The wife and I tried watching yesterday. We only lasted three sketches, didn’t think it was very funny at all which was a huge shame as we loved their original sketch show. Bring back Sir Digby Chicken Cesar! 😁

If you have access to the original camera negative, it’s going to look great in 4K. Look at the Wizard of Oz, that’s 1939.

You can listen to one complete song now, it was released last month because it’s used in the trailer.

Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (Official Lyric Video)

It’s probably on YouTube somewhere but there’s an excellent documentary that uses the footage shot by the Russians at the time of the accident.

Harrowing at times but fascinating. Especially when you discover that the mini series is mostly fact, such as that crazy bit when they get men to work those short shifts on the roof, shoveling radioactive debris into the hole.

The Wiki page on this film is quite interesting. Basically, this reboot started life as Cliffhanger 2 which was announced in 1994.

From then on, the film has been in development hell right up until October 2025 when Stallone pulled out of the project. It was then developed into this reboot.

Apparently, this isn’t actually Superman 2, as reported on SuperHeroHype:

On one of his posts on Threads, where Gunn stated that he was busy with sequel writing, a user named @alexromval asked, “I’m a little confused right now. Is this the same movie you’ve talked about in the past, the one where you said Superman had a major role but wasn’t exactly a sequel? Or is this a different movie, and this one is actually ‘SUPERMAN 2’?”

To this, the veteran filmmaker replied, “Yes, yes, sorry. This is the same movie. Superman has a major role. It’s not Superman 2.” Another user asked Gunn if this movie is “not a direct sequel to Superman?” In response, he conveyed that Peacemaker Season 2 is more of a direct sequel to Superman, featuring David Corenswet.

As a UK resident, I can’t order it, it’s showing as unavailable. It’s on the UK site but it costs £25.

It might be worth reading the 4K Dredd thread over at Blu-ray.com

It’s seems there isn’t a perfect version of the film. I believe the US 4K by Lionsgate has the best picture but another region has the better sound quality.

In terms of normal Blu-ray, apparently the Japanese release is best but that’s now expensive and hard to find.

Thanks for the tip though, may it make many Irish Dredd fans happy.

Crazy idea… Open up the safe and legal routes that the Tories closed?

Updated the post with the press release.

Yeah, I think the news has crashed the website! 😆

Here are some images from an alternate source. Apart from the steelbook images, they haven’t announced the technical specs or any bonus features yet.

Here’s a look at the physical versions of “Tron” and “Tron: Legacy”:

This isn’t the first time this has happened. Streaming services have shut down before and people have lost their films. I think there was a lawsuit against Apple because they had to remove a film because the license expired. One guy who paid for that film in his library wasn’t happy and sued.

If anyone wants to go really deep on the history and making of Speed, check out the podcast 50mph. Fifty episodes that tell the story from start to end and has an interview with Keanu and Sandra in one of the last episodes.

Really good stuff. You learn than Speed was originally just set up as a cheap action film, they never expected the success they achieved.

Also, the script was briefly considered as an idea for the next Beverly Hills Cop movie.

The DVD extras allow you to watch the real bus jump from five different angles. It didn’t look too healthy once it landed. 😁

There are several games that come to mind.

Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings was due to be released on mutiple consoles but the leaders were the Xbox360/PS3 versions.

One of the selling points was a unique ragdoll system which meant when you punched a bad guy, there was no set animation of them falling down. The ragdoll physics did it’s job.

There were several videos released during production, usually at E3 shows.

Sadly, the delays keeper getting longer. While there was no official release date, we wondered if they would tie it on to the release of Crystal Skull. The film came and went both theatrically and on home formats but no game.

Then one day, the first official trailer was released, I watched it with excitement. Then the gut punch, at the end of the trailer, it only had logos for PSP, Wii and DS.

Soon after, we learnt the game was cancelled. Some early rough gameplay footage is online.

Another is Star Wars: 1313. The game would tell the story of how Boba Fett became the famous bounty hunter and acquire the armour. This E3 trailer got me so excited.

I think the game was cancelled when Disney bought Lucasfilm.

Finally Star Wars: Rogue Leaders.

Essentially, the two Rogue Leader games from the GameCube remastered for the Wii.

According to an interview, this would have been pushing the Wii to it’s graphical limits, I think they mentioned 60fps.

There was also extra Wii enhancements such as lightsabre battles with Wii MotionPlus remotes and even using the Balance Board as part of ship controls.

If I remember rightly, the game was fully finished but they couldn’t find an interested publisher. He’s the trailer.

I heard, I can’t remember where, that ALL flags of any kind where being removed in certain places due to then being a health and safety risk.

Of course you can guess who jumped on the story and twisted it for their own means.

EDIT: Also, today I drove along the M25, junction 2 to the M3 and almost every bridge had a flag for each direction.

I wouldn’t call it a bad change, quite the opposite but when I read Fight Club, I was amazed how faithful the film was to the book. There are just two major changes I can remember.

In the book, Tyler Durden meets the narrator on a (nude?) beach where Tyler is erecting driftwood into the sand so that the shadow looks like a hand. (It’s been a very long time since I read it, I think that’s right.)

Secondly, the narrator struggles all through the story to remember the correct formula for the home made explosive. If he doesn’t know, then Tyler doesn’t know. Which means the explosives at the end don’t go off. The buildings stay standing.

From what I remember, 1984’s Dune is basically the book condensed down into the highlights. If you’ve read the book, fine but otherwise, it must be quite confusing.

When I see a screenshot of Google Gemini saying that the word Oreo is a palindrome (it’s spelt the same backwards and forwards), I don’t know why we’re all running towards AI to do everything. Plus there’s the environmental cost as well.