Tabletop Tuesday: ‘Heroes Wanted’
Let me start with a story. About a year ago I joined a local gaming collective called WABA (Western Australian Boardgaming Association) in order to meet like minded board gaming enthusiasts and try… Continue reading
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Thunderbirds 1965: A Childhood Obsession is Reborn.
Hello, I’m Myles (nickname to be advised), and I’m new! It’s a real pleasure to be joining House of Geekery, a blog that I’ve been reading for a long time! Most people have… Continue reading
Movie Review: Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
If you take a look at this years biggest films, you have some definite progress for how women are depicted in cinema. I’d say Mad Max: Fury Road, Trainwreck, and Inside Out all… Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Big Game’
Directed by: Jalmari Helander Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Onni Tommila, and Ray Stevenson Plot: When Air Force One crash lands in a Finnish forest, a teenager on a hunting trip has to help the President of… Continue reading
Why Does Everyone Hate ‘Pixels’?
The new Chris Columbus directed Adam Sandler vehicle, an ode to arcade games of the 1980s called Pixels, has been released and the response has been pretty poor. In fact, publishing the most… Continue reading
‘Unfriended’ Is Unexpectedly Great
Yes, that haunted Skype movie. Where a bunch of friends are tormented by an unseen figure via the internet, leading to murder and whatnot. Let’s get this out of the way now: Unfriended is a… Continue reading
I Welcome Judgement: True Detective Season 2 Episode 6 “Church In Ruins”
Dramatis Personae Colin Farrell as Detective Raymond Velcoro, Vinci Police Department Vince Vaughn as Frank Semyon criminal and entrepreneur Rachel McAdams as Detective Antigone “Ani” Bezzerides of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Taylor Kitsch as… Continue reading
Tabletop Tuesday: ‘One Night Ultimate Werewolf’
Here’s a simple game that I was introduced to over the weekend, immediately went out and bought and played dozens of times since. Each game lasts roughly ten minutes and usually involves a… Continue reading
Why Every New ‘Terminator’ Movie Is Failing
So we got around to watching Terminator: Genisys and…well…it was not a good movie. It recycles chunks of the old films and the plot is a confused mess, with 90% of it being exposition. And… Continue reading
Top 20 Performances in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Now, that Ant-Man is out, Marvel’s Phase 2 of their cinematic universe is over. Before we move on with Phase 3, this would be a good time to look back on what they have… Continue reading
