Musical Montage: Wyclef Jean “We Trying to Stay Alive (Remix)”
For the debut single off his first solo album, Wyclef Jean sampled “Stayin Alive” and some other songs for “We Trying to Stay Alive” and, since the main sample came from a song from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, he also paid homage to that John Travolta classic with a disco-themed music video directed by Roman Coppola.
News Shotgun 9/18/21
Beloved comedian Norm MacDonald passed away this week, Anthony Mackie is starring in Twisted Metal, Hayley Atwell is voicing Lara Croft for the Netflix Tomb Raider anime, a secret Eraser reboot was filmed and is coming out next year, The Lost Boys and Flight of the Navigator reboots are moving forward and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 550 “Malignant, Class of 1999, Hawkeye, Grendel and More”
This week on the Everything Actioncast podcast, Zach and Chris pay tribute to Norm MacDonald and then dive into the first trailer for Hawkeye, Grendel coming to Netflix, Twisted Metal, the insanity of Malignant, Class of 1999, Y: The Last Man, My Bloody Valentine 3D and more.
Admit One 9/17/21
The latest from Clint Eastwood is in theaters and on HBO Max this weekend along with Joe Carnahan’s Copshop, the insane new Nicolas Cage movie Prisoners of the Ghostland, Nightbooks on Netflix, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, and more.
Guillermo Del Toro Returns in December With Nightmare Alley (Trailer)
Guillermo Del Toro is back behind the camera four years after his Academy Award-winning film The Shape of Water hit theaters for the dark noir story Nightmare Alley, based on the 1946 book of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham, which hits theaters in December.
Everything Action Theater: The Great Train Robbery
Adapting his own novel, Michael Crichton wrote and directed the historical heist movie The Great Train Robbery, where Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland scheme to rob a massive gold shipment from the train that is used to transport it monthly to the soldiers fighting the Crimean War in 1855.
Amazon and Netflix Are Bringing the Slasher Back in October (Trailer)
Netflix and Prime Video both have teen slashers streaming this coming October with an I Know What You Did Last Summer TV show on Prime Video and There’s Someone Inside Your House coming to Netflix, both produced by James Wan.
Action Hero of the Week: Jonathan Hemlock
Former assassin turned art professor Jonathan Hemlock is forced back into action when his large collection of paintings is threatened to be revealed to the IRS and he agrees to two final “sanctions” against the men responsible for the death of an old friend and fellow agent, one of the sanctions sending him up the north face of the Eiger mountain in Switzerland.
Return to Keyhouse in October with Locke & Key Season 2 (Trailer)
Locke & Key returns just in time for Halloween in October with Season 2 as the Locke siblings learn more about the power of the keys and the secrets of Keyhouse while battling the demonic threat of Dodge/Echo.
New Release Round Up 9/14/21
The Shawshank Redemption arrives on 4K Blu-Ray this week along with Mare of Easttown, Eli Roth’s History of Horror, Scooby-Doo Meets Courage the Cowardly Dog, Zola, Catch the Bullet, and more on DVD and Blu-Ray.