Yipee-Ki-Yay Mr Falcon

There's yet another reinvention of the Man of Steel on the horizon with James Gunn's forthcoming Superman (2025), so we're taking a look back and the film's we've gotten so far, and imagining the ones we haven't. If we had the talent to do it ourselves, or at least the power to order talented people to do our bidding, what would be our perfect Superman movie? Dave, Tom, and Vinnie sound off. 

It's an odd genre of movies — Christmas movies. They are dramas, romances, horror, action, and some of the most saccharine sap you'll ever come across, but they're all Christmas movies. So, what exactly makes a movie a "Christmas movie" and where do we draw the line? And, of course, we run down our all time favorite Christmas movies — and we get into a more niche category: Holiday Movies. 

They're both ridiculous buddy cop team-up movies from the 1980s and 1990s, but of very different star caliber and budget. Tango & Cash (1989) saw Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell join forces as two LAPD super cops who are framed by Jack Palance's crime boss, who has a weird thing for mice and CCTV monitors. Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) sees post-Rocky IV Dolph Lundgren team up with Brandon Lee in one of his first film roles as two...cops who, uh, well, there's a story we're pretty sure. And it follows a lot of same beats thumped by Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash. Prepare to dive into the cinematic complexities of two of the goofiest action (comedies??) to come out of the '80s. 

Ah yes, the family-friendly mildly supernatural vehicle for a young Tom Hanks just breaking his way into feature films from the TV world. We all have such fond memories of Big (1988), but have you ever really thought about the psychological damage inflincted on the characters involved?
And what the hell happened to Josh after the movie was over — a kid who lived as an adult for weeks and had a number of...mature experiences before being shot back into his 10-year-old body? And his poor mom?! And Susan (Elizabeth Perkins)...how does she go on knowing what happened and that she fell in love with a grade-schooler!?! Let's get into it. 

It's difficult to overstate the sheer awesomeness of the original Predator (1987). It's just about the perfect action movie, and it's a blending of sci-fi, action, and horror that is extremely rare in all of movie history, not to mention a lightning-in-a-bottle cast that could only work in the late 1980s. So why has every single sequel (yeah, Dave's looking at you, too, Prey) sucked so bad?! We take a deep dive into Predator, as well as Predator 2, Predators, The Predator, Prey, and we gloss over the two AVP movies, as is deserved. Let's go!
Stay tuned at the end for Tom's artistic reinterpretation of the score from Predator (1987). 

Kevin Bacon was in not one but two white water rafting slash canoeing movies in his career — one when he was still an up and comer and another when he was an established and bankable movie star. One is a neat little '90s thriller with Meryl Streep, the other is a strange coming of age movie with a super young pre-Hobbit, pre-Rudy Sean Astin. Take a trip into this weird little corner of movie trivia with our stunning analysis of White Water Summer (1987) and The River Wild (1994). Plus, you get to brush up on your 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon skills. 

We all have them — movies that we're embarrassed to admit that we have watched 100 times alone in the dark of night. We do not speak of them — the universally hated comedies, the saccharine rom-coms, the terrible fantasy flicks. But they betray something about our character, don't they...our guilty pleasure movies. Tom and Dave talk about some of their secret favorites — can you bring yourself to do the same? 

Apparently, once upon a time, the plan was to have Oscar-winner Denzel Washington star alongside Morgan Freeman in Se7en instead of Brad Pitt. We got to talking about what that would be like — and it was a whole lot of fun.