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Is there a better way to start the New Year then to watch two .1% monsters get outwitted and bankrupted by the very people they screwed over? NOPE!  That's right, we are digging in to Trading Places, a comedy classic that has stood the test of time and, mostly, holds up. Pour whatever drink goes best with your schadenfreude, and join us, because we aim to make sure that you will Never Watch Alone!   MOVIE STARTS AT: 10:35  ==========================================   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199    Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/20KKWLbrDuKh2aLIoJY5wS?si=K_XWoZIkSLiE9VV6x6EHCA   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VKpilonx1q8

Tune in, and know us better!  There are few things as delightful and heartwarming as The Muppets, and when you combine that with Dickens and Michael Caine you have the perfect recipe for a holiday classic.  Join us this Christmas as we delight in The Muppet Christmas Carol, and no matter where you are this holiday season, you will Never Watch Alone.   MOVIE STARTS AT: 9:30  ==========================================   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199    Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ncH1f2N4gYmEffwe1m4lM?si=c67bzWnYTgKr43GlJiu7Nw   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/URtIBA049no

Can a deconstructed noir comedy resurrect a Hollywood icon? Only if it’s directed by Shane Black! Join us for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, the film that redeemed Robert Downey Jr and gave us one of the most memorable Val Kilmer performances.  Grab a gun, steal a snack, and don’t lose your severed finger, but above all tune in, and Never Watch Alone!   MOVIE STARTS AT: 8:51  ==========================================   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199    Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2nn8wRwI9AsVMnPzAGq5TC?si=x-pow1jZQLGqGSPoFGu3MA   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mq3RBquN-RI

Monsters at Christmas? You bet!  Pets can be cute and cuddly, but don’t neglect their care routines or you may end up with Gremlins!  Fix a snack and tuck in, just as long as it’s not after midnight, and join us and a special guest for this holiday horror classic, because we’re always on hand to make sure you Never Watch Alone!   Special Guest: Connie Santangelo MOVIE STARTS AT: 19:53 ==========================================   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199    Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Wt5CiiH3xkBtbeKRo7nNM?si=3ptrxJbOT8-kDVPMLuYqpw   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/z0dQfAPqXzo

Yippee Ki Yay Motherfuckers!  That's right, we are watching the action classic Die Hard to kickoff the holiday season!  Is it a Christmas movie? Who cares! It kicks ass and gave cinema Alan Rickman!  So grab a drink and join us, because we're here to make sure you'll never have to watch a movie alone during the holidays, or any other time of year. MOVIE STARTS AT: 17:23 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5s2hpf8FdazhxpTM3baocT?si=0PCWFpFqTyu8Iyyek8VJKA Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/YOUaWup25vg

That most hallowed time is upon us again, so we decided to indulge in one of the modern classics of horror:  The VVitch.  Join us as we dive into one of the most chilling and unsettling films of the last decade, so much so that it even terrified Stephen King!   MOVIE STARTS AT: 16:34  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6atVnwSRQ2AHgbQxQuahXi?si=W8me2_NJSxq94SJ9KoztIQ   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/_fsbV6f1jOc

If you want Peace, Baba Yaga.... then prepare for War.    Last year we did Chapter 2, and here we are once more for PARABELLUM and once again sinking our teeth into this amazing action series that remarkably hasn't gotten the least bit tedious. Grab a copy and let's get started. Don't worry, we have whiskey and guns. Lots of guns.   GUEST STAR: Nathan Ball   __________________________________________________   Keanu Reeves's Gun Training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii9_oWQ7HY&ab_channel=TaranTacticalTaranTactical  Wholesome content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c2olMFEhK8&ab_channel=katsudonkatsudon  MOVIE STARTS AT: 13:49 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wGsCijoEFnzz5GNbPeja2?si=OJu5mifISMyz46-PtiJWrA&dl_branch=1   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H_BnqaRF_WE

Marvel Movie of the Month has returned just in time to finish out KAI-JUNE! With all the Marvel films over the years, there is, in fact, one that does have giant monsters and robots, a theatrically released emissary from hell... SUPAIDĀMAN! Minor spoiler warning... it's super weird. GUEST STAR: Michael Wasser   - WATCH HERE SUPAIDĀMAN THE MOVIE LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofDcYPlTze0&ab_channel=jopse  - Watch the rest of the series here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoPZ11NBT31TvJkc1hNskypZ7TAUrcQcp  - Stan Lee interview on Supaidāman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SQudJU96C4&ab_channel=%3A-%2FDylZilla-%E3%83%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC  - (because why not?) Honest Trailer Supaidāman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5NCSx5HF8c&ab_channel=ScreenJunkies  MOVIE STARTS AT: 13:43  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65IDOVbjy5e58mkg0VM04I?si=-Z1kRmOVQeCSZWW3F448ZQ&dl_branch=1   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hX171DM1-kY

Godzilla! Kong! Mechagodzilla! and macroherpetophiles?!? Kai-June comes to a close with what may very well be our craziest commentary yet!  Join us for all the smashing and brawling as these monsters throw down to establish dominance!   GUEST STAR: Michael Wasser   - Honest Trailer Godzilla (2014): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOyVy7CTUJE - Honest Trailer Godzilla vs. Kong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOA6G5PhnRM&ab_channel=ScreenJunkiesScreenJunkiesVerified  - Michael's Movie Musings: https://michaelsmoviemusings.blogspot.com/2021/04/godzilla-vs-kong-2021-review.html?fbclid=IwAR2N1uKcvxX9OsZTtb8AIUQxnbJb4KlSYyYYG9PQr80W0MHbnSugak8MOkE  MOVIE STARTS AT: 14:57 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1M4WwVyzxdSVs9TB2w3GF1?si=ajMp1S4QQ0qJh_lNf3RYQg&dl_branch=1   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/QG09PHXz02g

Finally, a movie for all the die-hard Toho fans! Godzilla: King of the Monsters is Michael Dougherty’s love letter to the Kaiju movies of yesteryears, and it’s also one hell of a fun trip we are happy to take over and over again. Join us as we geek out over this masterpiece as Kai-June continues!   GUEST STAR: Michael Wasser   Michael's Movie Musings: https://michaelsmoviemusings.blogspot.com/2019/06/godzilla-vs-critics.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR1F6HnbOnlC0qHBpjHUsjL8p8N-slRISL1ICUmNxYaiO5vGb7EOgz7v_m0  MOVIE STARTS AT: 14:11   ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Cxr7MlJZzKl1Bv9DLRsKL?si=APb5KYUtQDaHVXzlpN8ppg&dl_branch=1   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/VpmP0-mOCfg

Samuel L Jackson? John C Reilly? Enough action that it should have been rated R?  That’s right, Kai-June continues with Kong: Skull Island!  Join us on this wild ride and see some of the best storytelling to come out of the Legendary MonsterVerse so far!   GUEST STAR: Michael Wasser  __________________________________________________   Honest Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTFPCuQfvw&ab_channel=ScreenJunkiesScreenJunkies  CinemaSins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNniLJGd1ts&ab_channel=CinemaSinsCinemaSinsVerified  Parkour gorilla (and T-rex!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8nh0sfQsrA&ab_channel=TheBosnianMambaTheBosnianMamba  MOVIE STARTS AT: 14:03 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4UXsHvkbMRgXkgz4Hn5gAY?si=ksoJn365Tz2e6JDbkkXw4Q&dl_branch=1   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yzyLUs2ljSI

Kai-June is upon us!  We are starting with Godzilla, the movie that ignited the modern Legendary MonsterVerse, and while some may see it as a long, drawn out tease, there is no denying that the big bad himself is everything fans were hoping for!   GUEST STAR: Michael Wasser   MOVIE STARTS AT: 15:52 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/31gwHm4bTKm7Oos70Y0gcW?si=fHggigUKS4Ci-spTED00Mg   Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UFkpUHJ1rmU

Come on and SLAM and welcome to the JAM!    It's been 25 years since this staple of millennial nostalgia came out and we're here to enjoy this objectively bad movie with all the love of looking back at the weird fever dream of the 90s through rose coloured glasses. Grab a basketball and everybody get up, it's time to slam now, we got a real jam goin' now. Welcome to the SPACE JAM.   GUEST STAR: Zach Giesting  __________________________________________________   Air Jordan Commercials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP1EHeXicRI&t=93s&ab_channel=90sNostalgia90sNostalgia  The historic website: https://www.spacejam.com/1996/  Dope soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUEEuYGlf553pQUMFmGXpkiml82GAA08b __________________________________________________   MOVIE STARTS AT: 16:16  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify:   https://open.spotify.com/episode/1HwFcWo3ALuG87VZuUZugp?si=QX1RWQlpSzSjCqGqTZQ7Kw Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pXcNXY1HGUk

Now that the new film is out it's time to go back to the mid 90s with arguably one of the best video game movie adaptations of all time, the original MORTAL KOMBAT. Joining us is MK ultra-fan Audioflesh as we watch a staple of our 90s youth. Drop a quarter in, test your might, cue that amazing dance beat theme song and let us FIGHT! SPECIAL GUEST STAR: AUDIOFLESH   MOVIE STARTS AT: 11:38  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kMl4uumlQneqd2DsVh4MY?si=xu_SmiGJRuaDEXIz3e8gYg  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ghMNBZcanOE ==========================================   Check out AUDIOFLESH in the links here and send him some love!    Twitter: https://twitter.com/audioflesh?fbclid=IwAR3wBpM9M6X2osNe89eQumQNXsdo27dWUUC5DK6J5LjaXvfl8WtLLzyBxj4  SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/audioflesh Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5NXvsx9vCmCIRmaKuQd5Lv  TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@audioflesh?  YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/audioflesh/featured  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/audioflesh/?fbclid=IwAR03e2CKin-A0PEnNla8aKU6U1aEm1dhIQEH2NUoWgOL54alvVRAOHww7ng

Finishing up Action April with a tour de force of literal non stop action in the Indonesian hit that wowed action fans, THE RAID. This movie needs no introduction as we travel into a building of hell and a storm of guns, knives, cops and thugs.   GUEST STAR: Nathan Ball   Final fight but it's Mortal Kombat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xizSWbiYTfo&ab_channel=TimLeifheit  MOVIE STARTS AT: 6:55  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5hiZmwa6iwaP7ACZkmZ1gN?si=goSmMSD2S7qILAbq2Yzl1g  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/813rW9nzC0s

Dan, Dan the Disney Man has returned this month to excavate the Lost Empire of Atlantis for Action April! This is a real favorite of a lot of Disney fans and rightly so because it's far better than you may remember so this is for you folks at home.    "15 degree down angle on the bow planes. Come right 2-4-0...."    ==========================================   Alternate opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV21Qtt6qW0&ab_channel=andrewcg1    Making of documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvR9Zdp74fY&ab_channel=SeanDudley    "The Lubitsch Touch": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jOVRKzwURY&ab_channel=AmericanFilmInstitute    MOVIE STARTS AT: 10:00   ==========================================   Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199    Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3upJwiMcZ2kZRJUYjX97as?si=EnohuAklRHmum6XMPE3Umg    Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/gexjlsNEiuE

Hard Boiled may have been a winding down point for Hong Kong action, but it is the film that most firmly introduced action master John Woo to American audiences.  Join us for some spectacular gunfights and enough explosions to make Michael Bay jealous as we watch this action masterpiece.   Watch the movie on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf1vVsULTDY&ab_channel=SamsonAwesomeDocumentaries MOVIE STARTS AT: 10:45  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1R6NfSzzf3lXTGBuuqUQ7G?si=uof9h9IEQL6r8G1UlbNGvw  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I7h3Jw2kWAI

PREVIOUSLY ON X-MEN...    Mark returns for a final(?) appearance after doing Howard the Duck and Fant4stic, he decided to come back for one last show on perhaps the best of the X-Films, X2: X-MEN UNITED. Joining once again is Sean Wheeler as he couldn't stay away from watching another X-Men film, and arguably the best. Let's kick back my fellow mutants. X-MEN ASSEMBLE!!!    MOVIE STARTS AT: 11:15 ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0eE4ZW6oIO635aSoVhdqlT?si=KUVk1lyTR4iGwVUGSArEtg  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/qWO9tUyzlZk

He said he’d be back, and he was right!  This took the action movie beyond the formulaic films of the 1980s and elevated it to a whole new level.  Boasting not only iconic performances, but iconic special effects and a great story, it’s no surprise the T2 is always in the conversation for best action film of all time.  So, join us as we collectively indulge in that sweet, sweet adrenaline rush that is T2!   NOTE: We're watching the THEATRICAL CUT of T2 that clocks in at about 2hrs 17 min  MOVIE STARTS AT: 16:22  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/04wjkQDepVTdMaoXlpy3pt?si=xh_iYN6iRfCA2Heq0GwtKg  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/J3_rSbdYsd0

Okay now it's really time for ACTION APRIL and this month we're starting out with one of the best (and most underrated) action movies of all time, Die Hard on a Bus, Jan De Bont's SPEED. Tim is especially excited for this one, so all aboard this roller coaster of a movie with a masterful build and release throughout the whole film! Just keep that speedometer over 50.  SPECIAL GUEST STAR: Jonathan Knoell   MOVIE STARTS AT: 12:53  ==========================================  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CommTrack-Podcast-2073483159426199  Listen to us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RjCO1MWnSp4DU3JfJLCRT?si=R37nCqI4Se-uGxrweOAJmw  Listen to us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zd_FkrGu4N4