The 602 Club: A Geekery Speakeasy

Thor: The Dark World. For all the success that Marvel had in "Phase One" of their superhero universe, they still knew that the biggest risk was going to be Thor, in fact this was the one character who's sequel was going to be contingent on their first outings performance. Thor performed well enough with the critics and fans meaning that a second film would be in the cards for Marvel. In this episo...

Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space. The new canon books of Star Wars have seen some great new stories in the universe and surprisingly, some of the best in the new canon have been from books aimed at the youngest fans of the saga. In this supplemental episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Scott Ryfun to talk about the first three entries in the Adventures in Wild Space series....

Ghost in the Shell. This story first found life as a manga that was written and drawn by Masamune Shirow starting in 1989. It later found life as an anime film that was directed by Mamoru Oshii and became a cult classic and now the newest iteration of the story is out on the big screen. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Michael Schindler and Richard Marquez to talk...

Iron Fist. Marvel's Netflix series have seen quite a bit of success beginning with Daredevil, then leading into Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, but before we get to The Defenders there is one more stop they had to make in K'un-Lun to pick up a wayward kung fu master. In this supplemental episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Daniel Proulx to talk about Iron Fist. We discuss our fi...

Live and Let Die. Sean Connery was done with Bond and there was a push by the studio have the next actor be an American, while the producers pushed back, saying that Bond was British and would stay that way. So who would become the next iteration of this character and what would be his place in this every changing world which we live in, would have to be figured out quickly to keep the franchise a...

Star Wars Rebels: Season 3. The end of Rebels season two was an emotional time for fans of Star Wars as the confrontation between master and apprentice finally happened leaving Vader scared and Ahsoka disappearing further into the Sith temple. It set the expectations for season three astronomically high. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Jedi Master John Mills to ta...

Alien. The end of the 70s saw an explosion of influential movies that changed the landscape of film forever. Of course Star Wars redefined everything by becoming the first blockbuster, but two years later Star Trek: The Motion Picture would arrive as well as Ridley Scott's own foray into space. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Brandon-Shea Mutala and Amy Nelson to...

Star Wars Aftermath: Empire's End. With the release of The Force Awakens, one of the biggest questions about the movie was, "What happened in the 30 years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens?". The Aftermath series by Chuck Wendig was meant to begin that tale, but has been middling at best and now the trilogy is coming to a close. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing i...

Logan. The X-Men franchise helped usher in a new era of superhero films yet throughout it's run the individual movies have been up and down in terms of their quality, especially in the the films focusing on the Wolverine. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Megan Calcote to talk about Hugh Jackman's last X-Men film Logan. We discuss the state of the mutant, looking in...

The Wolverine. The breakout character from the first X-Men movie was clearly Wolverine and because of this he was explored in the dismal X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Even though the film did not do well with the critics or the audience, the character remained a favorite and ripe for another chance in a solo adventure. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Megan Calcote to...

Flash Gordon. In 1934 Alex Raymond created a new comic strip as a rival to Buck Rogers, by 1936 it was being made into a film serial and would spawn multiple live action and animated takes on the character of Flash Gordon. Finally in 1980, after years in development hell, the big screen version was released. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by John Champion to talk ab...

The Lego Batman Movie. Since it's inception in 1932, Lego bricks have been captivating children around the world (and adults) with the endless hours of creative fun and as the company has expanded over recent years to include licenses from some of the most popular franchises it's only grown exponentially. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined my Michael Schindler to talk a...

Powerless. In October of 2012, The CW premiered Arrow, bringing superheroes back to television and since that time there has been a proliferation of these genre shows in the media landscape and this year DC Comics decided to dip it's toes into the sitcom pool. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Aaron Harvey to talk about the new DC Comics show Powerless. We discuss t...

Diamonds are Forever. As the James Bond creators came together after On Her Majesty's Secret Service, they had a lot to figure out, who would be the next Bond with George Lazenby not returning and just as importantly what was the upcoming adventure for Bond to be? In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by 00 agents Christy Morris and John Champion to talk about Diamonds are...

Supergirl Season One. In 2015, as Arrow entered it's fourth season and Flash entered it's second season, the "Berlanti-verse" branched out to a completely new network with it's most ambitious show yet. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by heroes Bruce Gibson and Norman Lao to talk about Supergirl season one. We discuss our original and rewatch impressions, if it should...

Star Wars: A New Dawn. When Disney bought Lucasfilm in 2012 and acquired the rights to Star Wars a lot of things happened very quickly: The Clone Wars was canceled, the Expanded Universe was canceled and in their places we would get a new animated show, Star Wars Rebels as well as a new literature line that would be fully canon. As it happened, the first book in the new canon would be the lead in...

Passengers. Original scifi movies are few and far between Hollywood these days, it's not every year that an Interstellar comes out and 2016 had one original scifi movie Arrival with the hope of another during the holiday season starring megastars Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Christy Morris and Richard Marquez to talk about Pas...

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. "It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire. During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet." These words are the first thing that anyone eve...

Iron Man 3. Tony Stark had been though a lot, he'd been captured in Afghanistan, almost died when his parter in business tried to have him killed, created a super suit, declared himself Iron Man, had to work though daddy issues to save his life and then flew a nuke into a wormhole to save the world. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Ken Tripp and Richard Marquez to...

The Return of the King. By the time December 2003 rolled around, The Lord of the Rings had become a world wide phenomenon all over again and the last film in the series would blow everyone away, including the critics, as well as sweeping the Oscars where it holds the record for highest Academy Awards wins with Titanic and Ben-Hur. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by M...

On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Sean Connery shocked the world and the Bond producers when he announced that You Only Live Twice would be his last film in the franchise which left the team struggling to figure out what the next story would be as well as who would play the icon, James Bond. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by fellow 00 John Champion to talk about On H...

Star Wars: Catalyst. The Death Star is one of the most iconic creations of the Star Wars universe and it's history has slowly been added to over the years with Attack of the Clones giving us an insight as to where the plans came from and Revenge of the Sith ending with a shot of it under construction. But, what took the Empire 19 years to build it's ultimate weapon? Fans now have the answer. In th...

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. In September of 2013 Harry Potter fans were elated to find out that author J.K. Rowling was working with Warner Brothers on a new chapter in the Harry Potter universe and would be serving as the screenwriter of this new saga set 54 years before Harry Potter was born and starting magizoologist Newt Scamander. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rush...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2. By the time that July 7th, 2011 came around, the last book in the Harry Potter series had been out for four years and there was no Pottermore website, talk of a play or films for Fantastic Beasts so part 2 of The Deathly Hallows was to be the end. In this episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Quidditch star Andrea Coffman to talk ab...

Arrival. In 1998 science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote a short story called "Story of Your Life" that went on to win the 1999 Sturgeon Award as well as the Nebula Award for best novella and now it has been turned into a major motion picture staring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner and Forest Whitaker. In this supplemental episode of The 602 Club host Matthew Rushing is joined by Ken Tripp and Richard Ma...