That’s right ‘Grabbers. It’s another Juno post. This time though, Uncle John’s got a little something different than the usual praise or backlash piece. After much consideration, I have realized that writer Diablo Cody is not a real person.

I got to see Juno back at the tail end of November and liked it well enough. It is a cute movie, it knows it’s a cute movie and since being cute seems to be its chief ambition, I find it hard to heap either serious praise or scorn on it. At the time though, something about Juno seemed very familiar. Something about the overt nostalgia evoked by its suburban pastoral setting, its color palette, its costuming, twee soundtrack, and 80s pop culture references seemed to recall something very specific. Some person…

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Despite the (rightfully) tenuous status of the $100m+ comedy, Universal is adapting of Land of the Lost. The big-screen version will star Will Ferrell and a large number of Sleestaks. (Or is the plural still Sleestak? Not sure on that one.)

Eric Bana will play Uhura in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek. Wait, I'm sorry — he'll play the villain.

Terminator will be back, in the first film of a trilogy set in the post-apocalyptic future seen briefly in the original films. The budget, as Variety memorably puts it, will be. . . "event-sized." Arguably, no Terminator has been great since the first one, but if you have to do it, one request: bring back Eddie Furlong!

Videogame art director Jerry O'Flaherty will direct the film adaptation of Thundercats. The best thing to ever come out of Thundercats is this map. Top that, O'Flaherty.

— Peter Smith