The games we played were as fiery as the weather this August. We got ate and ran through tasty enemies, collected DNA in the 50s, wielded giant weapons as crab monsters. We tried our hands on action-packed games, plus title that helped us relax in this month of reviews in the Gamebox.

Released the same year as Jurassic Park, the legendary Roger Corman produced Carnosaur, also based on a novel about genetically engineered dinosaurs, which had a much smaller budget but a significantly weirder plot as dinosaur test subjects escape a lab and go on a rampage in the surrounding desert and nearby town.

A veteran CIA operative, Evelyn Salt is forced to go on the run from the agency when she is accused of being a secret Russian sleeper agent.

The Blacklist Season 7 is out this week along with the reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark?, indie horror hit The Wretched, NCIS: New Orleans Season 6 and more on DVD and Blu-Ray.

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.

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, […]

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.

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 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.

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.