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Today on Wheel of Film, we’re going back to 1994—a magical time when every basketball movie required an outdoor tournament, every soundtrack needed at least one Death Row artist, and apparently the most important decision a high-school senior could make was which drug dealer he wanted sitting courtside at his games.

We’re talking Above the Rim.

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This week on Wheel of Film, we're heading to the Grid—a place where the laws of physics don't matter, motorcycles leave laser walls behind them, and somehow Jeff Bridges is playing both the chillest guy alive and the creepiest guy alive... at the same time.

Tron: Legacy picks up nearly 30 years after the original film. Sam Flynn, the rebellious son of legendary programmer Kevin Flynn, receives a mysterious page that leads him into the digital world his father disappeared into decades earlier. Once inside, Sam discovers the Grid has evolved into a dazzling—but dangerous—digital empire ruled by CLU, a younger digital copy of Kevin obsessed with creating perfection. Together with the mysterious warrior Quorra, Sam has to escape the Grid before perfection wipes out humanity.

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Take off, you hosers—today on Wheel of Film, we’re cracking open 1983’s Strange Brew, the only movie brave enough to ask: what if Hamlet starred two unemployed Canadians, took place inside a brewery, and climaxed with a flying dog?

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Welcome back to Wheel of Film—the show where one spin of the wheel decides what we're watching... and this week, the wheel looked at all the holiday classics, ignored them completely, and chose... kidnapping."

"That's right, today we're talking about Holiday in Handcuffs—the ABC Family original Christmas movie where Melissa Joan Hart kidnaps Mario Lopez, forces him to pretend to be her fiancé, and somehow... this is still considered a romantic comedy.

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Today's movie is 2003's Down with Love, a movie that somehow arrived 40 years too late on purpose. It's part romantic comedy, part satire, part love letter to the Doris Day and Rock Hudson sex comedies of the late '50s and early '60s. And depending on who you ask, it's either criminally underrated... or proof that audiences don't actually want irony wrapped inside nostalgia.

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This week, we're hopping aboard the world's most chaotic prison transport because we're talking Con Air—the 1997 action movie that asked, "What if every insane character actor in Hollywood got locked on the same plane with Nicolas Cage's accent?"

Nicolas Cage stars as Cameron Poe, an Army Ranger who survives prison only to survive something even more dangerous: John Malkovich with hair. When a transport flight carrying America's worst criminals gets hijacked, Poe becomes the only man standing between the passengers and complete anarchy—all while trying to make it home to see the daughter he's never met.

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Tonight we're talking about One Hour Photo, the movie that single-handedly made an entire generation uncomfortable picking up pictures from CVS.

In just 90 minutes, Robin Williams takes every ounce of goodwill he built from Mrs. Doubtfire, Aladdin, and Jumanji and uses it to make your skin crawl. He plays Sy Parrish, a lonely photo technician who develops pictures for a suburban family and slowly becomes obsessed with their seemingly perfect life. And when that fantasy starts to crack, things get very weird, very fast.

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Alright, today we’re spinning the wheel and landing on one of the weirdest, horniest, most stoner-coded horror comedies of the late ‘90s… Idle Hands.

Devon Sawa plays Anton, a burnout teen whose right hand gets possessed by a demonic force and starts murdering people—casually, efficiently, and with zero regard for Anton’s general laziness. After accidentally killing his own friends (who come back as very chill zombies), Anton has to stop his evil hand before it goes on a full killing spree… all while trying to smoke weed, watch TV, and maybe hook up with the girl next door.

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Welcome back to Wheel of Film, the podcast where we spin the wheel, hit play, and ask the important questions—like: how did a movie this insane get made by this many talented people? Today we’re talking about Showgirls, the most expensive NC-17 movie ever made, a film that was marketed like prestige trash, received like a cultural crime scene, and then somehow circled all the way back around to becoming a camp classic.

Here’s your 30-second plot summary:
Nomi Malone is a drifter with a mystery past, a switchblade attitude, and absolutely zero chill, who blows into Las Vegas determined to dance her way to the top. She starts out grinding at a strip club, claws her way into the chorus line of a big casino show, and then goes full social assassin trying to take the crown from the reigning goddess of the Vegas stage. It’s ambition, betrayal, sex, rhinestones, and pool thrashing—all turned up to a level the human body was not designed to sustain.

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This week on Wheel of Film, we’re stepping into one of the most influential martial arts films of all time…

Released in 1978 and directed by Lau Kar-leung, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin follows the journey of a young man named Liu Yude—played by Gordon Liu—who escapes the ظلم of the Manchu government after his village is destroyed. Seeking revenge and justice, he enters the legendary Shaolin Temple, where he endures grueling training across 35 chambers, each designed to test and refine a different aspect of martial arts mastery.

But this isn’t just about revenge—it’s about transformation. Through discipline, failure, and perseverance, Liu evolves into San Te, a Shaolin monk who ultimately creates the revolutionary 36th chamber—a place where martial arts can be taught to the common people

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