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O.K. Video Weird Cop Buddies 4 The Hidden The unofficial prequel to Men in Black . The first movie the Houser brothers stole ideas from, sorry, paid homage to. The first movie to feature an alien inhabited dog...wait, scratch that last one. The Hidden is a gritty, violent, alien crime spree movie and the fourth entry in O.K. Video's look at Weird Buddy Cop films. Can FBI agent Lloyd Gallagher convince ace cop Tom Beck that the crazed criminal they killed that morning is still at large before he slips into the oval office and takes over the country? If you want to ask us a question you can tweet us @okvideopodcast or email us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca Thanks for listening. Watch the skis. -N

 O.K. Video Weird Cop Buddies 3 Alien Nation Aliens have landed on Earth and all they want to do is work and live and laugh and love. Detective Sam Francisco is a Newcomer, the first to become a detective in the melting pot of Los Angeles. He is teamed up with Detective Sikes, a hard-bitten, hard-edged, hard-drinking cop whose partner was just gunned down with bizarre weaponry. To solve the case they are going to have to trust each other and puzzle out what’s really going on in Slag City before a wave of violence consumes the sunny shores of the City of Angels. Welcome to Alien Nation .  Nathan and Ryan take a peak into this bizarre, cult sci-fi franchise by looking at the movie that started it all in 1988. This is the third episode in our batch of Weird Buddy Cop pairings, thank-you for joining us. If you have questions for the show, fire us an email at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca or tweet us @okvideopodcast. Keep that milk in the fridge so you don’t risk a milk-over. -N

O.K. Video Weird Buddy Cops 2 Theodore Rex  Welcome to O.K. Video's second episode of our look at Weird Buddy Cop movies. We are looking at a standout in the sub-genre, Theodore Rex, a movie that damaged Whoopi Goldberg's career but earned her a sizable sum of seven million. Her co-star, a dinosaur detective with psychic dreams, is voiced by George Newbern. Together, can they stop Armin Mueller-Stahl and Stephen McHattie from bringing about a new Ice Age? From the visionary mind behind The Last Starfighter comes a bewildering mid-90s curio that may just be the toughest watch Nathan and Ryan have dealt with yet. Thanks for listening! Email us at ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca with your questions and feedback. -N 

  O.K. Video Weird Buddy Cops 1 Last Action Hero Welcome to Batch 3 of O.K. Video! This time around we are looking at Weird Buddy Cops, movies that add a twist to the well-worn formula of partnering very different characters and tasking them with solving crimes. We kick it off with Last Action Hero from 1993, directed by John McTiernan and featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger right before the peak of his box office powers ended. A fictional character, Jack Slater, teams up with a movie-obsessed New Yorker equipped with a magical ticket that brings movies to life. If you want to email us questions to be answered on the show just use ryan@okvideo.ca or nathan@okvideo.ca  Thanks for listening! -N