06May
And Here’s Superman!
I guess. This is the first picture of David Corenswet as Superman. I appreciate the calm, but your hustle could use a little work Kal-El. Discuss on Social Galactic
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06May
Super Earth Has Conquered Sony
Sony has thrown in the towel. Details to follow as they come in. Developing. Discuss on Social Galactic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5hCkh2AH58
05May
RIP Bernard Hill
This would appear to be a weekend for sad news, and I’m afraid I have some more. Bernard Hill who played King Theoden in Peter Jackson’s epic of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has passed at the age of 79. Hill was born to a catholic mining family in Manchester, in 1945. He got into the business when Britain still required actors to earn their Equity card. Meaning he spent most of his twenties in out of way corners of...
05May
Sony’s Helldive (Update)
Wow, Sony actually managed to make a bad situation worse over night. Helldivers 2 was cutoff from all 177 countries where PSN is unavailable last night. It took a while to find out who did it. If it was Valve, that would have been understandable. They were going to have to refund any games sold between now and the end of the month anyway, so it would make sense for Steam to cut it's loses. No, it was Sony. They have officially doubled down. This California...
04May
Helldivers II Disaster
It was fun while it lasted. Helldivers II was the great white hope of the gaming world. AAA games are trash now but this one was the kind of game that we all used to love. It was a hell of a lot of game for $40 bucks. There was no pay-to-win or pay-to-cheat. No subscription required to play it. No DLC that was obviously created concurrently. Nothing was disabled for the lower price except Stratagem Hero. Live service games in recent years...
02May
Zaslav Takes One to the Knee Cap
Comcast/Universal has put together a bid a $2.5 billion bid for TNT’s contract with the NBA that is currently due to expire at the end of the 24/25 season. TNT’s owner Warner Brothers Discovery is countering with a bid of… ZERO. They will not be challenging Comcast’s bid. From the Blazer's Edge: Comcast’s NBC Universal is prepping a huge bid to take over TNT’s role of the NBA national broadcaster. The Wall Street Journal broke the news Monday, with Deadline reporting details afterward. Turner has...
01May
Avoid Like the Plague: Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
. There is an annual contest for writers to come up with the most hackneyed and cliched opening sentence they possibly can. They come up with gems like "She was a beautiful woman; more specifically she was the kind of beautiful woman who had an hourlong skincare routine that made her look either ethereal or like a glazed donut, depending on how attracted to her you were." This entire movie is like that sentence but it lasts for more than two hours...
30Apr
Paramount’s CEO Fired Right Before the Earnings Call
Well that was brief but exciting. Bob Bakish “stepped down” right before the Paramount earnings call started on Monday. Like the tombstone says, I had looked for this but not so soon. I actually no, I had looked for this and been surprised I hadn’t seen it long before now. Under his “leadership” Paramount has fallen to the bottom of the Hollywood ladder. It has assets but no real ability to make use of them now. Like every other studio that gambled...
30Apr
Snap Shot: Bluey – The Sign
From the Babylon Bee: Where did Calvin go? When did he leave the room?" asked father John Pearson, 32, after he and his wife Bridgette suddenly snapped out of a trance-like state, realizing that they'd been watching Bluey episodes alone for three hours. "What?" his wife asked, slowly emerging from her stupor. "Oh. Yeah, I guess he did wander off a while ago. But... you know, we should probably just finish one more episode. I like to, uh, make sure there's no...
29Apr
The Dark Herald Recommends: Spy X Family – Code White
I have made no secret of my fondness for the anime series Spy X Family. A TV show that is at its heart about some lonely and broken if hypercompetent people forming a make-shift family works for me on just about every level. If you throw in James Bond early 1960s aesthetics then I’m hooked and in the net. From my review: Spy X Family takes place in a world that is very much Cold War Cool Sixties. The nations of Westalis...