Now Playing Podcast Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series

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Now Playing Podcast Presents: The Fast and Furious Retrospective Series episodes

August 12, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) Movie Review
Platinum Dunes Studios has released more franchise reboots than original films, attempting to update horror classics Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a new generation. Their latest reboot is of a totally different sort--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Can producer Michael Bay bring his Transformers toyetic touch to the Turtles? Join Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob in this final TMNT review to find out!
1 hr 30 min
August 12, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Platinum Dunes Studios has released more franchise reboots than original films, attempting to update horror classics Friday the 13th, The Amityville Horror, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre for a new generation. Their latest reboot is of a totally different sort--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Can producer Michael Bay bring his Transformers toyetic touch to the Turtles? Join Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob in this final TMNT review to find out!
1 hr 14 min
August 05, 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Review
When teased at the end of Thor: The Dark World, the Guardians of the Galaxy looked like a bunch of a-holes. But this past weekend Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot proved their worth with a heroic opening weekend at the box office. More than just money, the film has been a hit with audiences and critics alike. What is the magic that made this film blow up like a ch-ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb, and were the hosts of Now Playing won over by this charming band of outlaws? Listen to Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob in this review to find out!
2 hr 14 min
July 29, 2014 TMNT Movie Review
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return to their animated roots for 2007's computer-rendered TMNT. With a complex plot that spans millennia, involves an immortal Aztec and his stone statue generals, and thirteen random monsters of urban legend, do the turtles stick their heads out long enough to matter? Listen to Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart's review to find out!
1 hr 14 min
July 22, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III Movie Review
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Excellent adventure continue with their third live-action film. It's a New York Ninja in Lord Norinaga's Court when the teens time travel to feudal Japan. Is this Turtles in Time plot a Quantum Leap forward for this film series? It's Judgement Day for Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, and Raphael, so listen to this podcast review to find out!
1 hr 12 min
July 15, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Movie Review
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze was a sure thing. The original became the most profitable independent film of all time, the toys were still selling well, and the Turtles were even touring the country with a musical stage show. Add in chart-topping rapper Vanilla Ice with his Ninja Rap, plus new mutants for the Turtles to fight, it couldn't go wrong. Or could it? Join Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie this week to find out with their Oozing review of the second Turtles film!
1 hr 13 min
July 08, 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Movie Review
Leonardo. Donatello. Michelangelo. Raphael. To an art student these names may conjure the image of the Renaissance masters but to generations of children these name mean only one thing--Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! With the new film in theaters soon the Now Playing Podcast hosts Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob don their masks, grab their weapons, and review all the Turtles' theatrical features! The first film to star these adolescent anthropomorphised amphibians came out in 1990 with Jim Henson's creature shop giving the Turtles life, but is it full of Turtle Power? Listen to find out!
1 hr 38 min
July 01, 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction Movie Review
Podcastbots, prepare to roll out! The Transformers are back in Age of Extinction, the fourth live-action robot fight-fest from high-octane director Michael Bay. With the biggest movie opening in 2014 audiences obviously turned out in droves for the carnage, but did Now Playing hosts Jerry, Stuart, and Arnie go along for the ride? Listen to find out!
2 hr 2 min
June 24, 2014 Trucks Movie Review
In the trailer for Maximum Overdrive writer/director Stephen King said "I just wanted someone to do Stephen King right." Critics, audiences, and even King himself have since said that King's directorial debut failed in that mission statement. But if King could not properly adapt his short story "Trucks" to a motion picture, can anyone? Find out this week on Now Playing Podcast as Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie review the 1997 USA Network TV movie Trucks and decide which adaptation fuels their engines!
1 hr 5 min
June 17, 2014 Maximum Overdrive Movie Review
In 1986 Stephen King promised to scare the hell out of us, while Marvel's Green Goblin glowed behind him. The film was Maximum Overdrive--an adaptation of the author's short story "Trucks" from the Night Shift collection. It didn't scare up much money at the box office with the prolific horror author behind the camera and Brat Packer Emilio Estevez starring is this film a lost gem? Truck on to NowPlayingPodcast.com to find out!
1 hr 14 min

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Now Playing Podcast hits the NOS with the Fast & Furious series, following the franchise from its street-racing roots into a global action phenomenon. With Vin Diesel, Paul…