shadowhive

November

Fics wrote: -
Books read: -
Games done: -
Podcast: Sheeple Chase - Coke-Conspirators, [Unreleased] Magnus Opus, Welcome To Night Vale - Locked Library Mystery, [Redacted] - False Start (part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3), post-mortem: false start, Skin, Welcome To Night Vale - How To Solve A Murder, [Redacted] - post-mortem: Skin, Shoeless Man
Who audios: -
Other Big Finish stuff: -
Comics read: Fantastic 4 5
Graphic novels read: -

Things watched
Amazon Prime: Perfect
Blu Ray: Doctor Who - Planet Of Evil, IT, Doctor Who - Pyramids Of Mars, The Android Invasion, Thanksgiving, Sonic The Hedgehog 3
DVD: -
Disney+: High Potential - The One That Got Away, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror X, Futurama - Murderoni, Hocus Pocus, Futurama - Crab Splatter, The Trouble With Truffles, The White Hole, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror XI, Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Simpsons - Treehouse Of Horror XII, Treehouse Of Horror XIII, Treehouse Of Horror XIV, Treehouse Of Horror XV, Treehouse Of Horror XVI
Netflix: Wednesday - Woe Thyself, Stranger Things - The Piggyback, Wednesday - Woe Me The Money, This Means Woe, Glass Onion, Stranger Things - The Crawl, The Vanishing Of Holly Wheeler, The Turnbow Trap, Sorcerer
Now tv: IT Welcome To Derry - Now You See It, The Great Swirling Apparatus Of Our Planet’s Function, 29 Neibolt Street
Shudder: Horror’s Greatest - Animal Attacks
YouTube: Nintendo - The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Direct, Pokopia extended trailer, Spy films - Eyedrop
Cinema: Frankenstein, Shelby Oaks, Keeper, Predator Badlands

So this is a late one, oops. I blame things being stressful/distracting. Which is also why there’s some things here that aren’t done.

But yeah November ended up being stressful so I lacked focus to read or fic which was irritating. (And this month is similar).

But having said that I did manage to finish some shows! The new Futurama season, season 2 of Wednesday and vol 1 of Stranger Things season 5. The last two have given me so many thoughts and Futurama is always fun to watch.

I need to get back to the Doctor Who run of season 13, I still have Brain Of Morbius and Seeds Of Doom to watch, both of which I’m looking forward to. And I’m glad to finally watch the Sonic 3 blu ray and finally seeing It (and Thanksgiving too).

And, of course, Frankenstein was a cinema highlight (if you haven’t go see it! It son Netflix now) and I also loved Predator Badlands so many.

With Shudder I started the second season of Horror’s Greatest, though honestly I’m not a fan of animal attack stuff. I guess it’s cause I’m an animal love I just don’t vibe with it. Having said that I think the wildest one was something about worms attacking people that looked so wild cause ??

And speaking of roundups…

Month 5: November 20th - December 20th
3: Wake Up Dead Man, Zootropolis 2
10: Five Nights At Freddie’s 2, Pillion

Month 5 of the cinema pass has just been two trips, but back to doubling up with them. I think my order of them is Zootropolis 2, Five Nights At Freddie’s 2, Wake Up Dead Man and Pillion. Though they are pretty close. (And Wake Up is technically the better film, but I’m more likely to rewatch Freddie’s)

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Last night I had hoped to do stuff, but after watching some things with mum and doing a little on ControlI ended up just getting absurdly tired. I think having mulled wine didn’t help, as it made my head a little hazy.

But right now I’m sat getting Midna cuddles which is good, then I can hopefully fic and do stuff later. (And it’s winterfest on Fortnite so hopefully the freebies this year are nice)

Tuesday was another library stint which ended up being tiring. Not cause of the library itself but mum. Last minute, after saying we’d not bring her, mum decided to bring Naryu as the ‘library dog’ which is fine, usually but Naryu got messy right before we got there so I had to take her back home (and she fought me every step cause it was me alone). So instead of walking there and resting I had to make the trip three times (and a fourth coming back) which just… ugh.

I did read the Stranger Things SFX article (just the main part, not the sections with the boys yet) which ahhh. I hadn’t intended to hold back reading it till after the season but any time I read the magazine (when travelling or at the hospital) I just read the short sections on other things. I’m so excite for the rest of the series. I also read another chapter of Halloween Party and it threw me off with the talk of computers and how they can cause bigger issues than people can. That was so surprising but so true.

Yesterday was the planned town trip, which was mostly to the cinema to see Wake Up Dead Man and Zootropolis 2. In between them (cause there was a gap) I went round town. I got the Hellfire Christmas sweater from Primark (it was on sale and I wasn’t sure if it was for Black Friday, but it’s not so yay! (here is what it looks like.) I also got the WQSK sweater, a hellfire bag (actually 2 by mistake, damnit), some nail polish and the stranger things body butter they have. I also went in bm and got two stranger things blind boxes (I am a bit annoyed pricing wasn’t on the shelves so they were more than I thought they would be) but I got Will and Vecna, and the Vecna seems to be special cause he’s clear red plastic instead of the image on the checklist.

But main thing was cinema.

I’m not gonna go over all the trailers, but there was something called the magic faraway tree which looks pretty good (though it has Andrew Garfield as a dad of children which feels wrong even though he’s probably old enough). There was also Moana and… I don’t get why making life action versions of animated stuff is so necessary but having said that it does, look really nice and I’ll probably see it.

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When I got home mum had, as she tends to do, messed around with stuff. I swear she does this because she’s left unattended so no one can stop her. It wouldn’t be so bad but the things she does are often things that are acknowledged to require two people and yet she does them alone (even when we agree to do things together she’ll start them when I’m doing uni stuff). And it’s just so… ugh. But I was too tired to be anything but annoyed.

(And we also had a repeat of the record player fixation, as The Mousetrap is coming to Birmingham so mum insisted on getting the tickets to it right away which just felt like a rush, especially since we’ve not got the Death On The Nile ones yet)

The new Doctor Who magazine had arrived while I was gone and I’ve not read it yet but it does have free art cards from the new show which look nice as well as an audio freebie (a download of Seas Of Titan, a ninth Doctor sea devil story I’ve wanted for awhile). A quick flick through shows it’s got a lot of Sea Devil/Silurian stuff which I’m excite to dive into. The War Between The Land And The Sea starts Sunday and my optimism about it has been pretty low (mostly cause of how the last season of Who ended up) so I feel it’ll either be awesome, will be good but then end badly or just irritate me. Which sucks, cause I love sea devils so you’d think I’d be excite to see them back in such a big way but… (I’m also not hyped by how the main one’s face is so… human. One of the whole point of the Silurians/sea devils was that they didn’t look human)

I also saw a game I’d been really interested in, called Viewfinder, had came to switch and with a huge launch discounted do I had to get it. I love perspective games like this so I’m glad I can play at some point.

Unfortunately I completely crashed. It was a mix tiredness due to the long day, depression which has been coming in waves lately and my weaker eye just aching like crazy to the point of annoyance. Ugh. The latter is still aching a bit this morning so hopefully it’s not an all day issue.

(November round up post is coming though… at some point.)

Edit: Ahh! The next Doctor Who boxset has been revelled! Season 21! So that’s the last of the fifth Doctor eps with loads of fun/cool looking special features.

Yesterday ended up, as I suspected after Monday, being a fairly lazy day. I didn’t do too much, just uni stuff and then flopping a bit.

It was the bake off finale and the result was predictable. (Mum wasn’t happy about that and thought one of the others deserved to win. Personally I thought having one person be star baker so often kinda took the fun out of it) Then we watched QI and I watched the Pokémon anime stream.

Last night though was odd. I just couldn’t settle and I dunno why. Maybe it’s cause there was a bit of a storm? But I dunno.

This morning I headed out to see Shelby Oaks. The trip to town was just to see the film so I went straight there. It’s a bit of a shame that this was the best time, every other showing was at about (or after) 8pm.

The trailers were the same as before (The Bone Temple, Keeper, Silent Night Deadly Night and Five Nights At Freddy’s 2) so you’ve already seen thoughts on them. However there was one I’d not seen and that was for Primate. And that is very much a no from me. It’s about a monkey that’s a member of a human family, only it goes feral and attacks people suddenly (seemingly cause something bit it). And, honestly, it just feels like it’ll be more upsetting than anything.

But anyway onto Shelby Oaks.

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Next cinema adventure will be… I dunno when. I do wanna try and see Predator Badlands and Keeper but I dunno when. (If it wasn’t for the Stranger Things cafe I’d see badlands when I’ve got my gig next week)

And speaking of my gig ahhh James Marriott won’t Rock Sound award AND HAS HIS OWN COVER, (though damn I missed the signed posters, why do I keep missing signed posters of his?)

Anyway.

After the film I had 25 minutes before the next train so I popped in the Asda across from the cinema. There wasn’t too much interesting but as I was heading out there was a small Halloween section. I got a Hellfire Club glass which looks cool, plus some bags (2 Starnger Things, 2 Nightmare Before Christmas) which were nice. And on the way home I went in the co-op I got a Pokémon magazine that had spooky Pokémon to paint.

Tonight I’m gonna watch Planet Of Evil, the next ep from the Doctor Who boxset, then tomorrow is the trip out which will no doubt be so tiring.

So today I ended up going to the cinema again. My original intent was to go and see Black Phone 2 and Paranorman, but I didn’t feel up to watching a second film (and felt there might be too much noise). There was a morning showing and an afternoon one, with the afternoon being my original intent but at the last minute I decided to go to the morning one.

That seemed a wise decision, because after rain yesterday (and rain forecast) today was a decent day. In town I just got a drink and then went to the cinema to see Black Phone 2.

Trailers were ones I had seen before: The Bone Temple, Keeper, Shelby Oaks and Fnaf 2. I’m planning on seeing 3/4 of them. Also there was a standee up for Frankenstein! Yay! And a poster for Shelby Oaks. My intent is to see both next week, but I’m really hoping my glasses are sorted by then.

Anyway! Thoughts on Black Phone 2 under the cut (though trying not to be too spoilery in case anyone wants to see it)

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After the film I had half an hour till the next train so I went to cex (to see if they had the IT films which the site said they did but alas I didn’t see them), the bank to put money in (I’m glad I did more on that soon) and smiths to get the new fantastic four.

On the train I used the net to send a message and bam! I got hit by news of 5 Seconds Of Summer doing a tour! This isn’t a surprise, preorders of the album on the uk site are meant to include a presale link, but ugh. First off yay! There’s a Birmingham date, but also boo presale is next week and it’s at the venue I saw Sleep Token.

Anyone around when I got the Sleep Token ticket will know that was insanely stressful and took forever. I should be able to get a ticket if I’m lucky (vip is likely out of the question though) but I’m really not looking forward to it.

(I guess it’s good I didn’t use those birthday voucher or got anything from the flying tiger Halloween sale)

Once I got back home I just flopped and dozed off, cause ugh I feel a cold has come on. It seems the net is back to acting up, disconnecting for a minute or two randomly and I dunno why. Blah.

I’m hoping tomorrow is a lazy day, cause Saturday is heading to the vet (hopefully Naryu will be fine and not need anything other than her jabs)

But now I’m just gonna flop some more and watch the new Taskmaster ep

After using my glasses for good chunk of yesterday it seems that my eyes can adjust to the smudge’s presence, which is good so that meant going today to the cinema.

I did kinda regret going this morning though cause ugh. There were a team of three ticket people on the train but not to check tickets they instead harassed people. The machine at the station wasn’t working and they just weren’t believing anyone or helping, so that was needlessly stressful.

In town I just went to the cinema and they had the cool Tron Ares cups that light up! They posted on their insta so I asked and the guy just gave me one saying it was free, nice!

Trailers were pretty much stuff I’d seen before though the Zootropolis one was new as was the Avatar one, plus there was the Predator one which looked like it might be interesting. However! The best one was seeing the Mandalorian and Grogu one on the big screen! Ahh I’m excite!

Thoughts on Zoopocalypse and Tron Ares under the cut.

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The rest of the night is gonna be spent flop and snuggling Midna (and watching Celebrity traitors). I might sort the Coheed ticket after noms.

Then tomorrow! That’s gonna be Pokémon release day yay! So I will likely be on that for the afternoon, then Taskmaster in the night.

Before I get to the cinema part, I headed to B and M to get mum mints and look for a lightbulb for the oven light (I couldn’t find them). What I did find was a lil Stranger Things display, so I got fruit roll ups, a demogorgon tin (with some kinda sweets inside) and pop tart things. Plus I got a drink thing that was a game and some dice.

(Plus I picked up a Hocus Pocus bag from Asda.)

Before I get into the films there was the trailers.

Keeper (x2): Why do people in horror things keep staying in cabins in the woods? Have they not seen *unrolls list of films why that’s a bad idea*? I have been curious of this cause the cinema has had a poster of it but this was the first time seeing the trailer and I’m kinda intrigued by it?
Shelby Oaks (x2): let’s go! I had hoped there’d be a Shelby Oaks trailer today and it was (like Keeper) for both things. It was the one I’d seen before, but more importantly it confirmed the uk release date of Halloween. I’m tempted to see it if the cinema does get it then (which it should! It’s just not listed)
Chainsaw Man: I’d seen two eps of Chainsaw man on a stream once and it looked pretty good. I’m kinda curious, but like the other recent anime film I fear I’d be too lost.
Black Phone 2: it was the new trailer, yipee!
Good Boy: this was my first time actually seeing the Good Boy trailer.
28 Years Later The Bone Temple: I’d not seen 28 years later, but this follow up trailer makes me kinda curious cause what the fuck is going on?
Five Nights At Freddie’s 2: I think up this was the newer trailer, confirming we get it December 5th

Now onto the films.

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I missed a train by a few minutes again but got the next one. Though I was so pissed. On the way home I realised I didn’t have the Hocus Pocus bag (which had the stranger things drinks/dice, a Star Wars cos baby of Fennec Shand, a Halloween choker and bat that I got from a closing Poundland). I’m so annoyed at myself and cause it’s so late I feel someone will just take it (after all there’s no one there to hand it in to). I’ll call in the morning just in case though but ugh. I’m so annoyed. I might be able to get some of the stuff later in the week but the cosbaby was the only one and the dice/drinks only had another one. Bah.

I’m gonna rest now, maybe watch something (or game).

Yesterday was the release of the new Rebuild The Galaxy series so I ended up watching it and it was really fun. The Lego Star Wars shows are always really great and fun, and this was no exception. It was really cool to see Pirate Queen Amidala and to have the Skywalker family altogether which you really couldn’t have anywhere else. I watched all four eps (the first 3 in one go, the last one at night) and I’m glad I did.

At times though it did feel a little… product placements. Like there were the big K-2SO, droideka and most prominently Chewie. Plus there was the new Death Star set shown off. Having said that it did make me wish there was more than one set down specifically based on it. Not that I’d know what but it would be nice to have Jaxxon and pirate Queen Amidala.

I also did some more Silksong and the bell beast battle was so much harder than the first boss fight. I died so many times damnit but at least I beat it and now he’s my friend.

In the night, after debating what to do, I watched the new Ghost Files which was fun, though so funny to have Ryan say daddy so often. (And even as he said it he knew it would be clipped like crazy)

This morning I had a delivery, which ended up being the last issue of Dungeons And Dragons Adventurer. Now I’ll have to sort them out (along with the many MANY dice sets). I wish I was able to use the stuff in them though.

Today was the trip out so off I went to town. I made a few stops, including getting a pumpkin kit and bat bag from the works, some cute pins from a Pokémon card shop (that I didn’t know was even there??) and picking up a copy of SFX. I did go in B and M and it’s infuriating that it has two whole aisles of Christmas stuff and only half of one for Halloween. What the fuck is the world coming to?? I did see they had void series stranger things figures, but just Hopper and Eleven. (Does anyone know if there’s a list of the figures? I can’t seem to find one and wanna know if there’s one of my boys to hunt down?) The bm site said they have other Stranger Things stuff but I didn’t see them alas.

It’s sad that town only has one place that has new dvds and blu rays, Asda, which is utterly useless. I didn’t expect there to have Clown In A Cornfield but it’s still sad they didn’t.

I did manage to go in the art gallery which was nice. I didn’t know there were two more floors and one is impressively high ceilinged with an exhibit called shelter which was mostly nice. There’s even tours of it so might look into them. There was also the exhibit mentioned in the fest which was so random, it included metal sculptures and even prosthetic wound make up.

And ahh I looked to see about the tours and they’re doing some Halloween crafts! To make lil bats and pumpkin art.

(Also there’s a scare maze coming to town too which I didn’t know would be a thing there?)

The trailers for today’s stuff were mostly kids stuff (bar the last two) but most did look pretty good.
The Cat In The Hat: This looks like it’ll be really fun, it’s bright and colourful and I feel I’ll definitely see this.
SpongeBob: I had heard there was a SpongeBob film coming. I’ve not seen any SpongeBob stuff in ages but this feels like I remember it.
Zootopia 2: looks like it could be fun, I do really enjoy the first one. I have been guilty of not watching Disney stuff in cinemas cause it comes to Disney + but with the pass I might see it.
Pets On A Train: I’d not heard of this one but it did look pretty good, with a train being hijacked and the titular pets trying to stop it.
Night Of The Zoopocalypse: I’d seen a poster of this and was curious. It does look pretty good though, with something turning zoo animals into zombie like things.
Hamilton: Yeah that surprised me to be there too. Apparently it’s getting a cinema release, with a reunion of the cast too? I’ve never seen it personally but if there’s any Hamilton enjoyers look out for it
The Golden Spurtle: this is a documentary about the world porridge making contest. Yeah I didn’t know this was a thing either

Bad Guys 2 was a lot of fun so I’m glad I got to see it cause I didn’t expect to. I saw the first film on tv earlier in the year and that was fun and this one was too. (Ok I mostly went for Mr Wolf, but have you seen him?) It’s mostly a fun caper film though the last part is set in space cause of a wild plan (using mcguffinite to make a magnet for gold and attaching it to a strangely empty space station to steal all the worlds gold). The last scene did feel like set up for a sequel (as did the mid credits scene) so I do hope it gets one.

Also the art style is so great, it’s bright and pretty and the effects look so great. Plus everyone just bounced off each other so well, you can tell they had a fun time.

After that was Thunderbirds which ahh! Thunderbirds was a show I grew up with as a kid (which, of course was a rerun since it originally came out in 1965). I dunno if non-uk people know of it, but it’s about a group called International Rescue who save people from various disasters. And it’s all done with puppets and model work. The models are absolutely incredible and still hold up even all these years later.

This was a 4K re-release of two episodes, Trapped In The Sky and Terror In New York City. The first makes sense cause it’s the first ep of the show, the second is the 4th ep.

Trapped In The Sky is about a plane (the very cool looking Fireflash) that has a bomb in its landing gear which means it can’t land. The rescue here really shows off how awesome the model work is, from the Fireflash itself to all the airport rescue vehicles to the radio controlled things used to help it land.

It is funny though that the Fireflash is able to fly for 6 months because of its atomic reactor… but that same reactor means the people on board would get hit by a fatal dose of radiation in a matter of hours if not serviced, which seems like a pretty big design flaw!

The second ep has the navy shoot down one of the Thunderbirds (cause it didn’t even bother to give the unidentified craft a chance to identify itself!) which means it’s unable to be used for the main rescue. Said rescue is certainly a crazy one. There’s redevelopment in New York and they have decided to move the Empire State Building. (Yep move the whole thing in one go) naturally it goes badly due to underground streams causing subsidence, trapping two news crew as the whole building collapses, rending the whole thing moot.

I do wonder if this was chosen cause it gave thunderbird 4 a chance to shine (which didn’t happen too often!) though it could be that it was done because it had a lot of awesome model work again. As bizarre a concept as it is, it was all incredible well done and you have to admit it’s an original idea.

It has made ime wanna get the fancy boxset of the series that’s coming later in the year, and to find something with cutaways if the ships/locations. I feel I had one as a kid but who knows where it might be.

As I was leaving they were setting up a new promo thing for the Black Phone 2, which looked like the phone booth from the trailer, which is pretty cool. I’ll have to get a pic when I next go. Alas I missed the train by 2 minutes, but cause everything was shut (and it was starting to rain) I just stayed at the station and read some of the SFX reviews.

I’m back from my cinema adventure so now it’s post time.

Before that, last night I decided to watch The Conjuring. The new film made me curious cause I’d not seen them before. I saw the first two were on Netflix, so I decided to watch it. My thoughts on it? It was pretty good. I mean it is a haunted house film so it does play out much like you’d expect. There’s a creepy basement, a child makes an invisible friend, someone gets possessed and they have to perform an exorcism. (The poor cute dog dies😭) It hits all the tropes, but it does them well. And also there’s a creepy doll which for some reason the ghost from the house can communicate with? I can tell why Annabelle got a spin off cause that thing looks creepy but also… why would anyone have that in their house??

Today I had weird manic energy in the morning (as evidenced in the spooky season post. Thankfully the weather was good so I headed to town.

First main stop was Tesco and I handed the UFB in. They asked if I wanted to be notified, so I should get a letter at some point. But they both let me have a new one and refunded me as well which was nice.

I got the new Fantastic 4 comic from there, a Minecraft magazine (cause it had a cool torch) and they had one of the new Lego Animal Crossing sets reduced so I got it. It’s Goldie’s Cozy house which is a tiny house with just Goldie. I might build it up later, if not then tomorrow. I also got the meal deal cause I was there and it was ok, though they had Fanta bottles with the horror icons on! Fruit twist had the grabber so that’s the one I got.

When I came out it was raining so I sheltered in a charity shop, got a lil bandana for Naryu (and a book for mums friend). Then I went in smyths. I’d seen they had the Byers House Funko bitty set back in stock so I picked that up cause it’s cute. (I have no other bittys I might have to get them) and I got a lil thing with Jack from Nightmare before Christmas in a coffin. They also had, though too high to reach, Shadow as a buccaneer which I didn’t know was a thing and I want. I mean look at him,

I then went to the cinema. I had forgot my phone cause I charged it (oops) but thankfully I had the email with the code still.

The trailers for both films were mostly uninteresting, though I did see in the Tron Ares one Evan Peters. I knew he was I. It I just didn’t know what role he was playing.

Now thoughts on films, Honey Don’t and Jaws.

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There’s a maker festival in town Saturday and I picked something up about it to look at one the train. I had been considering going, but I saw there’s gonna be some of the robots from robot wars there! That makes me super curious so I might go, unless another storm hits.

This is gonna be another film post, since the past few days have been watching stuff.

I did hope to watch The Loved Ones Saturday but I didn’t manage it cause my eyes and focus were too off. I did watch the next Agatha Christie’s Marple, At Bertram’s Hotel. I recognised a name in the credits but couldn’t place her so I looked it up between the parts and it turned out to be the original Mon Mothma from Return Of The Jedi (and somehow mum recognised her too which is wild cause of how different she looked).

(Though yay new 5 Seconds Of Summer got teased again, though I didn’t watch Micheal’s veep stream cause it felt too much and the timing was off)

Sunday though was a big watch things day. I finished the new Phineas And Ferb which were really fun.im glad more are coming though and I might have to rewatch some.

I always watched the next Wednesday ep, which was Woe What A Night, most notable for her dancing which… was a thing. I still love Tyler the cute barista guy. (Is the guy shirtless and collared in the season 2 trailer. I wanna know what the deal is there??) but yeah it was a good ep though ugh I hate those jerksass bullies.

There there was the first of 3 films. Section 31.

I’d been curious about it cause the trailer looked good and I did love Michelle Yeoh’s Georgiou. It was meant to be a series, but then ended up being a film instead. Overall it was pretty good. After a flashback to the Terran empire (who has a battle royale/hunger games thing to decide emperors) it goes into the present with the main story. It is ‘split’ into three parts, which makes it feel episodic even though it’s all the same thing. Overall it is pretty good, I did like the team she was paired with though I did wish we got to know them a bit more. But at the same time it did feel it played things ‘safe’ in places. Like section 31 don’t do anything really immoral, plus a few twists can be seen coming. It was funny that there was a voiceover art the start and I was so sure I recognised her voice and, sure enough I did and it was Jamie Lee Curtis. Wild.

I do wonder if there’ll be a follow up cause there is potential there, though I feel there won’t be.

Then there was The Loved Ones which was an absolutely crazy time. Brent is so cute and I could see why Lola went for him, though damn I felt so bad for him. (And the self harm scars…) It goes a few places I didn’t expect (the basement, the dane, the mom) plus there was the contrast of Brent going through the horrors while it cut to his friend having his best night. Kudos to the film makers though, we love films where boys are in pain.

Today I was gonna go and see Weapons, but I almost didn’t, cause as I was getting ready to leave mum decided to start an argument so I missed the train I was hoping to catch. Thankfully I got the next one, though it meant I couldn’t pick up a drink or anything.

The trailers for films were mostly ones I’d seen before (The Black Phone 2, Him), new ones of things I’d seen before (The Conjuring, The Long Walk) and there were 2 completely new ones, The Toxic Avenger which looks like it could be fun though I dunno if I’ll go to the limited run of it and the strangers chapter 2 which looked pretty good though I’ve not seen the first.

I’m not gonna say much about the film itself. It’s one I think it’s best to see blind, but I thought it was really great and I was glad to see it. It fits a lot of things I like, it’s an investigating type horror (especially at the start) and it’s also like The Grudge where you have sections following individual characters and they intersect. But I won’t say more than that.

I will say I was surprised when I saw it was rated 18… until the two scenes which are clearly responsible.

I’d say if you watched the trailers and were in any way intruiged go and see it and avoid spoilers.

I had considered seeing Freakier Friday too, but decided not to. Both cause my mindset was a bit off but also because it feels like Weapons isn’t a film you’d wanna make a double bill of (if that makes sense) which I did suspect. So instead I just went in the big Tesco (I got the nee sfx, a chibi drawing book and some colouring pencils. I’ve not even opened the sfx cause it’s Wednesday centric and I sense I’ll see spoilers (or Tyler? Shirtless and collared and get distracted).

So since Wednesday is the end of the first month of having the cinema pass (since I’m not gonna be going tomorrow) that means with the first month I’ve watched:
*Fantastic 4 First Steps
*I Know What You Did Last Summer
*Superman
*Mystery film - Together
*Weapons

Without the pass I’d probably have seen two of those, First Steps and Superman so I have seen more films already than I would have without it. And I am glad I’ve seen them all as they’ve all been pretty good in their own ways. (My fav is probably Fantastic Four)

For the second month I dunno how many I’ll see, mostly cause the coming soon for the month isn’t fully up. However there IS another mystery film next week so I’m hoping to see that with Freakier Friday. (I’m less sure what this mystery film is cause it’s 18 and there’s not an 18 rated film in the coming soon section other than the toxic avenger and I suspect it’s not that.) K-Pop Demon Hunters is getting a cinema this weekend but I’m not sure if I will see it. I am tempted to see the Jaws showing, plus there’s gonna be Thunderbirds next month and I’m definitely going to see that (though it does come out on the third month’s first day).

I said this before too but what’s with October 17th? Now there’s a fourth thing happening that day. Netflix are gonna have a cinema showing for Frankenstein (the new one with Oscar Isaac) and I hope the cinema gets it and it’s not just a nighttime showing.

Now though I’m just gonna flop a bit and maybe fic later depending on my brain.

So the last post I mentioned sorting out the cinema a pass and I was gonna go either today or tomorrow (depending on weather and mood) and I ended up going today. Yipee!

But before I comment on that, I decided last night to check the local cinema last night (the one I usually go to) just to see and… they’re not getting Fantastic 4 till next week at the earliest. Like ???? That’s baffling to me. Sometimes they have had films later than release (like Smile and Sinners) but I never thought they’d do that with a marvel. It makes me glad I got the pass.

So I had a few options today. Fantastic 4 had multiple showings but I was between 10 and 11:45. Then I had the option of either just seeing it or seeing I Know What You Did Last Summer (which had a 12:20 and 3 showing). I didn’t know what I’d go for until this morning. (Mostly cause the weather has been dicey and the forecast said rain was possible)

So I went to the 10 showing of Fantastic 4 and then the 12:20 showing of I Know What You Did Last Summer right after.ten I spent half an hour around town, picking bits mum wanted and got the new SFX and the Starburst Star Wars Episode III issue (that I was sure was out of stores by now). I had hope to get How It Works but I didn’t see it so it was probably tucked away somewhere.

But anyway! Before I go onto the films proper here’s the trailers

The trailers attached to Fantastic 4: First Steps
Odyssey - Honestly I was surprised to see this. I’d heard there was a trailer out but didn’t expect to see it. It doesn’t show too much but honestly? It makes me wanna see it.
Avatar Fire And Ash - It looks really impressive and beautiful but at the same time I’ve not seen the second and I know it would be depressing. In the sense of ‘here’s this beautiful world and here’s humans that wanna trash it again’.
Tron ares - the same trailer I’d seen before, it does look pretty cool though (Evan Peters is apparently in it so I’m curious if he’s in it a lot)
Naked gun - this feels like it was mostly the last trailer of it I saw but there was a few new things. It does look really funny. I might ask mum if she wants to see it when we go to town.

The trailers for I Know What You Did Last Summer
The Long Walk - This is one of those things that looks like it’ll be well done but…. Honestly I hate the concept of it.
Conjuring Last Rites - Honestly I’m not sure if I’ve seen a Conjuring film. I feel I have at some point but I’m not sure. But this did look like it’s really good
Together - Same trailer as before
Bring her back - I’m not sure what to make of this but at least there’s a cute guy
Weapons - I read it was something to do with kids so I didn’t look more into it. But honestly? The trailer left me intrigued. Since I’ve got the pass I may go and see it.

It wouldn’t surprise me if one of those were the mystery film in a few weeks (there’s also one at the end of the month, also a horror film!) but I know there’s a preview showing of Bring Her Back.

Speaking of the mystery film I’m hoping to see Superman before it, but if it’s not showing then (I’ll know next week) I might go and see it next week instead.

But anyway! Film thoughts. Obviously it’s the first day and this may have spoilers so please avoid if you’re avoiding them! However if you are going to see there is a mid credits scene and there’s also a small thing at the end of the credits (though only the mid credits one is important).

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Has anyone seen either I’m curious what other people thought.

And now non film thoughts, well non these films anyway.

It’s comic con and yesterday there was already interesting things.
*The Lego Game Boy got revealed and it has a Link’s Awakening cart and screens!
*A new V/H/S is coming this year! V/H/S - Halloween and that title alone makes me hyped. I hope there’s a trailer soon
*Theres a Stranger Things dnd thing themed on the campaign Eddie is running which sounds so cool
*I jus saw the new FNAF film trailer has been posted so I’ll watch soon

Also yay I finished a fic! So hopefully that block has shifted. I do need to find a copy of The Loved Ones from somewhere for research though.

And Hell Of A Summer is finally on Amazon prime, alas it’s a paid thing so hopefully there’ll be one of those discount things they put out randomly.

There was also Pokémon Presents Tuesday which, as always is most eh. But there was a trailer of the new Aardman show (of course featuring Wooloo) and some info on ZA which looks so good! Also there’s a new sexy guy and, for some reason, a team flare person working as a researcher with team flare logos just… right there which is kinda?? And there’s a mega dragonite which is cute.