The possible shortlist for a young Han Solo revealed, Ryan Coogler directing Black Panther, Jamie Foxx joins one of the upcoming Robin Hood movies, Ridley Scott might be rebooting a cult British classic and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

All of this week’s new releases are rotten according to critics, with Michael Bay’s latest getting the best of the bad reviews.

Surprising everyone by dropping in front of 13 Hours, JJ Abrams has somehow secretly produced a “blood relative” to Cloverfield, called 10 Cloverfield Lane, which finds Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman and John Gallagher Jr. living in some sort of fallout shelter and Goodman not allowing anyone to leave because of what’s outside.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe pay their respects to the late David Bowie, British poltergeists, Michael Shannon as Elvis, sexy elves, Dangerous Men and much more.

Patrick Stewart embraces his villainous side in Green Room as the owner of a sketchy club where a punk band becomes trapped after witnessing a horrific crime.

From portraying arguably the greatest villain in action movie history to playing Severus Snape in the Harry Potter movies, Alan Rickman was a legend who will be greatly missed.

Mad Max and The Revenant lead the charge in the most genre movie filled Oscar ballot in years with 10 and 12 nominations respectively while one of our patron saints, Sly Stallone, go a nomination for Creed. Check out the whole list here.

With the group trying to fight evil scattered following the events of last season, things seem to be getting even more grim for the next season of Showtime’s Penny Dreadful.

George Clooney stars as the Jim Crameresque Lee Gates, who is taken hostage live during his financial advice show by a man, played by Jack O’Connell, who lost everything investing in a recent stock Gates recommended that tanked.

After fighting in Vietnam, vet Mike Danton is trying to live a normal life with his wife when he’s kidnapped by the mercenaries of his former commander, Hogan, and used as a live test of their skills.