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Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure

Prepare thyselves: everyone’s favourite slackers Bill and Ted are set to make their grand return to the big screen. As announced at the Cannes Film Festival in France, Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are going to reprise their roles in a new adventure, titled Bill & Ted Face The Music. According to Deadline, the film will depict the buddies as “middle-aged men and underachievers” who, despite having written thousands of songs, fi nd they have ultimately failed in their desperate quest to save the world. This time around, the dudes will be taking their daughters along with them – one can only imagine that’ll lead to a hilarious pratfall or two. Oh, and excitingly, the film’s script will be written by the franchise’s original creators Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, with the film directed by Dean Parisot. “We couldn’t be more excited to get the whole band back together again. Chris and Ed wrote an amazing script, and with Dean at the helm, we’ve got a dream team” said the actors on the new film.

COMP THIS

A 16-year-old kid from Concord, California has been arrested and charged with a whopping 14 felony counts for hacking into his school’s intranet system and changing a bunch of grades. Needless to say, this is some wholesome ’90s TV show shit – a high school student outsmarting the technologically-challenged teaching staff and bumping his and his friends’ grades up. A+ for effort. This is how he did it: he sent a bunch of emails to all his teachers with a link. The link, should the teachers click it, sent them to a website he built, which mirrored the design of the school’s portal, and prompted them to enter their username and password. Brilliant so far, except a lot of teachers smelled a hack, and forwarded these emails to local cops. One trusting teacher did not smell a hack, and instead did enter their details; the kid had access to the hallowed Mount Diablo Unified School District IT network and bam! He went on a grade-changing spree, which included adjusting “ten to 15” students’ grades. Cowabunga, right? Needless to say, this basically happened in an early ’90s episode of Beverly Hills 90210 when Steve Sanders used his “freshman buddy” – who was a geek and therefore understood the intricacies of computer hacking – to change his grades in the school’s computer system.

DO YOU REALIZE???

Although they seem more likely to release their own strain of weed or tabs of acid, The Flaming Lips have teamed with a U.S. brewery to create a brand new beer. Not surprisingly, the beer is wrapped in a suitablypsychedelic label, and will be named Dragons and YumYums, because why not? Coyne admits he isn’t a beer drinker – “It just fills me up too much” – but he enjoys this one: “Sometimes I’ll taste a beer and I’ll think that someone has poured, like, a ginger ale into in, and I’m like, ‘That’s not right! I kind of like beer to just taste like beer, you know? But I think the beer they’ve made for us is a really great-tasting beer, and I was actually surprised at how much I liked it. I think it’s great – and I think a lot of beer people would agree with me.”

GETTING A LITTLE HAIRY

The Simpsons

Baldness is a curse that besets millions of people around the globe; it’s a troubling, anxiety-inducing ailment that even young ‘uns live in constant dread of. But, excitingly, there is new fresh hope for bald people, with English researchers stumbling across what could very well be a potential cure. As SBS reports, researchers from The University of Manchester have discovered that a drug used to treat osteoporosis may hold the key to hair regrowth. While Cyclosporine A (CsA) is usually used to treat autoimmune diseases and suppress transplant rejection, the research team discovered that CsA inhibits a protein which usually restricts the growth of hair follicles. However, as CNBC notes, hair growth was one of the few positive side effects of the drug, causing project leader Dr. Nathan Hawkshaw to keep on looking for more options. Now, after plenty more research, Hawkshaw has happened upon another compound which achieves the same results without the unwanted side effects. Named ‘WAY-316606’, the scientists hope this could be the answer many have searched for.

HE’S PICKLE RICK

Rick And Morty

One of pop culture’s most acclaimed and intelligent cornerstone shows, Rick And Morty, has been picked up by its network Adult Swim for another 70 episodes. The news came in the form of a video from show creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, depicting the pair in the shower and promising rabid fans that they’d get back to work soon. This comes after the show earned the highest ratings of any comedy in 2017, making it the best rated series in Adult Swim history. Harmon tweeted back in March that the show hadn’t been renewed, saying, “On one hand, it can be challenging, especially with crippling lazy alcoholism, to write a show that hasn’t been ordered by a network.” Fans took to the platform to urge Adult Swim and Netflix to get their acts together in renewing the hit show. While no expect release dates have been revealed so far, one nifty Redditor has pointed out that we could potentially see new episodes as early as Christmas.