Geek Culture

South Africans binged Netflix’s weirdest shows in 2017

A lot of people like to make kooky jokes about how their country is “weird”, and that “only people here like to do this slightly strange…

Maze Runner: The Death Cure takes you on a zombified tour of Cape Town

There are a lot of reasons to be excited for Maze Runner: The Death Cure: it closes out the Maze Runner trilogy, it features…

SA’s box office: it’s still a jungle out there

It’s the third week of 2018, and South Africa is still enamoured by Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan’s stint as modern…

Last week in trailers: The Handmaid’s Tale, Tomb Raider, Queer Eye, and more

If the real world is getting you down — and that 50l water limit in Cape Town even more so — then here’s a…

5 heckin’ good subreddits for dog lovers

I’m more of a cat person, but how can you not like dogs? Between their goofy antics and loyalty, there’s plenty to like about most…

Watch: Casey Neistat’s latest vlog is a mini love letter to Cape Town

We’ve seen a slew of celebrities hitting Cape Town’s shores this holiday season, and vlog pioneer Casey Neistat was no exception. The New York-based…

This movie is free to torrent on The Pirate Bay, thanks to its creators

Torrenting, in the case of Hollywood, is the thing that shall not be named. It’s the downfall of the movie industry, and killer of…

X-Men: Apocalypse, Angry Birds dominating SA cinemas [2016/05/31]

It looks as though South Africans are still loving superhero movies, contrary to genre stagnation complaints on social media. Over this past weekend, 27 to…

John Oliver freaks out about bread pants in strange Last Week Tonight snippet

When Last Week Tonight takes a break (thanks to American holidays), I can’t help but feel lost. But thankfully, John Oliver does debut a…

Should one of Marvel’s greatest heroes be one of its greatest villains?

Here’s the thing with comics: when you come down to the core of comic books they’re essentially dramas. With any drama you need to…

Norway’s consumer council reads app terms in live-stream

Norway’s consumer watchdog has decided to protest lengthy app terms and conditions by reading these policies out in a live-stream. The live-stream, which has been…

Adele’s new music video is seriously trippy, but no less mesmerising

Calling British songstress Adele a superstar isn’t exactly a bold claim. After selling over 87-million records worldwide, she has probably earned that label. But…

X-Men Apocalypse movie review: not the end of the world

I have to confess something. I haven’t watched a superhero film since The Avengers. In fact, aside from the fact that I barely watch movies at all, I’ve…

Facebook films Grand Central Station in stunning 360-degree video

Facebook has finally put that 8K-capable camera rig it unveiled at its F8 Conference to good use, and where better to take it for…

Mr Robot season 2 trailer drops with Barack Obama cameo

Mr Robot, the hit television show of 2015 focusing on black hat hackers and starring Rami Malek, has finally got a second season trailer,…

Family car in Kruger National Park smashed by stampeding buffalo

South Africa’s famous Kruger National Park can be navigated using personal vehicles, which makes impromptu animal sightings a fairly frequent occurrence. Although these tw0…

ShowMax expands to 36 new African countries

Naspers-owned streaming media service ShowMax is rapidly expanding across the continent, and can now count 36 new sub-Saharan countries to its service list. The…

All about the art: my 3 favourite artists at Cape Town’s FanCon 2016

With expos such as EGE and rAge emerging on Capetonian soil, the Mother City has had a healthy dose of geeking-out over the last…

Assassin’s Creed movie trailer: no one expects the Spanish Inquisition

It’s time to step into the Animus for the very first Assassin’s Creed movie trailer. If you don’t know what an Animus is then…

Watch Deadpool narrate his own hilarious Honest Trailer

Marvel’s Deadpool smashed box office numbers, proved that R-rated superhero movies can work (even though many came before it), and that Ryan Reynolds can…

The man in black fled across the desert and started filming in Cape Town

The big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower has started filming in Cape Town. Yes, our very own coastal city of wineries is…

A look at FanCon’s debut event: the stalls, the queues, the excitement

Slowly but surely, Cape Town is getting its own range of geek and technology events for the mass market. This week saw the debut…

Kung fu joins CG animation in the coolest thing we’ve seen today [video]

Kung Fu is one of those mythical and extremely spiritual things that us human beings can do, along with singing in the shower, roughly…

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