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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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 112 MB - Duration: 1:34:12m (158 kbps 44100 Hz)
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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 337 MB - Duration: 2:20:00m (320 kbps 44100 Hz)
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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 94 MB - Duration: 1:27:08m (142 kbps 44100 Hz)
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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 145 MB - Duration: 2:02:43m (156 kbps 44100 Hz)
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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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 172 MB - Duration: 2:27:11m (155 kbps 44100 Hz)
Teen Wolf Too

2025-01-25

Jason Bateman learns he’s a Teen Wolf Too after joining Stiles and Chubby at a posh university. Can biology professor Kim Darby (Better Off Dead) help the struggling freshman keep his humanity after a dance with a coed transforms him into Big Dog on Campus? And is it a little too ooky and kooky of Addams Family alum John Astin to bribe the werewolf with sportscars and doctored grades in exchange for the ferocious canine joining the school boxing team? Hear the hosts weigh in on a notorious sequel when you Donate now!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 91 MB - Duration: 1:15:44m (159 kbps 44100 Hz)
An American Werewolf in Paris

2025-01-10

Julie Delpy has a long history of capturing moviegoers’ hearts, but she never needed to pulverize those beating organs in a blender and drink blood smoothies until she starred in An American Werewolf in Paris. Is Yank tourist Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do) doomed to repeat the transformation that fellow countryman David Naughton underwent in 1981 London?  Or do things look different for this Wolf Man once he leaps off the Eiffel Tower and falls in with a pack of lupine supremacists? Donate for Silver Level to double your daredevil points now!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 82 MB - Duration: 1:22:41m (131 kbps 44100 Hz)
Barry Lyndon

2025-01-10

Ryan O’Neal told a different kind of Love Story when he starred as a con artist hustling 18th Century Europeans out of a fortune intended for his sexy cousin in the wry costume drama Barry Lyndon. But does Stanley Kubrick’s insistence on authentic period detail turn a lighthearted novel by William Makepeace Thackeray into a cinematic experience as slow as watching paint dry? (And do you care when the images are this lovely?) Find out if the 2001 director shot himself in the foot with his 1975 pretensions by becoming a December Patron.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 118 MB - Duration: 2:01:10m (129 kbps 48000 Hz)
Teen Wolf

2025-01-10

Michael J Fox loses his cool on a high school basketball court and becomes a Teen Wolf in his other big movie of 1985. Will classmates (or modern audiences) be impressed to see this TV star don full-body fur, sunglasses, and “surf” atop a moving vehicle? Or should Marty McFly hop in the Delorean and travel back in time to prevent this cheesy werewolf comedy from happening? Maybe father knows beast, as James Hampton helps his son understand their family ties to lycanthropy?  Don’t miss your shot to Donate at the Silver Bullet Level and find out.

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 110 MB - Duration: 1:25:32m (171 kbps 48000 Hz)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

2024-12-08

​The Battle of the Five Armies may only have been about 50 pages in J.R.R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit but it is the focus of Peter Jackson's third and final Hobbit film. It's elves and humans versus dwarves and orcs, with a few special surprises thrown in! ​How does the Battle of Five Armies compare to the Battle for Middle Earth in Return of the King, and were three films warranted to tell the story from one novel? Thanks to your donation to Now Playing you can listen and find out as Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie complete their Lord of the Rings Bonus Retrospective Series!

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Filetype: MP3 - Size: 119 MB - Duration: 2:03:57m (128 kbps 44100 Hz)

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