Reel2Rank Podcast
Join the Specht Brothers as they go through their favorite film franchises movie by movie to determine which one is best.
Episode 227: Street Fighter (1994) -- "From Dallas to Ontario!"
Starting this week the Specht Brothers head to Shadaloo, where it was Tuesday...
RTR Halloween Hoopla! The Faculty (1998)
This Halloween the Specht Brothers asked themsevles "What if War of the Worlds happened, but just in Ohio?"
Episode 226: Halloween Resurrection (2002) -- "A Hobbit for Notre Dame"
Michael Myers returns! We're starting to get the feeling he's not really a people person...
Episode 225 -- Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) -- Slashed in the Fleg!"
Laurie Strode has returned and it's up to Michael Myers to track her down!
Episode 224: Halloween The Curse of Michael Myers (1995) -- "The Man in the Shatner Mask"
Michael Myers, the Shape of Eeeevvvvviiiiillllll! This hackneyed hack n' slasher is haunting Haddonfield again like a wafted fart...
Episode 223: Halloween 5 The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) -- "Nanna Knows How to Party...""
This week the Specht Brothers get to the spooky season.
Michael Myers, the Shape of Evil, seeks his revenge!
Episode 222: Logan (2017) -- "Avast! Thar Be a Wolverine!"
I snikt mahself today
To see if I still heal
I focus on the plane
Whiskey's the in-flight meal
The claw tears a hole
The Adamantium sting
They try to kill me every way
But I tank everything
What can be undone?
That Origins trend?
Everyone I know, nope away
Before the end
And you've seen it all
My iconic shirt
I will wear it dow...
Episode 221: The Wolverine (2013) -- "This is My Bub Face..."
Listen here Bub. This week, bub, Logan is going to Japan, bub. You know what's there bub? I'll tell you what's there bub...The Wolverine's there bub.
Episode 220: X-Men Origins Wolverine (2009) -- "Bar Barn is Open for Business"
He's the best he is at what he does and what he does isn't reviewed well by customer service...
This week the Specht Brothers learn the secret origin of that mutant mascot, that 5 ft 3 feral fightin' man, ol' knife knucles himself -- the Logerine...
Episode 219: Mortal Kombat II (2026) -- "A Half-Eaten Pakk of Kigarettes"
This week the Spekht Brothers are keeping up with the kombat. Johnny Kage tags along with Earthrealm's khampions to defeat Shao Kahn.
Episode 218: X-Men Dark Phoenix -- "Scott, You Can't Breathe In Space..."
Xcelsior dear listeners! It's here at last; the final story in a storied saga of those uncanny, all-new, all-different, giant-sized X-Men...
Episode 217: X-Men Apocalypse (2016) -- "No Heat Just Punch"
Still uncanny and now in the 1980s, the neXt class of X-Men must contend with a threat old as time itself.
This time the X-Men must face their Dooms--...must face their Ragna--...must face their Armageddon...
Epispode 216: X-Men Days of Future Past (2014) -- "Swim with the Ease of a Porpoise"
It's a dark time for our Men most Xtra. Heroes have fallen, Mutants are hunted, everything is on the brink...
...actually this sounds normal for the X-Men, just this time there's robots...
Episode 215: X-Men First Class (2011) -- "Sommelier of Missiles"
Xpectations are high as the Specht Brothers march merrily back to the Marvel Universe to see the origins of our xceptional X-Men.
Episode 214 -- Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004): Million Dollar Briefcase
Revenge is a dish best served after thoroughly stirring in the microwave...
Episode 213 -- Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003): "A Penchant for Puff Rice Cereal"
Out there is a woman known as "The Bride" and she's on a mission of vengeance. She's out to Kill William...
Episode 212 -- Looper (2012): "Merry Christmas Coyote Ugly"
This week the Specht Brothers are caught up in time-travel shenanigans as Bruce Willis is locked in a battle with Bruce Willis for the fate of Bruce Willis.
Episode 211: Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) -- "Ghost Crime Adventures"
One is Martin Riggs, the other is Roger Murtaugh, together experts in action movie law.
Episode 210: Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) -- "I'm Tubless"
One is in Braveheart, the other is in Predator 2, and we're all getting too old for this sh*t, how about you?
Episode 209: Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) -- "As Long as It's Chili"
One is Mel Gibson, the other is Danny Glover, and as partners they really love one another.
Episode 208: Lethal Weapon (1987) -- "Define Normal"
One is a loose cannon with nothing to lose. The other is secured ordinance with everything to live for. This is their story...
Episode 207: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) -- "How Do Ya Kill Bubble Man?"
Living on the edge means you have to LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.
Episode 206: Collateral (2004) -- "Paid in Chocolate"
Get your briefcase full of targets, shine up your taxi, and get flowers for your Ma -- we're going for a ride.
Episode 205: The Last Samurai (2003) -- "Jerry O'Connell for 500"
This week we go to 1870s Japan. It's a time of great change in an ever changing modern world. Nathan Algren, an American captain, get a job to train and army and fight samurai. Things escalate from there...
Episode 204: Jack Reacher Never Go Back (2016) -- "Roll That Terrible Bean Footage"
Jack Reacher returns for a sequel, never going back and never backing down.
Episode 203: Jack Reacher (2012) -- "A Cinematic Lasagna"
Today the Specht Brothers take some time to drift into a local crime scene. Only one man can solve this open and shut case. That man lives off the grid, drunk on sterno and singing with a tin sandwich. He's Sherlock Homeless; he's Jack Reacher - Hobo Detective.
Episode 202: Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Part 2 -- "I Don't Like When Things Are Different"
An extended conclusion worthy of the DCEU, the Specht Brothers complete the journey to see our five dupers and our one super save the day, maybe the future? I don't know it's a Knightmare...
This Episode covers Chapters IV-VI, Epilogue, and more.
Episode 201: Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) Part 1 -- "Thought Activated P*ss"
To conclude the first Cosmic Odyssey into the DCEU, the Specht Brothers watch the DC Extended Cut of Justice League. More of this, more of that -- it's hardcore Morecore; but will it rank as mediocore?
This Episode covers Chapters I - III of Zack Snyder's Justice League.
Episode 200: Justice League (2017) -- "Is Dragon a Fish Language?"
They are the World's Greatest Superheroes. The pantheon of DC's heroic ideals. Banded together in common cause, they are a league of justice, they are Super Friends.
Episode 199: Wonder Woman (2017) -- "Wood!?!"
Diana Prince, the Amazing Amazon, the Ambassador of Peace, the Spirit of Truth...Wonder Woman. From her origins on Paradise Island to the trenches of Europe, she'll put her skills to the test in order to best the God of War.
Episode 198 -- Suicide Squad (2016): "Advanced Rope Vessels"
In this, the third entry of DC's intensive, Extensive universe we're doing something different. Superman saved the day, but now he's 100 percent, stone-cold graveyard dead. WHO could fill the void left by our..."beloved"...Man of Steel?
Bad guys. Random Ones.
RTR Bonus -- The Batman Superman Movie: World's Finest (1997)
In history, there are team-ups, there are dream-ups, and then there's the World's Finest.
From the creators of Batman's The Animated Series we see what happens when Gotham City's criminals and crime-fighter make the trip to Metropolis and into Superman's The Animated Series...
Episode 197 -- Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) -- "Can't Wax This Back"
For nearly 80 years, the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight have fought hand-in-hand committed to acts of daring do and dynamic duality. The heroes of millions, champions of the oppressed, the best of friends.
Now we're gonna watch 'em punch each other.
Episode 196 -- Man of Steel (2013): "Breakfast Ambassador to Kansas"
This week the Specht Brothers return to DC to see it's Extended Universe...
Clark Kent, walking around the world to ease his troubled mind. Lois Lane is out there connecting the lines. Pa Kent is being flung around somewhere in the winds of Kansas. There's a Phantom Zone on the dark side of the moon and it probably means impending doom.
Episode 195 -- Ballerina (2025): "Ice Cream Salt of the Earth"
Opyat! The Specht Brothers return to the World of John Wick to see the battle between battle-hardened ballerinas and nefarious cults. Opyat!
Episode 194 -- Nosferatu (2024): "Get Back in My Dirt!"
On the street, no one knows who has been stalking the night. Counting his victims one-by-one. Nothing Felt more than terror. There will be three nights of horror, Ah-Ah-Ah!
...
Wait a minute...I got my notes mixed up, that's for Count von Count not Count Orlok...
Episode 193 -- Spawn (1997): "The Terry Method"
Spawn, the Hellish hero Todd McFarlane knew we needed, an icon of Image Comics, and has an Animated Series to boot. This is his movie.
[...sigh...]
Episode 192 -- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016): "It's a Private Fire!"
This week the Specht Brothers continue the Cloverfield Trip by bunkering down to find that John Goodman might actually be John...Badman...
Episode 191 -- Cloverfield (2008): "A Quesadilla Calzone"
Sometimes when the giant monster attacks; you might be the scientist with the know-how, or the hotshot pilot with nothing to lose, or whatever Matthew Broderick was doing in Godzilla.
The rest of the time, you're just a pedestrian running away from a giant-foot. This is their story...
Episode 190 - Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018) -- "Pale Lemon"
Uncancel your subscription to the apocalypse. The kaiju aren't done, get your Jaegundum out of storage, and get ready to rise up. Against what? We're not sure either...
