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I was considering getting their RSS feed dragged through to Lemmy via:
I suppose major studios don’t want to invest in 4ks that won’t sell but with the attached names and awards this feels like a no-brainer. Apparently a boutique Blu-ray releaser has to step up but at least it gets it out there and there is now a 4k master available for other regions.
And one became the Death Star.
Without R2 ANH would have gone very differently.
Peel Port hammered in the post-Panamax port extension Liverpool 2 with no plan on how to deal with the extra traffic generated, they just punter the problem over to Highways England. Their solution was to bang a road through a park hoping that it being a former tip would make people not care so much. As the area has some of the worst health outcomes in the UK it was a pretty disastrous scheme. Good to see it knocked on the head and now Peel will have to clean their own mess up.
I met Ken and the other DotD leads, who each signed a DVD of my boxset.
What isn’t clear if he has been naked the whole time or just when they winkled him out.
“It was kind of like, as my wife was walking, they were kind of knocking back from under the house so she says, ‘you know something’s wrong’.”
Someone is probably already writing a horror movie about this as it’s creepy as fuck.
White. They’ll offer white chocolate alternatives to anything.
But today French finger-lovers are feeling decidedly cheated after discovering the biscuits have disappeared from supermarket shelves – and are unlikely to return.
“Give us back our Finger” ran the headline in Ouest France, France’s biggest selling daily newspaper, which lamented that Les Finger de Cadbury had been missing from supermarket shelves for months.
The material for Peter Kay’s next tour is practically writing itself. Flashback.
It may have some American actors in but it isn’t American media:
It’s a privilege to produce Italy’s first superhero franchise
As someone with a near complete set of Atlas, I endorse this move. :)
I’d be interested to see if modern creators could revamp the concepts but it does feel like an effort to mine IP not many people Remember and few of them do so fondly.
But really, most of these books were awful. I bought them under the “this is terrible, I must have more!” idea.
Yeah, I occasionally wonder if I should check out their titles (which didn’t make a big impact here) and then I read potted reviews like this and don’t bother.
The Library of Congress definitely has a print of Star Wars that was submitted in 1978. I think they also have Empire and Jedi but I’m not sure if they are the original editions.
My understanding is they have original copies stored but these are for legal/archival purposes and are not available to the public.
Apparently, one issue is not being able to price promotions on baby formula which has reduced competition and kept prices high.
I don’t know if it is being done but in medication specific formulations have codes so you can compare products (it highlights Nurofen’s rebranding and varying the price on identical painkillers) and that could work here. The news reports say parents go for the big name brands because they want guaranteed quality and something like that code system would help reassure parents that a cheaper brand is just as good.
in mini europe, brussels
Don’t we have to leave Mini Europe too because of Brexit.
The original thread the Telegraph draws from (why the article is rather “bitty”) and that has more photographs.
It has more weird information:
Soldatov attributes the ROC’s slide away from Orthodox tradition to the personal worldview of Patriarch Kirill, the church’s leader. He notes that Kirill was strongly influenced by esotericism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Kirill was friends with Russian faith healer Juna (Eugenia Davitashvili), who claimed to be able to cure cancer, heal broken bones, and prolong life beyond 100 years. He participated with Juna in spiritualistic sessions where she supposedly moved objects with her mind.
As Soldatov notes, Kirill’s decidedly heterodox influences have imprinted on the ROC “a peculiar mix of some Soviet ideas, late Soviet esotericism and individual elements of Christian rhetoric.”
So perhaps he’s been recruiting Librarians and other sanctioned psykers.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war
The question now is, how “far”. A bit like the main issue with Idiocracy is that it is set too far in the future.
The skin of your fingertip.
Somehow, Welby returned.
I am intrigued as to what the “historical artefact” is.