Films

Aadil and Ben gush over the wonderful Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse. We discuss the writing, setting, characters, and of course the amazing art and sound design. Geek Out Weakly is recorded live on twitch every Monday at midday GMT. Theme song by captiveportalmusic, under the CC ShareAlike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)....

Tales From Earthsea & From Up On Poppy Hill   This is part 6 of a series of reviews, looking at Studio Ghibli’s films, you can find Parts 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 which look at Hayao Miyazaki’s and Yoshifumi Kondō’s directed films, by clicking on the hyperlinks....

There’s been a lot of murmuring about people being being struck down with Superhero fatigue. “I’m feeling burnt out on superhero films.” “They’re all the same thing now.” “There’s too many every year!”   Yes, there are a lot of superhero movies. The superhero genre is big business, comics...

Podcast Review – The Countdown: Movies & TV Reviews   Episodes Reviewed: 99 – 109 Average Episode Length: 1 hour 20 minutes Release Schedule: Weekly Formats: Audio Only   The Countdown, by Aussie duo Paul & Wayne, is a Movies & TV Review show that features a top 10...

  Patriots Day – Released: 13th January (USA), 23rd February (UK). The latest starring role from Mark “I think It’s a Transformer” Wahlberg, Patriots Day is a drama thriller based on the 2013 boston bombing and the subsequent manhunt for it’s two main suspects. Wahlberg plays Police sergeant Tommy...

This week, your host, Adam is joined by Aadil “How dare you not plug my Twitter Handle” Kurji and Alfred “No, not that one you’re thinking of” Rome! The main talking points are the film Hidden Figures, Destiny 2 News and the suggestion by Danny Dyer that he could...

Office Christmas Party – Released: 7th December (UK), 9th December (USA). We start this week with a Christmas cash in built of a surprisingly good cast. Jennifer Aniston leads the way in a holiday romp which centres around a hard partying CEO, played by TJ Miller. Who throws a...

Sully – Released: 9 September (USA), 2nd December (UK) Directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks, Sully finally makes it’s way to our British shores this week. Hanks plays protagonist Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the captain of the plane which in 2009 made an emergency landing which has since...

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back – Released: 20th october (UK), 21st October (USA). And the award for least catchy movie title of the year goes to: Jack Reacher 2, the sequel to 2012’s surprisingly successful action movie. Once again Tom Cruise is back in the lead role as the...