Being a movie buff and compulsive list reader I’ve read my share of Top 10 Directors lists and they usually a combination of the same short list. Spielberg, Kubrick, Scorsese and Lucas for… Continue reading
Hello there! We’re at the end of November, marking another month of geeky goodness that we’ve seen, heard and ranted about! Just in case there’s some newcomers wandering bleary eyed onto the site,… Continue reading
Batman has battled many, many colourful characters over the course of the past seven decades. Many of them have transcended the comic book form and become ingrained into pop-culture. Here at the House… Continue reading
At the time of writing The Doctor has gone through eleven incarnations and remains one of the most iconic characters in pop culture. Even people who have never seen the show can at… Continue reading
What makes these games so brilliant? They make you feel like Batman. This is as close to being Batman that us gamers will get. In order to complete the experience we get a… Continue reading
Many years ago Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer took a gamble. Not two productions companies known for taking risks, they’re more likely to base their decisions on market research more than creative ingenuity, so… Continue reading
Movies produced through the studio system adhere to set formulas which are split into genres. Occasionally a studio head would pour too much cocaine down their windpipe and get the notion that grabbing two genres and rubbing… Continue reading
Believe it or not there was a time when super heroes did not exist, when the only protagonists in comics were cartoonish characters or violent vigilantes. That all changed when when two geeky… Continue reading
During the late 1980s and early 90s, during the years of my late childhood, we called are Pokemon ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’. Based on a comic series that served as a parody of… Continue reading
Yesterday I made an argument about gamers being the victim of negative public perception. And whilst I am totally on the money I do concede that some games make us look like a… Continue reading
