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Weird Science
2025-06-27
After the heavy events of the past few weeks, Arnie, Marjorie, and Justin lighten things up with a look at John Hughes’ teen sex comedy, Weird Science. Following The Breakfast Club, Hughes takes a wilder approach to high school misfits—this time with a hacked-together dream woman played by Kelly LeBrock. The film features early Robert Downey Jr. as a high school jerk, Bill Paxton in his unforgettable role as big brother Chet, and even Mad Max-style bikers led by Vernon Wells and Michael Berryman. But does Lisa’s magic still work 40 years later? Find out in this Patron-exclusive review!
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Congo
2025-06-27
Congo had the pedigree of a blockbuster: based on a Michael Crighton novel, produced by Kathleen Kennedy, directed by Frank Marshall, and featuring creatures by Stan Winston. It wanted to be the next Jurassic Park. And with a budget nearly as big, it sure tried. But instead of dino-sized success, we got killer gorillas, laser guns, and Tim Curry doing... whatever that accent was. Now, 30 years later, Congo is back in the spotlight with Now Playing Podcast’s new Patron-exclusive review. Is it a misunderstood adventure classic or just monkey business?
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Book Review: I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
2025-06-27
Our 2025 Summer/Fall Donation Drive kicks off today with our review of I Know What You Did Last Summer, the 1997 slasher that made hook hands cool again. But before the gore, there was... guilt? In this bonus episode, Arnie digs into the 1973 young-adult novel by Lois Duncan. But slasher fans be warned: there's no fisherman, no slickers, and definitely no body count. Just a group of teens, a hit-and-run, and a slow-burning mystery that’s more Nancy Drew than Ghostface. Find out what changed, what got lost in translation, and why Duncan was not thrilled with the adaptation, in this bonus book review podcast.
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I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
2025-06-27
After Scream slashed up the box office, every studio wanted in on the teen horror revival. Sony called up Kevin Williamson, and he hooked them up with his loose adaptation of a 1973 YA novel: I Know What You Did Last Summer. With hot young stars, a moderate body count, and a killer mystery, the film was a surprise hit in October 1997 and instantly became sleepover canon for a generation raised on Dawson’s Creek and dial-up. But nearly three decades later, does this thriller still have bite, or is it just riding a wave of '90s hype? Donate to support Now Playing Podcast and hear this bonus review to find out!
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Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven
2025-03-28
Rena Riffel shoves fellow Cheetah’s dancer Elizabeth Berkley down the stairs and out of the spotlight as she makes the bootleg sequel Showgirls 2 all about her overlooked supporting character. Will the aging stripper achieve the fame she’s coveted for the last 16 years by leaving Vegas and baby daddy Glenn Plummer behind and earning a spot on a late-night avant-garde TV dance show? Become a Now Playing Patron in March 2025, and find out if Arnie, Marjorie, and Stuart are going to Hell for betting on Penny’s From Heaven as a winning bonus show.
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Antitrust
2025-03-28
Ryan Phillippe doesn’t believe Tim Robbins is a tech genius after learning the billionaire literally and figuratively murders startup companies to steal their software ideas in the 2001 cyber thriller Antitrust. Does the young programmer have the NURV to bring down the villain’s satellites before they roll out a new app that hijacks every screen in the world? Or will the (sesame) seeds of his coup be exposed by jealous Claire Forlani after she spies on her boyfriend’s off-the-clock collab with Rachel Leigh Cook? Put your trust in this Gold Level Hacker series and find out now!
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Showgirls
2025-03-14
You’re a whore darlin’, so don’t pretend like you can’t find the coin to hear Now Playing go down on Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 bomb Showgirls. Did Elizabeth Berkley manicure her nails just so she could claw her way to the top of a Vegas nudie revue and erupt victorious from a sparkling volcano? And does the dialogue that Joe Eszterhas (Basic Instinct) got paid $2 million to write taste as delicious as Doggy Chow coming out of Gina Gershon’s crooked mouth? Nothing is left to the imagination when you become a Now Playing Patron this March.
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Perfect Blue
2025-02-12
A Japanese pop singer breaks away from her musical trio to play a risque role on a violent TV soap opera in the groundbreaking 1998 anime Perfect Blue. Is there a psycho fan out to assassinate Mima and her handlers for daring to sex up her good-girl image? Or are the pressures of fame simply causing the starlet to lose touch with reality? Find out how well director Satoshi Kon (Paprika), standing at the dawn of the social media age, predicted our 21st Century’s identity crisis when you log on as a Now Playing Patron this January.
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Casablanca
2025-02-12
Humphrey Bogart thought he lost Ingrid Bergman when the Nazis invaded Paris, but their romance (and all of WWII-torn Europe) gets a second chance in a Casablanca nightclub years later. But is Rick heartless enough to make Ilsa his Plus One on the last plane out, and leave her freedom fighter husband Paul Henreid in Third Reich custody? Or is this 1942 Best Picture winner actually a love letter to patriotism, as the cynical American and his French BFF Claude Rains flirt with choosing country over womanizing. February Patrons find out now.
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Teen Wolf: The Movie
2025-01-25
Tyler Posey returns to Beacon Hills a decade after making Teen Wolf a phenomenon on MTV to resurrect original girlfriend Crystal Reed from the dead and have a rematch with the Japanese trickster spirit Nogitsune. But did The Movie that debuted on Paramount Plus in 2023 screw the pooch by not bringing back series MVP Dylan O’Brien? Or has CW’s Superman Tyler Hoechlin saved the day by siring the franchise’s future (assuming Derek’s kid will commit to putting on the fur and red eyes and actually become a werewolf)? Donate to join the pack and find out now!
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