That Film Stew Podcast

In this special milestone episode, we'll look back at an assortment of films from multiple decades that make up the ambitious, experimental, sometimes funny, sometimes not, long running, successful movie production company founded by Adam Sandler - Happy Madison Productions. What are our favourite movies and what are the worst movies?

Written, produced, and directed by John Krasinski, IF is the live-action / animated fantasy comedy film featuring an ensemble cast that includes Cailey Fleming, Ryan Reynolds, Fiona Shaw, along with the voices of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr., and Steve Carell. After discovering she can see everyone’s imaginary friends, twelve-year-old Bea (Cailey Fleming) embarks on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.

Directed by Patrick Hughes, The Expendables 3 is the action film written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, and Sylvester Stallone. It s the third installment in The Expendables franchise. Luke and Nathan get fired up to revist the third installment in The Expendables franchise which once again features an ensemble cast of largely action film actors. Years ago, Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) co-founded the Expendables with Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson). After Stonebanks became an arms dealer, Ross was forced to kill him - or so he thought. Now, Stonebanks is back and he's on a mission to end the Expendables. Ross decides that the way to fight old blood is with new blood, so he assembles a team of younger, faster, more tech-savvy recruits.

Directed by Matthew Vaughan and produced by Bryan Singer, X-Men: First Class is the superhero film based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics. Luke and Nathan return to 2011 to the fourth mainline film (fifth overall) in the X-Men film series that takes the story back to 1962 to initially serve as a franchise reboot but eventually was retconned as a legitimate prequel to X-Men (2000). During the height of the Cold War, a mutant named Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) meets a fellow mutant named Erik Lehnsherr (Michael Fassbender). Despite their vastly different backgrounds -- Charles grew up with a wealthy family, while Erik lost his parents at Auschwitz -- the two become close friends. As the world teeters on the brink of a nuclear war, Charles and Erik with other mutants join forces to save humanity.

Directed by Joshua John Miller, The Exorcism is the horror film starring Russell Crowe. Anthony Miller (Russell Crowe) is a troubled actor who begins to unravel while shooting a supernatural horror film. His estranged daughter (Ryan Simpkins) wonders if he’s slipping back into his past addictions or if there’s something more sinister at play.

We've got new trailers for Venom: The Last Dance and Alien: Romulus, the new Knives Out cast has grown extensively (and so has Daniel Craig's hair), the next The Exorcist will take a radical new direction, and the Transformers and G.I. Joe crossover movie is still happening. Guy Ritchie is back with more Sherlock Holmes, Zack Snyder is back with more 300, Man on Fire gets the small screen treatment, and Hotel Transylvania has a TV series coming... again.

Produced and directed by Richard Linklater, Hit Man is the romantic action comedy film based on the 2001 Texas Monthly magazine article of the same name by Skip Hollandsworth. Strait-laced professor Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) moonlights as a fake hit man for the New Orleans Police Department. Gifted at inhabiting different guises and personalities to catch hapless people hoping to bump off their enemies, Gary descends into morally dubious territory when he finds himself attracted to one of those potential criminals, a beautiful young woman named Madison (Adria Arjona). As Madison falls for one of Gary's hit man personas - the mysteriously sexy Ron - their steamy affair sets off a chain reaction of play acting, deception, and escalating stakes.

Directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, Hercules is the animated musical fantasy film, loosely based on the legendary hero Heracles (known in the film by his Roman name, Hercules), a son of Zeus in Greek mythology. Luke and Jae journey back to the legendary times of Ancient Greece (also known as 1997) to revist this Walt Disney Feature Animation produced film. Hercules (Tate Donovan), a son of gods, was snatched as a baby by Hades (James Woods) and forced to live among mortals as a half-man, half-god. Now a teenager, Hercules needs to perform a rite of passage on Earth to prove himself worthy of living with the gods on Mount Olympus. With his plucky satyr sidekick, Philoctetes (Danny DeVito), along for the ride, Hercules must learn how to use his strength to defeat a series of evil creatures.

Created by John Whittington and Toby Ascher, Knuckles is the telvision miniseries based on the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series published by Sega. It is a spin-off of the Sonic the Hedgehog film series. Luke and Jason check out this firat live-action Sonic television series which takes place between the events of the films Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024), and follows Knuckles the Echidna (Idris Elba) and deputy sheriff Wade Whipple (Adam Pally). As Knuckles struggles to find purpose in a strange, new and mostly peaceful world, he teaches Wade the techniques of the Echidna warrior.

Created by Beau DeMayo, X-Men '97 is the animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. It is the revival of X-Men: The Animated Series (1992 - 1997), continuing the story of the X-Men following the loss of their leader, Professor X. Luke and Nathan get their mutant on as they check out the first season of this Marvel Studios produced, Marvel Animation series for Disney+. A band of mutants use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them; they're challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.

Directed, co-written, and co-produced by George Miller, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is the Australian post-apocalyptic action film which serves as a prequel and spin-off to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) which focuses on the character Imperator Furiosa. It is also the fifth installment in the Mad Max franchise. Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa (Anya Taylor-Joy) falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus (Chris Hemsworth). Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe (Lachy Hulme). As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way home.

It's been forty years but we finally have a trailer for Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, the next Knives Out title has been revealed, a Marvel Studio's X-Men movie is official, and Cillian Murphy will be back (somehow) in 28 Years Later. Marvel's Vision series is still on the schedule, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy series finds its lead, and Will Ferrell takes on the golf comedy genre.

What a wonderful day! Directed by Wes Ball and written by Josh Friedman, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is the fourth installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise and standalone sequel to War for the Planet of the Apes (2017). It is also the tenth Planet of the Apes film overall. Set several generations in the future following Caesar's reign, in which apes are the dominant species living harmoniously and humans have been reduced to living in the shadows, a new tyrannical ape leader (Kevin Durand) builds his empire. One young ape (Owen Teague) undertakes a harrowing journey that will cause him to question all that he has known about the past and to make choices that will define a future for apes and humans alike.

Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction tells three intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles, California. Jason and Rob rewind to 1994 to review the independent crime film that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year - a film that spends considerable screen time devoted to monologues and casual conversations, and features an ironic combination of humour and strong violence. Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) are hitmen with a penchant for philosophical discussions. Their storyline is interwoven with those of their boss, gangster Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames), his actress wife, Mia (Uma Thurman), struggling boxer Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis), and master fixer Winston Wolfe (Harvey Keitel).

Directed by Gore Verbinski, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is the fantasy swashbuckler film produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and based on Walt Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks. Luke and Jae break out the rum and return to the high seas to sail the first installment in the Piratea of the Caribbean film series. Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) arrives at Port Royal in the Caribbean without a ship or crew. His timing is inopportune, however, because later that evening the town is besieged by a pirate ship. The pirates kidnap the governor's daughter, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley), who's in possession of a valuable coin that is linked to a curse that has transformed the pirates into the undead. A gallant blacksmith (Orlando Bloom) in love with Elizabeth allies with Sparrow in pursuit of the pirates.

Developed by Bruce Timm, Giancarlo Volpe, and Jim Krieg, Green Lantern: The Animated Series is the animated superhero television series based on the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern created by John Broome and Gil Kane. Luke and Jae revisit the 26 episode single season of this Cartoon Network series which ran from March 2012 to March 2013 - and both the first Green Lantern television series and the first CGI DC/WB series. Earth's Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, and partner Kilowog, find themselves alone on the edge of Guardian Frontier fighting off an invasion by the deadly Red Lantern Corps. The Red Lanterns, powered by pure rage, have sworn to destroy the Green Lantern Corps and everything it stands for. Hal, dispatched on an experimental spacecraft, is soon joined by a new group of heroes on a mission to protect Guardian Frontier - and the Green Lantern Corps itself.

Children can be such monsters... Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Abigail is the horror film starring Alisha Weir, Melissa Barrera, Dan Stevens, and Kathryn Newton. After a group of would-be criminals kidnap the 12-year-old ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, all they have to do to collect a $50 million ransom is watch the girl overnight. In an isolated mansion, the captors start to dwindle, one by one, and they discover, to their mounting horror, that they're locked inside with no normal little girl.

Two new big names added to the Fantastic Four cast, Masters of the Universe has a release date so we can say that it is actually finally happening, Twisters throws down a new trailer, Road House will re-open as its sequel is greenlit, and the new Superman puts on his boots. Vin Diesel confirms a fourth Riddick movie, Peter Jackson returns to Middle-Earth with the Lord of the Rings universe set to continue with a new film, and Russell Crowe returns as a demon fighting priest... again!

A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen... Directed by Jerry Seinfeld (in his feature directorial debut), Unfrosted is the Netflix comedy film loosely based on the true story of the creation of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries. In 1963, Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever.

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