Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

We made it, folks! 200 episodes! What a journey it's been! We've made many friends and even more enemies! Luckily for this momentous occasion we were able to scrape the fringes of our friend base and cook up a corker of a celebration this week with our pals Fnord, Cody, Johnny Wolfenstein, El Goro, Dynamo Marz and of course Wes and Kelly. They join us for reviews of four of the heaviest hitters we've ever taken a swing at including, but not limited to, John Carpenter's Escape From New York, Mark Lester's Class of 1984, Walter Hill's The Warriors and John Woo's Face/Off. So slap on a diaper because this one's a long haul! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Intro/Escape From NY: 0:00:00 - 1:45:00 Class of '84: 1:46:00 - 3:11:00 The Warriors: 3:12:00 - 5:08:00 Face/Off: 5:10:00 - 6:45:00 Feedback 6:46:00 - END  

Well, we finally made it! Episode 199!!! And with it we bring bad tidings and a dearth of joy because this week we review 3 very peculiar, very misguided attempts to pull everyone's heart strings. Matt Suzaka joins us on an odyssey as we review Colin Trevorrow's family revenge film Book of Henry, Tony Kaye's apocalyptic schoolhouse drama, Detachment and Matthew Bright's romantic dwarf dramedy, Tiptoes. e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:58:00 Book of Henry: 0:59:00 - 1:41:00 Detachment: 1:42:00 - 2:25:00 Tiptoes: 2:26:00 - END

This week before we wind down into the end of the year we're looking at a couple dtv action movies hot off the stove in 2017.  We sit down to review Isaac Florentine's Acts of Vengeance and Scott Adkins does really really violent stuff in Savage Dog! E-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 1:05:25 Acts of Vengeance: 1:06:50 - 1:43:00 Savage Dog: 1:44:30 - END  

This week Wes and Kelly fill in for Jake and CD-R puts them both through their paces with a couple of left fielders. First off they stumble their way through the violent streets of Kowloon with Tsui Hark's Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind and then they get all hopped up on goofballs and bumble their way through the streets of rural Ohio with JR Bookwalter's Ozone. E-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:00 - 0:34:00 Dangerous Encounters: 0:36:00 - 1:14:00 Ozone:1:15:00 - END

This week CD-R digs back into his sweatpants and pulls out another extra special ball of lint called Dead or Alive from 2002 (No, definitely none of the Dead or Alives you're thinking of...) and hits a home run slam dunk from the 40 yard line with The Professional: Golgo 13! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:53:00 Golgo 13: 0:54:00 - 1:34:00 Dead or Alive: 1:35:00 - END

  This week we retreat to two maestros of cult-certified comfort food with Ringo Lam's Full Contact and Takashi Miike's 100th film Blade of the Immortal! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:51:20 Blade of the Immortal: 0:52:40 - 1:38:50 Full Contact: 1:40:20 - END  

  This week we keep one toe in October and the other in our comfort zone with a couple of Action Horror entries. First we kick things off with Olaf Ittenbach's interminable riff on Tarantino in Legion of the Dead and then run screaming into the comfortable, house coated arms of Steve Barkett with Empire of the Dark. e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:46:00 Legion of the Dead: 0:47:00 - 1:15:00 Empire of the Dark: 1:16:00 - END

This week things get veddy sceddy as the boys usher in Spooktoberween with a couple of 90s horror megahits. First, the children of the night go ham in Francis Ford Coppolla's Bram Stoker's Dracula, then Guy Pierce does everything he can not to eat HUMAN ham in Antonia Bird's Ravenous. e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:42:00  Dracula: 0:43:00 - 1:31:00 Ravenous: 1:32:00 - END

This week the boys stay on the bleeding edge with the newly released prison beat-em-up from Bone Tomahawk's Craig S Zahler and then jump back to the swingin' 70s for some stat rape in Pretty Maids All in a Row! Heads get stomped and babes get boinked! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:51:00 Brawl: 0:52:00 - 1:34:00 Pretty Maids and Feedback: 1:35:00 - END

Blade Runner 2049 came out last week so we decided to attempt a discussion of Blade Runner (1982) as well as 2049. Wes and Kelly join us to add fart ambience and glue sniffing stories. e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:08:00 Blade Runner: 1:09:00 - 2:03:00 Blade Runner 2049: 2:04:00 - END

We still can't wash the musty stink of the 90s off this show so we decide to plunge even deeper into the shallow pool of 90s crime films with reviews of L.A. Confidential and The Usual Suspects.  Is the stink pleasant?  Is the stink foul?  Does it matter?  Do we care?! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com redbubble: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:22:10 The Usual Suspects: 1:23:50 - 2:03:20 L.A. Confidential: 2:05:20 - END

Wes and Kelly triumphantly return to talk about two of the heaviest of heavy hitters from the 90s, Basic Instinct and Last Action Hero! We also have extended discussions about Aronofsky's wildly controversial Mother! as well as the newly released smash hit horror phenomenon, IT. Things accelerate to sweaty, steamy, grunty levels quickly so make sure to bring a hand towel and some protection. e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com redbubble: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:38:00 Basic Instinct: 1:40:00 - 2:30:00 Last Action Hero: 2:30:00 - END

This week CD-R indulges his recent Twin Peaks driven Lynch obsession by inflicting the astonishingly weird Dune on Jake, but attempts to throw him a bone with the early C. Thomas Howell revenge actioner, Kid. Is it enough to assuage the pain of the box? Tune in to find out! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:33:00 Kid: 0:34:00 - 1:06:00 Dune: 1:07:00 - 1:45:00 Feedback: 1:45:00 - END

This week the boys mix it up with some very contemporary, mainstream action and a little taste of the esoteric with the newly released in theaters, Wind River and the newly released on grey market internet sites, Big Magnum Kuroiwa Sensei. It's episode 187 so the theme of the week is MURRRDERRRRRRRR!! *Ja Rule Voice* e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Liftage: 0:00:0 - 0:59:30 Wind River: 1:01:00 - 1:32:00 Big Magnum: 1:33:00 - 2:02:00 Feedback: 2:02:00 - END

It gets sweaty and slimy this week with a couple crude dudes with bad attitudes. This week we cover Bobbert De Niro going HAM throughout Georgia in Cape Fear and Jim Van Bebber wages war against his cemetary dojo in Deadbeat at Dawn! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:55:20 Cape Fear: 0:57:05 - 1:41:00 Deadbeat At Dawn: 1:43:05 - 2:18:45 Feedback: 2:18:45 - END

Jake returns this week and with him he brings two monosyllabically macho mansterpieces in Dredd and Boyka! Throats are crushed and religion is found! Get it! e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shops   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 0:41:00 Dredd: 0:42:00 - 1:28:00 Boyka: 1:29:00 - 2:00:0 Feedback: 2:00:00 - END

This week our good buddy Wes jumps in for a lean and mean last minute recording sesh while Jakey's away. We bring back a couple of CoM favorites with Sean Penn and Ollie Stone in U-Turn and Chrissy Lambert returns in Stuart Gordon's Fortress. Lock in your Intestinator's and get ready for a big ol' mouthful!   E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Facebook: Fackebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Intro: 0:00:00 - 0:27:00 U-Turn: 0:28:00 - 1:01:00 Fortress: 1:02:00 - END

The internet gods were unkind to us this week and decided they didn't want you to have any liftage so we dive headlong into our reviews of Smash Palace and the Adventures of Ford Fairlane with the quickness of two Swedish sorority girls being kicked out of the Diceman's rathole L.A. apartment on a steamy 80s Saturday morn! That being said we still bring the girth of any other two lesser podcast episodes combined, so kick back with your best Koala buddy and a cold Sambuca milkshake because it's Booty Time!   E-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Intro/Smash Palace: 0:00:0 - 0:50:00 Ford Fairlane: 0:53:00 - 1:23:00 Feedback: 1:24:00 - END        

This week good friend of the show Cody brings with him a pair of oddities concerning fractured minds and the cataclysmic effects it can have on a person's loved ones. First we take an extra double deep dive into the psyche of Hollywood renaissance man, David Heavener and his Vietnam vet backwoods thriller, Kill Crazy. Then we slam our respective heads against the wall trying to decipher what led to John Huston's sweet baby boy, Danny, directing Burt "Giggles" Reynolds in The Maddening. Strap into your straight jackets and get ready for some hydrotherapy because the crazy's beadin' off of us like sweat off a Moonpie in the hot Florida sun! E-Mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Facebook: Facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: Redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 0:00:0 - 1:18:00 Kill Crazy: 1:19:00 - 2:05:00 The Maddening: 2:06:00 2:41:00 Feedback: 2:42:00 - END

The stinky secretions of trash cinema are raining down on the cult this week.  For this week's episode Bobby Gintz rides back into to town with his low energy charm in Warrior of the Lost World and we get a parade of long butts and female wrasslers in American Angels: Baptism of Blood!   e-mail: cultofmuscle@gmail.com tumblr: cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Liftage: 0:00:0 - 1:01:55 American Angels: 1:03:35 - 1:35:30 Warrior of the Lost World: 1:37:05 - 2:11:50 Feedback: 2:11:50 - END