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Episode 40! Stu and Billy are back this week to discuss Ghost In The Shell ! Ghost In The Shell   is a science fiction crime drama based on the Japanese manga by Masamune Shirow. It is directed by Rupert Sanders (Snow White and The Huntsman) and stars Scarlett Johansson as The Major . In the near future Major is the first of her kind; a human who has been cybernetically enhanced to be the perfect soldier.  She and her task force Section 9 are devoted to thwarting criminals and terrorists. They must now face a new enemy; one with the ability to hack people's minds and control them, and enemy who will stop at nothing to sabotage Hanka Robotics' artificial intelligence technology. The film also stars Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbaek, Ng Chin Han, Juliette Binoche, and Peter Ferdinando As well as the film, Stu and I discuss what else we've been watching this week, and look over the latest in movie news. As always it would make our day if you could t...

Big week for DC fans; not only is  Lego Batman coming out on Thursday, but here's a new Justice League trailer! We get a much better look at what Jason Momoa as Arthur 'Aquaman' Curry will be bringing to the team, plus there's a tonne of new shots of The Flash, Cyborg, Wonder Woman and Batman. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the trailer and DC films in general in the comments below. Play nice Marvel fans. Justice League  hits Australian cinemas on November 16, 2017 Directed by Zack Snyder and stars Gal Gadot, Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Ezra Miller, Ray Fisher, Jason Momoa, Amy Adams, Connie Nielsen, Amber Heard and J.K Simmons. - Stu

We here at Geek of Oz love a good film poster. So we thought we highlight some our favourites we've spotted around the inter-webs of late. Hope you enjoy. What are some of your favourites? Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 (dir James Gunn) Kong: Skull Island (dir Jordan Vogt-Roberts) Free Fire (dir Ben Wheatley) Logan (dir James Mangold) Alien Covenant (dir Ridley Scott) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (dir Martin McDonagh) The Love Witch (dir Anna Biller) Rogue One (dir Gareth Edwards)

Episode 39! Stu and Billy are back this week to discuss Power Rangers ! Power Rangers   is a film based on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series. It is directed by Dean Israelite ( Project Almanac ) and written by John Gatins ( Coach Carter, Real Steel, Kong: Skull Island ). In the film five teenagers with attitude come together by coincidence/destiny to become the Power Rangers, warriors who are to defend the Earth from any threat. The world rest in these teenagers hands as Rita Repulsa, an intergalactic witch and former Green Ranger, launches an attack on Earth seeking the Zeo Crystal with her army of Putties and giant gold monster Goldar. Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, and Ludi Lin star as the Power Rangers. Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston, and Elizabeth Banks also star as Alpha 5, Zordon, and Rita Repulsa. As well as the film, Stu and I discuss what else we've been watching this week, and look over the latest in movie news. As always it wou...

Back when Wonderland Sydney was still standing, I went on a rollercoaster. It was good, but on reflection maybe a bit basic. The way it worked was it plodded up a peak, then went down quite smoothly before going up another peak, then it entered a fast decline all the way to the exit. In many ways, Strange the Dreamer feels a lot like that rollercoaster. It starts a bit slow, gets better as it heads to the first peak (in this case, an end-of-first-act plot payoff), then quickly and decisively goes straight down all the way to the end. But while the rollercoaster's downward slope was exhilarating and energetic, Strange the Dreamer 's decline is rather the opposite. Long ago, a war between gods and men ended with the former getting slaughtered by the latter. In their death throes, the gods stole the true name of what is now known as Weep, a mystical city of fantastic creatures and powerful magic. Seemingly lost to history, Weep is now only important to historians, archivists,...

THE SHORT VERSION   Comparisons between Nier Automata and Horizon Zero Dawn may be inevitable, but not wholly accurate. Though the two games emerged at roughly the same time, the former is a tightly-focused and coherent single character journey across a well-paced and thoughtfully written plot. Nier: Automata is...a little different. THE SLIGHTLY LONGER VERSION  In a post-apocalyptic future with the drabbest colour palette ever conceived, humanity is attacked by aliens. The resulting conflict wipes humanity from the face of the Earth, relegating the survivors to a colony on the moon. To defend them, the humans commission a number of androids in the YoRHa initiative to reclaim Earth from the aliens and their swarm of robots who now occupy the planet. One of these androids, 2B, teams up with another android, 9S, to defend humanity and learn more about the alien threat. The plot quickly spirals out from that point. To call the story of Nier: Automata ab...

Episode 38! Stu and Billy are back this week to discuss A Cure For Wellness ! A Cure For Wellness   is psychological horor/thriller film directed by Gore Verbinski (The first 3  Pirates of the Caribbean films , The Lone Ranger, The Ring remake ). In the film Lockhart (Dane DeHaan) is a Wall Street stockbroker who has been  to retrieve his company's CEO, Pembroke (Harry Groener),  from an idyllic but mysterious wellness center in a remote location in the Swiss Alps  Lockhart soon suspects that the miraculous treatments the patients are receiving and the center's Dr Heinreich Volmer (Jason Isaacs) are not what they seem. He sanity is soon test when he begin to unravel the mystery surrounding the Wellness Center. The film also features Mia Goth, Adrian Schiller, Celia Imrie, Ashok Mandanna, Tomas Norstrom, Carl Lumbly, and Lisa Banes. As well as the film, Stu and I discuss what else we've been watching this week, and look over the latest in movie n...