This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris, and Joe pay tribute to Burt Reynolds, dissect the new Halloween trailer and discuss the awful sounding sixth Die Hard movie, the upcoming Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing shows, The Witcher, Terrifier, The Purge TV show, Mortal Kombat and more.

Our patron saint is starring in a western for Amazon, who are also developing a Conan the Barbarian series, more Star Wars movies in the works, Michael Bay may direct a Lobo movie for DC, Joaquin Phoenix may be the new Joker and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe dive into The Cloverfield Paradox, Super Bowl trailers, Solo, Venom, The Joker, fast food movie tie-ins, Altered Carbon and more.

Whether chronicling the adventures of Conan or teaching the Ninja Turtles as Splinter, Mako had a long career of playing wise mentors in both live action and cartoons.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris, Brian and Joe discuss The Lone Ranger, the new SHIELD agents, predict what a Seth MacFarlane hosted Oscars will include, new TV shows, time travel craziness in Looper and much more.

There are many ways to open a movie but the most direct is opening narration and explaining the world and characters to the audience. Here are our picks for the five best bits of opening narration.

It’s time again to honor the best and worst of the past year with the awards you actually care about. Who will win Ass Kicker of the Year and what is the Kick Ass Movie of the Year? Read on to find out.

You’ve seen our Top Ten lists for the best movies of 2011 but now it’s time to see what we thought were the five worst movies of 2011, and there were lots of possible candidates.