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Casting a Batman Film With With Classic Hollywood Actors
Since the days of filmgoers following their heroes in multi-part serials, people have loved seeing Batman on the silver screen. In fact it is doubtful that Bill Finger and Bob Kane, could ever imagine...
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Reviewing the Scary Movies That Traumatised My Childhood (Vol. 1)
As I sit on the couch getting into the Hallowe’en spirit (such as it exists Down Under) by watching some of our new favourite horror movies like The Cabin in the Woods I’ve been reflecting on the ones...
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The Top 100 Women in Pop Culture! (Part 4)
It’s our second last entry in the series, counting down another 20 awesome women from our favourite shows, movies, games and comics. It certainly isn’t easy narrowing the list down to 100, but don’t...
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Looking Back At TMNT Action Figures: A Descent into Madness
When I was in year 4 in the Australian schooling system the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles television series premiered. Within a few months it was a fully fledged cultural juggernaut. VHS tapes...
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Why I Love ‘John Carpenter’s The Thing’
Guillermo Del Toro once said that 1982’s The Thing was one of the most influential films in his life. When he left the theater he knew he wanted to be a director. To me this demonstrates the...
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Looking Back On the TMNT Action Figures Part 2: Further into Madness
We’ve already looked at the first couple of years worth of TMNT toys that were released in the late 1980s, and how the designers had clearly lost their minds trying to meet demand while stretching the...
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Looking Back on the TMNT Action Figures Pt. 3: We’re in a Scary Place
So this is the final instalment of this little series, created from a spark of nostalgia that turned into madness. We’ve seen some insane things previously. The theory here is that the poor designers...
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Most Socially Relevant Horror Films
Throughout cinematic history the horror genre has always served as a dark mirror of sorts, forcing society to look at what scares them most. No matter what dread or terror lingers in the minds of...
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An Incomplete History of ‘Aliens’ (and ‘Predator’) in Video Games: A Personal...
I’m an adult. Got a job and a car and children and everything. And like many people in my age group I play video games. Having been born in 1980 I was part of the generation who saw the multi-billion...
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Top 10 Points Where ‘Star Wars’ Fans Lost Faith
It really is the old school fans who keep the Star Wars torch alight. Not that some younger viewers aren’t getting into it, but they’re growing up at the worst point in the franchise history. The...
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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 a passing familiarity with...
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Revisiting ‘Heroes’ Before ‘Heroes Reborn’
Amongst the upcoming new TV shows we have the resurrection of the 2006 sci-fi series Heroes. Coming before the Marvel reinvented the cinematic superhero franchise while Arrow got the ball rolling on...
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Reviewing the Scary Movies that Traumatised My Childhood (Part 3)
We all have one…that one image that stayed with you from childhood. The one that the shadows in your room formed themselves into at night. Maybe you grew up and forgot it, maybe you never quite let it...
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Reviewing the Scary Movies that Traumatised My Childhood (Part 4)
The more I think about it, the more horrifying experiences I had watching movies as a child. It’s time to dig into the subconscious lurking horrors and revisit the past once more. If you missed the...
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10 Awesome Arcade Games That Have Been Forgotten
Home consoles are all well and good but for the best graphics, groundbreaking design and the latest hits you have to hit the arcade…or so it was, 20 years ago. Prior to the Playstation generation the...
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A Doctor Who Missed His Appointment With Fame
2003 marked the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who, an event which came at a time when nobody, least of all most of the BBC, thought it would ever return to television. BBC Worldwide wanted to make a film,...
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Cheap Game Tuesday: ‘War of the Monsters’
Ohboy ohboy ohboy!!! Yes, I know that Day of the Tentacle is out and it’s a perfect candidate and I love it but the remastered release price is a bit steep for a game I can finish in my sleep. If you...
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Top 10 Best TV Show Intros IV
The ‘Top 10’ in the intro is a lie, because we’ve done this before here and here and here. That means there’s already 30 awesome shows we’re not considering for this list. But these mini-art form...
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10 Classic Gaming Franchises You Forgot Existed
There are those gaming franchises that we’re waiting to return, like Timesplitters, and there are those that crashed and burned with terrible entires, like Final Fight. Then there are those that...
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Original VS Remake Vol. 2 –‘Ocean’s Eleven’
Last week we compared the two versions of Dawn of the Dead and found that…well, they were both pretty good. There’s going to be a lot of horror coming up in this series, but this week we’re looking at...
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