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Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and rumors including Idris Elba's new role in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie, casting news for the live-action adaptations of Akira and Cowboy Bebop, and our first look at Todd Phillip's Joker movie.

Monsters and Doomsday and Aliens, Oh My! This week we're rounding out our Big, Dumb, Action Movie Director Showdown with the King of Chaos, the Master of Disaster, Roland Emmerich. We will carefully pore over his calamitous filmography to find the best action, the worst writing, and of course, the better or worse than Transformers. Will it be Michael Bay's guns and explosions or Roland Emmerich's complete global destruction? Tune in to find out!

Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and rumors including Marvel casting Angelina Jolie in an Eternals movie, casting news for Ghostbusters 3, and new details on Space Jam 2.

Explosions! Action! Quick Cuts! Young, scantily-clad, conventionally attractive women! That's right, this week we're talking about Michael Bay in part 1 of 2 of our Big, Dumb, Action Movie Director Showdown. We dive deep into the filmography from one of the most critically maligned and commercially successful directors out there and, in our most meta turn yet, determine whether Michael Bay's Tranformers is better or worse than the most mediocre movie ever made, Michael Bay's Transformers. Follow up next week for the conclusion our Big, Dumb, Action Movie Director Showdown as we compare Michael Bay to the only other man who can rival his love of wanton destruction, Roland Emmerich, and determine a Big, Dumb Winner.

Join us this week as we delve into the latest Hollywood news and rumors including James Gunn's reentry into Marvel's good graces, the surprisingly popular release of the Dora the Explorer trailer, and the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino's star-studded new film, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

With Avengers: Endgame just on the horizon, join us as we review the first female-led Marvel superhero film, Captain Marvel, to see how it squares against the Marvel Cinematic Universe and, of course, how it compares the most mediocre movie ever made, Michael Bay's Transformers. It's got everything you could want in a movie from 90s nostalgia to a de-aged Samuel L. Jackson and even an adorable cat sidekick.

Join us this week as we bring you the latest Hollywood news and rumors including the newest Game of Thrones trailer, more updates on James Gunn's (Guardians of the Galaxy) Suicide Squad sequel, and some clarity on Amazon's Lord of the Rings series.

Didn't get the chance to visit Pensacon? We got you covered! We'll bring you our signature boots-on-the-ground reporting to make you feel like you were there. We discuss some of our favorite parts of Pensacon and our feelings on Cons in general. PLUS: You get to hear our uninformed opinions every week. This week we're bringing you the voice of the people! We got to interview some fine folks at Pensacon about their favorite fandoms and we wanted to share a few of our favorites. Pensacon Interviews:  20:02 Interviews Start 41:30 What are we watching

Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and rumors including the new and improved trailer for David Harbour's Hellboy movie, details on the new Star Wars theme park coming to a Disney World/Land near you, and the beginning of our contentious Game of Thrones debates that will only deteriorate from this point forward. (Also some bonus Star Wars discussion if you stick around till the end!)

As the days get longer, the movies get better. This week we're running through the highlights and lowlights of the upcoming spring slate including Captain Marvel, the other Captain Marvel, two live-action Disney movies, a Pokemon mystery/adventure, multiple horror movies, an Avengers movie that might literally break the box office, and more! Join us as we navigate the best and most anticipated new movies and determine which ones are worth the price of admission.

Join us this week as we bring you the latest Hollywood news and rumors including a Hulk Hogan biopic starring Chris Hemsworth, John Krasinski's involvement in the Quiet Place sequel, and a lot of honest and passionate opinions on the most prestigious and frustrating awards in cinema, the Oscars.

It's Oscars time once more and we have come prepared with opinions. From the various controversies and reversals from the Academy to Bradley Cooper's snub as Best Director, we are here to provide the definitive guide to the 2019 Academy Awards. This includes who we think should win, who is actually going to win, and who was egregiously excluded from the nominations. Join us this week and rage over an award show that is utterly arbitrary and seems singularly determined on doing everything wrong.

Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and gossip including Spike Lee's follow-up to BlacKkKlansman, an Aaron Paul-led Breaking Bad movie coming to Netflix, and the first trailer for the long-awaited sequel to Disney's Frozen.

This week we're taking on the pretty extensive career of the angriest Welshman we know, Christian Bale. He's an actor best known for his dramatic chops, transformative performances, and strong opinions about professionalism. We'll traverse his filmography from his baby-faced days in Empire of the Sun and Newsies all the way through his most recent Oscar-nominated performance in Vice and determine which is the best performance of his career. 

Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and gossip including 4 new animated Marvel series aimed at an adult audience, Batman casting speculation involving a certain Twilight star, and the premier of an underwhelming live-action Aladdin trailer.

Join us this week as we take two great directors, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro, and pit their films against one another in pursuit of determining the greater filmmaker. These two fantasy heavyweights may both look alike and share a love for special effects but we'll compare and contrast their bodies of work and declare a single victor.

Join us this week as we break down the latest Hollywood news and rumors including the official ousting of Ben Affleck from the new Batman film, Netflix's purchase of Zac Efron's Ted Bundy movie, and all the trailers that premiered during the Super Bowl this past weekend.

Have you ever watched a movie that was totally different from the trailer? Or a flick you were confident was one genre and then turned into something unexpected? This week we're diving into movies that were mismarketed, either by misleading trailers, inept promotion, or downright deceptive advertising. We've got preachy dramas disguised as rom-coms, black comedies disguised as screwball stoner flicks, a space epic that no one knew about, and one bald-faced lie of a talking kangaroo.

Join us this week as we discuss the latest Hollywood news and gossip including the new Ted Bundy biopic starring Zac Effron, the Joaquin Phoenix Joker movie being rewritten on set, and some absolutely outrageous Oscar nominations and snubs.

Love him or hate him, Jake Gyllenhaal has a pretty extensive film career for a man not even out of his 30s. From Oscar nominations to Roland Emmerich films, this better-looking Tobey McGuire has done it all. We start from the baby-faced, young Gyllenhaal in October Sky all the way through present-day, baby-faced Gyllenhaal in much stranger and more ambitious roles and determine, once and for all, his best performance ever.    What We're Watching: 30:07 *************NOTE: "Glass" spoilers galore lie beyond this time code **ADDITIONAL NOTE: It sounds terrible so it's better to find out now than after you've spent your money