Notices by 💿 🎬 John 🎬 💿 (ukfilmnerd@mastodon.me.uk)

Happy Aliens day everyone! What am I on about? The film Alien and it's sequel, Aliens, take place on the planet LV-426. Geddit? 426, 26th April. Oh never mind.

Anyway, that massive 4 hour plus Aliens documentary, Aliens: Expanded, is releasing a special edition with the raw interviews (edited for repetition) included as a bonus. 12 hours of interviews!

Aliens: Expanded – Collector’s Edition Announced & Now Available To Order

https://www.avpgalaxy.net/2025/04/26/aliens-expanded-collectors-edition-announced-now-available-to-order/

I have nothing to add to this toot. A film based on a shop. Ok.

Toys R Us is becoming a movie, as Hollywood continues to champion massive companies

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/toys-r-us-is-becoming-a-movie-as-hollywood-continues-to-champion-massive-companies/

@jacklaridian @Esoteria Here's some trivia I learnt decades ago that won't leave my head. If I remember correctly, the drummer was fired from the band halfway through the shoot for this video.
That's why he doesn't appear in the second half.

Ooh. Hello!

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | Official Trailer (2025 Movie) - Tom Cruise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsQgc9pCyDU

Interesting Switch 2 tidbits.

If you aren't a Nintendo Online subscriber, to upgrade your copies of either Zelda titles, will cost you just $9.99 a piece.
The Switch 2 Welcome Tour, a title which walks you around your new console and highlights how it works, will also be $9.99. That feels weird because it really looks like something that should come with the Switch 2 for free. I mean, Sony gives all PS5 owners Astrobot to showcase the system. (Different to the game released in September '24)

Yay! Sucks to be you AI! 😁

YouTube demonetises fake, AI-generated film trailers

https://filmstories.co.uk/news/youtube-demonetises-fake-ai-generated-film-trailers/

Wow! A five hour livestream to announce the cast of the next Avengers movie. Bloody hell Marvel, wot you playing at?

Avengers: Doomsday | Marvel’s five-hour chair video was a mind-numbing show of arrogance
https://filmstories.co.uk/news/avengers-doomsday-marvels-five-hour-chair-video-was-a-mind-numbing-show-of-arrogance/

The reviews are starting to come in for Netflix's latest sci-fi film The Electric State. A bit of trivia, the budget apparently came out as $320m. 😮

Anyway, apparently, the story has been toned down from the original book to be more family friendly.

The two reviews I've skimmed so far basically say, pretty to look at but ultimately a boring film with nothing new.

Oh dear.

@theamazingjaper After Black Adam, does anyone want the Rock near a superhero film again?

Trump is a [insert your own favourite expletives here. As many as you like!]

#USPol #Trump

An anonymous Marvel spokesman has said they didn't use AI to create the Fantastic Four posters.

Must be true then. Case closed.

😆

Looks nice, loving the car as well.

FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS | Official Teaser Trailer (2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIzjKmfdKMo

@jacklaridian Sorry, I get a bit theatrical at times. I'll keep it simple. 👍🏻🙂

You know how humans breathe out carbon dioxide? Could we help the planet by somehow transporting all the MAGA lot to another one?

I only ask because today I heard that some of them are attacking the latest Marvel film, Captain America: Brave New World.

Why? Sigh. Sam Wilson, a black man, is the new Captain America. Some MAGA lot are claiming this is simply Disney pandering to DEI.

How do you restart life and change timelines?

🤣

Goodbye, USA - #BrokenNews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGpAIBc754

So Switch 2, larger and more powerful, obviously. Will I get one? (This is where I go old and bitter 😂) If it's just the same legacy games again with a single number increment (Mario Kart 9, Mario Party 11?, Links Next Big Adventure) and a load of JRPGs, probably not.

If it's backwards compatible with original Switch games, I wonder if they will allow the better hardware to improve performance.

Anyway, April 4th is quite a way of yet.

Unbelievable! Who plays games just to enjoy them any more?

There is a Woke Content Detector on Steam.

This page reviews games and warns its, 8000+ followers what's included in terms of content.

Out of just over 1500 reviewed, only just under 400 are recommended.

This is for MS Flight Sim 2024!

“Contains overtly pro-DEI and subtly pro-LGBTQ+ messaging. Uses unlabled presets during character customization. Despite White males being ~90% of pilots, the presets are overwhelmingly POC.”

#theskeletoncrew continues to be very entertaining. I know I keep referencing the Goonies because that's the general vibe, especially episode 5 to 6, but it also had one scene that felt incredibly ET-y as well.

With just one episode left (assuming it's an eight episode run), I really hope the last episode can pull off the story climax.

I have a crazy theory about Jude Law's character and if it's that, I'll be disappointed.

Jude Law's character is really a nice Jedi who's been tasked with testing out the security for the mint/planet.

I can't see how else it pans out unless he really is a pirate but it's the force powers that sway me to my theory.

Remember the poster from yesterday? Here's the trailer for “In the Lost Lands”.

To be honest, it looks like typical Paul W. S. Anderson stuff. I'll give it a watch at home.

It's nice to see some of the compositing is as good as the poster. 🤭

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMyrp5Vk3mU