Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

Somehow, someway we made it out of October with our hearts and our minds intact so we return to our favorite action movie stable, the tournament film!  Granted the tournament aspects are really weak, but don't you tell Hector Echavarria in Never Surrender or Robert Chapin in Ring of Steel.  An unlikely pairing of a fencing tournament and an mma tournament featuring a demi-god.  Oh, also Patrick Kilpatrick and Joe Don Baker make us super uncomfortable! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-57:30 Never Surrender- 59:30-1:45:25 Ring of Steel- 1:47:10-2:17:00 Feedback- 2:17:00-2:48:20

This week's episode bids farewell to the month of October with a couple satanic cop films marking the returns of Lou Diamond Philips and Arnie Schwarzy back to the podcast.  We review The First Power and End of Days.  This week we are joined by the singular talents of Johnny Wolfenstein and Dynamo Marz from the excellent Trick or Treat Radio podcast!  With our powers combined, we broke the 4 hour mark! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:22:40 The First Power- 1:24:20-2:14:05 End of Days-2:15:20-3:10:15 Feedback- 3:10:15-4:03:30

Freudian terror and Nicolas Cage's hairline take center stage on this week's episode with reviews of Anaconda and Season of the Witch.  What these movies lack in biceps, it more than makes up for it with spectacular acting range between Jon Voight and Nicolas Cage! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-58:55 Anaconda- 1:01:10-1:46:45 Season of the Witch- 1:48:20-2:32:20 Feedback- 2:32:20-3:12:00

Grease up your leather donuts, this week we are joined by good friends of the show Kelly and Wes to review a couple more spooky-inspired nonsense that only this show can produce.  This week's episode consists of John Carpenter's Vampires aka Daniel Baldwin's Burger Paradise and Bruno Mattei screams onto the podcast with Shocking Dark aka Terminator 2! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:17:40 Vampires- 1:19:15-2:04:30 Shocking Dark- 2:06:25-2:37:10 Feedback- 2:37:10-3:18:20

The leaves are falling, the pumpkins are out of their patches, and we do our damndest to shoehorn some spookiness into these hallowed halls of beef.  This week's episode brings you some scatterbrained reviews of the curious Linda Blair starring movie Grotesque(guest-starring a punk Z'Dar!) and as if this poor decision wasn't enough we also reviewed auteur Stephen Sommers' Deep Rising! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:08:25 Deep Rising- 1:10:00-1:48:30 Grotesque- 1:50:10-2:12:25 Feedback- 2:12:25-2:45:30

Due to scheduling tomfoolery that can't be excused by myself, CD-R couldn't make it on this week's episode but the AWESOME ONE, Awesome Fabian guests on our humble podcast and he's bringing two ham-fists of awesome movies with him.  In a Cult of Muscle first, we review two movies that share the same title so we reviewed the first collaboration between Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins in Special Forces(2003) and we also look at the French military actioner with Djimoun Hounsou and a couple familiar faces from Inglorious Basterds and that film is Special Forces(2011)! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:07:30 Special Forces(2003)- 1:09:20-2:01:40 Special Forces(2011)- 2:03:10-2:41:20 Feedback- 2:41:20-3:35:30

Another titan of podcasting has descended from the great gym on the other side and what better way to bring on our pal Justin Oberholtzer than with a two-fisted slam jam of William Smith!  Hollywood Man shows William Smith vs the mob and in Road to Revenge aka Geteven John De Hart steps into the ring and stares William Smith down with those vacant, piercing eyes! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-46:10 Hollywood Man- 47:35-1:21:00 Road to Revenge- 1:22:15-2:12:15 Feedback- 2:12:15-2:45:05

We've been dancing around our boy, Steven Seagal, for far too long and so the bayou(?) badass gets his due with a review of Under Siege!  If that's not enough, we focus our laser sights on the bleeding edge with the latest Michael Jai White dtv movie Falcon Uprising.  Come for Tommy Lee Jones' prototype Two-Face performance and stay for Gary Busey in drag! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-56:25 Under Siege- 57:50-1:40:30 Falcon Uprising- 1:42:20-2:29:20 Feedback- 2:29:20-2:59:40

A couple unlikely challengers step into the Cult of Muscle this week.  Alain Delon shows up on the doorstep and he brought his Eurocrime buddies with him in Big Guns aka Tony Arzenta.  Then from the depths of the Amsterdam canals come one of the most unlikely genre mashups we've covered on the show and that film is Amsterdamned! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:08:20 Amsterdamned- 1:11:00-1:48:20 Big Guns- 1:49:35-2:25:30 Feedback- 2:25:30-3:09:40

Two of our favorite European filmmakers invade the Cult of Muscle this week.  We just can't quit Renny Harlin so we give his criminally underseen Mindhunters the treatment and Paul Verhoeven descends from the rafters with Kevin's digital Bacon in Hollow Man.  Also, this episode is dedicated to our favorite Survivor in the sky! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:08:15 Hollow Man- 1:10:30-1:52:30 Mindhunters- 1:54:55-2:25:10 Feedback- 2:25:10-3:17:30

You can't ever go home, but you can listen to the Cult of Muscle!  This week we explore the horrors of war and coming home with Thou Shalt Not Kill...Except and Dead Presidents!  Get it! Send in you feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-50:00 Thou Shalt Not Kill Except- 51:45-1:23:05 Dead Presidents- 1:25:10-2:02:10 Feedback- 2:02:10-2:40:40

This is the episode ladies and gents!  The episode where we cover the greatest action movie all time, Expendables 3!!!!!!!!!!!!  In keeping with our celebratory spirit, we also review a film from one of the minor Expendables co-stars and that movie is The Running Man!  Lots of plastic, lots of artifice, lots of shallow behavior.  100% Grade-A synthetic MUSCLE! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:04:25 The Running Man- 1:08:20-1:49:55 Expendables 3- 1:52:10-2:45:15 Feedback- 2:45:15-3:27:45

CD-R returns from da' island and he's bringing two suburbanite paranoia films with him!  Walter Hill pits Bill Paxton and William Sadler against Ice-T and Ice Cube in Trespass and the strangest group of friends end up on the wrong side of town in Judgment Night!  Two reviews crazier than Cuba Gooding Jr.'s crazy eyes! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com! Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:05:45 Judgment Night- 1:07:20-1:49:00 Trespass- 1:50:50-2:31:00 Feedback- 2:31:00-3:38:50

This week CD-R is on vacation so Doctor Zom from the Silva and Gold podcast graciously took time away from his split pea soup addiction to talk some movies!  Marvel as we fumble and stumble our way through McCanick and Money Movers, two crime movies that proved too complicated for our puny brains but we still gave it a go! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com! Whatcha' Been Lifting: 00:00- McCanick- Money Movers- Feedback-

It was a time of cops on the edge and honor-bound Japanese cops.  It was a time of Sho Kosugi, Sam Jones, Rage of Honor, and Maximum Force.  It was a golden age of cults and muscles!  With extra muscles! As always send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:06:50 Rage of Honor- 1:09:40-1:50:45 Maximum Force- 1:53:00-2:36:15 Feedback- 2:36:15-3:27:20

You like your missions, your men, and your women all thrown into a big stew of sweatiness?!  That was rhetorical!  This week's episode covers the manliest macho manfest we're likely to cover all year in the Rod Taylor/Jim Brown spectacular Dark of the Sun and David A. Prior descends from the mountaintops to deliver Mankillers! Be sure to send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com! Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-46:30 Mankillers- 48:45-1:18:40 Dark of the Sun- 1:19:55-1:54:35 Feedback- 1:54:35-2:25:40

The unlikeliest of heroes get thawed from their tombs on this week's episode.  Martin Kove and Frank Zagarino make things awkward for everyon in Project Shadowchaser and Brian Bosworth butts heads with Bruce Payne in One Man's Justice.  Get out of the son, get into the dungeon, and lift some cement weights.  You didn't renovate that basement for nothing! Like the fine gentlemen who had some questions and let us know what they were up watching, be sure to send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com! Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:09:20 One Man's Justice- 1:12:30-1:50:10 Project Shadowchaser- 1:52:35-2:32:55 Feedback- 2:32:55-3:40:18

This week's episode brings the ruckus with reviews of Blind Fury and Avenging Force.  Michael Dudikoff and Rutger Hauer get placed on the altar and Jake's fragile psyche would never be the same.  Damn cornfields. Be sure to send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting 0:00:00-1:01:50 Blind Fury- 1:04:05-1:44:35 Avenging Force- 1:46:15-2:27:10 Feedback- 2:27:10-2:58:50

This week's episode is filled to the brim with damaged characters, corrupt sociopaths, and even Yaphet Kotto playing dress-up.  That means the two movies served up to the altar this week are The Last Boy Scout and Extreme Justice! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com Whatcha' Been Lifting- 00:00-57:45 The Last Boy Scout- 1:00:15-1:53:20 Extreme Justice- 1:56:00-2:48:20 Feedback- 2:48:20-3:12:40

You ever wanted some guidance on how to have monkeys 69 on a pro wrestler's face and not feel crass?  Boy oh boy did you stop at the right shop!  This week the altar of muscle gets served up The Rundown and the real John Stewart returns with Miles O'Keefe in Cartel.  Put your balls on the table, boys! Send in your feedback to cultofmuscle@gmail.com and check out cultofmuscle.tumblr.com! Whatcha' Been Lifting- 0:00:00-1:06:30 Cartel- 1:08:20-1:52:05 The Rundown- 1:53:40-2:39:25 Feedback- 2:39:25-3:17:05