Octogeek – 16th September – Would you like a chocolate covered pretzel?

Jessica Jones

If you liked Daredevil on Netflix then get ready for Jessica Jones as we now have a teaser and a release date. Miss Jones isn’t as well known as the man without fear but she has her following. She’s best known as the star of Marvel’s ‘Alias’ not to be confused with ‘Alias’ the TV show starring Jennifer Garner. Alias followed Jewel as she left the superhero business in favour of being plain old Jessica Jones, private investigator. When the comic came out it was part of Marvel’s more mature MAX range and famously featured some superhero butt stuff. One has to wonder how much of that they’ll include in the series. Netflix’s Jessica jones which dumps all 20 of it’s episodes on us on 20th November looks like its following the same track. Check out the teaser below, it reveals virtually nothing.

Jessica will be played by Krysten Ritter of Breaking Bad fame ( Jesse’s junkie girlfriend) and David Tennant will play the villain Purple Man.

The official description reads: “After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases in New York City. Plagued by self-loathing, and a wicked case of PTSD, Jessica battles demons from within and without, using her extraordinary abilities as an unlikely champion for those in need… especially if they’re willing to cut her a cheque.”

Road House

Ronda Rousey, the ‘Fast and Furious 7’ UFC fighter champion lady has just been confirmed as the lead in the new Road House. She’ll be playing Patrick Swazye’s role of James Dalton, a tough bouncer with a mysterious past recruited to be head ‘cooler’ at the rowdiest bar in America……ROAD HOUSE!

On Ronda’s twitter she stated “it is a great honor to play a part in celebrating the life of a man that inspired so many”. and then “I couldn’t be more grateful to have this opportunity to pay respect to the beloved Patrick Swayze… I promise to work incessantly to make sure this project is a tribute his family
and fans can be proud of”.

Hopefully they change the name and gender of the character to sync with the fact that Rousey is a woman otherwise there’s gonna be a hell of a backstory to cover.

Pokémon

Nintendo are breaking into the mobile games market and they’ve decided to do it in style. Pokémon is coming a phone near you (as long as it ain’t a windows phone) and the new game lets you catch pokemon in a sort of augmented reality. It’s called Pokémon Go and will be free to play which is cool, Nintendo it seems will make their money from an optional wrist watch thingy that looks like a melted pokeball (I always wanted a melted pokeball watch). The watch will connect to your phone and let you know when there’s pokemon near you and the game will use GPS to track where you are when you hunt them down. It all seems like a pretty cool idea.

Here’s a look at it, courtesy of the official Pokemon website, Pokémon Go will be coming to ios and Android next year. This is the first time that I’ve regretted having a 2 year contract on my windows 🙁

Netflix

I’m typing this on a Monday hoping that tomorrow or the next day Netflix add something worth recommending. At the minuet I can offer you Toy Story, which if you haven’t seen by now, you’re not gonna watch it on my recommendation. I can offer Monster’s University which is fine I guess. There’s something called ‘The Hungover Games’ which is one of those ‘Meet the Spartans’ type scattershot comedy movies where they just try and make as many pop culture references as possible in the hope that one or two will pass as a joke. All this is crammed into a story without a plot and is accompanied by cameos from ‘celebrities’ scraped from the bottom of the Z list barrel. It has a score of 3.8 on IMDB so if Netflix can’t pony up something good in the next couple of days I’ll be recommending this Turd for your weekend’s viewing.

Although you can’t tell, two days have passed and I’m typing this on a Wednesday. The results are in and Netflix has saved your skin with two new movies. Looking for something terrible but still entertaining? Step forward the insane Bruce Willis brain fart that is Hudson Hawk. Looking for something a little more recent? Take The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay Part 1. I’ve no idea where this comes in the series as I’ve yet  to dedicate a day to watch these things but the first one was ok and Jennifer Lawrence jumping around kicking and punching and firing arrows can’t be all bad. At the very least it’ll be better than The Hungover Games.

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