Underwater (2020) is a deep sea monster movie that, while sometimes silly, mostly does everything right. It’s like Leviathan if Leviathan was good!
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Warlock (1989) is one of those movies we’d always seen on the shelf at the video store, but can’t remember if we’d ever seen it. Julian Sands is the titular warlock, who escapes the 1600s to modern-day 1988. Richard E. Grant chases him through time, and recruits the help of an age-cursed Lori Singer. Does this one live up to its lauded VHS reputation?
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The Sweeper (1996) returns us to the movies of PM Entertainment, and director Joseph Mehri in particular. C. Thomas Howell is a loose cannon cop who saw his family murdered and now he dispenses his own brand of excessive justice. When he’s recruited by a shadowy organization to get even more excessive, chaos ensues. If you like cars blowing up and people unnaturally lucky at shooting things, well friends, we’ve got a movie for you.
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Runaway (1984) is the Tom Selleck vs spider robots and Gene Simmons movie you probably saw on HBO at some point. In the distant future of 1991, can a cop for robots and his new partner solve a murder mystery involving malfunctioning house bots and self-guided bullets? It’s a Michael Crichton movie, so you know technology is probably a bad thing. But did we decide this movie a good thing? One way to find out!
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Terror Squad (1987) brings us and a group of Libyans to 1980s Kokomo, Indiana, where an attempt to blow up a nuclear power plant leads to one of the longest car chase sequences we’ve ever witnessed. Eventually it settles into a hostage negotiation thing. Can Chuck Connors talk these bad guys down? Will that bus ever arrive? All these questions and more are answered this episode!
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Return to Savage Beach (1998) is our final trip into the Andy Sidaris universe. Julie Strain and the whole gang is back, including lots of guns, nudity, and exploding RC vehicles. Will it bring us back to the glory of past Sidaris movies? Time to take off your champagne outfit, hop in the hot tub and find out!
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I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988) is Keenen Ivory Wayans’ ode to blaxploitation, and a fitting way to end this year’s Blaxploitation History Month. It’s packed with jokes, as well as BMFcast alums, with Jim Brown, Bernie Casey, Isaac Hayes and even Steve James making appearances. Do the jokes hit as hard as our favorite heroes? Only one way to find out if we’ve found gold or OG’d on chains.
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All About The Benjamins (2002) brings Blaxploitation History Month into a new century. Ice Cube is a bounty hunter tracking down Mike Epps, but they both get tangled up with murderous diamond thieves, including a very angry Tommy Flanagan. There’s also a $60 million winning lottery ticket, Eva Mendes, and lots and lots of boats. Does this all add up to a winning formula? Side note: We know it’s “For The Love of Money” by the O’Jays. You can stop yelling at your relevant podcast device now.
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The Slams (1973) continues Blaxploitation History Month with the return of a BMFcast favorite, Jim Brown! This time he’s thrown in the slammer after a heist gone wrong. He’s the only one who knows where the money’s hidden, and everyone else wants a piece of it. He’ll have to dodge gangs, mobsters, and crooked guards to come out on top. We’d ask if he’ll succeed, but c’mon, it’s Jim Brown!
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Velvet Smooth (1976) continues Blaxploitation History Month in the tale of a private eye called in to find out who’s responsible for ripping off King, a low-level criminal running the numbers game. Can Velvet and her girls crack the case, with thugs and cops on either side hassling her? Or will we witness another interminable donnybrook with 3rd-grade-level fight choreography? (Our money is on the latter.)
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