Watching HEIST. It's not going to help my issue with confusing Hackman with James ' Thief' Caan.

I regularly walk past a billboard as with this same poster and it fascinates me. Not just because sportsman Andy Murray is advertising dog food, but because the image looks like Andy is lying flat on his back on a tennis court.

Haha, amazing.

Solution: Just complete ignore it and do a new Bond movie. You'd probably put in a bit where Bond has to decide between going to two different locations, one of which being the Kuril Islands and he'd say "No, not that place. I had a bad time last time I was there" and then he just goes elsewhere.

People rag on Reddit for it being full of weirdos, but sometimes that's the only place where people ask the big questions.

I borrowed Indiana Jones and the Great Circle off a mate a few months back but couldn't get into it, but I spent a few hours with it at the weekend and it has clicked with me, now I'm really enjoying it. Great vocal mimicry of Ford and I'm digging the story. Feels like a proper Indiana Jones plot.

Saw PREDATOR BADLANDS yesterday. A movie that's difficult to review purely on its own merits and not against all the expectations you have of it. Because it's The Predator. It's a weird Violent-Disney-Movie. If you like violent Predator Action and shallow Disney storytelling then it's for you.

Plenty of 2025 films I'm still yet to catch before the year comes to an end, so of course I'm using this Friday night to watch a 1976 Italian Poliziotteschi from Umberto Lenzi. Because I've not seen this one yet and I hear it's a blast.

Can LEGO release a model kit of the UK TRAITORS castle please. Because fuck me, that place is gorgeous.

Considering the best Gremlins movie was the one that wasn't written by Chris Columbus, and that Chris Colombus does not have Joe Dante director energy, I can say that this Gremlins 3 news is going straight onto my 'meh so what' news pile.

Reading this thread about why people don't have any tattoos, and most of the answers are 'i change my mind on my favourite movie ever 2 months, so there's nothing a want permanently on me incase I change my mind'. And it reminds me of the different thought process between 1st tattoo's and 2nd...

This morning I discovered that the clock on the dashboard of my car shows the correct time, but the clock *on that same dashboard* when it switches to the reversing camera view is 1 hr ahead. Which caused me a mini panic thinking I was an hour late. How are they different? It's all one system?

I've been catching the odd episode of old Quantum Leap on PlutoTV, and it's an illustration of just how TV has changed in just a few decades. I mean, this show has whole new sets for every single episode! When do you get that these days? Nobody 'wastes' money like that today.

Absolute masterpiece in the long history of ludicrous British burocracy, NIMBYism and just general expensive pointlessness. A stupid idea that everyone involves knows is stupid, nobody wants, but still have to go through with it anyway. This is the Britain that I love.

I seem to have ended up in a database that makes all the ticketing services think I must be totally desperate to get tickets to BON JOVI's Wembley Stadium gigs. 'MISSED OUT DONT WORRY THEY ADDED A THIRD GIG! GET TICKETS NOW!!!' I mean, they're OK. But come on. They should've been called SAMBORA.

Right, let's check out another 2025 TUBI ORIGINAL. Surprisingly, I find that these things are actually pretty good fun, if you go in with certain expectations. (Namely, that is a TUBI Original). But I've actually heard some decent things about this. Now Watching MATCH.

Having a rewatch of 28 YEARS LATER as it's Halloween.

This was a wonderful movie. Really made me want to get myself pregnant as it looks like a great fun, chill time.

REDSEC Gauntlet has the potential to be a pretty fun squad-based battle royale, if players actually realise it's a SQUAD based MISSION objective game, not a free-for-all death match. So many idiots joining and just going it alone. What do that think this game is? They just get illuminated Round 1.

Oh my god all the posters in this thread are amazing. This Sooty Show one in particular is a masterpiece.

I avoid trailers, so I probably won't be checking out the SCREAM 7 one, but I imagine it won't break the main rule of Scream movies: The only good SCREAM movies are the ones where there hasn't been a SCREAM movie in the previous 10 years.

I'm not sure why I keep finding myself playing EA SKATE, considering the open-world is badly designed, the missions are both boring AND annoying, the voice-over chat is embarrassingly cringe and the game even has stupid lore that annoys me. I guess the skate physics are fun. But damn, what a waste.

5 episodes into the Ed Gein 'Monster' series on Netflix, and good grief, it's quite something. Kind of amazed something like this is on mainstream Netflix, tbh. And that it has such big names in it. Because fuck me, I've seen some disturbing movies / TV in my time, and this is quite up there. Damn.

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In Kaiser Chief's 'Oh My God' he sings "...Come back stronger than a powered-up Pacman" but Pacman doesn't get powered up, the pills he eat just power-down the ghosts. Pacman still goes about his business with exactly the same speed and strength all the time.

I genuinely think the only reason Gen-AI hasn't fully taken over movie poster design yet is down to all the legal contractual 'this credit needs to be central, this credit needs to be above the others, name needs to be 25% the size of the title, face needs to be central...' stuff, and AI can't cope.

The Creatures aren't happy about the clocks changing, meaning their breakfast was 1 hour LATE . This was my welcome this morning.

Bought some mince pies because they're now available, even though it's only October and we've but had Halloween yet. But I don't care. I'd eat them all year round, Christmas be damned.

Kind of watching THE TWITS with the family. Might be challenging WWZ for the 'least like the source material' trophy. I don't really know what's going on in it - although that might be in part explained by my having a 20 minute nap 5 minutes in.

Think I might give the "I Know What You Did Last Summer" remake/ sequel / whatever it is a go.

Time to check out A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE. Kathryn Bigelow is quite consistently brilliant so I have high hopes with this one.

This was wonderful. That youthful confidence and 'well if nobody else is doing it then I'll just do it myself' attitude kids at 16 have is both impressive yet terrifying. I do hope the 16 year olds of tomorrow can still experience music - and life - like this, and it's not just done on Tiktok.

Checking out this Indonesian horror THE ELIXIR which is on Netflix yesterday.

Checking out JustWatch site to see what's landed on streaming this week, and I like how yesterday Channel4 just decided 'lets fuck our viewers up today, eh?'

Exploring some 2025 albums I've missed, and this one is an absolute beast. Best album I've heard all year. Tavastland from the catchily named 'Havukruunu'. Viking pagan metal in the Bathory vein. Which is definitely my kind of shit. Great music now the days are getting colder and darker.

It seems to be impossible to pick a train station in the UK and find out where its trains go. Which feels crazy, but there's no 'where do the trains go from here' information. I can see Live Departures, but isn't there a big database I can query? Or just a page of 'stations these trains go to'?

I have Sky News on in the background. Some weirdness going on with the Pope and some UK folks, but I gotta say, this Sistine Chapel place sure does have some fancy wallpaper.

I'm absolutely Team Dan.

This was fun. I like seeing advances in movie tech that aren't just 'we'll fix it in post'. (Or, as I'm sure will be the case pretty soon 'we'll do it with AI'). www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efpx...

This probably related to the clock. Because I was always turning up late to work and my manager kept telling me to "get a potato clock".

Loving Amazon trolling all the rolling TV news channels by releasing a statement meaning the news anchors have to say: 'DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1.'

I was chatting at the weekend about how I don't really understand the physics of busses. A bus doesn't look that much wider than an average car - they both easily fit inside their road lane, can overtake parked cars and still leave room for oncoming cars in the other direction to pass. But...

OMG, BBC has live Sumo Wrestling right now. A rainy Sunday afternoon with Sumo on the TV? Am I a child again? This is amazing.

Managed to plug a gap in my Scott Adkins catalog with ONE MORE SHOT. I don't think it meets the original but it's ok. But then I'll watch any film Scott Adkins is in, of course. boxd.it/bpHf1H

Ok, back to my 'what 2025 films have I missed' journey. Tonight it's CLOWN IN A CORNFIELD.

New PERTURBATOR album out today. It's been a while since he put something new out. New music is getting difficult these days. Lots of AI generated slop (particularly in Synthwave) and scam artists posing as legit 'legacy' ones just for Spotify clicks. Have to be careful what you click.

When I was a kid I used to think they dumped a load of rocks into the ocean and put a lighthouse on it that was used to warn people about the rocks the lighthouse was sat on. And I'd get angry about how pointless that was. "Just don't put the rocks in the ocean in the first place!"

Really enjoying COCOON that's free on PS+ this month. From the creator of Limbo and Inside. The puzzle design is fantastic. So cleverly done. Just the right side of 'fuck me, how the hell do I get over there...?' without being annoying. Just thinking 4th dimensionally. As you do.

I feel I have a gap in my listening for a good Horror movie podcast. Any recommendations? Not really interested in big professional ones, more just a few guys/gals chatting about new and old movies.