Franchise Detours
No movie series travels in a straight line. And on Franchise Detours, host Robert Yaniz Jr. tracks the twists and turns of your favorite film series. Whether it’s the manic antics of The Naked Gun, the evolving continuity of X-Men, the horror-comedy balancing act of Child’s Play, or how Rocky transitioned into Creed, each episode digs into how these stories shift, grow, and sometimes completely reinvent themselves.
- Update frequency
- every 8 days
- Average duration
- 76 minutes
- Episodes
- 109
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
'X-Men: Days of Future Past' (feat. film critic Rosa Parra)
After The Avengers, superhero cinema has never been the same. Suddenly, everything needed to be interconnected, featuring tons of characters and an increasingly complicated timeline. Naturally, the X…
01:25:19 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
'The Wolverine' (feat. Ryan Luis Rodriguez of One Track Mind)
Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has always been a fan favorite. But X-Men Origins: Wolverine called into question whether the mutant hero would get the opportunity to carry more than a single solo film. Tha…
01:19:22 |
Fri 29 Sep 2023
'X-Men: First Class' (feat. Kevin the Critic)
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was meant to slash open a whole new avenue for the X-Men movie franchise. Yet, despite its commercial performance, the tepid reception ultimately led the series to take anoth…
01:43:09 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
'X-Men Origins: Wolverine' (feat. Jose Lopez Jr.)
Despite the less-than-enthusiastic response from fans and critics, 2006's trilogy-ending X-Men: The Last Stand did at least offer fans something of a sense of closure (that final shot and post-credit…
01:26:53 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem' REVIEW
We interrupt your regularly scheduled mutant superhero mega-series already in progress for, well, another mutant superhero mega-series. It's time to dip back into the sewers for a return to the world…
00:19:22 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
'X-Men: The Last Stand' (feat. Jeremiah Stewart of Let's Talk)
Our X-Men mega-series continues, spanning 10 films and nearly 20 years. Following the success of X2: X-Men United, the franchise takes its first major shift. Director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour) steps i…
01:22:27 |
Sat 29 Jul 2023
'X2: X-Men United' (feat. Phoenix Clouden of the Film Code Podcast)
Welcome back, fellow mutant enthusiasts! As we celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the X-Men film franchise, we continue our journey through the groundbreaking series that revolutionized the superhero …
01:21:04 |
Fri 21 Jul 2023
'X-Men' (2000) (feat. Brian Skutle of the Sonic Cinema Podcast)
Twenty-three years have passed since the mutants of Marvel Comics made their big-screen debut. And it's an understatement to say the cinematic landscape has itself mutated since X-Men hit theaters. S…
01:47:41 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
'Fantasia' / 'Fantasia 2000' (feat. Brian Skutle of the Sonic Cinema Podcast)
Walt Disney is a name that has become synonymous with family entertainment. But back when Disney himself was running the company, the studio was pushing the boundaries of feature animation. And perha…
01:26:45 |
Thu 13 Jul 2023
'Knocked Up' / 'This Is 40' (feat. Kai Yaniz of Crooked Table Productions)
Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, mainstream comedies were dominated by just one man: Judd Apatow. As a writer, director, and/or producer, Apatow was behind many of the biggest hits of the era, includi…
01:31:43 |
Fri 30 Jun 2023
'War for the Planet of the Apes' (feat. David Rosen of Piecing It Together)
After nine films and three different incarnations, our Planet of the Apes mega-series ends here. We went in-depth on the original five-film series, dug up the oft-maligned Tim Burton "reimagining," a…
01:05:59 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
'Dawn of the Planet of the Apes' (feat. Jason of Binge Movies)
Prior to its release, no one quite knew what to make of Rise of the Planet of the Apes. But after it became one of 2011's biggest surprise hits, it was clear just how much life was left in the decade…
01:26:55 |
Fri 26 May 2023
'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' (feat. film critic Nguyên Lê)
A full decade after director Tim Burton's "reimagining" of Planet of the Apes, the franchise seemed pretty much done. Hollywood turned its attention to other movie series, but after both Batman and B…
01:29:16 |
Fri 19 May 2023
'Planet of the Apes' (2001) (feat. Lauren Knight of That Movie Is Fine)
After the disappointment of Battle for the Planet of the Apes, the franchise limped on in the form of two short-lived television series. First came 1974's live-action Planet of the Apes TV series, fo…
01:21:29 |
Fri 05 May 2023
'Evil Dead Rise' REVIEW
Evil Dead was only the second mega-series Franchise Detours covered. So it's only right that, with writer-director Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise now in theaters, we take a franchise u-turn back to that…
00:44:36 |
Fri 05 May 2023
'Battle for the Planet of the Apes' (feat. actor and author John Weagly)
Conquest for the Planet of the Apes sees Caesar (Roddy McDowall) lead an ape revolution that seemingly sews up the fate of humanity. So where could a sequel possibly take the story after the climacti…
00:59:07 |
Fri 28 Apr 2023
'Conquest of the Planet of the Apes' (feat. Ryan Luis Rodriguez of One Track Mind)
Escape from the Planet of the Apes set the franchise off on a brand-new course. And the sequel -- released just over a year after its predecessor -- follows the ape Caesar (Roddy McDowall, as a new c…
00:47:54 |
Fri 21 Apr 2023
'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' (feat. film critic Sara Michelle Fetters)
No spoilers, but Beneath the Planet of the Apes seemed to negate the chances of a third Planet of the Apes film. And yet, the box office receipts sent a very different message to studio executives. A…
01:15:14 |
Fri 14 Apr 2023
'Beneath the Planet of the Apes' (feat. Jeremiah Stewart of Let's Talk)
1968's Planet of the Apes was a watershed moment for science fiction cinema and, in hindsight, franchise filmmaking. But what lies beneath? That's the focus of this episode, as we take a look at the …
00:56:34 |
Fri 07 Apr 2023
'Planet of the Apes' (1968) (feat. Thomas Greene of Perpetual Cinema)
We finally really did it. After spending the past several episodes with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Franchise Detours sticks to the world of anthropomorphic animals and prosthetic make-up for i…
01:26:19 |
Thu 06 Apr 2023
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