For April 16th, 2016, Red, Mike, and Scott meet at the Nostromo peace rock and discuss Seth Rogen's saturation period and his immediately forgotten mall cop comedy OBSERVE AND REPORT, the first official image of Scarlett Johansson in GHOST IN THE SHELL surfaces online amidst a whirlwind of whitewashing accusations, Mike puts his daily cartooning career on brief hold to let the elegant punishment & beautiful masochism of DARK SOULS III wash over him, Scott borrows Snake Plissken's silent-scoped Uzi and continues his John Carpenter retrospective extravaganza with ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, director Andy Serkis follows Justin Timberlake's advice and drops the "The" from JUNGLE BOOK: ORIGINS to just straight JUNGLE BOOK, the Marvel Universe folds in on itself with the first teaser trailer for DOCTOR STRANGE starring Benedict Cumberbatch, baffled looks are exchanged as James Cameron announces yet another AVATAR sequel - bringing the series to a total of five films, and much, much more before our featured review of THE JUNGLE BOOK from director Jon Favreau.

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MUSIC

• The AntiTheory - "Smart Bombs"

SHOW GUIDE

• 0:00:00 - What We've Been Viewing
• 0:40:25 - News
• 1:09:10 - Review: The Jungle Book (2016)

CLIPS

• Observe and Report (2009)
• Doctor Strange (2016) Teaser Trailer
• The Jungle Book (2016)

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