The Media Mega Rumble

Send us Fan Mail In this week's new episode, we catch up on everything we have been watching/playing/reading! Includes reviews of Army of the Dead, Those Who Wish Me Dead, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Suspiria 2018, Bent Heavens by Daniel Kraus, Invincible, Zombieland: Double Tap, and more.  In addition, we talk about the prospect of Indiana Jones 5, The Sandman on Netflix, and Rodney Dang...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! And we have decided to look back on the 2020/21 awards season movies by going through all of the Best Picture Oscar Nominees that were up for the award this past April.  Including Minari, Sound of Metal, Promising Young Woman, and eventual winner Nomadland. Were they the best of a bad year? Or were they just shoved into the limelight due to a lack of options? We talk...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's new episode we give our early impressions of Outriders, talk about Space Jam, a ThunderCats movie, and the Knives Out sequels. We also review The Kid Detective and revisit Parks and Recreation and The Assassination of Jesse James.  Then we catch up with your emails and tweets you have kindly sent to us. Includes discussion of pizza, music, what we keep in the f...

Send us Fan Mail Join us on a special bonus episode of LHGO as we review Godzilla vs Kong!! We get into it over the massive monkey fighting a giant lizard, the Monsterverse, and what we thought of this latest instalment from director Adam Wingard. **Massive Spoilers from the start** Follow us on Twitter @lunchhourgeek Email Us: lunchhourgeekout@gmail.com Theme Music: Show Your Moves by Kevin MacLe...

Send us Fan Mail This week we 'borrow' a game from an old podcast - Movie God. We quiz each other on tough choices, if we had to blink Hollywood careers out of existence who would we choose? The answers and discussions include George Lucas (of course) Francis Ford Coppola, Edgar Wright, Guy Ritchie, David Fincher, Chris Nolan, Adam Sandler, Middle Earth, and Star Trek.  In addition, we t...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode of LHGO we flip our last episode about great quotes on its head and reminisce about the worst dialogue and line delivery we have ever witnessed in film including Spider-Man 3, Aquaman, Troll 2, X-Men, Star Wars, Armageddon, Broken Arrow and Starship Troopers.  In addition this week we preview Aliens: Fire Team, look back at 1987's Robocop, review Netflix...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our very first bonus episode where we are joined by Gareth Chappell of Retro101.co.uk for a review of the first season of WandaVision! We get into our opinions of the show as a whole, the MCU and theories on where it could be going as well as the huge online discourse around the show.  Be warned **HEAVY SPOILERS** for WandaVision as well as the MCU so far right from the...

Send us Fan Mail This week we drunkenly test each other's geek trivia knowledge to determine the title of Omega Prime of the Podosphere!! Listen as we battle it out over Star Wars, Middle Earth, Superheroes, Anime, 90's Music and More! A true test of might for the ages... In addition, we talk about the Mortal Kombat trailer, Edgar Wright's version of The Running Man, The Last Of Us...

Send us Fan Mail Author, podcaster and Dr Who expert Hayden Gribble joins us this week for a packed episode of the podcast where we discuss our guilty pleasures. What are the awful pieces of entertainment from across the decades that we just love so much? Includes discussions of peak Roger Moore, Bat Nipples, Saucy Hair Metal Lyrics, Phil Collins, Star Wars, Michael Bay, Top Gear and barrel-scrapi...

Send us Fan Mail We are back! It's a new year, it's a new season of the show, and it's time to get optimistic! Therefore pre any further world ending or changing events, we talk about the games, music, movies and TV we are looking forward to in 2021 including new music from Arcade Fire and Greta Van Fleet, the movies Dune, A  Quiet Place part 2, and The Matrix 4, the games Ghostwire...

Send us Fan Mail ...And that was 2020, an awful year for pretty much the entire human race. A year where we all embraced media as a species like never before. Was there anything good about 2020? Join us as we go through the year that killed cinema and the games, movies and TV that kept us sane in 2020 including 1917, The Mandalorian, The Invisible Man, Tiger King, Devs, The Boys and many more. We...

Send us Fan Mail With the release of the new game from CD Projekt Red, this week we discuss the sub-genre of Cyberpunk. We get into the films, the books, the anime and our hopes and fears for the upcoming game.  In addition, we talk about Brandon Cronenberg's gnarly sci-fi thriller Possessor, a book called Japans Infamous Unit 731, David Lynch's mysterious new Netflix project Wisteria, T...

Send us Fan Mail With the arrival of a new generation of consoles from Sony and Microsoft, it is time to look back on the eighth console generation, the hallowed time of the PlayStation 4, X-Box One and Switch. We go through our top five games of the previous generation including Resident Evil 2, Red Dead Redemption 2, Yakuza 0, Devil May Cry 5, Overwatch, Civilisation 6, Ghost of Tsushima and mor...

Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss what we have been watching including  Lindsay Ellis' recent  YouTube videos, Borat Subsequent Movie Film, Centurion, Of Unknown Origin, Freaks, Relic, Ted Lasso, '71 and #Alive.   Apologies for the poor sound quality in the first half of this episode.  Our main topic is some of our favourite quotes from TV and Film including - Blackadder, Alan Partri...

Send us Fan Mail Its the Halloween Bleak Out Frightacular! As it's Halloween we go through all of our favourite things in the world of horror. This includes Favourite Films, Games, Franchises, Remakes, Novels and Guilty Pleasures. We get into it over George Romero, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, It, The Exorcist and many more! We also discuss 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, To the Lake, and the news inclu...

Send us Fan Mail Join us for the exciting conclusion of our pick for the top ten films of the last decade, the teens as it were.  We run down our choices from 6 - 1 and discuss Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, George Miller, The MCU and their associated masterpieces as well as some more unexpected arthouse and horror choices.  Follow us on twitter @lunchhourgeek Email us at lunchhourgeekout@gm...

Send us Fan Mail This week we begin the countdown of our favourite ten films from the last decade. This includes much discussion around the brilliance of Jeremy Saulnier, Quentin Tarantino, and Joe Carnahan and the underrated films from Pixar and Damien Chazelle.  We also get into news stories concerning the death of cinema, a movie adaptation of Sega's Yakuza franchise, Borat and Nightbreed....

Send us Fan Mail Our main topic this week is the Evil Dead franchise. From its 1981 video nasty origins to the triumphant Evil Dead 2 and its bid for the mainstream in Army of Darkness, Ash vs Evil Dead and the 2013 remake.  This week we also discuss the upcoming release of the PlayStation 5, the games, the design, the hype. We also review the timely and important Defending Jacob on Apple TV befor...

Send us Fan Mail We get personal with this weeks episode of LHGO and talk about the trends, genres and patterns of pop culture we have had enough of and want to be banished to room 102 (for legal reasons, not 101).  This includes things such as oversaturation of streaming services, superheroes, fan service and found footage. Other items we discuss this week include Tenet, Ghost of Tsushima, the sa...

Send us Fan Mail This week's main topic is a deep dive on the Alien franchise! We go into great detail about the seminal 1979 Ridley Scott original and its arguably superior sequel Aliens by James Cameron. Sadly this is then followed by inferior sequels, franchise mash-ups and prequels, but are there any bright spots as the franchise slowly dies over 38 years?  We also discuss the trailer for...

Send us Fan Mail If you could have five guests for dinner (alive or dead) who would they be? Well because you didn't ask us, we are going to tell you ours! A fun discussion involving Nicolas Cage, Rian Johnson, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch and more! This week we also provide a review of Jennifer Kent's brutal The Nightingale and the terrifying new Shudder original Host. We also disc...

Send us Fan Mail This week we talk about Keanu Reeves' new comic book, the possible new Lando Calrissian Disney + show, the new Mortal Kombat live-action movie, and the current plight of international cinemas with the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.  Our picks of the week are JoJo Rabbit and Streets of Rage 4. Then our main topic this week is the five defining albums we would take with us when str...

Send us Fan Mail This week we go deep and in detail all about one of the world's favorite subjects - Star Wars. We look back on the original trilogy, look back on the badly received prequels and George Lucas' original plans for the sequel trilogy before Disney. Finally, we rank the entire goddamn saga.  We also discuss Ghosts of Tsushima buzz, Microsoft buying WB games, Fallout becoming...

Send us Fan Mail On our first episode, our main topic is a discussion and review of The Last of Us Part 2! We also discuss Michael Bay being canceled, Michael Keaton returning as Batman, Rocksteady's new DC universe set games in development, Cobra Kai coming to Netflix, a Twister reboot, and the Cyberpunk 2077 anime. We also speak about the Netflix documentary series The Last Dance as well as...