Previously played by Matthew McConaughey in the 2011 film The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly’s creation Mickey Haller is coming to Netflix with a new legal drama series, specifically based on the second Mickey Haller book, The Brass Verdict, with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo in the title role. 

Believing his whole life that he is schizophrenic, Evan McCauley learns that he is an Infinite who is remembering all of his past lives, and he gets drawn into a war between two factions for the fate of the entire world.

One of the biggest movies of all time, Spider-Man: No Way Home is now available to buy on 4K Blu-Ray (and DVD) along with C’mon C’mon, the first season of Chucky, Mickey Rourke in a World War II horror movie Warhunt, a special edition of Cannon Film’s New Year’s Evil and more on DVD and Blu-Ray.

It’s been almost three years since the third season of Netflix’s mega-hit Stranger Things dropped on the streaming service but the Hawkins gang is finally back in May with the highly anticipated fourth season.

Cursed by enchanted chainmail that imprisons its wearer, Sonja is on a quest free herself from the armor’s steely grip. She travels far from her home to a distant land to seek answers.  But no matter how far she travels to foreign lands, she finds familiar danger. Sonja steps into Arthurian legends to craft her own lore one sword swipe at a time.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 blew away its predecessor with the biggest opening ever for a movie based on a video game and the first $70 million+ opening for a PG rated movie since Frozen II in 2019 while the latest from Michael Bay failed to take off and gave the master of Bayhem his lowest opening ever.

When singer/songwriter Michael Penn provided the score for Paul Thomas Anderson’s breakout film Boogie Nights in 1997, PTA returned the favor by directing the music video for Penn’s song “Try”, which was the opening song of Penn’s 1997 album Resigned.

A bunch of TV renewals and new shows coming to Apple TV+, Paramount+ and HBO/HBO Max, the Star Trek: TNG cast is reuniting for the third and final season of Star Trek: Picard, Orphan Black coming back with a spin-off series, Zack Snyder adds a bunch of new cast members to his Netflix sci-fi epic Rebel Moon and more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the Everything Actioncast, Zach and Chris talk about a bunch of TV news, including new Apple TV+ and Paramount+ shows, the latest attempt to reboot The Crow, The Adam Project, the bland absurdity of Morbius, The 355, the various NCIS spin-offs, the Sherlock Holmesverse and more.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 speeds into theaters this weekend along with the latest from Michael Bay, Ambulance, All the Old Knives on Prime Video, Metal Lords on Netflix, and more on streaming and in theaters.