The Media Mega Rumble

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 bi...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 cont...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have reviews of Ghostwire Tokyo, Apollo 10 1/2, Scream (5?), Moon Knight, Doctor Sleep, the original Dark Souls, and James saw Sparks live in Belfast!  We also talk about the possibility of a remake of The Crow, Kathryn Bigelow's next film, Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding, and Rian Johnson coming to TV with Poker Face.  Email Us: lunchhourgeekout@gmail.com...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! In our new episode in our new ongoing format, we talk all about the essential news and reviews that you need to hear!  Capcom's Exoprimal, and CD Projekt Red's new Witcher game are discussed as well as the forthcoming Disney + Obi-Wan Kenobi show and Panos Cosmatos' Mandy follow up Nekrokosm.  Then we review The Batman, Lamb, Olli Olli World, Peacemaker...

Send us Fan Mail On the final episode of season 3 of LHGO, we go through all of the things we have been doing over the last few months. Including reviews of *deep breath...Titane, The Kingsman, The Power of the Dog, The After Party, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Love Death and Robots, Sunshine, Ready Player Two, Pokemon Yellow, and The Colony. In addition, we talk all about those Oscar n...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a topic that has been very important for one of us for a long time....we rake Hollywood over the coals for its inaccurate portrayal of historical events! From Brian De Palma's The Untouchables to U-571 and Braveheart to the more recent The Last Duel and Bohemian Rhapsody. Nobody is safe from our research! In addition, we review Marvel's Eternals, Netfli...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have a whole mess of news and reviews comin' at ya! First, we discuss the premiere date for season 3 of The Boys, then mull over a possible Quantum Leap reboot. We disagree over a possible Scott Pilgrim anime and ponder Sony's future after Microsoft purchased Activision/Blizzard.  Then it is time for the reviews as we discuss The Book of Boba Fett, Resident...

Send us Fan Mail After a brief Christmas-induced hiatus, your heroes are back! In our latest episode, we look back and say goodbye to 2021 and how we spent it with our favorite TV, Games, and Movies including Squid Game, Dune, Mass Effect, Succession, and Justice League. Then we look forward to things that are coming in 2022 including Avatar 2, Jurassic World: Dominion, new movies from David Crone...

Send us Fan Mail This week we delve into the franchise that is about to see a massive comeback with The Matrix Resurrections. We get philosophical in bullet time with the 1999 original, then the Animatrix, the Enter the Matrix video game, and the release in 2003 of the back-to-back sequels The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. Finally, we finish off with our hopes for the new installment...

Send us Fan Mail In our new episode, we reveal something we have been working on for a few weeks. James and John set each other seven films to watch and report back on. There is sadness, laughs, thrills, and spills as we get into each film and what we thought including films by Sam Peckinpah, Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Panos Cosmatos, Lars Von Trier, Alex Cox, and more! Intro - 00:30 Main Topi...

Send us Fan Mail On a brand new all colour episode of LHGO, we go on a deep dive into our favourite ever comic books/graphic novels! We go from the mainstream Batman, The Walking Dead and Watchmen titles to the bizarre The Maxx, Preacher and Saga, to the indie, artier fare such as Persepolis and Maus.  In addition, we have reviews of the new Guardians of the Galaxy video game, Dune part one and we...

Send us Fan Mail On our new episode we reminisce, wander back through the mists of time to revisit the PS3 era of gaming. The problems at launch with the Blu-Ray drive, The Six-Axis controller, and then the games from Resistance: Fall of Man to the early days of Call of Duty to Grand Theft Auto 5.  We also review the latest Bond movie No Time to Die, Netflix's He's All That, Midnight Mas...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's shaken and stirred episode we are talking the worlds's longest-running movie franchise - James Bond 007. From the 60's Sean Connery era to the camp Roger Moore run through the underrated Timothy Dalton to Pierce Brosnan and then Daniel Craig. No stone is left unturned as we discuss the good, the bad, and the mediocre.  We disagree, we debate and our c...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's new episode of LHGO, we delve into the one thing that Hollywood has so far failed to crack - turning successful video games into successful movies. From the lows of Super Mario Bros and Street Fighter to the recent relative highs of Sonic the Hedgehog and Tomb Raider, we get up close and personal with some of the worst movies ever made and ponder why they might...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! On the triumphant return of the LHGO we talk all about what we watched, played and read over the summer break including The Suicide Squad, Free Guy, Brand New Cherry Flavour and Pig! A Final Fantasy virgin plays the remake, someone gets involved in the shenanigans of Mafia 3 and we ponder the point of Jim Jarmusch films.  In addition, we talk about Star Wars: Visions,...

Send us Fan Mail Here for you existing fans and newcomers alike, a clip show/highlight reel from our last two seasons. Listen as we riff on future sports, quicksand, pizza, dinosaurs, and sexy online vampires. There are also clips from our rants on Tenet, The Boys, and The Stand.  We will be back with a new episode in a couple of weeks. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @lunchhourgeek Them...

Send us Fan Mail It's our final episode of season two! To celebrate one year of the podcast and the start of our summer holidays we have a general chit-chat. We debate the existence of ghosts and Zack Snyder's Star Wars riff for Netflix. Then we review Loki, the comic book Something is Killing the Children,  The Forever Purge, Rick and Morty season 5, Fear Street, and Resident Evil: Infi...

Send us Fan Mail On this slamming new episode, we ask you to smell what we are cooking as we open a can of talk ass. We get into it about the wrestling business and those iconic wrestlers who made their way to Hollywood stardom. From the early days of Hulk Hogan and the beloved Rowdy Roddy Piper to Stone Cold Steve Austin, Dwayne Johnson, and then the more recent work of Dave Bautista and John Cen...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's new and explosion-filled show we talk all about the summer blockbusters of the past and present. We talk about the trends and rise of sequels and comic book movies and what is headed our way in Summer 2021. Then we reminisce about our favorite summer movie-going experiences over the years including Jaws, Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park, Marvel movies, Terminator 2...

Send us Fan Mail On a special solo single/bonus episode, John Holt runs down his top ten movies of 2021 so far. Including time warps, middle-aged women, drugs, horror, mumblecore, lockdown specials, and bone-crunching violence.  Follow us on twitter @lunchhourgeek Email us lunchhourgeekout@gmail.com Theme music: Show Your Moves by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4350-show...

Send us Fan Mail This week we go back through time and look back on our early experiences with horrifying and disturbing media. This includes Public Information Films,  Alien, The Watcher in the Woods, V, Twin Peaks, The Grudge, Ghostwatch, Insidious...Quick Sand and more! In addition, we look forward to Neill Blomkamp's Demonic and we review A Quiet Place part 2. **Spoilers for A Quiet Place...