This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris, and Joe talk about the new Child’s Play, Will Smith’s Genie, the return of Howard the Duck, the WB cinematic universe, the quirkiness of Cold Pursuit, The Punisher, Polar, In the Heat of the Night and more.

Peter is interrupted on his class trip to Europe by none other than Nick Fury, who recruits Spider-Man to help deal with the threat of the Elementals and the villainous Mysterio in July’s Spider-Man: Far From Home.

There’s way too much coming out on Netflix in the next few weeks, including Season 2 of The Punisher, the follow-up to Nightcrawler from Jake Gyllenhaal and Dan Gilroy, a documentary about the infamous Fyre Festival and apocalyptic sci-fi movie IO.

October kicks off with polar opposites as the apparently terrible and insane film debut of Venom takes on the remake of musical drama A Star is Born with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga.

Ant-Man and The Wasp dominated the weekend with an opening at that was over $12 million above what the first Ant-Man made in its opening weekend while The First Purge continued the solid performances of The Purge franchise for Blumhouse and Fallen Kingdom crossed over the $1 billion mark worldwide.

Luke Cage returns to Netflix in June, defending Harlem from old threats like Mariah Dillard and Shades Alvarez but also new threats like the mysterious Bushmaster, who seemingly has the same abilities as Luke and is looking to take down Harlem’s hero.

This week on the podcast, Zach, Chris and Joe discuss our new better look at Venom, the brilliance of Brockmire, Robocop and Terminator 2, Nickelodeon game shows, the end of Evil Dead, animated Fast & Furious and much more.

Spielberg confirms Indy 5 starts shooting next year and Tintin 2 is still happening, Disney announces huge Marvel lands in three of their parks, Tron is getting official Lego sets, Street Fighter and the comic Astro City are getting TV shows and more in this week’s News Shotgun.