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‘Puss in Boots’ DVD Review

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Director: Chris Miller Cast: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayak, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Amy Sedaris Plot: Swashbuckling adventurer Puss in Boots forms an uneasy alliance with a childhood friend turned enemy and a… Continue reading →

Why Lego Can Have All My Money

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The Lego company has been good to geeks. Quickly realising that a large part of their market are nostalgic nerds who never got over playing with plastic bricks they’ve turned out some great… Continue reading →

Avengers Month: The Argument Against Joss Whedon

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As some of you may have managed to deduce we here at the House of Geekery like Joss Whedon. He has given us so much from vampire slaying teens to love-sick mad scientists.… Continue reading →

Avengers Month: ‘Iron Man 2’ Review

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Director: Jon Favreau Cast: Robert Downey, Jr., Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Sam Rockwell, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling, Samuel L. Jackson, Clark Gregg Plot: With mounting political pressure to release his Iron Man technology… Continue reading →

Avengers Month: ‘The Incredible Hulk’ Review

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Director: Louis Leterrier Cast: Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Lou Ferringo Plot: Bruce Banner is on the run from the US Government Military who are trying to… Continue reading →

10 Things Comic Writers Cannot Be Trusted With

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There are some comic writers who can be trusted with almost any material. If I see the name Ed Brubaker, Paul Dini, Neil Gaiman, Brian Michael Bendis on a cover I trust them… Continue reading →

‘The Three Musketeers’ Review

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Director: Paul W.S. Anderson Cast: Matthew McFayden, Milla Jovovich, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz Plot: ‘The Three Musketeers’ is about four Musketeers who have to stop the ‘apocalypse’… Continue reading →

Top 10 Moments from ‘The Muppets’

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When The Muppets hit cinemas we published a review. Now that the film has arrived on Blu-Ray the standard procedure would be to revisit the film and write an updated review. As Funk… Continue reading →

Book Review: ‘Plague Town’

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Author: Dana Fredsti Publisher: Titan Books Review: I’m not going to lie: the cover of this book did not put me in a reading mood. There are two reasons for this. Firstly, I’m… Continue reading →

Retro ‘Doctor Who’ Review – Volume 1.2

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Since having gone back in time (in a manner of speaking) to review the first three ‘Doctor Who’ stories the decision has been made to push on through the rest of the series.… Continue reading →