Posts | Pixelated Geek - Part 34

BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
llyzabeth

Binary System Podcast #444 – WTNV #261 “Brought To You By Flakey O’s,” Beastars, and Lower Decks

Welcome to Night Vale is back from hiatus this week so we’ve gotta talk about the Flakey-O’s employees as they celebrate their return from a Season of Unstoppable Churning Death. (Otherwise known as corporate takeover.) Totally understandable that they’d want to cut loose for a bit, and what’s a little grave robbing among friends? After

Read More »
llyzabeth February 6, 2025 No Comments
Companion Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Companion

{🚨SEMI-SPOILERS🚨}: Directed by Drew Hancock, Companion follows a weekend getaway among friends at a remote cabin that turns bloody and violent when a subservient android amongst them that’s built for human companionship goes haywire. There has been a steady rise of original horror and thriller films in recent years that have been putting their own

Read More »
Hugh Verheylewegen January 31, 2025 No Comments
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #443 – Arcane, Star Trek: Lower Decks, and Bojack Horseman

Wow, we’ve got a real rhythm going with these posts! We’re back again this week to discuss the second-to-last episode (ever!) of Arcane. What can we say about this show that we haven’t said before? It’s beautiful, it’s terrifying, it’s powerful, it’s violent. We finally get the backstory on what’s been happening with Mel, but

Read More »
Kathryn Adams January 30, 2025 No Comments
You-Like-It-Darker---banner
Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: You Like It Darker – Stories

The world is full of rattlesnakes. Sometimes you step on them and they don’t bite. Sometimes you step over them and they bite anyway. Stephen King has a new collection of short stories! Which he released last May. I probably should have gotten to this in October, but actually this feels less like a Halloween

Read More »
Kathryn Adams January 21, 2025 No Comments
WolfMan 2025 Review
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Wolf Man (2025)

Directed by Leigh Whannell, Wolf Man follows a family man named Blake (Christopher Abbott) who relocates from San Francisco to Oregon with his workaholic wife Charlotte (Julia Garner) and daughter Ginger (Matilda Firth) after inheriting his childhood home, left vacant following his estranged father’s mysterious disappearance and presumed death. At the farmhouse at night during

Read More »
Hugh Verheylewegen January 20, 2025 No Comments
StarWarsSkeletonCrewReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Star Wars: Skeleton Crew

{🚨SEMI-SPOILERS🚨}: Created by Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, Skeleton Crew follows four kids who make a mysterious discovery on their seemingly safe home planet that results in them getting lost in a strange and dangerous galaxy. Finding their way home and meeting unlikely allies and enemies will be a greater adventure than they ever imagined.

Read More »
Hugh Verheylewegen January 16, 2025 No Comments
BinarySystemPodcastHeaderTest 1
Binary System Podcast
Kathryn Adams

Binary System Podcast #441 – Star Trek: Lower Decks, Beastars, and Arcane

This week it’s thirty minutes and three topics as the Binary System Podcast team does an in-depth recap of…okay, so the first two topics are gonna be kinda fast. Kathryn watched Season 2 Episode 6 of Star Trek: Lower Decks (foley artists, take a bow), and Elizabeth and Kathryn both watched Season 3 Episode 3

Read More »
Kathryn Adams January 16, 2025 No Comments
BetterManReview
Reviews
Hugh Verheylewegen

Review – Better Man

Directed by Michael Gracey, Better Man follows the true story of the meteoric rise, dramatic fall, and remarkable resurgence of British pop superstar Robbie Williams. Like most people, I had no idea who Robbie Williams was before seeing the trailers for this film and I was confused as to why he was being represented as

Read More »
Hugh Verheylewegen January 14, 2025 No Comments