Who is on the case? Its Ace! This week we take a look at Ace Ventura Pet Detective and how it changed the way Hollywood made Comedy movies. We discuss the longevity of it and how modern cinema has grown from this pivotal movie!

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is a 1994 American comedy film starring Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, an animal detective who is tasked with finding the abducted dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins football team. The film was directed by Tom Shadyac, who wrote the screenplay with Jack Bernstein and Carrey. The film co-stars Courteney Cox, Tone Loc, Sean Young, and then–Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino and features a cameo appearance from death metal band Cannibal Corpse.

Morgan Creek Productions produced the film on a budget of $15 million, and Warner Bros. released the film in February 1994. It grossed $72.2 million in the United States and Canada and $35 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $107.2 million. It received generally unfavorable reviews from critics. Carrey's performance led to the film having a cult following among male adolescents. In addition to launching Carrey's film career, it started a franchise, spawning the sequel film Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995), the animated television series Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1995–2000), and later, standalone made-for-television sequel Ace Ventura Jr.: Pet Detective (2009).

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The world once again was riddled with pain as World War 3 changed the way Tokyo developed. Now full of dangerous biker gang, a powerful military, and godlike beings with exponential power! It’s up to one man to overcome all odds and save his friend. Akira fights against all odds to become a hero!!

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Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action filmdirected by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga Akira. Set in a dystopian 2019, it tells the story of Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of a biker gang whose childhood friend, Tetsuo Shima, acquires incredible telekinetic abilities after a motorcycle accident, eventually threatening an entire military complex amid chaos and rebellion in the sprawling futuristic metropolisof Neo-Tokyo.

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Snow day! CheeseFilm and his beautiful and amazing bride to be, are snowed in and take a good long look at the Sonic Franchise. With its fast paced action, fun attitude and awesome effects. Sonic jumps from the small screen onto the silver screen in 3 epic stories. From learning what family is, to discovering what it takes to go above yourself, Sonic  has captivated audience young and old alike!

Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the video game series. The first in the Sonic film series, it was directed by Jeff Fowler, written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, and stars James Marsden and Jim Carrey. Ben Schwartz voices Sonic, a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog who runs at supersonic speeds and teams up with a town sheriff to stop the mad scientist Dr. Ivo Robotnik.

Development for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in 2013. Fowler was brought in to direct in 2016. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017. Most of the cast signed on by August 2018. Principal photography took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island. Following the negative reaction to the first trailer, released in April 2019, Paramount delayed the film by three months to redesign Sonic.

Sonic the Hedgehog premiered at the Paramount Pictures studio lot on January 25, 2020, before its theatrical release in the United States on February 14, and received mixed reviews. It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a video game film in the United States and Canada and grossed $320 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020 and the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 was released in 2022 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was released in 2024. A spin-off miniseries, Knuckles, premiered on Paramount+ in 2024, while a fourth film is in development.

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From the small screen to the big, Leslie Nelson stars as Detective Frank Drebin is still on the case and ready to bust heads. Hecubus and I take a close look into the world of Police Squad to uncover the mystery of who is trying to KILL the QUEEN!!

The Naked Gun, also known as Police Squad!, is a media franchise consists of several American crime spoof-comedies, based on an original story written by the comedy filmmaking trio Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker. The installments include one television series, four theatrical films, and a video game. The plot centers on a police detective with a lot of heart, despite being less than intelligent. Leslie Nielsen stars in each installment in the protagonist role of Detective Sergeant Franklin "Frank" Drebin, with a fourth film starring Liam Neeson as Frank Drebin Jr. scheduled for release in 2025. The franchise was met with mostly positive critical reception,[1][2][3] and the films were a financial box office success.

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In Space,,,No one can hear you scream….and scream you will! Ridley Scott brings you the horrors of space with his masterpiece Alien! Released in 1979 this horror sci-fi movie broke audiences minds with its revolutionary special effects, monster designs, audio engineering, and story. For decades this movie has brought fear and dread into the hearts of those who watch it. Starring Sigourney  Weaver as the Brave Ellen Ripely, join us as we discover the mystery, danger, and betrayal on board the Nostromo! 

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict spaceship and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions and was distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script; Shusett was the executive producer. The alien creatures and environments were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while the concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the other sets.

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Welcome to the end of 2024 and the end of our third season. Hecubus, Randy and I go over the humble starts and discuss how the podcast has grown and evolved. We have had such a great year, and are excited to continue into 2025! Thank you all for everything, your support has been the rock we needed to continue our dream! Here is to a bright future!

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This Week Cheesefilm and his Parter in life Courtney team up to discuss a coveted and classic Christmas movie. The Muppets Christmas Carol is one of our favorites and we hope you enjoy this little bonus episode we recorded for you. Happy Holidays!!

Danger, Avast! Quick Homes there is a mystery afoot! Cheesefilm and Hecubus travel to London to aid Sherlock Homes in his most recent case! The hell hound is out and and coming for the latest of the Baskerville blood line. Can we save him before the Hound gets him? Will Sherlock find his man? Is the Hound really supernatural? Find out this week only on The Grindhouse Podcast!!

The Night of the Hunter is a well regarded and very loved film based on a Novel of the same name. Robert Mitchum Stars as what many have said is the most vile and scary villain in cinema. Hecubus and I watch this classic for the first time!! Will we love it? Will we hate it? That is the battle this week on The Grindhouse Podcast!!

The Night of the Hunter is a 1955 American thriller film noir directed by Charles Laughton and starring Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters and Lillian Gish. The screenplay by James Agee was based on the 1953 novel of the same name by Davis Grubb. The plot involves Harry Powell (Mitchum), a serial killer who poses as a preacher and pursues two children in an attempt to get his hands on $10,000 of stolen cash hidden by their late father.

The novel and film draw on the true story of Harry Powers, who was hanged in 1932 for the murder of two widows and three children in Clarksburg, West Virginia. The film's lyrical and expressionistic style, borrowing techniques from silent film, sets it apart from other Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s, and it has influenced such later directors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Robert Altman,Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, the Coen brothers and Guillermo del Toro.

On initial release, the film received generally negative reviews. The poor reaction to its premiere made it Charles Laughton's only feature film as director. However, it has been positively re-evaluated in later decades and is now considered one of the greatest films ever made. It was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1992. The influential French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma selected The Night of the Hunter in 2008 as the second-best film of all time, behind Citizen Kane. - taken from Wikipedia

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The Big Sleep Is regarded as one of the greatest movies of all time based on a Novel of the same name. 60 years after its publication a "remake" was made. The Big Lebowski is a story that adapts the story in its own unique and interesting way. It's almost like watching it in a parallel universe.