Nerd Alert! Suicide Squad gets the royal treatment; Poe & Finn get a love song

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IF YOU'RE ANYTHING like me (and count your lucky stars if you're not), Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" will forever bring to mind that scene in Wayne's World. You know the scene I'm talking about. The one with "Bohemian Rhapsody". Right? Anyhow, the folks behind Suicide Squad seem to be hoping that you'll forget all that and associate the song with Deadshot, Harley Quinn, and all the rest. The film's trailer has a prison break, explosions, the Joker, more explosions, and, yes, "Bohemian Rhapsody". Which will probably make you think of Wayne's World, if you're anything like me.

The David Ayer–directed Suicide Squad stars Will Smith, Margot Robbie, and Jared Leto, and it is slated to open in August.

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WE GOT OUR FIRST look at the forthcoming Wonder Woman movie this week thanks to The CW. (The video is below, and it comes with a KEVIN SMITH WARNING.) It looks very grey, dark, and depressing! Fun fact: Wonder Woman is one of DC's longest-running superheroes (est. 1941), and yet she's never had her own movie up until now, unless the widely panned 2011 TV movie starring Adrianne Palicki counts. (It doesn't.) We'll have to wait until 2017 to see Wonder Woman, but we'll be seeing Gal Gadot as Diana Prince in Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in March. And let's not kid ourselves, that's going to be an absolute piece of shit. But Gadot looks great in the costume!

REMEMBER WHEN "CYBERPUNK" was a thing? Is cyberpunk still a thing? I have no idea, but the folks at Netflix seem to think so, since they've ordered a 10-episode series based on Richard K. Morgan's 2002 futuristic cyberpunk detective novel Altered Carbon. Confession: I haven't read it, but it won a Philip K. Dick Award, so it's probably pretty good. Judging by the cover (and the whole "futuristic cyberpunk detective" angle), there's a bit of a Blade Runner vibe happening, which explains why the Dick folks would like it.

WHAT STAR WARS NEEDS NOW is love, sweet love. Or so say advocates of various relationships (or simply "ships" in fan parlance). The most popular ship seems to be the one between ex-Stormtrooper Finn (John Boyega) and hotshot Resistance X-Wing jockey Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac). Aren't they adorbs? 

In Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Finn borrows Poe's jacket. When he offers to return it later in the film, the pilot tells him "Keep it. It suits you." And thus a million memes were born, and also a song by Kirby Krackle, the aptly titled "It Suits You", which you can stream below. In my mind, the Finn/Poe dynamic is more of a hetero bromance, especially considering that Rey clearly has Finn crushing harder than a Death Star trash compactor. But what do I know? Personally, I ship Maz Kanata (if she's even still alive) and Chewbacca. Sure they're different species, and there's a rather significant size difference between the lumbering Wookiee and the little whatever-the-hell-she-is. Even so, the heart wants what the heart wants.