January 2024 News Round-Up (261)

The longest month of the year is finally over. It contained a long list of news and trailers to mull over. Join us for a bumper episode where we discuss the Oscar nominations, attractive movie/TV actors and whether it's Netlix's responsibility to feed the hungry.

Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Welcome to Bo Nicholson. His projects can be found on his Linktree. Aaron Billingham can be found on this very site. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter.

Show Notes

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TV Reviews

• Craig’s reviews of WandaVision
• Craig’s reviews of The Winchesters
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Prodigy
• Craig’s reviews of Star Trek: Picard

Movie Reviews

• Craig's review of Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
• Craig’s review of Sonic The Hedgehog
• Craig’s review of Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Craig’s review of Jurassic World: Dominion
• Craig’s review of A Quiet Place
• Craig’s review of A Quiet Place Part II
• Angus’ review of The Fate of the Furious
• Craig’s review of Fast & Furious 9
• Graeme’s review of Ghostbusters (2016)
• Craig’s review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Craig’s review of Mortal Kombat
• Craig’s review of Uncharted
• Graeme’s review of Happy Death Day
• Craig’s review of Happy Death Day 2 U
• Craig’s review of Star Trek Beyond
• Craig’s review of Shazam!
• Craig’s review of Shazam: Fury of the Gods
• Craig’s review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Craig’s review of Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
• Craig’s review of Aladdin
• Craig’s review of Thor: Ragnarok
• Craig’s review of Eternals
• Craig’s review of Thor: Love and Thunder
• Craig’s review of Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania
• Craig’s review of The Marvels
• Craig’s review of Warcraft: The Beginning
• Craig’s review of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Craig’s review of Dungeons and Dragons: Honour Among Thieves
• Craig’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Graeme’s review of Happy Death Day
• Craig’s review of Happy Death Day 2U
• Craig's review of The Man from U.N.C.L.E
• Graeme's review of King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
• Craig's review of Southpaw
• Craig's review of Point Break
• Craig's review of Boyhood
• Craig's review of Whiplash
• Craig's review of A Monster Calls
• Craig's review of Spectre
• Craig's review of Pixels
• Craig's review of The Danish Girl
• Craig's review of Hunt for the Wilderpeople
• Craig's review of Snowpiercer
• Craig's review of The Shape of Water
• Craig's review of How To Train Your Dragon 2
• Craig's review of How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
• Craig's review of the Martian
• Craig's review of Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
• Craig's review of The Giver

Podcasts

• The 200th podcast
• Craig's interview with Jim Krieg, Jeff Wamester and Butch Lukic for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
• Craig's interview with Nolan North for Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part 1
  
• Craig’s interview with Katherine McNamara
• Craig’s interview with Troy Baker
• WandaVision
• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek Into Darkness
• Star Trek Beyond
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – first podcast and second podcast
• Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Eternals
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania
• The Marvels
• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Star Trek: Picard season 1
• Star Trek: Picard season 2
• Star Trek: Picard season 3
• Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves

Trailers

• The First Omen
• Mickey’s Mouse Trap
• Lisa Frankenstein
• Abigail
• Air Force One Down
• The Gentlemen
• Road House
• Constellation
• Upgraded
• Hit Man
• Tuesday
• Stopmotion
• Immaculate
• Ripley
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Ricky Stanicky
• Monkey Man
• Spaceman
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• Arcane
• 3 Body Problem

News

• Steven Yeun no longer starring in Thunderbolts
• John Ridley scrapped Marvel series
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow potential casting
• Star Trek origin story movie in the works
• A Star Trek: Picard movie script in the works
• The Mandalorian and Grogu movie announced
• Ahsoka season 2 confirmed
• Millie Gibson leaving Doctor Who to be succeeded by Varada Sethu
• Oscar Nominations
• The Avengers reboot in the works
• Alice Lowe’s Timestalker
• John Krasinski and Natalie Portman to star in Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth
• Christopher Landon in talks to direct Werewolf movie Big Bad
• Jenna Ortega in talks to join Taika Waititi’s Klara and the Sun
• Honey Don’t
• Paul Mescal to play Shakespeare I'm Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet
• Jacob Elordi replacing Andrew Garfield in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein
• Gerard Butler reprising his role in the live-action How to Train Your Dragon
• 28 Years Later in the works
• The Last of Us season 2 casting
• Kate McKinnon and Jemaine Clement cast in Minecraft
• Until Dawn movie adaptation in the works
• Mortal Kombat 2 casting
• Julia Garner joins Leigh Whanell’s Wolf Man
• Gillian Anderson joins Tron: Ares
• Our Little Secret
• Aneurin Barnard, Hayley Atwell & Jack Lowden join Duncan Jones’ Rogue Trooper
• David Koepp writing new Jurassic World movie
• Fast 11 will go “back to basics”
• Jennifer Lopez to produce Bob the Builder movie

Misc

• The referenced video analysing Arcane's animation
• The Chinese 3 Body Problem adaptation
• Sam Witwer talking about Star Wars continuity
• The Uncharted fan film starring Nathan Fillion
• The College Humour The Sims trailer
• The college Humour Minesweeper trailer
• Aubrey Plaza and Jenna Ortega presenting an award
• Millie Gibson's Letterboxd
• Craig's "Grief and the Multiverse" article comparing Happy Death Day 2 U and Avengers: Endgame

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the “Jurassic Park theme” and his YouTube channel

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