Remember last year when we showed you the progress of a group of friends who were building a full-scale replica of the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars? At the time it was mostly smaller pieces of various sections of the ship, with a good amount of the cockpit completed.

Fast forward to now and Chris Lee, Greg Dietrich, and friends are still far from completing the full Falcon. But much work has been done on the aforementioned cockpit—so much so that they were able to bring it to the Geek Media Expo in Nashville to show off. While there (and unbeknownst to them), Hodor (Kristian Nairn) and Irri (Amrita Acharia) from HBO’s Game of Thrones stopped by and took a picture inside the Millennium Falcon. You can see the image below!

Today, November 5, 2013, sees the release of Lita Ford‘s new release The Bitch Is Back…Live, a 12-song live album recorded at a show at Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, CA in early October 2012, available now on CD and MP3. The CD is an “AutoRip,” which means with your physical copy, you’ll also get a FREE MP3 download of the entire album.

If you want to check out the album right now, Yahoo! Music is streaming all 12 songs online for free! Check out the audio embed of the album here below and take a listen.

Things did not go so well for the first standalone Wolverine movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. But this year’s sequel, The Wolverine, fared much better, scoring decent ratings and a respectable $413.5 million worldwide at the box office.

Thanks to this success, 20th Century Fox has entered into negotiations with both star Hugh Jackman to return as the popular Marvel antihero and title character, and also The Wolverine director James Mangold to return for another installment in the franchise.

12 Years a Slave
Director: Steve McQueen
Screenwriter: John Ridley
Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Rated R | 134 Minutes
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Directed by Steve McQueen (Hunger, Shame), 12 Years a Slave is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical memoir by Solomon Northup, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery.

Written by John Ridley (U Turn), 12 Years a Slave stars Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men) as Northup, a free black man living with his wife and children in Saratoga, New York. Northup is a respected member of the community there, earning a living as a masterful violin player.

He is kidnapped by a pair of men (Scoot McNairy and Taran Killam), drugged, and sold into bondage. In chains, Northup (now called “Platt”) is transported to Washington D.C. where he is purchased by slave owner William Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch).

Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods
Directed by: Shin Misawa
Series Composition by: Hiroshi Yamaguchi
Voice cast: Hisako Kanemoto, Shinichiro Miki, Ami Koshimizu, Ayumi Fujimura, Chinatsu Akasaki, Hirofumi Nojima, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kensho Ono, Tomokazu Seki, Tomokazu Sugita, Toshihiko Seki
Diomedea
Air Dates: Sundays, 12:30 p.m. CST
Currently streaming on Crunchyroll

Okay, confession time: I love slice-of-life anime. I have a big soft spot for this particular sub-genre, and when I first started watching Gingitsune: Messenger Fox of the Gods, I fell in love right away. Currently simulcasting on Crunchyroll every Sunday afternoon, the series is directed by Shin Misawa, whose previous work includes such series as 801 T.T.S. Airbats and the television version of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure. The series is produced by anime studio Diomedea, whose diverse list of production chores include Hidamari Sketch, Aria the Scarlet Ammo, and Fairy Tail, among many others.

The series is based on a manga created by artist Sayori Ochiai and tells the story of the day-to-day life of Makoto Saeki, who is the fifteenth successor of her family’s Inari shrine. The shrine has been in existence since the early years of the Edo period, roughly dating from the early 17th century. Makoto’s mother died while she was still a little girl, and it is at her mother’s funeral that she first meets the series’ other main protagonist, the shrine’s guardian “kitsune,” or fox herald, Gintaro.