Episode #33 features:
Popcorn Junkie: The Big Lebowski
Waiting for Trade: Thunderbolts: Caged Angels, The Secret History & Fatale
Round Table: NCP’s Top 5 Sidekicks
Archive for September, 2012
The Dictator
Released: 2012
Directed by: Larry Charles
Written by: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris and Ben Kingsley
Plot: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
For: Some scenes quite funny
Against: Faris is wasted / Most of it is not funny / Not as good as Borat, but better than Bruno
Favourite Scene: Most of the scenes dealing with life in Wadiya
Rating: 1.5 Lukes
The Raid: Redemption
Released: 2011
Directed by: Gareth Evans
Written by: Gareth Evans
Starring: Iko Uwais, Ananda George and Ray Sahetapy
Plot: A SWAT team becomes trapped in a tenement run by a ruthless mobster and his army of killers and thugs.
For: Insanely cool action sequences / Over the top violence
Against: Not as much fun as I thought its would be / Some of the fight scenes go on a little long
Favourite Scene: Everything from when the alarm is triggered to cutting a whole in the floor to escape
Rating: 4 Lukes
The Raven
Released: 2012
Directed by: James McTeigue
Written by: Ben Livingston (screenplay), Hannah Shakespeare (screenplay)
Starring: John Cusack, Alice Eve and Luke Evans
Plot: When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality.
For: Interesting idea
Against: Boring / Cusak is phoning it in / Evans tries hard but just can’t pull it off (I like him though) / Predictable / Terrible ending
Favourite Scene: The Pendulum
Rating: 0.5 Lukes
Welcome to part 2 of our new series Behind the Counter, showcasing the great comic and nerd culture shops around Australia.
For this installment we bring you – Gifts for the Geek!
Run by self confessed geeks Darren & Jason, Gifts for the Geek has been in operation since 2007 in Geelong Victoria.
Supportive of their community, and well known and beloved faces at conventions all around Australia, Darren & Jason have an infectious love for all things Geek and we’re very happy they are part of our series.
Take it away Darren!
Hi All
In order to celebrate the release of issue #4 Ben Michael Byrne’s excellent Kranburn, FEC Comics are putting on An EXTRAVAGANZA!!!
Not only are they releasing Kranburn, but they’re also releasing two new comics – FIRESIDE TALES – A horror anthology collecting three brilliant stories from some very talented Australian creators; Alex Smith, Andrew Shaw, Billy Tournas, Mike Wszelaki and Will Pleydon, & SEVEN – Fairy tales were once not so child-friendly. Alisha Jade delves into these origins and presents her interpretations.
How awesome is that! NCP will be there and we’d love you to say Hi!When: 22 September, 6.30pm
Where: All Star Comics Melbourne. Level 1, 410 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Where: All Star Comics Melbourne. Level 1, 410 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
Further details can be found at the FEC website and Facebook page – www.facebook.com/events/266658426779629/
Cya there!
Hi All!
Here at NerdCulturePodcast we sometimes receive requests from people asking us to plug their topic/product. Sometimes it turns out to be something dodgy, or inappropriate for our family friendly image, but sometimes it’s something pretty cool – and the Electric Animal Circus definitely falls into that category.
According to the creator, Patrick Gleeson, ‘In a junk-punk, post-apocalyptic future an incorrigible showman and a boy genius build robotic animals from trash and make them the stars of a travelling circus.’ Intriguing yeah!
He has a website that chronicles the development of the Circus from concept to future release, featuring short films, photos, music and artwork, which can be found at:
It really does look awesome, with the xylophone playing octopus my personal favourite – “Keep it simple Stratonicus!”
According to Patrick his show will be ‘geek/robot/puppetry/theatre/scifi/junk-punk/music/animatronic/circus heaven‘ and I think he may be right.
Check it out!
