Exploding Helicopter
The world’s only podcast celebrating films where helicopters explode.
- Update frequency
- every 26 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 162
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2025
Episode 162: The Naked Gun 33 1/3 - The Final Insult
“I treated him like my brother – the one I didn’t kill.”In a desperate bid for topical relevancy, we thought the release of The Naked Gun reboot was a good reason to go back and review the only entry…
00:59:27 |
Mon 01 Sep 2025
Episode 161: Bigfoot
“I see you still like the granola type.”On this episode we take a look at The Asylum’s BIGFOOT (2012), a film that pits Partridge Family and Brady Bunch alumni against each other in a wild fight to t…
00:43:23 |
Fri 01 Aug 2025
Episode 160: Gamera vs Gyaos
“Arigato Gamera…..”On this episode we review the Japanese monster movie, Gamera vs Gyaos (1967).We discuss how the titular prehistoric turtle matches up against Godzilla, the film’s kid friendly slan…
00:45:01 |
Tue 01 Jul 2025
Episode 159: Surrogates
“Relax – we’re the good guys.”On this show we look at the Bruce Willis science fiction thriller SURROGATES (2009). The film explores what happens when humans being abandon the real world for a virtua…
00:35:51 |
Sun 01 Jun 2025
Episode 158: Swordfish
“The thing is – they make you put the furniture together yourself.”On this episode we take a look at another attempt to make a film about people tapping a computer keyboard, SWORDFISH (2001).We discu…
00:37:53 |
Thu 01 May 2025
Episode 157: Van Helsing
“You can’t kill me – I’m already dead.”On this exciting episode of Exploding Stagecoach we take a look at one of the most divisive films in the history of wooden wheeled transportation destruction, V…
00:33:05 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
Episode 156: Crossplot
Before Roger Moore got his licence to kill, he was able to give his 007 persona a dry run in a little-known espionage thriller that’s fallen between the cinema seats of film history, CROSSPLOT (1969)…
00:36:17 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
Episode 155: Army Of The Dead
“It’s not the meat – it’s the heat.”On this episode we look at Zach Snyder’s zombie heist movie, ARMY OF THE DEAD (2021).As we review the film, we try to make sense of Snyder’s career and an explodin…
00:39:07 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Episode 154: Boss Level
“You’ve been killing me with Hitler’s gun?”On this episode of Exploding Helicopter, we look at the time loop action-comedy BOSS LEVEL (2021).We discuss the film’s video game influenced take on the co…
00:32:23 |
Wed 01 Jan 2025
Episode 153: The Day The Earth Stood Still
“This body will take some getting used to.”On this episode of the Exploding Helicopter podcast, we look at a remake of one of the most famous science fiction films of the 1950s, THE DAY THE EARTH STO…
00:43:31 |
Sun 01 Dec 2024
Episode 152: Deadly Encounter
“I don’t turn into an idiot just because I get horny.”On this show we look at the ultimate high concept thriller, DEADLY ENCOUNTER (1982) – a film about a 90-minute-long helicopter pursuit. We discus…
00:35:51 |
Fri 01 Nov 2024
Episode 151: Carter
"Listen to me if you want to live."On this show we take a look at the insane, non stop, action-fest CARTER (2022) that's filmed as if it were all one take.We're joined by Nick Rehak to discuss the fi…
00:35:59 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
Episode 150: The Towering Inferno
“Did you leave a cigarette burning?”On this episode we look at one of classics of the disaster movie boom of the 1970s, The Towering Inferno (1974).We’re joined by Nick Rehak to discuss the future of…
00:34:53 |
Sun 01 Sep 2024
Episode 149: Dante's Peak
“Get real Beavis – she’s just clearing her throat.”On this episode we look at yet another volcano disaster movie that features an exploding helicopter, DANTE’S PEAK (1997).There was really only one m…
00:47:14 |
Thu 01 Aug 2024
Episode 148: When Eight Bells Toll
"You're not going to kill anyone else are you?"On this episode we're looking at the film that attempted to turn Sir Anthony Hopkins into the next James Bond, WHEN EIGHT BELLS TOLL (1971).To see if we…
00:34:44 |
Mon 01 Jul 2024
Episode 147: Chuck Steel: Night Of The Trampires
“Fifty bucks and the monkey can watch”On this show we’re taking a look an animated film that celebrates the Eighties maverick cop genre, CHUCK STEEL: NIGHT OF THE TRAMPIRES (2018).Our guest on this e…
00:37:07 |
Sat 01 Jun 2024
Episode 146: Uncommon Valor
“Most human problems can be solved with an appropriate charge of high explosive”During the 1980s, it seemed as if Hollywood sent every one of its action stars on unsanctioned missions to Vietnam to r…
00:42:39 |
Wed 01 May 2024
Episode 145: Where Eagles Dare
“Strange... I seem to remember... that the cathedral was on the other side of the square.”On this episode of Exploding Cable Car we take a look at the classic war epic WHERE EAGLES DARE (1968).We dis…
00:36:19 |
Mon 01 Apr 2024
Episode 144: Pathaan
“It’s time to befriend the devil.”On this episode we return to the world of Bollywood to look at Shah Rukh Khan’s action blockbuster PATHAAN (2023). We fire up the wind machine so Asim Burney from th…
00:44:46 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
Episode 143: The Wolf's Call
“Gentlemen – cancel your turkey orders.” On this show we rig for silent running and plunge below crush depth to review the French submarine thriller The Wolf’s Call (2019).Show notesThe Wolf’s Call (…
00:37:34 |
Thu 01 Feb 2024
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