Stoked I just got a ticket to see this film at a local festival where there will be a Q&A with the creator, stop-motion special effects legend Phil Tippett. The film was a labor of love that took 30 years to complete and looks delightfully demented.
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It’s fantastic that Mad God is getting a proper premier and worldwide tour. Got to see an incomplete form (chapters 1 and 2), and it really is something to behold.
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I’m a little late to the game on this show but I just watched Lovecraft Country. The whole sort of side story with Hippolyta’s adventures was unexpected to me but definitely interesting and thought provoking. I thought the show was well written with some great complex characters. Really impressed that they managed to cram in so many different kinds of sci-fi/fantasy/horror elements into the story without it getting too overwhelming, especially because they were really just an interesting background to the main story about the horrors of racism and bigotry in America.
I saw some of Tippett’s puppets for that movie maybe 15 years ago when I got to go on a mini-tour of his studio with some of my students (we didn’t meet the man himself though). Can’t wait to see the final result.
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I quite enjoyed this:
If you like found footage or cult horror, this is a great series, which was apparently based on a podcast? The acting was great, and there are some pretty good twists and turns through out the first season.
Also, one of the composers of the soundtrack was Geoff Barrow from Portishead, who has been doing soundtrack work for a while now:
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https://webnewsobserver.com/2022/02/04/the-boys-season-3-release-date/amp/
“ The Boys Season 3 release date is officially set for June 3, 2022. The first three episodes will be released on that date, with the remaining five episodes following on Fridays and the season finale scheduled for July 8, 2022.”
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Wizards of the Coast’s attempts to crack a Game of Thrones or Wheel of Time equivalent for D&D won’t impede the company’s big-screen ambition. A Dungeons & Dragons movie, written and directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, the duo behind Game Night , is already in the can. Chris Pine leads the cast, with Bridgerton ’s Regé-Jean Page, Fast and the Furious’ Michelle Rodriguez, and Paddington 2 ’s Hugh Grant in the mix.
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Two Netflix recommendations gone wrong…
Chosen - sci-fi involving a small town, mysterious meteor, and teens who suspect there’s something strange going on. If they have another season of this series in the future, I won’t be watching. There are too many situations where characters’ choices make no sense. It’s particularly jarring when they’re WOC.
I had a similar reaction to Raising Dion, because the writers seem to be going out of their way to make the mother’s character really difficult to watch. I was about to throw in the towel halfway through the second episode. Why?
She repeatedly puts herself and her son into dangerous, easily avoidable situations that she makes worse. She’s watching him do something unusual for the second time, and is incapable of getting him to calm down. Instead, everything she does makes him more excitable. Her son has asthma (which makes the winding him up behavior unbelievable), so of course she lets him run around in the woods outside of her line of sight - then he has an asthma attack and finds out he doesn’t have his inhaler. WTF is she doing in the woods with him without confirming that first? After retrieving it, and reaching him to use it, she has him do calming breaths with her - something that she conveniently forgot how to do when they were in a boat the day before.
She calls a total stranger because she wants info. about how her late husband knew the person whose name was on a piece of paper in his coat. However she rejects an offer to check this person out first before speaking with her/engaging further, because she claims not to need help. That stranger now has her phone number, name, info. about her husband, etc. because of the message she left on voice mail. To make matters worse, she sticks a note from her son with their home address on it out the outside of the place they’re leaving - where any passing rando can see and read it.
Bonus points for getting a visit from what seems to be the ghost of her late husband, who has one thing to say - GTFO of their current location. She ignores that message from the Great Beyond, stays there overnight, has an encounter with a creepy cop who tells her someone has gone missing from the area where she’s staying alone and unprotected with her son, but the thing that finally motivates her to pack up and leave is a job interview. 
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The Woman in the House […] was so much fun. You can tell from the title it’s ridiculous, but the fact that aside from the opening narration it starts off almost too self-seriously was the perfect setup for just how much it ramps up over the course of each episode. We weren’t expecting much from it. Then it delivered to goods and more.
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But not John Dimaggio!
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Bite my shiny metal ass!
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right?
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squeeeeeee penguins 
streams free in the U.S. at least
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Do you think that Benedict Cumberbatch will learn to say penguins if he watches it?
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That’s a perfectly cromulent way to pronounce penwings.
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Squeeee!
A little more info:
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