Battle at the Box Office 7/21
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes remained on top for another week with The Purge: Anarchy being a decent second while Sex Tape and Planes: Fire & Rescue both had mediocre openings.
Musical Montage: UHF
After a week of amazing new music videos, today is the 25th anniversary of Weird Al’s cult comedy classic, UHF, which obviously had a fantastic soundtrack album from the man himself.
News Shotgun 7/18
Tons of news in the week before Comic Con including big casting for The Flash, Christopher Walken as a tap dancing Captain Hook, Gotham teasing the Joker, first looks at Goosebumps, Pixels and Avengers: Age of Ultron and much more.
Black Jesus Trailer
Black Jesus arrives in Compton to spread his teachings and perform miracles but the residents are not as receptive as he would hope in the new Adult Swim comedy from Aaron McGruder.
Admit One 7/18
An eclectic mix of movies out this weekend with the sequels to The Purge and Planes and raunchy new rom-com, Sex Tape, but only The Purge: Anarchy is close to being “fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes.
Know Your “That Guy”: John Pyper-Ferguson
Most recently co-starring on The Last Ship, John Pyper-Ferguson has appeared on pretty much every major genre TV show since the mid-80’s, usually as a villain.
Annabelle Trailer
Annabelle, the creepy demonic doll stopped by the Warrens before the events of The Conjuring gets her own spin-off this October.
The Pull List 7/17
Ash and Sheila are getting married but Deadites might spoil it, Wolverine fights in World War 1, The Rat King arrives in the TMNT comic universe and much more in this week’s Pull List.
Everything Actioncast Ep 218 “True British Detective”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss the Emmy Nominations, British crime shows, The Strain, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Lady Thor, the bizarre difference in marketing between the US and Japanese Big Hero 6 trailers and much more.
12 Monkeys Trailer
The insane time travel classic from Terry Gilliam is getting reimagined on SyFy channel next year as James Cole is sent back in time to prevent a deadly outbreak that has devastated the future.