This week we're talking about Uplift, The Running Man, A Perfect Getaway, Resident Evil, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, and Resident Evil: Extinction. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: For some reason I thought of the "tone poem" teaser trailers released in advance of the release of The Phantom Menace. Out of curiousity I decided to watch them and see if they still retained their quality. Not only do they hold up, they also still have a powerful nostalgic effect on me.

Today on the 5: As part of our "Milla March" marathon, Lando and I are watching all of the Resident Evil films starring Milla Jovovich. Out of the entire run, the movie I'm most conflicted about it is Resident Evil: Apocalypse. It's definitely not a good movie, but I can see moments in it that make me feel like it could have been a lot better.

Today on the 5: As part of "Milla March", Lando and I watched the 2009 thriller film A Perfect Getaway. Neither of us had seen it and we were both interested to varying degrees in what it was trying to do. Then the big mystery reveal happened, and movie ran straight into a brick wall while travelling at 500 MPH.

Today on the 5: Lando mentioned that he would be watching the newest attempt at adapting The Running Man, this time as a 2025 film helmed by Edgar Wright. I had thought about checking this one out myself a little while back, but when I found read that the ending had been significantly changed, it destroyed any interest I might have had in the project.

This week we're talking about Tracker, NCIS, Blacula, Blackenstein: The Black Frankenstein, and Candyman (2021). Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: Thanks to a recommendation from Len Kabasinski, I watched 1987's Dark Age. For a movie that was a total unknown to me and is often labeled as a "Jaws ripoff" or an "Ozploitation" movie, this film is much better than I ever expected it to be!

Today on the 5: As we wind up the final week of our Black History Month commentary film series, we're watching some more supernatural movies. For our penultimate film, we watched 1973's Blackenstein: The Black Frankenstein. Unlike the thoroughly excellent Blacula, this movie wastes a really interesting setup by doing next to nothing with it.