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Getting In Your Face(book) Mikey Madison (Anora) braces for a Social Reckoning after she shares stolen Facebook secrets with investigative reporter Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) in this 2026 docudrama. Has Mark Zuckerberg (Succession’s Jeremy Strong) become a better friend to media types like Bill Burr (The Mandalorian) since Jesse Eisenberg played the retaliatory tech-company CEO in start-up story The Social Network?  And can Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) make this Meta commentary with the same directorial flair as David Fincher?  Find out Now!

Back To The Wall Tom Hanks goes from settling insurance claims to defending a suspected Russian agent at the height of the Cold War in Steven Spielberg’s historical thriller Bridge of Spies. But will this New York lawyer feel out of place traveling between East and West Berlin on a mission to swap his client for two captured Americans?  And was the public more outraged that Mark Rylance (The BFG) passed U.S. nuclear secrets to Commies in 1957, or that he beat out Sylvester Stallone to win Best Supporting Actor in 2015? Donors receive decoded answers now!

Iguana Be Sedated Matthew Broderick needs another day off after Godzilla rises out of the Hudson to nest in New York City in a 1998 reboot of the iconic Japanese monster. But should this dweeby biologist criticize the asexual reproduction of a giant lizard laying eggs inside Madison Square Garden when he’s got even less romantic chemistry with aspiring reporter Maria Patillo?  And can Hollywood hitmakers Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin coax our star to demolish Manhattan buildings with the same zeal as the UFOs from Independence Day?  Listen and find out now!

Cast Away Political unrest traps Tom Hanks in an eternal JFK International layover in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 comedic fable The Terminal. Can Diego Luna (Andor), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), Chi McBride (Boston Public), and other airport employees teach this lovable refugee to survive off Starbucks and Burger King scraps while he waits for a visa to legally enter the U.S.? Or will Customs tyrant Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada) deport the foreigner before he scores a date with flight attendant Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago)? Now Playing Podcast Donors get First Class answers now!

Halloween has come to Now Playing! The hosts share their favorite spooky-season traditions, from month-long horror marathons and haunted houses to vintage TV specials, costumed pets, and gifts from the mysterious Mr. Bogeyman. Meanwhile, Arnie has accidentally planned an entire month around Hellraiser. Plus, concerts, Star Trek, fantasy football, and a patron brave enough to face our horror movie trivia!

Jurassic Landmark This podcast covers both the original 1954 Japanese Godzilla as well as the 1956 Americanized re-edit Godzilla: King of the Monsters Before all the throwdowns with Mothra, Ghidorah, and King Kong, radioactive dinosaur Godzilla stood tall as a symbol of nuclear annihilation in his 1954 debut. Can paleontologist Takashi Shimura (Seven Samurai) convince the people of Japan that the creature attacking their boats, trains, and radio towers is just as much a victim of H-bomb testing as they are? And do things get worse with the arrival of American journalist Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) and an Oxygen Destroyer invention that steals the fiery breath from the big lizard’s mouth?  Find out now!

Con Air Leonardo DiCaprio invites bank fraud investigator Tom Hanks to Catch Me If You Can as the teenage runaway travels 1960s America pulling scams in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated caper. But can the wealth and status that comes from impersonating doctors, lawyers, and airline pilots make Leo any happier than he was living with hustler dad Christopher Walken (The Dead Zone) and French mom Nathalie Baye (Day For Night)?  And is it smart to flirt with vixens Jennifer Garner (Alias) and Amy Adams (Arrival)?  Silver Level Donors find out now!

First Person Shirker   Austin Abrams (Whalefall) is tasked with delivering the cure to another Umbrella Corporation lab leak in the 2026 reboot of Resident Evil. But can the hapless courier reach the top floor of a Raccoon City hospital overrun with monsters using a vehicle unprepared for snowy mountain roads, receiving intermittent cell connection with a pregnant girlfriend, and having only handled guns in video games?  And will writer-director Zach Cregger (Weapons) be torn limb from limb for discarding all the franchise lore to focus on pratfalls?  F*ckin’ find out when you Listen Now!

Is it evil that I’m glad Milla Jovovich is no longer a resident of this franchise? Umbrella Corporation wanted South Africa’s New Raccoon City to launch a pharmaceutical revolution in 2022, but the failed utopia ends up birthing a zombie apocalypse in Netflix’s episodic reboot of Resident Evil. Is the reason why twin sisters Ella Ballinska (Charlie’s Angels) and Adeline Rudolph (Mortal Kombat II) have no Joy in 2036 because their chemist father Lance Reddick (The Wire) screwed up an antidepressant 14 years before?  And does it make Zero sense that the T-virus is now turning caterpillars and lizards into kaiju?  Find out now!

They Died With Their Socks Off Tom Hanks storms the beaches of Normandy looking for Matt Damon in Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning WWII classic Saving Private Ryan. But is one soldier’s life worth the risk posed to second-in-command Tom Sizemore (Black Hawk Down), religious sniper Barry Pepper (Flags of Our Fathers), interpreter Jeremy Davies (Twister), medic Giovanni Ribisi (Avatar), cynic Ed Burns (The Brothers McMullen), jokester Adam Goldberg (Dazed And Confused), and family man Vin Diesel (Fast and Furious)? Donate Today to “Earn This” bonus movie review podcast!

Crimson Tides YouTuber Mark Fischbach (aka Markiplier) adapts David Symanski’s 2022 submarine simulator Iron Lung into the surprise hit movie of 2026. What conspiracies will be uncovered when a convict gets welded inside a rickety submersible and dives into an ocean of blood on a distant moon?  Will the x-rays taken of alien creatures, or transmissions downloaded and decoded from other vessels, be the key to saving a dying universe?  And will Simon - or hosts Stuart, Arnie, and Justin - survive this deep plunge into the Now Playing Arcade?  Find out Now!

Rabbit Test Jake Gyllenhaal has 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds to transform into a superhero or a serial killer in the 2001 cult movie Donnie Darko. But could any good come from visions of a six-foot-tall bunny encouraging the troubled teen to flood Drew Barrymore’s high school and burn Patrick Swayze’s house?  And can mom Mary McDonald (Independence Day) commit to both her son’s mental health and her daughter’s dance troupe as they audition for Star Search? Travel back in time to Richard Kelly’s version of 1988 by being a Now Playing Podcast patron!

Get Your Ass Off Mars Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) thought he liberated the Red Planet from bossy Earthlings 25 years ago, but that was just the Origins of a conflict that rages on in this 2011 SyFy Channel video game adaptation. Can Red Faction trooper Brian J Smith (Stargate Universe) mobilize Blue Planet scientist Danielle Nicolet (TV’s The Flash), and local Marauders led by Kate Vernon (Battlestar Galactica), to ensure that the Earth Defense Force stays off Martian soil?  Trust Terrans Arnie, Justin, and Stuart to tell the truth about this next Now Playing Arcade installment.

The Now Playing crew checks in for another Intermission with a packed slate of movies, memories, and questionable homework assignments. Jason revisits Point Break on the big screen 35 years later. Brock goes from The American President to Kate & Leopold and an MCU rewatch, and Stuart reports back from Chicago’s new Obama Presidential Center. Plus Arnie and Justin unexpectedly find common ground in the comedy of The State, Wet Hot American Summer, and Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass. Then longtime listener Josh joins the show for Resident Evil trivia and turns the tables with a question about the origins of Now Playing Podcast's "Brown Arrow" Review Rating. Finally, Disney+ has assembled a 15-project watchlist to prepare for Avengers: Doomsday. Does revisiting the MCU’s greatest hits and less-greatest hits make the crew more excited for the next Avengers movie, or does it just feel like homework? All this is explored on September's special Intermission episode!

No, Sly, they didn’t name the Rocky Mountains after you. Sylvester Stallone ascended to the top of the summer 1993 box office with his comeback flick Cliffhanger. Can the pumped-up park ranger shake off the tragedy of watching a woman slip from his grip during a rock-climbing rescue?  Who else is gonna stop John Lithgow (Dexter) and his high-tech criminals from recovering three suitcases of $1000 bills that were lost during the robbery of a US Treasury plane? Find out if director Renny Harlin takes the action skills he honed on Die Hard 2 to greater heights when you become a Now Playing Patron this August.