Explore Matinee Heroes drama episodes featuring powerful performances, unforgettable characters, emotional stories, recasting debates, interviews, and live convention panels.
Two master warriors are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen. A young aristocrat prepares for an arranged marriage, but soon reveals her superior fighting talents and her deeply romantic past. As each warrior…
It is 1971 and football coach Herman Boone takes over as the coach of the Titans, a recently-integrated Virginia high-school football team. However, the team finds ingrained prejudice from many within the town, with some officials even plotting to get…
Randy "The Ram" Robinson, is a former superstar now paying the price for twenty years of grueling punishment in and out of the ring. But he's about to risk everything to prove he has one more match left in him:…
After shock jock Jack Lucas inadvertently provokes a caller into murdering a group of innocent people in a Manhattan bar, he grows depressed and turns to booze. As he's about to hit rock bottom, Lucas meets a homeless man named…
When an agent from a shadowy corporation tasked with moving alien creatures to a new internment camp is infected with an otherworldly liquid, he attempts to stop himself from being transformed into a Prawn. Alan and Craig discuss immigration, the…
A former American boxer returns to his native home in Ireland to win the hand of a fiery young woman. But his courtship is impeded by strict local customs and the woman's belligerent brother. Alan and Craig discuss Ireland, getting…
After building an empire with bootleg alcohol, legendary crime boss Al Capone rules Chicago with an iron fist. Though Prohibition agent Eliot Ness attempts to take Capone down, even his best efforts fail due to widespread corruption within the Windy…
Three cops, a call girl, a mysterious millionaire and a tabloid journalist are entangled in a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner rife with mystery, ambition and romance. Alan and Craig discuss finding the…
Adonis Johnson, son of deceased world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, has boxing in his blood. Looking to win his own title, Adonis heads to Philadelphia and convinces his father’s rival-turned-friend, Rocky Balboa, to train him – even as Rocky battles…
This is the inspiring story of the all-black 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Their training and battle experience leads them to their final assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina, where their heroic bravery turned bitter defeat into…
