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Jay sits down to discuss his review of the newly released ‘Marshall’ starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, and Sterling K. Brown. The film chronicles a little-known case of Thurgood Marshall (Boseman) in which he is tasked to prove the innocence of Joseph Spell (Brown) who is accused of attacking and raping a white woman he works for during the height of the Civil Rights movement. Marshall is force...

Jay and Demetrius sit down to discuss the newly released film, The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan, directed by Martin Campbell. Chan plays Ngoc Minh Quan, the father of a young girl who is killed during a terrorist bombing who wants answers to who did this to his daughter. Quan runs head first into the Liam Hennessy (Brosnan) who is a British official who has deeper ties to the...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back...kind of...again! The hosts discuss the new translating headphones from Google, Amazon's dire need to be in your personal space, Mark Millar work on Netflix, Agents of SHIELD's return, Creed 2, Hulk trilogy, Pacific Rim, The Last Jedi, Runaways, Akira, Justice League, and much more. SHOW NOTES CHECKED OUT Confessions Tapes Alien Covenant T...

Jay and Brad sit down to review the 30+ years in the making sequel, ‘Blade Runner 2049.’ Starring Ryan Gosling as K, a Blade Runner who is tasked to “retire” old replicants is suddenly thrown into a new case that might just destroy the fabric of the modern society. Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario), the film works to expand the story and world of the original 1982 ‘Blade Runner’ but...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss new comics announced at NYCC, Fast and Furious 9 and the cast issues, Venom, Velvet TV series, Hugh Hefner biopic, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Netflix new purchasing model, DCEU new "plans" for the future, and much more. SHOW NOTES CHECKED OUT Gerald’s Game Gifted STUPID / WEIRD TECH PhoneCell COMIC NEWS Nnedi Okorafor set to writer ‘...

Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, Gerald’s Game is a film that plays more like a survival drama than a classic King horror story. When Jessie and Gerald Burlingame leave the city to go to a remote cabin to rekindle their problematic marriage things go a bit off the rails. Gerald (Bruce Greenwood) decides that the way to put the spark back into their marriage is to try having sex wh...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss Star Trek: Discovery, Def Jam 25, Netflix in-flight entertainment, Godzilla: King of Monsters, It sequel, Scanners coming to TV, Venom casting, Underworld TV series, Die Hard 6, and much more.   SHOW NOTES: CHECKED OUT American Made Star Trek: Discovery Def Jam 25 SCIENCE & TECH NEWS Netflix trying to save in-flight entertain...

On this episode of Coming Distractions, Jay and Micah sit down to discuss the biographical crime film, American Made, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman. Telling the story of Barry Seal, a commercial airline pilot who's sense of adventure finds him being used by the CIA to inadvertently run guns into South America, and transport drugs for the  Medellin Cartel and Pablo Escobar.  The fi...

Kingsman: The Golden Circle is the follow-up to the wildly popular Kingsman: The Secret Service directed and co-written once again by Matthew Vaughn. The Kingsman universe lives somewhere between James Bond and Austin Powers, with a bit of almost superhero level action sprinkled in for good measure. Starring Taron Egerton once again as the young charismatic spy Eggsy. Egerton is joined by Colin Fi...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss Wind River, Time: The Kalief Browder Story, Jean Grey's return to the X-Men comics, Akira live-action movie talk AGAIN, Linda Hamilton returning to the Terminator franchise, New Mutants, Beverly Hills Cop 4, Power Pack, Man of Steel 2, Tomb Raider, The Punisher and more. SHOW NOTES CHECKED OUT Kingsman: The Golden Circle Time: Th...

On this episode of Coming Distractions, Terrence, T’ara, and Erica sit down to discuss the second season of HBO’s Insecure starring #IssaRae. Partially based on Rae’s successful web series “Awkward Black Girl,” the show returns in its sophomore season with extended storylines, new characters, and hella drama. The show focuses on the Black female perspective in life, career, and dating in your late...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss the potential for hacking robots and cars, the death of a comic book legendary creator, first look at David Harbour's Hellboy, Venom being delayed, Stan Lee biopic, Jeff Bezos' world take over, Tong Wars, Terminator 6, The Boys adaptation, and much more. SHOW NOTES CHECKED OUT - https://youtu.be/2B3XY_XmcI8 SCIENCE & TECH NEW...

American Assassin tells the tale of a young man, Mitch Rapp, who through no fault of his own is wrapped up in the violence of a terrorist cell while on vacation. 18 months later, Mitch is training physically and mentally to enact his revenge on those responsible. PREMISE:  Mitch Rapp (O'Brien), 23, lost his parents in a tragic car accident at the age of 14, as well as his girlfriend to a terrorist...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss Marvel's Inhumans, Jennifer Lawrence's very interesting perspective on her role in the X-Men franchise, unlikely superhero movie director, Suicide Squad 2 getting some good news, the future of the James Bond franchise, Rotten Tomatoes impact, Fox's X-Force movie and much more.   SHOW NOTES CHECKED OUT Wonder Woman Catastrophe (Am...

Stephen King's classic horror story, It, comes back to life exactly 27 years after the original made for TV movie adaptation was done. This time the tale is better weaved in this version made for the silver screen. Based on the 1986 supernatural horror book, "It" takes place in 1988 where a group of friends called "The Losers" have to come face to face with a murderous clown, known only as Pennywi...

Jay and Demetrius sit down to discuss the newly released (in IMAX) 2 episode premiere of Marvel's "Inhumans." Telling the story of a royal family of aliens who reside in a hidden city on the moon, who work to keep themselves hidden from inhabitants of Earth. The show focuses on a breakdown in that royal family that involves a coup d'etat headed up by the king's own jealous brother. The rest of the...

This episode of Coming Distractions focuses on the newly concluded season 7 of HBO's Game of Thrones. Jay and T'ara sit down to discuss their overall thought on the season, favorite moments, and predictions for the 8th and final season of the HBO series. This review does contain mild spoilers, so be aware before continuing. The 7th season of Game of Thrones focuses largely around the impending war...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, Jay and Terrence are joined by two guests, Carrie and T'ara to talk all about DC's Shazam going into pre-production, Justice League Dark, gender swapped Lord of the Flies, The Million Moms go after AMC's Preacher, X-Men: Dark Phoenix rocking start, DC's secondary movie banner idea, James Cameron's comments on Wonder Woman, and much more.   SHOW NOTES: CHECKE...

This episode of Coming Distractions is focused on Amazon's newest show "The Tick," based on the popular spoof comic series, as well as, the popular 1990s cartoon that was on Fox. The Tick tells the tale of a New York based superhero by the same name who's eccentric nature runs head on with Arthur, a mild mannered accountant, who gets caught up in the superhero antics sort of by accident. The Tick...

Carrie joins Jay to discuss the recent Netflix exclusive film, #DeathNote. The story follows Light Turner (Nat Wolff), a high school student who discovers a supernatural notebook that has the power to kill whoever has their name written within. He soon partners with the true owner of the notebook, a shinigami named #Ryuk (Willem Dafoe), and begins to enact justice on the world under the guise of "...

In 2015, Marvel and Netflix started us down this path with the first season of Daredevil starring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock/Daredevil. From there we've had series focusing on Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), Luke Cage (Mike Coulter), and most recently Iron Fist (Finn Jones). These shows have now finally brought together 4 unlikely personalities to team up Avengers style to take on a larger threat...

Jay and Micah sit down to discuss season 1 of Netflix's latest original series, Friends from College. Starring Keegan-Michael Key, Cobie Smulders, Fred Savage, Nat Faxon, Annie Parisse, Jae Suh Park, and Billy Eichner. The show follows seven friends who went to Harvard together that are in their late 30s/early 40s reuniting as their paths cross in New York City. Old relationships rekindle, while o...

This week on The Nerdpocalypse Podcast, the guys are back to discuss stupid people vs. science, 3D printed titanium alloy bones, Anna Diop cast in Teen Titans, Ed Skrein cast in Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen, another Shaft "reboot," a Joker solo film outside the DCEU, more Jared Leto's Joker in the DCEU, the future of the DCEU, Norman Osbourne in the MCU via Sony, and much more. SHOW NOTES: CHE...

This week on Coming Distractions, Jay and Carrie sit down to discuss the newly release action-comedy, Hitman's Bodyguard, starring Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson. When the first trailer for The Hitman’s Bodyguard debuted, people at first seemed to take it as a joke (largely due to the usage of “I Will Always Love You”) only to realize that, no, this was a real movie about to release in 2017....

This week on Coming Distractions, Jay and Micah sit down and discuss the first major Hollywood film by the Safdie Brothers entitled, "Good Time." Following two brothers Connie (Robert Pattison) and Nick Nikas (Ben Safdie) who rob a bank and head out into an adventure that sees Connie trying desperately to bail his special needs brother out of jail before something goes terribly wrong. An acid trip...