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Also Susan Ivanova. It's not quite a St Swithin's Day speech, but Claudia clearly loved every word of it...

(Yes, I still miss those three. And the B5 banter generally.)

Birdy - New Moon 🌒🌕🌘

Roxy Music - Dance Away

I have a feeling it's some kind of of (quite weird) joke/parody and the bottom line is the giveaway. It's not an Obvious Plant joint, but seems to be in their line of thought. Then again, if it's real... it wouldn't be the oddest thing I've run across on the internet. ...today. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/23/nx-s1-5260230/stick-nation-sticktok

Troma Films - James Gunn's stomping ground - got a new lease of life and a (slightly) bigger budget a couple of years back. (No, they were not bought out by Disney.) But their new Toxic Avenger - boasting suitably unhinged performances from Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood amongst others - has been in distributor hell for the last couple of years. ...wonder why? It's being released Stateside unrated, and should be oozing into cinemas in the coming weeks.

No, just your common or garden random weirdo. TBH, I'm slightly more hung up on that "special organs" line at the bottom...

New supervillain orangin story just dropped.

Just read the Wikipedia on River Raid, and much praise for Carol Shaw. I didn't even know they did platinum sales cartridges to hang on the wall, let alone that game designers could earn enough to retire on back on the day. Also - given it was the OG vertical scrolling shoot-em-up, I'm surprised that doesn't namecheck its obvious legacy: Spy Hunter. There was a version of that in the works about 20 years ago, with - surprise - The Rock in the title role. John Woo, Paul WS Anderson and various others have been attached to direct over the years, but the rights remain with Universal, deep in Development Hell. (Dwayne did get to play in the FMV for the 2006 game Spy Hunter: Nowhere To Run, and is apparently still annoyed that only got 3/10).

…reupping this for new particular reason…

The Doors - Blue Sunday

After Minecraft inexplicably stormed both the movie and pop charts - Steve's Lava Chicken Song is still somehow charting in the UK - you bet there are going to be even more video game adaps coming your way. One that I got excited about for almost five minutes... Ryan Reynolds in Dragon's Lair for Netflix. And yes, it was going to be an interactive version â la Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, but the resulting 400-page (!) script was deemed too unwieldy to film as a project. Not to mention, apparently the interactive stuff is a massive pain in the a**e to load balance for on the backend. After some disasters with US live sports, they're not keen on having their kit fall over again with a blockbuster. So now Dan and Kevin Hageman have rather a lot of material to pare down to make one single story. But I am disappoint. Other than our own dear Paragon City - and I'm not sure the multiplexes are ready for a video game cape movie, even if they could get Cassandra Peterson to play me... ...are there any decent games left that haven't been turned into movies? Which ones would you like to see?

Robbie Williams (ft. ...Tony Iommi??) - Rocket

Just wanted to share something I ran across. If, while studying as an undergrad at MIT, you complete courses in Sailing, Pistol Shooting (Air or Rifle), Archery and Fencing... ...you will unlock an official, genuine, MIT Pirate Certificate. This is real, not an April 1st special, and designed to promote the range of Phys Ed options at MIT. Boston also has a fine history of the trade from John Quelch through to Pedro Gilbert (100 years after the end of the Golden Age of Piracy). As their site notes: More of this, please: I don't think gamification works for everything, but people do respond well to fun small rewards. What's the best examples you've run into?

FYI: while First Light is the first official, post-Broccoli 007 product from MGM / Amazon, IO Interactive have said it's a standalone story - or series if it does well. It doesn't reflect their plans for a new film or TV series. That said. If it does really well... do you think a reboot with a younger Bond would do? (Or someone taking up Bond's "legend", as I've often suggested...)

Definitely more Family and COT. I suspect you might have a core plotline like trying to divert Statesman (and/or Recluse) from their destiny. Oh, and one other thing: if you mess up a mission badly enough for a contact to die, they are dead dead - and that mission is unrepeatable for that toon. I'd also like to see some more Golden Age movie tributes - like dangerous redheads walking into an PI's office with a mission, Doc Vazhilok's grandad making a monster, and old-school vampires. Oh, and black-and-white cutscenes.

Well, by the looks of the final trailer, they're clearly not catering to the Asteroidia-echinoderm metric. Bit of an omission if you ask me. Maybe in the sequel?

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows 🏄🤙🏻😢

Castle Rat - Wizard

Quick one: if you have D+, check out Predator: Killer Of Killers. Three interlinked animated shorts (plus a finale) about what happens if you have to take down one of them and are tough, brave, smart and lucky enough to win. The animation style is fluid and elegant, similar to the Spiderverse movies. And while the core plot steps are still fairly predictable, it’s a hell of a step up on most of the recent entries (with the exception of the excellent Prey, which also gets a neat little callback.) Definitely worth a look.

Something that I found out because of this, though... there's a three-hour TV cut of the OG Reeve movie. (Only because Salkind figured out a way to charge TV stations by the minute for playout.) Amongst other things, it includes the Greatest Criminal Mind Of Our Time's taste in lair accessories.

It could just be a mistake, but it's probably a clue or a joke of some kind. Since it's got one extra letter over a real (and very, very old - 1970) UK-style plate. eg: the OG Aston from Goldfinger is BMT 216A. Whether or not it's good spycraft, bad guys (well, the top bad guys) knowing who Bond is... is kind of a story point. A slightly more civilised Baba Yaga. A name that spreads holy terror into those who would plot against His Majesty's Government. You don't play nice... the Big Bad Bond comes for you. His very presence forces action - and mistakes. And yes, the real River House (and SRR) recruit anybody who can make their very exacting grades.

Sly & The Family Stone - Thank You Sly & The Family Stone - I Want To Take You Higher

Now that James Bond on-screen is... paused, Amazon MGM's first full release is a video game. (And given how many of us fondly remember GoldenEye - hell, even NightFire wasn't bad - that's a lot to live up to.) Dev crew are IO Interactive of Hitman fame - which bodes well if they let James get creative about completing missions. And the storyline gives us a young, inexperienced Bond, but in a modern setting. (I get the feeling we'll play through some of Bond's formative experiences, similar to the Young Lara levels in Tomb Raider.) It's hard to judge from a trailer, but all the right ingredients seem to be there - world travel, guns, girls, explosions, toys, and of course, product placement (a Moore-era Omega with some handy extra complications, and an old-school Aston). The humour and delivery feels like a young Brosnan with a side order of Tom Holland. All the familiar MI6 support cast like M, Moneypenny and Q are there, though coming over a little anodyne in this short watch. The only potential villain mentioned is 009, though he could also be a rival/even-more-rogue agent involved in an op. The only new addition is long-suffering mentor John Greenaway, aka journeyman Brit actor Lennie James (Walking Dead, Snatch, Save Me, and Darkwing in Invincible). Should be a good foil for an impetuous boy. And I'll be ANNOYED if they fridge or face/heel him, which are both cheap shots. What do we think, agents?