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Oct30

Digital Gonzo 153: Ghostwatch

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 30, 2013

To celebrate Halloween this year we’ve gone back to one of the scariest memories for many British thirtysomethings. Screened only once on Halloween in 1992 and billed as a live broadcast from the most haunted house in England. This documentary frightened the nation witless, garnering the BBC 30,000 complaint phone calls. 21 years on after only having seen it once in between the years, sometime around 2002 when it was finally released...

Jun28

Digital Gonzo 85: Batman Forever / Batman & Robin

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 28, 2012

We’re back at the Bat! This week was going to be a pair of reviews of the 1995 film Batman Forever and the 1997 sequel; Batman & Robin, both directed by Joel Schumacher. What we found was that our problems with these films could not be separated and a great deal of the issues of the fourth Batman movie originated in the third, which usually gets off lightly as it is considered halfway watchable (we suspect because of Nicole...

Jun27

Digital Gonzo 78: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm / The Animated Series

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 27, 2012

Batman: Mask of the Phantasm [1993] This is the fourth of the Batman shows. This time we’re taking a deep dive into the absolutely underrated box-office bomb, virtually unknown by the general public, but possibly best film about Batman until the Nolan films came along; Mask of the Phantasm. By extension this allows us to talk about the Animated Series which this sprang from unexpectedly for all. Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill head up...

Jun26

Digital Gonzo 77: Batman Returns

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 26, 2012

Batman Returns [1992] This is the third of the Batman shows. This time we’re focusing on the popular, troubled, dark, flawed and twisted sequel to Burton’s 1989 smash hit. My guests this week are Neil Taylor of GameBurst and KDS 2.0 along with Sharon Shaw, Jerome McIntosh and Paul Gibson of Gonzo Planet. This was the only big-screen Catwoman until this year’s Dark Knight Rises and the only Penguin if you don’t...

Jun17

Digital Gonzo 82: Alien Resurrection

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 17, 2012

This is the fifth of seven reviews of the ALIEN anthology. Quadrilogy (nonsense noun) Definition; “The greed-motivated act of adding a superfluous and worthless sequel to a trilogy that has been finished. Origin; Alien Resurrection.” – Oxford English Dictionary. After Fincher’s effort ended Ellen Ripley’s story, the geniuses at Hollywood started plans for how a person could “get better” from...

Jun14

Digital Gonzo 81: Alien 3

Posted By Alex Shaw on Jun 14, 2012

This is the fourth of seven reviews of the ALIEN anthology. David Fincher’s directorial debut has been maligned by most and loved by few. It’s a flawed, filthy, foreboding and occasionally really effective story. The end result of thirty script rewrites and years of troubled development. We get our teeth into how studio meddling by Fox left this project multibuggered to the point where it almost ended up an Alan Smithee...

Dec14

Digital Gonzo 52: Disney’s A Christmas Carol / The Muppets Christmas Carol

Posted By Alex Shaw on Dec 14, 2011

This is an extensive Gonzo review of two versions of the same classic tale by Charles Dickens: 1. A Christmas Carol [Disney, 2009] 2. The Muppets Christmas Carol [Disney, 1993] Myself, Neil Taylor of GameBurst and KDS 2.0 and Matt Ramsey of DorkTunes take you back to the winter-swept streets of London in 1843 as we take a close look at the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge and his transformation from mean-spirited miser to warm-hearted...

Oct26

Digital Gonzo 45: James Bond 007 [Part 3 – Brosnan/Craig]

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 26, 2011

Part 3: After the Cold War For the final part of our exploration of this epic series we cover the Brosnan and Craig eras of the 1990’s and early 21st century. These were the movies our generation saw in the cinema as we came of age. Consequently most people between 20 and 35 feel somewhat more identification with these than with the previous Bonds. As a result, this is a very enthusiastic show and we have plenty to say about all...

Oct09

Digital Gonzo 39: Never Mind the BuzzGeeks [Vol. 3 – 80s Commercials]

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 9, 2011

Commercials of the 1980’s and 1990’s The retro-quiz madness continues with a close look at the TV commercials that aired in Britain throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. Blue Captain Michael Fox of Joypod returns, as does Red Captain Neil Taylor of GameBurst and the KDS show. Duncan O’ Sullivan of the DC community comes back for the first time since our cartoon show and we finally get on for his first full...

Oct09

Digital Gonzo 31: Toy Story 2

Posted By Alex Shaw on Oct 9, 2011

This is the second of a series of Pixar movie reviews. This is the third Pixar movie and the second Toy Story installment; 1999’s Toy Story 2. For over a decade fans of these movies have been debating which of the two were better. Then Toy Story 3 came along which made things… complicated. So in this we dive into the merits and deeper aspects of this fantastic follow-up. By all means not perfect, but considering the...