UNSTOPPABLE!

UNSTOPPABLE!

From Die Hard On A Blank by Philip Gawthorne and Liam Billingham

March 18, 2026 · 1h 23m

About this episode

The episode discusses the film UNSTOPPABLE in the context of disaster movies and the action genre.

It’s Die Hard on a runaway train! With the last stop now in sight, it’s full steam ahead on the show this week as the boys attempt “to run this bitch down” (in the nicest possible way of course) by discussing Tony Scott’s swaggering swansong UNSTOPPABLE (2010) in the context of disaster movies, Die Hard, and the action genre in general!  When a massive freight train designated 777 accidentally escapes a Pennsylvania railyard under its own power, the authorities scramble to find a solution as the driverless locomotive increases its speed. This highly dangerous situation is yet further complicated when they become aware of 777’s volatile chemical cargo, that effectively turns the runaway train into “a missile the size of the Chrysler building”…a missile that’s now heading into inexorably into a heavily populated area. Fate and circumstances mean that two unlikely heroes – veteran train driver Frank Barnes (Denzel Washington) and rookie conductor Will Colson (Chris Pine) – find themselves on a collision course with the errant vehicle – and with the help of canny yardmaster Connie Hooper (Rosario Dawson), they hatch an audacious plan to try and stop this metallic monster from…

People in this episode

Hosts: Philip Gawthorne, Liam Billingham

Topics covered

  • disaster movies
  • action genre
  • film analysis
  • Die Hard
  • Tony Scott
  • UNSTOPPABLE

Keywords

  • UNSTOPPABLE
  • Die Hard
  • Tony Scott
  • Denzel Washington
  • action movies
  • disaster films
  • train
  • film review

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Tony Scott

Books & works: UNSTOPPABLE, Die Hard

Places: Pennsylvania

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