Musical Montage: Michael Sembello “Gravity”
Along with a score by the great James Horner, 1985’s Cocoon also featured a song by soundtrack mainstay Michael Sembello called “Gravity”, which featured a video directed by Cocoon’s director, Ron Howard.
Preview of Play NYC 2020
Playcrafting is bringing Play NYC from the big apple to the gigantic internet for its fourth annual show. Starting August 10th, Play NYC will be hosting a live stream of game panels, demos, and tournaments from game developers based in New York. Over the course of six days, there will be 105 games on display, […]
News Shotgun 8/8
James Wan is producing a Knight Rider movie, Ren and Stimpy are coming back to Comedy Central, Dwayne Johnson buys the XFL, Mulan is coming to Disney+ as a premium add-on, Stay Tuned and Mimic are getting turned into TV shows and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Action Theater: Stargate
Kurt Russell and James Spader co-star in 1994’s Stargate, directed by Roland Emmerich, as they lead a team through a mysterious portal and end up on a world with similarities to Ancient Egypt being ruled over by brutal overlords with advanced technology and armor modeled on Egyptian mythology.
Ridley Scott Comes to HBOMax with Raised by Wolves (Trailer)
Ridley Scott brings his first-ever television series to HBOMax in September with the wild looking sci-fi series Raised by Wolves. The show follows a pair of androids as they try to raise a colony of humans on a new planet after Earth was wiped out in a massive war.
Action Hero of the Week: Vince Majestyk
Trying to grow watermelons in peace, former Army Ranger and con-man Vince Majestyk runs afoul of some local mobsters and has to fight to protect his farm and his workers.
The Boys Are Back and As Brutal As Ever in September (Trailer)
Things look even crazier and more brutal when Season 2 of The Boys arrives in September on Prime Video as The Boys are the most wanted fugitives in the world, super-terrorists threaten the country, and a new member of The Seven, Stormfront, arrives on the scene with plans of her own.
Netflix Goes Back in Time Before the Cuckoo’s Nest for Ratched (Trailer)
Sarah Paulson plays the younger version of one of cinema’s greatest villains in the upcoming Netflix series from Ryan Murphy, Ratched, which tells the story of Nurse Ratched’s transformation into the monster we see in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Scott Adkins Goes Taken in October with Seized (Trailer)
When his son is taken by the mysterious criminal Mzamo, former Special Forces operative Nero is forced to take out members of three different rival criminal organizations in the upcoming, Isaac Florentine directed, action movie, Seized.
New Release Round Up 8/4
Tons of TV is out this week on DVD and Blu-Ray including Season 2 of Jack Ryan, Season 1 of His Dark Materials, Season 1 of Dispatches from Elsewhere and more.