Two firsts for me:

Detective Pikachu. Good, not as weird as I was hoping the trailers hinted at, with decent looking Pokemon (though I may not be the best judge having seen nothing else of them) and entertaining family fun.

Went to London Comic Con yesterday, my first time at a con. Had a blast in the comic village area where I picked up some reads from creators new to me to hopefully get into (there was no way i could resist a comic called “The Dog With Magical Farts” or one about the creation of an AI from it’s point of view) as well…

Yes, you are correct. There are only 3 Indiana Jones movies.

Unable to watch Eurovision I listened to it on the radio. It’s not even half as fun.

Thank you for confirming that. I feel an unexpectedly large amount of relief about this!

That wasn’t quite what I had in mind about Loki, it sounds much more fun!

2nd time seening Endgame, in 3D this time.

With regards to the two Nebulas, the transmission wasn’t back through time. It happens while “good” Nebula is in the past. As to how, someone (I think Thanos?) sees that infomation is coming into the network Nebula is hooked up to from a second source while torturing/questioning “bad” Nebula. I think it’s easy too assu…

The odd thing is I’ve only seen 5, maybe 6, episodes of the show, but somehow the guy got stuck in my head. As you say he’s been around long enough that I should have seen him in something else but all I recall is Luthor in Smallville and in this film, where he plays a rich head of a company named for himself who is ha…

Shazam! The opening threw me for a bit. I was expecting the lighter hearted tone of the trailer from the start, but it was a nice bit of setup to mirror later on with Billy. Really enjoyed it. The kids were good, Chuck made for a believable teen in adult superhero body, and it’s fun! Also enjoyed seeing Lionel Luthor…

Saw Us Friday night. More fun than I thought a horror movie could be. Not sure the premise bears close scrutiny, but feel that examining that is missing the woods for the trees. Besides, i was swept up in Lupita Nyong’o’s perfomance and terrified by how tough her character’s kids are! Definitely need to watch Get Out…

I have a soft spot for Rincewind because the first Discworld books I read were his but I have to say the later books he featured in like Lost Continent and Interesting Times never made much of an impression on me and are always on the list of Pratchett’s books that I forget when listing which ones I’ve read. I'm wonder…

Picked up the Geoff Johns and John Romita Jr. Superman trade The Men Of Tomorrow because it was cheap and I’ve been intrigued by ideas from Johns’ GL run, like the multiple corps battling each other, that I’ve heard of in passing although never read as I’m not a fan of Hal Jordan. So this seemed like a way to get a bet…

Just finished Salvation by Peter F. Hamilton. At just over 500 pages it’s one of his smaller bricks of sci-fi, although I’ve no idea how many there will eventually be in the series, and it’s off to a cracking start. It’s his usual setup of post, or near to, post scarcity capitalist society, which I enjoy as a counter p…

Your description of the scene where Carol finds out about her life as “flat” is exactly how I found the whole movie.

I had no idea about Love, Death+ Robots or that there were going to be any adaptations of Alastair Reynolds work and now I see there are two in this one series! So excited to see its had good reviews. Damn it, have to get Netflix now don’t I!

Would you say the director’s cut offers up anything worthwhile to someone who feels much the same as you about Watchmen but has only seen the theatrical release?

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu. At the beginning I was fascinated and horrified by Ye Wenjie’s experience of the Cultural Revolution. It has the ring of truth despite being fiction - caveat being my very limited knowledge of Chinese history. Finding out how her story becomes this increasingly out there Science fic…

Watched Justice League. It’s not awful.