Lots of casting news and directing news this week along with confirmation that one of our favorite shows is coming back for a second season in this week’s News Shotgun.

It’s time once again for us to give out awards you actually care about to movies you’ve actually seen in the 7th Annual Kick Ass Awards.

The 2013 Oscar Nominations are out and Lincoln and Life of Pi are the front runners.

The Lego movie adds a ton of awesome people to it’s already great sounding cast, Mark Wahlberg says hi to the Autobots and Star Wars Episode VII has a screenwriter.

Despite it being Halloween season, Sinister was beaten by both the returning champ, Taken 2 and based on real life thriller, Argo.

Taken exploded onto the action scene four years ago and cemented Liam Neeson as an ass kicking action hero. Now he’s back for Taken 2 but it unfortunately doesn’t live up to the original.

Liam Neeson destroyed the box office this weekend, doubling the take of the original Taken, while Frankenweenie had one of the worst openings for Tim Burton.

Liam Neeson is back to kick ass this weekend along with Tim Burton’s latest stop motion animated movie and a capella sing offs.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about Joe’s experience at EA’s first press screening, diabolical Bond villains, time traveling Tom Hanks, the best Three Stooges movie ever(?), Kickboxer vs Bloodsport and much more.

The Dark Knight Rises this Friday and it’s time for Bruce Wayne to join the ranks of the Action Hero of the Week.