White owns the screen for 90s minutes in this great little underground fighting movie. Come for the discussion on how he defies the laws of physics and oozes charisma then stay for Visage and DePlume's sequel pitch featuring a talking dog.

Escape From New York is a stone cold action classic so we at Hardcasters, of course, spend an hour and change zeroing in on its much maligned sequel. Spoiler alert - we like a lot of what we find. 

We then pitch our vision for a long overdue threequel that we think has a chance of getting greenlit. Hopefully the bigwigs at Hollywood are listening. Our average audience is about 11 people, so statistically one of them has GOT to be a big-time Producer right?

It's rare that Scott Adkin's name does not come up in our podcasts, such is DePlume's reverence for the man. Since last week we were immersed in the world of Universal Soldier, and since Visage had yet to see Day of Reckoning, we thought this would be the first of Adkin's films we'd cover. So strap in for this mind-blowing, skull-crunching martial arts nightmare masterpiece.

Visage and DePlume dabble with the undead in this weeks episode as we turn our attention to Universal Soldier. If that wasn't enough, we pitch a movie where a waxwork cop chases a criminal on a penny farthing. It's like Christmas hasn't ended.

DePlume and Visage take on another titan of the action canon with the mighty Cobra then ponder how cinema, no... LIFE would have been changed by a late-eighties, Stallone-led Thundercats live action movie. Once you've heard what might have been you'll never feel complete again.

You'd think a movie with Hulk Hogan, Carl Weathers, Shannon Tweed, Billy Drago, Trevor Goddard and Martin Kove would be a joyous,  slam-dunk of an action movie. Yeah, we thought that too. Still, we have some fun talking about it and, as always, pitch a pretty sweet alternative starring none other than Jet from Gladiators!

So this is Christmas and what have you done?

Well, we've done a Christmas special that encompasses all of the things that make a traditional Christmas, in that it probably goes on too long and you may feel a little sick afterwards. 

However you spend the next two weeks, try and enjoy yourselves. 

Merry Christmas

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For the first time in a LONG time Visage and DePlume revisit the out-of-canon Bond from 1983 and find a treasure-trove filled with hi-tech motorcycles, single-entendres, age-gaps and toxic urine. It's an interesting film, we'll give it that.

Then stick around as we pitch a hyper-violent Gina Gershon lead cyberpunk cold-war movie that, frankly, might be the greatest film never made. I know we say that about all our pitches but this time we mean it.