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Diffusion feat. Doug Wood Band & Public Enemy - Drag Racer (147 E.F.F.E.C.T. Mix)

All the TNG, Disco, SNW and Lower Decks crew have been reporting in with tributes. I really like this one (from one of the LD key character artists.)

Trailer 2 dropped today: Looks good. Looks very good. Very polished. 3-ep drop - I guess there's a lot to take in in terms of worldbuilding for this one, so makes sense... Saw Guerrera (de-aged Forest Whittaker) is back. Wonder if anyone else is showing up? Denise Gough's as-yet-unnamed white-suited Imperial taking lead menacing duties. Stellan Skarsgård looking brooding as usual and appears to Have A Past. Ooh, sneaky concealed laser cannons. Keen. Mon Mothma's high-end life contrasting with Andor's near-Pythonesque levels of grime jars a little... but is possibly supposed to. Still no info on who the local Waffen-Imperial types are.

Oscillian - Ulysses 31

Steve Barton - APEX Legends (Main Theme)

The cast seem to agree with you. Also, they give very, very good EPK interview. I always worry a little when people have this much fun making a movie (or are quite as drunk as Hugh is on the junket), but still gonna see it.

Hell of an actress. Hell of a singer. And had many, many fans... ...when you see someone like that on-screen - especially when clearly an important part of the crew and the show, not any kind of a screaming damsel, you think... ...I could do that. And people did. Not just on telly - Whoopi Goldberg in particular - but for reals. May she rest in light. And if there's any of those particularly beautiful cosmic phenomenae JWST is picking up are going spare... ...The Uhura Nebula has got a ring to it. PS: on the "damsel" note, she did manage to sneak the best ad-lib joke in the original series past the censors in Naked Time: SULU: [half-naked with epée] I shall defend you, fair maiden! UHURA: [annoyed] Sorry, neither. 😁 PPS: I ran across a lovely thing on Twitter while writing this. According to a set dressing detail in ST:Picard, after the Enterprise crew went their separate ways, Nyota went on to become captain of the Leondegrance - a custom long-range exploration vessel in which she set the record for new First Contacts. Following a refit, the LdG became a training vessel. Thousands of new cadets got their first taste of warp and Speed Of Light Certificate, under the watchful eye of Captain Uhura... ...including one gawky young Frenchman with appalling hair but a promising attitude. I'd like to see that story.

The Dickies - Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Scandroid - Dream Of NeoTokyo (Dance With The Dead Remix)

Wilf is also rumoured to be back in the 60th Anniversary multi-Doctor-malarkey episode opposite Tennant, which would make it his last ever TV appearance.

There are those days you wake up, open the news bar, and just go "aw hell no." Those of you who've watched the Tennant-era Who shows may remember his friend and inadvertent killer Wilf, alias British national treasure Bernard Cribbins. Pretty much everybody in the UK has a memory of him of some kind - and for most of us of a [REDACTED] age it's The Wombles: Before that, he was a mainstay of comedy flicks through the 1960s - and a surprisingly cunning Companion to Peter Cushing's Doctor in one of the 60's big-screen Who movies. On top of that, he scored two top-10 singles with comedy songs (Right Said Fred is like a musical version of Laurel & Hardy's Music Box, though exactly what monstrosity the poor guys are supposed to be moving is left to the imagination: and Hole In The Ground is about trying to get a job done when everybody and their dog has an opinion on how you're supposed to be doing it. Relatable.) So he never stopped working and was always in demand - his biog was subtitled 75 Years Of Doing Just About Everything - and was, by all accounts, a Great Bloke To Work With. Womble free, friend. Womble free.

Seen a few, or at least the results. The car in the trailer is still in slightly better shape than the one in your picture (that'll buff out...) The mystery part is how it's an unscathed Jen taking care of Bruce, and Bruce - faced with a potentially life threatening situation - is still... very much Bruce?

More Shulkie goodness/mini-EPK: So, nothing spectacularly new - one possible new character sighting at the end - and one small, oddly troubling detail. Bruce and Jen appear to both be involved in this car crash, where she gets contaminated by Hulk's blood, rather than needing a transfusion. ...how does a regular old car crash that she walks away from make Bruce bleed, without him Hulking out? Either it's a plot hole, or a Bruce hole - and someone's found something capable of punching one in the Hulk. Which turns it from a car crash into the world's most ill-advised assassination attempt.

This has been a thing amongst fine Shakespearean actors and actresses for a while (and parodied more than a little by Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin). Work is work, no matter how ridiculous it is, and if it gets you paid and free trips to LA / Budapest / wherever it's better than doing rep in Croydon. Especially kids' TV. Like Derek Jacobi doing In The Night Garden (warning: psychoactive substances not recommended while viewing), Palin doing the Clangers, and Bedtime Stories... which even the Americans want to join in now. Acting's supposed to be fun. David Warner enjoyed the hell out of the gig.

A very sad day for British screen villainy. There will be a mass sneer and moustache-twirl/parasol flounce in Parliament Square at 2pm. (But seriously: by all accounts, one of the nicest blokes you could work with and an "absolute trooper", as they say.) 🔗Lin-Manuel Miranda cajoled/bullied him into doing the AV Club, and it's a very funny read. And my favourite role? Well... [FX:GRAMS - Random minion at DW's office simultaneously explodes, implodes and self-immolates] Damn, was just pointing rhetorically... but that's a good question...

I'm not sure on that one, as it's part of the storytelling. Other than the very Twilight Zone intro, I'm trying to think of bits where Uatu speaks directly to us at home. Now I'm wondering... ...given this was specifically written for the D+ platform, I wonder if they could do something a little Bandersnatch-esque with it. Rather than literally breaking off chunks of panel or taking shortcuts through pages of ads, could they mess with the streaming - have Shukie grab control of D+, rewind and try alternate plans, or look ahead at episode titles? I mean, if Doc Strange can get away with it...

The WandaVision 2000s-era episode, which is called... Breaking The Fourth Wall, and nicks heavily from Modern Family's confessional sequences. There's maybe a couple of DTC glances in previous episodes. Given it's WV, though, is she really talking to us, talking to herself, or... *chugs headache tablets* ...dammit, too much meta. Anyway, I think it's the first time it's been used in this narration style outside of the Spidey cartoons.

Waking this up for SDCC news: DD new series confirmed for D+ as Daredevil:Born Again... which, nerds, is the Frank Miller-era incarnation of DD. Ooh, dark. (Hopefully not literally as dark as the Netflix version, because I came away with eye-strain after each episode). If they do run with the main plotlines of the Miller-era version,it'll be much darker thematically than we've seen from other D+ Originals. Though I hope some of Karen's arc and some other ideas and detail does get airbrushed for 2022. Miller isn't the nicest bloke on the planet these days and that came out in his writing. This is a new show running with some of his writing: let the new folks write it. Charlie Cox, Vincent D'Onofrio and Elden Henson all contracted to reprise. Full 18-episode series order. So they're going big on it. Release date is scheduled for D+ Spring season 2024. DD will also guest in other properties on the way there, notably...

New SDCC trailer just dropped:

Quick thing: if you're in the USA, call 1-877-743-4855 for a good time.

It had my interest... I'd been wondering why Paramount and E1 went so big with this at SDCC and the A-Listers signed for a D&D movie... until I spotted the writers on IMDB. It's John Daley & Jon Goldstein from Spiderman:Homecoming. ...now, as they say on the internet giffy things, you have my attention. It looks like mildly ridiculous fun (Ragnarok, Lego Movie) that plays with but loves its source material: while still fully inhabiting a fully-formed, high-production version of the Forgotten Realms world. (Which, TBF, is exactly the attitude I went into most D&D / MERP / TMNT sessions with, and how I play CoH.) Also, Pine seems to have the right attitude to the whole thing. (Hugh seems utterly baffled but sod it, he's working and having a bunch of fun.) Roll'em: Chris Pine: wisecracking Bard/Hannibal Smith type Michelle Rodriguez: also-wisecracking but mostly asskicking Barbarian Justice Smith (Detective Pikachu, Jurassic World) : deadpan, slightly Spock-like mage Sophia Lillis (Sharp Objects - please go see that if you've not already) : Yay Druids! *happy druid dance, no not skyclad* Rege-Jean Page (Bridgerton, Gray Man): Paladin and general smouldering duties Hugh Grant: Rogue, probably treacherous or heart-of-gold and a bit doomed It's either going to be massive or a dud, but I'll be watching it anyway - assuming it's not a blasted Paramount+ exclusive. And if it goes big, it could do for D&D what the Lego movies did - and there'll be MORE NERDS EVERYWHERE. Oh, and if you've ever seen the first attempts at D&D movies (SNAAAAIIIIIIILLLLLSSS!), it looks like a massive improvement already.

Not liking that set up with the new blonde dude Biostem mentioned. Smacks of an old-timer who's tired, maybe a little underpowered, but has cunning and a bunch of friends... ...vs hungry newbie who reminds him way too much of the the arrogant little SOB he used to be (but stronger.) Seen that movie more than a few times. Hopefully they do something better with it.

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Billy Idol - Hot In The City