Everything Action Theater: GI Joe: A Real American Hero
Like many companies during this pandemic, Hasbro offered up some fun distraction in the form of tons of episodes of the 80s classic GI Joe: A Real American Hero on their YouTube channel and you can watch the episode that started it all, Part 1 of The M.A.S.S. Device “The Cobra Strikes” right here.
Janelle Monae Gets Trapped in The Past in Antebellum (Trailer)
Janelle Monae is a successful author who finds herself mysteriously transported back to the South during the Civil War and enslaved at a plantation. She has to figure out what happened and if there’s any way to get back to the present in the upcoming horror/thriller Antebellum.
Scott Adkins Gets Caught Between Multiple Factions in Legacy of Lies (Trailer)
Scott Adkins is former MI6 agent Martin Baxter, who gets caught between UK and Russian agents when he teams with a journalist with evidence of horrific crimes committed by Russia in the upcoming action thriller Legacy of Lies.
Action Hero of the Week: Danny the Dog
Enslaved by the mob since childhood and raised into behaving like a human attack dog, Danny tries to escape his captors and attempts to start a new life but his brutal master Bart won’t let him go without a fight.
New Release Round Up 5/19
Most of the movies that came out just before the pandemic in theaters are now on DVD and Blu-ray this week including Sonic, Onward, The Way Back and Brahms: The Boy II, the final season of The Good Place, the massive DC crossover movie Justice League Dark: Apokolips War and more.
The Pull List – Red Sonja #15
Desperate to save her people from starvation, Sonja sought aid from Khitai. a kingdom she had once served. Sonja was a loyal soldier until the prince Jo’Qhan usurped the throne, murdering Sonja’s mentor, Master Domo, in the process. Now the king of Khitai, Jo’Qhan had waited for Sonja to beg before him
Spike Lee Heads to Vietnam with Da 5 Bloods (Trailer)
Four Vietnam vets return to Vietnam as older men to try and find the body of their lost squad leader and a cache of gold they found and hid during the war in the new Spike Lee joint, Da 5 Bloods, which hits Netflix in June.
Musical Montage: Little Shop of Horrors
Originally a 1960 Roger Corman movie, the most famous iteration of Little Shop of Horrors is the 1986 film version from Frank Oz starring Rick Moranis and Ellen Greene, which features songs from Alan Menken and Howard Ashman.
News Shotgun 5/16
Comedy legend Jerry Stiller passed away, The CW and Fox reveal their plans for fall TV, The Mandalorian adds more cast members, Sandman is getting an all-star audio adaptation, New Mutants is apparently still coming out in theaters and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 484 “Snowpiercer, Beetlejuice, Boba Fett, Scarface and More”
This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris talk about the new TNT take on Snowpiercer, Boba Fett coming to The Mandalorian, TV cancellations and Fall TV 2020 strategies from The CW and Fox, pay tribute to Little Richard and Jerry Stiller and more.