Aside from Elon Musk accidentally causing the price of a book to skyrocket and a Hemingway winning a Hemingway lookalike contest, the big news is that Terry Pratchett’s “The Wee Free Men” is being adapted for a movie! We also look at the working titles of some classic novels and […]
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Cinema Eclectica 88 – Anti-Social Surrealism
This week Rob gets traded for an older production version (for purely technical reasons of course). We look at Andrzej Zulawski’s baffling final film “Cosmos”, notorious video nasty “The Burning” and F.W. Murnau’s “The Grand Duke’s Finances”. Our Feature Presentation doubled up and mutated a second Werner Herzog-shaped head in […]
Keyframe Episode 60 – The Homena Homena Fruit
This week we find a gender swapped “sexy” version of Monkey D. Luffy, a ban on on plots about reincarnation or transport to other worlds, and a few trailers. Our featured anime is Parasyte: The Maxim part 1 (and technically the manga series Midori Days). Tune in to The Geek […]
4-Panel 60 – Bring Me The Head of Quincy M.E.
This week the power euphemism is applied to the Bleach manga (which is ending), and Bruce Banner dies! Our featured comics are Civil War II #1-4, Civil War II: Gods of War #1 & 2, Totally Awesome Hulk #7 & #8, Old Man Logan #8, the Spider-Gwen Annual and Batman […]
PX10 – EGX 2016 Special Part 2
Here we are again with the second and concluding part of our recent excursion to Birmingham and EGX (we really do spoil you). Aside from brimming with that special post-con glow, we bring you games. After all, that’s what you’re here for! This time we’ve got Mekazoo, Snake Pass, Political […]
Cinema Eclectica 87 – A Seaworthy Vessel of Scuzz
Between the madness of being a bit ill and accidentally suggesting necrophilia, it’s something of an eventful show. This week we look at Billy Wilder’s “Fedora”, William Klein’s art-house oddity “Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?”, Richard Wenk’s 1980s high-camp horror “Vamp”, and Whit Stillman’s divisive “Love & Friendship”. Our Feature […]
Literary Loitering 50 – Everything Needs More Swashbuckling
This week the English language obtained some strange new words and phrases, a Mexican artist creates The Trump Hut and Saddam Hussein wrote several fiction novels? Our featured books are Voyage of the Basilisk: A Memoir of Lady Trent (#3), by Marie Brennan and Eagle in Exile by Alan Smale. […]
Keyframe Episode 59 – Brexit, Pursued By Bear
It’s another trailerfest filled with ballet, idol dances, bishounen prison breaks, and possibly the nerdiest anime concept for a while. Our featured anime are Kuroko’s Basketball and Attack on Titan: The Movie (part 1). Tune in to The Geek Show Podcast Network for all the latest news, discussions and reviews, […]
PX09 – EGX 2016 Special Part 1
We’ve been absent for a while but fear not, as we return bearing gifts (amazing ones too). It’s the first part of our EGX 2016 Special, and besides discussing the event itself we also have interviews with the wonderful people from Lince Works, Laser Dog, Good Catch Games, Choice Provisions, […]
Cinema Eclectica 86 – Mecha Hitler Vs Cyber Churchill
As we travel the country we learn that the big news has secretly been following us! Conspiracy! Off The Shelf features Robert Aldrich’s “The Flight of the Phoenix”, Stanley Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory” and the accidental creation of the oddest of double bill’s – Miklós Jancsó’s “Electra, My Love” and […]