News Shotgun 8/20
Hulu getting their own Marvel series, some possible revelations about Spider-Man: Homecoming casting, Detective Pikachu movie gets screenwriters, Metal Gear and Call of Duty news and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 317 “Rogue Beetleborgs”
This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris talk about some of the game news out of Europe at Gamescom, Marvel’s Runaways, Clue the movie, Big Bad Beetleborgs, The Musketeers and much more.
Admit One 8/19
Kubo and the Two Strings seems like the obvious choice this weekend as the other two releases are rotten according to the critics.
JCVD is now Jean Claude Van Johnson (Trailer)
Jean Claude Van Damme stars as a slightly more comedic version of himself named Jean Claude Van Johnson, a retired action superstar who is also a retired assassin/black op operative nicknamed Johnson, in a new Amazon show debuting tomorrow (8/19) on the Instant Video service.
Auto Pilot: Big Bad Beetleborgs
Three typical average kids, inside a haunted mansion. Just by chance, they freed a ghost, who made them Beetleborgs…
Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Trailer
Adam West and Burt Ward are back as Batman and Robin for the first ever Batman 66 animated movie, which finds the dynamic duo up against Riddler, Joker, Penguin and Catwoman, voiced by Julie Newmar.
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.