Recovered

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Your wife tried to kill you
Can you escape to reality?

Total Recalls 
Get your ass to Mars and seeeeeeee

Dan and Keith take on two very rough adaptations of Philip K. Dick's We Can Remember It For You Wholesale: Arnold Schwarzenegger's hyper-violent 90s classic Total Recall, and Colin Farrell's 2012 remake. Not only do we tackle who did what better, we go deep: what's real? What's imagined? What choices in storytelling and visual language swing the needle in which directions? And which decided to leave all the ambiguity in the deleted scenes? Listen now to find out!

Grab your hook and your beard of bees as Dan and Keith return to horror through Candyman! First we dive into the Clive Baker-inspired 90s original, as Virginia Madsen is haunted by the iconic Tony Todd through the ghettos of Chicago, then jump aaaaallll the way to 2021 as Jordan Peele helps usher in Nia DaCosta's remake that turns out to be a surprise sequel... a "requel," as they're called... which hits hard with the current times and doesn't skimp on the visuals as Yahya Abdul-Mateen II uncovers a whole new Candyman mythos with surprising connections to what came before. Sometimes the lads get nice things, and they're thrilled to share them this week.

Our two-part look into the legacy of the Seven Samurai continues as Dan and Keith take on the western so nice they made it twice, The Magnificent Seven! The manliest men of the early sixties put a cowboy twist on Kurosawa's samurai epic, then a surprising number of decades later, Denzel Washington reunites with Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day and The Equalizer, to bring modern audiences a new, racially diverse, Handsome Chris-enhanced remake. How'd it turn out? New classic or Xerox of a Xerox? Keith and Dan have some notes.

In a topic too big for one episode, Dan and Keith travel back to feudal Japan to revisit Akira Kurosawa's classic, The Seven Samurai, and the films it inspired. There's a lot to break down: legendary warriors, a town in crisis, and a debate among our co-hosts on Toshiro Mifune's wardrobe choices for the big siege, and then it's time to jump forward to 21st century China for The Seven Swords, which is said to be based on a Chinese novel, but still somehow ends up a Magnificent Seven remake, only much, much bleaker.

We hear you, we know what you thought the second half of this episode was going to be. Don't worry. We'll get there. It's coming.

It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to unpack Muppets on Recovered 'cast tonight. Dan and Keith re-examine that old, forgotten emotion of "joy" as they revisit Jim Henson's The Muppet Movie and Jason Segel's tribute/reboot, The Muppets. Brace for hot takes on quality of cameos and quantity of Gonzo. Is there ever such a thing as ENOUGH Gonzo? But now let's get things started on the most hilarious, not nefarious, quite contrarious, so gregarious, it's Recovered's Muppet movie SHOOOOOOW! [trumpet gag]

Dan and Keith take on Ghostbusters, the franchise that went from Original to Reboot and back again through the 1984 classic, the 2016 reboot Answer the Call, and the 2021 requel Afterlife. And if you have a dose of some movie ghosts, I think you'd better call... Chris Stewart, host of leading Ghostbusters podcast The Crossrip. Our hosts and special guest dig into the complicated making of the original... during which, as part of his ongoing crusade to hate everything Dan loves, Keith has some notes for the movie... weigh the successes and failures of Answer the Call and why it's so hard to discuss publicly, and wonder what doors Afterlife has opened for future busting of ghosts. We're dusting off ghosts, like true ghost dusters, so listen now!

Get ready for a lot of "Not good but as good as it gets" takes as Dan and Keith dig into three different Punisher movies. Dolph Lundgren goes straight to video, Thomas Jane has the darkest origin with the least amount of Punishing, and Ray Stevenson tries to actually be in a comic book movie. Who does it best? Or least worst? We try to find an answer, with much love for two random mobsters and many references to Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon's seminal Punisher book, Welcome Back Frank. Dan has... so much to say about Welcome Back Frank.

Long time Bond fan Dan walks lifetime Bond hater Keith through vintage Bond flick Thunderball, and the decades-long legal battle that resulted in there being two of them. Plus why it took so long to get Blofeld and SPECTRE into the Craig era Bonds the Thunderballs that could have been, and why Dan wouldn't be the best underwater cinematographer, all while breaking down two spins on "Bond looks for stolen nukes in the Caribbean." Which Thundered Ball reigns supreme?

What is best in life? Is it either cinematic adaptation of Conan the Barbarian? Dan and Keith are here to find out as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jason Momoa each take on the titular barbarian, to... mixed results. Also we touch on the scope of this podcast and Keith learns about Horse Girl movies. Come on, you know you want to how we ended up there.

Dan and Keith take on cult 80s horror flick April Fool's Day and its straight-to-DVD remake, asking the question: when the thing a movie's famous for is a twist ending, CAN you do a remake? Are you counting on your audience not having seen the original? In which case, why a remake? Also, Dan begins his crusade to get a DVD release of the criminally underrated fantasy/action series G Vs E. All this and plenty of laughs at the expense of attempted horror.