This week we're diving deeply and darkly into the DTV realm and fishing up a couple of classier than usual gems with legitimate people involved. We kick things off with a discussion of the subtly anger fueled Neo-Noir, Sweet Virginia (2017), featuring a sad, bearded bull riding Jonny Bernthal. Then we head out to Baltic region and fish ourselves up…

Sometimes you go into a movie with hopes and dreams of the magnificently magical treasure box that's about to hopefully be revealed before your eye meats. You see the cast, the plot synopsis and the vintage and you just know you're in for something truly special. And other times you end up with the Brent Huff penned and directed stinkbag, The Bad P…

Real movie fans buy a lot of movies. The REALEST movie fans buy movies they've never even seen. The even REALER REALEST movie fans buy movies they've never seen and often don't watch them for years... Even decades. This week we help to assuage this weighty, watchlist affliction by assisting Jake in ensuring his well earned money has been spent wise…

One big, fat Keanu special. Two big, fat Keanu Meatball Sandwiches. Young Keanu as an action boy in Point Break (1991) and Old Keanu as an action man in John Wick Chapter 4 (2023). "Gimme 2!" Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop…

Karate Kid was a movie about a kid who learns karate from a Karate master and uses his newly learned skills to overcome a group of bullies, and in the journey, finds himself. A Fight For Honor (1992) is a movie about a (female!) kid who learns Tae Kwon Do from a Tae Kwon Do master and uses her newly learned skills to overcome (two!) groups of bulli…

This week we salute all the heroes and their various blood types. Rutger Hauer, Vincent D'Onofrio (looking fine as hell), Delroy Lindo, Sean Connery, that pale dude from Queen of the Damned, The Invisible Man, La Femme Nikita, Mr. Hyde's outsized tophat, Stephen Norrington's ego, Captain Nemo's Indian Capoeira skills and a surprising amount of Cum.…

This week we head out to the European wilds and experience death and destruction as only the Netherlands and Jolly Old England can provide. First, we experience emotional death and destruction in the form of the miserable, Kitchen Sink nightmare, The Black Panther (1997). Then we head to Amsterdam with Dick Maas at the helm and experience the death…

The desert is a place where people go to get lost. It's also a place where people go to get found. Then again, it's also a place where dirtbags like to do dumb sh*t while messed up on illicit drugs and maybe start an off the grid colony or something. The point is... wait... what was the point? Oh yeah, this week the movies we're talking about featu…

This week we head back to the mystical land of the orient and discover that, as long suspected, the people of Asia have the highest blood pressure of anyone in the world. We also discover that high school girls are more terrifying than the reanimated corpse of a World War II soldier capable of pulling a man's arm off and caving his skull in with it…

Why can't we escape the early aughts?! BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO. This week we mix things up with one of the sleaziest, most confounding teen dramas of the past two decades with the sleaztastic, Elisha Cuthbert produced, incest infused The Quiet (2005). Then we bring "The Demon" back to the show with a heaping helping of dad-ly Rob Van Dam and a sid…

It's episode 450! Which means it's time to talk about honor. It's time to talk about brotherhood. It's time to talk about Heroes. Bloodshed. It's time to talk about cool sunglasses. Trenchcoats. The plausability of smoking while also holding a toothpick in one's mouth. Dealing with trauma by way of the food triangle. Whether or not it's a good idea…

Bo's a family man. Bo's an action man. Bo's an adrenaline infused man. Bo knows acting. Bo knows good old fashioned values. Bo knows when someone's stepped over the line. Bo knows it's not cool to take pics of his boy while he practices soccer with the other boys. Bo knows violence. Bo knows retribution. This week we talk about the trials and tribu…

The topic of this week's episode is misplaced rage. Rage about being forgotten after suffering for your country. Rage about how your patriotic duty resulted in the allowance of people you don't particularly care for or respect gaining freedoms you don't believe they deserve. Rage about how you spent all this time building a cool serrated razor glov…

Richard Bruno Riddick is the focus of this week's episode. Richard. Bruno. Riddick. "Dick Riddick". "Dicky Rids". He's a space man who wears a black tank top and welding goggles and talks like he's been drinking full cartons of heavy table cream all day. He fights aliens. He fights men. He fights his desire to make it with women who think of him as…

CDR brings the sweet Treat(s) to the show this week with a couple of absolute bangin' choices. First thing's first, we teeter on the Tightrope (1984) with horny, midlife crisis Clint and a bevy of young ladies at his beck and call, including his very own daughter. Then we get down n' dirrrty with Treat Williams as he inflitrates a high school with …

This week we strap on our leathers, grab our hot little mamas and unleash our inner Wild Hogs on the open road with a couple of 90s biker classics(?). We kick things off with one of the sweetest and least badass entries in the pantheon, Running Cool (1993), the "fart rock" infused, environmentally conscious tale of Andrew Divoff saving his friend I…

Sometimes the men in white coats come along, snatch you up and use wire fire to scramble your eggs, which can be pretty wild. Not as wild as raising a child after such a horrifying and life altering event, which is exactly what happens in the John Sayles penned weirdo hobo superhero epic, Wild Child (1987). But before we dive into all that nonsense…

The youth run wild in the streets and on the B-Ball courts in this week's episode and none of us are safe. We kick things off with the gritty, grounded look at the illicit world of deathmatch "Cage Ball" in Hoop Soldiers (2000). Then we head to the explosively deadly streets of L.A. where the terrifying yuppie youth have run amok and even the combi…

This week we continue to wallow in the early 2000s mire as we're wont to do. Up front we head to Depression era gangland with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Daniel Craig's ghoulish mug and Jude Law's baked bean teeth in Road to Perdition (2002). Then we bang back a shot and take a flight over to the land of tea and crumpets to watch some dag fights with a…

This week we pay tribute to an auteurist B-cinema titan and also take some time to recognize the significant contributions Gregory Scott Cummins made to the music world via the golden year of 1997. We start things off with a PM Entertainment deep dive into the controversial world of Hip-Hop based copyright infringement and the violent, vengeful Dis…

Bill Olsen aka Bananaman, founder and iron fisted overlord of Code Red Releasing has finally shuffled off the proverbial grocery store shelf and into the great smoothie beyond. To honor him, we've hand selected two of his most well regarded releases. We kick things off with the Australian, Terminator/Aliens/Blade Runner by way of boob armor and the…

This week we run along the razor thin edge of that blue line with a few cops... on the edge. First we head back out to the far East of the far past and dig up a definitive Hong Kong New Wave classic with the wildly nasty and endlessly gritty, Cops and Robbers (1979). Then we head to the dirty streets of Cleveland and watch Michael Rooker and Bobby …

This week Chuck Connors delivers his sexiest performance while taking some city boys (one of them the Master of Beasts) out on the trail all slick-style in the oddball made for TV Sci-Fi something or other, High Desert Kill (1989). Then we dive into a DTV, Canucklehead action classic with Rowdy Roddy Piper, Billy Blanks and a Zubaz soaked McNamara …

This week we ease ourselves back into the stylin' Cult of Muscle lifestyle like a couple of super chill baby beachboy bums hittin' the waves in search of the perfect Cali-Zen frame of mind. We kick things off by heading to the islands of New Zealand in the romantic, buddy chase-em-up Action/Comedy, Never Say Die (1988). Then we rip some betty-ass w…

While all your favorite retailers are busy hanging their decorations in preparation for the arrival of the big man in the red suit, The Cult Boys are still firmly fixated on frights! This week we pour y'all a little extra scare juice to get over that Halloween hangover in the form of 3 more terrifying tales of terror. Firstly, we end our 80s V-Cine…

We hope you didn't think the Halloween thrills and chills were over yet because if you did think that you'd be sorely mistaken. VERY sore and VERY mistaken. This week we head to the rolling hills of San Francisco with a gaggle of the postiest Post Punks and a brain sucking baby in the SOV Horror police procedural, Night Feeder (1988). Then we take …

This week Halloween keeps Halloweeinin' along with a review of a new Halloween movie and a little visit from our good friends, creeeeeeepy Uncle Dario and a big old pile of undulating Japanese meat! First, we join a group of giggling schoolgirls as they dive headlong into the aforementioned flesh pile with a review of Guzoo (1986). Then we check ou…

This week we keep the ghoul train rollin' right along with an oldy and a newy and a REALLY mean Japanese Alien who absolutely HATES scientists and medicines. We kick things off with the bonkers, goretastic and environmentally sound V-Cinema offering, Biotherapy (1986). Then we head down into the sub-sub-sub-sub basement of America's oldest cotton m…

It's that time of year, folks. We can finally slough off our hume-skins and unleash our inner skeletons and ghosties because THE SEASON OF THE SAMHAINS IS UPON US!! To celebrate the turning of the leaves we bring with us 3 spoooooooky, scaaaaaary and sometimes hooooooorny bangers to get you in the mood. We kick things off with the first of a specia…

On this week's show CDR goes all the way back in time and basks in the glory of his first ever theatrical experience, Ron Howard's warm smile and magnitudes of child endangerment in Willow (1988). Then we head on down to Florida with Joel D. Wynkoop's camcorder, his menagerie of comedic action dunces and a plethora of roundhouse kicks in Lost Faith…

This week we discuss two kings(?) of action, new and old in the "Tomcat" and Chuck Norris (now with added wet mullet!). We kick things off with Chucky in Vancouver doing his best to prove that he's a very good and nice cop who also happens to murder with impunity in The Hit Man (1991). Then we head to the mystical streets of Prague with Tom Cruise …

This week CDR airlifts in two megastinkers with highly toxic levels of ineptitude capable of an extinction level event. First, we climb like the squirrel in the Native Americansploitation stalk and chase Noir thriller, Warpath (2001). Then we head on up to Northern Ontario with the Arnie entourage and watch the honorable Gov. Jesse Ventura and Sven…

This week Jake delivers the pathos from the East and West in two, dramatically different, but no less dramatic picks. First, we kick things off with the updated Wuxia tragedy from master Sammo Hung, starring Andy Lau and an Orca named Wayne in Moon Warriors (1993). Then we head on down to Bummertown, USA (pop. 2) with Viggo Mortensen's depressingly…

CDR can't leave the early 2000s alone and it's become a problem. Is there any film as indicative of it's era as Stephen Sommer's 2004 Universal Monster-packed trash epic, Van Helsing? We're gonna try to find out and Jake's far from happy about it! Then, we bring master of machismo Walter Hill back to the show with his stab at classic Noir via comic…

This week we return to our roots with some prime cuts of nostalgia bait. First, Jake brings with him an early slice of PM Entertainment copsploitation in the cowboy fantasy tinged L.A. Heat (1989). Then we head out to the East Coast and experience the deep dark plight of the inner city youth gun-trade in Forest Whitaker's 90s Hip-Hop infused Strapp…

This week CDR chooses to subject Jake to some full-blown audio/ocular torture but makes sure he lubes him up a little beforehand with some comfy cozy CoM fodder. We kick things off with the sublimely brotastic, men-on-a-mission-by-way-of-Action-International-Pictures caper, Maximum Breakout (1991) from self proclaimed female action queen, Tracy "Bo…

This week Jakey delivers two picks centered around the always tenuous bonds between men. First, broken blue brotherhoods abound in the (thematic) DTV sequel, Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011). Then we glug down a whole bottle of dubious Snake Wine and get a severe case of brotherly coagulopathy with the early stage Korean Axe-Kicksploitation opera,…

This week we gather our "gear" and head out to the desert for a little maxin' and relaxin' with a couple of party time favorites in the form of the Hitcher-esque hardpan Slasher, Mirage (1990) and the Buddy G (of Combat Shock fame) poverty porn headscratcher, Life is Hot in Cracktown (2009). Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/g…

This week we pay homage to a titan of cinematic machismo with a review of the semi forgotten James Caan/Petey Boyle road comedy oddity, Slither (1973) Then we bust out our ladles and fish up a lost dreg, festering at the bottom of the filmic slop trough since 1993 in the bizarre, mannequin-based revenge thriller, Kiss and Be Killed. Feedback: culto…

This week CD-R is feeling the rhythm of the night and all he can think about is how much he likes to move it, move it. Despite being Mr. Vein he pumps up the jam with a couple of hotsteppers in the form of the Ulli Lommel anti-Yakuza screed, Overkill (1987). Then we find out all the ways that rhythm is a dancer on Queen St. East, Toronto in the shi…

This week the boys are turning Japanese. We're turning Japanese. Yeah, we really think so. Is that a problem? First off we tuck into a little dose of Yojimbo-esque hooliganism with the live action, Streets of Fire tinged Manga adaptation, Glorious Asuka Gang (1988). Then we jump back in time ten years earlier and get our knots knocked off by the st…

This week CDR takes the boys North of the equator to chillier climes with a couple of chilly barn burners. First, we head up to Manitoba and experience the most subdued apocalypse this side of James Van Der Beek's chin with The Plague (2006). Then we pilot our sloop on over to Sweden where the folks are all blood bloated like a bunch of ticks and r…

This week The Cult digs deep into the grimiest, filthiest, stinkiest chunnels of their VHS archives and deliver two steaming hot meatpies of varying quality. First off we endure the dubious charisma vaccum that is Fred "The Hammy Hammer" Williamson in the Cobra-knockoff-cum-questionable-Italian-franchise kickoff, Black Cobra (1987). Then we head on…

This week CD-R delivers to The Cult a healthy dose of estrogen packed vengeance with an erratically delivered side order of Fundamentalist Mormon hatred in the liftage section. First, we kick things off with the extremely questionable, implant smuggling, Tiana Alexander-Silliphant star vehicle, Catch the Heat (1987). Then we head on up to New YAWK …

This week the boys are out to play and when the boys are out to play they go HARD. And when the boys go HARD they cover movies like Fist Fighter (1989) and then when it's time to relax after all that HARD play, the boys like to sit down and play even HARDER (while still sitting) with a little dose of Top Gun (1986). HARD. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gma…

You get up every morning from your alarm clock's warning Take the 8:15 into the city There's a whistle up above and people pushin', people shovin' And the girls who try to look pretty And if your train's on time, you can get to work by nine And start your slaving job to get your pay If you ever get annoyed, look at me I'm self-employed I love to wo…

This week Jake summons the still-living spirit of Spiro Razatos and it's unholy manifestation is two distinctly militaristic, dum-dum, hoo-ra parties. First we kick things off with Big Dumb Dolph in Storm Catcher (1999), a movie about a fighter jet so futuristic that only a man in a space suit who slurs his speech can fly it. Then we head up to Can…

This week CD-R delivers some dated delicacies from the late 90s and early aughts. First, we kick things off with Sammy Jackson and Clifton Collins Jr. in the Teachersploitation message movie, One Eight Seven (1997). Then we head back to France with ol' marble mouth Nick Nolte for the Neil Jordan by way of Melville caper remake, The Good Thief (2002…

This week Jake delivers a heapin' helpin' of Spaghetti and Goombahs. First we travel to France with a gaggle of the Francophoniest Sicilians in The Sicilian Clan (1969). Then we get heavy duty Godfather deja vu with Robert Forster in tight slacks and big man-heels and Anthony Quinn as a big, romantic softie in The Don is Dead (1973). Feedback: cult…

This week CD-R brings us two modern slices of the edgiest, lordiest variety with Rob Jabbaz's Taiwanese meat party, The Sadness (2021) and then we jump in the time machine and head back to the plague times to check out what was going on in the dirtiest convent in all the land with Paul Verhoeven's nunsploitation epic, Benedetta (2021). Feedback: cu…