Battle at the Box Office 5/17/21
Spiral took the top spot at the box office with the lowest opening in the Saw series (but none of the others opened during a pandemic) while Those Who Wish Me Dead flopped even by pandemic standards and the other new releases just barely cracked the top 10.
Review: Those Who Wish Me Dead
Angelina Jolie is a fire fighter and smokejumper who becomes involved in a cat and mouse chase through the forest when she finds a young boy being chased by a pair of assassins in Those Who Wish Me Dead, which hit theaters and HBO Max this past weekend.
Musical Montage: Rick Springfield “Love Somebody”
Rick Springfield starred in and performed almost all the songs from 1984’s Hard to Hold, where he played rock star James “Jamie” Roberts. “Love Somebody” was the first single off the soundtrack album and was a big hit, reaching #5 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The Pull List – Far Cry: Rite of Passage #1
On Deigo’s thirteen birthday, his father Antón imparts the importance of confronting chaos with a story of Vaas Montenegro in Far Cry: Rite of Passage #1
Everything Actioncast Ep 532 “Venom, The Purge, He-Man, Yasuke and More”
This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris talk about the first trailers for Venom: Let There Be Carnage, The Forever Purge and more, the first look at Kevin Smith’s He-Man reboot, Adult Swim movies, Legends of the Hidden Temple, The Mitchells vs the Machines, Yasuke, Hellmaster, A Knight’s Tale and more.
Admit One 5/14/21
Tons of options this week with four new movies in theaters including Spiral: From the Book of Saw and Those Who Wish Me Dead, which is also on HBO Max, and two new movies on Netflix.
Everything Action Theater: Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
Angelina Jolie is back in action this coming weekend with Those Who Wish Me Dead but she was trotting the globe on the hunt for Pandora’s Box back in 2003 with Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which you can watch in full for the latest Everything Action Theater.
The Final Purge is The Forever Purge in July (Trailer)
The final chapter of The Purge arrives in July this year with The Forever Purge, as a group of outlaws in Texas attacks the residents of a ranch and the local town and declares that death and destruction of The Purge will never end.
Spanish Action Comes to Netflix in June with Xtreme (Trailer)
A retired hitman puts his plan of revenge into action against his stepbrother who betrayed him and killed his family in the upcoming Spanish action series Xtreme, coming to Netflix in June.
High School Gets Even More Competitive in Panic (Trailer)
Every year in Carp, TX, high school seniors compete in a series of dangerous challenges for a shot at a life-changing amount of money that will allow them to escape their small town home and Heather Nill is determined to win the latest competition in the new Prime Video series Panic.