May 2023 News Round-Up (240)

May is in the rearview mirror but it contained a lot of news and trailers for us to discuss. The conversation covers petty tough guys, pointless legacy sequels and the return of the high-profile erotic thriller.

Craig can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Andrew’s work can be found on the Starburst website. Kat can be found on Twitter and elsewhere under here. Aaron can be found on this very site.

Show Notes TV Reviews

• Craig’s reviews of Superman & Lois season 3
• Craig’s reviews of The Flash season 9
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• Craig’s reviews of Hawkeye
• Craig’s reviews of Marvel’s Inhumans

Movie Reviews

• Craig's review of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
• Craig’s review of Thor: Love and Thunder
• Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
• Craig’s review of Kong: Skull Island
• Craig’s review of Shazam: Fury of the Gods
• Craig’s review of Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
• Craig’s review of Jungle Cruise
• Craig’s review of Fast & Furious 9
• Craig’s review of Bumblebee
• Craig’s review of Dune Part One
• Craig’s review of Snake Eyes: G.I.Joe Origins
• Craig’s review of Venom
• Craig’s review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage
• Craig’s review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
• Craig’s review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part II
• Craig’s review of Cruella
• Craig's review of The Meg
• Craig's review of Hacksaw Ridge
• Craig's review of London Has Fallen
• Craig's review of Silence
• Craig's review of Chappie
• Craig's review of Big Game
• Craig's review of Dracula Untold
• Craig's review of The Mummy

Podcasts

• Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 1
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Bumblebee
• Hawkeye
• Venom
• Marvel’s Inhumans – First Podcast and Second Podcast
• Craig’s interview with Katherine McNamara

Trailers

• Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• Killers of the Flower Moon
• Five Nights at Freddy’s
• The Creator
• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One
• Haunted Mansion
• Extraction 2
• Gran Turismo
• A Haunting in Venice
• Skull Island
• Wish
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
• Meg 2: The Trench
• Poor Things
• Hijack
• No Hard Feelings
• Dune: Part 2
• Oppenheimer
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

News

• Briana Hildebrand and Shioli Kutsuna back for Deadpool 3
• Rob Delaney back for Deadpool 3
• Loki and Echo release dates
• Blade gets new writer and delays production
• Chiwetel Ejiofor joins Venom 3
• Superman casting rumours
• The CW Cancellations
• Transformers One
• Vin Diesel hints at an extra Fast & Furious movie and talks spinoffs
• Eddie Murphy in talks for Pink Panther reboot
• Arnie stars in Breakout
• The Pope’s Exorcist sequel in early development
• We Live in Time
• Joel Kinnaman to star in Neill Blomkamp’s They Found Us
• Air Force One Down
• It’s a Wonderful Knife
• Dodgeball sequel in the works
• Connie Nielsen returning for Gladiator sequel
• Pedro Pascal joins Gladiator sequel
• Sylvester Stallone in talks for more Cliffhanger
• Cinderella’s Curse
• Nicolas Cage and Bill Skarsgard to star in Lord of War sequel
• Matt Berry in talks to join Minecraft movie
• Taika Waititi to direct Klara and the Son adaptation
• Babylon 5 animated movie
• Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar Jones star in Voyagers
• Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza Gonzalez cast in Guy Ritchie’s new movie
• Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill to star in The Life of Chuck
• Theo James stars in The Monkey
• Melissa Barrera and Nicholas Hoult starring in The One
• Monica Bellucci  joins Beetlejuice sequel
• Dan Stevens joins Radio Silence’s Universal monster movie
• Additional casting for Radio Silence's Universal Monster movie
• Clive Owen joins Daisy Ridley in Cleaner
• I, Object
• Final Space to conclude with graphic novel
• Gene Simmons Deep Water

Misc

• Craig's appearance on Podcast 616 discussing Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• The Stephen King joke on Family Guy

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the "Mission Impossible Theme" and his YouTube channel

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