Action Hero of the Week: Nick Wild
A recovering gambling addict and bodyguard for hire, Nick Wild struggles to make enough money to leave Las Vegas and live his dream of sailing on his own sailboat but he runs afoul of the mob when he does a favor for a friend.
New Release Round Up 11/7
Westworld Season 1 is finally available for those who don’t have HBO along with movies like Cars 3, Your Name, a bunch of indies, the latest seasons of American Dad and Family Guy and more.
Review: Thor: Ragnarok
The third and final MCU movie of 2017, Thor: Ragnarok is easily the best movie yet for the God of Thunder and one of the best MCU movies overall as Thor goes on an action packed, wacky cosmic adventure with the Hulk to stop Asgard from being destroyed by Hela, Goddess of Death.
Battle at the Box Office 11/6
Topping Spider-Man: Homecoming, Thor: Ragnorak became the 7th highest opening MCU movie ever and set a new November record in China as well while A Bad Moms Christmas tried to counter-program and Jigsaw and Boo 2! both suffered in the first post-Halloween weekend.
Musical Montage: Right Said Fred “Wonderman”
After exploding in the mid 90’s with “I’m Too Sexy”, Right Said Fred was recruited by Sega Europe to turn another song off their debut album, Wonderman, into an ode to Sonic to promote Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in 1994.
The Pull List: Harbinger Renegades #0
The latest Harbinger Renegades volume starts with the H.A.R.D Corps, a government combat unit of highly trained individuals that have been given enhancements to fight against super humans known as Harbingers. Harbingers display fantastic psionics abilities, and are labeled as psiots. The H.A.R.D Corps latest assignment is to track down Alexander Solomon, an ex government […]
News Shotgun 11/4
The full voice casts for The Lion King and the new TMNT cartoon were revealed, Amazon rebooting Lord of the Rings, a new DC show is coming to The CW, Tower of Terror getting a Christmas makeover and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 372 “Stranger Things: Origins”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about Stranger Things 2 (and try to figure out what’s Billy’s deal), the terrible retconning of Jigsaw, the new Assassin’s Creed and South Park games, what makes a good Spider-Man game, the inability of anyone to reboot The Twilight Zone and much more.
Boggle Your Mind With the Pottersville Trailer
Defying all conventional logic and reasoning, an insanely talented cast including Michael Shannon, Ian McShane, Christina Hendricks and Ron Perlman were all somehow convinced to appear in what looks like a strange/terrible Hallmark/Freeform Christmas movie that includes, among other things, Michael Shannon being mistaken for Bigfoot.
JK Simmons Meets JK Simmons in Counterpart (Starz)
JK Simmons plays a low level employeed of a UN agency who discovers the building he works in hides a corridor to an alternate Earth when his doppelganger from that Earth arrives in the upcoming Starz sci-fi thriller Counterpart.