How scared are you of the internet? Not as scared as you will be after Off the Shelf takes a look at Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s technophobic J-horror classic “Pulse”. Elsewhere, Ryan continues his quest for a good ghost story with “The Entity”, and Graham reviews four movies in one with Cult […]
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4-Panel 98 – We Need More Crumpet!
We’re back for another go on the comic-book carousel, and this week there’s the possibility of Captain Britain appearing in the MCU (maybe), the Hitchcockian influence in The Batman, a live-action Superman: Red Son, the trailer for The Inhumans TV series, and the announcement of the 11th annual Manga Jiman […]
Literary Loitering 70 – Blistering Postman on Postman Action
With new ideas about what the Voynich Manuscript actually is, disarmingly obvious sanity for libraries from Sydney, and more strange words added to the Oxford English Dictionary it’s just another day at the office for us. Oh, and we kind of have a quiz about the 2017 Diagram Prize for […]
S14E21 – On The Grassy Knoll Of Controversy
It’s time for another round of arguments as we really get some things off our chest! That’s right, it’s time for Defend Your Choice, and this time we looking at things that people seem to adore (for whatever reason), but that we think are in no way deserving of their […]
PX21 – This is Micro!
We return to the expansive wilds of the video game world for that part of the annual release schedule that is often referred to as a barren wasteland. A quick rummage around the box of games leads to a very mixed bag of things to play, including Cladun Returns: This […]
4-Panel 97 – This Statue Has Tassels
While the possibility of a Watchmen TV series is being thrown around, Sony want to make more random Spider-man related movies and a grade school in Japan is being turned into the world’s largest manga library. Our featured comics are Star Trek: The Next Generation – Mirror Broken (FBCD 2017), […]
Cinema Eclectica 120 – Spiderman & The Spooky, Spooky House
In a change from the previously scheduled programming, we move from the landscape of a dusty post-apocalyptic horror to the skies above New York with “Spiderman: Homecoming”. Away from all of the web-swinging and wall-crawling though, Rob dives into the magical world of Mamoru Hosoda’s latest anime feature-film “The Boy […]
4-Panel 96 – The Simple Times of Billy Zane
With Jessica Chastain playing the Shi’Ar empress Lilandra in X-Men: Dark Phoenix we know that space-based mutant shenanigans are on the horizon. Meanwhile, James Gunn wants to change a little bit of canon in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe and Naoki Uresawa’s manga series Pluto gets an anime adaptation. Our featured comics […]
S14E20 – I’m Forever Milking Kaiju
After returning from our travels we found a heap of weird technology and science news waiting for us. Kicking things off this week is NATO, who have called a particular global malware attack a declarations of war. After that we allow the strangeness to wash over us with NASA wanting […]
Keyframe 81 – Pope Gundam’s Cosmic Dance-Off
Everything’s backwards this week as we start off with our featured anime – Parasyte: The Maxim (Kiseijuu: Sei no Kakuritsu) part 2, Gundam Reconguista in G and Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? (Dungeon ni Deai wo Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darou ka), before […]