Comic Conversations 253: When Christmas is on a Wednesday
Tony and Alex are back to talk all things comics for the week of December 25th, 2019. Comic Book News of Top Selling Graphics Novels of the Decade and Johns being awful. Including but not limited to...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club: Dazza’s Top 11 Movies of 2019
As we reach the end of 2019 it’s time for one of my most enjoyable traditions of the year, as I look through the list of all the films I saw at the cinema and try to work out my favourites. A cracking...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club 2008: The Times were Changing
It may not have been entirely evident at the time, but the seeds of change on big box office cinema had been sown by a superhero movie in 2008. If cinema goers had been told this at the time they...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club: 2009
2009 and America’s 44th President took office, who came to be known Internationally as “The Nice One That We In Other Countries Really Liked”. This led to America being reclassified as “Not Racist and...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club: Oscar 2020 Special….let’s get mad about movies
It’s the Oscars, the event that brings all movie lovers together as one crowd to celebrate and respect each other’s personal and subjective tastes in cinema. Which ends up looking like the social...
View ArticleTHE SUPER BOWL SHUFFLES YOU DOWN MEMORY LANE
January, 1986, Chicago @HalfGuarded What’s happening with the Super Bowl when you watch it? I’m first writing this post for Super Bowl 52. Pats v Eagles was then, what’s now? I wonder if I do meta...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club…Oscars Amendment
Or, Dazza saw Parasite and is changing his votes It’s a white CIS male’s prerogative to change his mind, and ever since I wrote my Oscars piece I’ve had the obvious remorse on who I would have voted...
View Article“BITCHES LEAVE”
Detroit I saw a story recently about Thundercats and people were upset about something being done to it. I have no idea what it’s about, nor do I care, as I don’t think I ever watched or bought...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club 2010….a bloody good year.
If the movies of 2010 were to be a wine it would be described as been a pleasingly varied selection of nose. Maybe, I don’t know, I don’t drink wine. What I’m trying to say is, 2010 was a crackling...
View ArticleWho’s gon’ give it to ya? X
The Awkward Moment When You Have to Turn Down the Volume at the Street Light @HalfGuarded D. M. X. Who doesn’t love X? Assholes, that’s who. I was watching Deadpool the other day and as a result have...
View ArticleWE ARE THEIR HOPEFUL FUTURE: Disco 2000
This is another song I heard on spotify and that means it is in my head and on this page and beamed to you! But what is it about, according to Wikipedia? Disco 2000” is a hit single by British band...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club 2011….it’s all about the money
@Dazzalovesmovie In 2011 for the first time ever three films broke the one billion dollar line at the boxoffice. A golden age for the cinema going experience perhaps? Well a look at the top 10 money...
View ArticleCouchzone Movieclub 2012: Argo…nna End My Watch with Dredd
We all know what’s going on, but the last thing the internet needs is more unqualified half assed words of wisdom, so fuck it. Let’s go back to the simpler times of 2012, when you could leave your...
View ArticleYou don’t have to be negative: Five examples of being positive about movie...
Let’s face it, the negative things in life are far more alluring than the positive. When the current crisis hit, how much more attention was given to videos of sleazy families leaving leaving...
View ArticleSimpsons Watch-Along Podcast @SimpsonsWatch
with @PeachMachine and @Dabbledob Relive one of the best episodes of all time! When the Simpsons move to Cypress Creek, Homer’s new boss is not quite what he’s made out to be. The post Simpsons...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club 2013: Disney Khan Gone On
2013 and when announcing the best actress nominees for that year’s Oscars, host Seth Mcfarlane remarked “Congratulations ladies, you know longer have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein.”...
View ArticleCouchzone Movie Club: Documentaries about Movies
The finished film that we see on a screen is only part of the story of a movie. Behind the scenes, there may have been a saga of infighting, clashes between creatives and the dreaded money men,...
View ArticleWe make love until the sun comes
Clutching one another, two thieves consoling one another into accepting a world where what they did was natural, necessary even. Her left leg wraps around his, scratching herself against the...
View ArticleCouchzone: Favourite Star Trek Episodes (The Original Series)
Star Trek has always been a part of my life, but that’s ok, I never expected to have much sex anyway. An abiding memory I will always have of Star Trek is also a rather strange one. It was on the very...
View ArticleThe Piledriver
An ear worm: the well-known phenomenon wherein one has a song or melody stuck in their head. I’ve no idea if the term for its visual analogue is eye worm, one would hope not, but a rose by any other...
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