Reel2Rank Podcast

This week the Specht Brothers are caught up in time-travel shenanigans as Bruce Willis is locked in a battle with Bruce Willis for the fate of Bruce Willis.

One is Martin Riggs, the other is Roger Murtaugh, together experts in action movie law.

One is in Braveheart, the other is in Predator 2, and we're all getting too old for this sh*t, how about you?

One is Mel Gibson, the other is Danny Glover, and as partners they really love one another.

One is a loose cannon with nothing to lose. The other is secured ordinance with everything to live for. This is their story...

Living on the edge means you have to LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.

Get your briefcase full of targets, shine up your taxi, and get flowers for your Ma -- we're going for a ride.

This week we go to 1870s Japan. It's a time of great change in an ever changing modern world. Nathan Algren, an American captain, get a job to train and army and fight samurai. Things escalate from there...

Jack Reacher returns for a sequel, never going back and never backing down.

Today the Specht Brothers take some time to drift into a local crime scene. Only one man can solve this open and shut case. That man lives off the grid, drunk on sterno and singing with a tin sandwich. He's Sherlock Homeless; he's Jack Reacher - Hobo Detective.

An extended conclusion worthy of the DCEU, the Specht Brothers complete the journey to see our five dupers and our one super save the day, maybe the future? I don't know it's a Knightmare...   This Episode covers Chapters IV-VI, Epilogue, and more.

To conclude the first Cosmic Odyssey into the DCEU, the Specht Brothers watch the DC Extended Cut of Justice League. More of this, more of that -- it's hardcore Morecore; but will it rank as mediocore?   This Episode covers Chapters I - III of Zack Snyder's Justice League.

They are the World's Greatest Superheroes. The pantheon of DC's heroic ideals. Banded together in common cause, they are a league of justice, they are Super Friends.

Diana Prince, the Amazing Amazon, the Ambassador of Peace, the Spirit of Truth...Wonder Woman. From her origins on Paradise Island to the trenches of Europe, she'll put her skills to the test in order to best the God of War.

In this, the third entry of DC's intensive, Extensive universe we're doing something different. Superman saved the day, but now he's 100 percent, stone-cold graveyard dead. WHO could fill the void left by our..."beloved"...Man of Steel?   Bad guys. Random Ones.

In history, there are team-ups, there are dream-ups, and then there's the World's Finest.   From the creators of Batman's The Animated Series we see what happens when Gotham City's criminals and crime-fighter make the trip to Metropolis and into Superman's The Animated Series...

For nearly 80 years, the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight have fought hand-in-hand committed to acts of daring do and dynamic duality. The heroes of millions, champions of the oppressed, the best of friends.   Now we're gonna watch 'em punch each other.

This week the Specht Brothers return to DC to see it's Extended Universe...   Clark Kent, walking around the world to ease his troubled mind. Lois Lane is out there connecting the lines. Pa Kent is being flung around somewhere in the winds of Kansas. There's a Phantom Zone on the dark side of the moon and it probably means impending doom.

Opyat! The Specht Brothers return to the World of John Wick to see the battle between battle-hardened ballerinas and nefarious cults. Opyat!

On the street, no one knows who has been stalking the night. Counting his victims one-by-one. Nothing Felt more than terror. There will be three nights of horror, Ah-Ah-Ah!   ...   Wait a minute...I got my notes mixed up, that's for Count von Count not Count Orlok...

Spawn, the Hellish hero Todd McFarlane knew we needed, an icon of Image Comics, and has an Animated Series to boot. This is his movie.   [...sigh...]

This week the Specht Brothers continue the Cloverfield Trip by bunkering down to find that John Goodman might actually be John...Badman...

Sometimes when the giant monster attacks; you might be the scientist with the know-how, or the hotshot pilot with nothing to lose, or whatever Matthew Broderick was doing in Godzilla.   The rest of the time, you're just a pedestrian running away from a giant-foot. This is their story...

Uncancel your subscription to the apocalypse. The kaiju aren't done, get your Jaegundum out of storage, and get ready to rise up. Against what? We're not sure either...

The Specht Brothers return only to be beset by giant monsters.   From another dimension, kaiju pour more and more through the Breach dear friends. Exhausted of all other rational options for defense, we get Jaegers, giant robots who will cancel humanity's subscription to the apocalypse.

Joy to the Earth, the Pod has come! What film will they be seeing?!

From far and wide they tell tales of a Kid...a Karate Kid.   This isn't about him though...or the Next Karate Kid...or the Next Karate Kid after the previous Karate Kid...

Phase One is done, the Specht Brothers close their first Marvel odyssey with an animated re-telling of 2002's The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch.

And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth's Mightiest Heroes found themselves united against a common threat. Can their combined power defeat the sinister spells of Loki!?

The year is 1942 and the world is at war. Scrawny but spirited Steve Rogers convinces the right people to let him be a guinea pig to become the star-spangled man with a plan, the shield slinging sentinel of liberty -- Captain America!

Thor Odinson, Prince of Asgard. God of Thunder. Lil' bit of a tool. When the angry princeling starts an interplanetary war, Thor gets a timeout on Earth to think about what he's done. Then should he be worthy, he can possess the powers of himself.

Tony Stark; America's favorite smartypants, trillionaire, gadabout, philologist. He's got a secret; he's DYING. Our invincible Iron Man has a pretty convincible case of death on the agenda. There's an expo, the Black Widow, and some guy named Ivan Vanko...? Never heard of him.

Forward in Phase One, we have desperate doctor Bruce Banner who is incredibly Hulk. He's on the run from Thunderbolt Ross who is infraggably krunk.

Phase One has begun. The Specht Brothers begin an infinite saga of Marvelous heroes, vile villains, and an entire universe just waiting to be explored. Ears up True Believers! It's Iron Man!

Celebrating Halloween some more with a 4! Michael Myers has returned, Loomis has returned, and Ben Tramer is still dead...

Concluding the brief lycanthropic lurch through Europe, 284 miles from where it started.

The Specht Brothers are going to backpack through all of the European werewolf movies they care to find.

In the far but near enough future you'll be able to decipher clues at a salad bar...

I'm not saying it was Alien...but it was Alien...

Starting to think people should just leave space alone...there's a lot of not great stuff out there...

It's a prequel or a sequel or interquel, we have as many questions with even fewer answers...

You say you want a resurrection, well you know... They said it was a course correction butI don't know...

3 Times the Prison. 3 Times the Baldness. 3 Tywins the Lannister.

They mostly come at night. Mostly...

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At last this detour to Forks is at an end. Big things happened we think, who knows, we're forkin' outta here!

Nearing the conclusion of our stay in the fine town of Forks, before we leave we're sure to visit the Timber Museum. Did you know that Forks was once the "Logging Capital of the World"? Self-proclaimed, but proclaimed proudly...

The Specht Brothers continue to wander around Forks. Did you know, that Forks is considered the rainest town in the contiguous US? The non-contiguous US doesn't allow rain...

Hey, y'all wanna keep hanging out in Forks...?