Everything Actioncast Ep. 94 “Haywire Cyborg”
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about British comedies, debate the merits of Series 2 of Luther, UFC on FX, the Oscar nominations, Resident Evil, the epic team up of MC Hammer and Deion Sanders, the new seasons of Archer and Justified and much more.
Action Hero of the Week: Leonard Shelby
We award Leonard Shelby Action Hero of the Week this week, even though he won’t remember he got it five minutes from now.
84th Academy Award Nominees
The Oscar nominations were announced this morning and they were not very exciting as the voters seemed to go with the safe and conservative picks and there were some major snubs.
New Release Round Up 1/24
Godzilla joins the Criterion Collection, you can upgrade a bunch of your Hitchcock and Woody Allen movies to Blu Ray and Real Steel is out and our Pick of the Week.
Review: Haywire
Steven Soderbergh enters the action genre with Haywire, starring former American Gladiator and MMA fighter Gina Carano. As you might expect when you have an MMA fighter for your star, the fights are great, but what about the rest of the movie?
Battle at the Box Office 1/23
People still apparently like the Underworld franchise as it was the number one movie at the box office, followed by Red Tails and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close got a massive bump from it’s wide release.
Musical Montage: “Straight to My Feet” by Hammer feat. Deion Sanders
What do you get when MC Hammer and Deion Sanders team up for a song from the Street Fighter soundtrack? I don’t know, but Van Damme is in it.
News Shotgun 1/20
This week we got news about the CW developing a Green Arrow series, Star Trek 2 starts shooting, the first look at the new Riddick and Expendables 2 goes PG-13.
Project X Trailer
The “found footage” genre makes it’s way into the high school party genre with the Todd Phillips produced “Project X” (not to be confused with the Matthew Broderick movie)
Admit One 1/20
Steven Soderbergh enters the action arena with Haywire this weekend along with three other new releases.