This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about finally getting a director for The Batman, a Nightwing movie, the Stephen King universe, hated character actors, casting Timon and Pumbaa, hipster wilderness survival, Italian Rambo and much more.

Get Out is apparently a horror masterpiece for Jordan Peele’s directorial debut while Rock Dog and Collide were both not screened for critics and can presumed to be terrible.

Forget the Oscars, the 11th Annual Kick Ass Awards are here to award the movies that actually matter, including the one that is our Kick Ass Movie of the Year.

A former Army MP, Jack Reacher now wanders the country and uses his skills to solve crimes involving wrongfully accused military personnel.

Zach, Chris and Chris Ali spun the wheel of fate and ended up watching the obscure 80’s action movie Commander aka “Italian Rambo” for this month’s Everything Action Commentary.

Trying to get out after a failed sniper mission, a Marine (played by Armie Hammer), stumbles into a minefield and gets trapped by one of the mines, forcing him to stay in one spot for 52 hours until a convoy is near enough to rescue him.

The Lego Batman Movie stayed on top for the holiday weekend while The Great Wall did the best of the newcomers and John Wick Chapter 2 has already made more than the first movie made in it’s entire run.

Since he co-starred with Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura, it made sense that Tone Loc would contribute a song to the soundtrack, which he did with “Ace is in the House”

Mel Gibson is the front runner for directing Suicide Squad 2, Donald Glover is the new Lion King, Matt Reeves drops out of The Batman, Joe Carnahan is directing a “reimagining” of The Raid and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

The Archer gang gets transformed into 1940’s noir versions of themselves in the upcoming 8th season of Archer, subtitled Dreamland, which hits in April on FXX.