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How many Escape Plan movies are there?

 In 2013, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger joined forces for the action-thriller, Escape Plan. In the film, Stallone plays a structural expert wrongly incarcerated, while Schwarzenegger plays an inmate he befriends. The crux of the movie is for both characters to escape the prison, relying on their collective sets of skills to achieve their goal.…

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Explaining the door riddle in Labyrinth

 In 1986, Jim Henson’s Labyrinth arrived in cinemas, bringing an imaginative story and wonderful characters to the big screen. The movie told the story of a young girl called Sarah and her journey of self-discovery, as she travelled through a mysterious labyrinth. In the film, Sarah enters the labyrinth in search of her baby brother…

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Remembering Ghostwatch

 On Halloween night, in 1992, the BBC aired a one-off television show called Ghostwatch. The show – presented by Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith and Craig Charles – aired on Saturday night, during peak prime time, and has never been repeated. Not once. If you think you saw it repeated, you are mistaken. Presented…

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Remembering ToyFare magazine

 Man, I miss ToyFare. The toy magazine – which ran from 1997 until 2011 – was in my opinion the best toy specialist magazine of all-time. Heck, I’d even go so far as to say it was one of the best magazines, period. Why? Because not only was ToyFare loaded with imaginative articles, cool product…

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Should Warner Bros. abandon the shared DC Universe?

 Over the past seven years, ever since the debut of Man of Steel (2013), Warner Bros. has been building a cinematic universe featuring DC characters. To date, this universe includes: Man of Steel, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), Wonder Woman (2017), Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), Shazam! (2019) and Birds of…

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30 random Ghostbusters images from my iPhone

 Over the past few weeks I have been moving various snaps from my iPhone to It’s A Stampede!, to free up storage space and to share the images with you. These often quite random images have included TMNT, ‘90s themed iconography, Funko Pop! figures, toys, geek pics, retro gaming, Star Wars and X-Men. I am now coming to the end of sorting through these images…

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Legion of Super Heroes is now on Blu-ray

 Good news, futuristic animated series, Legion of Super Heroes has FINALLY been released on Blu-ray! The short-lived, and often overlooked animated series, which ran for two seasons between 2006 and 2008, has received the Blu-ray treatment. If you are a fan of the series, or you simply adore DC animated shows, you can now add…

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Watching Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

 Today I am watching the 1975 Australian movie, Picnic at Hanging Rock. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay and is a movie I have wanted to watch for a while. My understanding of Picnic at Hanging Rock is that this is a mystery/drama. The film tells the tale of three…

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50 X-Men images from my iPhone

 I am currently knee-deep in a grand clear out of all the images on my iPhone, to free-up some storage space. Amongst my (seemingly never-ending) collection of images are a bunch of pictures featuring the X-Men. In this post, I thought it would be fun to group these X-Men images together for you to cast…

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