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Superman writer-director James Gunn has cast his Ma Kent. After it was announced that Pruitt Taylor Vince would be playing Jonathan Kent, it's been revealed that Neva Howell has been cast in the role of Martha.

Per TheWrap, Neva Howell will play Ma Kent alongside Pruitt's Pa Kent in Superman, the new Dcu film set to hit theaters in July 2025. Howell has previously appeared in movies like Fever Dreams, Logan Lucky, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. She also had roles in the TV shows The Originals, The Resident, and Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide.

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A bunch of updates today, most of which were supposed to go up over the weekend:

There is a new BSG site in town: Battlestar Galactica Filming Locations. It's a pretty thorough guide to all the places seen in the show's four seasons and two films, and very handy for anyone planning a trip to Vancouver, along with Visit Caprica. Check it out at BattlestarLocations.com.

On TV tonight: Richard Harmon tweets that his episode of Clue airs tonight. That's 8 pm Et on the Hub TV Network. You can watch the series trailer on YouTube.

Yesterday's episode of Glee, "Mash Off," was directed by Eric Stoltz. Fox has released a couple of new behind-the-scenes clips today (embedded & linked below).

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The jagged, blurry snippets of past scary events involving a car crash while driving drunk -- seemingly going on around-the-clock in the mind of the enigmatic lead -- are all-too-obvious clues that things are not as clear as they seem in the two-bit potboiler "Blackwoods".

A woeful nonplayer at the boxoffice, the Velocity Entertainment release, directed by Uwe Boll, will be banished to the rental/retail hinterlands as one of countless low-grade studies of cinematic psychos.

In a less-than-hypnotizing, herky-jerky jumble of scenes and memories, "Blackwoods" makes one quickly leery of writer Matt Patrick Muldoon), who is preparing to go on a trip to meet his girlfriend's family outside the safe confines of the city. Every few minutes hit with flashbacks -- that for the audience become a regular and eventually boring jolt to the senses -- Matt heads off in a Dodge convertible with young and frisky Dawn (Keegan Connor Tracy).

After a few pit stops and an intimidating encounter on a lonely road with gruff Sheriff Harding (Michael Pare), Matt and Dawn don't quite make it to her family's place in the "Blackwoods", so they check into the gloomy Yellow Rose Motel, run by bozo-haired eccentric Greg (Clint Howard). After some energetic lovemaking, Dawn goes out for a walk, while Matt hides when a man with an ax comes into the room. But the Mystery Man disappears and Dawn never comes back.

Soon enough, Matt finds where Dawn's family lives and goes to investigate. He is promptly made captive and put on trial by Dawn and her family -- including dictatorial Pa (Matthew Walker), revengeful Ma (Janet Wright) and two berserker brothers (Ben Derrick, Sean Campbell) -- for the death of her sister in the drunk-driving accident seen many times leading up to its revelation here, and replayed again a few times for good measure.

But who exactly did sloshed-on-wine Matt run into on a slick road while speeding, smoking a cigarette and changing his radio? It appears his old girlfriend (Sarah Deakins) -- seen in many of the flashbacks as the one who can't stop him from driving off -- was right. Matt is a big loser in the game of life and doesn't seem to know it. Unfortunately the filmmakers forgot to make his "Beautiful Mind"-like meltdown a halfway engaging trip.

The performers have only serviceable dialogue to work with, and the production values are similarly backwoodsy.

BLACKWOODS

Velocity Entertainment

Boll KG, Shavick Entertainment, Cine Media

Credits: Director: Uwe Boll

Screenwriter: Robert Dean Klein

Producer: Shawn Williamson

Executive producers: Wolfgang Herold, Philip Selkirk, Uwe Boll

Director of photography: Mathias Neumann

Production designer: Jason Sutherland

Editor: David Richardson

Costume designer: M. Livingstone

Music: Reinhard Besser

Casting: Katy Wallin

Cast:

Matt: Patrick Muldoon

Dawn: Keegan Connor Tracy

Sheriff Harding: Michael Pare

Greg the Motel Clerk: Clint Howard

Johnny: Ben Derrick

Jack: Sean Campbell

Sarah: Sarah Deakins

Running time -- 92 minutes

MPAA rating: R...