The Origin (seen at a film festival, on release later in the year) - survival horror about a tribe of early modern humans being hunted by... something. It's very well-researched, with the director tapping survival experts, linguists and archaeologists to realistically portray our ancestors.

The whole film's in a fictional language, loosely based on a Basque dialect that's apparently the oldest living language in the world. There's a neat twist towards the end that kind of reflects the broader Original Sin of how homo sapiens came to dominate the world. Very enjoyable both as a historical document and a simple horror/thriller film.

Missed opportunity to turn the hat upside down and get a photo of the kitten inside it, smh.

What I find fascinating is that every single tour since 2001 there have been people complaining that:

1) Axl is looking heftier than last time omg he is fat
2) Axl's voice has gone omg mickey mouse lol
3) omg what is Axl wearing he looks like a clown lol

It happened when he took his shirt off for Paradise City at RIR 2001 (and I don't think he's ever done that since, he was clearly stung by the reaction). It happened with the hockey jerseys and braids in 2002 ("lol he's hiding the pounds under the baggy shirts"). It happened in 2006, it happened in 2010, it happened in 2016, 2017, and beyond.

And every single time a few years later you get people comparing the tour to the "glory days" of the last one, or the last-but-one, and saying that Axl's lost it. Often it's the same bloody people who were complaining about the last tour.

So: "OMG 2022 Axl is fat and has lost his voice, if only he looked/sounded like he did in 2016 at the (cherry-picked) Houston show."

In five years we'll get a reappraisal of 2022 Axl, I guarantee it.

That bit where he came out solo and won over the hostile Download crowd with his Don't Cry solo was incredible.