Podcast: Running Trains (S02E45)

Welcome to the Nerd Fu podcast – Season 2: Episode 45.  If you’re looking for the latest & greatest in nerdy/geeky news, then this IS the podcast you’ve been looking for.

Every week (mostly), we bring you the latest in Nerd News, including SCREENSHOT (movies & TV), STOCKPILE (collectibles), HIGH SCORE (gaming), COMICS n CONS (that one explains itself) and WILD CARD (our catch-all, random stuff category).

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Movies in Theaters This Week

• Sausage Party (d. Greg Tiernan & Conrad Vernon) w/ the voices of Michael Cera, James Franco, Salma Hayek, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader
• Pete’s Dragon (d. David Lowery) w/ Bryce Dallas Howard, Robert Redford, Wes Bentley, and Karl Urban with Oona Laurence and Oakes Fegley

Movies / TV to Buy

• A Hologram for the King
• Supergirl (S1)
• 11.22.63 (Entire Series)

• The Last Witch Hunter director Breck Eisner in talks to helm next year’s Paramount Friday the 13th film – [ign]
• Transformers: The Last Knight remakes Autobot Hound and adds the Autobot Hot Rod – [superherohype]
• First images of sci-fi drama Arrival reveals Amy Adams – [collider]
• Simon Kinberg reveals the reason for the Gambit delay – [collider]
• Tom Hiddleston joined Instagram – [collider]
• Man of Steel sequel in the works at Warner Bros – [collider]
• First Dunkirk trailer for Christopher Nolan’s WWII action-thriller – [collider]

TV

• Hulu to eliminate ad-based free option over the next few weeks in favor of an all-subscription model – [ign]
• Could Suicide Squad head to Fox’s Gotham – [ew]
• Marvel’s Head of Television Jeph Loeb talks about Fox’s upcoming X-Men TV series – [comicbook]
• Significant talks going on at Fox about more X-Files coming back – [comicbook]
• Luke Cage at SDCC and new trailer – [thenerdfu]
• New Girl and Brooklyn Nine-Nine are getting a crossover episode – [collider]

• Fantasy Flight Games tabletop adaptation of DOOM – [ign]
• Cheat at Overwatch Lucioball and be punished warns Blizzard – [ign]
• Japan proves once again it is king of train games with Densha de Go! (Go By Train!) – [kotaku]
• Rocket League Rumble trailer – [thenerdfu]
• Gears of War campaign footage reveals new enemies, weapons, and more – [gamerant]

InvestComics: Hot Picks of the Week Hot Picks #436, (Top 5: #74) which includes a Avengers Annual #1 title, is here and Jay has the lowdown on the latest comics you should be picking up or passing up!