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Tarkov's Nikita Buyanov wants you miserable in space: 14 minutes of Fragmentary Order gameplay, Prime Batch from $44.99. Same inventory anxiety, new planet to lose your favourite rifle on. sfcrowsnest.info/fragmentary… #FragmentaryOrder #Tarkov

Prime Video's Criminal teaser: Charlie Hunnam plans heists with no guns, Emilia Clarke and Luke Evans ride along, and Brubaker & Phillips's noir finally gets a show that leaves the cape at home. Two parts, Jan 2027. sfcrowsnest.info/criminal-pr… @PrimeVideo #Criminal #Noir

Azrael gets the cowl and the nineties get the pouches: Batman: Knightfall Part 2: Knightquest hits digital and disc 15 December. Bane broke Batman's back; Bruce hired the worst possible temp. sfcrowsnest.info/batman-knig… @WBHomeEnt #Batman #Knightfall

Thirty years on the case and Ray Gunn finally has a full trailer. Brad Bird's dieselpunk PI hits US cinemas 4 December, Netflix on the 18th. Sam Rockwell's on the case; Tom Waits has one eye and the rent book. sfcrowsnest.info/ray-gunn-fu… @Netflix @Skydance #RayGunn

Everything is working as Intended - how about with you? youtu.be/Z6_ENp_fO_Y

Flame on, Ken: Nicolas Cage just handed Ryan Gosling the Ghost Rider keys with a shrug and a smile. Most restrained Cage performance on record — bike's due July 2028. sfcrowsnest.info/nicolas-cag… @MarvelStudios #GhostRider #MCU

Happy 85th to Kill 'Em All Tomino, father of Gundam and accidental founder of a plastic-kit economy. Few birthday cards come with thousands of strangers holding up little plastic robots. sfcrowsnest.info/yoshiyuki-t… @GUNDAM_INFO #Gundam #Tomino

Vision meets Nope: Paul Bettany and Steven Yeun lead Pagans, Netflix's supernatural family drama where the charismatic stranger after a tragedy is never the new piano tuner. sfcrowsnest.info/pagans-netf… @netflix #Pagans #folkhorror

A documentary crew went to BioWare to film a studio history. Then EA switched the lights off. Massive Effect: The BioWare Story heads for festivals next year with rather more ending than planned. sfcrowsnest.info/massive-eff… @bioware @EA @masseffect #MassEffect

Keep your head: Nicholas Galitzine is in final talks to play Ichabod Crane opposite Sydney Sweeney in Sony's steamy Sleepy Hollow remake, Hollow. Irving's scarecrow never looked so gym-ready. sfcrowsnest.info/hollow-nich… @SonyPictures @nickgalitzine @sydney_sweeney #Hollow

Stephen's new Substack column is up: An Old Man Yells at Anime. A fortnight of Nest headlines he only partly understands, home news, and one thoroughly unimpressed cat. sfcrowsnest.substack.com/p/a… #anime #Substack

DC's lighting another Silk Cut: Francis Galluppi (Evil Dead Wrath) is writing a fresh John Constantine movie. No cast yet, so Keanu's sequel can keep lurking in the fog a bit longer. sfcrowsnest.info/john-consta… @DCOfficial #Constantine #Hellblazer

Farewell to Steve Davidson (1958–2026), who revived Amazing Stories in 2012 and saw it to its 100th birthday. Once one of paintball's all-time top players, he then took on something braver: pulp publishing. Thank you, Steve. sfcrowsnest.info/steve-david… #AmazingStories #scifi

Death by spreadsheet: Teo Yoo climbs a Japan-ruled Manhattan tower in Lionsgate's Karoshi. Ikigai means a reason for living. The staff turnover suggests otherwise. Out 5 Feb 2027. sfcrowsnest.info/karoshi-tra… @Lionsgate @actorteoyoo @TakashiDoscher #Karoshi

Halloween's over, but nobody told America's sofas. Flanagan's Carrie is No. 2 on Nielsen's streaming chart and Crystal Lake enters at No. 4. Carrie's been renewed, raising the delicate question of what you do after the prom. sfcrowsnest.info/carrie-crys… @PrimeVideo @peacock #horror

Dune: Part Three reportedly runs 151 minutes, the shortest of Villeneuve's trilogy. For a saga that measures time in generations of selective breeding, that's practically a trailer. The spice must flow, but faster. sfcrowsnest.info/dune-part-t… @dunemovie #DuneMovie #DunePartThree

Stranger Things' Maya Hawke is the first big name in Legendary's Magic: The Gathering movie. Her role is secret, and nobody's said which colour she plays, which is the question Magic fans really care about. sfcrowsnest.info/maya-hawke-… @wizards_magic @Hasbro #MTG

Split-screen week for British fantasy: Sarah J. Maas sold 188,914 copies of A Court of Splintered Harmony in five days, a UK record, and China Miéville won the Goldsmiths with 1,200-plus pages. Sturdy shelves all round. sfcrowsnest.info/sarah-j-maa… @SJMaas @BloomsburyBooks #ACOTAR

Holy puppet strings! Mason Thames will voice Dick Grayson in DC's Dynamic Duo, a stop-motion and live-puppetry hybrid about the first two Robins. In 86 years Robin's been a sidekick, Nightwing and a Titan, never a puppet. Until now. sfcrowsnest.info/dynamic-duo… @DCOfficial #Robin