Media Sandwich

It was Independence Day this week, but ironically this episode keeps reverting back to kings. Amazon looks for a director and an actor for His Majesty's secret service in the Bond franchise, Stephen King's The Stand gets a new adaptation and Richard Bachman (re: Stephen King, again) gets a trailer for Edgar Wright's new version of The Running Man. Meanwhile, Paramount guarantees their...

Welcome back to the show our resident Nintendo expert, Chris! After a week with the new Switch 2 and Mario Kart World, Chris has lots of complicated feelings and observations about the reported sales success of the new console. But first...lots and lots of fast-food discussion, the box office misfire of Ballerina, bittersweet news for both Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Dr. Who, and Spaceballs:...

Take a break from your shiny new Nintendo Switch 2 to help answer a few questions here. Can Lionsgate's new movie, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, overcome its clunky spin-off title to dethrone Lilo and Stitch? Will North America embrace the most popular fast-food chain from the Philippines? Can Noah Hawley translate the Alien franchise to cable television success? Meanwhile, a grisly...

It's a battle royale at the box office this Memorial Day weekend, Ethan Hunt versus Stitch. Meanwhile the latest Hunger Games prequel drums up a lot of interest just off its spot-on casting announcements. We have a TV review round-up for The Last of Us, Poker Face, and Duster, followed by Kyle's comic book Picks of the Week (POW! if you will). Also, Randy Pitchford weighs in on the $80 pri...

Final Destination: Bloodlines opens this week, hoping to pull off a box office heist before Ethan Hunt and Stitch arrive. Superman gets a new, exciting trailer that really nails down the character himself. Andor ends (sniff, sniff) and The Last of Us was just kinda okay this week. Max, formerly HBO Max, formerly HBO Now is now...HBO Max...again. A Game of Thrones spinoff gets delayed, while the al...

Disney and Marvel Studios play the name game and spoil their own movie two days after it releases, Grand Theft Auto 6 gets delayed (but releases a nifty trailer), Andor bends the Star Wars canon slightly, Yellowstone gets a much more traditional geezer-aimed spinoff, and the Blues Brothers return in comic book form! Meanwhile, a new Stephen King adaptation, leaked pics of an Xbox-branded handheld,...

Subway is closing a record number of stores across America, probably related to their latest fetish for random snacks shaped like a 2x4. Natasha Lyonne is making an "ethical AI" movie, whatever that means. Pedro Pascal throws some much deserved insults at fellow WBD asset JK Rowling while JJ Abrams and Josh Holloway reunite for a '70s crime series. EA fires hundreds of workers and ca...

Kyle takes a short break from Star Wars news (and non-news) to talk Ryan Coogler's Sinners, the Fantastic Four: First Steps final trailer, and lots of new features coming to Mario Kart World on the Switch 2. Elsewhere, HBO's spring premieres for The Last of Us and Hacks get a quick review, and DC comics wants to declare 2025 (George Costanza voice) The SUMMER of Superman!

Kyle is joined by Chris to talk about the wild Nintendo Direct showcasing the Switch 2. But first, a new Spider-Man movie title! A Quentin Tarantino sequel directed by a very different director! Premiere dates for long-dormant South Park and Rick and Morty! And the loss of a terrific actor.

Marvel Studios assembles (very slowly over several hours) the full cast announcement for Avengers: Doomsday, meanwhile Nintendo has one final bittersweet Direct event for the original Switch. Also...is there actually a lot of demand for more Star Wars: The Acolyte? Streaming analytics data may surprise you. Also, another good actor signs on to the (likely not very good) Harry Potter television ser...

During a particularly slow week at the box office, a secret Looney Tunes movie sneaks into theaters despite Warner Bros Discovery trying their best to wipe the beloved cartoons from existence for tax purposes. Meanwhile the Power Rangers might get Disney Plussed, and Assassin's Creed: Shadows meets expectations. Finally, a new 'weird western' comic book preview from a noted TV writer,...

Disney fumbles the press tour for Snow White and then stumbles over a Tiana animated series. Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth series for FX gets a spaceship housecat perspective in its latest teaser, and literally every Stephen King work is being adapted over again. Niantic, the developer of Pokemon Go, has been acquired for billions of dollars, and Microsoft takes the Xbox brand mobile with a new P...

After a quick post-mortem of the Oscars (and the dead-on-arrival stream of the ceremony on Hulu), take a wild guess what Hasbro property is finally--finally--being made into a movie after decades of false starts. Then, a rare look at footage from a CW pilot so bad that it never even aired. More nostalgia cropped up when Tony Hawk announced the remaster of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4, and the wildly e...

Is Kathleen Kennedy actually retiring? Maybe. Is there going to be another Shrek sequel fifteen years after the last one? Absolutely. Did Kyle remember to talk about Pokemon Presents? Signs point to yes. There's also a huge list of guest stars for the upcoming season 2 of Poker Face on Peacock, a first image of HBO's Lanterns, Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed: Shadows woes, and an intrig...

Take a good hard look at Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey and engage in some casting speculation. Then mourn the conscious decoupling of the Broccoli family from the James Bond franchise (who will now be handled completely by Amazon...yipes). SNL50 has a ratings success last week, and there's an update on a possible Scrubs reboot. Marvel Rivals is the biggest video game in the world right n...

For Valentine's Day, enjoy a sandwich made for two. First off, a round-robin look at a bunch of new movie trailers and teasers followed by some deeply concerning TV casting news. A quick rundown of some of the more interesting previews in Sony's State of Play event, then a look at the Eisner Awards judges panel for excellence in comic books throughout the year. And, as a final chocolate in...

It's Super Bowl week, and that means lots and lots of overblown advertisements, with some occasional genuine entertainment mixed in for flavor. Trailers for Fantastic Four: First Steps and Jurassic World: Rebirth capture everyone's imaginations, while Kyle updates you on his Academy Awards homework. A brief rundown of some of the biggest Super Bowl commercials precedes the very big televis...

Captain America: Brave New World is on the way, and that means Anthony Mackie is tripping over himself on the promotional tour and Chris Evans is shooting down rumors that he's coming back to the MCU. Meanwhile, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man lands on Disney+ and George R.R. Martin takes a break from not writing to give his seal of approval to the latest Game of Thrones spinoff. Kyle gives a...

Back from hibernation! The only entertainment news that's fit to put in your ears! The Sandwich is back, baby! Kicking off 2025 with some talk of the Academy Award nominations and how many of them Kyle just plain hasn't heard of or seen, because he's an uncultured swine. Elsewhere, a casting rumor for a Star Wars show and legal drama surrounding a foul-mouthed cartoon show that you&#39...

Hogwarts Legacy is finally releasing this week, and only IGN has  bothered to review it. How controversial, how brave of them. But that  means we can read through their review and draw our own conclusions  about the game...without any intention of playing it. This is not a game  journalism podcast. Elsewhere, the Avatar sequels are shaping up to be a  saga worthy of The Godfather...in spaaaace! Al...

Nothing can bother us this week, not on Goldeneye week! Intense online  mud-slinging against Forspoken, the new RPG from Square Enix, makes for a  debate on the state of comedic quips in movies and games. Oscar buzz is  in the air around Everthing Everywhere All At Once and Top Gun:  Maverick, and the star of NBC's "Chuck" becomes a problem for WB. Marvel  takes another comic book st...

The holidays are long gone, and the big corporations are ready to lay  off huge portions of their workers. First Microsoft hacks away at 343  Industries, prompting a less than reassuring statement from the studio.  Amazon somehow finds a way to keep killing the already basically dead  Comixology, which we didn't think was still possible. Some new movie  trailers brighten up an otherwise dark m...

It's a week of strained relationships between media companies and their  audiences, with Wizards of the Coast dropping the dice under the table  while trying to install a few legal trapdoors with a new Open Gaming  License, Ubisoft cancelling games left and right while delaying Skull  and Bones yet again...anybody ever heard of a long-delayed disaster  called Duke Nukem Forever, by the way? No...

The first episode of 2023 brings some confusion about what kind of show  we're running here. But first, a preview of upcoming video games and  movies, along with a comic book that delves into the consequences of the  January 6 insurrection. Greg Berlanti is starting the new year with a  lucrative overall deal with Warner Television, while AMC and other TV  outlets are un-renewing and un-greenl...

On a special bonus episode, Kyle joins his dear old friend Gus at the local library to stack up literal Media Sandwiches that would make  Dagwood proud. While Kyle focuses on filling in Gus's Criterion movie blind spots and introducing him to Greg Rucka's comic book originals, Gus provides some required reading for an Intro to Manga and Anime for his clueless and uninitiated buddy. It'...