Welcome to the whack-some-nails-in-it-and-it-will-hold-up-just-fine podcast of science and technology (otherwise known as The Geek Show). So what’s been happening in the world? Well, Huawei have decided to take on the U.S. government while researchers find a way to give lab rats and mice “Predator vision”. In other news, France recognises […]
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Cinema Eclectica 195 – Algebra Lessons with Foxy Brown
It’s the biggest week of the film calendar, so Aidan and Rob fulfill their obligations with a bit of an Oscars chatter before getting to the important matter of being bamboozled by the Film of the Week which, thanks to the Directors Lottery coming up with Jacques Rivette, means in […]
100 Years Of Very Successful Pimpery – Literary Loitering 100
It’s party time for the cultural anarchists as we finally hit 100 episodes! Now that we’re officially fogeys of the podcasting world we cast a weathered gaze over the recent happenings, and offer our usual derisive, sorry, decisive commentary on things like French festival that have been criticised for using […]
Keyframe 139 – Massive Robots Fights Are All You Need
The Hollywood adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s hit manga Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm), is out in cinemas, and by all reports it’s doing some decent business. Join Tucky and Rob as they discuss the film that James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez have created, the implications of the film’s success, and some […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 23 – We’ve Got Too Many Comics! February Edition
It’s the end of the month, which means it’s time for our new regular feature where we stare at the mountain of comics, graphic novels, manga and trade paperbacks, and try to cover as many as possible in one episode! Can we do it? Maybe. Will we get injured? Probably. […]
Cinema Eclectica 194 – Come See The Mastodon Parade!
Eclectica is back with “The Kid Who Would Be King” – the latest film from Joe Cornish, and in a strange turn of events, Graham and Tim’s review features very few references to Adam and Joe. We’re sorry. We’ll try and make up for it when we do a Jacques […]
Keyframe 138 – After School Goth Club
This week it’s anime all the way as Tucky, Mark and Rob get several shows out of their systems, and kicking things off is series two of the show that’s basically catering porn – Food Wars! The Second Plate. After that it’s time for some painfully secret high school experiments […]
4-Panel Vol. 2, Issue 22 – Is Alita: Battle Angel A Good Manga Adaptation?
The Hollywood live-action adaptation of Yukito Kishiro’s seminal science fiction series Battle Angel Alita (Gunnm), is out in cinemas, but have James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez finally cracked the formula for adapting manga and anime? Andrew, Mick and Rob went to the cinema to find out, but one of them […]
S16E03 – Aibo’s Lovesick Blues
We’re back for another edition of the scratch and sniff podcast of science and technology news that is The Geek Show! Kicking things off this week, we have an update on the seemingly ongoing saga about Britain’s National Health Service and fax machines. After that we bid a fond farewell […]
Cinema Eclectica 193 – The John Entwistle of J-Horror
Two beams of refracted “Moonlight”: the Best Picture-winning (eventually) film’s writer Tarell Alvin McRaney has a new film on Netflix, “High Flying Bird”, which Mark takes a look at before Aidan, Tim and Graham check out director Barry Jenkins’s new work “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Meanwhile, Off the Shelf […]