September 2025 News Round-Up (305)

September has ended and Kneel Before Pod brings you a breakdown of the news and trailers from that month. The conversation covers returning to wells, Star Wars back in theatres and recasting Stallone.

Featuring

• Craig McKenzie – here on Kneel Before Blog and on We Are Starfleet (Film Stories podcast network)
• Izaak Stoakes – Twitter, BlueSky or Instagram

Show Notes TV Reviews

• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3

Movie Reviews

• Craig's review of The Long Walk
• Craig's review of Sovereign
• Craig's review of Redux Redux
• Craig's review of Brides
• Craig’s review of Superman
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: No Way Home
• Craig’s review of The Marvels
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• Craig’s review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Craig's review of The Mummy
• Craig's review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Craig's review of Now You See Me 2
• Craig's review of Zootopia/Zootropolis
• Craig's review of Avatar: The Way of Water
• Craig's review of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Craig's review of Bumblebee
• Craig's review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• Craig's review of Tomb Raider
• Craig's review of Searching
• Craig's review of San Andreas

Podcasts

• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 3
• Superman
• Spider-Man: No Way Home
• The Marvels
• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• Bumblebee

Trailers

• The Housemaid
• Christy
• Die My Love
• Rental Family
• Hedda
• 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
• The Bride
• Good Boy
• Robin Hood
• Is This Thing On?
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
• Dust Bunny
• Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
• Wicked For Good
• Anaconda
• Now You See Me: Now You Don’t
• The Mandalorian and Grogu
• Zootopia 2
• Avatar: Fire and Ash

News

• Spider-Punk movie in the works
• Marvin Jones III cast as Tombstone in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
• Man of Tomorrow announced
• Matt Smith to star in Star Wars: Starfighter
• Karen Gillan cast in Highlander reboot
• Michael Caine to come out of retirement for The Last Witch Hunter 2
• Michael Bay developing new Transformers movie
• Another The Simpsons movie announced
• Call of Duty movie in the works at Paramount
• Life Is Strange live action series ordered by Prime Video
• Zack Snyder’s The Last Photograph
• The Social Network sequel titled The Social Reckoning
• Knight Rider movie in the works
• Sophie Turner cast as Lara Croft
• Guillermo Del Toro to adapt The Boy in the Iron Box
• Matt Berry and Natasha Lyonne to star in Force and Majeure
• Alexandra Daddario and John Cho to star in Ridley Scott’s Inground
• Noah Centineo to play Rambo in prequel movie John Rambo
• Anthony Ippolito to play Sylvester Stallone in making of Rocky drama

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Rocky IV training montage“, the “Super Mario Galaxy flying theme” and his YouTube channel.

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