“So you’re saying this is better than the Escape Plan franchise?” - Eric

On this week’s episode, We ❤️ Movies month continues as we chat about one of the best sports dramas of all time, Rocky!

How incredible is all the human, non-boxing stuff here? Isn’t this film way better since we have all these salt-of-the-earth actors (and non-actors) filling the frame? Could these shooting locations have doubled in Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero? How great is Butkus Stallone? And was there ever a better heavyweight than Burgess Meredith? PLUS: Adrian invents Star Trek slash fiction! 

Rocky stars Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith, Thayer David, Joe Spinell, Al Silvani, Stan Shaw, and Butkus Stallone as Butkus the Dog; directed by John Avildsen.

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“Powers Boothe is gonna show how bad JCVD is...” - Chris on the acting legend

On this special patrons-only WHM, we’re chatting about the outrageous JCVD Die Hard knock-off, Sudden Death! 

Where does this movie fall quality-wise in the JCVD filmography? In what world would the Vice President of the United States attend a professional hockey final? Was that whole opening scene actually supposed to be a monologue that JCVD just couldn’t nail? How ridiculous is it when he gets in goal? How great is Powers Boothe as the villain? Does this movie contain a very rare cinematic step-dad who’s actually a good guy? Should the script have condensed these two kids into one character? And do Zambonis really have big beer coolers on the front of them like that? PLUS: Cold popcorn delivery men? Is it too late for a career change? We’d join that union!

Sudden Death stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Whittni Wright, Ross Malinger, Dorian Harewood, Kate McNeil, Michael Gaston, Audra Lindley, and Raymond J. Barry as the Vice President; directed by Peter Hyams.

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On this edition of On-Screen Live, we're joined by artist and friend, Felipe Sobreiro to chat about his kick-ass comic work, along with an awesome-looking new project he’s got a Kickstarter for at the moment! He stuck around to help us review Clayface and the new restoration of the definitive cut of Ken Russell’s The Devils, and he humored Andrew and Eric by listening to them ramble about Tulsa King for a fashion! 

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“This whole tracking shot is brilliant, it’s a super-flex” - Eric

On this episode, we’re kicking off We ❤️ Movies month with a chat about the total banger that is Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil! 

How absolutely off-putting is Captain Hank Quinlan in this movie? Is the opening tracking shot one of the most impressive feats in all of Old Hollywood? Wow, talk about bad luck with Janet Leigh and scuzzy, roadside motels, huh? And what on Earth was Quinlan thinking with that gross chili analogy? PLUS: Charlton Heston’s Mike Vargas purchases one product too many from the Acme Corporation!

Touch of Evil stars Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Valentin de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, and Orson Welles as Captain Hank Quinlan; directed by Orson Welles.

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“We’re going back to the Hood with a significantly smaller budget!” - Andrew 

On this week’s episode, we’re closing out the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular by having our good buds, James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca from Dead Meat, back on to chat about the next chapter in the Leprechaun saga, Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood! 

Why does the movie wait a full 30 minutes to really get the Leprechaun action going? Why are they bothering with this storybook device at the start? Is the cold open actually the end of a better Leprechaun movie? Is Laz Alonso the third most recognizable person to star in a Leprechaun film? And is this movie better or worse than the Leprechaun’s first adventure in the Hood? PLUS: You can check out Fresh Meat now, streaming exclusively on Pijama! Click through here to rent it!

Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha’ Hood stars Tangi Miller, Laz Alonso, Page Kennedy, Sherrie Jackson, Donzaleigh Abernathy, Shiek Mahmud-Bey, Stikcy Fingaz, Keesha Sharp, Sonya Eddy, and Warwick Davis as the Leprechuan; directed by Steven Ayromlooi.

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On this edition of On-Screen Live, we're playing catch-up on some stuff we've seen over the last few weeks, including the most divisive narrative of the year, Digger; the non-fiction smash hit, You Can See Everything; the R Pats-starring media thriller, Primetime, and two Halloween-time horror series that just dropped, Brad Caleb Kane's new Crystal Lake series on Peacock, and the Mike Flanagan-developed Carrie miniseries! We're also going over the weekend box office, and more!

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“This is an ‘I Got It By the Way’ situation” - Steve 

The 2026 Halloween Spooktacular continues this week as we’re chatting about the better-than-the-original sequel, Child’s Play 2! 

How hilarious is it that this toy company insists on rebuilding the cursed doll to calm their shareholders? Why do these foster parents have so much terrifying clown stuff and breakable antiques in their home? Does Chucky have the strength of a man or the strength of a cursed doll? How much funnier is this one than the first? And has our society hidden a bygone era from us, where clowns were allowed to walk around and participate in society like it was totally normal? PLUS: A long jag on those gross airplane bottles of Fireball! 

Child’s Play 2 stars Alex Vincent, Jenny Agutter, Gerrit Graham, Christine Elise, Grace Zabriskie, Peter Haskell, Beth Grant, Greg Germann, and Brad Dourif as the voice of Chucky; directed by John Lafia.

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“Oh, they’re not doing re-shoots here…” - Andrew

On this week’s episode, the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular is just getting warmed up as we break down one of our all-time slasher faves, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives! 

How hilarious is this cold open with Tommy Jarvis and Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter? Is there another stunt in this franchise that comes close to the awesome RV flip in this movie? Is this the funniest Friday the 13th script? Has there been a better pop song used in these movies than Alice Cooper’s “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” that we get at the end credits here? Is that cemetery groundskeeper a fart head? And how about that sheriff’s murder, huh? PLUS: Apparently Thom Mathews and James Karen corresponded with one another long after The Return of the Living Dead kick-started their friendship!

Friday the 13th VI: Jason Lives stars Thom Mathews, Jennifer Cooke, David Karen, C.J. Graham, Kerry Noonan, Renée Jones, Tom Fridley, Darcy DeMoss, Vincent Guastaferro, Tony Goldwyn, Nancy McLoughlin, Alan Blumenfeld, Matthew Faison, Ann Ryerson, Whitney Rydbeck, and the late Ron Palillo as Allen Hawes; directed by Tom McLoughlin.

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“This cheerleader is vicious!” - Andrew on that bathroom scene

On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, our Halloween Spooktacular takes over as we’re covering one of the absolute best horror films of the 1990s, Wes Craven’s Scream!

How incredible is that cold open? Did Chris really hear a lewd sound when Tatum bites it? How fantastic are all these huge, tube TVs? Not to mention all the magnificent houses! How cool was it seeing Henry Winkler pop up as Principal Himbry? And how many times, collectively, have the four of us seen this film? PLUS: More talk about the denim industry than you’d expect! And definitely way more talk about the Harry Keitel film, Smoke!

Scream stars Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, David Arquette, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, W. Earl Brown, Henry Winkler, Frances Lee McCain, Liev Schreiber, Joseph Whipp, and Roger L. Jackson as Phone Voice; directed by Wes Craven.

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On the fall premiere of On-Screen Live, we're breaking down a great number of films we caught at this year's New York Film Festival!

The NYFF64 lineup is a great place to turn when clocking what good-to-great films are coming down the pike toward the end of this year, or into early next. On this episode, we're giving our thoughts on films like James Gray's masterful, '80s-set, New Yawk crime drama, Paper Tiger; the documentary that's rocking the film world and beyond, a jarring non-fiction title that is meeting the moment, NAZA; Werner Herzog's funny, sweet, oddball return to narrative filmmaking, the excellently-titled, Bucking Fastard; William Greaves and David Greaves's miracle of documentary cinema, the absolutely stunning Once Upon a Time in Harlem; Andor's Tony Gilroy's return to the director's chair after 14 years, the wild Pedro Pascal classical cellist drama, Behemoth!; and much, much more!

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“I’ve seen this movie dozens of times” - Andrew

On this week’s episode, we’re kicking off the 2026 Halloween Spooktacular in grand fashion as we go long on Peter Jackson’s super-fun, paranormal comedy, The Frighteners!

Should they have tried to nail down a set of ghost rules for our spooky characters? Couldn’t Universal have waited and released this banger in October, instead of the summer, especially when Peter Jackson & Co. hadn’t finished the special effects?! How fantastic is Michael J. Fox leading this movie? Should the studio have let Jackson go even wilder with the horror elements? Is this movie, fun as it is, possibly overstuffed? Are there many things more spooktacular than Jake Busey’s terrifying, vacant stare? And who wants to make a rezzy and grab dinner at Excalibur’s? PLUS: A Spooktacular round of the VHS Trailer Game! 

The Frighteners stars Michael J. Fox, Trini Alvarado, Peter Dobson, Jeffrey Combs, Dee Wallace, John Astin, Chi McBride, Jim Fife, Troy Evans, Julianna McCarthy, R. Lee Ermey, Elizabeth Hawthorne, and Jake Busey as Johnny Bartlett; directed by Peter Jackson.

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