ThaOGDreamWeaver

Nope. None of the ZAZ crew involved beyond production credits, Neeson doesn’t pull off the deadpan as convincingly as Nielsen. Oh, and this is a Seth McFarlane joint.

Still gotta get round to seeing this, but not sure I wanna trial yet another platform…

IMHO, I would assume so. If not, Flynns Sr. and Jr. would not have been able to be reconstructed in the physical world after being digitised. If you’re prepared to swallow that, it’s not that much of a stretch that Quorra - and then ARES - could be extrapolated from their data as humans. Whether Quorra adjusted well to the process is another matter - for example, would she have immunity from common diseases? Would she adapt well psychologically to living around humans? As to whether or not they’d also have superpowers of some kind is “digital wizards did it” territory. But again, if you’re okay with Recognisers flying around in a way that bricks usually don’t…

With surprisingly little warning, LucasFilm announces the third Tales series. This time, our not-exactly-heroes are disillusioned Sith Asajj Ventress, and Lee Van Cleef-meets-Grumpy Smurf Cad Bane. Should be another six-parter and looks more action-heavy than the Jedi or Empire instalments. Still slightly odd about giving Bane a sympathetic backstory: can’t we have just one or two genuinely callous gits in the Galaxy?

In what may be - unfortunately - one of the last of Apple TV’s mad little commissions, Martha Wells’ scifi/mystery/comedy MurderBot series gets the glossiest, starriest, goriest adap you could imagine… Starring Alexander Skarsgard (Succession, The Stand) and David Dastmalchian (Suicide Squad, Late Night With The Devil), plus a host of random guest stars, our erstwhile AI hero tries to work out its place in the universe while handling daily danger on an unsurveyed world, the fear of discovery, an overarching fiendish plot, and trying to catch its favourite soaps. I’ve not got round to reading the books though I’ve wanted to for a while. Looks an awful lot of fun to me. What say you?

Convexity X Kero - DreamWeaver 😎

Bruce Springsteen ft Tom Morello & Eddie Vedder - Highway To Hell (Live)

Attention, programs… So I don’t know how many folks will be queuing up at the ‘plex for this. But that album is going to KILL, and will be on heavy rotation in every goth/industrial club worldwide. (And yes, might even stomp along if my ankles can still take it. That’s the great thing: goths don’t get old, we become Dark Elders.)

Side note: is that Alan “Sarcasm Inc.” Tudyk I hear again?

From the get-go, Val was one hell of an actor. And his very first movie out there, playing with his classic 50s heartthrob looks, was a baptism of… …well, definitely some kind of baptism. …seriously, the physicality it takes to pull this scene off is one thing, but making it FUNNY as well… EDIT: also, I wouldn’t know if this kinda thing would work for you all the time. But if you’re casting for crazy… crazy works.

Iceman. Chris Knight. Doc Holliday. Nick Rivers. Jim Morrison. Ray LeVol. Mad Martigan, Greatest Swordsman Of All Time. And Chris Shiherlis, Greatest Ponytail Of All Time. So, so many iconic roles, it's hard to choose just one. I object slightly to the portrayal of him as "difficult" - just a bit opinionated, and sometimes went a bit Method. But apparently an absolute gentleman to most folks in the cast and crew. Just not directors. (Which you can't say about a number of actors, such as Tom Sizemore - who was a source of much of those comments: Kilmer disliking him seems just to show good taste. Pairing him with Brando was just asking for trouble, FFS: and filming Dr Moreau was a terrible idea to start with.) Wishing him a blessed journey to the land of beautiful souls.

I'm still enjoying CoH as my occasional goofing-off-work gaming treat, but I could use a little variety in my diet every now and again. Any good titles that can run natively on a Mac M1 Pro?

Looks fun - like WildStar as an FPS.

Nick Rivers* - Spend This Night With Me *Alias the late great Val Kilmer, greatest swordsman of all time. G'night, huckleberry.

The Who - Won’t Get Fooled Again (Live)

Clearly they don't like the look of it... It *does* have the flying bridge and a little bit of the delta wing common to Imperial/Clone Wars Republic era designs, so I'm thinking either Imp - some kind of superheavy constructor, carrier/troop vessel, or pre-Death Star demolitions vessel - or it is an old Republic-era supercruiser that's been repurposed, either by the Empire or the fledgling Rebellion. If this is introducing the Rebels, something that big could deliver an Imperial Planetary Occupation Facility. Though the weird snub nose doesn't look quite like the old place...? And Lothal was home to an Imp skunkworks, so pulling a Firefox on an advanced TIE fighter would be a nice prize. (Yes, that gag's been used before, but at least I'd get to post this.)

So the announcement has gone out about the fourth Spidey flick, and... ...yeah, if they go with some of the key elements of the arc it's named for, I'm quite pleased about it. Brand New Day is, handily, a post-retcon incident arc in the books, in which Peter and MJ's relationship has been erased (check) as has everyone's memory of Peter being Spidey (also check... which also handily explains why he wouldn't be called up for Doomsday, as nobody'd know to call him). Sadly I don't think they're gonna rez plz Aunt May for the movie. This is also the era of the Superhero Registration Act, and Pete's decided to opt out of the game entirely. Harry Osborn is also around in this one - though not in full cackling mode, that's his Menace of a girlfriend - and J Jonah Jameson loses control of the Bugle to an even more unpleasant "celebrity businessman". (No end of candidates as to who that could refer to these days.)

Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don’t Care

Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy

Rica Eastleah - Never Gonna Give You Up (Bardcore)

So this IS HAPPENING… https://deadline.com/2025/03/coyote-vs-acme-warner-bros-sale-complete-ketchup-1236354552/ Scribbler note: I didn't know CvA is only the second full screenplay from Samy Burch, who used to write audition materials. I guess that was good practice, because May December was nominated for Best Original Screenplay. Not a bad way to kick off a career, but CvA is one weird followup to a very dark comedy.

Klaus Nomi - Simple Man

Final trailer: More corridors. For “different kind of mission”, read “suicide.” Bix on the farm planet looking happy. Does look like a Talz. They know about the Death Star… “the monster will come for us all”. “Revolution is not for the sane” is a superb line, btw.

That's kinda what I heard.

Kinda think the cat's out of the bag now... ...then again, if we're going for multiversal-collapse malarkey, you can still defeat any given character but have another one show up from a different 'verse. Also, in the comics...