Action Hero of the Week: Michael Jennings
Offering his engineering skills on contracts to reverse engineer rival tech and then get his mind wiped, Michael Jennings gets in over his head when he realizes a three year contract with Allcom resulted in him helping to make a machine that can see the future and now Allcom’s goons are out to kill him to protect it.
New Release Round Up 8/16
Not a lot out this week but you can get the final season of AMC’s Western show Hell on Wheels, The Angry Birds Movie, the second season of Gotham and a few other things on DVD and Blu Ray.
Amy Adams Deciphers an Alien Language in The Arrival (Trailer)
Amy Adams leads a team trying to decipher the language and intentions of a fleet of alien spacecraft in this November’s The Arrival, from Sicario director Denis Villeneuve.
James Caan is Hiding a Secret in The Good Neighbor (Trailer)
Two high schoolers try to convince their neighbor across the street, played by James Caan, that his house is haunted but their surveillance turns up something possibly sinister happening in the upcoming thriller, The Good Neighbor.
Battle at the Box Office 8/15
Despite an almost 70% drop off from last week, Suicide Squad remained on top of the box office while Sausage Party had a stronger than expected opening.
Musical Montage: Beverly Hills Cop
The Grammy winning soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop was a massive hit in the summer of 1984, hitting #1 on the charts and featuring hit singles like Glenn Frey’s “The Heat is On” and Patti Labelle’s “New Attitude”.
News Shotgun 8/13
Jason Momoa may be the new Crow, Bad Boys 3 gets a new title and release date, a bunch of news about the upcoming seasons of The CW’s DC shows, Ghostbusters may have lost Sony $70 million and much more in this week’s New Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 316 “Mighty Morphin VR Troopers”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe dive into the insanity of the Resident Evil movies, real life hauntings, The Crow reboot, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Saban 90’s shows, The Killing Joke and much more.
Admit One 8/12
All three of this week’s new releases are drastically different and all fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Rogue One’s New Trailer Goes to War
There’s plenty of new, awesome, in the trenches action from the new Rogue One trailer, where Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a group of Rebel operatives try and steal the plans for the Empire’s newest and deadliest weapon, the Death Star.