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Given that some of the Karen Page storylines are supposed to be in Born Again, not to mention Jon Bernthal returning as Punisher... hmm. Good luck with that idea. ...but "family friendly" can be relative. You can let the audience picture things that are happening without actually showing them - and they'll usually imagine something much worse. Then hit them with occasional bits of proper gruesome when they least expect it. (See Netflix's Fall Of The House Of Usher for a good recent illustration of how this works, although they didn't exactly skimp on the nasty. Kinda wish they had for the final death, which also shows when showing stuff doesn't work nearly as well as anything the audience could imagine.)

Note from the writer via Cinemablend - and many, many auto-generated 'splainer articles...

I am kinda sad that while the ending did tie everything together in a neat little bow (or bough?)... ...it's so neat, and these characters have the right endings - tragic, noble, purposeful, and enduring - that this is where the book closes for them. If this has an effect on the MCU as a whole, it may be that...

Immobilise, Mag 4.0, with 10% chance of Sleep (Mag 2), and permanent Slow until the Panic Diet power is toggled during the January Gym Frenzy event. While we're at it... DW's Family Christmas Pudding Recipe Dates back well before Victorian times, though I've made edits and upgrades through the years since I was a kid. It's now relatively idiotproof if you've got a bit of time and patience. Quantities are a little flexible and spicing can be adjusted to taste: adding cinnamon, allspice, or vanilla sugar if you wish. But the important bit is... if you want to have it ready for Christmas, you ideally need to start in November - as early as possible - so the flavours have time to mellow, mingle and mature. So get on it. For 1 large/2 small puds: 4oz / 110g plain flour 6oz / 170g muscovado sugar 2oz / 55g dried breadcrumbs (out of a packet is fine, just not the golden ones for fish fry) 5oz / 140g suet 1lb / 450g mixed dried fruit of your choice (sultanas, raisins, currants - a premixed bag is fine for this) 1oz / 25g finely ground almonds or almond flour Fresh nutmeg to grate, to taste (for this recipe, you should use about 1/4 to 1/3 of a nut) A quarter teaspoon of salt - no more, no less One small tart apple (or half a decent sized Bramley) One small lemon One small egg 50ml booze of your choice (Spiced or dark rum, unpeated whisky, honey liqueur, brandy or calvados/applejack are all good. NOT GIN.) Up to about 150ml of cream stout beer - Murphy's, Mackay's, Guinness, or similar (see below) Additional booze for "feeding" How to: Place the sugar and flour, a bit at a time, in CLOSED-TOP blender - unless you fancy a festive smoke bomb. Grind to a fine grey-brown powder. (This is optional but helps the mixdown process go better). Place a quarter of each dry ingredient - sugar/flour mix, breadcrumbs, fruit, almonds, and salt, into a BIG glass or crockery bowl - as in the biggest you have. Mix thoroughly. Grate a bit of nutmeg over the top, mix again. Repeat the process with the remaining dry goods, mixing right down to the bottom each time. Check how much nutmeg you've used and top up as needed, mixing again. Peel, core, and grate the apple. Mix through thoroughly, a handful at a time. Clean hands are best for this job. Juice the lemon, and mix with the egg, booze, and about 50ml / two shots of beer. Gradually pour into the dry mix in a thin stream, stirring all the time, and making sure any dry bits are well mixed in. Again, you might want to get your hands in for the best results. The mix should wind up as a sticky pudding batter, no dry bits, but not runny. Add more beer as needed to get your desired consistency. Each family member who's been involved in making it should give a final stir to the pud - clockwise, three times - and make a wish. Pile into heavy-duty glass/Pyrex/china bowls and pack down. Cover tightly with buttered greaseproof paper, then cover that with a double layer of foil, and tie down tightly with string (proper butcher's-type string, not plastic string, Bridget.) Place in a saucepan or steamer and boil/steam for 3-4 hours. Check the water level regularly, and DO NOT LET THEM BOIL DRY. Allow to cool and store in a dark, cool place. These can be made well ahead of time, and will even keep year to year. About once a month, "feed" the pud by stabbing it with a cocktail stick or skewer, then sprinkling with a shot of your chosen booze. On the day: either boil/steam for about an hour before serving, or remove from the bowl, break into large chunks and nuke in the microwave till piping hot (about 4-5 min, but use your judgement). Serve with custard or other sauces of your choice.

So, premiere has happened and the final trailer is out... and they keep teasing some kind of major Universe reboot event in the trailers and promo material, with a potential crossover to the Loki finale. Not-quite-spoiler: that it ain't, at least in the ways some people have speculated. It is, however, generally a fun if slightly confusing ride - including lots of planet-hopping, a very random musical number, an obvious if unpredictable McGuffin (Kamala's Negaband and its twin), etc. And they're quite literally herding cats at one point, so yes, that's a metaphor for the script: but Goose is also a key ally, and she's brought friends. For those of you who really can't wait for the post-credits, of which there are two...

Highest value: COH, especially since Homecoming: also the original Elite, Star Trek Online (pre ARC takeover, but haven't been back for all the reinvestment of the modern Paramount-friendly era), OG PS1 Gran Turismo, PUBG Mobile, Counterstrike, Dance Dance Revolution (PS3, and any arcade if the cabinet's still in good shape and I'm drunk enough), most of the Tomb Raiders, the Thief series, KOTOR, and SWG (before the dark times... before the NGE.) Lowest value: Elite: Dangerous. Badly needs optimisation and stripping down the graphics, and came close to exploding my work laptop. See also EvE, which was a massive time/money-sink until I worked out that any kind of serious competitive play would cost more of my time, fitness, money and sanity than I was prepared to give up for casual gaming. (Dis)Honorable mention...: say what you like about WoW, and especially about Activision Blizzard, it's still a good, accessible, very playable game with a tonne of content and hidden Easter Eggs, and can still be fun to play... ...if you don't do any raids or multiplayer events, and ignore any comments about your odd playstyle/non-minmaxed toon/sexuality/sense of humour(assuming they have one, which they don't seem to like much.) Exceptionally toxic community even by EvE standards.

Cool story, bro. Needs more pirates. And linguini.

My Dad was "...basically Vultan." "Who?" "From Flash Gordon. Brian Blessed, TALKS LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME." "Nah..." Then when they met him, they kinda got the idea. Until he lost the beard for a while, which was... just wrong. So I know how you feel.

Having read up on The Pretender, kinda sounds like a darkside version of Joe 90... not that a show about reprogramming a kid didn't have some dark moments. And yes, that would be quite a cool one for Joe Cornish to take on as his next kid-friendly action project. (In case this is region-locked: this is the Joe 90 opening titles and groovy 60s music...)

I'm betting on seeing Manimal and/or Greatest American Hero reboots at some point. Sadly, I think real life has overtaken Automan by some way... any other terrible stuff they could dig out from the vaults?

Fresh off a rose-tinted megahit and a top-10 single, Ryan Gosling keeps the Kenergy-fuelled himbo ride going partnered up with Emily Blunt... ...there's not a huge amount in common with the original Saturday teatime favourite - though I suspect ol'bag-of-hammers-face himself Lee Majors will show up, and maybe Heather Thomas as well. And yes, looks hugely derivative, but nonetheless a whole bunch of popcorn-munchable fun, not least murdering Tom Cruise an unnamed but ultradynamic permaposing action star who shall remain nameless, and parodying Blunt's own Edge Of Tomorrow. See you there?

All the Marvel D+ side projects seem to be a lot better than the flicks at the moment - and I get the feeling that there's less "weight" put on them, either to be massively commercial or fit into a particular mould or timeline, so the writers and directors have more room to play with the material. I'm really not sure where they're taking this one from the pretty darn grimdark trailer, but if D'Onofrio signed off on it and looks to be enjoying it, could be interesting...

The Velvet Underground - Oh, Sweet Nuthin' (2015 Remaster)

It was a pretty odd little backstory bottle episode, which felt like trying to pull things back together after that mid-season cliff-hanger (well, cliff fall off and explode). OB/AD was his entertaining usual self, but finally seeing what all the jetski mania was about was a little bit of a letdown (possibly intentional). Sylvie's bit was the only part that seemed to all hang together, until that fell apart. Good needle drop in that scene... even though it's a weird continuity moment as it's the last song on Side 2...

Some: seems there's been a lot of assorted game lore over the years, and not all internally consistent. But the core ideas about the murderous William Afton, his creations, and the kids that possess them are in there. And yes, Nic did a DTV called Willy's Wonderland. There are obvious debts to FNAF's general vibe: but the animatronics' backstory gives them no tragic or redeeming qualities, just murderous glee. And the equally corrupt townsfolk picked the wrong drifter to sacrifice... ...yes, it's more than a bit silly, but if you want to see Nic Cage kicking ass in spectacularly over-the-top fashion, give it a spin.

Penultimate episode... some let-downs in the writing compared to the rest of the series, but sets up the final battle ep properly...

Sooo, that happened. Not sure I can add much to m'learned coll's assessment, other than...

It is apparently one of K.E.V.I.N's greatest loves... and thing is, when someone with that much power has too much affection for a property, it tends to put the brakes on making said properties into good movies. You have 120 minutes or so to pack in everything a potentially fresh audience needs to know and care about from months or years of back issues, form it into a proper sequence of events, and somehow make an entertaining picture. Having a robotic ultrafanboy kibitzing over your shoulder isn't great. Multiverse Of Madness had quite a few things going for it: a superb cast, a script with a recognisable dramatic arc in it, and the imagination of the mighty Sam Raimi - even if he ripped off one bit from Roger Corman. Quantumania... isn't as unwatchable as some folks might say, but is clearly attempting to kick off Kang's villain arc. It throws a lot of heavy concepts at you in a short space of time, along with a bunch of gloopy and possibly unfinished CGI. And it doesn't "stick the landing" as a complete movie, because there's no landing to stick. Loki... is an oddball little piece and clearly the one they were allowed the most creative freedom on, and yet makes the most sense - not least because we've had two series to get to know everybody and what's going on. If they ditched the Kang Dynasty flick and instead finished it up in Loki, with Mobius, OB and Loki wrapping up the timeline in a neat bow instead - possibly rewriting history with OB as the originator of the TVA, not Kang - I would not be sad in the slightest.

Yep. Reviews are in and, much like kiddie arcade pizza, lukewarm and a bit stodgy. It's also either had some savage edits or was deliberately tamed in the script, as it's PG-13 stateside and a 15 in the UK.

FEUERSCHWANZ and friends - Warriors Of The World, Unite

Rob Zombie - Dragula

Kim Petras ft. Elvira, Mistress Of The Dark - Turn Off The Light

"Just how fast were you going, Sir? You were really shifting..."

Quick forum game. There are many fairly pathetic movie pitches out there - and sometimes it's mysterious as to why they get made. Other than some oddly inventive kills, this goes in the C- could do better box... Given that there's been a horror spin on pretty much every American holiday, I'd quite like to see... Black Friday (2024) w: E. Watson d: M. Flanagan Twelve lucky, lucky shoppers are invited to an extra-special preview night at one of America's greatest malls. Not only that, it's streamed live. And the team of six with the most "steals" in one night can leave with whatever they can carry on their bodies. Of course, it might not be quite that easy. And if they don't stop that mysterious thirteenth guest who's in to make some bargains, there are twenty thousand eager souls outside who will stream in at 6am... ....so what movie concept could you guys upgrade?