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This week’s episode takes us to the frontier town of Rose Creek where a group of seven men have formed a badass gang to free a desperate town from the iron grip of an evil robber baron. The movie is Antoine Fuqua’s 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven, and it is a fun one. The cast is about as star studded as they come and there are some really well done action scenes to help keep the film moving along at a nice pace. Does Peter Sarsgaard intimidate anyone? Why didn’t the townspeople just leave Rose Creek and start a new town down the road? Why is Chris Pratt given so much more screen time than the other actors? How could all of those farmers have such bad aim? What’s with Horn’s voice? How did that guy lose his eye? Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

This week’s episode takes us to a small rural town that is tormented by a goofy looking creature once every 23 years. No, it isn’t Stephen King’s It. This week’s movie is creepy Victor Salva’s third installment of the Jeepers Creepers franchise. This story takes place between the events of the first and second films and is as useless to the franchise’s storyline as Victor Salva is to civilized society. There isn’t that much of a story to grab a hold of here and the blood and guts are almost nonexistent. The Creeper looks really silly and could have benefited from much less of the film taking place in the daylight. Not really worth your time to watch, but more than worth you time to listen to Mike and Matt rip the movie to pieces. Why is Victor Salva allowed to keep making movies? Is there a worse looking movie monster from a mainstream “horror” franchise than this stupid looking Creeper? How much rope is in that tailpipe? Is Crazy Grandma really just a medium that can communicate with the great beyond? Why did the sheriff die in such an unceremonious fashion? Please, for the love of god, do not make a fourth Jeepers Creepers movie! Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

This week’s episode takes us on an intense mission to try and prevent an underground army from unleashing an apocalyptic plague onto the world in the 1995 time traveling classic, 12 Monkeys. Our main character, James Cole, is recruited by a board of scientists to go back in time and try to collect information on the people responsible for the outbreak and a sample of the virus. Once Cole is sent back in time, he is arrested and suspected of having a mental disorder because he cannot stop telling people about his knowledge of civilization’s demise. He eventually kidnaps his psychiatrist, Dr. Railly, and convinces her that his story may not be as crazy as it seems. Cole and Dr. Railly team up to figure out the role The Army of the 12 Monkeys plays in the conspiracy and stop the virus’s release. Why didn’t we get more of Cole’s backstory? Wouldn’t it have been cool to see more of characters lives in the present/future? Why didn’t Dr. Railly escape from Cole when she had any of her many opportunities or scream for help when he would walk with her in public? Is this a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome? If Cole had seen the events at the airport unfold in his dreams every night of his life, why didn’t he know exactly what to do to accomplish his mission and avoid being shot? What do you think the police did with Dr. Railly? Is she free to go, or is she doing hard time? How many times do the characters say the word “monkey” in this film? How much does Bruce Willis love making time travel movies that involve his character seeing a younger or older version of himself? How did the costume designer get an oscar nomination for this movie? Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

This week’s episode takes us on an intense mission to try and prevent an underground army from unleashing an apocalyptic plague onto the world in the 1995 time traveling classic, 12 Monkeys. Our main character, James Cole, is recruited by a board of scientists to go back in time and try to collect information on the people responsible for the outbreak and a sample of the virus. Once Cole is sent back in time, he is arrested and suspected of having a mental disorder because he cannot stop telling people about his knowledge of civilization’s demise. He eventually kidnaps his psychiatrist, Dr. Railly, and convinces her that his story may not be as crazy as it seems. Cole and Dr. Railly team up to figure out the role The Army of the 12 Monkeys plays in the conspiracy and stop the virus’s release. Why didn’t we get more of Cole’s backstory? Wouldn’t it have been cool to see more of characters lives in the present/future? Why didn’t Dr. Railly escape from Cole when she had any of her many opportunities or scream for help when he would walk with her in public? Is this a classic case of Stockholm Syndrome? If Cole had seen the events at the airport unfold in his dreams every night of his life, why didn’t he know exactly what to do to accomplish his mission and avoid being shot? What do you think the police did with Dr. Railly? Is she free to go, or is she doing hard time? How many times do the characters say the word “monkey” in this film? How much does Bruce Willis love making time travel movies that involve his character seeing a younger or older version of himself? How did the costume designer get an oscar nomination for this movie? Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

This week’s episode takes us down to the beautiful island of St. Thomas where we’re going on an adventure that involves lots of dancing, a wild treasure hunt, and a little bit of voodoo.  We watched Weekend at Bernie’s 2 and we can’t wait to tell you all about the continued hijinks of Larry, Richie and Bernie the Zombie.  The story picks up right where the first movie left off and starts running in an even crazier direction.  Bernie’s body is in a New York City Morgue and Larry and Richie have been fired from their jobs for their suspected involvement in Bernie’s embezzlement scheme.  The company puts Mr. Hummel on their trail in order to find the $2 million that Bernie stole before the company’s next shareholders meeting.  The cartel is also looking for that money and they have employed a voodoo priestess named Mobu to raise Bernie from the grave and lead her lackies, Charles and Henry, to the hidden cash.  Larry and Richie have a plan to steal Bernie’s body, take him down to St. Thomas and get the cash before anyone else can claim it for themselves.  Why is the smell of Bernie’s rotting body only mentioned once in the whole film?  How do Bernie’s sunglasses stay on the whole time?  How much fun is it to watch Bernie dance-walk everywhere he goes?  Do you think Brenda tried to do anything sexual with Bernie that night on the beach?  When will we get a Weekend at Bernie’s 3?  Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us.  Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends.  Have a great week.

This week’s episode will get your heart pumping and fulfill your need for adrenalin and danger. We watched the 2000 remake of Gone in Sixty Seconds staring the always entertaining Nic Cage and the usually creepy Giovanni Ribisi as two car stealing brothers that need to steal 50 cars in one night. The movie is filled to the brim with recognizable actors, many of which are useless to the plot or have nothing much to do while on screen. The original 1974 film is known for having a wild 40 minutes car chase scene, and the car chases in this version are well done and fun to watch as well. The story is a little shaky, but it is worth a watch if you haven’t seen it before. Why did everyone act like the six years that Memphis was gone were the longest six years in human history? How far away was Memphis living? Couldn’t they have just visited him? How do all of the former car thieves know all of the latest news and deals that are going down in Criminaltown? Why are Castlebeck and Drycoff the only police officers that care about all of the cars being stolen? What’s with fine woodworking being Calitri’s achilles heel? Why did Castlebeck let Memphis go free at the end? Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

This week we’re talking about one of the greatest buddy-cop movies of all time with one of our Jester Radio Network cohorts,  the host of B.A.D. Shorty, Alex Tsakanikas!  The movie is Lethal Weapon 2 and it is still one of the best films of the genre.  Riggs and Murtaugh are back and this flick is packed with action, comedy, more action and lots of good one-liners, including the best sequence in action movie history.  “Diplomatic immunity!...(exaggerated neck roll)...BLAMO!...It’s just been revoked.“  If you haven’t seen this one, go turn on your Netflix right now.  How detached is Murtaugh from the day to day life of his family?  What’s with Riggs and Murtaugh’s money situation?  Why does Murtaugh live in a very nice house and own a boat while Riggs lives in a dumpy trailer on the beach and has to dislocated his shoulder at work for extra cash?  If they wanted the South Africans to be nazis, why didn’t they just cast them as Germans?  Can you use your diplomatic immunity to kill a bunch of police officers and get away with it?  Could you pull a house down with a pickup truck?  Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us.  Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends.  Also, check out Alex’s podcast, B.A.D. Shorty, at http://www.yesiamshow.biz/bad-shorty/ and give him a rating and review as well.  Have a great week.

This week’s episode takes us on a mission to rescue an imprisoned rescue team that was captured in an attempt to rescue a group of hostages in great need of some rescuing. All silliness aside, we watched Hot Shots! Part Deux and are ready to tell you all about Topper Harley’s adventure with his two girlfriends, Ramada and Michelle, and the elite special force or Harbinger, Rabinowitz and Williams. They travel to the jungles of The Middle East to free Col. Walters and Ramada’s husband Dexter from the evil Saddam's prison camp. They save the hostages and kill everyone else that gets in their way. This is a very fun movie that is filled with enough jokes and gags to keep you laughing the whole time. Could anyone make a movie this offensive now? How did Topper go from fighter pilot to Rambo in a few short years? Where can we buy ourselves some lucky beauty marks? Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us. Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends. Have a great week.

Happy Valentine's Day!  We love our listeners!  This week’s episode is filled with lots of heart, and all the other guts and stuff inside a person as well.  We’re in the holiday spirit as we talk about the 2009 slasher remake, My Bloody Valentine 3D.  This story is all about a crazy murderous miner name Harry Warden who has killed at least 22 people before going on a decade long hibernation.  10 years after his Valentine’s Day massacre, bodies start showing up that have been killed in a similar fashion to Harry’s victims.  The town sheriff must figure out who the killer is and stop him before it is too late.  Why doesn’t Tom constantly remind Sarah and Axel that they left him to die?  What are the pills Tom keeps taking?  How often does Sarah look at that picture of her and Tom?  Is this town populated exclusively by attractive young women?  Is Harry Warden The Flash?  The twist is really dumb, but the movie is lots of fun.  Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us.  Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends.  Have a great week.

This week’s episode is taking us to a a magical location in the South Pacific that is teaming with all types of strange and unique wildlife.  The place is Skull Island and its King is Kong, a gigantic ape that protects his subjects with his strength and cunning, in 2017’s Kong: Skull Island.  In this most recent update of the King Kong franchise, a group of scientists and military personnel embark on an expedition to a remote island in the Pacific to see if monsters really exist.   Spoiler alert, they do.  Once the team arrives on the island,  they quickly anger the mighty Kong and most of the rest of the movie is Kong fighting stuff and the people learning that Kong is a protector and not the real monster on the island.  In the end, we get a setup for a new monster movie universe.  The plot is a little thin, but the action scenes and the quality CGI really make this a fun watch.  How much food does Kong have to eat each day?  How exactly does a perpetual storm work?  How long were those villagers hiding in those ancient ruins before the group showed up?  Why did the soldiers think they could stop Kong with conventional weapons after he destroyed all of their helicopters in a matter of minutes?  It’s nice to see that Dr. Dre and Eazy-E were able to join us on the journey.  Second best Samuel L. Jackson death in a movie?  Thank you for all of the love you continue to show us.  Please rate and review the podcast wherever you get it and if you like the show, share it with your friends.  Have a great week.