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The hosts of Now Playing Podcast dive deep into every franchise from Bond, DC and Marvel to Mad Max, Andromeda Strain to Wolverine, breaking down each film with sharp insight, behind-the-scenes stories, and a lot of humor. If a movie has a sequel (or three), we’ve probably reviewed it with real research, real opinions, and zero patience for bad movies.

  1. 7H AGO

    Avatar: Fire and Ash

    Feliz Na’vi Dads  Pandora will be turned into Fire and Ash if Giovanni Ribisi and Edie Falco learn the secret to breathing the planet’s toxic air from feral human Spider (Jack Champion). Can adoptive father Sam Worthington protect “monkey boy” from being reclaimed by bio-parent Stephen Lang, or getting whacked by his grieving wife Zoe Saldana?  And who exactly gave birth to 76-year-old “teenager” Sigourney Weaver? Sullys never quit, but James Cameron might if audiences don’t join Arnie, Marjorie, and Stuart in theaters for the conclusion of the Avatar trilogy. Listen Now!

    2h 6m
  2. Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

    5D AGO • NOW PLAYING PLUS ONLY

    Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

    Floral Derangements Morris Chestnut (The Best Man) leads pharmaceutical researchers into the Borneo jungle on The Hunt For The Blood Orchid, which can extend the human lifespan. Unfortunately, this plant also fortifies the diets of stronger, longer Anacondas that aim to swallow TV babes KaDee Strickland (Private Practice) and Salli Richardson-Whitfield (Eureka). Will hunky boat captain Johnny Messner and his pet monkey resist the bribes of heartless Brit Matthew Marsden, and chart a course away from this garden of death? Donate for Ssss-silver Level to find out now!

    1h 12m

  3. DEC 16

    Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)

    Charlie’s (Avenging) Angels  Rohan Campbell goes from ending the Halloween franchise to taking an axe to Christmas in the 2025 reboot of Silent Night, Deadly Night.  Is the traumatized orphan crazy for wanting to wear a Santa suit and murder festive folks in small-town America?  Or is that gruff voice in his head only interested in The Naughty - child snatchers, heartless foster moms, wife murderers, and a White Power rally found kissing under mistletoe and swastikas?  Learn if this holiday horror series has taken a wrong turn under Mike P Nelson’s direction when you Listen Now!

    1h 33m
  4. Anaconda (1997)

    DEC 12 • NOW PLAYING PLUS ONLY

    Anaconda (1997)

    Jenny From The Chopping Block J-Lo may think she’s on a pleasant jungle cruise to film a lost Amazonian tribe, but her big buns are really the bait for luring a massive Anaconda in this surprise 1997 blockbuster. Will the 40-foot snake make a meal of rapper Ice Cube, horny Owen Wilson, sniveling Jonathan Hyde, and MTV personality Kari Wuhrer before they can get ailing Eric Stoltz to a hospital?  And will the winking performance from Oscar winner Jon Voight make the hosts regurgitate, or shed their cynicism? We squeeze out the answers when you Donate Now!

    1h 32m
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's 2

    DEC 9

    Five Nights at Freddy's 2

    Where A Kid Can Be A Corpse Josh Hutcherson plays different hunger games at a second pizzeria that has child abduction and possessed animatronics on the menu in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2. Are Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Freddy Fazzbear even more lethal now that they’re controlled by The Marionette, a forgotten telepathic mascot out to make neglectful parents pay?  And will crabby teacher Wayne Knight (Seinfeld) give an “F” to heroine Abby (Piper Rubio) for entering her ghostly friends from the first film as a science fair project?  Listen Now to find out what’s inside the podcasters’ heads.  {Video Game Series} {Five Nights at Freddy's}

    2h 4m
  6. Scrooged

    DEC 5 • NOW PLAYING PLUS ONLY

    Scrooged

    Yule Love It Bill Murray needs to phone the Ghostbusters after finding himself in the 1988 Charles Dickens update Scrooged. Did a lump on the head make the SNL star leave humanitarian Karen Allen (Raiders of the Lost Ark), and pursue a career as a callous network TV programmer?  And can New York Doll David Johansen and flighty fairy Carol Kane beat some sense into the heartless executive before he ends up a rotting corpse like mentor John Forsythe (Dynasty)? Now Playing offers a podcast gift that’s better than a bath towel when you become a Patron this December.

    2h 1m
  7. Until Dawn

    DEC 3

    Until Dawn

    Grindhouse Day Five friends stranded at a sunken mining town must survive Until Dawn if they hope to escape a fatal time warp created by head shrinker Peter Stormare (Fargo). Does director David F. Sandberg (Annabelle Creation) help his horror movie feel more like a video game by hitting the reset button every time his cast is violently killed off, giving the characters another chance to go back and make different choices (yet always wind up on the sharp end of a scythe)? Or has the sand run out of the hourglass for PlayStation Studios? Listen Now and become a part of it!

    1h 15m

  8. NOV 25

    Frankenstein (2025)

    Father Knows Beast Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy) fulfills his dream to bring Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic novel Frankenstein to life as a 2025 Netflix creation. Does Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) play God just to get back at bad dad Charles Dance (Golden Child), or to impress failed nun Mia Goth (X), or because Christoph Waltz (Spectre) has funded the perfect mad scientist lab to fry up bits of fallen soldiers and executed prisoners?  And can any experiment be rated a success when it leaves Kissing Booth hunk Jacob Elordi looking like that!? Throw the switch to Listen Now!

    2h 10m
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The hosts of Now Playing Podcast dive deep into every franchise from Bond, DC and Marvel to Mad Max, Andromeda Strain to Wolverine, breaking down each film with sharp insight, behind-the-scenes stories, and a lot of humor. If a movie has a sequel (or three), we’ve probably reviewed it with real research, real opinions, and zero patience for bad movies.

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