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Tonight on Triple Feature we are doing a director focus on Gary Marshall by reviewing 3 of his seminal works, The Flamingo Kid, Beaches and Pretty Woman. Marshall came to film after creating and producing television institutions including Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley and Mork & Mindy, bringing his populist approach to character and comedy to Hollywood. The Flamingo Kid, starring Matt Dillon, spent more than a decade in development before becoming the first film ever assigned the newly created PG-13 rating, although Red Dawn reached theaters first. Beaches paired Bette Midler and Barbara Hershey for a decades-spanning female friendship drama whose legacy...

Tonight on Damn You  Hollywood we are reviewing, Coyote vs Acme. After years of delays, controversy, and a near-permanent shelving by Warner Bros. Discovery, the long-awaited Looney Tunes feature has finally made it to audiences. Directed by Dave Green and starring Will Forte, John Cena, Lana Condor, and the iconic cast of Looney Tunes characters, the film follows Wile E. Coyote as he finally decides to take legal action against the company responsible for decades of defective rockets, explosives, traps, and assorted catastrophic failures. What begins as a ridiculous courtroom premise quickly expands into a surprisingly affectionate celebration of Looney T...

Tonight is our most ambitious project to date as we compress the entirety of a years worth of podcasts we called, "From the Corner to the Deuce" into one long song inspired by Meatloaf's Paradise by the Dashboard Light.
Over the past year, we worked our way through David Simon’s television career, from Homicide: Life on the Street and The Corner through The Wire, Generation Kill, Treme, Show Me a Hero, The Deuce, The Plot Against America and We Own This City. Along the way, the same questions kept resurfacing: What happens when people enter institutions believing they ca...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we are reviewing Mutiny! Directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Lindsay Michel and J. P. Davis, the 2026 action thriller stars Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis and Adrian Lester. Statham plays the head of security for a billionaire who finds himself framed for murder and uncovering a conspiracy while stowing away aboard a cargo ship. Produced by Statham’s Punch Palace Productions and MadRiver Pictures, *Mutiny* reunites Statham with the kind of lean, hard-edged action vehicle that has become his specialty, while Richet returns to the genre after directing *Plane*. Lionsgate acquired North American distribution bef...

Tonight we put Bring It On starring Kirsten Dunst, ON TRIAL! Released in 2000, *Bring It On* marked the theatrical directing debut of Peyton Reed from a script by Jessica Bendinger. Dunst stars alongside Eliza Dushku, Jesse Bradford and Gabrielle Union in the story of rival high-school cheerleading teams preparing to battle for a national championship.
Originally pitched as *Cheer Fever*—“*Clueless* meets *Strictly Ballroom*” at a cheerleading competition—the film combined Bendinger’s fascination with ESPN cheer competitions and her background covering hip-hop for *Spin*. That experience inspired the movie’s central conflict: what if America’s championship cheerleading squad had buil...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we are reviewing The End of Oak Street. Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, the film stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery as a suburban family whose quiet 1982 neighborhood is suddenly transported millions of years into the past and dropped into the age of dinosaurs. Originally developed under the title Flowervale Street, the project began taking shape at Warner Bros. in 2023 with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot producing and Hathaway attached to star. McGregor, Stella and Convery joined the following year, with principal photography taking place in London and Atlanta. Se...

Tonight on the Metal Hammer of Doom we are reviewing Signal Fire by Genghis Tron. After disappearing for more than a decade and returning in 2021 with the atmospheric, psychedelic Dream Weapon, Genghis Tron have now found a way to reconnect with the violence of their early material without simply repeating it. Signal Fire brings back the screaming, blast beats and abrasive guitars, but combines them with synth-pop, electronic textures, hypnotic repetition and the expanded rhythm section that transformed the band’s sound. We’ll discuss how the album developed, the addition of bassist Kenny Szymanski, the decision to work with prod...

Tonight on TV Party Tonight we are reviewing Bonding. Season one of Netflix’s micro-comedy follows Tiff, a psychology grad student who moonlights as a dominatrix, and Pete, her anxious gay best friend, who becomes her assistant. The obvious hook is BDSM, crude humor and the parade of unusual desires that come through Tiff’s dungeon, but the show is really using that world to talk about shame, anxiety, identity and the difficulty of letting other people know who you actually are. Like Dummy, Bonding takes an outlandish sexual premise and uses it to make a fairly serious psychological discussion more...

Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we are reviewing SoulM8te. The 2026 science fiction erotic thriller is a spin-off of M3GAN and the third installment in the franchise. Directed and co-written by Kate Dolan, the film stars Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl and Claudia Doumit, with Jason Blum and James Wan producing under the Blumhouse and Atomic Monster banners. The story follows a grieving man who beta tests an android companion as a way of coping with the death of his wife, only for the experiment in artificial intimacy to become increasingly dangerous. SoulM8te originated from a story by Wan...

Tonight on Triple Feature we are looking at Michael, Bohemian Rhapsody and The Doors. Three movies about three of the most recognizable figures in popular music, and three very different ideas about what a musical biopic is supposed to accomplish. Michael Jackson, Freddie Mercury and Jim Morrison were all transformed by fame into something larger than human beings, but Hollywood has approached their stories with very different agendas. Michael examines the construction of a global phenomenon while navigating the controversies surrounding Jackson’s legacy. Bohemian Rhapsody rearranges Freddie Mercury’s history into a crowd-pleasing story of estrangement, redemption and the triu...

Tonight on *Damn You Hollywood*, we're swinging back into the Marvel Cinematic Universe to review **Spider-Man: Brand New Day**! Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the fourth MCU Spider-Man film finally strips Peter Parker back to basics after *No Way Home*. With the world having forgotten Peter Parker, Tom Holland's wall-crawler is once again your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man—alone, anonymous, and protecting New York one street at a time. But a mysterious new threat, the arrival of Jean Grey (Sadie Sink), the Punisher, Bruce Banner, and Peter's own evolving powers threaten to upend his hard-earned fresh start. Is *Brand New Day* th...

Tonight on Triple Feature, we turn the spotlight on Molly Ringwald through three films that capture the rise, strain and collapse of her iconic teenage screen persona. Pretty in Pink places her at the center of a class-conscious romance, where style, poverty and social humiliation matter as much as love. The Pick-Up Artist tries to move her into adult sexuality, pairing her with Robert Downey Jr. in a strange collision of screwball courtship, gambling debt and urban menace. For Keeps? pushes her further, using teen pregnancy, marriage and economic pressure to test whether intelligence and determination are enough to survive...

Evil Dead Burn is the sixth entry in the Evil Dead franchise and sequel to 2023’s Evil Dead Rise. Directed and co-written by Sébastien Vaniček and produced by Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, the film stars Souheila Yacoub as a grieving widow who seeks refuge with her late husband’s family. At a secluded house their reunion becomes a nightmare as one relative after another is transformed into a Deadite. Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, and Maude Davey round out the cast.
The project was announced in February 2024, with Vaniček co-writing the screenplay alongsi...

Tonight on Triple Feature we are reviewing Deliverance, Dog Day Afternoon and The Deer Hunter. Three landmarks of the New Hollywood era, these films represent a time when Hollywood trusted audiences to sit with ambiguity, moral complexity, and characters who felt like real people. We discuss why Deliverance remains a brutal examination of civilization and survival, why Dog Day Afternoon may be one of the funniest and most deeply human crime dramas ever made, and why The Deer Hunter stands as one of cinema's greatest tragedies. Along the way, we explore the changing face of American filmmaking, the evolution of...

Tonight on **Damn You Hollywood**, we're reviewing Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey* (2026), a $250 million epic action-fantasy adapting Homer's timeless tale of war, survival, and the long road home. Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, the King of Ithaca, whose decade-long journey after the Trojan War pits him against monsters, gods, and his own pride as he struggles to reunite with Penelope (Anne Hathaway). The ensemble cast also features Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron. Inspired by multiple translations of the poem as well as classics like *Ran* and *Andrei Rublev*, Nolan shot the film entirely on...

Everyone to the kitchen for one last time! Mark Radulich joins Alexis Hejna from Honeysuckle Rose Creations to look at the final season of the award-winning FX series, "The Bear. Prep the brussel sprouts, don't forget the raspberries, and remember, every second counts.

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Tonight on Damn You Hollywood we review the live-action remake of Moana. Released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on July 10, 2026, the film adapts Disney's acclaimed 2016 animated hit and marks the first live-action entry in the franchise. Directed by Thomas Kail in his feature film debut from a screenplay by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller, the film stars Catherine Laga'aia as Moana alongside Dwayne Johnson, who reprises his role as Maui while also serving as a producer. Returning as Tamatoa is Jemaine Clement, with Rena Owen, John Tui, and Frankie Adams rounding out the cast. Disney first began exploring...

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...