New Release

This week on New Release … combatants Ashley, Derrick, and Drew make their triumphant return to 2021—for one week only—to engage in (or with) Mortal Kombat. Considering how much we love this game franchise and the first movie, we have sky-high expectations for this one. Is that a recipe for disappointment … or will the new hard-R version deliver all the gore and fatalities the PG-13 original never could? What happens when you pit a childhood favorite against an adult newcomer in a match to the death? Find out who or what survives the bloody carnage by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … beach bums Ashley, Derrick, and Drew celebrate a certain someone’s b-day with a movie about their favorite sport. Side Out is THE definitive beach volleyball movie (sorry, Top Gun) but is it … good? We grill Ashley on the accuracy and attitude on display in this overlooked sports movie to find out how well it matches her experience. On a scale of bump-set-kill, this movies scores huge in the beach wardrobe department, but what else? Find out who comes out on top by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … wannabe drapes Ashley, Derrick, and Drew have their square moviegoing tastes challenged by cult filmmaker John Waters. Cry-Baby stars Johnny Depp as the sensitive bad boy who sings like the lovechild of Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. It’s your classic orphan-meets-orphan romance where the only thing keeping Cry-Baby and Allison apart is being basic. Find out if two kids from opposite sides of the tracks can shed society’s labels and form a dynamic duo with staying power. If you want more weirdness to follow up on last week’s Lynchian good time, here’s your ticket to ride. Search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … locals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew stay home to watch a TV-movie event that will surely have everyone talking tomorrow. After Twin Peaks aired on ABC in primetime—on a calm Sunday night—TV was never the same. Seriously. Only David Lynch could make something this weird and disturbing in a way that’s also entertaining enough to become an instant hit. We love Lynch like crazy and this was our first real opportunity to get into what makes him so special as an artist. The music, the melodrama, the oddball characters all mixed up in a small town setting … iconic. If you appreciate a good coffee & apple pie-filled discussion, then search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … teenage mutant ninja talkers Ashley, Derrick, Drew, and special guest Brian! (from VCRWORLD) mainline a childhood standard. You can’t have the 90s and you can’t pizza without paying respect to our heroes in a half shell, our boys in green, our beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We’ll share our earliest ooze-filled memories, then get real with each other by answering the most important question facing any friend group: Which turtle are you? Relive the radical days of turtle power by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … callpeople Ashley, Derrick, and Drew ring in the 50th episode of New Release by watching one of the most iconic rom-coms of all time! Join along as we look back on how Pretty Woman turned Julia Roberts into an American sweetheart and help us renegotiate the terms of her week-long liaison with Richard Gere. Would you pay $3000/week for chemistry like theirs? Before you decide, stroll down to the mall and get yourself a makeover that will have everyone on Rodeo Drive doing a double take. You won’t wanna miss this very special episode, so search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … volcanologists Ashley, Derrick, and Drew go back to where it all started for the definitive 90s movie couple. Joe Versus the Volcano is the first of three hit rom-coms to star Hanks & Ryan, and it is by far the weirdest. In short, Tom Hanks’ Joe, after being diagnosed with a terminal “Brain Cloud”, gets offered an Amex card and free vacay … so long as he agrees to sacrifice himself by jumping into a volcano. Man, if I had a dime for every— Along the way he meets three different—but all adorable—iterations of Meg Ryan and learns that there may be more to life than selling his soul for the world’s leading supplier of rectal probes. You know, that old yarn. Drop your anchor and search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … party animals Ashley, Derrick, and Drew crash the biggest bash of the school year. Watching House Party is the next best thing to actually going to a shindig these days, so we’re extending a virtual invite your way. Lace your kicks, air out your Hammer pants, and get ready to boogie with Kid ‘n Play like it’s 1990! Forget curfew because this thing runs from now to question mark. We trace how House Party laid the foundation for party movies like Superbad and Can’t Hardly Wait and plenty more. If that’s your jam, search ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple … and subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … sea captains Ashley, Derrick, and Drew hop aboard a Russian sub in hopes of preventing all-out nuclear war. Aside from that, The Hunt for Red October is our chance to finally meet this Jack Ryan character we’ve heard so much about. Alec Baldwin goes (under) toe-to-toe with Sean Connery but all they really wanna do is go fishing together. This tense thriller had us pulling Crazy Ivans left and right, starboard and port side, firing our magnetohydrodynamic drives on all cylinders … you name the coordinates and we’ll send a single ping your way. Engage us by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple … and subscribe! Tune in Friday 📺

This week on New Release … champions Ashley, Derrick, and Drew kick the dust off a sadistic sports/dystopian movie you may not have heard of. The Blood of Heroes follows a bruising team of Juggers as they roam the desolate Outback hoping to improve their lowly stations in life—one game of dunk the dog skull at a time. We evaluate the entertainment value of this brutal fake movie sport versus favorites such as Quidditch, BASEketball, and more. Will our heroes prove worthy of whatever spoils remain … or will they bleed out? Get a blow-by-blow breakdown like this every week by searching ‘New Release’ on Spotify or Apple to subscribe. Tune in Friday 📺