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Here’s a trailer for the latest attempt at a Hellboy movie:

I love this character, and I’m all-in for as many Hellboy movies as they want to make.  (This is the fourth movie and the third iteration.)  But is there an audience for this?  I hope so.  It’s weird the trailer doesn’t do any explaining of who and what Hellboy is, for newbies.  Are they assuming everyone knows?  I hope the movie is good.  I like that they’re leaning into the horror aspects (as opposed to the superhero aspects) with this latest reboot attempt.  I’m interested and hoping for the best.

This trailer is way too long (I only watched the first two minutes), but I am excited for this documentary about the late Christopher Reeve, called Super/Man:

I’m intrigued by this trailer for the animated Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim film:

I don’t love the anime style, but with Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and Fran Walsh involved, I’ll definitely give this a chance.

This looks like it could be fun: Wolfs, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, directed by Jon Watts (who directed the last three Spider-Man MCU films):

I am very excited to read that a fourth season of Ted Lasso might be in the works.  I hope that happens!  I love that show and desperately want more.  (Also, I wasn’t wild on where everything was left at the end of season three.)

Click here for a lovely spotlight on Girls5Eva.  I love this show!!  Go watch it if you haven’t seen it!

Almost immediately after I posted my review of The Acolyte came news that the show had been cancelled.  That’s a shame.  It feels like all the online haters won.  (What haters?  The internet trolls who object to any Star Wars show featuring characters who aren’t white and male, the ones who review-bombed the show and slung all sorts of mud at the cast and crew.)  The show wasn’t perfect, but I enjoyed it, and I hate to see this story cut off without being finished.  I’m shocked Lucasfilm couldn’t have at least given show-runner Leslye Headland one more season to wrap everything up (rather than the two additional seasons she’d said in interviews she was hoping for).  Or do a soft reboot and make one more season with a different title!  Pretty much all the main characters were dead by the end of the first season, so a soft reboot would have been easy to do!  Sigh.  The cancellation makes the whole thing feel like a waste of time, which is a shame and feels like a big missed opportunity to me.

I’m excited for the potential of Marvel’s Vision Quest show that’s in-development (finally circling back to what happened to the white Vision at the end of WandaVision), now that Picard season 3 showrunner Terry Matalas is at the helm.  I am psyched that James Spader is returning as Ultron (reprising his role from Avengers: Age of Ultron), and also that Mr. Matalas’ go-to guy Todd Stashwick will also be on the show!  (Mr. Stashwick was terrific as Captain Shaw on Picard season three.)

I’m bummed that Netflix has cancelled Dead Boy Detectives after just one season.  I guess I’m part of the problem, because while I was looking forward to that show (set in the Sandman universe), I haven’t found time to watch it yet.

I didn’t much like any of the Jurassic World movies, so I’m not that excited for news about a return to that universe.  Are readers more excited than I am about this news that Scarlett Johansson has been cast?

I’m happy that Only Murders in the Building has been renewed for a fifth season.

Click here for an interesting, in-depth interview with writer/director Mike Flanagan.  I loved his film adaptation of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, and I’m excited my the news that he’s working on The Dark Tower.  I hope that actually happens, someday!

A Reacher spin-off show, focused on investigator Frances Neagley, is in the works.  That makes sense; I like Maria Sten’s work as that character, and I was happy she got more screen time in Reacher season two.  (Though I’d prefer if, instead of working on a spin-off, the Reacher team used their time to make more episodes of the original show, with Ms. Sten’s involvement.  The super-slow pace of most streaming shows these days, waiting two years for eight episodes, is crazy to me.)

Speaking of long waits for streaming shows, Peacemaker season two is finally, actually happening!!  Though we won’t see it for some time yet.  (Apparently not until after the release of James Gunn’s Superman movie.)

It’s pretty wild to me that George R.R. Martin chose to publicly criticize the House of the Dragon TV show, in a pissed-off blog he wrote and then deleted (though of course it lives on around the internet).  I haven’t found time to watch the second season of House of the Dragon yet.  I was lukewarm on season one, but I do intend to watch season two when I can.

Wow, Apple TV+ has released a three and a half hour director’s cut of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon!  I’d commented in my review that, when watching the movie, it felt to me like a lot of stuff had been cut out, and I wondered if we’d see a director’s cut someday.  That’s cool that Apple TV+ has gone ahead and released this alternate version.  Though I don’t know when I’m ever going to find four hours to watch this thing…

I’m excited to read that Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg is working on a new show for Netflix: Long Story Short.

We’ve had some sad losses of great actors recently.  I was very bummed to read that Jimmy Darren had passed away.  Mr. Darren had a long and illustrious career, but of course I will love him forever for his incredible work as Vic Fontaine on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

And of course I was sad to read of the passing of James Earl Jones.  Mr. Jones was, of course, the voice of Darth Vader — and also Mufasa — but he was such an amazing actor in so many films.  That voice.  I think I love him best for his work as James Greer in The Hunt For Red October.  (His delivery of “and I was never here” is a stone cold classic.)

I was also sad to read that comic book artist John Cassaday had passed away at only 52.  Mr. Cassaday illustrated Warren Ellis’ Planetary and Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men, among many many other amazing works of artistic genius.

I loved The Naboo Movie, a live-reading of the script for Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace by an incredible group of actors and comedians.  Click here to read my review and click here to watch it.  That gang is back with a sequel: The Kamino Kaper, a live-reading of the script for Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones.  It’s a little long, but it’s very, very funny.  If you liked The Naboo Movie, don’t miss this!  You can watch it right now:

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