Geek of Oz

Episode 57! Stu and Billy are back this week to discuss Thor: Ragnarok . They also head to the flicks to watch Brigsby Bear and discuss it after. Thor: Ragnarok is the sequel to Thor: The Dark World,  and the seventeenth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Taika Waititi ( Boy, What We Do In The Shadows, and Hunt for the Wilderpeople ). Imprisoned on the alien planet Sakaar, the mighty Thor (Chris Hemsworth) finds himself in deadly gladiatorial competition that also pits him against the hulk. Time is ticking though as Thor must escape and race back to Asgard to save his civilisation from the all-powerful Hela (Cate Blanchett) and prevent the coming Ragnarok. The film also stars Tom Hiddleston, Tessa Thompson, Mark Ruffalo, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Karl Urban, and many others. Brigsby Bear  stars Kyle Mooney as James Pope, a man obsessed with a children's television program titles Brigsby Bear Adventures. When...

Everyone's favourite grey haired gang is back and thanks to our friends at Hopscotch, we've got 5x copies of RED 2 to give away on DVD!  In Red 2, the high-octane action-comedy sequel to the worldwide sleeper hit, retired black-ops CIA agent Frank Moses (Bruce Willis) reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives - including former colleague Marvin (John Malkovich), ever-deadly sharp-shooter Victoria (Helen Mirren) and Frank's beloved Sarah (Mary-Louise Parker) - for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. To succeed, they'll need to survive an army of relentless assassins, ruthless terrorists and power-crazed government officials, all eager to get their hands on the next-generation weapon. It's a mission that takes them to Paris, London and Moscow, where they cross paths with Frank's seductive former flame Katja (Catherine Zeta-Jones), as well as Bailey (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant scientist from Frank's past. Outgunned and ...

Back in 2011 we reviewed the first instalment of Thor and were impressed by just about every element however in hindsight, it lacked a sense of scale that could be expected of a film based around gods and monsters. In Thor: The Dark World, those concerns are smashed to pieces. Bor, father of Hannibal Lecter, grandfather of Captain Kirk's dad, was responsible for vanquishing the Dark Elves from the Nine Realms. Lead by the nefarious Malekith, a crackhead version of Legolas, the Dark Elves return in search of the ancient and destructive force, Aether. Then stuff with a hammer and lots of punching and Queen Amidala happens.

Marvel's latest step on the journey to The Avengers comes in the guise of Kenneth Branagh's action adventure epic, Thor. Potentially the most anticipated of Marvel Studios and Paramount Pictures collaborations manages to bring a lesser known superhero to the fore to create a film with much more soul than your usual cape caper. It's almost impossible to keep track of how this character came to the screen. Thor is the age old Norse god who was first characterised in comic book form in the pages of Marvel Comics' Journey into Mystery #83 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1966. He was "modernized" in the pages of a 2007 relaunch by artist Olivier Coipel and writer J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. Also, it has a real-life knight playing a god! In the film, masterfully directed by Branagh, Thor the Norse god of thunder is a vain, arrogant and headstrong warrior being groomed for the throne by his father, the all-father Odin, before being cast out to Earth i...