November 2023 News Round-Up(257)

November is over but there was plenty of news and trailers to chew over. The conversation covers rom-com scenarios, cancel culture and biopics about terrible people

Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter or on his website.

Show Notes TV reviews

• Craig's review of Doctor Who - "The Star Beast"
• Craig's review of Doctor Who - "Wild Blue Yonder"
• Craig’s reviews of What If…?
• Craig’s reviews of Hawkeye
• Craig’s reviews of Ms. Marvel
• Craig’s reviews of “Crisis on Infinite Earths”

Movie Reviews

• Craig's review of The Marvels
• Craig's review of Avengers: Age of Ultron
• Craig's review of Thor: Ragnarok
• Craig's review of Thor: Love and Thunder
• Craig's review of Logan
• Craig's review of Mad Max: Fury Road
• Craig's review of The Maze Runner
• Craig's review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
• Craig’s review of Kong: Skull Island
• Craig’s review of Totally Killer
• Graeme’s review of Ghostbusters
• Craig’s review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife
• Craig’s review of Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Craig’s review of Army of the Dead
• Craig's review of Zack Snyder's Justice League
• Craig’s review of The Flash
• Craig's review of Catwoman: Hunted
• Craig’s review of The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• Craig's review of Uncharted
• Craig's review of Prey
• Craig's review of Pacific Rim: Uprising
• Craig’s review of Tetris
• Craig’s review of Fall
• Craig’s review of It Follows
• Craig’s review of A Quiet Place
• Craig’s review of A Quiet Place Part II
• Graeme’s review of Happy Death Day
• Craig’s review of Happy Death Day 2U

Podcasts

• The Marvels
• Thor: Ragnarok
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Doctor Who - "The Day of the Doctor"
• Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
• Man of Steel
• Zack Snyder's Justice League
• The Flash
• What If…?
• Hawkeye
• Pacific Rim: Uprising
• Craig's review of Transformers: Age of Extinction
• “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – first podcast and second podcast
• Our Alien Day coverage

Trailers

• The Fall Guy
• Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
• Ultraman Rising
• Inside Out 2
• The Garfield Movie
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Mean Girls
• Damsel
• Imaginary
• Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
• Anyone But You
• Lift
• Dead Boy Detectives
• Pokémon Concierge
• Merry Little Batman
• Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
• Percy Jackson and the Olympians
• Ted (teaser)
• Ted (full trailer)
• Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire
• What If…?
• Echo
• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• The End We Start From
• Justice League: Crisis

News

• Marvel possibly backing away from Kang
• Destin Daniel Cretton exits Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
• Michael Waldron to write Avengers: The Kang Dynasty
• Spider-Man 4 will merge the SPUM universe into the MCU
• Pedro Pascal in talks to play Reed Richards
• Tom Holland talks Spider-Man 4
• Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow finds its writer
• Maria Gabriela De Faria cast in Superman: Legacy
• Jimmy Olsen and Eve Tessmacher cast in Superman: Legacy
• Nicholas Hoult cast as Lex Luthor in Superman: Legacy
• Coyote Vs. Acme shopped to other studios
• Darren Aronofsky’s Elon Musk biopic
• The Legend of Zelda movie
• Sydney Sweeney and Vanessa Kirby join Eden
• Frozen 4 in the works
• Frozen 3 and 4 to be one story
• Idris Elba to co-direct Above the Below
• Two Fall sequels greenlit
• Douglas is Cancelled
• Creed 4 in the works
• They Follow
• Barbenheimer
• Dave Filoni promoted to Lucasfilm Chief Creative Officer
• Melissa Barrera fired from Scream VII
• Scream VII producers explain reasons
• Melissa Barrera discusses being fired from Scream VII
• Jenna Ortega leaves Scream VII
• Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team up for Karate Kid film
• Tim Miller to direct Alien Legion adaptation
• Timothy Olyphant joins Noah Hawley’s Alien series
• Cailee Spaeny confirms when Alien: Romulus is set
• Giancarlo Esposito joins Please Don’t Feed the Children
• Sebastian Stan to plan Donald Trump

Misc

• "Garfield Minus Garfield"
• The ScreenCrush breakdown of the What If...? season 2 trailer
• IGN's April Fool Zelda trailer
• The Game Theorists video on how to survive It Follows
• The recoloured The Killing Joke trailer
• Drew Gooden's video about Star Wars
• Taika Waititi and Tessa Thompson mocking the Thor: Love and Thunder visual effects

Music

• Niall Stenson’s cover of the “Marvel Music“, the "Superman theme" and his YouTube channel

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