Movie Conversations with Derek Richards

Today the boys breakdown the Dune 3 trailer, Why we don't care about the new Harry Potter series and the do reviews of Nirvana The Band The Show The Movie and Project Hail Mary.

Today Derek, Zach and Brad talk about Scream 7 and then rank their top 5 Ghostfaces

After a snow and ice storm hit the east coast, Derek and Brad are back to talk movies that came out in February so far.

Zach, Brad and Derek talk about 30 movies coming out in 2026 they are looking forward to.

The boys break down both The Rip & 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

The boys get together to go over some of the years best movies. Look for the 2026 preview next week!

Derek and Zach breakdown Marty Supreme and go through the Film Independent Spirit Awards screeners.

Derek and Brad start off this ep talking about the trailers for Disclosure Day, The Odyssey, Digger and Avengers: Doomsday. They then get into James Cameron's new movie Avatar: Fire & Ash.

Today, the boys are all back together to talk a bunch of movies we've watched in the last month.

On today's episodes, Derek and Zach review some movies they've watched recently.

Films include:

Frankenstien

Predator Badlands

The Running Man

Nouvelle Vague

Shelby Oaks

After the Hunt

Wicked: For Good

Train Dreams

Today Zach, Brad and Derek talk about all the movies that came out in October and Zach and Derek talk about their experience at the VA Film Festival.

Derek and Brad start off by talk about movies and documentaries they missed in theaters and then after a brief discussion about Michael Mann's Heat, they review Black Phone 2 and Tron: Ares.

Today Derek & Zach break down the newest movies of last weekend, Paul Greengrass's The Lost Bus & Bennie Safde's The Smashing Machine.

Derek, Zach and Brad breakdown Paul Thomas Anderson's newest masterpiece One Battle After Another.

Today Derek & Brad talk about HIM and The Long Walk. Afterwards they talk about the sad state of physical media.

Today Derek and Zach break down movies that could be in be in awards contention come March.

Today Derek and Brad review movies that came out in the month of August.

Movies reviewed:

Night Always Comes

Becoming Led Zeppelin

28 Outs: An Imperfect Story

Honey Don't!

Eenie Meanie

The Thursday Murder Club

Oh, Hi!

Caught Stealing

Derek, Brad and Zach jump into Zach Cregger’s new movie Weapons and then talk about some upcoming releases their excited about.

Today Derek and Brad talk about Happy Gilmore 2, Eddington and Fantastic Four: First Steps.

On today's episode Derek and Brad dive into James Gunn's new movie Superman. They also discuss spoilers later on in the episode.

Today Derek struggles to remember the title of the new Jurassic movie and then him and Brad review it.

Today Derek is joined by Zach and Brad to discuss F1 The Movie. After the review they tell stories of some of their funniest movie going experiences.

On today's episode Derek and Brad talk about Danny Boyle's new movie 28 Years Later & then give our top 5 movies of 2025 so far

After a few weeks off, Derek and Brad are back to talk about movies released in June.

Movies reviewed in this episode:

Fountain of Youth

The Life of Chuck

Ballerina: From The World of John Wick

Bring Her Back

Mountianhead

The Accountant 2

The Phoenician Scheme

Predator: Killer of Killers

The Materialist

After a few weeks off, Derek and Brad are back to talk about movies released in June.

Movies reviewed in this episode:

Fountain of Youth

The Life of Chuck

Ballerina: From The World of John Wick

Bring Her Back

Mountianhead

The Accountant 2

The Phoenician Scheme

Predator: Killer of Killers

The Materialist

Today Derek is joined by Brad and Zach. In the first half of the pod Derek and Brad talk about Friendship and Brad tells his hilarious story about his early access screening to the movie. The second half Derek and Zach break down the Mission Impossible franchise do give a non spoiler review of the newest installment The Final Reckoning

On today's pod Derek and Brad talk about early reactions to new movies that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival and then they get into the newest entry to the Final Destination franchise: Final Destination Bloodlines.

Today Derek and Brad talk about the newest entry into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Thunderbolts*. Before that conversation they talk briefly about Star Wars and how Derek spent his May the 4th weekend.

Today's episode of 5 Star Banger, Zach returns to talk about Moneyball

After an extended absence of being sick, Derek returns with Brad to talk about Drop, Eephus, Warfare, The Studio Episodes 3-5 and lastly, the best movie to be released so far in 2025 Sinners.

Today Derek and Brad talk TV quick and give our thoughts on the first two episodes of The Studio, then they dive into A24's newest release Death of a Unicorn.

On episode 2 of 5 Star Banger Derek welcomes back Brad Davis to discuss John Crawley's 2016 Independent Movie Sing Street.

Today, Derek talks about 4 new releases;

Borderline

Novocaine

My Dead Friend Zoe

Black Bag

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On today's pod Derek is joined again by Brad Davis to discuss Bong Joon Ho's new movie Mickey 17. They then talk about the current state of the movie going experience and how straight to streaming movies are killing of movie theaters.

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Guest: Brad Davis

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On today's episode, Derek sits down with his friend Zac Martin to discuss the movies of Gene Hackman.

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Guest: Zac Martin

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Today, Derek goes over the best picture nominees for Sundays 97th Academy Awards. He is then joined..again by Zach Otey to give their predictions for movies biggest night.

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Guest: Zach Otey

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In this episode, Derek welcomes his good friend Brad Davis to discuss movies coming out in 2025 they can't wait for. Listen along and maybe learn about a movie you hadn't heard of yet, you're new favorite movie of all time may come out this year.

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Guest: Brad Davis

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Today Derek discusses Osgood Perkins' new movie The Monkey & Scott Derrickson's new movie The Gorge.

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The first episode of 5 Star Banger is here!

Today, Derek sits down with Zach Otey again to talk about Bong Joon-Ho's 2019 best picture winning masterpiece Parasite. They discuss what makes this movie so great. They discuss their experiences seeing it for the first time, how rewatching makes it even better, and talk about the story in depth. (Beware if spoilers if you've never seen it.)

Stayed tuned for the end where they recall memories of seeing movies and some stories of the chaotic things that happened before or after seeing these movies.

On today's episode Derek reviews Den of Thieves 2: Pantera and One of Them Days. Later on a conversation with Zach Otey about Marvel Studio's newest installment into the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain America: Brave New World.

Hosted, Edited and Prouduced by Derek Richards

Guest: Zach Otey

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