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Battle Royale

Before we started recording, we talked about whether or not Battle Royale (2000) was an action or horror movie and we landed on action movie with extremely horrific tones. Pete's main talking point was that unlike a big explodie action movie where grunts are mowed down by the dozens, Battle Royale gives every murdered victim a name and number so that regardless how you feel about that particular character, you still g...

A cop on the edge crosses paths with a man on a mission to find his sister and no one on the streets is safe! Roddy Piper is Officer Roddy Piper and Billy Blanks is basically The Punisher in 1994’s Back in Action! This one flirts with the “Buddy Cop” theme but they're not buddies and only one of them is a cop! Billy Blanks is opening cans of Whoop-Ass on anyone dumb enough to get his way. Roddy Piper is throwing c...

If you didn't live through the Satanic Panic of the 1980s this film may not land with you.  Those of us who remember the ridiculous reactions that parents had to anything remotely "evil" will certainly get why this movie has the potential to scare your pants off.  The trailer for this film scared a 14-year-old Pete so bad that he waited to watch it until he picked it for this show.  Kids are such chicken shits. If yo...

She's just a small town girl living in a denim world. She takes the Chrysler train going anywhere Richard Norton is! 1990s China O'Brien carries The Walking Tall torch into a new decade! China returns to her hometown to find it's corrupted by sleezeballs and when they attack her family and friends, she decides to clean it up with fists and roundhouse kicks! It doesn't hurt to have a hunky badass Richard Norton on your side, as well...

After the success of "MONTH OF ACTION" Charlie and Pete need a little break from all the action movies and decide to level set with a couple of horror movies that epitomize the Give Me Back narrative. Memories of the VHS covers for Slaughterhouse and Popcorn live rent free in the minds of your GMB hosts invoking both intense fear and morbid curiosity in their young minds. To our delight, both films paired surprisingly well and thei...

For you, the day B-ACTION graced your playlist was the most important day of your life, but for us…it was a Friday. Now get on the sticks and choose your favorite character because we're covering 1994's Street Fighter! We can't get enough of Raul Julia's iconic performance in this movie. Cool moves, well placed comedy, and larger than life characters make for a fun time! That's not to say there aren't a few strikes against t...

This week Charlie is joined by two special guests, Derrick from Bad Movies Worse People and Capt. Steven from Bucket of Chum podcast. The guys cover Edge of Tomorrow...aka Live Die Repeat, a movie that takes the time-loop premise and straps it into a mech suit. Tom Cruise plays a PR officer with zero combat experience who gets dumped into an invasion against alien invaders called Mimics. He dies (spectacularly) in minutes, then wak...

New Orleans is just cool, man. The only thing cooler might be Sylvester Stallone. Put that man in the bayou or the French Quarter and you've got our attention! 2012’s Bullet to the Head feels like it should have been a hit, but somehow it fell through the cracks! Now we get to cover it on B-ACTION! Walter Hill brings his signature style to this one with tons of brutality and conflict. Jason Momoa makes an early career appeara...

Tonight on After Hours Cinema:

From the desk of Anna-

SURPRISE B*TCHES! Did yall really think we were going to let B-Action and Gimme Back have all of the extra fun this month?! WRONG-O!

Since I got to torture Pete with Armageddon, I got to thinking... what if we did TWO Month of Action picks and let Pete have his very own, too? We release it Friday night on our week and give everyone an authentic late-night feel to fit the vibe o...

Tonight on After Hours Cinema:

From the desk of Pete: It's the MONTH OF ACTION and Anna delighted in torturing Pete by making him finally watch Armageddon (1998). Wait, ha Pete's never seen Armageddon? It's true, Pete purposefully avoided the film for 28 years and has told everyone for years how much he hates it. Anna sat his butt down and pulled the parent card saying, "Well if you haven't tried it, then how do you know you don't ...

The late 80’s to mid 90’s action movie scene was ruled by a few leading men, but one would become ABOVE THE LAW and HARD TO KILL. However, in 1990, he would be Marked for Death! That's right! Steven Seagal drives his badass Mustang Mach 1 right into the middle of The Month of Action! And with all this Voodoo magic, we're gonna need back up from #1 Seagal Super Fan THE Official Joey-C! We're talking peak Steven Seagal fi...

Month of Action continues!

Charlie is joined by John from A Cut Above Horror Review this week with an "underrated" Arnold movie. 

Eraser is basically 1996’s answer to “what if Arnold Schwarzenegger was HR for witnesses?” He plays John Kruger, a U.S. Marshal who fakes your death, scrubs your identity, and probably has a bit too much fun with picking out your new identity. The plot kicks in when he protects Van...

Human or machine? 1992’s Nemesis dives into a secret war between man and machine that is being waged in the criminal underground around the world in the distant future of…2027?! Only Alex, a half man half machine LAPD officer, can be the one to stop a violent cyborg takeover! The action and special effects take this b movie to the next level with more bullets and violence than you could shake a computer chip at. Albert...

From the desk of Pete:

Summertime tent-pole movies were a staple of the 90s and few films were more tent-poling than Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Robin Hood didn't start the trend but rather it defined what a summer blockbuster should be: hire a star-studded cast, dress them all in incredible costuming, film in stunning set locations, don't write an overcomplicated script, and pepper in enough humor so as not to take yourself too...

Stop me if you've heard this one before…A cowboy and a biker walk into a bar and get wrapped up in a ridiculous plot to stop the gentrification of their beloved town of Burbank and end up in the middle of drug trafficking by a bunch of dudes that look like they've been freshly uploaded into The Matrix! Whew! Well, that's Harley Davidson and The Marlboro Man starring pre plastic surgery Mickey Rourke and the ALWAYS BADASS Don...

Need 4 Speed kicks off the Month of Action early with the 1998 film, Black Dog!!!

 Patrick Swayze plays Jack Crews, an ex-con truck driver hauling a mysterious load across the South while the FBI, ATF, Meatloaf, and his own past ride shotgun...all to save his family's home and lives. It’s got everything you want from late 90s action: spectacular highway stunts, growling diesels, Randy Travis playing truck stop good ol&rs...

An EXCESSIVE amount of talent, an EXCESSIVE amount of twists, and an EXCESSIVE amount of roundhouse kicks fill the screen in 1992’s Excessive Force! Thomas Ian Griffith writes, produces, and stars in this crime thriller alongside James Earl Jones, Tony Todd, and Lance Henriksen that entangles everyone in a war between the mob and crooked cops. The action gets brutal and intense with an EXCESSIVE amount of shootouts and mob hi...

Tonight on After Hours Cinema: Pete takes us on a trip back to the 70s, where you could still smoke wherever you wanted to and demon baby movies are rated PG. Captain Pete chose the 1974 iteration of It's Alive for this month on AHCRAP, and, surprisingly, it was a first-time watch for the both of us. (despite Pete being born in the 1800s) Regardless of its "schlock" demeanor, this film actually has some charm to it. We hope you enj...