Put aside your jelly babies and hang up your stripy scarves, for Doctor Who is all set to regenerate into brick form. That's right, on 1st December, you'll be able to get your hands on possibly the most eagerly awaited LEGO IDEAS kit yet - The TARDIS. Encompassing the worlds of the … [Read more...]
LEGO Scooby Doo Haunted Mansion review
I try - I really do - to find fault with LEGO sets, but sadly I only ever get to see the brilliant ones. I think it's fair to say that Scooby Doo's LEGO incarnation is as close to perfect as you can imagine. And all in time for Halloween! You only need to look at the detail and style of sets to … [Read more...]
Dork Reviews – Fantastic Four
Chronicle director Josh Trank reboots Marvel's First Family, with a grittier, modern take on Fantastic Four. But does the film improve over the Tim Story films of the 2000's? Or are the rumours true and is it rather not so fantastic after all? … [Read more...]
Game of Thrones: These are the 11 projects to keep you busy until the next season
Game of Thrones season 5 has wrapped up, and in true GoT fashion, it finished in style. When he's not at dinner parties, Jon Snow was once again fighting strong north of the Wall. Everyone's favourite characters, Tyrion and Daenerys have finally come face to face. Meanwhile, in King's Landing... … [Read more...]
Spy – Dork Review
You could almost (*almost*) say that 2015 is the year of the spy movie. Between big hitters like Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Man from U.N.C.L.E and, of course, a certain Mr. Bond returning to our screens, Melissa McCarthy and Paul Feig's third comedy team up seems like it could get a bit … [Read more...]
Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – Dork Review
Hello June, and hello the official start to Summer Blockbuster Season (which kind of started when Age of Ultron came out, but now it's actually summer, so... yeah). The next three months are positively filled to the brim with blockbusters, and first up is... well, one that's not been doing too well … [Read more...]
Dork TV preview: Humans on Channel 4
If you've tuned into Channel 4 at any point in the past couple of weeks, you may have caught a glimpse of a particularly disturbing advert for a company called Persona Synthetics. Ostensibly, they are the brains behind the latest must-have gadget for the busy family: a synth, or an advanced robot … [Read more...]
The Avengers: Crochet or knit your own superheroes for free
The Avengers 2: Age of Ultron hit the big screens last month, and having seen it twice and read through all the online reviews, we think it's finally time to sit down and make our own little versions of the team. Here are 5 different ways you can knit or crochet your own Avengers: … [Read more...]
Battle of the trailers: The Force Awakens Vs. Batman V. Superman
The past week was positively Christmas for us film dorks: two of the biggest upcoming blockbusters have released shiny new trailers, for us to watch, scrutinize and (hopefully) get us excited about the finished product. … [Read more...]
WATCH: Mr Holmes trailer released
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE! The trailer for Mr Holmes has just been released, and everyone is excited (few more so than myself). Based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind and directed by Bill Condon, the film follows a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes as he embarks on his last … [Read more...]