In the News Shotgun this week is a bunch of directing news, a depressing TV show cancellation, Daredevil is back at Marvel Studios proper and much more.

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.

Stallone is back after leading the Expendables last summer for a team up with Fast & Furious’ Sung Kang in New Orleans and directed by action legend Walter Hill. Is it a classic pairing or should Stallone stick to working alone?

With failure at the box office three weeks in a row for some of the biggest action legends, what does this say about the current state of action and are there any “action stars” left?

Warm Bodies managed to take the top spot at the box office this past Super Bowl weekend while Stallone had one of his worst openings ever.

February kicks off with the first movie from Stallone this year along with a zombie romantic comedy and the team up of Pacino, Walken and Arkin.

Some solid looking action this month from Stallone, Bruce Willis and The Rock along with the usual Valentine’s Day schlock.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss the bad assery of Dredd, the easily defeated supercomputer of Echelon Conspiracy, the Emmys, write the Fast & Furious/Spy Hunter crossover, the ambitiousness of The Dark Knight Returns animated movie and much more.

Karl Urban puts on the iconic helmet of Judge Dredd for the latest attempt to adapt the classic comic series and the result is a bad ass, bloody action movie that perfectly captures the tone of the character and the comics.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe talk about the return of Arnold in The Last Stand, pay tribute to Tony Scott, the brilliance of God Bless America, Dolph Lundgren vs Cuba Gooding Jr, try to figure out why orphans are always getting into insane situations that require them to be rescued and much more.