Now Playing: The DC Comics Movie Retrospective Series

Stephen King's Carrie is being remade in a new movie starring Chloë Grace Moretz. To prepare we're going back and rewatching all previous Carrie films as part of a massive Stephen King movie retrospective series, reviewing every adaptation of a King work! Join us at nowplayingpodcast.com to hear all the reviews!

Gone With the Wind. Casablanca. Psycho. These are undisputed classics of cinema. Yet each have had sequels attempted. Of those, though, only Psycho had a follow-up film released in theaters. Picking up 22 years after the original, Norman Bates is now out of the mental hospital and back at the Bates Motel. But is he alone, or is Mother still with him? Arnie, Stuart, and Brock reveal the answers, and discuss the sensibility of trying to recapture the magic of Hitchcock's Psycho in this bonus donation-drive podcast. If you make a Gold Level donation to Now Playing before Oct 31 you can hear that conversation!

Bates Motel. Norman. Mother. The shower scene. The screeching score. You see it, you hear it, and you instantly know it's Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. The iconography of Hitchcock's masterpiece is steeped in our culture, and despite a career of over 50 years it is this little black and white film, made with a crew borrowed from Hitchcock's TV series, that is most remembered and revered. Now the hosts of Now Playing watch and review this cinema classic. How well does the film hold up over 50 years after it was released? Is it still relevant to today's horror films? If you donate now to support Now Playing you can listen and find out!

INSIDIOUS: CHAPTER 2 is the number one movie in America! Now join the hosts of Now Playing as they watch and review both Insidious films in this movie retrospective series!

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost came to fame under the direction of Edgar Wright. With the movies Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz as well as the television show Spaced. But to have a true spacey sci-fi adventure Frost and Pegg wrote their own script about two road-tripping Brits who encounter a pot-smoking foul mouthed atheist alien--Paul. Does this film, helmed by Superbad director Greg Mottola, match up to Wright's Blood and Ice Cream films? If you donate to support Now Playing you can listen and find out!

Almost ten years after Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost first collaborated on the big screen their Three Flavors Cornetto Trilogy comes to an End--The World's End. Is this film the End all be all? If you donate to Now Playing you can listen and find out!

This September Vin Diesel is back as Riddick, and Now Playing is preparing by watching and reviewing all three Riddick films -- Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick, and Riddick! Join us each week at nowplayingpodcast.com for a new installment in this retrospective series!

Fresh off the success of Shaun of the Dead creators Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright decided the follow-up would be a new type of genre parody; instead of making a comedic horror film the duo created Hot Fuzz lampooning the over-the-top action films of the 80s and 90s. It was billed as the second part of their "Blood and Ice Cream trilogy" where Pegg would star with Nick Frost. Did this Spaced team suffer a sophomore slump or is Hot Fuzz a follow-up as good as the original? Thanks to your support of Now Playing you can listen and find out!

Can a zombie movie be a good comedy? Can a comedy be a good zombie movie? In the hands of Writer/Director Edgar Wright and Writer/Star Simon Pegg the answer was yes. Fresh off the hit British comedy Spaced the duo broke into America with this zomromcom - the film that became the first film in their Three Flavors Cornetto trilogy (called the Blood & Ice Cream trilogy in the US). Now as the trilogy concludes with The World's End Arnie, Stuart, and Jakob revisit Shaun of the Dead. Does the film work as horror, comedy, romance, or all of the above? If you donate and support Now Playing Podcast you can listen and find out!

Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and all their surviving operatives get a sequel in their sixties with RED 2. Do newcomers Anthony Hopkins and Catherine-Zeta Jones inject fresh blood into this franchise, or has the joke gotten too old even for this crew? Listen and find out.

Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, and all their surviving operatives get a sequel in their sixties with RED 2. Do newcomers Anthony Hopkins and Catherine-Zeta Jones inject fresh blood into this franchise, or has the joke gotten too old even for this crew? Listen and find out.

80s action star Bruce Willis may have gotten older, but he's still considered RED - retired and extremely dangerous. Do Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie have a laugh watching senior citizens strap on pistols to blow holes in the CIA's rep, or is this AARP action-comedy D.O.A.? Listen and find out.

80s action star Bruce Willis may have gotten older, but he's still considered RED - retired and extremely dangerous. Do Jakob, Stuart, and Arnie have a laugh watching senior citizens strap on pistols to blow holes in the CIA's rep, or is this AARP action-comedy D.O.A.? Listen and find out.

Comic book vets Chris Evans and Idris Elba have joined THE LOSERS - a ragtag band of mercenaries out to punish CIA baddie Jason Patric for a failed Bolivian mission. Should Avatar babe Zoe Saldana trust these C-stringers to get the job done, or should she just call the A-Team? Listen and find out.

Comic book vets Chris Evans and Idris Elba have joined THE LOSERS - a ragtag band of mercenaries out to punish CIA baddie Jason Patric for a failed Bolivian mission. Should Avatar babe Zoe Saldana trust these C-stringers to get the job done, or should she just call the A-Team? Listen and find out.