With the forthcoming release of Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ready Player One, we thought is might be a good idea to revisit the novel, and see if it really was as good as the first pass led us to believe.

Yeah. About that...

We talk about the limits of nostalgia, terrible marketing, bad writing, and how far a gimmick will get you. Plus there's our regular Thimble of Win (with an additional Mugful of Meh).

Links

http://store.steampowered.com/app/289070/Sid_Meiers_Civilization_VI/

http://themusic.com.au/news/all/2018/03/06/reef,-the-wildhearts-and-terrorvision-unite-for-one-huge-aussie-tour/

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3k7mv5/ready-player-one-movie-poster-parodies

This week, you're going to have to watch your backs... they have eyes everywhere. We've gone too far down the rabbit hole, and it's everywhere - the Moon, Abbey Road, all the way to the White House (Thanks Obama). I'm telling you, they've got body doubles, replacement band members, ghost writers, the whole nine yards. You've got to get the news out while you can!

Careful though - someone might be listening...

This episode, your favourite hopeless romantics travel through time and space, via war zones, alternate realities, and all points in between to bring you our favourite examples of couples and love in Pop Culture.

Plus in our Thimble of Win, Chani raises hell, Cav goes to war and commits sin, an Mike is searching for a soothing balm. \

Get your smooch on people!

Links:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5476182/

https://divinity.game/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/230410/Warframe/

http://marvel.com/movies/movie/222/thor_ragnarok

This week, it's the second half or our review of 2017, where we look further at our favourite pop-culture moments of the year.

This week, we give you the first half of our review of 2017.

We give you our favourite Geek moments from last year, covering our usual bases of Games, Film, TV, and anything else we can come up with. It's a long one, and part two will be with you shortly.

We'll be looking to have a more regular schedule over the next year, and will hopefully be launching some new ways in which you can interact with the podcast.

Which, being people of taste and discernment, you will be only to ready to take advantage of.

This week, we look at Space Operas, and give praise/a good kicking to several notable examples of the genre, taking in Film, TV, Books and Games. We journey form Epsilon 3 to Mongo, from the Systems Commonwealth to the moons of Jupiter, all the while dispensing our verdicts without mercy.

We're not including Star Wars, Star Trek or Doctor Who - they get enough coverage already, not least from us. So sit back and take in our thoughts on the Genre.

Plus you can hear Cav rant, Chani gush excitedly at joining 2016, and Mike crack inappropriate jokes at every available opportunity.

Thimble of Win Links:

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/12/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-screenwriter

https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80097140

Other Links:

Peter Duncan in Flash Gordon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKBr0WqkA3s

Thumbnail image credit: © Chris Foss

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This episode, Mike and Cav get together to give you their review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi. So naturally, there are a lot of spoilers. We talk at length about the key moments of the film, its many narrative arcs, and where this leaves the future of the Star Wars universe.

If you haven't seen the film yet, then wait until you have to listen to this episode.

Enjoy!

We're back once again with our hiatus review. This time, we're talking about the best in TV and film from while we were away galavanting (in the case of at least one of our number, getting married).

We take a look at Stranger Things, Star Trek: Discovery and Game of Thrones (with honourable mentions for The Defenders, and The Tick). We also rave about Baby Driver, have a good hard look at Blade Runner 2049, Thor: Ragnarok, Pirates of the Carribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales, and Spiderman: Homecoming. Yes - all of the colons!

And Chani losing her shit about Littlefinger.

Links:

https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones

https://www.netflix.com/au/title/80057281

http://www.cbs.com/shows/star-trek-discovery/

http://bladerunnermovie.com/

http://marvel.com/thor

http://pirates.disney.com/

http://www.babydriver-movie.com/discanddigital/

https://www.facebook.com/TheSamePhotoofJeffGoldblumEveryday/

https://www.facebook.com/thesamephotoofjimcarreyeveryday/

Well hello again. Did you miss us?

Once again, it's time to welcome back your three favourite Geek Vacationers, as we pass around the novelty donkeys, and break out the slide show while Uncle Marmaduke passes out in the corner after one too many brandies...

In this episode, we'll be looking at Chani and Cav's exploits, as we hear all about their adventures in the world of conventions. Chani dazzles us with her best Hollywood Smile as she regales us with tales of hobnobbing with the stars of VidCon, and give us the lowdown on PaxAus. Cav reviews Wolfenstein II: The New Collosus, and we almost kill Chani with fictional wrestlers. There's a monkey cat, teeth brushing in games, and shouting at a boy called Jason.

All you could possibly want, really.

Links:

Chani at VicCon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYDydAvftw

Other Links:

http://vidconaustralia.com/

http://aus.paxsite.com

https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/detroit-become-human-ps4/

https://www.extra-life.org/#

https://wolfenstein.bethesda.net/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/564230/Fire_Pro_Wrestling_World/

This week, your favourite Geek Marines load up their hardware and go searching for Xenomorphs on the USCSS There Will Be Geek. We talk about the Alien Saga from its humble beginnings in Dark Star to the latest offering in Alien: Covenant. We talk about the successes, the qualified successes, the critical failures and the baffling decisions that have followed the story as it progressed.

Plus, in our Thimble of Win, we talk mini-gaming, world building and Rafa Benitez.

Thimble of Win links:

https://www.nintendo.com.au/nintendo-announces-the-nintendo-classic-mini-super-nintendo-entertainment-system

http://www.elderscrollsonline.com/en-gb/agegate

http://www.touchingdistance.com/?page_id=1763