Is M really short for Colonel Mustard?

Controversy in the world of board games sounds like a storm in a teacup, but when Hasbro updated Clue (the UK and Ireland are the only places where is still called Cluedo) last year from a tale of murder in an Christie style English country manor in the 1940s to a mansion on the Hollywood Hills filed with starlets and celebrities there was a (small) kerfuffel. Well expect a shout. And a way for Hasbro to squeeze money out of its players after the game is sold. By the way, I’m pretty sure I should be mucking this up with tm and copyright notices, shall we just assume that they are there for legibility? OK? In the new Hasbro game CLUE : Secrets and Spies, only available in the US for what will soon be obvious reasons, all the characters have become a but younger, sexier and the political correctness … There’s more

Movie News 17/03/09

Reportedly Rihanna is in talks to remake The Bodyguard. The only good thing about this is that it might help wash away the memory of the awful original. God, I hate Keven Costner… (I wonder will Chris Brown be considered for the part of the bodyguard) Sam Jackson has signed on to play Nick Fury again. Not once, not twice, not thrice, but 9 more times. He will don the eye patch again for more cameos in Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America, The Avengers, some more sequels and for the lead in S.H.I.E.L.D. I mentioned it before on my own blog that Ridley Scott is planning a movie based on the board game Monopoly, but now Gore Verbinski is planning a film version of Cluedo. I guess it makes more sense than Monopoly - at least the murder mystery plot is easy to grasp than a plot where a … There’s more