May 2025 News Round-Up (296)

May is over and Kneel Before Pod brings you a discussion about the news and trailers dropped during that month. The conversation covers yet more revivals, video game adaptations and The Rock trying to be an actor.

Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the Film Stories podcast network. Bo Nicholson’s projects can be found on his Linktree.

Show Notes

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TV Reviews

• Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard

Movie Reviews

• Craig's review of Thunderbolts*
• Craig’s review of Black Panther
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Craig’s review of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Craig’s review of Madame Web
• Craig’s review of Uncharted
• Craig’s review of Suicide Squad
• Craig’s review of The Suicide Squad
• Craig's review of Black Adam
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Dominion
• Craig’s review of Skyscraper
• Craig’s review of Tomb Raider
• Craig’s review of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Craig's review of The Jungle Book
• Craig's review of Jungle Cruise
• Craig's review of The Girl on the Train
• Craig's review of Noah
• Craig's review of Zootopia/Zootropolis
• Craig's review of Top Gun: Maverick
• Craig's review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E

Podcasts

• Thunderbolts*
• WandaVision
• Black Panther
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
• Madame Web
• Star Trek: Picard season 1
• Star Trek: Picard season 2
• Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Suicide Squad
• The Suicide Squad
• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

Trailers

• The Long Walk
• The Smashing Machine
• Weapons
• Highest 2 Lowest
• Caught Stealing
• Materialists
• Honey Don’t
• Echo Valley
• Zootopia 2
• Now You See Me, Now You Don’t
• F1
• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• Ironheart
• Peacemaker season 2
• Superman

News

• Krysten Ritter to return as Jessica Jones in Daredevil: Born Again season 2
• T'Nia Miller cast in Vision Quest
• Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars delayed
• Ralph Fiennnes to play President Snow in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
• Guy Ritchie to direct Road House 2
• Jenna Ortega and Robert De Niro to star in David O Russell’s Shutout
• Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock reteam for romantic thriller
• Kerry Washington producing Desperate Housewives spinoff Wisteria Lane
• Miles Teller to star in Possum Song
• Rambo origin movie in the works
• Chris Hemsworth to star in submarine thriller Subversion
• Jude Law and Andrew Garfield to lead Wild Things
• Mikey Madison and Kirsten Dunst to star in Reptilia
• Zach Braff to return in Scrubs continuation
• Mel Gibson’s The Resurrection of the Christ confirmed
• The Rock cast in Breakthrough
• Harry, Ron and Hermione cast in Harry Potter series
• Buffy The Vampire continuation finds its lead
• Alex Garland to direct Elden Ring movie

Misc

• Diego Luna on the Criterion Closet
• Andrew Garfield on the Criterion Closet
• Craig's appearance on "At The Movies in the Noughties" discussing Mission: Impossible 2
• Craig's appearance on "Reel Talk" discussion Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
• Bo's appearances on Geneology - first and second

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Jurassic Park theme“, the “Superman theme” and his YouTube channel

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