Cult Of Muscle!!!!!!!!

From the dignity of Sidney Poitier to the indignity of sweaty, screamy, slappy Mel Gibson in this week's episode in da cult.  Sidney Poitier and Tom Berenger get nekkie and snuggle up in their snow trailer in Shoot to Kill and Mel Gibson plays the bad guy then plays a slightly less bad guy but he definitely gets tortured in Payback! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 00:00:00 - 00:54:20 Napoli Spara: 00:55:50 - 1:29:50 Payback: 1:31:20 - END

This week things kick off with some old school Italo-fascist cop nastiness and the stone-faced slab himself, Henry Silva is along for the ride in Mario Caiano's Weapons of Death aka Napoli Spara! (1977).  Then we head on out to anytown USA where C. Thomas Howell is playing out his Postman fantasies in the John Woo tinged, erotic Neo Noir thriller(?), Payback (1995). So grab the flour and let's start whippin' us up a sex-cake between our legs!  Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop Lifting: 00:00:00 - 00:30:15 Napoli Spara: 00:31:15 - 1:01:45 Payback: 1:04:00 - END

It's a triple feature episode of the cult this week as a recently unearthed, long-lost vanity project recently fell from the heavens and into our moist laps.  Looking back on the dearly departed career and life of Yaphet Kotto we start with the indescribable Bone, then we transition to a dick yankin Charlie Bronson in The Evil That Men Do, and finally we put some eyeballs on Craig Denney's recently unearthed The Astrologer! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 17:00 Bone: 17:00 - 42:55 The Evil That Men Do: 44:25 - 1:14:20 The Astrologer: 1:15:50 - END

Reaching into the nostalgia backpack this week, we finally give the Bond franchise a once-over with Goldeneye and Chuck Connors sleeps in the corner while ninjas run amok in Sakura Killers! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 24:30 Goldeneye: 26:00 - 1:04:15 Sakura Killers: 1:05:45 - END

Screamy and sleazy, this episode covers a whoooole lot of ground between Dan O'Bannon's swan song with grumpy Peter Weller in Screamers and Lee Daniels makes all of our dreams come true in The Paperboy! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 34:40 Screamers: 36:10 - 1:14:00 The Paperboy: 1:15:30 - END

Hunky boys, beefy explosions, and plenty of gremlin noises echo through the halls of the cult this week as we dip back into the PM Entertainment pool with sobby Brion James in Steel Frontier and Frank Grillo is just a sad old fatty in Boss Level! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 41:00 Boss Level: 42:30 - 1:16:40 Steel Frontier: 1:18:10 - END

Sometimes you just have to indulge your insatiable lust for grime and hematomas.  This week the cult gets dragged through the mud in the Czech middle ages romp Valley of the Bees and Stuart Gordon puts a penis on Kari Wuhrer in King of the Ants! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 44:50 Valley of the Bees: 46:20 - 1:16:00 King of the Ants: 1:17:30 - END

Shirtless karate boys from Europe run wild through the halls of the cult this weeks as Jason Statham extols the virtues of motor oil in The Transporter and then go over to the baby oiled land of mad monks and mad Irish lads in Fatal Deviation! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 30:30 The Transporter: 32:00 - 1:14:10 Fatal Deviation: 1:15:40 - END

We talk a waltz down circular sunglass memory lane this week as CDR's dear childhood favorite The Hard Way with Michael J Fox and James Woods(naturally).  Then you can watch us turn into bitter curmudgeons in record time as Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich giggle gibberish in the corner in The Fifth Element! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 42:55 The Hard Way: 44:25 - 1:22:50 The Fifth Element: 1:24:10 - END

Sometimes the Cult just needs LDP and Renny Harlin back in their lives, but with questionable results as Lou Diamond Philips works his way through a CYBER THRILLER in Hangman and Renny Harline assembles some hunky boys in The Covenant! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 32:10 Hangman: 33:40 - 57:40 The Covenant: 59:10 - END

7 years of the stupidest, saddest, strangest, and most toxic film discussion the world has ever seen done by the stupidest, saddest, strangest, and most toxic schmucks imaginable.  Joining us for this momentous occasion and he programmed Akron's favorite ragtag band of martial artists in The Instructor, Sly Stallone working through some real shit in Rambo, Ari Aster making Jacob go for a walk in The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, and then finally an appropriately deranged power fantasy in Run Hide Fight! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 42:40 The Instructor: 44:10 - 1:34:55 Rambo: 1:36:25 - 2:37:00 The Strange Thing About the Johnsons: 2:38:30 - 3:07:50 Run Hide Fight and Feedback: 3:09:20 - END

Ridley pays tribute to his bro Ton and Astron 6 pays tribute to nightmare children across the globe as this week the Cult dives into the stinky sleazy film The Counselor and we get those hunky boy feels in Psycho Goreman! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 42:05 The Counselor: 43:35 - 1:25:35 Psycho Goreman: 1:27:05 - END

Nu year, Nu Image straight in our veins this week as you witness a love triangle between Peter Weller, Tia Carrere, and Dennis Hopper in Top of the World and Dolph Lundgren goes AOL in Bulgaria in Direct Contact! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 34:50 Direct Contact: 36:20 - 1:25:20 Top of the World: 1:26:50 - END

With the recent passing of Adolfo Shabba Doo Quinones and Sharon Stone's willingness to star in the weirdest shit imaginable, this week the cult reviews Hitchcockian bewilderment in Scissors and Shabba Doo gets jealous of a teacher grinding on his own students in Lambada! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 45:20 Scissors: 46:50 - 1:31:20 Lambada: 1:32:50 - END

New year, new cinematic scabs to pick and sniff and brag about.  We kick off the new year with Donald Coscarelli's ferret apologist film The Beastmaster and Ruben Galindo Jr makes the world a better place in Don't Panic! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 45:20 The Beastmaster: 46:50 - 1:31:20 Don't Panic: 1:32:50 - END

The Cult gives its final middle finger to the year with reviews of two villainous forces, a legendary clan of evil Japanese warriors in Bohachi Bushido: Saburai and Fred Ward channeling Bruce Willis' hairline in Miami Blues, along with other crimes against hair! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 26:15 Bohachi Bushido- Villainy: 26:15 - 1:01:40 Miami Blues: 1:01:40 - END

From the heavens to the streets, the Cult tosses boulder at your earholes this week as some stinky German dudes try to escape the stinky life in Supermarkt and Greek mythology dares to be stupid in Luigi Cozzi's Hercules! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 35:35 Supermarkt: 37:05 - 1:07:00 Hercules: 1:08:30 - END

Two nasty boys talking about two nastier boys this week as Christopher Mitchum finds a way to weaponize PTSD in The Executioner Part 2 and Christopher Lambert seduces everyone but Daniel Baldwin  in Knight Moves! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 27:25 The Executioner Part 2: 28:55 - 1:07:00 Knight Moves: 1:08:30 - END

Things get a little sensitive this week as we examine two guys being dudes in Atlantic City in Gunshy and Mark Wahlberg is somehow the least fraudulent white dude in The Big Hit! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 45:10 Gunshy: 46:40 - 1:19:30 The Big Hit: 1:21:00 - END

There is a bountiful feast of exceptionally poor taste that on the Cult can serve up!  Hong Kong puts on its best blossom hat and grabs its shiniest machete in Girls Gang and Dino De Laurentiis brings all the nuance in the sequel to Mandingo that everyone craved, Drum! Feedback: cultofmuscle@gmail.com Facebook: facebook.com/groups/cultofmuscle Merch: redbubble.com/people/cultofmuscle/shop   Lifting: 00:00 - 28:30 Girls Gang: 30:00 - 58:50 Drum: 1:00:20 - END