It was supposed to be a simple night out: four friends, a boxing match, and an RV ride into the city. Then they take one wrong exit, witness a murder, and spend the rest of the night being hunted through the streets of Chicago by Denis Leary and his crew.

On this episode of Second Chance Cinema, we’re heading back to 1993 for Judgment Night, the tense, grimy thriller starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven, and Denis Leary.

We talk about the movie’s adventure premise, how it subverts ’90s masculinity, the cast, the soundtrack, how'd we fare, and whether the film still delivers more than three decades later.

Was Judgment Night an overlooked thriller that deserved better or is nostalgia doing most of the heavy lifting?

It’s time to give Judgment Night a second chance.

This week on Second Chance Cinema, MC and Spro blast off with Jason X, the wonderfully ridiculous tenth entry in the Friday the 13th franchise. Watched alongside our friend Conor, the movie sends Jason Voorhees into space, surrounds him with soldiers, scientists, an android, and plenty of futuristic victims, and somehow manages to become what might actually be the third-best Jason movie in the entire long, celebrated (or perhaps not-so-celebrated) series.

Things take an unexpected turn when we begin imagining a very different ending: What if the nanotechnology had actually fixed Jason? What if it restored him as a completely ordinary man, played by Steve Carell, who suddenly had to live with the trauma and guilt of ten movies’ worth of murder? Come for the liquid-nitrogen kills, stay for the accidental dramatic reinvention of Jason Voorhees, and be sure to stick around for bonus content at the end.

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This week on Second Chance Cinema, MC and Spro check into Hotel Artemis, the 2018 crime thriller where Los Angeles is thirsty, criminals have health insurance, and Jodie Foster runs an exclusive members-only hospital for people who absolutely cannot call 911.

With a ridiculously good cast: Sterling K. Brown, Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Charlie Day, Jeff Goldblum, and Zachary Quinto. Hotel Artemis has all the ingredients of a cult classic. A great premise. A strange near-future world. Criminals with code names. Dave Bautista as a "healthcare professional." What more could you possibly need?

So why did this thing mostly disappear?

We talk about what works (damn near everything), what doesn’t (the robbery masks), and whether we ourselves would trust it. Hotel Artemis deserves another night’s stay. Check it out.