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The Gifted Season Two: Episode 1 – Live blog

 X-Men spin-off show, The Gifted begins its second season tonight with episode one, eMergence. In the UK, the show is broadcast at 9pm on FOX and we’re approximately three weeks behind our US cousins. Last season, as the show aired, I blogged along LIVE (via the Honcho-SFX blog) to offer up my thoughts and comments…

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On this day in geekdom: October 14th

 To celebrate the first year of It’s A Stampede!, every day for 365 days I am presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’. Yep, that’s 365 facts! Here’s today’s slice of geekdom… October 14th – On this day in 1994, The X-Files episode, ‘Duane Barry’…

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Thoughts on Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

 This afternoon I popped along to the cinema to watch Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween – the follow-up to 2015’s Goosebumps. The movie is currently previewing in select UK cinemas, with a general release set for the back-end of next week. I am a big fan of the original Goosebumps, believing it to be a real…

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60 Days of Halloween – Days 42 & 43

 60 Days of Halloween continues this weekend with Extreme Weekend – a weekend mini marathon of Extreme Ghostbusters episodes! All 40 episodes of the animated show are currently on Amazon Prime Video, so between today and tomorrow I plan to watch every single minute of this highly underrated ’90s ‘toon! This weekend will mark the…

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On this day in geekdom: October 13th

 To celebrate the first year of It’s A Stampede!, every day for 365 days I am presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’. Yep, that’s 365 facts! Here’s today’s slice of geekdom… October 13th – On this day in 2016, Doctor Strange premieres in Hong…

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The Venom credit scene explained

 If you’ve been to see Venom at the cinema and you stuck around for the first end credit scene (which appeared a couple of minutes into the credits) then you might be asking the question, what was all that about?! Well, I’ve got the answer for you – just read on for more details. To…

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I’ve finally seen Venom… ugh

 **WARNING: THE FOLLOWING POST INCLUDES A DISCUSSION ABOUT VENOM. IF YOU HAVE NOT WATCHED VENOM OR YOU FIND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT BAD MOVIES OFFENSIVE, THEN TURN BACK NOW.** Last week, Venom hit cinema screens. The film opened to impressive box office figures, but less than impressive reviews. Prior to Venom‘s debut my feelings towards the movie…

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