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…
THE LOVEBIRDS
Your hosts tonight include:
- Doc Rotten
- The Slattman!, Christopher Slattery
- Award-winning Filmmaker Christopher G. Moore
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- S.J. Clarkson is attached to direct a MADAME WEB movie for Sony’s Spider-Man Cinematic Universe
- https://deadline.com/2020/05/sony-s-j-clarkson-female-led-marvel-movie-1202939671/
- https://variety.com/2020/film/news/sj-clarkson-marvel-universe-sony-1234612107/
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FEATURE REVIEW: THE LOVEBIRDS
A couple (Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani) experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery.
IMDb.com
- Release Date: 5/22/2020
- Director: Michael Showalter
- Writer: Aaron Abrams (story by) & Brendan Gall (screenplay by)
- Cast: Issa Rae, Kumail Nanjiani, Paul Sparks
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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.
