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Side note: learn a new nerdy thing every day. I knew the mighty Richard Donner directed the OG Superman, but I was not aware (until reading Scalzi's take) that the writers' room was a Murderer's Row with a slew of Oscars: David & Leslie Newman (Bonnie & Clyde, What's Up Doc?), Rob Benton (Kramer vs Kramer) and only Mario bloody Puzo in the lead, plus guest scribbling from Bond's surgeon Tom Manciewicz. Give good actors good scripts, you get good movies. Whodathunkit.

Little preview image from Mr. Gunn…

I can’t currently get Resident Alien in the UK but he’s had a whole BUNCH of fun things to do in that.

I've been watching the BBC Radio 1 interviews with Gunn, and there's one thing he mentions: also Corenswet, more coyly. Why do you think Corenswet got cast? "Because he looks like Superman... nobody else we tested or was brought up looked like him, and some guys you just wondered why the **** they were even there." No makeup or styling required. He looks slightly goofier and sweeter than Cavill or Routh, and less classically handsome than Reeves, though that helps with pulling off the Clark part. But damn it if it's not right there. Supergirl is going to be largely based on Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow, which is... Also, if you liked Fillion in this show, he promises Guy will be "the same a**hole in Lanterns. Exactly the same. He's nothing if not consistent."

Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness

Being consistently wrong has never stopped Jim Cramer on the telly either. Maybe he should rename Mad Money to Profits Of Doom... ...anyhow. Didn't get to see the flick this weekend as we were on auntie/uncle duties, and they're too young to sit still for five minutes during a movie, let alone 120. Even if Elsa's in it. Glad all seems to be good with it, the slightly odd lift from Invincible aside... BTW, how many of you have seen the other super-offering from the Gunn family - Brightburn?

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a solid hit… https://deadline.com/2025/07/box-office-superman-1236454805/

Auralnauts Ft. Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Synthwave

Talking Heads - Burning Down The House (Live at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre / Stop Making Sense)

Proper trailer is up: EDIT: Do not read the following if you don't want to be spoilered by YET MORE IDIOT PRESS PEOPLE RELEASING EPKs and "early looks"...

Oh damn. That photo gives me a little itch, just in the middle of my chest... (BTW, I do love that Alan Tudyk's in pretty much everything now...)

As it's WWDC time again...

I just happened to like this one: Good. A franchise should become a franchise, or stay a franchise, only because each movie is in and of itself a good movie.

If you know, you know. 🔇

Ozzy Osbourne & Friends - Crazy Train (Live @ Villa Park) 🫡

Jack Black ft. Roman Morello, Revel Ian, Yokoya Soma & Hugo Weiss - Mr. Crowley

The Heavy - Short Change Hero

Pretty much: Richards gets twelve hours before the Hunters are unleashed, rather than arena games, and travels to Maine to vanish (because of course Maine). Being pre-Internet when it was written, he originally had to mail tapes twice a day to the studio, and viewers could phone in his location for prizes. The new version adds drone cams, interactive viewer apps and a few modern trappings you'd expect - so you can still have bloodless street vigilantism. But also the odd nutter taking matters into their own hands, which, well... that does kinda track too. On that note, we do have a gameshow called Hunted in the UK that pretty much follows that track to the letter. Other than all the murdery bits. I think it died after one season in the USA. Though in almost every case, Brits help out contestants rather than ratting on them, because we're still punk. And back in the day, there was an attempt to get even closer to the Arnie formula with Interceptor. It also sadly only ran for one season. I was mildly miffed about that at the time, because Dad and I got addicted to how hilariously bad it was. Except for the theme tune...

Oddly, it reminds me of Champions Online in the early days: animation needs (a lot) of work to make it as fluid as COH's, for a start. (And surprisingly, Champions is still going too over at ARC: I haven't touched it since about week two, I think.) But I've seen worse in alleged high-end FPS games. I applaud them for getting the thing hauled spaceborne before Star Citizen comes out. Which may be roughly the same time as we achieve warp and the whole thing becomes old hat.

BTW, for those who didn't make it to the end, a new friend has arrived:

Small update - very small in one case: Over on the gaming thread about 007: First Light, I fed in the studio's comment about it being a completely independent plot and story. But. There's a widely reported claim that Amazon has casting feelers out for a British male - or someone who can convincingly fake it - under 30. So, full reboot. https://variety.com/2025/film/news/amazon-james-bond-wants-tom-holland-jacob-elordi-1236442329/ If you don't want to click, they're looking at: Jacob Alordi (maybe?) Harris Dickinson (...who?) and... Tom Holland??? (ooh, lookit da wittle secret agent, he's so adorab... seriously, love the guy, but no. ) There was also an earlier rumour about Aaron Taylor-Johnson, so maybe. Hilarious as the Holland rumour is, I don't think they'd dare. Besides, he still has the Marvel franchise: and while he's growing as an actor, the Bourne Identity babyface to killer switch has been done and Matt Damon did it brilliantly. Trying to pull the same stunt in a Bond movie seems excessive.

So, the second "serious" redo of one of Arnie's 80s classics, trying to go closer to their sourcebooks. Colin Farrell's Total Recall was way too staid. In Edgar "Trois Saveurs Cornetto" Wright's hands, this one at least seems fun, and explores more of the dystopia Stephen King built (well, his "Richard Bachman" pulpy alterego). The OG plot, instead of Richards' heroics saving a crowd, sees him as a down-on-his-luck schlub scrabbling to pay medical bills. Shut out of work due to political blacklisting, he decides to try his luck on the Games Network (here very knowingly using Netflix iconography.) And no setpiece arenas, though the odd Squid Game gag wouldn't go amiss: instead, he has to make it 30 days. Anywhere in the world is fair game. And while there are still Hunters, everyone can take a crack. Fun! I'm not gonna give away how the rest runs, but there is holy sweet Freya in Asgard NO WAY Paramount could have greenlit the original ending. (If you know, you know.) If they did, this is gonna be all over the news: and I doubt Edgar would be working again for a long time. Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick, Hit Man) gets the workout: Josh Brolin takes a more relaxed, reptilian approach to Killian: and Colman Domingo (Euphoria) brings the energy as the show's host Bobby Thompson. Add in Lee Pace, William H. Macy, and a near-unrecognisable Michael Cera channeling Richard Dreyfuss... ...certainly looks like good popcorn material, though depending on how close they hew to the book, it could get a lot grimdark. What do you lot think?