The Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack and ‘Onslaught’ With Michael Biehn and Adam Wingard!
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The Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack and ‘Onslaught’ With Michael Biehn and Adam Wingard!

B1IntermediateSeptember 4, 20261 hr 57 min

Well, ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to take some MDMA, get kinky, and grab some guns because on today’s show, Chris Ryan joins us (duh) to discuss Adam Wingard’s new metal action flick, ‘Onslaught.’ They briefly cover two additional recent releases in ‘Mutiny’ and ‘The Whisper Man’ before diving into ‘Onslaught’ and building out their “Black-and-Chrome Action Movie Pack.” Later, Sean is joined by iconic actor Michael Biehn and Wingard to discuss ‘Onslaught’ as well as the wild personal story that inspired the film and plenty of anecdotes about making movies in Hollywood. (0:00) Intro (1:47) The ‘Mutiny’ leak...

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I'm Sean Fantasy and this is the Big Picture, a conversation show about Onslaught. Today on the show we're having a very metal episode of the Big Picture because we're discussing a very metal movie. Black and chrome metal that is.

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Adam Wingard has a new movie that throws back the Halcyon days of sawed-off shotguns, unkillable super soldiers, desolate American survivalism, government conspiracy, and insane action set pieces. The movie is onslaught and it's a loving homage to movies like T2, Judgment Day, The Road

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Warrior, and many more. Chris Ryan is here to talk about it and to help me build out the Black and Chrome action pack later in this episode. I'll be joined by Wingard as well as one of the stars of his film, the action movie

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