Welcome to HEROES & DROIDS, your pop culture guide to movies and TV shows about Superheroes, Sci-Fi, Disney, and Action. From Marvel to DC, from Star Wars to Star Trek, From James Bond to the Fast and the Furious, we will review the theatrical films and stream delights you care about most!
This week we review…
BIRDS OF PREY: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn
(now known as HARLEY QUINN: BIRDS OF PREY)
Your hosts tonight include:
- Doc Rotten
- The Slattman!, Christopher Slattery
- Award-winning Filmmaker, Christopher G. Moore
And welcome our special guest… “Jenna Say What?!?”
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POP CULTURE NEWS OF THE WEEK
- The OSCARS 2020
- Congrats to JOKER, Joaquin Phoenix (Best Actor), and Hildur Guonadottir (Best Score).
- KNIVES OUT 2 official, Ryan Johnson & Daniel Craig return
- THE MANDALORIAN returns to Disney+ in October for Season 2
- The teaser for the upcoming DISNEY+ MARVEL TV shows drops during the Super Bowl
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62EB4JniuTc
- FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER debuts in August 2020
- WANDAVISION debuts in December 2020
- LOKI debuts in Spring 2021
FEATURE REVIEW: BIRDS OF PREY
After splitting with the Joker, Harley Quinn joins superheroes Black Canary, Huntress, and Renee Montoya to save a young girl from an evil crime lord.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 2/7/2020
- Director: Cathy Yan
- Writer: Christina Hodson
- Cast:
- Margot Robbie … Harley Quinn
- Rosie Perez … Renee Montoya
- Mary Elizabeth Winstead … Helena Bertinelli / The Huntress
- Jurnee Smollett-Bell … Dinah Lance / Black Canary
- Ewan McGregor … Roman Sionis
- Ella Jay Basco … Cassandra Cain
- Chris Messina … Victor Zsasz
- Ali Wong … Ellen Yee
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Doc Rotten is the founder of Gruesome Magazine. He is also a film critic for Gruesome Magazine and the podcast host & producer for Horror News Radio, Monster Movie Podcast, Decades of Horror: 1970s, The American Horror Story Fan Podcast and Hannibal Fan Podcast. He is also co-host of the Dracula podcast on TV TALK and is a contributing reviewer for HorrorNews.Net and Widescreen Warrior.
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
