News Shotgun 5/22/21
AT&T is selling off WarnerMedia and Amazon is looking to purchase MGM, CBS is moving a number of shows to Paramount+, new Superman and Batman animated series are coming to HBO Max and Cartoon Network, Injustice is getting a DC animated movie, Henry Cavill is in talks to star in the Highlander reboot and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 533 “Snake Eyes, WarnerMedia, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Love Death and Robots and More”
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris talk about the first trailer for Snake Eyes, the huge AT&T sale of WarnerMedia, the second season of Love, Death and Robots, Those Who Wish Me Dead, a ton of TV news, Fear Street and more.
Admit One 5/21/21
Zack Snyder returns to the zombie genre for the big Netflix blockbuster Army of the Dead with Dave Bautista while Toni Collette stars in a movie based on the true story of race horse Dream Alliance in theaters with Dream Horse.
Everything Action Theater: The Three Musketeers (2011)
Paul WS Anderson put a steampunk spin on Alexandre Dumas’ classic story of The Three Musketeers back in 2011 with an all-star cast including Milla Jovovich, Matthew Macfadyen, Mads Mikkelsen, Logan Lerman, Orlando Bloom, Ray Stevenson, Luke Evans and Christoph Waltz.
Action Hero of the Week: Hannah Faber
Smokejumper Hannah Faber comes across a teen running for his life while manning a remote fire watchtower and gets drawn into a cat and mouse chase through the wilderness with a pair of assassins.
Netflix Gets Spooky in July with Resident Evil and Fear Street (Trailers)
Netflix is making the summer spooky this coming July with the Resident Evil anime series Infinite Darkness and a trilogy of movies based on RL Stine’s teen horror series, Fear Street.
Liam Neeson Leads a Frozen Rescue Mission in The Ice Road (Trailer)
Liam Neeson is a grizzled ice road trucker who joins a dangerous rescue mission to transport vital equipment to a collapsed mine in the upcoming Netflix original movie, The Ice Road, which hits the streaming service in June.
New Release Round Up 5/18/21
Last Action Hero is out on 4K Blu-Ray this week along with Raya and The Last Dragon, Oscar winners The Father and Minari, Star Trek: Lower Decks, The Alienist: Angel of Darkness and more on DVD and Blu-Ray.
Review: Mine’s Bigger Than Yours: The 100 Wackiest Action Movies
Coming from Christopher Lombardo and Jeff Kirschner, co-hosts of The Really Awful Movies Podcast, Mine’s Bigger Than Yours: The 100 Wackiest Action Movies is a book that celebrates the craziest action movies of all time, from well-known classics like Commando and Hard to Kill to obscure nonsense like Geteven, Lowblow, and Ninja Holocaust.
Robert Langdon Returns on Peacock in The Lost Symbol (Trailer)
Robert Langdon returns on the small screen in the Peacock TV series The Lost Symbol, based on Dan Brown’s novel of the same name, where a younger Robert Langdon is drawn into a mystery around Washington DC involving his mentor and a hidden secret of the Freemasons.