The Lunch Hour Geek Out
The further adventures of two former work colleagues who chose to continue their lunchtime discussions on movies, games, and TV in podcast form. We discuss our nerd obsessions, and what we have been watching, playing, reading, or listening to! Join us for rants, raves, and banter every time we get a spare hour or two.
Episodes
On our new episode, we go through a triple threat match comprised of the modern entries in the Evil Dead franchise! The 2013 remake faces off against the three seasons of Ash vs Evil Dead, as well as the more recent Evil Dead Rise from 2023! Who will be crowned victorious? Listen and find out!
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Since 2003. post Terminator 2, The Terminator franchise has been rebooted 4 times up until 2019. That's more than one reboot per 5 years! Why? And which of these reboots was the best? From the pretty good Terminator 3, to the undervalued Salvation, the baffling Genysis and the recent Dark Fate, join us as we fight it out to determine which of these timelines deserves to move forward into a sequel before the inevi...
Welcome to the only awards show that matters this year - the first Moscars ceremony ever! Listen as we award the categories and films that truly made 2024 an exceptional year in film!! Your favourite film of 2024 didn't get a look in at the awards we all know? Have a listen to this!!
**SPOILER WARNING** - we spoil films like Anora, The Substance, Gladiator 2, Rebel Ridge and more pretty much from five minutes in.
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In our new episode, we look at classic first-person shooter video games and compare and contrast their good and bad points to determine whose picks will be the best. We go from Halo and Timesplitters 2 to Call of Duty, Bioshock and Titanfall. Who will win? Where does the FPS sit now in terms of pop culture? You will have to listen to find out!
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Hello. We have a new podcast that you may be interested in (if our five or so subs are still about). The Media Mega Rumble is our new venture, the concept is to let films, TV, video games, characters, whathaveyou step into the ring and battle it out wrestling PPV style to see who is the best.
This is our first episode - Battle of the Batmen. This is where every live-action Batman on film steps into the tournament...
It's time for the fight of our lives. We have done the research, prepared ourselves, and postponed the recording of this five times. Now, it's finally here! Who is the best modern auteur between Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson?
From Reservoir Dogs and Boogie Nights to There Will Be Blood, The Master and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. We discuss the films, the performances, the cultural impact...
There was a plan—a plan to do a new topic episode that spanned 18 films. Predictably, we ran out of time, so instead, here is a round-up of what we have been watching, playing, or reading. It includes the existential dread reflected in The Boys season 4, the horror of Longlegs, Maxxxine, and Pearl, the genius of Letterkenny, and an ideal entry point into the seminal manga/anime Berserk. Plus some horror books and mull...
Robocop! Who is he? What is he? Where did he come from? Well, he's the topic of our latest episode. We dig into everything from the seminal 1987 classic to the two flawed '90s sequels and the remake. The satire, the violence, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans, it's all here.
In addition, we debate the future of video games, review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga and revisit Fallout 4.
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On a brand-new episode, we are no longer horsing around as we discuss the much-loved and much-derided sub-genre of Found Footage. From The Blair Witch Project to Cloverfield to the recent Late Night with the Devil, no stone is left unturned, and no gap in logic is tolerated. In addition to the classics, we go over The Tunnel, Rec 1&2, End of Watch, and the VHS franchise!
In addition, we review the recent Fall...
In our new episode, we shamble into and barricade ourselves in the studio for an intense and scary examination of George A. Romero's zombie apocalypse films, from the seminal Night of the Living Dead to the dire Diary of the Dead and the classic Dawn of the Dead and everything in between. The influences, the legacy, the subtext—it's all covered.
We also review Anatomy of a Fall, Dune Part Two, The Zone ...
We are back! And we have decided to re-introduce the main topics! On this new episode, we decided to talk about one of our combined favorite films - Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. We go through its troubled production history, its legacy, and its influences and finally render a critical consensus on the career of its director.
In addition, we give our early thoughts on Suicide Squad...
After a long break, we are back! We harken back to one of our most popular episodes where we talked about dinner and discuss our ideal series of courses and what media will accompany them. Through the silliness we get to cover Renfield, It's always sunny in Philadelphia, John Wick 4, Train to Busan, Beef, Street Fighter 6, Dawn of the Dead, and Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.
We also cover the biggest disa...
In a brand spanking, new geek out we introduce a new section of the podcast! In "The Supposed Classic" we revisit 1992's Bram Stoker's Dracula and 2014's first season of True Detective. In addition, John finally plays Elden Ring and we review Crimes of the Future, House of the Dragon, Glorious, Expeditions Rome, Mad God, and more!
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We are back! And it's time for opinions and banter!
This week we talk all about the recently announced slate for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the Batgirl debacle over at DC. After this, we review Prey, Bullet Train, Netflix's Resident Evil, and The Sandman, Stray, and Yellowjackets. Join us!
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MCU Phase 5 and 6 - 00:04:58
Batgirl Cancelled - 00:16:01
After a series of tangents about DLC, puppets, gas bills, and governmental foolishness, we have a bumper crop of reviews. We get jiggy with Elvis, depressed with Pleasure, We Own This City, and the new Arcade Fire album. Plus Stranger Things season 4 part 2, Ultrasound, The Outfit, and Warhammer 40K: Battle Sector. In the news this week we discuss another Ghostbusters sequel, the future of James Bond, and X-Box finall...
On a stomping new show on the podcast that refuses to stay extinct, we navigate evolution, logic, and terror to review Jurassic World Dominion. We also review French arthouse triumph Petite Maman, new horror movie The Black Phone, arcade throwback Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge, indie coming of age tale Cha Cha Real Smooth, and Far Cry 6.
In the news, we ponder a sequel to Joker, a film adaptatio...
After battling Covid-19 and a week of British celebrations, your hosts are back to smash through reality with a packed episode of reviews. In this episode, we review season 3 of The Boys and Love, Death and Robots, season 1 of Obi-Wan Kenobi, season 4 of Stranger Things, and then the movies Top Gun: Maverick and the breakout Indian hit RRR.
In addition, we go through Sony's recent State of Play, the possibil...
This week after a brief apology from one of our hosts, we head back into the darkest of all timelines to talk about Black Mirror season 6, This is Spinal Tap 2, Daredevil returning to screens, and The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Then we go into a heavily packed reviews section that includes multiplayer madness in Evil Dead: The Game, stressed chef saga Boiling Point, the bizarre Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers, anim...
Foiled again by time management and MCU "discourse" we instead turn our attention to multiverses of a different sort this week with reviews of Everything Everywhere All At Once, Licorice Pizza, old school point and click masterpiece Norco, documentary Next Goal Wins, The Pentaverate and the bleak High Life. Sadly no Strange GP's were involved here, but we also have news about a remake of The Killer, a b...
On this week's dastardly yet "fine" new episode we talk all about the recent Netflix debacle, the possibility of a Streets of Rage movie, the resurrection of Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio and of course the announcement of The Batman 2. Then in our jam-packed reviews section, we ponder originality with The Northman, disagree about The Matrix Resurrections, and go contrarian on The Unbearable Weight of Mas...
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