I’m hopeful about:

• Nosferatu
• Gladiator 2
• Terrifier 3
• Heretic
• Timestalker
• Paddington in Peru *.The Wild Robot
• Platform 2
• Return to Silent Hill
• Superman
• Fantastic Four
• 28 Years Later
• The Monkey
• Saw XI

I’ve seen it and that’s a fair summary.

I’ve seen it and that’s the high point of the film.

I don’t think it is much of a spoiler to say they are flesh and blood, not some supernatural monster.

My Bloody Valentine.

Bad news but understandable - you can now get your film news almost instantly and in the UK I suspect Empire dominates the film mag sector.

Yes, Switchbot have a device to do this and I imagine the Chinese ones are to be knock-offs of that. They will be quite expensive because a thing that moves blinds will usually need a decent sized motor. Unfortunately, with plantation blinds, I assume you need more of them than other different types.

So a bit like… connected plantation blinds?

There’s no chain or anything to raise or lower them?

How many retirement tours have the Rolling Stones had?

Looks fantastic. Definitely up for that.

While I’m surprised Skyline is still going, I’m not going to turn down the opportunity to see Scott Adkins and Iko Uwais go toe-to-toe.

My worry is Favreau has shown that he doesn’t only crap gold here - The Book of Boba Fett was bad and even The Mandalorian has fallen from its high point when it was simply Star Wars Lone Wolf & Cub. Going big as the movies demand, will see this diluted further. I’ll, obviously, watch it but Lucasfilm pretty much betting the farm on this and the Rey film (where Donald Glover’s Mando interests me more or something… different. Horror maybe) could turn out killing the goose that lays the golden egg.

The Bumper Book of Magic has been in the pipeline that a number of contributors are dead but the novel he is promoting now is the first in a series, we already know the name of the next one.

He effectively retired from writing comics in mid-2019 but signed a book deal with Bloomsbury for his short story collection and the five novel series we are starting to get. At the time he declared himself to be “bursting with fiction”. I’m not aware of anything that suggests he is ready to throw the towel in quite yet. In fact, he seems reinvigorated.

Does “disrupted business environment” include releasing a series of flops?

• Megalopolis
• Never Let Go
• The Crow
• Borderlands
• Boy Kills World
• The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
• Imaginary
• Expend4bles

There’s nothing that looks like it’ll make them any money appearing from them until the middle of next year and they are all sequels/prequels/remakes (John Wick, Hunger Games, Saw, Dirty Dancing, and Now You See Me).

Lucky they now have an AI deal to help replace all the people they are sacking, when they really need help with quality control.

Yeah, I watched it in my local fleapit when it was out with a bunch of my friends, we were pretty disappointed.

I wonder if he’s in a tricky position where he needs big names attached to get funding.

“That’s a wild idea Terry, but who’s starring in it that I’ve heard of?”

It seems to date back to The Fisher King after he ran out of Python momentum in the 80s.

So… “use AI”?

Hellboy’s back in cinemas

Not for the Yanks, it ain’t!

But what’s noteworthy about Hellboy: The Crooked Man (directed by Crank co-director Brian Taylor) is just how small-scale it looks compared to the visually sumptuous movies director Guillermo del Toro served up in the 2000s.

This was intentional - most Hellboy stories are small-scale. I love GdT’s original Hellboy but it wasn’t really your average Hellboy tale, going full Avengers Endgame without the build-up.

I didn’t know this would work.

and not including Everything Everywhere All at Once?

It’s #4