Monthly Archive: November 2011

TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.07 “Pretty Much Dead Already”

Season 2 | Episode 7 | Mid-Season Finale WARNING – FULL SPOILERS Wow…what a great mid-season finale for The Walking Dead. What better place to start this review than right at the end of the episode, Sofia ‘walking’ out of that barn was a real shock and gave us a horrific reality check for this …

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TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.06 “Secrets”

Season 2 | Episode 6 WARNING – FULL SPOILERS After last week’s big reveal that Hershel has been keeping zombies cooped up in his barn, I went into this week’s episode thinking things would kick off big time, with the group being exposed to this discovery. However, “Secrets’ became very fitting to its title as …

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Devin Townsend, Unplugged

Devin

Devin Townsend, Unplugged Corporation, Sheffield 16th November 2011 The latest leg of Devin Townsend’s mammoth touring schedule has seen him morph into a ‘one-man-and-his-guitar’ act for the next few weeks. Last night, it was Corporation in Sheffield that played host to the Canadian maestro. The performance will have been somewhat different to what the locals …

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TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.05 “Chupacabra”

Season 2 | Episode 5 WARNING – FULL SPOILERS This week’s episode of The Walking Dead was all about one man, or should I say one redneck, Daryl Dixon. Daryl’s relentless quest to find Sofia started off as a horseman of the apocalypse routine with him striding through the woods picking off squirrels with a …

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Immortals

Immortals. Relativity Media/Universal Pictures.

Immortals Dir: Tarsem Singh Starring: Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Stephen Dorff, Isabel Lucas, John Hurt Run-Time: 110 Mins   Immortals may not fare too well in a direct comparison with 300, but seeing as the advertising is so keen to remind everyone that it is made by the same producers, it …

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Damnation Festival 2011

Ziltoid at Damnation

Damnation Festival 2011 Leeds University Union 5th November 2011 Last weekend saw the Fake Geeks team travel the short distance up the M1 to Leeds, for what we expect is our last music festival this year – Damnation Festival. Since 2007, Leeds has played host to one of the quickest rising indoor metal festivals around …

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In Time

In Time. 20th Century Fox.

In Time Dir: Andrew Nichol Starring: Justin Timerlake, Amanda Seyfried, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer Run-Time: 109 Mins   It says something when the best thing about a movie is the acting of Justin Timberlake.   In Time has an intriguing central concept – humans are genetically engineered to stop ageing at 25, at …

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TV Review: The Walking Dead 2.04 “Cherokee Rose”

Glenn zombie fishing

Season 2, Episode 4 Starring: Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Sarah Wayne Callies. A fitting title for this week’s episode of The Walking Dead but sadly the “Cherokee Rose” wilted more than it blossomed. After what was the best episode since the pilot last week the show slowed down it’s pace but that’s not to say it …

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TV Review: Dexter 6.06 “Just Let Go”

Dexter & Brother Sam

Season 6, Episode 6 Dexter continued this week with what was undoubtedly the episode of the season so far. At first it seemed that Brother Sam’s shooting was going to get in the way of the Doomsday storyline and take the pace of Dexter’s hunt for Gellar for another week. Thankfully this wasn’t the case …

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TV Review: Dexter 6.05 “The Angel of Death”

The Angel of Death

Season 6, Episode 5 Sitting down to watch this week’s episode of Dexter I was as scared as I was excited. Scared not because I was going to witness another brutal, biblical death (in fact I think quite the opposite – these are awesomely horrific) but because I was worried that the Doomsday killer plot …

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