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Tonight on the Metal Hammer of Doom we are reviewing Tarja - *Frisson Noir*, the long-awaited return to full-fledged symphonic metal from the former Nightwish vocalist. After spending the better part of seven years exploring orchestral projects, Christmas albums, live recordings, and collaborations, Tarja returns with what she has described as the heaviest album of her solo career. Featuring guest appearances from Marko Hietala, Dani Filth, Apocalyptica, and even Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, *Frisson Noir* aims to blend crushing guitars, cinematic orchestration, and Tarja's unmistakable operatic voice into an ambitious modern metal statement. Having followed Tarja's solo...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight we are reviewing K Street, Steven Soderbergh's ambitious 2003 HBO experiment that blurred the line between fiction and reality long before audiences were ready for it. Set inside a bipartisan Washington lobbying firm, K Street combines fictional characters with real political operatives, including James Carville, Mary Matalin, Howard Dean, Chuck Schumer, and dozens of other familiar faces, all reacting to the political news of the week through largely improvised dialogue. We'll discuss how Soderbergh's guerrilla filmmaking style created one of television's most unusual political dramas, why the conversations between actors and real politicians feel so radically...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we review Minions & Monsters (2026), the latest entry in Illumination's billion-dollar franchise and the seventh film overall in the Despicable Me series. Directed by Pierre Coffin and written by Coffin and Brian Lynch, the film features the familiar Minions alongside a voice cast that includes Trey Parker, Allison Janney, Christoph Waltz, Jesse Eisenberg, Jeff Bridges, Zoey Deutch, Bobby Moynihan, and Phil LaMarr. Set in 1927—more than four decades before the events of the first Minions film—the story follows Kevin, Stuart, Bob, and the gang as they head to Old Hollywood with dreams of making their own...

Tonight on Sessions, we sail back to 2022—a year when my personal life was coming apart, my creative world was under siege, and a simple review of The Northman became something much bigger. What started as a movie podcast evolved into a three-hour conversation about friendship, creativity, courage, and what happens when living communities slowly become institutions."We Were Northmen" isn't really about Vikings. It's about brotherhood. It's about the halls we build together and how they don't always fall to outside enemies. Sometimes they're hollowed out from within by fear, bureaucracy, and the relentless desire to make everything safer, qu...

6 humans find themselves trapped in a digital world with no clear way to escape. What secrets lay hidden in the Digital Circus, and will they ever get back to the real world? Find out as we take a look at the webseries that took the world by storm. Alexis Hejna from Honeysuckle Rose Creations and Jesse Starcher discuss the adventures, the abstractions, and just what made this series from Glitch Productions stand out.

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Supergirl is a 2026 superhero film based on the DC Comics character, directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Ana Nogueira. Produced by DC Studios' James Gunn and Peter Safran, it is the second theatrical entry in the new DC Universe (DCU). Milly Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El alongside Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, and Jason Momoa. Adapted from Tom King and Bilquis Evely's acclaimed Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, the film follows Kara on a galaxy-spanning quest for vengeance that ultimately forces her to confront grief, justice, and her own identity. A standalone Supergirl project...

This week on Damn You Hollywood, we're heading back to the toy box one more time with Toy Story 5. Directed by Pixar veteran Andrew Stanton, the latest installment reunites Woody, Buzz, Jessie, and the gang for a new adventure centered around Bonnie's growing attachment to a tablet named Lilypad. Set two years after Toy Story 4, the film explores the increasingly familiar tension between traditional play and modern technology, asking what role toys have in a world dominated by screens.

Returning voice cast members Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, and Joan Cusack are joined by newcomers Greta Lee, Conan O'Brien...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, we wrap up our retrospective on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom with a look at Seasons 2 and 3, where the series shifts from an idealistic defense of journalism to a critique of its failures. Season 2 centers on the Genoa scandal, a disastrous report alleging the U.S. military used sarin gas in Afghanistan. Inspired by CNN's real-life Operation Tailwind controversy, the storyline explores confirmation bias, source reliability, and the dangers of reporters becoming too invested in a narrative they want to be true. We discuss whether the season's conspiracy-driven plot ultimately undermines its message and why Maggie's...

Steven Spielberg returns to one of the defining obsessions of his career with Disclosure Day, a science-fiction thriller inspired by modern UFO disclosure debates and decades of speculation about extraterrestrial life. Written by longtime Spielberg collaborator David Koepp from a story Spielberg reportedly carried with him for years, the film stars Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo in a story about government secrecy, hidden truths, and humanity's first official reckoning with the reality of alien contact.

Released on June 12, 2026, Disclosure Day has been praised by critics for its ambition, performances, and Spielberg's trademark...

This Pride Month, Damn You Hollywood examines three acclaimed queer films from very different worlds: Dallas Buyers Club (2013), Cassandro (2023), and Solo (2023). We explore how each project came together, from the long development of Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack's Oscar-winning AIDS drama, to Roger Ross Williams' adaptation of the real-life lucha libre legend Cassandro, to Sophie Dupuis' intimate Canadian drama set in Montreal's drag scene. We'll discuss the casting of Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Gael García Bernal, Théodore Pellerin and Félix Maritaud, the directing choices that shaped each film, and how production realities influenced the stories that ultimately rea...

Spider-Noir is an American neo-noir superhero series developed by Oren Uziel for MGM+ and Prime Video. Based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Spider-Man Noir, the series follows an aging private investigator and superhero in 1930s New York City who grapples with his past. Uziel and Steve Lightfoot serve as the showrunners of the series, which is produced by Sony Pictures Television in association with Amazon MGM Studios. It is set in an alternate universe within the Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU) franchise. Nicolas Cage stars as Ben Reilly / The Spider in his first lead role in a television series, with...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood, we review Masters of the Universe! Based on Mattel’s iconic franchise, this 2026 fantasy adventure marks the long-awaited return of He-Man to the big screen, nearly forty years after the cult-classic 1987 film. Directed by Travis Knight and starring Nicholas Galitzine as Prince Adam/He-Man, the film follows Adam’s journey back to Eternia, where he must embrace his destiny, wield the Power Sword, and defend his world from the sinister Skeletor, played by Jared Leto. Featuring a cast that includes Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, Morena Baccarin, Kristen Wiig, and Idris Elba, the film blends sword-and-sorcery acti...

Tonight on the Long Road to Ruin, we look back at Grease and Grease 2! One of the most successful movie musicals ever made spawned one of Hollywood's most infamous sequels, and we're breaking down how it happened. We examine Grease as both a beloved coming-of-age romance and a 1970s nostalgia machine, exploring how a rough-edged stage musical evolved into a polished cinematic fantasy of 1950s adolescence. Then we shift gears into Grease 2, a sequel that kept the leather jackets, motorcycles, Pink Ladies, and T-Birds but seemingly lost the magic that made the original a cultural phenomenon. Was Grease 2 truly the...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, we're reviewing Season 5 of The Boys, the fifth and final chapter of Eric Kripke's satirical superhero saga based on the comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Produced by Amazon MGM Studios and Sony Pictures Television, the season brings back Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Karen Fukuhara, Chace Crawford, Laz Alonso, and the rest of the core cast, with Daveed Diggs joining the ensemble. As Homelander tightens his grip on America and seeks the original Compound V formula that could make him effectively immortal, Billy Butcher and The Boys unite for one...

Few actors have embodied obsession, corruption, guilt, and authority quite like Harvey Keitel. In this Triple Feature actor focus, we examine three defining performances across three decades of filmmaking: The Duellists (1977), Bad Lieutenant (1992), and Cop Land (1997). From Ridley Scott's visually stunning debut feature, where Keitel plays a Napoleonic officer consumed by honor and vengeance, to Abel Ferrara's infamous portrait of addiction, moral collapse, and redemption in Bad Lieutenant, to James Mangold's examination of loyalty, corruption, and institutional decay in Cop Land, these films showcase the remarkable range and intensity that made Keitel one of the essential actors of the New...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood, we’re reviewing Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu, the first theatrical Star Wars film since The Rise of Skywalker and the cinematic continuation of the hit Disney+ series. Directed by Jon Favreau and co-written with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor, the film follows Din Djarin and Grogu as they work with the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt while uncovering new Imperial threats in the fractured post-Empire galaxy. Pedro Pascal returns alongside Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Allen White, and Jonny Coyne, with Ludwig Göransson once again handling the score. Originally conceived as The Man...

Tonight on the Metal Hammer of Doom, Mark Radulich and Jesse Starcher review Empty Hands, the latest album from Poppy. Once dismissed as an internet-art curiosity built on surreal YouTube performance pieces and synthetic pop aesthetics, Poppy has evolved into one of the more fascinating figures in modern heavy music. Empty Hands pushes deeper into industrial metal, metalcore, glitch electronics, and emotionally raw songwriting, blending crushing riffs and breakdowns with hyper-polished hooks and digital-age anxiety. Produced by Jordan Fish (formerly of Bring Me the Horizon), the album explores identity collapse, emotional exhaustion, fame, alienation, and the cost of living inside...

Sessions returns to one of the strongest conversations in the Radulich in Broadcasting Network archive: the Jupiter’s Legacy review with Robert Winfree. What begins as a discussion of a Netflix superhero series becomes a sharper debate about power, restraint, morality, and the terrifying question at the center of the whole thing: if people don’t agree with what those in power are doing, who could stop them? The show frames that conflict through Sheldon and Walter, two men arguing over whether power should be limited by principle or used to reshape the worl...

Tonight on Triple Feature, we’re diving into three 2026 streaming-era genre swings: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, Pretty Lethal, and Thrash. On paper, each one has the kind of premise that sells itself before the movie even starts: gangsters, romance, crime, and time travel; ballerinas forced into violent survival mode; and a hurricane-flooded coastal town where sharks are suddenly part of the disaster plan. But that is also the problem. These are not old-fashioned star vehicles or theatrical events. They are premise-first movies built for the thumbnail age, where the logline has to do most of the work. So the question to...

Justified: City Primeval is an American neo-Western crime drama television miniseries developed by showrunners Dave Andron and Michael Dinner. The series continues the story from Justified taking inspiration from the Elmore Leonard novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and short story "Fire in the Hole". Timothy Olyphant returns to star as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, with Paul Calderón also reprising his role as Detective Raymond Cruz from the 1998 crime comedy film Out of Sight, a film adaptation of Leonard's 1996 novel of the same name. A world premiere was held on June 1, 2023, at the 12th ATX Television F...

On this episode of Damn You Hollywood, Robert Winfree, Jason Teasley and Mark Radulich review Mortal Kombat II (2026), the long-awaited sequel to the 2021 reboot based on the legendary video game franchise created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, the film brings back Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Joe Taslim and Hiroyuki Sanada, while adding Karl Urban as fan-favorite Johnny Cage alongside Adeline Rudolph as Kitana, Martyn Ford as Shao Kahn and Tati Gabrielle as Jade. This time the actual Mortal Kombat tournament takes center stage as...

Tonight on Comic Stripped we head to Antarctica to compare Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber’s acclaimed indie noir graphic novel Whiteout with the 2009 film adaptation starring Kate Beckinsale. Originally published by Oni Press, Whiteout helped define the late-90s crime-comic boom with its blend of procedural mystery, environmental horror, and psychological isolation. But when Warner Bros. brought the story to theaters, the material was reshaped into a glossy late-2000s action thriller. We examine what was gained, what was lost, and why Hollywood often sands down strange, atmospheric stories into familiar formulas. From Carrie Stetko as a grounded, damaged prof...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight, Jesse and Mark revisit Season One of HBO’s The Newsroom, Aaron Sorkin’s cable news drama that premiered June 24, 2012. Starring Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, the series follows the staff of fictional network ACN as they attempt to produce serious journalism inside a system driven by ratings, corporate pressure, and personal dysfunction. Featuring Emily Mortimer, Olivia Munn, Sam Waterston, Dev Patel, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., and Thomas Sadoski, the show blends newsroom chaos with Sorkin’s signature rapid-fire dialogue and moral grandstanding. Critics praised the performances—Daniels won an Emmy—and the ambition o...

Three very different 2026 releases, one shared question: what does modern genre filmmaking actually produce anymore? Amazon’s The Bluff, directed by Frank E. Flowers and produced by the Russo Brothers, was built as a global star vehicle for Priyanka Chopra—an efficient pirate revenge story designed for streaming scale. Netflix countered with War Machine, Patrick Hughes’ $80M military sci-fi spectacle starring Alan Ritchson, originally intended for theaters but ultimately optimized for worldwide engagement, pulling Predator-style structure into algorithm-friendly action. And then there’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die—Gore Verbinski’s first film in nearly a decade, a long-gestating...

Three takes on lava-driven disaster, each reflecting its moment in Hollywood. In 1997, Dante’s Peak (directed by Roger Donaldson, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton) leaned on scientific realism and modest character drama, earning solid box office returns and a reputation as the more grounded of the twin volcano films. That same year, Volcano (Mick Jackson, with Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche) went bigger and more chaotic, dropping lava into Los Angeles for a spectacle-first hit that performed well commercially and remains a cable staple. By 2003, The Core (Jon Amiel, starring Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, and Stanley Tucci) pushed th...

Apex (2026) is a survival action thriller directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by Jeremy Robbins, starring Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, and Eric Bana. Released on Netflix on April 24, 2026, the film follows a rock climber pushed to her limits in the wilderness—only to find herself hunted by a man who turns survival into sport. What begins as isolation and endurance quickly becomes a brutal cat-and-mouse chase.

Netflix acquired the project in 2024, with production led by Ian Bryce and Chernin Entertainment. Theron not only stars but produces alongside Dawn Olmstead, AJ Dix, and Beth Kono, with Kormákur also...

For this edition of Sessions, we’re taking one of the most honest conversations we’ve ever had on the Radulich in Broadcasting Network and turning it into something heavier, louder, and harder to ignore.
Coming out of our discussion on The Boys Season 3, what started as a breakdown of superheroes and spectacle quickly became something else entirely—a raw examination of masculinity, responsibility, and the quiet rules men are expected to live by. Not the version you see on social media. The real one. The one that says: get up, go to work, handle your business, no matter how yo...

There's no Brendan Fraser or Boris Karloff, just a sarcophagus and some pure unstoppable terror from the director of 'Evil Dead Rise'. Alexis Hejna from Honeysuckle Rose Creations joins Robert Winfree to take a look at what will surely go down as one of the most intense horror films of 2026.

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Tonight on The IndySiders we’re talking WrestleMania 42: two nights in Vegas that felt like two entirely different shows stitched together. Night 1 leans into overproduction—ads everywhere, celebrity spots, short matches, and finishes that feel more like content than competition—while Night 2 pivots back toward actual wrestling, letting matches breathe with clearer stakes and stronger pacing. The whiplash is the story: one night feels like a corporate media product designed to monetize attention, the other like a traditional WrestleMania trying to deliver payoff. What you end up with isn’t just a split card, but a split identity—WWE caught between be...

Irreversible, Baise-moi, and Trouble Every Day dives into the New French Extremity—films that reject comfort and weaponize the body. Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible (2002), starring Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel, uses reverse chronology, long takes, and disorienting camerawork to turn violence into an inescapable experience; its Cannes premiere sparked walkouts and lasting debate over form and ethics. Baise-moi (2000), directed by Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi and starring Raffaëla Anderson and Karen Bach, blends punk rage with exploitation aesthetics, igniting censorship battles over its explicit sex and violence while challenging gender power dynamics. Claire Denis’ Trouble Every Day (2001), with Béatrice...

Happy! is a black comedy action series based on Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s four-issue graphic novel, with Brian Taylor directing most of its early run. It premiered on Syfy in December 2017 to strong reviews (81% on Rotten Tomatoes, 65 on Metacritic) and paired Christopher Meloni’s self-destructive hitman Nick Sax with Patton Oswalt’s relentlessly optimistic imaginary unicorn. Season 1 works because it’s tight—an ultra-violent Christmas redemption story grounded in trauma, fatherhood, and the intrusion of hope. Renewed quickly, Season 2 expanded into bigger mythology and louder chaos, but lost the precision that made the premise hit. The result is a show bui...

In the Blink of an Eye (2026), directed by Andrew Stanton and written by Colby Day, is a science fiction drama starring Kate McKinnon, Rashida Jones, and Daveed Diggs. Premiering at Sundance on January 26, 2026—where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize—it was released on Hulu February 27. The film weaves three timelines: a prehistoric family 47,000 years ago, a present-day scientist, and a future space mission to the Kepler system. Influenced by 2001, Magnolia, and Interstellar, the ambitious structure drew heavy criticism. Despite strong visuals, production design, and a Thomas Newman score, critics panned its execution, citing shallow characters, forced emotion, and unfo...

Megadeth exists because Dave Mustaine got fired from Metallica in 1983 and spent forty years proving a point. Faster, more technical, more aggressive, the early run—Killing Is My Business, Peace Sells, Rust in Peace—defined precision thrash and political edge. The band moves in cycles: Countdown and Youthanasia bring mainstream success, Risk abandons identity and fails, the 2000s reset with System Has Failed and Endgame restores credibility, then Super Collider drifts again. Dystopia and The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead! reestablish control. That pattern holds: when Megadeth commits to itself, it works.

In 2026, they release Megadeth, album sevent...

Bulworth is a 1998 American political satire black comedy film co-written, co-produced, directed by, and starring Warren Beatty. It co-stars Halle Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Cheadle, Paul Sorvino, Jack Warden, and Isaiah Washington. The film follows the title character, California Senator Jay Billington Bulworth (Beatty), as he runs for re-election while trying to avoid a hired assassin. The film received generally positive reviews and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay yet narrowly failed to break even on a $30 million budget. However, Beatty was praised for tackling race, poverty, dysfunction in the health care system, and corporate control...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) is an animated adventure comedy sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), directed by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and written by Matthew Fogel. Chris Pratt, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Jack Black, and Keegan-Michael Key reprise their roles, joined by Benny Safdie, Donald Glover, Glen Powell, and Brie Larson. Produced by Illumination and Nintendo, the film follows Mario, Luigi, and their allies as they travel into space, meet Princess Rosalina, and battle Bowser and Bowser Jr.

After the first film’s success, Nintendo and Illumination fast-tracked a sequel, drawing inspiration from Super Mario Ga...

Tonight we examine a Kevin Kline Performance Trilogy—The Pirates of Penzance (1983), De-Lovely (2004), and A Prairie Home Companion (2006)—three films that showcase his command of musicality, wit, and character across eras. Pirates, adapted from the New York Shakespeare Festival production, was directed by Wilford Leach and preserves Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta for film, with Kline’s Pirate King earning a Golden Globe nomination and cementing his theatrical pedigree. De-Lovely, directed by Irwin Winkler, casts Kline as Cole Porter in a stylized biopic featuring an ensemble of contemporary artists interpreting Porter’s catalog, blending stage sensibility with cinematic structure. Finally, Robert Altman’s A...

Ready or Not 2: Here I Come is a 2026 American comedy horror film directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, and written by Guy Busick and R. Christopher Murphy. It serves as a direct sequel to Ready or Not (2019), with Samara Weaving reprising her role as Grace MacCaullay. The film also stars Kathryn Newton, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Shawn Hatosy, David Cronenberg, and Elijah Wood. Set immediately after the events of Ready or Not, it follows Grace as she must protect her estranged sister while being hunted by several elite families in a high-stakes ritual to claim a seat of ultimate power.<...

Road to Perdition began as Max Allan Collins’ stark, Depression-era graphic novel—a crime saga rooted in pulp, myth, and the cyclical nature of violence between fathers and sons. In 2002, Sam Mendes reinterpreted that material into a prestige film, stripping away some of the broader mob mythology to focus on mood, visual storytelling, and emotional inheritance, with Tom Hanks recasting Michael Sullivan as a quiet, tragic enforcer rather than a hard-edged archetype. Both versions follow a hitman and his son on a road of revenge after betrayal within an Irish crime family, but they diverge in tone, structure, and purpose. Toda...

Tonight we’re examining late-90s American cinema through a single corrosive lens—power as pathology—using Swimming with Sharks (1994), Suicide Kings (1997), and American Psycho (2000). George Huang’s indie Hollywood satire, born from his own assistant experience, pairs Kevin Spacey and Frank Whaley in a low-budget Sundance breakout that exposed abuse as industry currency. Peter O’Fallon’s Suicide Kings, riding the post-Pulp Fiction wave, assembles Christopher Walken, Denis Leary, and a crop of rising young actors in a contained, dialogue-driven crime piece that underperformed theatrically but grew on video. Mary Harron’s American Psycho, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis, retooled after...

The hunt for the One Piece continues! David Wright joins Alexis Hejna from Honeysuckle Rose Creations as they look at Netflix's live-action adaptation of the popular manga from Eiichiro Oda.

Day and night to our delight
The voyage never ends!


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