The Ripped Ticket Review

Jack and his Journal production team are huge Back to the Future nerds. Naturally it would come up as a topic for Ripped Ticket. Join Jack and Dan for a look in to the past, present and future of one of Hollywood's finest franchises.

This week, Jack and Dan go in to the world of RoboCop, and why even after all these years, Paul Verhoeven's original film is still a cracking movie.

In the second of a two-part series opener, Jack and Dan take a good look at Netflix series Cobra Kai, how it continues the Miyagi-verse, and why it is a great example of how to reinvigorate a franchise that had been treated very poorly by its corporate overlords (yes, we're still not over Karate Kid 3, Next Karate Kid, and even the 2010 'reboot' with Jackie Chan).

As 'Lockdown 3: With A Vengeance' kicks in, Jack Smit and Dan Carver return with a brand new run of The Ripped Ticket Review, bigger, better and more independent than ever. This week, in the first of a two-part series opener, the boys tackle legendary franchise The Karate Kid, its sequels, and how it spawned a Netflix series we'll be looking at in next week's show.

Jack Smit and Dan Carver are once again joining forces to create a podcast. Series 2 of Ripped Ticket Review is coming, get ready for more deep dives into the good, the bad, and sometimes the ugly side of the most prolific movie stories in the industry.

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With the reopening of UK cinemas just days away, Jack and Dan bow out with a season finale about the man who Hollywood are touting as the director who can save the film industry from COVID-induced disaster - the one and only Christopher Nolan.

This week, the boys look at the art of the superhero movie- especially the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the movies that came before it, what exactly it got right compared to other superhero movies (looking at you DC), and how the genre has evolved both before and after Endgame.

The year is 1979, and Jaws was looming large over the industry- naturally James Cameron pitched an idea to make a similar movie, but in space. What he also did was create the first badass female character in modern Hollywood. On this week's Ripped Ticket, Jack and Dan look at that film, and how Sigourney Weaver's work on Alien pioneered new archetypes.