New Release Round Up 5/31/22
The Boys comes home on Blu-ray this week with Season 1 and 2 along with classics like The Untouchables, Double Indemnity, For a Few Dollars More and A Fistful of Dollars on 4K, the 50th-anniversary edition of 1776, Death Wish II on 4K and more on DVD and Blu-ray.
Review: Top Gun: Maverick
There have been numerous “legacy sequels” of varying degrees of quality over the last few years but Top Gun: Maverick easily stands out as one of, if not the, best ones yet with, among other things, some truly jaw-dropping aerial action.
Battle at the Box Office 5/30/22
Top Gun: Maverick went supersonic at the box office this past weekend, delivering a huge opening that was the biggest of Tom Cruise’s career.
Musical Montage: Starlight “Never Truly Vanish”
After his death at the hands of Hughie, Butcher, and Frenchie, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) was forced by Vought to perform the ridiculous power ballad “Never Truly Vanish” at his memorial service, a song that was nominated for an Emmy in real-life and actually sung by Moriarty herself.
News Shotgun 5/28/22
Horizon Zero Dawn and Gran Turismo are getting adaptation under the Playstation Productions banner, Speed Racer is coming to Apple TV+, the fantastic Ray Liotta passed away, Law Abiding Citizen has a sequel in development, a new Star Wars series, Skeleton Crew, was announced and more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Everything Actioncast Ep 580 “Chip N Dale, Speed Racer, Thor, Willow, Andor and More”
This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris pay tribute to Ray Liotta and then talk about new trailers for Thor: Love and Thunder, Andor, Willow, and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Speed Racer, and Horizon Zero Dawn TV shows, Chip N Dale: Rescue Rangers, the stupidity of Moonfall and A Sound of Thunder and more.
Gamebox 2.0: Games of May 2022
Last month we experienced a lot of games at PAX East but the flow of new games never stops. We have even more games that got sent our way and for this month we tried: the Soulslike isometric action of Achilles: Legends Untold, a horror sim in Ravenous Devils, the pushing puzzles of Sokobos, roguelike golfing with Golfie, and more for this month’s game reviews.
Admit One 5/27/22
Top Gun: Maverick finally buzzes the tower this weekend in theaters along with The Bob’s Burgers Movie while there’s also Emergency on Prime Video, Zero Contact and There Are No Saints.
Andor and Willow Kick Off Star Wars Celebration (Trailers)
Star Wars Celebration 2022 kicked off with the first trailers for the Rogue One prequel show Andor and the return of Warwick Davis in Willow.
Everything Action Commentary: Kung Fu Yoga
For the latest Everything Action Commentary, Zach and Chris are joined by special guest Phil from Digital Pimp to journey around the world with Jackie Chan for the over-the-top insanity of 2017’s Kung Fu Yoga.