I love Prey so much, in my head, it’s almost as good as the original. I had such high hopes for Romulus and was left feeling so disappointed.

Looking forward to Badlands. Don’t let me down Dan!

I like the collectability factor, but on the other hand, it is more plastic for the environment.

Your welcome. 🙂

Thanks for linking an old article I wrote. I wanted to keep this information online, so I republished it on my current blog.

I enjoyed Ready Player One at the time even though some of it was just ridiculous. Re-enacting Ferris Buellers Day Off for example.

Armada, Cline’s next book was awful. So many references on every page, I stopped reading. I remember a line that was something like, “my mum wouldn’t let me past, like Gandelf in the mines of Moria.” Sheesh! Let it go!

I fully read Ready Player Two but the guy has no story telling abilities. Every time the main character encounters a problem, e.g. I need a level 49 sword to get past this problem, but there’s no way to get one, it was always solved with the same solution, “oh, I own the game and all Admins have level 1000 swords because we do!”

I think I reached my limit when he managed to shove in a Shaun of the Dead reference just because he mentioned a cricket bat!

Now do Acme Vs Coyote!

I thought Krypto was an angle used to attract the really young kids.

Shameless plug COUGH Here’s my review.

For those of you who want to TLDR, Here’s the text from James Gunn’s Tweet.

Krypto arrives on screens in Superman this summer. Krypto was inspired by our dog Ozu, who we adopted shortly after I started writing Superman. Ozu, who came from a hoarding situation in a backyard with 60 other dogs & never knew human beings, was problematic to say the least. He immediately came in & destroyed our home, our shoes, our furniture - he even ate my laptop. It took a long time before he would even let us touch him. I remember thinking, “Gosh, how difficult would life be if Ozu had superpowers?” - and thus Krypto came into the script & changed the shape of the story as Ozu was changing my life. What better time to debut the not-so-good-good-boy Krypto than #AdoptAShelterDog month. Btw, Ozu today, is, fairly often, a very good boy. #Superman

And here’s the image. It’s a video on the tweet, but it’s just the Earth revolving.

I just copied the whole page and pasted. 😁

OK, call me naive, but I had no idea that Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was a famous musical. The trailer for the film, starring Johnny Depp and directed by Tim Burton. So I was very surprised when they all started singing and dancing in the film. This was never mentioned or shown in the film’s trailer! I just double-checked on Wiki and people in the UK logged official complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority and Trading Standards agency.

The only other example that comes to mind is the trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man. Can’t remember if it’s the first or second. The shot in the trailer features what looks like the start of an epic fight between Spider-Man and Rhino. Unfortunately, what you see in the trailer is the very last shot in the film. It’s a tease for a fight that you never get to see.

The poster was implying that the young boy would grow up to be Darth Vader, if that’s what you mean?

I find that people who use the word woke as an insult don’t really understand what it means.

The BBC broadcast Threads to celebrate its 40th anniversary. So for a fun night in, I watched it along with The Day After as well. [Review]

TLDR: It’s a separate universe where The Fantastic Four are the only heroes.

CodeMaster religiously hold onto their copyrights. I remember searching for their 8bit games of the 1980s and while copies are out there, the places that do it legally, World of Spectrum for example, don’t host them because CodeMasters refuse permission for these old games to be distributed for free.

I’ll never forget hiding under a table in the corridor with the Alien walking around me in circles. He knew I was there but seemingly couldn’t figure out how to get me. I thought I was safe but maybe I moved a few pixels in the wrong direction as after a long wait, it grabbed me and gave me the deadly kiss.

So it’ll be on HBO Max in about a month then? 😁

It’s not licensed material. Disney is deleting their own original content so they don’t have to pay residuals to the actors and crew who worked on them.

I was quite looking forward to Star Wars: Skeleton Crew until I saw the first trailer. It looks like someone is trying to do The Goonies in space. The one image that really disheartened me is the shot of the suburbs, rows of houses and streets. Star Wars isn’t a place where I’d expect to see suburbs, it’s in a galaxy far, far away, a long time ago.

It’s very similar to when The Book of Boba Fett had their version of the 60s scooter scene. It doesn’t work and took me completely out of the episode.