Oyako Donburi (Japanese Chicken Egg Rice Bowl)
In this latest edition of the Scream franchise co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett and screenwriters James Vanderbilt and Guy Busick move the mayhem that is Ghostface from fictional Woodsboro, California, to New York City. And on a long Halloween weekend at that.
In this visually imaginative but dramatically flat third instalment in their joint screen adventures, romantically linked superheroes Ant-Man, aka Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), and The Wasp, alias Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), become the victims of a dangerous experiment.
It’s appropriate that the follow-up Black Panther: Wakanda Forever – like its predecessor, a Marvel Comics-derived epic – opens with a farewell to Boseman’s King T’Challa, sovereign of the imaginary African nation of the title, before continuing the story of other important characters from the kick-off.
A chance encounter in June 2022 with John McLoughlin, proprietor of McLoughlin Books in Westport, County Mayo led UNDA Professor Tom Brett on an interesting journey of discovery about the life and times of his uncle, Brother Ignatius Hannick of the Oblate of Mary Immaculate Order.