A movie podcast by Aaron Armstrong & Peter Moran that specializes in genre hits. Each month, we take on a four or five movies in a specific subgenre, and compare/contrast them as we go. Please contact us for feedback, suggestions, and support!
HITMANIA goes to the future (or, the alternate past?) to the scifi assassin brain trauma gorefest POSSESSOR, a body swapping comedy for all ages. Directed by Brandon Cronenberg.
Is guest Rick Kelley really here? Yes, of course. Peter Moran on the other hands....
For $600, we'll pay you to drive around all night listening to this podcast.
Wong Kar-wai's FALLEN ANGELS is not like any other movie we're covering for Hitmania! Sure, it has romantic longing, the alienation of the urban landscape, cool gunfights, all that. But no movie we've covered can claim to be so much more about loneliness and sadness than it is about how cool it is to do hitman stuff.
You know who isn't for the birds? Our guest, Ryan Boland.
Hitmania month covers Luc Besson's The Professional, aka Leon, aka Leon: The Professional. We'll be covering the longer "Leon" cut.
Not about an actual ghost or dog, sadly.
HITMANIA continues with John Woo's THE KILLER. We're joined by the wonderful LARK LUNDBERG!
Brandon Ledet of Swampflix joins us to learn what is le deal with le hitman movie genre!
HITMANIA! continues with Allen Baron's BLAST OF SILENCE, perhaps the least competent killer of the bunch. Next week: Seijin Suzuki's BRANDED TO KILL.
We cover both Siodmak's THE KILLERS ('46) and Siegel's THE KILLERS ('64). Next week: Melville's LE SAMOURAI
We're ending 2024 the only way we know how! What is Mel Gibson was Santa, I guess?
It's Christmas for alien drug dealers with discmans, baby!
Action Christmas continues with VIOLENT NIGHT by Tommy Wirkola
We cover a horror movie about Youtube and Twitch streamers the only way we knew how, by bringing on a 10 year-old content expert!
INSPIRED BY EVIL DEAD MONTH continues with Directed by Lam Ngai Kai!
Our "Molly's Choice" month comes to a close with Minority Report.
Nancy Myers' THE PARENT TRAP (1998) was Molly's second challenge.
Our 2024 mega-month is coming to a close, with John Woo's FACE/OFF. Tune in next week for Escape Plan, the epilogue of sorts.
Michael Bay's best film and one of Nicholas Cage's most off the wall performances.
James Cameron's TRUE LIES is a last hoorah for the action hero era before the new changes went into effect. Is it a worthy one?
If you don't listen to this episode while driving over 55 MPH, your podcast app will crash.
Directed by John McTiernan. Rick will appear in Broad Sound, Ethan Warren's publication. Check it out here: https://www.broadsoundmag.com/
The name of the amusement park was Cedar Point.
The Living Daylights and License to Kill, Dalton's two James Bonds.
All of you are making way too big of a deal about the robot. It's fine. The robot is fine.
A History of Action Movies continues through the 1980s with James Cameron's THE TERMINATOR
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We travel into the Stallone Zone with FIRST BLOOD and RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II.
SPACEBALLS, ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS by Aaron Armstrong & Peter Moran
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