Geek Overture

The London Film & Comic Con is hurtling round the corner (running from Friday July 6th to Sunday 8th), where some of the country’s biggest names will be trucking on down to the capital to celebrate the biggest and best of cult movies and comics. I don’t know about you guys, but even a brief [...]

Game of Thrones is a very particular kind of monster. It is as lavishly funded as the Lannisters and just as prettily put together. Like several shows before it (The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men), it is primarily concerned with power – who wields it and how and why they do so – and ever more [...]

Holy merciful goodness. This episode brought back all of the cruelty and violence of Westeros with an almighty crash. If “What is Dead May Never Die” established the importance the various factions place on loyalty and how power accumulates, “Garden of Bones” was the unspeakable unleashing of that power. That said, the show could well [...]

Before we get started, fyi UK readers-slash-viewers: this week’s episode is based on a US reality show called I Shouldn’t Be Alive, which to me sounds like a reality show about the misbegotten life of a clone mutant. It’s a silly potentially-dangerous-situations re-enactment/talking heads thing, and yet another reality TV parody, which as CultJar points [...]

Another kind of uneven week last time round for South Park. “Jewpacabra” was more of the same for a lot of reasons, and leant pretty heavily on some easy targets and some of Cartman’s well-explored personality quirks. Fun episode, but not a massive return to form. So it’s kind of a relief this week to [...]

Seems like the South Park guys have found their feet after a couple of fairly C+ episodes. This week’s episode, “Faith Hilling” shows off a bunch of their best qualities, and – most satisfyingly – brings everything back to the totally skewed and uncomfortably familiar perspective of Stan and the boys. It also pulls off on [...]

In its sixteenth year, South Park is a little institution all by itself, a unique show made by an alarmingly small writing team on a shockingly short schedule, and the number of times they’ve come up with standalone twenty-minute units of comedy that are still worth watching years down the line is phenomenal. That said, [...]

There are many films made every year. One of them was Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, starring Dwayne “The Rock, but seriously, it’s Dwayne” Johnson and Josh Hutcherson, who also starred in the kinda-forgotten 2008 original Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Journey 2 was a relatively fluffy piece that had the rare privilege of [...]

Never mind. One week after the best HIMYM episodes in years we’re back to one of the most hateful, lazy, inattentive half hours of television I’ve ever seen these guys have to perform. The disappointment with the material is almost palpable. The show kicks off with a quick recap of the last couple episodes, as if [...]

Oh hello How I Met Your Mother. Where have you been hanging out this past while? I mean we were worried you know? What with Kal Penn and playing Robin-relationship-tennis and forgetting… who you were. Y’know? Anyway, good to have you back. Episode 17 of HIMYM‘s seventh season kicks off with Ted and Robin on [...]