Musical Montage: The B-52s “(Meet) the Flintstones”
1994’s live-action version of The Flintstones launched an all-out promotional assault that helped it become a massive worldwide hit and one part of that was The B-52s performing a new version of the iconic TV theme, “(Meet) the Flintstones”, for the movie’s soundtrack.
Action Hero of the Week: Speed Racer
Racing since a child, Speed Racer aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile but a villainous billionaire and nasty rival drivers stand in his way.
Head to Church in August with The Righteous Gemstones (Trailer)
Danny McBride, Adam Devine, and John Goodman and the millionaire televangelist family The Righteous Gemstones in the third comedy series from McBride and Jody Hill, coming to HBO in August.
Admit One 3/15
This weekend has an alien invasion, a magical theme park and teen melodrama at the box office.
The Aliens Won in Captive State (Trailer)
10 years after aliens invaded and conquered the planet, Gabriel, a young man living in Chicago, becomes a person of interest to both a growing resistance movement and the bureaucratic human collaborators running things for their new overlords.
Everything Actioncast Ep 399 “The First Sicario: Hades”
This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss the possible secret insanity of Into the Spider-Verse, Goose’s son cast for Top Gun: Maverick, the early MCU movies, the splitting of the Child’s Play franchise, Bleeding Steel, Sicario: Day of the Soldado, The First Purge, Escape Plan 2 and much more.
News Shotgun 6/30
Tons of casting for some of the upcoming Stephen King adaptations, the first solid details on the DC streaming service, Demolition Man is coming to SDCC, Eggman cast for the Sonic movie, two new Scare Zones for Halloween Horror Nights and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.
Action Hero of the Week: Lorraine Broughton
Sent in to Berlin toward the end of the Cold War, MI-6 agent Lorraine Broughton is tasked with recovering a list of spy identities before it falls into the hands of the KGB.