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Death Race 2050
Make America Race Again
Roger Corman re-stages his cinematic Death Race a half-century after ruling the drive-ins of the 1970s...
Death Race 2000
Road Kill Bill
David Carradine risks life and limb to become the most celebrated driver of Death Race 2000...
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire
How many licked Titans does it take to get to the center of Hollow Earth?
Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) and her Monarch scientists know it’s a bad idea to bring together Godzilla x Kong after their 2021 showdown. But somebody has got to stop a giant ape named Skar King and his captive ice dragon, Shimo, from creating a New Empire that freezes out humanity...
Book Review: Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
The Comeback of the Original Spice Girls
Stuart is back airing his blasphemous opinions about Frank Herbert’s Dune-verse with a podcast review of fifth installment Heretics of Dune, Things have gotten Scattered in the time since the wormy God Emperor left the throne. Find out how a new generation of Bene Gesserit and Atreides descendants are faring on the rebranded desert planet. Listen Now!
Dune: Part Two
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...
Popeye Doyle
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...
French Connection II
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...
The French Connection
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...
Book Review: God Emperor of Dune
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
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...