Reel2Rank Podcast

Episode 161: Speed 2 Cruise Control (1997) -- "Where My Leeches?!"

The year was 1997 and there was a fundamental need. A need for another Speed. We were all so misguided...

Episode 160: Speed (1994) -- "The Sleeper Awakens..."

There's a man with one thumb over there; telling Keanu Reeves he's got to beware. Everybody stop and look around there's a bomb on a bus driving around...

Episode 159: The Matrix Resurrections (2021) -- "The Common Man's Pineapple"

We enter the Matrix one more time. The story of our beloved heroes continues where it once concluded. It's not a reboot. It's a resurrection.

Episode 158: The Matrix Revolutions (2003) -- "Haggle With Your Donkey Dealer"

It's the conclusion of the classic Matrix era. The final hours of Zion and the Matrix are here. An army of Machines on the outside, an army of Smiths inside the Matrix. Battles of choice, cycles of death and rebirth, and serious donkey business are ahoof...

RTR Bonus -- The Animatrix (2003)

It's not just any Matrix, it's the Animatrix. Join the Specht Brothers for nine short stories in the world of the Wachowskis.

Episode 157: The Matrix Reloaded (2003) -- "Surprisingly Chunky..."

Entering the Matrix once again to continue to the saga of the neo true hope for humanity. Flights, fights, ghosts and bikes -- what more could you ask for?

Episode 156: The Matrix (1999) -- "The Purest Expression of the Bird"

This week the Specht Brothers start poppin' pills and being chronically online, all in pursuit of a prophetic Chosen Neo...

Episode 155: Highlander Endgame (2000) -- "A Scottish Mayor in Hill Valley?!"

Seriously, there should have been only one...

Episode 154: Highlander III (1994) -- "Katanas are for Closers"

What was done before can be done some more. It's a tale as old as Highlander I. Conor McLeod is beset by a savage enemy and is haunted by his long life battles for the Prize...
[frustrated sigh] ... Couldn't they have just stopped at one?

Episode 153: Highlander II (1991) -- "What The F*ck is Going On Here?!"

Only the second film in and things have take a drastic and all together confusing pivot in what was otherwise a straight-forward narrative. The existence of this makes us ask -- "Can't there be only one?"