The adverts billed this new Netflix comedy series starring Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz as a new improvised show where everything you see on the screen has been made up on the spot and in the moment – which really excited the theatre nerd In me! The new show Middleditch and Schwartz was extremely entertaining […]
Welcome to this week’s Monday Night Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and I like that ASMR stuff. Jellybean Green is really good, but not baseball cards. I have a sign outside my home that says “One Way”, because there’s only one way out: IN A BODY BAG! Phantom Of The Paradise […]
Stars: Aleks Paunovic, Lee Majdoub, Lisa Durupt, Richard Harmon, Gigi Saul Guerrero, Kyle Cassie, Geoff Gustafson, Beverley Elliott, Johannah Newmarch | Written by Kevin Mosley | Directed by Lisa Ovies Puppet Killer… Where do I start..? As a child Jamie is given a puppet called Simon from his dying mother. Jamie also develops more than […]
Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling: Fusion review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and my banana hammock is more like a tooth-pick in a hanky. We’ve got only two matches this week. Did you know I moon-light as Megan Fox on the weekends, except I don’t look anything like her and my […]
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Isla Fisher, Stefania LaVie Owen, Martin Lawrence, Zac Efron, Jonah Hill, Donovan St V. Williams, Clinton Archambault, Jerry Ascione, Ricardo Matallana, Joshua Ritter | Written and Directed by Harmony Korine [NOTE: With the film finally getting a physical release in the UK, here’s a reposting of our review of Harmony […]
I know the concept of cannabis is an extremely controversial issue, one that is not really discussed by people in the mainstream in the UK. But as Cooked with Cannabis is an American made TV show the argument around weed is not an issue for this show. Cooked with Cannabis is a show that explores […]
Welcome to this week’s Friday Night SmackDown review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and those f—— ring ropes will f— you up. It’s nice to still have some wrestling to cover. Okay, Triple H is getting a perm in the main event so he can look like New Jack after he did that […]
Stars: Emily Sweet, Jessica Chancellor, Tiana Tuttle, Brandon Root, Taylor Behrens, Cooper Hagen, Austin Skaggs, Emily Gateley, Bai Ling | Written and Directed by Canyon Prince When they realize their friend has been transported into a dangerous video game, three friends follow him into the game. Once there, they will have to battle dangerous creatures […]
A 3D isometric puzzle game, Mekorama sees players guide the adorable robot “B” to safety after he crash lands on a strange cubic planet. Think something akin to Monument Valley – only less relaxing, more frustrating and oftentimes more complex – and you’ll get the idea of what Mekorama is all about. Featuring the same […]
Welcome to this week’s AEW: Dynamite review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and while I ponder my stupidity, let the chick from Andy Warhol’s “The Chubby Mermaid” guide you through another card from Tony Khan’s Playhouse. Match #1: Darby Allin defeated Sammy Guevara – TNT Championship Tournament Quarter Final Match The following is […]
Welcome to this week’s NXT review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Drew Barrymore is trying to kill me! On this week’s episode of Lancer, we’ve got more of the Cruiserweight Tournament and Michael Madsen squints too much. Are you ready to rock? I said…ARE YOU READY TO ROCK?! Well…too bad! Match #1: […]
Written by Melissa De La Cruz | Art by Thomas Pitilli | Published by DC Ink | Format: Paperback, 208pp I think it’s fair to say that , rather like the main Batman franchise being DC’s cash cow, Gotham and the associated characters have been the most fruitful area of DC’s recent Young Adults books. […]
Stars: Olunike Adeliyi, Peter MacNeill, Noah Danby, Michelle Nolden, Kiana Madeira, Lawrence Gowan | Written by Jason Krawczyk | Directed by Audrey Cummings [NOTE: With the film quietly slipping on to VOD in the UK, US and Canada this week, he’s a reposting of our review of She Never Died from its festival screening last […]
Stars: Felissa Rose, Damian Maffei, Gunner Willis, Kristi Ray, Jason Vail, Erika Edwards | Written and Directed by Tommy Faircloth “Prisoners begged for mercy…they got nun.” In horror cinema, groups of young adults always seem to find themselves entering spooky or abandoned locations… Will they ever learn? Opening in a palette of creepy-cool midnight blue, […]
Written by Delilah S. Dawson | Art by Francesco Gaston | Published by IDW Publishing | Format: Paperback, 96pp Sci-fi comics can be delightful things. I’m a big fan of the genre and so the concept of Star Pig appealed to me right away. A teenage strong female lead named Vess who goes on a […]
Having lived through all the hype of Love Island and being thoroughly disappointed I was expecting Too Hot to Handle to have the same effect on its audience. It was built in exactly the same way as Love Island – with a slew of attractive young looking for love in an isolated location but as […]
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Xingtong Yao, Anna Churina, Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rutger Hauer, Charles Dance, Paul Allica, Chayanit Chansangavej, Christopher Fairbank | Written by Dmitry Paltsev, Alexey A. Petrukhin | Directed by Oleg Stepchenko Billed as the movie that has the first fight ever between Jackie Chan and Arnold Schwarzenegger might seem slightly odd but […]
When it comes to great storytelling, the medium doesn’t matter. It can be a movie, television show, video game or animation. The most impactful stories take people on journeys that are potentially capable of changing the direction of someone’s life. For me, something that did this was Persona 5. When this game came out, I […]
Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have part 1 of the two week Rebellion card, so let’s shut the hell up and dive right in. Match #1: Rhino, Tommy Dreamer & Crazzy Steve def. oVe (Dave Crist, Madman Fulton & Jake Crist) The following is […]
Dead or School is the latest hack ‘n’ slash title to come out of the Far East, and yes it does involve schoolgirls in peril (when DOESN’T it?). Hence the title… But this one is a little different than the rest. Conceived as a side-story to director and artist Mokusei Zaijuu’s self-published sci-fi manga Machine […]
Having never heard of [stand-up comedian] Iliza Schlesinger, I was somewhat excited to watch this new sketch show on the basis of it actually being purely a sketch comedy – and I was actually pleasantly surprised by how enjoyable The Iliza Schlesinger Sketch Show was! From my first watch of the show, I quickly got […]
Another week, another episode of the Pop Addled podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly! Pop Addled is a pop culture podcast with nerd tendencies. Join Keenan, Sam and Timmy as they discuss movies, music, video games, sports, TV, comics, and any intersection thereof. Their brains have been thoroughly addled by pop […]
