Explore Matinee Heroes drama episodes featuring powerful performances, unforgettable characters, emotional stories, recasting debates, interviews, and live convention panels.
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane's dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Alan and Craig discuss how little politics has…
An ambitious young broker is lured into the illegal, lucrative world of corporate espionage when he is seduced by the power, status and financial wizardry of Wall Street legend Gordon Gekko. But he soon discovers that the pursuit of overnight…
When tough but vulnerable detective Nick Curran meets a cold, calculating novelist with insatiable sexual urges, he is caught in a deadly web of betrayal, lies, and murder--quickly descending into San Francisco's dark and dangerous underworld where suspicions mount, bodies…
Boyhood friends Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly take radically different paths as adults. Rocky becomes a criminal, while Jerry serves as a neighborhood priest desperately trying to influence young boys to take the “straight-and-narrow” path in life. When Rocky becomes…
A post-apocalyptic ice age forces humanity's last survivors aboard a globe-spanning super train. One man (Chris Evans) will risk everything to lead a revolt for control of the engine and the future of the world. Craig and guest co-host Dallas…
Two young, passionate magicians, are friends and partners until one fateful night when their biggest trick goes terribly wrong. Now the bitterest of enemies, they will stop at nothing to learn each other's secrets. As their rivalry escalates into a…
Born and raised a slave, Spartacus is sold into Gladiator training. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make…
After their plane crashes into the remote Alaskan wilderness, a roughneck group of oil drillers are forced to find a way back to civilization. As the camp hunter leads the injured survivors through the brutal snow and ice, they are…
Rookie hotshot Cole Trickle is teamed with legendary crew chief Harry Hogge to race for the Winston Cup at the Daytona 500. A fiery crash nearly ends Cole’s career and he must turn to a beautiful doctor to regain his…
William Wallace is the medieval Scottish patriot who is spurred into revolt against the English when the love of his life is slaughtered. Leading his army into battles that become a war, his advance into England threatens King Edward I's…
