It’s not just that they are bad at Star Wars, they have mishandled Marvel too. They went on an IP buying streak but seemed to have been far too focused on generating “content” rather than quality TV and films. However, at least Marvel has a showrunner:

After buying Lucasfilm from George Lucas in 2012, Disney relaunched Star Wars as a franchise trilogy in 2015 with director J.J. Abrams’ The Force Awakens. The film was an absolute blockbuster. Yet surprisingly — and, as it turned out, problematically — the studio did not have a firm creative plan for the next two films (at least, not one that was followed).

There were a number of mistakes made (including deciding to drop a Star Wars film a year) but this seems one of the biggest unforced errors. I still can’t work out what the thinking was there other than “the fans will lap up any old Star Wars so we don’t have to put any effort in”.

Always happy to see that The Ritual gets quite a lot of love on such lists.

I’m hopeful about:

• Nosferatu
• Gladiator 2
• Terrifier 3
• Heretic
• Timestalker
• Paddington in Peru *.The Wild Robot
• Platform 2
• Return to Silent Hill
• Superman
• Fantastic Four
• 28 Years Later
• The Monkey
• Saw XI

Quick! Buy a lottery ticket! The Gods are smiling on you today.

Perhaps there is a market for Hula Toobs?

I’d assume they fit the definition for non-identical twins.

It’s a phrase not the actual statistical likelihood of it happening. If they only know of a handful if cases then it is going to be in the billions not millions.

It’s not really something I bother noting, as most films do to some degree (although they can throw a curveball with a four act structure), so the cheap answer would be: horror anthologies.

Bit of an odd premise but it’s an interesting list in the end.

The Terrifier films, which follow the exploits of serial killer Art the Clown, have earned a reputation with viewers for the film’s extreme levels of violence and gore.

Only from people who haven’t seen many violent and gory films.

It’s nonsense (probably) but the report is worth a read for fun.

Previously:

• Wild claims King Charles ‘flew UFO to save lives’ in secret military mission - amusing but bobbins
• Documentary claims ‘paranormal library in Palace’ as Charles seeks ‘UFO truth’ - probably got some truth in as some of the royal family are interested in UFOs and the paranormal
• Prince Philip was ‘meant to meet an alien called Janus in a Chelsea flat’ - this is likely a pretty factual account

The article noted that Hopkins reported that he had received a letter from security agents - signed only Richard and Dan - who claimed to have seen a figure floating in the night sky.

In the note, they reportedly said ‘we can’t live with ourselves’ for not sharing what they saw.

Richard and Dan said they saw three ‘strange figures’ and a ‘young woman in a white gown’ floating through an apartment window and then transported to a UFO.

As per HiggyPop, a website dedicated to stories of paranormal activity, there have been suggests that political figure the bodyguards were protecting may have been Javier Perez de Cuéllar, the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the time.

However, he has never confirmed his involvement.

It would be a blockbuster case if the above was true but it’s not even possible to verify that the two agents actually exist.

Anyway, it’ll be interesting to see what ground they cover as the case gets pretty weird and convoluted which might be edited out.

No, this has been sitting in the shelf for years with no-one interested in releasing it, not until a high profile version was in the pipeline. I bet some people will watch this and think “well this isn’t up to Robert Eggers’ usual standard!”

I don’t think it is much of a spoiler to say they are flesh and blood, not some supernatural monster.

My Bloody Valentine.

I’m looking forward to this, it’s a pity it is on Netflix but still…

October 2nd: Shaun of the Dead (20th Anniversary) on the iSense screen (which is overkill but why not?) - one of my favourite films and it never gets old, you just get an increased appreciation for how tight the script is (the home video commentary track goes into this a lot), as well as the quality of the direction and the acting.

When big cats were banned as pets in the 1970s, it was legal to release them into the countryside to avoid expensive rehoming costs.

I’m doubtful this is true: “we’re making it illegal to keep large, dangerous animals as pets but it’s fine to just dump them in the countryside.”

Experts believe that owners from across the UK travelled to Wales to release their cats in to the remote environment.

I’d want a source for that.

Alternative headline: Brits not quite as fat as Yanks, and slightly less deluded about it

The numbers don’t make for great reading for either side of the Pond and there’s a lot of things we, as individuals, can do to help ourselves and free up NHS resources for those that can’t.