After last week's break, THE BIG 4-0 returns to wish a happy belated birthday to John Candy's (first) bid to carve out a career as the slapsticky dad in the bumbling vacation comedy SUMMER RENTAL. We also wish an early happy BIG 4-0 to Martin Scorsese's one-night-tapped-in-SoHo surrealist dramady, AFTER HOURS. And, of course, this week's birthday boy is none other than The Koff (as we like to call him) in the omnipresent video-store-shelf slice of 1980s action cheese, AMERICAN NINJA. Ron and Peter also touch on a bevy of other films, including recent releases SINNERS, WEAPONS, NOBDY 2, HAPPY GILMORE 2, and THE NAKED GUN (reboot/legacy sequel), as well as a handful of older films including COUPLES RETREAT, REVENGE, and THE CHASE. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back in two weeks with a banger BIG 4-0 birthday line-up: COMMANDO, INVASION USA, and JAGGED EDGE! Happy Labor Day, everybody!

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter bid farewell to a childhood hero of Peter's, Hulk Hogan, as summer of 2025 continues to take a 1980's icon from us on a weekly bases. We also try to figure out if YEAR OF THE DRAGON is funnier than TEEN WOLF and BETTER OFF DEAD, and Ron's daughter Summer pops in halfway through our TEEN WOLF review. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we may have a week off coming up for the Labor Day holiday - we'll see - but we'll be back next time with a belated happy BIG 4-0 to SUMMER RENTAL, as well as blowing out 40 candles for JAGGED EDGE and AMERICAN NINJA!

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter tackle three movies Peter has never seen before and bid Ozzy Osbourne adieu. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week with another Michael J. Fox cultural touchstone (at least if you were a kid in 1985), TEEN WOLF, as well as the second John Cusack rom-com of the year, BETTER OFF DEAD, and Mickey Rourke in Michael Cimino's hardboiled YEAR OF THE DRAGON.

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter celebrate 40 years since Pee-Wee Herman went on his BIG ADVENTURE to retrieve his beloved stolen bicycle, vampire Chris Sarandon has to deal with his nosey teenage neighbor in FRIGHT NIGHT, and Anthony Michael Hall and some other guy create smokin' Kelly LeBrock using WEIRD SCIENCE. Oh, and Peter has yet another new opening theme for you all to enjoy! He's like Prince with the musical ideas just pouring out him... Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and you'd be a REAL GENIUS to VOLUNTEER to come back next week for the RETURN OF your favorite podcast (and THE LIVING DEAD).

This week, the Griswolds celebrate another BIG 4-0 and a Disney flop turns 40 as well. We also wish an unfortunate RIP to the excellent Michael Madsen. We're built for birthdays, not funerals... Please remember to rate, like, and subscribe; AND please enjoy our angelic new opening theme!

This week, Ron and peter are celebrating triplet "The" BIG 4-0's. Which one is our favorite of "The" three. Find out now! Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back next week traveling once again down the Holiday Rooooaaad and we have another young boy with a powerful sword fighting another skeleton-faced bad guy.

Welcome to the THUNDERDOME, 4-0 Heads! This week we celebrate the BIG 4-0's of MAD MAX Cage Match, THE BIG CHILL Goes West, and yet another kids-on-bikes adventure fantasy; Joe Dante's THE EXPLORERS. Rate, Like, Subscribe; and next week, we're dinking some COCA-COLA, missing ONE RED SHOE, and learning a LEGEND...

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter welcome two-timer Steve back to the podcast, as we try to get BACK TO THE FUTURE, give the DEAD their DAY, and set ST. ELMO on FIRE. Please Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to EXPLORE BIG 4-0 parties in THUNDERDOME and SILVERADO. You'd be MAD to miss it... MAX.

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This week we celebrate 40 years of Clint not failing to exceed expectations, Schwarzenegger being duped into a cameo the studio tried to stretch into a third Conan movie without actually calling it that, and one Mathilda May. Please Remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back next week to celebrate the Big 4-0's of the Dead, St. Elmo, and traveling back in time.. to the future.

Happy BIG 4-0 to three scarcely-mentioned 1985 films. Do they deserve more love 40 years later? Find out now! Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back next week to wish a happy 40th to PALE RIDER, RED SONJA, and LIFEFORCE.