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74. Review: Mayday (2026 film) (opens the original)
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On this episode of Sound Speed Action, we review Mayday, the new 80s style action comedy on Apple TV starring Ryan Reynolds and Kenneth Branagh, made in the vein of Midnight Run, 48 Hrs, and Red Heat. It's a lot of fun, it knows exactly what it is, and Branagh's Nikolai, a former KGB hermit who worships one bootleg VHS of Top Gun, turns out to be a genuine badass. I am not kidding. I did not see that coming. But I keep telling myself the two guys who made it are cursed. Jonathan Goldstein and Jo
73. Review: Tony (2026 film) (opens the original)
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Anthony Bourdain at nineteen was arrogant, mean, and genuinely hard to be around, and the filmmakers made him worse on purpose. In this episode of the Sound Speed Action podcast, we break down why Tony invents so much of its own story, why that creative license is the point rather than the problem, and how a small independent film gets closer to the truth of a man than most authorized biopics ever manage. What We Cover: A Problem On Purpose: Why Matt Johnson and Dominic Sessa built a lead this u
72. Review: The Odyssey (2026 film) (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan risked everything on a $400M epic based on an ancient poem, and the result is a massive box office phenomenon. In this episode of Sound Speed Action, we break down why The Odyssey works so well on a regular screen, the insane sound design bleeding into adjacent theaters, and why its massive success is saving original cinema. What We Cover: • The $400M Risk: Why Universal greenlit an ancient epic with no franchise backing, captured entirely using IMAX large-format cameras.• Star
71. Special Topic: The Last 30 Minutes. (opens the original)
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Two movies came out in 2026 that did the exact same thing, in completely opposite directions. One spends two hours testing your patience, and then the final stretch is so good it almost erases everything that came before. The other is one of the best action movies you've seen in years, right up until the ending takes a wrecking ball to all of it.This is the last reel flip. When the ending of a movie reaches back and rewrites how you feel about the entire thing, for better or for worse.This is a
70. Classic Recommendation: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) (opens the original)
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Christopher Nolan is bringing Homer's Odyssey to IMAX with Matt Damon. It'll be an event, and it should be. Before that lands, I want to point you somewhere stranger. O Brother, Where Art Thou? carries Homer's name on the box and almost nothing else. The Coens borrowed a couple of characters, a familiar shape, and then took off in their own direction entirely. Chain gang escapees. Bad hair product decisions. A radio station. It is not an adaptation so much as a rumor of one, and it's better for
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