This week we hit the wall with gaming exhaustion at it’s most incomprehensible before finding our happy place. We start by getting elbow deep in the strange puzzle combination of Puyo Puyo Tetris, the cute-yet-gothic puzzle-platformer A Rose in the Twilight, and indie roguelike action-platform game Toy Odyssey:The Lost and […]
Month: May 2017
Keyframe 77 – The Quagmire of Looney Tunes
S14E14 – Iggle Piggle’s Army of War Drones
Another week, another odd episode title that defies all sense of reason or logic. It’s a theme that’s continued throughout the show as we discuss electoral Snapchat, pirates, London trains, prison drones, KitKat’s, xenomorphs, Russia (twice), and social realism for clowns. It’s a mad, mad, mad world and we just […]
Cinema Eclectica 113 – Neat Bourbons with Michael Fasshugger
Mulholland Drive (2001) It’s no wonder David Lynch’s work inspires such devotion (Review)
“Nah, you’re not thinkin’. You’re too busy being a smart-alec to be thinkin’” The Cowboy If you’ve never seen David Lynch’s 2001 Cannes Best Director winner Mulholland Drive, it’s probably worth stopping reading and buying Studio Canal’s new Blu-Ray restoration right now. That’s normally the kind of recommendation critics save […]
4-Panel 87 – Dr Manhattan’s Neon Elephant
Cinema Eclectica 112 – The Frasier Crane of Brain Eating Monsters
PX15 – Guardians of the Lego Kingdom
Controversial opinions and sandwich conspiracies ahoy on this latest episode of Press X. On the gaming side of things (that is what we’re all about after all), our bounty includes a load of LEGO (Worlds and City: Undercover), the strange Japanese school-based visual novel stylings of Danganronpa, the latest Telltale […]
Literary Loitering 64 – Death By Weaponised Hairpiece
This week we’ve got a kid’s book award, Stephen King versus Donald Trump, the lesser spotted LaBeouf, Stephen King versus James Patterson (again), fried chicken and crayons. Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all the latest news, discussions and reviews, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Audioboom […]
Madame De… (1953) Much more satisfying than high-society glitz and melancholy (Review)
If you know anything about the German director Max Ophüls, you probably know Stanley Kubrick’s famous quote to the effect that his camera could pass through walls. Watching the BFI’s new sumptuous restoration of 1953’s Madame de…, one of his final films, it’s easy to see what Stanley meant. James […]