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It's like the first movie again, but worse..... Much worse. This week we are treated to the John Krease revenge movie featuring Daniel and Miyagi... Special appearance by a guy who looks like the world's most evil Porn director, Terry Silver.

The New Cobra Kai led by Terry Silver recruits Karate's Bad Boy, Mike Barns who can't stop, won't stop (*Harlem Shakes*) bullying Daniel LaRusso and threatening his life until he agrees to defend his All Valley Karate Tournament Championship. This features all the stuff you didn't want, a rapidly aging Ralph Macchio, Daniel/Miyagi relationship problems, an uninteresting love interest, and mustache twirling douchebags as the villains. Join us as we discuss 1989's The Karate Kid Part III

Last week we watched Mr. Miyagi help Daniel rid himself of the Cobra Kai by winning the All Valley Karate Tournament. This week, Daniel returns the favor to his sensei, by traveling with him to Okinawa where Mr. Miyagi must go see his father, but also runs into his old archrival Sato, and his equally villainous nephew Chozen who begins to feud with Daniel.

Part 1 of our Karate Kid review series! This week we take it back to 1984 where Daniel LaRusso, who has just moved to the Valley in LA fron New Jersey is learning to adjust to his new surrondings. He starts a romance with Ali Mills, but there is just one big problem.. Ali's ex-boyfriend Johnny and his gang of Karate practicing bullies from the Cobra Kai dojo start attacking and bullying Daniel. His apartment building's maintenance man, Mr. Miyagi agrees to help Daniel by teaching him Karate so that he can defend himself, and ultimately defeat the Cobra Kais at the All Valley Karate Tournament. 

We finally discuss Jordan Peele's 2017 horror masterpiece. A film that Peele spend nearly a decade preparing to bring to the screen, his directorial debut brought Black Horror movies to the mainstream. A movie that feels as much as snapshot of the Black Lives Matter era as an homage to horror movies like Halloween, The Stepford Wives, and Rosemary's Baby. We follow our protagonist Chris as he goes to to an East Coast suburb to visit his girlfriend Rose's family. During this trip we quickly discover the disturbing secret of Rose, her family, and the other white people in this neighborhood.

We return to the world of famed novelist Ira Levine (Rosemary's Baby) to review the 1975 adaptation of his novel The Stepford Wives. This film follows New York City photographer Joanna Eberhart as she and her family relocate (at the behest of her husband Walter) to the suburb of Stepford. Idealized as a throwback to the bygone era of the 1950s before the Women's liberation movement, Joanna quickly discovers that the women in this town are not what they seem.

This week we finally review the Academy Award winner for Best Picture in 2019. As the most unusual 2020 Oscars are now approaching we wanted to review the most recent winner, which was directed by Bong Joon-ho. This dark comedy, became a world-wide phenomenon and it is likely due to the themes explored. Few films have so perfectly illustrated the ever-widening wealth gap in capitalist countries. This may be one of the best conversations we have ever had on the show.

The 2018 sequel to Jurassic World takes a wild left turn as it recast's Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing as a Dinosaur Activist who is trying to rescue the Dinosaurs on Isla Nublar from an erupting volcano that threatens to destroy the island. She is doing this with the help of Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), and the original partner of John Hammond. Directed by J.A. Bayona who's best known for 2007's The Orphanage, this is perhaps the more horror-mood movie in this series. Join us this week and we visit the Fallen Kingdom. 

Sorry for the late upload for this episode. Our shit was on pause. This week in the spirit of the New Year we review the remake of the 1976 John Carpenter classic that revolves around a police sergeant who's job it has now become to protect a skeleton staff and rag tag group of inmates as they try to survive an attack by a police splinter group on New Years Eve at a Detroit police station. 

Part 2 of our Christmas Double Feature has us reviewing a film written by friend of the show Chris Columbus (lol) and Directed by Joe Dante. This is the wicked Christmas tale about a swarm of little green monsters who wreak havoc on the small town of Kingston Falls. This is also the film that became responsible for the PG-13 rating.

Thank you and Happy Holidays to all our listeners.

Our friend Joey S who is a resident Home Alone fan, and Christmas movie lover joins us for Part 1 of our Double Feature where we review the 1990 John Hughes written film, starring Macaulay Culkin, and Directed by Chris Columbus.