Teviot Union, the home of The Watch House officially reopens after two and a half years. I’ll have to go see what they've done.
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
V5: Stolen 2.03
Vampire: The Masquerade
Stolen
2.03
Favours For Favours
Beck
Robin
Vince
Beck arranges a meeting with his sire Alva, a wine bar around the West End. He asks about concerns with the Tremere and the Sheriff, and about finding a rogue Banu Haqim. In exchange she asks for help with a small charitable event, something his position in the Church of England will help more than the Church of Caine.
The next night, she updates him to say that the Banu Haqim has done something for Joseph Milliner, the Hecata investor.
Bruce Campbell
All best wishes to Bruce Campbell. And fuck cancer.
When he came here to promote My Name Is Bruce the first screening with Q&A sold out, so they put on another and he said he’d do an introduction but then he stayed for a Q&A after anyway.
Monday, 2 March 2026
The Thunder Perfect Mind
The Thunder Perfect Mind has arrived.
Coming soon, the first supplement, Terrestrial Court, including LARP rules.
The Nevers
The Nevers is streaming free with ads on ITVx. The last thing Joss Whedon created and left unfinished when he was revealed as a creep, I’ve never had a chance to see it short of buying the discs. So here we go.
Nine minutes thirty and Mrs. True has kicked a guy out of a window.
Sunday, 1 March 2026
Marathon
Marathon is a new multiplayer action game from the studio behind Halo and Destiny. On a failed colony planet, various corporate and other factions send Runners in machine bodies to collect artefacts, bring back data about some mysteries, and fight each other to loot the wreckage.
With no single-player campaign and fairly light narrative development elements it doesn’t feel so heavily suited to story focused versions like tabletop RPGs as Halo and particularly the “why isn’t this an RPG?” of Destiny, though it could be the basis for a West Marches raid game, and looks really Mork Borg and the in-character multiple lives are pretty Paranoia.
It takes its name from a first person adventure with plenty of plot, a precursor to Halo, but while that’s part of the new game’s history it doesn’t play the same way.
Ultimately everybody kinda looks like an Infinity figure or crash test dummy. Not my jam.
Saturday, 28 February 2026
Friday, 27 February 2026
Pokémon at 30
Pokémon started thirty years ago. I was outside the demographic for it but respect the hustle.
Though I still think Pikachu looks more like a cat.
What's your favourite scary movie?
I aim to be positive here. There are a lot of things I like about Scream. Like so.
Thursday, 26 February 2026
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is a new SF comedy with a side of horror from Gore Verbinski, director of the Pirates Of The Caribbean trilogy and Mouse Hunt as well as the US version of The Ring and you can kind of see all of that here, from a script by Matthew Robinson, co-writer of The Invention Of Lying and I can see that too.
It stars Sam Rockwell as a man from the future come to recruit a seemingly random assortment of people to save humanity - or is he? He’s a lot less charming than Reese in The Terminator so has to rely on different ways to motivate his ragtag resistance.
I went in pretty blind thanks to a teaser that really only shows the setup, expecting more of some things than I got and not expecting some other things at all, so had a pretty fun wild ride so I guess I had good luck.
Content warning for flashing lights and Holy WOW jokes about people being blasé about school shooting.
Wednesday, 25 February 2026
Tuesday, 24 February 2026
Return To The Spider-Adjacent-Verse
Having given up on the Spider-Man adjacent live-action movies last year, Sony are rebooting them. This comes a couple days after news of an animated Venom movie from the writers of Final Destination: Bloodlines and the trailer for the live-action Spider-Noir series spinning off from the animated Spider-Verse.
I mean, some of them were fine in places. I liked most of Madame Web apart from the actual Madame Web connections.
Tortilla Chip Day
It is Tortilla Chip Day. And unusually I have some.
And behold, I reached into the bag and withdrew the Triangle of Triangles.
Tortillaception
Monday, 23 February 2026
The X Files (202X)
Ryan Coogler to direct a pilot for a new take on The X Files, Jennifer Yale as showrunner, starring Danielle Deadwyler as one of its leads.
“Two highly decorated but vastly different FBI agents form an unlikely bond when they are assigned to a long-shuttered division devoted to cases involving unexplained phenomena.”
So could be a soft or hard reboot. sequel, requel, etc. etc.
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