This week, it's THE BIG 4-0's Season 3 finale! Join Ron and Peter as they count down their favorite and least favorite films of the year (1985), and we sneak in one last 1985 film with THE HOWLING II, and a bonus review of THE HOWLING (1981) just to be completists. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe - and have happy holidays!- and we'll see you the new year: 1986!!

This week week on 12/18 and 12/20, respectively, we celebrate The BIG 4-0's of Steven Spielberg's THE COLOR PURPLE and Wolfgang Petersen's ENEMY MINE; and Ron celebrates his Big 4-7, so we take a look at one of his all-time favorite films - and it just so happens he and Peter were able to see it on the big screen for the first time in 37 years this past weekend - the greatest buddy cop movie of all-time: LETHAL WEAPON. We also talk KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFAIR and Kiefer Sutherland's Christmas romcom TINSEL TOWN, and VARSITY BLUES. PLus, THREE seperate box office challenges!

NEXT WEEK: It's our big season finale as we bring 1985 to a close, wishing a happy BIG 4-0 (DD) to THE HOWELING II: YOUR SISTER IS A WEREWOLF (no shit, that's the title), and so we'll look at the original THE HOWELING (1981) as well; plus our annual year-end BEST & WORST LISTS. Join us as we bid adieu to 1985!

This week Ron and Peter wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in the 1985 Best Picture winner OUT OF AFRICA, and Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY. Peter also touches on ZOOTOPIA 2 and Ron talks FLIGHT RISK. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe. Next week we'll be back to wish a Happy BIG 4-0 to THE COLOR PURPLE and ENEMY MINE, and we'll have a special discussion on the LETHAL WEAPON films in honor of Ron's BIG 4-7!

Due to ANOTHER computer glitch, we are reposting our Happy BIG 4-0 to CLUE and JEWEL OF THE NILE, Originally posted 11/30/2025.

Also discussed on this episode: THE EXPENDABLES 4 and BULLET TO THE HEAD.

Next Week: OUT OF AFRICA and POLICE STORY

Due to a computer glitch, we are reposting our Happy BIG 4-0 to RUNAWAY TRAIN and SPIES LIKE US, Originally posted 11/23/2025.

Also discussed on this episode: PREDATOR: BADLANDS, EDDINGTON, and LIFE OF CHUCK.

Happy BIG 4-0 to Jim Carrey's teen sex comedy meets vampire spoof ONCE BITTEN (we also discuss his big screen breakthrough ACE VENTURA PET DETECTIVE) and Sylvester Stallone in one of the biggest hits of his career ROCKY IV (we also look back at ROCKY BALBOA and CLIFFHANGER). Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to wish a happy BIG 4-0 to RUNAWAY TRAIN and SPIES LIKE US.

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter wish two quintessential '80s cult films a happy 40th birthday: DEATH WISH 3 and TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. We spend the first 20 minutes - impromptuly - discussing the new Bruce Springsteen biopic DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE, and biopics and The Boss in general. If that's not your bag, feel free to skip ahead to the 22-minute mark or so (though know we're silently judging you and you should reconsider your taste in music). Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week with a young Jim Carrey in ONCE BITTEN and a ROCKY twofer: Happy 40th to ROCKY IV and a bonus look back at ROCKY BALBOA (2006).

In honor of Halloween in just a few days - and spurred by our recent NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET 2 watch - this week on a halloween-themed bonus episode of THE BIG 4-0 we take a look at the technical final FRIDAY THE 13th film in the original series/timeline, 2002's JASON X, where they actually do the joke and send Jason into space; as well as the following year's FREDDY VS JASON, in which the titular horror icons finally face-off in the long-gestating/clamored-for-by-fans showdown. We also revisit our NIGHTMARE 2 discussion after watching the 2012 documentary SCREAM QUEEN from NIGHTMARE 2 star Mark Patton, and we touch on a bevy of other Halloween-adjacent films including: A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3, SCREAM, SCARY MOVIE, and PREDATOR and PREDATOR 2. We'll be back in 1985 next week, wishing a Happy BIG 4-0 to DEATH WISH 3 and TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA.

This week, just in time for Halloween, we're blowing out 40 BIG ones for A NIGHTMARE ON ELM ST. 2: FREDDY'S REVENGE and RE-ANIMATOR. Our buddy Steve, who helped us ring in the original NIGHTMARE's BIG 4-0 last year, joins us again to eat Robert Englund's cake... Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we might be back next week with a bonus episode for Halloween... You'll have to wait and see. Or should we say, "Ghoul hack to bait and screeeeeam"?? No? OK.

This week Ron and Peter fire in a bonus episode with a Craig R. Baxley double feature: 1990's Dolph Lundgren-staring I COME IN PEACE and 1991's badass action opus STONE COLD, which tried to turn former football wunderkind Brian Bosworth into a 1990's action hero; but quintessential '80s/'90s bad guys Lance Henriksen and William Forsythe - and Baxley's action, which does for the 1990's what COMMANDO did for the '80s - easily steal the film from "The Boz". Please remember to Rate, Like, Subscribe, and go in pieces, assholes! We'll be back next week with a Happy BIG 4-0 AND a Happy Halloween with A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 and RE-ANIMATOR.

It's the return of THE BIG 4-0! We're actually celebrating these birthdays a week early, but it's been three weeks and we missed you guys! So, get ready to blow out 40 big ones for Fred Ward in the would-be Blue Collar Bond or Urban Indiana Jones wannabe franchise-starter, REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS...; and Corey Haim and Gary Busey in Stephen King's SILVER BULLET. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and so as not to be away so long again, we'll be back next week with a special bonus episode (here's a hint: Craig R. Baxley).

It's an action extravaganza this week on THE BIG 4-0 as Ron and Peter wish an explosive happy 40th birthday to two movies with enough tossed grenades, wasted ammo, and cars exploding on contact for the entire decade - with two of the decades biggest action stars, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chuck Norris - in the '80s action-flick prototypes COMMANDO and INVASION USA. We also throw some birthday cake at Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges in JAGGED EDGE. Please remember to Rate Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back in two weeks with a Happy BIG 4-0 for REMO WILLIAMS: THE ADVENTURE BEGINS... (spoiler: that's also where his adventure ended) and another Stephen King adaptation, this one staring Gary Busy and Corey Haim, SILVER BULLET!

After last week's break, THE BIG 4-0 returns to wish a happy belated birthday to John Candy's (first) bid to carve out a career as the slapsticky dad in the bumbling vacation comedy SUMMER RENTAL. We also wish an early happy BIG 4-0 to Martin Scorsese's one-night-tapped-in-SoHo surrealist dramady, AFTER HOURS. And, of course, this week's birthday boy is none other than The Koff (as we like to call him) in the omnipresent video-store-shelf slice of 1980s action cheese, AMERICAN NINJA. Ron and Peter also touch on a bevy of other films, including recent releases SINNERS, WEAPONS, NOBDY 2, HAPPY GILMORE 2, and THE NAKED GUN (reboot/legacy sequel), as well as a handful of older films including COUPLES RETREAT, REVENGE, and THE CHASE. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back in two weeks with a banger BIG 4-0 birthday line-up: COMMANDO, INVASION USA, and JAGGED EDGE! Happy Labor Day, everybody!

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter bid farewell to a childhood hero of Peter's, Hulk Hogan, as summer of 2025 continues to take a 1980's icon from us on a weekly bases. We also try to figure out if YEAR OF THE DRAGON is funnier than TEEN WOLF and BETTER OFF DEAD, and Ron's daughter Summer pops in halfway through our TEEN WOLF review. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we may have a week off coming up for the Labor Day holiday - we'll see - but we'll be back next time with a belated happy BIG 4-0 to SUMMER RENTAL, as well as blowing out 40 candles for JAGGED EDGE and AMERICAN NINJA!

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter tackle three movies Peter has never seen before and bid Ozzy Osbourne adieu. Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week with another Michael J. Fox cultural touchstone (at least if you were a kid in 1985), TEEN WOLF, as well as the second John Cusack rom-com of the year, BETTER OFF DEAD, and Mickey Rourke in Michael Cimino's hardboiled YEAR OF THE DRAGON.

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter celebrate 40 years since Pee-Wee Herman went on his BIG ADVENTURE to retrieve his beloved stolen bicycle, vampire Chris Sarandon has to deal with his nosey teenage neighbor in FRIGHT NIGHT, and Anthony Michael Hall and some other guy create smokin' Kelly LeBrock using WEIRD SCIENCE. Oh, and Peter has yet another new opening theme for you all to enjoy! He's like Prince with the musical ideas just pouring out him... Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and you'd be a REAL GENIUS to VOLUNTEER to come back next week for the RETURN OF your favorite podcast (and THE LIVING DEAD).

This week, the Griswolds celebrate another BIG 4-0 and a Disney flop turns 40 as well. We also wish an unfortunate RIP to the excellent Michael Madsen. We're built for birthdays, not funerals... Please remember to rate, like, and subscribe; AND please enjoy our angelic new opening theme!

This week, Ron and peter are celebrating triplet "The" BIG 4-0's. Which one is our favorite of "The" three. Find out now! Please remember to Rate, Like, and Subscribe, and we'll be back next week traveling once again down the Holiday Rooooaaad and we have another young boy with a powerful sword fighting another skeleton-faced bad guy.

Welcome to the THUNDERDOME, 4-0 Heads! This week we celebrate the BIG 4-0's of MAD MAX Cage Match, THE BIG CHILL Goes West, and yet another kids-on-bikes adventure fantasy; Joe Dante's THE EXPLORERS. Rate, Like, Subscribe; and next week, we're dinking some COCA-COLA, missing ONE RED SHOE, and learning a LEGEND...

This week on THE BIG 4-0, Ron and Peter welcome two-timer Steve back to the podcast, as we try to get BACK TO THE FUTURE, give the DEAD their DAY, and set ST. ELMO on FIRE. Please Rate, Like, and Subscribe; and we'll be back next week to EXPLORE BIG 4-0 parties in THUNDERDOME and SILVERADO. You'd be MAD to miss it... MAX.

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