Geek Culture

Your weekly reminder that 2016 is almost done. Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan didn't get to see much this week, but still had plenty to talk about. Especially with their review of Krisha, which has been...

It is becoming a real challenge to see the good reasoning behind decisions in the anime adaptation of Ace Attorney. Episode 11: Turnabout Goodbyes 4th Trial has inconsistent animation that seems to be all over...

Another week deeper into Oscar season and we've got a bunch of big hitters to discuss. Not content with reviewing one movie this week, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss several big releases that will...

The latest announcement from the Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed) franchise is proof the series is far from closing its last case with the latest news being released. Information has been released which...

FUNimation announced this week that the anime film, Your Name, will arrive at American theaters in 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbtN9HOOqhk Two high school students, Mitsuha and Taki, are strangers to each other. But one night stars fell from...

Greetings no-maj's, and welcome to a podcast that talks about a lot of stuff your world simply won't be able to comprehend. Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan recount the adventures of Newt Scamander in the...

Overwatch: First Strike was to be a key media release for Blizzard Activision's uber-popular team shooter. The 100-page graphic novel was to be released in December, with a physical release through Dark Horse Comics in early...

Turnabout Goodbyes 3rd Trial is the tenth episode of the Ace Attorney anime adaption series and sadly there is not much improvement from the first nine. Last episode left us with Phoenix and Maya trying...

As we live through the years of the future that old media told us about, we witness a reality previous generations couldn't foretell. We've been blessed in our culture with crafty storytellers like Rod Serling...

What a humdinger of a week we have had. To try and keep our minds off the terrible things happening around the world, Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan went and watched a ton of movies...

The Vancouver International Film Festival happened last month and we've been holding onto a podcast about VIFF 2016 for a couple weeks now. We discussed the Toronto International Film Festival recently, and now it's only fair...

FUNimation is re-releasing an anime film in a special edition, Summer Wars - Hosoda Collection, which will be officially released on November 22. Director Mamoru Hosoda produced a wonderful film that exemplifies the value of family...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan return to the scene of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to perform surgery on Doctor Strange, the fourteenth film in the MCU. The film is directed by Scott Derrickson and stars Benedict...

Steam allows for a variety of games to be released, no matter the size of the project, and I'm glad Anime Studio Simulator was given the green light for Visualnoveler's first publication on the platform....

In Ace Attorney's anime Episode 9 - Turnabout Goodbyes: 2nd Trial,  Miles Edgeworth, a promising prosecutor, has been arrested for murdering Robert Hammond who was involved in Miles's father's murder trial, also known as the...

Millennials have been at the short end of the theoretical stick for a long time. Between Baby Boomers, Generation X, and everything in between, blame needs to be placed for the next generation to blame...

It can be pretty lonely if you're the creative type. I'd expect Jim Jarmusch would be among those people that live in a form of solitude as a famous writer/director/intellectual. Paterson is a deep exploration into the...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan reflect on the remarkable 2010 film Klovn, before finally venturing into the raunchy, uncomfortable world of Klovn Forever. Starring Frank Hvam and Casper Christensen, the movie which is based off the show...

Known as one of the world's pre-eminent surrealists, Alejandro Jodorowsky has shown time and time again that he can tell a complete story with jumbled pieces. After a 23 year absence from the director's chair,...

Paul Verhoeven, the celebrated director of Basic Instinct, Robocop, Total Recall, Starship Troopers, and many Dutch language films, has returned for his first film in 10 years with an expectedly provocative piece of cinema. Verhoeven is known...

Deep within a plotline that at first confounds the mind, BBK/BRNK (...and a name that confounds the mind too) brings an interesting set of characters that people can grow to like while the fascinating story...

I have a wife, a daughter, a career and a mortgage. I'm a registered voter, a smart shopper and a friendly neighbor. To the casual observer, I'm a painfully boring, typical adult. But the truth...

Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan take a quick look at the new Jack Reacher film, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The first was surprisingly decent. Does this second one hold up? Well, we talk about the lack of...

As an actress, Isabelle Huppert has blessed us with over 100 roles and just as many different types of characters. Some would say that Huppert has started to play the same bitter, pessimistic character for...

With the advent of virtual reality comes its application to cinema. Films are a primarily passive medium, meaning that virtual reality has the potential to provide interaction within something inherently static. With Invasion! there is a glimmer...