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Casting The Net
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Here on Casting The Net, Ken-K and Clarissa (aka "The Adorable Lil' Hypebeast") show some love to all the movies that didn't quite make it to theaters, but that shouldn't stop you from checking them out on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, OnDemand, or however you all choose to discover new and original movies in the comfort of your own home.
Episodes
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Casting The Net Episode 219: Doppelganger [SPOILER SUPREME]
Drew Barrymore certainly had a few interesting entries in her filmography in the early 90s. This week, we finally got around to talking about what is arguably her most perplexing with Doppelganger. Relocating from the east coast to the west, young heiress Holly tries to get away from her past,...
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Casting The Net Episode 218: Guns Akimbo
This week, we're talking about the ridiculously violent action comedy starry Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving, Guns Akimbo (or "When a production still from your movie becomes a viral meme a solid two years before the movie comes out!"), and the potential dangers of spending too much time…
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Casting The Net Episode 217: Amish Stud
This week we're getting into some true crime with Lifetime's Amish Stud: The Eli Weaver Story. Despite being a member of the Amish community, Eli just couldn't stop himself from spreading his love all over town. He took advantage of several women who would do anything to please him . . . even...
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Casting The Net Episode 216: Kamikaze Girls
This week, we covered the early aughts Japanese comedy Kamikaze Girls at Clarissa's request, as the worlds of Lolita fashion and girl biker gangs collide in the most unlikeliest of friendships! Momoko using her whatever money her wannabe gangster father can earn to feed her obsession with the...
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Casting The Net Episode 215: The Neon Demon [SPOILER SUPREME]
There's really no way to talk about Nicholas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon without REALLY talking about it, so make sure you've already watched it (or not), because this episode is a SPOILER SUPREME!!!!! Celebrating its tenth anniversary as Refn is set to release his first feature since its...
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Casting The Net Episode 214: Cherry Falls
An underseen gem of the post-Scream horror boom of the late 90s/early 2000s, we're diving into the Brittany Murphy starring slasher film Cherry Falls this week, as teenagers of a sleepy Virginia town find themselves at the mercy of a ruthless killer who seemingly only targets virgins. Deprived of…
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Casting The Net Episode 213: DOA - Dead or Alive
We decided to keep the video game adaptation train rolling and cover an underseen "classic" from the mid-aughts, based on the popular Tecmo series Dead or Alive. When the best fighters in the world are invited to compete in a martial arts tournament, five of its female combatants will team up to...
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Casting The Net Episode 212: Return To Silent Hill [Spoiler Supreme]
We knew we'd have to cover it at some point, as original Silent Hill director Christophe Gans returns with a new entry in the cinematic adaptation franchise based on the popular video game series after 20 whole-ass years with Return To Silent Hill. This time around, James Sunderland finds his way...
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Casting The Net Episode 211: Only The Strong
The time has come for our Mark Dacascos Retrospective to come to an end (For now!), as we get to talking about what was meant to be his breakout role in Only The Strong. After being stationed in Brazil, soldier Louis Stevens returns to the inner city Florida high school he graduated from to teach…
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Casting The Net Episode 210: Drive
We're still showing love to Mark Dacascos as we discuss the 1997 action comedy Drive. As a Chinese super soldier on the run, Dacascos teams up with A Different World star Kadeem Hardison to face off agents the ruthless operatives of the corporation behind the technology that's turned him into an...
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Casting The Net Episode 209: Crying Freeman
The Mark Dacascos Retrospective continues this week, as we discuss the anime/manga adaptation Crying Freeman. In the directorial debut of French director Christophe Gans, Dacascos stars as Yoh, a brainwashed assassin who sheds a tear after every kill. Tasked with killing a young woman who's...
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Casting The Net Episode 208: Sabotage [The Philly Cheesesteak Tour]
For the first time since Clarissa (aka The Adorable Lil' Hypebeast) joined the podcast, your intrepid hosts have finally recorded an episode in person, to kick off 2026 right! We tried to hit up as many Philly cheesesteak spots as we could in the city of Brotherly Love, but we quickly learned our...
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Casting The Net Episode 207: Frankenstein
We're closing out 2025 with a Netflix original film, as director Guillermo Del Toro brings Mary Shelley's science fiction/horror masterpiece Frankenstein to life like you've never seen it before. Oscar Issac stars as as the titular mad scientist, obsessed with creating life from death, only to...
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Casting The Net Episode 206 - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Covering a movie that surprisingly didn't have a wide release when it came out 20 years ago, we're talking about a movie instrumental in Robert Downey Jr's comeback, and the directorial debut of the screenwriter behind Lethal Weapon, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. After barging in on a movie audition to...
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Casting The Net Episode 205: Repo! The Genetic Opera
Remember when the director of all those Saw sequels directed a dystopian sci-fi/horror nu-metal musical starring Paul Sorvino, Bill Mosley, Sarah Brightman, Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and PARIS HILTON?!?!? This week, we're talking about Repo! The Genetic Opera, a fitting movie given our...
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Casting The Net Episode 204: Battle Royale
The week, we're discussing the maybe-controversial Japanese action thriller from 2000, Battle Royale. Based on the novel by Koushun Takami, a group of high school students believing they're on a class trip are instead taken to an evacuated island and forced to engage in a brutal game of survival...
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Casting The Net Episode 203: War of the Worlds
You have to hand it to the trailer for War of the Worlds informing audiences of its quality by including the line, "It's worse than you think." We finally got around to discussing one of the most talked about streaming releases of the year, and that talk has not been good, as Ice Cube stars in…
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Casting The Net Episode 202: K-Pop Demon Hunters
Cast aside by Sony Pictures and rescued by Netflix, we're talking about the monster hit that is K-Pop Demon Hunters, bringing together vibrant animation, surprisingly catchy k-pop tunes and . . . a supernatural battle to protect the souls of all mankind from a horde of demons?!?! K-Pop superstars...
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Casting The Net Episode 201: The Telling [SPOILER SUPREME]
Our resident Adorable Lil' Hypebeast Clarissa has us venturing back to Tubi to discuss the 2009 "horror" anthology film, The Telling, starring former Playboy Playmate Holly Madison and produced by fellow Playmate Bridget Marquardt. Forced to change their rules after the suicide of a previous...
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Casting The Net Episode 200: Guyver Dark Hero
There's been a ton of stops and restarts along the way, times when I thought it would probably be best just to shut the whole thing down, but we finally made it to 200 episodes of Casting The Net! And to celebrate this momentous occasion, we're talking about the sequel to The Guyver, Guyver 2…
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Casting The Net Episode 199: The Guyver
An early 90s anime adaptation starring Mark Hamill as a biomechanical suit wearing superhero?!!? NOPE!!! but the movie cover sure tried to trick folks into thinking that! Other than Mark Hamill NOT being the actual hero of The Guyver, this is one of those straight-to-video adaptations of a…
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Casting The Net Episode 198: Fear Street Prom Queen
The Fear Street Saga continues! Following up on the success of the Fear Street Trilogy from 2021, Fear Street: Prom Queen sees a new group of teens, this time in 1988, having to contend with a savage killer looking to slay the competition for Shadyside High School's Prom Queen. There's plenty of...
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Casting The Net Episode 197: Fear Street Trilogy [SPOILER SUPREME]
We're finally diving deep into Netflix's Fear Street Trilogy and it is long overdue. Beginning in 1994, we're introduced to the rival towns of Shadyside and Sunnyvale, as a group of high schoolers are being terrorized by ghostly spirits tied the legends of a vengeful witch from the towns' shared...
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Casting The Net Episode 196: Psycho Gothic Lolita
I guess it was only a matter of time before we covered some good old fashioned Japanese splatterpunk on the show, as we discuss Psycho Gothic Lolita this week. Led on a path for revenge by her father, Yuki hunts down an assortment and formidable foes, dispatching them in increasingly absurd and...
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Casting The Net Episode 195: Spartan
Gone far too soon, Val Kilmer recently passed away at the age of 65, and we thought it only fitting to cover one of his most underrated performances in the David Mamet-directed film Spartan. After the president's daughter is abducted, military instructor Robert Scott is called in to investigate,...
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Casting The Net Episode 194: Uglies
We've been threatening to cover the Netflix film Uglies for month, and now it's time to make good. Based on the YA dystopian future novel, Joey King stars in this film where all teenagers get operations on their 16th birthday to look more physically attractive and be elevated to a higher societal...
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Casting The Net Episode 193: The Bling Ring
Realized we had this one in the archives since last fall, but we're finally putting out our episode on Sophia Coppola's The Bling Ring, a dramatization of the true story of a group of teenagers who decided to break into the homes of a handful of young celebrities, seemingly out of sheer boredom.…
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Casting The Net Episode 192: Hellboy The Crooked Man [feat. Will Austin]
So how does this straight-to-streaming reboot of the Dark Horse Comics character Hellboy measure up against its two previous theatrically released interpretations? I'm joined on the podcast by my good friend and Hellboy fan Will Austin to discuss Hellboy: The Crooked Man, as our favorite demonic...
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Casting The Net Episode 191: eXistenZ
In the wake of The Matrix, A LOT of virtual reality-themed movies went overlooked in the late 90s/early 2000s, but this week we're talking about one of the strangest which came courtesy of one of Canada's most certified freaks David Cronenberg. eXistenZ takes gaming to a new level, but when its...
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Casting The Net Episode 190: Hot Frosty
I know some of us out there have been hating this winter season, so allow us to heat things up as we talk about the Netflix original holiday romance film Hot Frosty. Lacey Chabert plays a widowed diner owner who inexplicably transforms a snowman in the center of her town into a living, breathing...
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Casting The Net Episode 189: Faust Love of the Damned [SPOILER SUPREME]
Too much blood? Or not enough? That's the questions we're asking on this week's episode, as we cover one of the most "2000s" indie genre movies of the year 2000 based on a cult indie comic from the 80s, Faust: Love of the Damned. Contemplating suicide after the murder of his lover, John Jasper's…
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Casting The Net Episode 188: Cast A Deadly Spell
When people talk about hidden gems, you really don't get more hidden of a gem than a 1940s supernatural crime noir thriller from 1991, starring Fred Ward, Clancy Brown, David Warner, and Julianne Moore, produced by Gale Anne Hurd, directed by Goldeneye and Casino Royale's Martin Campbell, and we…
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Casting The Net Episode 187: House of Spoils
It's the week after Thanksgiving, but we hope you're all still hungry. This week we're covering the Blumhouse Prime Original House of Spoils, as Ariana Debose plays an ambitious chef looking to make a name for herself. Hoping to turn a cozy inn into a fine dining restaurant, she quickly finds...
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Casting The Net Tangents Episode 5: Early 2000s Horror
Haven't done a Tangent episode in a minute! And what better time to do one for Early 2000s horror than . . . three weeks AFTER Halloween! In any event, We dive as deep as we can with this week's ep, and we'll make sure to pick up the slack on some glaring omissions, in future episodes. But…
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Casting The Net Episode 186: Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
After 30 years, Axel Foley as at it again, as Eddie Murphy returns to arguably his most famous role for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. This time Detroit's "finest" must return to the west coast after his daughter is threatened and Billy Rosewood goes missing after they start digging into a drug case....
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Casting The Net Episode 185: Heavenly Creatures
From the director of Dead Alive and Meet The Feebles comes . . . the true crime tale of two teenage girls' burgeoning friendship leading to straight up matricide in 1950s New Zealand? This week, I'm correcting a major blind spot the films directed by Peter Jackson that I've seen, with Clarissa's...
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Casting The Net Episode 184: Day Shift [Feat. Glenn Lawrence]
Nice to see a new spin on the "I have to do '(X) Task' to keep my ex-wife from moving her and our child out of state!" trop, as Jamie Foxx plays a freelance vampire hunter in the Netflix action movie Day Shift. In need of some fast cash, Foxx's Bud Jablonsky begs his way back into the vampire...
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Casting The Net Episode 183: Atlas
Who doesn't want to watch J.Lo fight self-aware androids in a mech suit?!?! This week, we're covering the Netflix original Atlas, as Jennifer Lopez has to form an unlikely bond with an AI program, in the hopes of stopping another AI program from wiping out all humanity! Honestly, this is a...
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Casting The Net Episode 182: Dogma 25th Anniversary
When you wanted to cover a specific film for its 25th anniversary, but it's not available on streaming, so you cover another film for its 25th anniversary . . . that's only available (unofficially) on YouTube! Joining us once again, and most likely for the foreseeable future, Clarissa Westphal...
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Casting The Net Episode 181 - The Crow's Direct To Video Crossover [Feat. Clarissa Westphal Nogueira]
With the 30th anniversary of The Crow this year coinciding with the long-gestating reboot finally seeing release later this summer, I thought I'd be "fun" to bring back my good friend Clarissa to discuss the direct-to-video entries in the original Crow franchise, and the franchise as a whole. We...
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Casting The Net Episode 180: Dark Harvest [Feat. Jen Johns]
What better way to celebrate Christmas . . . then by covering a Halloween horror movie!!! This week, I'm joined by my good friend and fellow horror fiend, Jen Johns, to discuss the latest from director David Slade (Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night, Hannibal) Dark Harvest. In a sleepy midwestern town…
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Casting The Net Episode 179: The Killer [feat. Chris Farmer]
Did we really leave y'all without any new episodes for a whole year?!?! There really is no excuse that's gonna cut it, but hopefully you'll fix your ears to check out this brand new episode on David Fincher's latest, The Killer. Join me and guest host Chris Farmer, as we discuss this taut…
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Casting The Net Episode 178: Hellraiser's Direct-to-Video Hell [feat. Clarissa Westphal Nogueira]
What better way to follow up our episode on the Hulu Hellraiser reboot, than finally subjecting myself to the Dimension Films direct-to-video era of the franchise! Inspired by my fellow horror fan Clarissa Westphal Nogueira, I took on this daunting task so we could discuss the films, from Inferno...
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Casting The Net Episode 177: Hellraiser [Feat. Sasha Munro]
What's your pleasure, listeners? The classic tale by Clive Barker gets a much needed reboot with Hulu's new interpretation of Hellraiser. My good friend (and a far bigger Clive Barker fan in general than me) Sasha Munro joins me to talk about this new film, that follows troubled young Riley as…
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Casting The Net Episode 176: Prey [Feat. Philip A. Henery]
The Predator franchise is back to top form with the release of Prey, which released straight to Hulu recently, so you know we had to talk about it. This week, I'm joined by my good friend Philip A. Henery from the In The Black Podcast, to talk about the Prey, the Predator Franchise in general…
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Casting The Net Episode 175: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness [SPOILER SUPREME] [feat. Sabrina Mapp & Stephanie Jordan]
Every now and then, you just need to talk about a movie that actually had a wide theatrical release in theaters, especially when it's already been released on streaming after six weeks! Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is already available on Disney +, so there's definitely wiggle room...
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Casting The Net Episode 174: Mad God [feat. Nina Osegueda]
This week, we've got a special guest in the form of metal vocalist Nina Osegueda from the band, A Sound of Thunder, and we're talking about Phil Tippett's 30-year passion project, Mad God. One of film's foremost stop-motion wizards, Phil Tippett's contributions to film can be seen in everything...
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Casting The Net Episode 173: The Outfit
Cohen and I covering a film we watched together?! In an indie theater?!?! This week, we're talking about the 1950s noir crime thriller The Outfit, which is now available on Peacock, as of this posting. Allowing his suit shop to be utilized by nefarious characters in Chicago's criminal underworld…
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Casting The Net Episode 172: The Adam Project [Feat. Mark Irving Phillips]
Ever wanted to go back in time and give your younger self advice on the future? This week, we're getting into the Netflix family sci-fi adventure, The Adam Project. Guest host Mark Irving Phillips joins me to talk about this new Ryan Reynolds Netflix offering, as he plays a displaced time…
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Casting The Net Episode 171: Gunpowder Milkshake
Make no mistake, these ladies are gonna make some noise. This week, we're covering the Netflix original, Gunpowder Milkshake, as Karen Gillan stars as a ruthless assassin forced to protect a young girl from her even more ruthless employers. With her back against the wall, she'll have to turn to a...
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Here on Casting The Net, Ken-K and Clarissa (aka "The Adorable Lil' Hypebeast") show some love to all the movies that didn't quite make it to theaters, but that shouldn't stop you from checking them out on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, OnDemand, or however you all choose to discover new and original movies in the comfort of your own home.
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Here on Casting The Net, Ken-K and Clarissa (aka "The Adorable Lil' Hypebeast") show some love to all the movies that didn't quite make it to theaters, but that shouldn't stop you from checking them out on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, OnDemand, or however you all choose to discover new and original...
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