Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

This week we get sweaty, bloody and sloppy with Gerry Butts in a reassessment of Zack Snyder's historical quagmire, 300 and spend some time digging for treasure with little know action extravaganza, Broken Path aka Attack of the Yakuza aka The Raid Before the Raid. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:10:00 Broken Path: 1:12:00 - 1:55:00 300: 1:56:00 - END  

This week we jump in the wayback machine and return to simpler times when men were men and women were terrified of them! First we hang out with Talon and his right hand man (before he was Murphy Brown's right hand man) in Albert Pyun's The Sword and the Sorcerer. And then, we somehow get even filthier as we roll around in the mud and muck of Medieval Europe with Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Verhoeven in Flesh and Blood. Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Instagram: @fatbologna   LIFTING: 0:00:0 - 0:48:00 SWORD AND THE SORCERER: 0:49:30 - 1:30:00 FLESH AND BLOOD/Feedback: 1:32:00 - END

We dug deep, so deep into the muck for this week's episode.  Wings Hauser menaces and Joe Estevez swoons in Broken Bars and William Smith gets drunk and gets invasive in Merchant of Evil!   e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 34:50 Broken Bars: 36:10 - 1:09:50 Merchant of Evil: 1:11:20 - END  

We're back from an uncharacteristic hiatus with renewed vim and vigor and vivacity and whatever else. This week's episode sees what happens when you appeal to the lucrative youth market with a giggle fit western starring a whole buncha pretty boys led by Terry Stamps in Young Guns. Brandon Lee also screams back onto the show, but this time he's kicking Italians and being directed by Dwight H Little in Rapid Fire!   e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:12:30 Young Guns: 1:14:00 - 1:43:10 Rapid Fire: 1:44:40 - END

Episode 216 brings with it illicit tales of repeatedly punching medieval hobos in the face, computer rendering's of semen in the name of art, disembodied hands, tempura, checkered jackets and so much more! We review Takashi Miike's Torture Opus, Ichi the Killer and Gary Oldman's greasy hair opus, State of Grace. Hit that!    e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:43:00 Ichi: 0:45:00 - 1:31:00 State of Grace: 1:32:00 - END

The Cali Connection invades the Cult once again as Kelly and Wes join us to see what happens when David A Prior films a sex scene with Robert Hays and Pamela Anderson in Raw Justice and Judd Nelson prowls around dealing with daddy damage in Relentless! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:10:40 Constantine: 1:12:10- 1:47:15 Hot Boyz: 1:48:45 - END  

In this week's episode Master P takes on a journey through hell in Hot Boyz and Keanu Reeves tries to make us believe a thug can still be an artist in this cruel world in Constantine.  It's a great episode with lots of insight!  Do listen! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 46:40 Constantine: 48:10- 1:30:20 Hot Boyz: 1:31:55 - END  

It was a time of high adventure and bad acting.  Or it was a time of bad adventure and high acting.  Either way, this week we're taking a look back at the maligned and misunderstood(?!) Conan the Destroyer and then take a trip to our friends in Canada to see what's got Kim Coates in a bother and why Jeff Fahey just couldn't care less in Lethal Tender! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:01:00 Conan the Destroyer: 1:02:30- 1:35:25 Rats- Night of Terror: 1:36:45 - END

Things get a little heated this week between Italy and America on who can make the more bugged out, batshit horror movies for us to review. First up is Tony Curtis doing Tony Curtis things in The Manitou and Bruno Mattei doing Bruno Mattei things in Rats: Night of Terror! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 32:20 The Manitou: 33:50- 1:09:00 Rats- Night of Terror: 1:10:30 - END

This week is filled with lewd, crude, rude people and we couldn't be happier to wade through this messy soup of humanity for your listening pleasure.  This week Don the Dragon Wilson subjects himself to an avalanche of casual racism and death touches in Red Sun Rising and we see what Larry Cohen and Armand Assante were up to with their Mike Hammer film I, the Jury! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:02:30 I, the Jury: 1:04:00- 1:51:45 Red Sun Rising: 1:53:20 - END

This week the boys get hooked on two flicks about the dangers of drug abuse and after some time in rehab return with reviews of the Philip Michael Thomas PCP egotrip, Death Drug (1978) and Cannon's anti-drug PSA, Crack House (1989)!  Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumbr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:59:00 Death Drug: 1:00:00 - 1:39:00 Crack House/Feedback: 1:40:00 - END

This week a cold Southeastern wind blows through the halls of the Cult and with it brings a couple exotic delights in The Outlaws and The Brink, both from 2017 and each from South Korea and Hong Kong respectively. Oil them elbows and fetch your hand harpoons, it's episode 209! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:45:0 The Outlaws: 0:46:00- 1:16:00 The Brink: 1:17:00 - END

Deep in the darkest parts of the American dream Vincent Gallo is making it with a grandma while watching porn and Al Pacino is banging his sister.  With that kind of gravity, it's only appropriate that we tackle Abel Ferrara's The Funeral and Brian De Palma's Scarface with the special brand of insight you've come to expect and loathe from this show. E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:09:00 The Funeral: 1:10:35 - 1:49:55 Scarface: 1:51:30 - END  

Just in time for Valentine's Day we have two sex symbols spooning out some fruit jelly and pushing it down our throats.  We settle down and have a laugh with John Travolta in Battlefield Earth and Wings Hauser tells us what it means to be a modern man in The Art of Dying! E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:00:20 Battlefield Earth: 1:01:50 - 1:46:50 The Art of Dying: 1:48:20 - END  

On our 4th anniversary of the show we bust out the numbers and the ill will with our Top 20 movies of 2017, our Top 20 first time watches of 2017, and we break out the knives for our worst 5 of 2017.  Good friend Kelly shows up and as is tradition we verbally abuse him almost the entire time.  But he was laughing so it's ok, right?!  E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Top 20 first time watches of 2017: 0:00:00 - 2:04:40 Top 20 of 2017 and Worst 5 of 2017: 2:05:55 - END  

The greatest generations collide in this week's episode as Steven Spielberg makes everyone scream for mommy in Saving Private Ryan and Buddy Giovanazzo makes everyone scream for mercy in Combat Shock!  E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 39:00 Saving Private Ryan: 40:25 - 1:41:20 Combat Shock: 1:42:50 - END  

This week we hop on over to France for some lightning kicks and a big swinging dick.  Jean Paul Belmondo returns to the show and puts 1983 Paris on notice with his smirk and his clangers in Le Marginal and Jet Li comes to France to dispatch some true blue good old fashioned acupuncture violence in Kiss of the Dragon! E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 58:00 Kiss of the Dragon: 59:30 - 1:45:55 Le Marginal: 1:48:05 - END  

This week we (sky)dive headlong into the seedy underbelly of "The Drop Zone" and learn how to let go of our inhibitions in Cutaway (2000) and then take a trip down memory lane with DMX and David Arquette in the gangland epic(?) Never Die Alone (2004). E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:15:00 Cutaway: 1:16:00 - 1:55:00 Never Die Alone: 1:55:00 - END  

Hong Kong and Japan come roaring back onto the cult with a HK classic and a diamond in the yakuza rough.  This week we reminisce and we are very judgmental of crippled children in Rumble in the Bronx and Sonny Chiba runs roughshod over a bunch of yakuza dirtbags in Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder!! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 49:40 Rumble in the Bronx: 51:10 - 1:33:55 Yakuza Wolf: 1:33:55 - END  

With 200 episodes in the rear view mirror the cult looks forward and back and something or other, I don't there's a metaphor here somewhere. This week we checkout the unlikely sequel to a sci fi film with Frank Grillo and Iko Uwais steering the ship in Beyond Skyline and jump back to the golden years with a long overdue of the Carl Weathers action spectacle Action Jackson! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:42:45 Beyond Skyline: 1:44:20 - 2:27:00 Action Jackson: 2:28:50 - END