As we are at peak Star Wars this week, it seems like a good time to look back on one of the weirdest bits of the Expanded Universe, the short lived solo adventures of C3PO and R2D2 in Star Wars: Droids.

Mockingjay Part 2 stayed on top for the fourth and final week while In the Heart of the Sea was kind of a disaster, despite coming in second.

The Enterprise crew are stuck on the frontier of Federation space with no ship and an evil alien played by Idris Elba threatening them in next summer’s third entry in the rebooted Star Trek series, Star Trek Beyond.

Joe has some manly gift ideas to give or receive this Holiday season.

After Star Wars became a juggernaut at the box office in 1977, the next logical step was a coke fueled variety show special the next year and thus, The Star Wars Holiday Special was born.

Twenty years after their first failed invasion, the mysterious alien species of Independence Day return for revenge in Independence Day: Resurgence

Netflix gets into the true crime genre next week when all episodes of the documentary series, Making a Murderer, arrives on streaming, which follows the case of Steven Avery, who was wrongfully accused of a crime and sent to jail for 18 years, was going to sue the county and then gets accused of a worse crime.

Stop motion masters Laika are back and following up the goofy charm of The Boxtrolls with an epic looking adventure set in Feudal Japan, Kubo and the Two Strings.

The Hunger Games will continue over at Lionsgate, Amazon adds a bunch of additional subscriptions to Instant Video, Wayward Pines will return next summer, the first info on Toho’s Godzilla reboot and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

The next installment of the recharged X-men franchise is here: X-men Apocalypse has arrived:   Picking up sometime after X-Men Days of Future Past,  Apocalypse shows us Charlies Xavier and his students facing off against the supreme mutant Apocalypse, the world’s first Mutant. Xavier appears to have continued his school and helped mentor a new generations of […]