By Roy Mathur, on 2025-07-13, at 23:24:46 to 00:38:13 BST, for Captain Roy's Rusty Rocket Radio Show
2025 film in which YouTuber daredevil tries to help her climber best friend recover the loss of her boyfriend who fell on a climb by climbing a TV antenna. Nooo!
Drama, death, sacrifice, tragedy are great, but don't rewatch if your emotions are helter skelter.
2025 Amazon Prime Video film adaptation starrring Ice Cube as a DHS analyst witnessing and coordinating the fight against an alien invasion. Most of the action takes place on a computer screen, like John Cho's Searching.
Even with Ice Cube acting his socks off solo, selling the premise straight at the camera, it's an anaemic, unoriginal slog.
I'm watching the generally excellent films to boost my morale, though I won't bother you with reviews as I've done that in multiple past pods.
This is the nearest thing to a Jim Starlin's Dreadstar adaptation, something I've long awaited, but given the apocalyptic, and unrelenting tragedy of Dreadstar, perhaps that's for the best.
Come on, The Legendary Star-Lord...
Danny Boyle directs the Alex Garland script in this 2025 film. A boy on Lindisfarne, accessible only by a low tide causeway, takes his ailing mother to the zombie-infested mainland on a quest seeking a legendary healer.
Evolving zombies, a morbid conceptual artist, an annoying sailor, and kung fu proficient fans of a maniacal light entertainer in a silly bloodbath with a bit of pathos. No Cillian, Britain appears very white (are we're all dead?), late Brexit allegory, bad acting of clothed zombies at the beginning; improved later, and, unlike it's predecessors, it finally has the word "zombie" in the script. It is pretty, but fans of the original 28 Days Later or sequel 28 Weeks Later won't miss much if they skip it.
Anson Mount's idiotic, yet seemingly forgotten previous comments aside, Paramount+ 2025 season 3 is okay, but nothing special. We have a Gorn invasion, Q's Squire of Gothos-style wedding arranger kid, an away mission to a zombie planet for petals to save Patel, La'an in a holodeck cosy, and a demon prison.
Like a bad penny, Dexter turns up, survives to save his son Harrison, and work the NYC gig economy to flush out a rideshare killer. The big arc in this latest 2025 season is Dexter going undercover to wipe out Peter Dinklage's serial killer club, managed by Uma Thurman (an Umathurmanance after Suspicion?), where middle-aged D unrealistically attracts a young goth and meets a killer with an identity issue.
I've given up, but morbid curiosity drove me to see how the Mule, one of my favourite characters from the books is portrayed in Apple TV+ 2025 season 3, which is, unfortunately, devoid of mystery.
David Goyer, on the strength of his senselessly violent writing, would fail the psychopath test. I'm out!
2025 Disney+'s Iron Man TV spinoff about his successor isn't dramatic, I'm in no mood for slow burn, so I'm out.
FX 2024 series starring usually excellent Elizabeth Moss, sporting a dreadful English accent and an annoying Us zombie grin, as MI6 turning a Daesh commander. Please, no.
Entertaining BBC 2024 comedy whodunnit cosy, with David Mitchell as Ludwig, a crossword compiler, solving murders while posing undercover as his cop brother to investigate his disappearance.
Another BBC cosy from 2025, though not as good as Ludwig, this time with Timothy Spall as retired actor famous for playing a detective teaming up with a real cop to solve murders.
In 2013, physicist Brian Cox wrote and presented a BBC lecture at the Royal Institution.
There's the usual smug lovey back-slappery of a celeb audience, but it's worth it for Whovians.
I watched episode 2 about sorcerers, not, of course, because that I'm not into the other two, but that fantasy happened to appeal to me that night.
The BBC 2016 OU co-produced miniseries is a quick dip into genre and an anecdote about a fellow academic's irritation with Tolkien amused me.
Slow talky start to the final season 2 (ended July), sees Morbeus about to embark on a solo mission to rescue his ex he himself condemned to hell. Charmer.
The first two episodes of FX's 2025 Hulu Alien prequel series have just been released. The series is written and created by Noah Hawley of Legion (which I still haven't finished).
A Weyland-Yutani science vessel, carrying alien nasties including xenomorphs, crashes on an Earth island ruled by it's rival company, Prodigy. Terminally sick children, transferred to powerful synthetic android bodies, lead a rescue.
It has the gloomier feel of the first Alien movie, it is frightening, gory, and disorientating, as befits a series about a terrifying monster from the depths of space. The portrayal of the synthetics is influenced by Blade Runner and Terminator. Quibbles about acting choices aside---why are Sydney Chandler and Timothy Olyphant twitching mechanically, androids in the Alien universe never did that---it is very good.
Here we go again. After Davies' notorious "pause" comment, Gatiss weighed in during an interview with Prospect Magazine. He said, "It's been back for 20 years, which is an awfully long time. Almost as long as its original run. That's pretty spectacular. So maybe it's time for another rest. I really don't know. I only know that I still love the show with all my heart."
If he either has inside knowledge, or genuinely doesn't know, even if his heart is in the right place, I think it irresponsible to say that because he is in a position of power, thanks to acting and writing for New Who, Sherlock etc. He shouldn't speculate because those in charge of New Who production will use his credibility for their benefit, which may include shuttering Doctor Who and subjecting us fans to yet another unwelcome Wilderness Years gap.
While the Beeb stay schtum, we, fans and celebs, should try to speculate positively. Yes, Ncutis tenure wasn't great through no fault of his own and his statements regarding his departure are patently PR nonsense, but at least he didn't talk the show down.
My compliments to the Sherlock and Co. podcast regarding their 2024 adaptation of The Lion's Mane, whose Doyle original had a highly unethical animal murdering ending. This version turns that on its head and instead focuses on the beauty of marine life.
I always said no sponsors, but needs must...
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