The Ack Attack: with J and Z

Episode 168: IP-pilled Content-maxing Franchise-enjoyers

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z wonder if anything will happen in the three-episode premiere of Amazon's "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" season two (0:00:00) as well as setting the record straight as to whether the "Alien" prequel "Prometheus" was ever any good (0:49:31).

Episode 167: Is "The Ballerina" Even a Real Film?

Joins us this week as our hosts J and Z set right what was made wrong in the modern adaptation of "The Crow" (0:00:00). The guys also discuss the cancelation of Star Wars' "The Acolyte" (0:26:28), the Peacock original film "The Killer" (1:14:48), and finishing it off with a Trailer Trash/Trailer Cash of "The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim" and "Megalopolis" (1:32:50). 

Episode 166: Motherhood and Its Challenges

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z realize how much worse space West Virginia can be in "Alien: Romulus" (0:00:00). Other topics this week include the leaked D23 trailer for the upcoming MCU film "Thunderbolts*" (0:50:21) and the newest Hunter Schafer vehicle "Cuckoo" (1:09:26). 

Episode 165: Not For Anyone

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z wonder who "Borderlands" (0:00:00) was even made for. The guys also cover the season two finale of HBO's "The House of the Dragon" (0:20:24), the various upcoming projects revealed at D23 (1:30:16), and finishing out with the hit sequel "Aliens" (1:55:00). 

Episode 164: Egg Missed the Dunk

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z pick apart M. Night Shyamalan's newest film "Trap" (0:00:00). The fellas also cover the penultimate episode of season two of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (0:32:55), along with Ridley Scott's science fiction hit "Alien" (1:34:24). 

Episode 163: They're Unemployed

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z break the fourth wall and box office records with the newest MCU film "Deadpool and Wolverine" (0:00:00) along with some of the biggest reveals at this year's San Diego Comic-Con (1:00:00). The guys also finish up their coverage of season three of Hulu's "The Bear" (1:18:19) with episodes nine and ten and finish the episode off with episode six of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (1:43:03). 

Episode 162: Darth Plagiarism

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z realize dragons are just meat with episode five of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (0:00:00). The guys also cover; episodes seven and eight of Hulu's "The Bear" (0:36:56), the 2017 superhero film "Logan" (0:58:57), and the finales of both Amazon's "The Boys" (1:12:28) and Star Wars' "The Acolyte" (1:44:27) 

Episode 161: A Man Can't Play a Bridge

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z do a triple feature "Trailer Trash/Trailer Cash" with "Captain America: Brave New World", "Gladiator 2", and "Agatha All Along" (0:00:00). Other topics include; the penultimate episodes of Amazon's "The Boys" (0:39:08) and Star Wars' "The Acolyte" (0:58:23), both of the "Deadpool" films (1:27:54), episodes five and six of Hulu's "The Bear", and finally episode four of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (2:02:40). 

Episode 160: Unprecedented Western

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z get their first taste of Kevin Costner's newest western "Horizon: An American Saga Part 1" (0:00:00). The fellas also cover; episode six of " The Boys" (0:39:26) and "The Acolyte" (0:59:41), the newest Yorgos Laminoth film "Kinds of Kindness" (1:32:24), episode three of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (1:59:33), and finally episodes three and four of Hulu's "The Bear" (2:24:14).

Episode 159: So Much For the Tolerant Jedi

Join us this week as our hosts J and Z cover the greatest number of topics yet for a standard episode, equal parts film and television. The former consists of; "A Quiet Place: Day One" (0:00:00), "The Bikeriders" (0:42:32), "Inside Out 2" (1:35:00), and "Dances with Wolves" (2:21:33) and the later consisting of; the first two episodes of Hulu's "The Bear" (0:23:24), episode five of "The Acolyte" (1:00:40) and "The Boys" (2:33:27), and episode two of HBO's "House of the Dragon" (1:52:22).