Nicolas Cage is wonderfully over the top in the interesting and weird genre mash-up Prisoners of the Ghostland, where he plays a criminal strapped into a bomb studded leather jumpsuit and sent into the barren “Ghostland” to find a missing girl.

Tom Hanks returns to Apple TV+ in November with Finch, where he sets out on a journey across the post-apocalypse with his dog and robot companion to find a new place to live.

Following in the footsteps of MODOK, another weird and wild Marvel character, Hit-Monkey, is getting his own series in November on Hulu where he goes to war against the Japanese criminal underworld.

Despite locking him a fiery deathtrap at the end of 2018’s Halloween, the battle between Laurie Strode and Michael Myers continues in October with Halloween Kills as Michael survives and continues his rampage while Laurie rallies the citizens of Haddonfield to hunt him down and kill him once and for all.

Shang-Chi remained at the top of the box office for the third weekend in a row as the new releases again underperformed, including the fourth HBO Max hybrid release in a row, Clint Eastwood’s Cry Macho.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.