Happy Halloween! The trick-or-treaters have gone, there's a little bit of candy left in the bowl, and it's time to settle in for scary movie night, but what to watch? So many horror films out there. Well, it's Cinema Craptaculus to the rescue with a minisode that makes the case for the definitive Halloween film. Hint: it's all in the title.

Steph, John, Steve & Dave put down their phones for screen time with Ice Cube and his (fictional) family! The War of the Worlds has been adapted many times since its first publication in 1898, and each adaptation represented the era in which it was created -- Famously as a radio show in 1938 and the first movie in 1953 when there were national fears of military invasion … then as a Spielberg film in 2005 when there was a national fear of terrorist invasion… And now in 2025 when there’s a national fear of invasion of Privacy! It’s Amazon Prime’s feature length commercial – War of the Worlds!  

Here’s the rapid recap to catch you up!  Ice Cube plays Will Radford, DHS Agent and creepster dad who should have been DOGE’d out of his job, because he spends his day stalking his two estranged children – his pregnant daughter, Faith and his intense Gen-Z-er son Dave. When mysterious meteors crash into the Earth, it’s up to these three plus Faith’s fiancé and Amazon delivery driver, Mark as well as Eva Longoria (whose character’s name I don’t know and I couldn’t quickly see it on Wikipedia, so I’m giving her as much attention as Will gives her in the movie, which is to say close to none) … Anyway, when machines from Mars rise out of the meteor craters, our heroes realize that the aliens are here to chew bubblegum and steal our data…and they are all out of bubblegum. So, in a shameless plot swipe from a totally different alien invasion movie, they have to upload a virus to the alien machines to put an end to the WAR OF THE WORLDS!!!

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Steph, John and Dave are on the hunt for the elusive perfect Cinema Craptaculus movie. The only thing to do is brave the Netflix jungles of the MCU - Sony Edition! Joining us on our cinema safari is Travis Weir (Producer/Editor)! He creates BTS content of such movies as Mad Max: Furiosa, Dune 2 and Poor Things. Now we aim his behind the scenes expertise at our latest prey.

If you’re a movie studio who only has the rights to characters from the Spider-Man comics and yet want to be part of the MCU? What do you do? You make a bunch of movies based on b-list villains like KRAVEN THE HUNTER

Sergei Kravinoff (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) was raised to be a hunter, but his true prey is the man who made him—the ruthless Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe) – his father! Dun-Dunn-DUNNN!. Left for dead as a child, Sergei survives with the help of Calypso (Ariana DeBose)and a serum that gave Kraven a supernatural connection to the wild. Now, he’s Kraven the Hunter, a relentless predator on a path of vengeance. Part big game hunter, mostly John Wick with super powers, Kraven clashes with his half-brother Dmitri (Fred Hechinger), a scheming survivalist with ties to the criminal underworld. Their uneasy alliance is tested by deadly foes, including The Foreigner and a monstrous adversary—Rhino—who proves that Kraven isn’t the only apex predator in town.

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Do you believe in reincarnation? Well, TV executives sure do! From Matlock to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, it seems like all our favorite TV shows are getting REBOOTED! The Geeks are back in action sussing out which reboots rise to the top and which sink to the bottom in the latest episode of Cinema Craptaculus Presents: The Expanded Universe!

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Steph, Dave, Steve & John ponder - when is a theatrical, not really a theatrical? When it’s a direct to Netflix original movie! That’s right, it’s time to kick the feet up, make some popcorn and get BACK IN ACTION!  

Here’s the rapid recap to catch you up!  

CIA Spies and banter experts Emily (Cameron Diaz) and Matt (Jamie Fox) are on a mission to recover\ very important…thing. But when they’re mission goes south, they are presumed dead, and they take the opportunity retire and start a family. After 15 years (and two kids who are teens now), the…thing that they were supposed to recover is still….somewhere and their old boss (Kyle Chandler) is looking for the…thing. Look, the thing is like some sort of electronic key that does something, stop asking unnecessary questions. Anyway, with CIA, MI6 and some bad guys who want to use the thing to do bad things, Emily and Matt now have to take their family on an impromptu international adventure with Emily’s estranged mom (Glenn Close) who used to be a British Spy. With the family on the run to find the..thing, Emily and Matt find themselves, say it with me now, BACK IN ACTION!!    

CINEMA CRAPTACULUS – Back for Good!
CRAPTACULUS – Back & it’s aaight. 
UTTER CRAP -  Crap in Action

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Steph, John & Dave settle down to gulp down a massive mug of Netflix Christmas! It’s the live-action, trope-challenging, rom-com with abs of steel and a warm heart wrapped up in a magical scarf! That’s right, it’s time for the Netflix Original HOT FROSTY!

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It's the spooky season and Steph, John & Dave serve up their favorite horror movies from the past and the future!!

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Steve Silverman from WORLD GONE GOOD joins Steph, John & Dave to find the good in the Netflix original ATLAS!

Big robots! AI Craziness! And the weight (and the future) of the world is all on J-Lo’s back! It’s the Netflix original, ATLAS!   Here’s the rapid recap to catch you up!

When Atlas (played by J-Lo) was a kid, her mom created an AI Lifeform named Harlan (Simu Liu). Initially programmed to not hurt humans, something goes wrong and Harlan goes AI bat shit as AI is wont to do in the movies! Determined to kill all humans, AI turn on their masters and a war between man and machine begins! Cut to 28 years later, and for some reason, Simu has gone into hiding and Atlas has become an analyst who refuses to let any form of AI into her life, in charge of finding Simu. But General Banks (Sterling  K. Brown) has a plan to take Rangers (people linked to AI Robots) and the war to Simu. Of course the fan hits the AI Powered crap, the plan goes side ways and it’s up to Atlas and an AI robot named Smith with whom she refuses to work to save the world.

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Steph, John & Dave are on their best behavior as they go old school to welcome in a new Step Father! It’s 1987 and the saying “Father knows best” is not only said, it’s still believed. But in this movie, what father knows best, is deadly – kids, meet your new -  STEP FATHER!  

Here’s the rapid recap to catch you up! After murdering his family, Jerry (Played by LOST’s Terry O’Quinn) marries a recent widow and becomes the stepfather to 16 year old Stephanie.  But Stephanie realizes something creepy is up with the new head of the family.  When she starts digging into his past, the bodies pile up and she realizes that any man can be a father, but it takes a true psychopath to be the STEP FATHER!

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