Geeks Unleashed

Another Late to the Party Book Club episode in the middle of our "Summer of X!" Since we just covered Days of Future Past last week, we're now on the two issue run that started it all! Once again, we're joined by our brother Lynk to deep dive into the legacy of this 1980s classic. TRACKLIST: 3:17 - Familiarity with this story 9:56 - The legacy of this story 11:43 - Do writers know when their work will be iconic? 17:45 - What is this story really about? 22:25 - How did we read it? 26:26 - What were your thoughts when you first read this vs now? 39:27 - How does this story fit into the current MCU? 45:24 - Accessibility of this book 50:26 - Story structure 56:47 - Thoughts on the artwork You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We are joined once again by our homie, Lynk to help us get through this -- dare we say -- underrated film? That's right, our "Summer of X" continues as we tackle The Rogue Cut of X-Men Days of Future Past. And when we say this is an underrated film, you'll understand why when we talk about the absolute POWERHOUSE year for blockbuster films that was 2014. TRACKLIST: 1:20 - Geek of the Week: Lynk - X-Men 97 and Superman Blue; Jasmin - Tadaima, Okaeri!; Mark - The Fall Guy 10:24 - Film summary and fun facts 19:52 - How we got this film 24:59 - How did we watch this film the first time vs now 31:48 - Theatrical Cut vs The Rogue Cut 40:11 - Overall thoughts on this film 48:57 - Our favorite characters 52:59 - Thoughts on the plot 1:02:50 - Favorite scenes 1:08:09 - What we would have changed or cut 1:11:22 - Other films that came out this same year 1:21:45 - Where to find us online You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Although neither of the Geeks saw this film in theaters, they were united in their thoughts on this entry that restarts a struggling franchise. Also, can you guess whose powers each of us would have chosen for ourselves? TRACKLIST: 1:43 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - The Killer (Netflix); Mark - Civil War (2024) 9:40 - Summary and fun facts 22:06 - X-Men First Class (2011) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

After last week's anti-climactic end to the original X-Men trilogy, we decided to go back to the source material. We're reading The Dark Phoenix Saga to see what could have been. But be warned, this saga is not so easily digestible for comic novices. TRACKLIST: 1:27 - How familiar are we with these characters? 4:06 - Summary and our thoughts on this story/arc 11:01 - How would this story have been told now, 40+ years later? 18:10 - How did we read it and our thoughts on the artwork 26:35 - Legacy of this graphic novel You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

And here we are... The movie in this series we like to pretend doesn't exist. Now in 2024, is this film as bad as it was back in 2006? Listen in to hear what we think! TRACKLIST: 1:35 - Geek of the Week: Mark - Godzilla X Kong; Jasmin - My Hero Academia rewatch 9:30 - Film summary and fun facts 20:22 - X-Men: The Last Stand review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

A rare occasion in film where the sequel is better than the original? We certainly think X2 fits the bill. We did get a bit sidetracked at the beginning of the episode with our discussion on Quiet On Set. Trigger warning, we do briefly mention some of the abuse that the documentary covers. TRACKLIST: 1:21 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Quiet on Set; Mark - Unforgotten 31:49 - Summary and fun facts 43:40 - X2: X-Men United (2003) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We are back this week with, arguably, the film that kicked off our higher expectations in the Superhero film genre. (2008 took that to new heights, but that's another conversation for another day...) X-Men, or as Mark calls it, The Wolverine Show, really raised the bar for comic book films! All this and more as we continue our run of all the mutant films! TRACKLIST: 1:19 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Dangerous Convenience Store Vol 2; Mark - Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 10:08 - Summary and fun facts 25:54 - X-Men (2002) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

And here we go! Kicking off our BIGGEST themed run EVER -- the Geeks are tackling every single X-Men film. And yes, we mean EVERY one of them. Starting with Fox's failed attempt at getting a live action series going back in the late 90s. We're starting with Generation X and we've got some friends to help us out. This week, we're joined by Phable and Lynk! TRACKLIST: 1:05 - Introducing our guests! Phable of Blame Phable and his Amazing Friends; and Lynk of Supreme Clientele 4:04 - Generation X summary and trivia! 14:51 - Our previous knowledge of Generation X characters 24:16 - Summary of our thoughts on the film and if we'd seen it back in the 90s 38:33 - Favorite characters 49:42 - Thoughts on the plot, favorite scenes, what we would have changed You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

To close out our Daredevil and Elektra reviews, we decided to the throw in the definitive Daredevil book as well! We are joined on this Book Club by our good buddy, Lynk. Join us as we dive into Daredevil: The Man Without Fear. TRACKLIST: 1:13 - First Appearances 2:05 - Our familiarity with the character of Daredevil 6:13 - Overall thoughts on this book 15:05 - How did we read the book? Jasmin - Digital; Mark - Trade Graphic Novel; Lynk - Floppies 21:51 - Thoughts on the artwork 31:13 - Story and structure of the 5 collected issues 51:04 - How has this book influenced Daredevil as a character You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Finishing up our time on Earth-701306, and we're grateful there weren't anymore sequels here. The year was 2005, the soundtrack is blah (compared to Daredevil two years prior), and a lot people phoned it on for this one. TRACKLIST: 1:21 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Buchigiri; Mark - Kin Season 2 10:11 - Elektra summary and fun facts 19:27 - Elektra (2005) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Another film in a string of poor choices... This week, we're going back to 2003 -- The Nickelback and Evanescence Renaissance! This version has 30 more minutes of footage than the theatrical release -- but does it do anything to help the story? You've got to listen to find out! TRACKLIST: 1:17 - Geek of the Week - Mark: Ultimate Spider-Man #2; Jasmin - Haikyu!! rewatch 9:29 - Film summary and fun facts 18:48 - Daredevil - Director's Cut (2003) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

For the final entry in our current block of fighting game adaptations, we're joined by DeVaughn of the Good Game Guys podcast! It was his first time to see the film while Mark and Jasmin were on their second watch. We also rank all four of game films in this episode -- where does this film fall? Tune in to find out! TRACKLIST: 2:05 - Geek of the Week: DeVaughn - Helldivers 2; Jasmin - Apothecary Diaries; Mark - Quantum Leap season 2 22:02 - Film Summary and Fun Facts 28:29 - Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li (2009) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Spoiler alert: this film is spectacularly bad. Jasmin saw it upon release in 1997 while Mark watched for this first time this week. Is Mortal Kombat Annihilation bad enough to take the crown from Man-Thing? You've got to tune in to find out! TRACKLIST: 1:37 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Skip and Loafer; Mark - Ultimate Black Panther #1 10:25 - Mortal Kombat Annihilation summary and fun facts 21:17 - Mortal Kombat Annihilation review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We've just hit 150 episodes!!! So we're celebrating our nearly 4 years of podcasting this week! We're taking a trip down memory lane to spend some time talking about ourselves and some of our FAVORITE episodes from the previous 149 episodes, late to the party book clubs, and conversations. Be sure to drop us a comment and let us know what some of YOUR favorites are! We'd love to hear from you!! TRACKLIST: 2:45 - How the Geeks Unleashed Podcast came to be and what we've learned about ourselves along the way 15:01 - Our favorite theme runs (month of video games, Spidey film, etc.) 26:18 - Brand new things the podcast introduced us to - Fire Power and Pulp (to name a few) 36:43 - Worst things we've watched and/or read - The Devil All the Time and Man Thing (to name a few) 48:32 - Our favorite book club episodes - V for Vendetta made both our lists, you've got to listen for the rest! (Correction: V for Vendetta is episode 2, episode one of our Late to the Party Book Club was Maus.) 59:16 - Our favorite conversation episodes - So many, but especially our IN-PERSON MEET UP IN NYC IN APRIL OF 2022!! 1:05:35 - Our favorite GU features we've added to the podcast... Can you guess what these would be?! You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Mark needed a pallet cleanser after last week's Street Fighter episode, and so Jasmin thought yet another video game adaptation would do the trick! We covered the MK reboot waaaaayyyyy back on episode 46! But we're taking it back to the OG -- Mortal Kombat (1995). Jasmin was worried that Mark would hate this film so badly that she'd need to recruit a new co-host. Did the Geeks have a falling out? Tune in to find out! TRACKLIST: 1:07 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Kindle Unlimited; Mark - Cruel Summer 15:48 - Mortal Kombat summary and fun facts 30:21 - Mortal Kombat (1995) review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We were feeling nostalgic and took a trip back in time to 1994. And WOW, talk about things that didn't age well... The Geeks are divided on this film -- where do you stand? Let us know! TRACKLIST: 1:20 - Geek of the Week: Jasmin - Operation: True Love (Webtoon); Mark - Cruel Summer 19:22 - Street Fighter summary and fun facts 30:24 - Our first introduction to Street Fighter (Mark - arcade; Jasmin - Super NES) 38:12 - Street Fighter review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Our first official episode of 2024! Yes we are back to our regularly scheduled programming of review episodes, and we're kicking the year off with one of the most recent, hotly debated super hero films: The Batman. Be sure to let us know what you think about this film, too! TRACKLIST: 2:21 - Geek of the Week: Mark - Anatomy of a Fall; Jasmin - Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! 16:34 - The Batman summary and fun facts 24:58 - The Batman review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We are BACK for another year of geekery! Thanks for joining us in this NEW conversation series and for our first episode of 2024! We're doing another formatting change where we'll sprinkle in some conversation episodes that aren't our usual reviews nor are they our book clubs... They're just a place for us to hang out and talk about pop culture in general. While recapping our favorites from 2023, we wanted to shout out ourselves. That's right -- We're tootin' our own horns here! Here are our two favorite episodes from last year: Mark - Late to the Party Book Club Episode 14 - Scott Pilgrim vol 4; Jasmin - Episode 125 - Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (2015). Let us know if you had any favorite GU episodes from last year as well! TRACKLIST: 2:55 - Our 2023 most anticipated recap (comics, TV, films, games) 17:33 - Our 2023 best of (best reads, best TV, best game played, best film, best album, best live show) 57:05 - Our 2024 most anticipated (film, TV, reads, games) You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

We are BACK with our annual holiday special! Yes, that's right. In 2020, we decided we were going to make our Scott Pilgrim reviews a Christmas tradition. So here we are, with vol 4 in the series, Scott Pilgrim: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together. And we are once again joined by our PCP Bad Batch brother in arms, Rockin' Robbie Billups! Thank you to all of our listeners for another fun year. Happy Christmas, Merry New Year, and be excellent to one another! Tracklist: 1:15 - Intro with Rockin' Robbie! 3:09 - Characters 4:01 - Summary of vol 4 4:34 - How did we read it - Jasmin was digital, Mark and Robbie were hard cover -- everyone read it in color 5:53 - Overall thoughts on vol 4 14:46 - The relationship between Scott and Ramona 24:51 - Thoughts on the artwork (and progression from vol 1) and lettering 34:37 - How this vol addresses the game aspect and dream sequences 43:20 - Which characters are driving the story forward 51:01 - Has this story aged well? 59:01 - How do the villains compare to previous volumes? 1:08:33 - What themes are present in vol 4? 1:14:02 - What were our favorite video games from the 90s? 1:22:36 - Final thoughts on Scott Pilgrim Vol 4 You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.

Joined once again by Devaughn of Good Game Guys, we close out 2023 and the Guardians franchise with this third and final film! Definitely the most emotional film in the series and arguably one of the most emotional films in the entire MCU. It's a long episode, but we had A LOT to cover (including having way too much with our Geeks of the week!). Tracklist: 3:00 - Geek of the Week: Mark - The Last of Us Part 2; Jasmin - Exodus trailer from The 2023 Game Awards; DeVaughn - GTA 6 trailer and God of War: Ragnarok DLC from The Game Awards 21:00 - Guardians Vol 3 summary and fun facts 33:52 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 review You can follow us on X, Facebook and Instagram or if you would like to support us you can donate to our KoFi.