The Redeemables

Who doesn't love a holiday? We sure do!

Somehow after watching the most intense overseas family trip ever for our recent No Escape episode Kenny was inspired to do our Top Five Vacation Movies.

How many involve a violent uprising? A giant beast with taste for human blood or an unkillable alien sent to hunt us down? Or how many are about comic capers and dangerous decisions? Listen to find out!

But before that Kenny designed a game to test the guy's knowledge of films set in holiday destinations, play along against them and let us know how you went.

Ever wondered what it would be like to be trapped in a foreign country with your young family while there is a violent uprising aimed at the company you represent? Kenny, BJ and Duff certainly have so this week we did 2015's No Escape with Owen Wilson. The main takeaway was that we're cowards that would hide in the shadows but we also discuss South East Asian Geography, solve racism, how far could you throw a small child and much more. Please enjoy...

Smokin' Aces doesn't just have a cast - it has a C-A-S-T!!!

Inspired by this murder's row of actors - discussed at length on our most recent full episode - BJ designed a game around other movies with deep ensemble casts.

And then after being so impressed with the acting debuts of Alicia Keys & Common in Smokin' Aces the guys give us their own Top Five Musicians In Movies

What movie has a coked out magician, 50 Cal Sniper rifles, neo nazi hitmen with chainsaws, Alicia Keys as a professional killer pretending to be a hooker, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, Ray Liotta and they're all in a hotel together trying to kill each other??.. Smokin' Aces from 2007. Join us while we breakdown this cult classic...

Who are the most underrated actors working today?

So glad you asked!

Because Duff was somehow inspired by DMX's performance in Cradle 2 The Grave to ask the other guys the same question.

But before they run through those Duff puts them through their paces by playing hard ass quiz master during a game he invented.

What's. My. Name? It's DMX and he's in Cradle 2 The Grave with a bunch of his friends and a heap of his music. 2003 was a different time for action movies and we discuss whether it was a better or worse time. We cover off auctioneering, cage fighting, ATV stunt driving, black diamonds and casual racism. Please join us...

Who doesn't love a true tale told in movie form? The Redeemables sure do! They break down their personal top fives - and each give a long list of honourable mentions.

But first there's the usual quiz type shenanigans as Kenny tests the other boy's knowledge of movies adapted from real life events.

What happens when you get one of the greatest sci-fi directors of our time, give him a bunch of money and tell him to turn a video game into a sports movie based on a true story? Gran Turismo, that's what happens. Join us for the ride as we break down one of the sleeper hits of 2023. Please enjoy...

THE 3RD ANNUAL REDEEMIES ARE HERE !! This is the REAL movies awards - maybe not as prestigious as the Oscars but definitely more prestigious The Golden Globes... First the traditional major categories are announced after being decided by public vote and then the boys get to their favourite part of the year - popping a bottle and announcing their own special awards. You can listen to all the classic episodes in our catalogue wherever find your podcasts

Taking inspiration from the evil Mischief John in King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword we discuss our Top Five Evil Henchmen.

But before that BJ has a quiz for the lads based on Medieval Words and testicles.

We love Guy Ritchie's gangster films like Lock Stock, Snatch, etc but how do we feel about his mainstream blockbusters? We watched 2017s King Arthur to find out... Kenny is pushed to his absolute fantasy limits, Duff loves giant elephants and BJ says "Madonna" 26 times. Please enjoy...

REFLEXES TOO SLOW!

Duff tests Kenny & BJ's general movie knowledge with a rapid fire quiz - play along and see if you can beat the boys.

Then the fellas close out this classic minisode by taking inspiration from the fabulous feats of friendship performed in A Man Apar and telling us who are their Top Five Ride Or Dies.

Rogue DEA agents on a vengeance mission against the the biggest Cartel boss in Mexico starring Vin Diesel? Enough said. This week we are A Podcast Apart as we explore the full range of Vin Diesel's emotions in this 2003 crime thriller. Kenny demands Vin Diesel gets the respect he deserves (again), BJ has some more drug related questions and Duff brings the heat with the fun facts. Please enjoy...

It is what a captain does!

Underwater had no less than 3 characters go out in an heroic sacrifice, so we put ourselves through the emotional ringer to bring you our Top Five Heroic Sacrifices in movies.

Get ready to feel things..

But first Kenny challenges Duff & BJ's knowledge of famous film creatures, who will emerge from the depths victorious this week?

"You lose your sense of time in the dark.... So lets light this shit up"... We're doing another creature feature and this one is 7 miles below the ocean and it's starring Kristen Stewart with a bleached blonde shaved head. Sounds good, right? We deep dive on the TJ Miller dramas, we admit to horrific crimes and Duff gets his creature swallowing a human whole moment. Please enjoy...

Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren, Super Soldiers, listener's choice, LETS GO. You asked for it, you get it. We did 1992's Universal Soldier. We discuss whether Van Damme is the worst actor of all time but in a good way, why Van Damme won't do full frontal nudity and Van Damme's weekly cocaine habit in 1995. Basically it's an episode about Van Damme and it's long overdue. Please enjoy...

Following on from our Assassin's Creed episode BJ shoots tough questions at the guys in a quiz made up of YouTube comments from previews of movies adapted from video games. It is a little bit contentious - and quite a wild ride.

Then the fellas run through their Top Five Assassins. There's some of the usual suspects and as usual some left field choices.

The three of us work in the dark to serve the light so we thought we'd do a movie that matches our idealogy - 2016's Assassin's Creed. Was this as bad as the people said or was it just angry gamers complaining about another gaming movie? This might be our most divisive movie yet, tune in and come on the rollercoaster ride of emotions as we take a Leap Of Faith...

Duff thinks Lethal Weapon 4 is just about perfect, Kenny & BJ don't agree. Somehow they all are going to agree on the ideal current cast for a reboot - with a little input from Chat GPT. What could possibly go wrong?

But before that Duff hits the lads with a quiz supposedly with a buddy cop themed quiz.

We're too old for this shit.... but we recorded a pod about Lethal Weapon 4 anyway! Is it the perfect finish to an all time classic quadrilogy or should they have stopped at 3? Tune in and find out what we think of Jet Li's Hollywood debut, a happy & stable Martin Riggs, the Chris Rock effect, casual racism, casual homophobia and casual anti-semitism... Thanks for listening!

ROADTRIP! We celebrate our shared love for We're The Millers one more time with a run down of our TOP FIVE ROADTRIP MOVIES.

But before we hit the road - it's draft time again!

We draft our FAVORITE COMEDIES OF THE LAST TEN YEARS.

Will Kenny keep his streak alive? Will BJ try to draft Pulp Fiction? Will Duff get another cramp?

There's only one way to find out....

If anyone asks, We're The Millers! What a great time 2013 was when an original comedy movie could do blockbuster Box Office numbers. This week we share some laughs over We're The Millers best lines while trying to figure out where all the good comedies have gone. Duff calls Will Poulter as a future star, Kenny thinks Bateman and Sudeikis are interchangeable in everything they've done and BJ breaks down the Jennifer Aniston mechanics workshop scene, plus heaps more!..

Inspired by Cleon from our most recent movie Dead Presidents - a character who carried a human head in a backpack, ruined his co-conspirator's heist, snitched to the cops and was also just kind of grumpy - we discuss the Top Five Worst Coworkers in movies.

But before that BJ runs the guys through the jungle as they get deep in the shit and do a quiz around jargon from the Vietnam War. The results are entertaining and off kilter as you would expect.

Anyone interested in a heist, crime, coming of age, drama, war movie from 1995 with an All Star cast? We sure were. Join us for our Dead Presidents ep where we spent more time talking about prosthetic penises and Terrence Howard's career than we did about the movie but sometimes that's just the way things go... Thanks for listening!

This episode is a real horror show - starting with a quiz to expose Kenny & BJ's lack of horror movie knowledge and then finishing with the guys calling out their Top Five Worst Parents in movies.

Don't be afraid - get amongst it!

Never heard of Brightburn!? That's OK, neither had BJ... We talk useless parents, demonic voices, creepy kids, cool deaths and more. We debate whether this is a horror or not, Duff decides the creepy boy's career has ended and BJ becomes transfixed with The Island Of Dr Moreau(?)... Watch the movie on Amazon Prime and then join us on your headphones. As always, thanks for listening!

Who doesn't love a good action comedy?

The Redeemables sure do!

So we showed love to the genre with a quick quiz involving 90's action comedy movie quotes before smashing through our Top Five Action Comedy lists.

Duff gets upset about the rules, BJ mentions Pulp Fiction and Kenny manages to recommend a slow burning Danish film - so pretty much business as usual!

Whatcha gonna do? Listen to The Redeemables breakdown Michael Bay's directorial debut - Bad Boys. We discuss the difference between heroin and cocaine, Tea Leoni's career, can you use a pillow as a silencer, the origins of the Bad Boys song, ether, and heaps more. Please join us!

Inspired by our excellent listener submissions for their "Desert Island Actors" we decided to list our Top Five Desert Island Movies - the idea being if we were stranded alone on a deserted island which 5 movies would we choose to keep us entertained.

As expected the lists are full of surprises, wildly varied and Duff manages to list more than 5.

But before they get into that the lad's play a quick trivia game based on questions from some of the 49 movies they have given The Redeemables treatment to so far.

To celebrate (almost) 50 Movies Redeemed we asked our listeners which actor's filmography would you want on a desert island if they were the only movies you could watch for the rest of your life? Rather than us just read them out, we asked you guys to submit them via audio and this epsiode we playback all those submissions and break them down... Who will be crowned the ultimate desert island actor!?

Much love to all those who contributed, means the world to us.

On this classic minisode we discover that one of the guys is a romantic comedy savant as he breezes his way to a domination of the rom com quiz.

Then the lads discuss movie sidekicks and tell us about the five they consider the funniest in movie history.

Along came Philip Seymour Hoffman more like it... am I right!? Who knew he would piece together one of the great comedic performances of this century and come off the bench to carry a Ben Stiller Rom-Com in 2004? But he did and we celebrate it and some more of the work of the late, great PSH. We also talk toilet humour, blind ferrets, Jennifer Aniston's career, "ethnic food" and heaps more. Please join us as we breakdown our first Rom-Com...

This week Duff hits the boys with the second round of Tagline Trivia before they go on to discuss bumbling law enforcement officers with their lists of Top Five Most Useless Cops.

Horror? Creature movie? Comedy? Camping adventure? Who knows and who cares because we had a great time talking about Lake Placid. Duff takes us back to 1999 where Brendan Gleeson was unknown and Bill Pullman had just finished serving as the greatest president in cinema history. Kenny drops some investigative journalism around Brendan Gleeson's accidental script reading, BJ may be finally falling for the charms of creature movies and Duff continues adding content to his yet to be created Deadhoper's website...

Netflix made movies get no respect from the critics - so once again it is up to The Redeemables to right this critical wrong and give some love to their favourite Netflix productions with their TOP FIVE NETFLIX MOVIES.

Before that though the guys play a fun game of geography vs movie, a quiz that allows BJ & Duff to show just how much pop culture has rotted their brains.

"CAUSE I GOT SHOT IN THE ASS, SUZANNE" yells Duff, multiple times as we breakdown The Gray Man. It's a Netflix original and we all know how much the critics hate a Netflix original but we are certainly not critics so let's go! BJ presents us with a list of "words that only assholes use", Duff relives every Chris Evan's moment in this film and Kenny spends way too long promoting Ryan Gosling's career. Please join us...

Sparked by Sean Bean's performance of the ruthless and rich villain Ian Howe in National Treasure the guys give their personal hit lists of Top Five Rich A**holes in movies.

But first they debut a new game in which they try to decipher a series clues (or more accurately comments from YouTube) to see if they work out the adventure movie being referenced.

We're going to steal the Declaration Of Independence! Well not us, but Nic Cage is and he's solving riddles and swashbuckling along the way. SURELY the critics can't besmirch this romp? Oh yes they can. We watched National Treasure in search of adventure! Kenny confirms his love for adventure movies (and Paul Walker, again), BJ wears spectacles for the first time on the pod & unsettles the room, while Duff has no notes on the film and yells a lot. Join us for the ride...

Before the boys do battle in another heated and overly competitive draft - this time doing Adam Sandler movies - they smash through their lists of TOP FIVE ANNOYING BAD GUYS.

BJ ignored the brief, Duff tells about his distain for exercise and those who make him want to walk out and Ken talks about bad guys that make him laugh.

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast? We sure do if it's another classic Adam Sandler comedy. We breakdown all the best bits of Happy Gilmore, we discuss Shooter McGavin's life after Happy and if it was all worth it, BJ revisits some trauma from his past, Kenny says something weird about kids & puberty and Duff confesses his love for Grown Ups 2 on several occasions. We had some fun on this one...

We kick off another classic mini with Ken quizzing Duff & BJ about sci-fi space craft - and then inspired by our trip into the darkness on our Event Horizon episode we discuss our TOP FIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL HORRORS. Listen in to see what lies in our own heart of darkness - and have a few laughs along the way!

"Why would you dip your finger into the black goo?"

We bend space and time and bring back THE DARK after watching 1997 space horror - Event Horizon! This movie flopped big time but you'll have a hard time finding someone that saw this and didn't like it so what's the deal? We breakdown everything that's right and wrong, we recast Sam Neill, Duff's weird obsession with Richard T Jones, BJ's disdain for horror movies and Kenny's love of a quality set. Please join us in deep space...

On this weeks mini we discuss our Top 5 coolest kill scenes or in Duff's case, Top 5 saddest death scenes... We also play a vampire game where BJ reads the plot of a Vampire movie and we guess the movie. There's also some further confusion around Scott Caan and Scott Speedman and we say thanks to some legendary listeners. Plenty happening in the mini...

Vampires vs Werewolves with Kate Beckinsale, there is no possible way this is bad... right? We dissect this movie's gunplay, CGI, popularity and plot to figure out whether this is worth redeeming. Duff gets his wires crossed multiple times, Kenny attempts to explain why he hates fantasy but vampires vs werewolves is ok and BJ is mesmerised by the complex story arc of Underworld. Give it a watch and then give us a listen!

Duff further explores his love for film taglines and brings us a hotly contested game of "Tagline Trivia" before the lads get all excited about their Top Five Warrior Groups lists. There's the usual unhinged shenanigans and things devolve into the entertaining mess we have come to love from a Redeemables minisode!

I LISTENED!

We watch Antonia Banderas learn a new language overnight, transform from a promiscuous diplomat into a fearless Viking warrior and make a lot of friends along the way.

The movie is The 13th Warrior and Duff is fired up on this one. Join us while we try and solve the riddle of where it all went wrong or why it went so right. Highly recommend watching it on Disney Plus before you listen as this is one of our most divisive films yet...

Inspired by our classic Bullet Train episode we do our first ever movie draft, where we each take turns selecting our favourite Brad Pitt flicks. Things get fairly heated, fairly quickly - and they don't cool down when we run through our TOP FIVE PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES. Ironically this episode goes off the rails, but in the most entertaining way possible!

A new release movie? Readily available on multiple streaming services for free? This can't be The Redeemables?... Oh but it is. That's right Deadhopers, we watched Bullet Train! BJ has never seen this movie, which is a podcast first. Duff has seen it "hundreds of times" and Kenny just the three times. We go to war with the critics, we talk about Brad Pitt handing the heart throb mega star baton to Aaron Taylor-Johnson and why films set on moving vehicles are sick. Please enjoy...

Everyone loves a prison movie right? Well your boys at The Redeemables sure do! After we play an enlightening and hilarious game of "Is that prison jargon or a weird sport?" we each give our Top Five Favourite Prisoners, and there's some classics, some surprises and a lot of laughs!