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Three playful movie reviewers break down a variety of film franchises by dedicating a podcast to every single sequel, reboot, and spin-off in a series. In-depth conversations cover production history, literary sources, gossip, merchandising, and personal opinion with humor and critical insight. No cinematic universe is too obscure or sacred! Over 1,200 reviews at http://nowplayingpodcast.com
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Dune: Part Two

Dune: Part Two

2024-03-2601:59:14

Call Me By Your Mouse Emperor Christopher Walken and Harkonnen hardasses Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Austin Butler (Elvis) are ready to turn the page on House Atreides as Part 2 of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune adaptation gets underway. Can vengeful Timothee Chalamet worm his way into the heart of cynical Zendaya, and convince the indigenous people of Arrakis to follow their messiah into an interplanetary war? And why does Josh Brolin always seem to have his hand on a weapon of mass destruction?  Find Out when you Listen Now to this epic podcast! 
Popeye Doyle

Popeye Doyle

2024-03-1901:16:28

NYPD Blue Balls  Eight months before starring as Al Bundy on Married… With Children, Ed O’Neill tried to keep pace with Gene Hackman in a TV spin-off of French Connection. Did NBC execs cancel this potential 1986 series because gruff narcotics detective Popeye Doyle was still murdering folks and violating civil liberties like it’s 1971?  Or is the bigger problem that a future sitcom shoe salesman would rather sit on his ass watching sex tapes of Audrey Landers (Dallas) than chase down crooks?  Find out if this failed pilot solves the Middle East crisis when you Listen Now!
French Connection II

French Connection II

2024-03-1201:26:42

He’s strong til the finish, cause he eats his spinach (and stopped shooting heroin), he’s Popeye the Jailer Man! Gene Hackman crosses the pond to catch The Frog that avoided capture during a big time U.S. drug bust in the 1975 sequel French Connection II. But will it be any easier to find Fernando Rey on his home turf when the New York cop doesn’t speak the language and Marseilles police don’t condone his brutal investigative methods? And can fill-in director John Frankenheimer (Manchurian Candidate) replicate the adrenalized rush of the original car chases when so many characters are strung out on smack? You’ll know the score when you Listen Now!  
The French Connection

The French Connection

2024-03-0501:39:00

Sadly, not the same Frog who hooked you up with a Rainbow Connection Director William Friedkin (The Exorcist) pioneers ‘70s buddy cop formula with his five-time Oscar-winning breakout film The French Connection. Has all that foot-picking in Poughkeepsie prepared crass New York City cops Gene Hackman (Superman) and Roy Scheider (Jaws) for the amount of legwork required to catch heroin smuggler Fernando Rey? And are the filmmakers the biggest criminals of all with their blatant disregard for bystander safety and traffic laws while shooting a legendary high-speed car chase? Listen and Find Out!
The sleeper has awakened.     Stuart invites readers and sci-fi fans to follow him inside the wormhole once more as he renews his mission to cover Frank Herbert’s entire Dune literary saga. Find out what happens to Paul Atreides and his family after the movies stop, and son Leto II is proclaimed God Emperor of Dune in the pages of a mind-expanding fourth novel. Things get spicy when you Listen Now!
Loki: Season 2

Loki: Season 2

2024-02-2802:18:15

Closing Time Tom Hiddleston keeps on slippin’ slippin’ into the future (as well as 19th Century Chicago) in the concluding season of his Disney+ series Loki. Can Oscar winner Ke Huy Quon stop the Norse God from glitching everywhere all at once by making dramatic repairs to the space loom that weaves time together? And will Jonathan Majors remain an ongoing MCU presence after being convicted of offscreen villainy, or must Owen Wilson and the TVA Minutemen purge the actor from official Marvel canon?  Don’t waste a second looking for the answers. Just listen now!
Madame Web

Madame Web

2024-02-2002:09:351

Insects & The City Dakota Johnson is clairvoyant EMT Madame Web, the only one who sees a future for marginal Spider-Man characters starring in their own Sony features. Can the fashionista paramedic protect a trio of teenage girls, including Sydney Sweeney (White Lotus), from toxic “ceiling guy” Tahar Rahim? And does the presence of Adam Scott (Severance) in this ambulance mean the actress is less than 50 Shades from Aunt May?  Find out if Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart will perform the compressions to bring this DOA superhero flick back to life when you Listen Now!
Disturbia

Disturbia

2024-02-1301:29:50

The Kingdom of the Club Girl Skulls While under house arrest, Shia LaBeouf looks out Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and finds more than meets the eye to David Morse (Green Mile) in the 2007 thriller Disturbia. But can the Transformers star find the physical proof that women are going missing next door if his ankle bracelet always rats out his location to Detective Viola Davis?  And is mom Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix) or sexy new neighbor Sarah Roemer the next to vanish?  Find out what capital improvements have been made in the half-century since Hitch’s original. Listen Now!
Body Double

Body Double

2024-02-0701:34:471

DePalma Does Hollywood Director Brian DePalma (Carrie) reopens Rear Window 30 years later to give struggling actor Craig Wasson (A Nightmare on Elm Street 3) a peek at murder in the Hollywood Hills. Is the beautiful woman on the other end of his telescope the victim of a Peeping Tom killer wielding an oversized drill? Or is working girl Melanie Griffith playing a cruel prank on a man who likes to watch rather than take action? Find out if Alfred Hitchcock is spinning in his grave over the way his classy 1954 story of voyeurism has been turned into a sordid 1984 softcore flick when you Listen Now!
Rear Window (1954)

Rear Window (1954)

2024-01-3001:29:00

The Dog Who Knew Too Much Photojournalist Jimmy Stewart breaks his leg in the line of duty and winds up stuck at the Rear Window of his Greenwich Village apartment, suspecting a neighbor of murder. But did his camera lens actually capture Perry Mason star Raymond Burr in the act of chopping up his wife? Or is the injured Peeping Tom merely projecting his marital anxieties about Grace Kelly onto another unhappy household? Join Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie as they stare deeply into Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 tale of voyeurism and trace its ongoing influence on cinema. Listen Now!
Ghost of Frankenstein

Ghost of Frankenstein

2024-01-2354:12

Trading Places Boris Karloff’s Universal Monster was thought dead but emerges from a scorching sulfuric bath looking like Lon Chaney Jr in the 1942 sequel Ghost of Frankenstein. Should this reanimated giant leave his besieged castle to hook up with a distantly related brain surgeon capable of ending his homicidal impulses?  And would the creature be better swapping his criminal brain with the cranium of the kindly doctor he killed, the little girl he kidnapped, or the abnormal bean of devious Bela Lugosi? Find out if this fourth Frankenstein chapter is a gas. Listen Now!
Son of Frankenstein

Son of Frankenstein

2024-01-1601:03:32

Well, that’s one way to break a hung jury! Boris Karloff ends his run as a Universal Monster by getting the Son of Frankenstein to perfect the electrical waves powering his reanimated body. But can the operation be considered a success if the green guy continues to leave a trail of corpses in his wake? And has Bela Lugosi become the real monster of the franchise as new assistant Ygor, despite doing nothing more sinister than playing encouraging flute tunes for his oversized friend?  Listen Now as Stuart, Jakob, and Arnie debate whether this 1939 sequel restores honor to the Frankenstein name.
Wedding Crashers Elsa Lanchester dons the most famous beehive hairdo in movie history to walk down the aisle with Boris Karloff in The Bride of Frankenstein. Can director James Whale marry his campy sense of humor with the unused parts of Mary Shelley’s darkly philosophical novel and create an even more outrageous 1935 sequel?  And will the Monster finally give a piece of his mind to the madman who made him now that he’s gained the ability to talk?  Stuart, Arnie, and Jakob request your attendance as they discuss one of cinema’s most unholy unions. Listen Now!
Frankenstein (1931)

Frankenstein (1931)

2024-01-0301:12:301

The Original Champion Bodybuilder Lightning has struck Now Playing in 2024, prompting Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob to have alive-ly debate about Frankenstein… starting with the Big Guy’s 1931 debut as a Universal Monster. Is Boris Karloff’s portrayal of an accidentally murderous reanimated corpse even more iconic than Bela Lugosi giving you the evil eye in his Dracula cape?  And how dramatically did director James Whale amputate Mary Shelley’s source novel to breathe new life into this fable about a scientist playing God? Listen to how this classic creation was stitched together right now!   
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

2023-12-2701:31:221

Spongebob No Chance Jason Mamoa does his best to salvage The Lost Kingdom of DC’s Justice League saga in this deep-sixed 2023 sequel to Aquaman. Is estranged brother Patrick Wilson better off in jail than helping crustaceans like Dolph Lundgren cockblock Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and his Black Trident? And how big a barnacle is Amber Heard after all her unflattering court appearances? Nicole Kidman may have “come to this place for magic,” but does the heartbreak of watching her career sink with the Snyderverse really feel good in a place like this!? Find out now!
Watchmen (2019)

Watchmen (2019)

2023-12-1902:47:001

Squid Games Alan Moore’s Watchmen disbanded in 1985, but their legacy lives on in a 2019 HBO miniseries where a Rorschach-inspired militia and the offspring of Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons) try to harness the power of Dr. Manhattan. Can Regina King (Jerry Maguire) prove both Black and Blue lives matter as her masked crime fighter works with Tim Blake Nelson, Don Johnson, and former Silk Spectre Jean Smart to find a cop killer? And will showrunner Damon Lindelof (Lost) take more risks than Zack Snyder in bringing the DC superheroes to the screen?  Find out now!
Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Maze Runner: The Death Cure

2023-12-1201:14:56

Christmas with the Cranks The walls are coming down on civilization’s last city as Patricia Clarkson (Green Mile) and her wicked scientists race the clock to extract The Death Cure from Maze Runner test subjects. How much blood will Dylan O”Brien have to spill to stop his infected friends Rosa Salazar and Thomas Brodie-Sangster (Phineas & Ferb) from becoming rage virus zombies?  And is crank-y rebel leader Walton Goggins (Justified) any more of an ally than heavy Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones)? Listen Now as Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob help you find your way to the trilogy’s end.
Here Comes The Hot Steppers  Dylan O’Brien and his Maze Runner friends leave the labyrinth only to find themselves navigating a charred landscape full of rage virus zombies in second chapter The Scorch Trials. Can Giancarlo Esposito (Mandalorian), Lili Taylor (Conjuring), and Barry Pepper (Saving Private Ryan) offer these kids sanctuary from wicked scientists wanting to milk their brains? And would our hero do better to stop chasing Kaya Scodelario and date infected pistol-packer Rosa Salazar (Bird Box) instead? These burning questions get answered when you Listen Now!
The Maze Runner

The Maze Runner

2023-11-2801:19:321

Thinking Outside The Box  Arnie, Jakob, and Stuart survived the harrowing gladiator matches of The Hunger Games only to stumble into a labyrinth of dangers in the 2014 adventure The Maze Runner. Can Teen Wolf star Dylan O’Brien decode the secrets tucked within these giant granite walls, and find an escape path for a marooned tribe of teenage boys? Or will this flight to freedom be thwarted by an army of biomechanical spiders, bully Will Poulter (aka Adam Warlock), or the arrival of a girl (Kaya Scodelario)? Listen Now as the hosts guide you through another YA dystopia.
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

2023-11-2101:47:332

The Town That Dreaded Markdowns Director Eli Roth (Hostel) has a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving now that a decades-long mission to expand his Grindhouse joke trailer has finally blessed the multiplex. Will holiday viewers be delighted to dine on a 17-year-old turkey overstuffed with gorey kills and T&A exploitation? Say a prayer for Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob as they gobble up this 2023 horror-comedy. 
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Aaron Hartje

I've tried ... a lot. But when the reviewers are constantly injecting their own politics into what they're watching, it becomes very clear, very quickly that you cannot really trust them as putting forward a straightforward review. An otherwise good movie becomes a movie that "could have been doing more," for example. So it becomes a lesser movie because it is judged against their personal idea of what it SHOULD have been doing, rather than how well it did what it chose to do. I'm probably just going to have to move on.

Feb 21st
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Ire Lambchop

A bit messed up how they talk about the legs crossing scene. Any director should have ensured she was comfortable with a close up of her vulva being released. To have that brushed off as "surely she would have realised" and "its what made the movie memorable" shows a distinct lack of empathy from these podcasters for what women in film have gone through

Feb 9th
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Stephen Meese

Groundhog day is a huge deal in my house. Just saying.

Oct 9th
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Stephen Meese

Sorry, but you're absolutely wrong. Tom Clancy DID write Rainbow Six. No ghost author here. Love the podcast!

Sep 15th
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Stephen Meese

Wait, y'all did Space Camp? Damn. I'm like six years too late 😪

Sep 15th
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Thank you very much for the wonderful music buddy, I would love to listen to it while watching a movie on (beetv app) https://beetvapp.com/

Sep 7th
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sawyer Toll

Now Playing will be doing a watch along every other week on Fridays. Each of the hosts is going to pick a movie and the hosts will watch it on hotmic. It's a app where you can basically sync up a personal video stream to get live commentary from the hosts via video. For example next Friday may 22nd they will be doing Godzilla (1998). You tune in and start the movie at the same time of them (or just watch without watching the movie). Last time they had every host so they might do it again. There is a live chat feature with other fans. Last couple times they do a quick q and a. It's completely FREE. More info on their Facebook. Sign up for hotmic with the code NOWPLAYING

May 16th
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James McCartan

I am a serious cinemaniac & this is by far the best podcast on planet earth concerning movies. The perfect balance of fun & information. Love it, love it, love it. My only criticism is there isn’t 5 podcasts released every single day of life.

Feb 5th
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Arik Coulter

i. love. it

Nov 24th
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Jeff Johnson

I love movies and work alone alot. You guys have become my got to podcast for all things movies and movie trivia and backstories. i love what you do and appreciate you all so mich for what you add to my days. Just the best!

Oct 25th
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Collin 02456

where is Stuart!!! I wanted to hear him on this one! and are Brock and Jacob twin brothers? I cannot tell their voices apart-i think it's the same person

Sep 29th
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mike stanton

Hey guys, have you ever thought about doing a Hellraiser retrospective series?

Aug 29th
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Aaron Hartje

I guess if there's one thing to learn from this, it's to not claim that a hero's suit is "obviously padded" if you haven't bothered to actually look into it.

Jul 28th
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Armando Chinchilla

yeah guys, Ripley and Dutch look exactly the same.... and sure the movie is pretty stupid... Damn, first time I'm dissapointed in one of your reviews you where expecting an animal??? holy shit dude they found a whole freaking marine group hanging and skinless....

Jul 23rd
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Alexander Huxley

guys I realised that on castbox I can't find the James bond reviews but on podcast player I can. Any way to fix it? castbox is a much better player. Thanks

May 9th
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Hugo Dionne

not sure if anyone has asked, but why havent you covered Tremors? The first one was great when I was a kid and they just go down hill. It could be a great series to delve into. cheers love the podcast.

Mar 18th
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