Captain America: Brave New World

Captain America: Brave New World is a pretty fun sequel to The Incredible Hulk (2008) that also gains heavily from having watched the more obviously relevant The Falcon And The Winter Soldier, once I stopped cringing at the fictional presidential message of togetherness.

The first appearance heavily shown in trailers and on the main poster takes a long time to arrive.

Another character was reworked pretty heavily from the comics version, likely for other real-life political reasons, and possibly adjusted during filming based on one appearance in a costume we never see without a coat covering it.

Nice work making the new Falcon a likable goof in-character instead of just a comic relief.

The phrase “even more indestructible.” Ouch.

Underwhelming end credits tease. But I also liked the kids in the audience rocking out to Kendrick Lamar over the end credits - he’s having a good 2025 so far.

Valentine's Day

The 21st anniversary of our first 24 hour charity RPG marathon.

The World Well (And Friends)

Three decidedly different zine sized games from Tin Star, now on Kickstarter and already funded.

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter

The Last Voyage Of The Demeter arrives at port on disc a year and a half after it was due to sail into cinemas but was lost in a storm of financial woes.

A pretty good expansion of a notable chapter of Dracula, well made, darkly but mostly clearly lit, and brutal (the dog dies) though I think let down by how much the Dracula actor in makeup is replaced by CG and some wobbly continuity.

Glad to have finally gotten to see it, and appreciate that the disc has proper extras like deleted scenes, a commentary and some behind-the-scenes bits.

Terraforming Mars: The RPG

Terraforming Mars getting an RPG, written by Kenneth Hite and Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan. My interest level is now greater than zero.

Super Bowl trailer and ad highlights

At Empire. Unusually some of the ads actually showed here, Doritos spending an extra fifty quid to get theirs on ITV at one in the morning.

Kendrick Lamar's halftime show

Also Uncle Samuel L. Jackson and forty acres and a mule.

Thunderbolts* Big Game Trailer

With a look at the main threat and all.

Important news

World Pizza Day on Super Bowl Sunday. Hmm. Time to get... something. Popcorn maybe?

Plotting And Scheming

Met one of my current V5 players today...

Conpulsion seeks GMs!

Game submission form up now!

Magic: The Gathering movie(s)?

Hasbro and Legendary spinning up Magic: The Gathering for a cinematic universe with movies and possibly TV. News at Empire.

What does that have to do with the price of eggs?

100,000 organic eggs worth $40,000 stolen in Maryland.

National Werewolf Day

National Werewolf Day, as I discovered last year due to Film4 dedicating their showing of Werewolves Within. Marked since 2016, but I am not clear which nation is supposed to be celebrating.

Play? Time?

Really shouldn’t offer a new game for the five people asking at GEAS right now. As they may not all be together, may not all be interested, and I already have nine players on Sunday evening in the event everybody actually came.

The Fantastic 4: First Steps

First Steps trailer and talk at Empire. Retro 60s scifi world!

A Buffy revival pilot?

A Buffy The Vampire Slayer revival pilot possibly moving with script from Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Poker Face co-executive producers Nora and Lilla Zuckerman, with Chloé Zhao (Eternals) to direct, and I say revival because Sarah Michelle Gellar is in! Probably as the Giles to a new slayer. We shall see. Hopefully.

Final Destination: Bloodlines trailer

Final Destination is BACK baby! Discussion at Empire. More of a clip than a trailer, starring Richard Harmon, Murphy from The 100, as a similarly unfortunate type. On the red band side.

V5 Empire 1.13

Note to self: look up how this Vampire: The Masquerade canon character died officially now that I’ve killed him in my game.

February

Made it. Feels weird.