New Release Round Up 5/26
You can get the complete series of HBO’s hilarious tech satire Silicon Valley this week along with The Invisible Man, The Deer Hunter in 4K, a Shout Factory! edition of Escape from LA and more on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Musical Montage: Dr. Dre ft Snoop Dogg “Deep Cover”
The title song for the 1992 action thriller Deep Cover, starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, “Deep Cover” was the first solo single for Dr. Dre and the first-ever appearance of Snoop Dogg on a record.
It’s Die Hard in a Hurricane With Force of Nature (Trailer)
A cop, a doctor and the doctor’s retired detective father are trapped in an apartment complex during a massive hurricane when a crew of criminals arrives looking for a stash of cash hidden somewhere in the building in the upcoming disaster/action movie, Force of Nature.
News Shotgun 5/23
The much-debated/long-rumored Snyder Cut is real and coming to HBO Max next year, the new Tom Hanks WWII movie is debuting on Apple TV+, Ethan Hunt and the team are taking on a new villain in the next MI movies, Ruby Rose leaves Batwoman and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 485 “Snyder Cut, Friday the 13th, Fantasy Island, HBO Max and More”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris, and Joe talk about HBO Max and the release of the Snyder Cut of Justice League, new Netflix movie trailers, the original Friday the 13th, Blumhouse’s spin on Fantasy Island, Stargirl, Solar Opposites and more.
Charlize Theron is an Immortal Badass in The Old Guard (Trailer)
Charlize Theron is one member of a team of immortal mercenaries in the upcoming Netflix action movie The Old Guard, based on the graphic novel by Greg Rucka and Leandro Fernandez.
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.