Howdy Beans! Welcome to the final birthday celebration of movies that I hold really deeply to myself and are the films I watch on my birth day each year so that I ground myself to my youth, so I feel young again back when life was simpler and easier. So today I decided to leave the best for last and talk about the magically underrated (1998) animated movie, Quest for Camelot, the film that failed so that The Iron Giant could succeeded! but if you would like to know the why and how of all this th...
Jan 25, 2025•47 min•Season 4Ep. 149
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to the podcast and thank you for joining me for episode 2 out of 3 for my birthday celebration special, where I talk about 3 very special animated movies to me that I watch every year on my birthday and keep me feeling young at heart! This week I look into Cats Don't Dance from 1997! a love letter to Gene Kelly and the golden age of hollywood during the 1930s but told through the eyes of animals and song and dance! so if that sounds like a movie you'd love to know more ...
Jan 18, 2025•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 148
Howdy Beans! welcome back to the podcast and the first ever proper episode of the year! and I wanted this episode to be special so because January is my birthday month, I decided to cover the nostalgic movies that make me feel like a child again, young at heart, wild and free! so join me on this ocean animated adventure that is incredibly underrated and beautiful and deserves way more love and appreciation then it gets! so hopefully I can introduce you to this wonderful movie and make you see wh...
Jan 11, 2025•50 min•Season 4Ep. 147
Howdy Beans! Happy new year, Welcome to the world of tomorrow! 2025, in todays episode, I wanted to have a chilled out look back on my 3rd year in podcasting for (2024) - So join me for a fun episode where I kick back and thank you guys the fans/listeners/beans! whatever you may be, for joining me through this year and I talk about what is to come for the podcast in 2025, and why the name change of the podcast! All will be revealed in this new episode!
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 146
Howdy beans! I hope you all had a fantastic christmas and was spoilt rotten by santa! Today's episode is going to be the final Episode of year 3 of the podcast, so I really hope that you all enjoy it. I decided for the final episode I would look into the new Doctor Who christmas special - Joy To The World! so without further ado, for the final time this year, let's get into it shall we!!
Dec 27, 2024•48 min•Season 3Ep. 145
Howdy beans! & A very Merry Christmas to you all! In today's christmas day special episode I have decided to look at a family favourite of mine "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" from 2000, with Jim Carrey in the role of the Grinch who plays the part marvelously! This is a movie that we watch multiple times over the winter holidays and is one we quote all the time. And now with this movie watched and reviewed for the show, that's all the Dr Seuss live action movies covered! which just leaves t...
Dec 25, 2024•1 hr 6 min•Season 3Ep. 144
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to the podcast, in today's episode is the people's choice review! what that means is over on X I did a vote to decide what christmas movie I should watch the week before christmas day. And after a few rounds the winner was Gremlins. So if you were one of the people who voted or your just a Gremlins fan! I really hope you enjoy this episode, let me know what you think of my thoughts on this movie and I hope you have a very merry Christmas!
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Season 3Ep. 143
Howdy beans! Merry Obscure Christmas. I hope your all doing well and enjoying the holiday season so far this month. Hopefully you listened to my review last month as this is the continuation of my Obscure christmas where I look into movies that get overlooked during the holidays and deserve some love too. So this week I am going to be looking into Unaccompanied minors from 2006! another christmas movie from my childhood that I remember enjoying but is never talked about, by anyone else ever. So ...
Dec 14, 2024•34 min•Season 3Ep. 142
Howdy Beans! Merry Christmas And welcome back to the podcast! hello to all that are new or all those returning, welcome! So to start off my christmas content for the month of the December! I decided to do something different. So for the first 2 weeks of December will be my Obscure christmas special, this is where I will be looking at christmas movies that I remember but no one else ever talks about or don't know about these at all. So to start off I decided to look at the 2001 movie - I saw momm...
Dec 07, 2024•31 min•Season 3Ep. 141
Howdy Beans! It is the end of November and the winter has definitely settled in and things are starting to get cold. So to wrap up the month before we head into Christmas. I wanted to do one final Game Review of the year. But I didn't just want to do any game, I wanted it to be special, something grand and epic and that would fit in perfectly with the idea behind my £5 Bargain or bin Series. So I decided to talk about Valiant Hearts: The Great War (2014) A hard hitting emotional theme wrap aroun...
Nov 30, 2024•46 min
Howdy Cold Beans! Thank you for coming back and joining me on today's Episode! This week I figured because of all the cold and snow we have been getting here in the uk recently! that I would cover and talk about the final Ice Age Movie that Blue Sky made, and the one that I knew the most least about. But hey if you have been following my review of this series so far then you know I feel they should of ended with the first movie, but that being said here we are with the 5th movie, with a potentia...
Nov 23, 2024•45 min•Season 3Ep. 139
Howdy Beans! "Enters the podcast Colosseum" Welcome back my fellow Beans! "Applause" Thank you! Thank you! Today I have a treat for you all that I think you might like! This is my first ever viewing of this legendary movie, and now because of the release of the sequel, well I could not resist giving this movie ago! And boy do what a time I had. So today I bring you all my review of Gladiator from (2000) So scream! Shout! and Cheer! because after all I love to keep you wonder lot Entertained! "Ch...
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 3Ep. 138
Howdy Adventure Beans! Now if you have been listening to this podcast long enough you know how much of a fan I am of Lara Croft & the Tomb Raider games! And you'll know how excited I am this series since it was announced. So you better believe that there was no way I was going to miss a chance to Review this series in full! So sit back, relax and enjoy! I had a fantastic time with this series and I think you all will too!
Nov 09, 2024•1 hr 16 min•Season 3Ep. 137
Howdy Beans!! I have a lot of fantastic & wonderful Topics for you all this month of November, but you all know how much I love the Transformers Franchise, and sadly I was to busy over the October season to cover the latest movie! But, there was no way I could finish this year by not covering this movie. So Enjoy this short Side-Quest Movie Review of Transformers One! and if you still have the ability and you haven't yet, go to your local cinema, support this movie because it's incredible! s...
Nov 02, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 136
Howdy Scaredy Beans! Welcome back to another episode of the Nerdstalgic podcast! In today's episode it is my Halloween Special! and what that means I save the best and most terrifying for last and this year I decided to be brave and face my biggest nightmare! trying to survive against the perfect lifeform the Xenomorph! in this Game Review of Alien Isolation.
Oct 31, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Season 3Ep. 135
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to the final week of Spooky Season before the dreaded & scary All Hallows Eve! To send things off with a fright to make your skin crawl and a horrible chill to creep down your spin, today I am Reviewing Eight Legged Freaks from (2002) - A Movie that in all honesty I should hate! but to find out why well you'll just have to tune into the episode to find out.
Oct 26, 2024•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 134
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to week 3 of my Spooky Season B-Movie reviews! and this week I decided to look into the wonderful gory and gruesome world of The Remake of The Blob from (1988) Which after my love of The Stuff from last year I needed my fix of killer slime monsters! I don't want to give anything away but this was the movie I had been waiting for all these weeks to finally see, and it really didn't disappoint! So let's get into it shall we ....
Oct 19, 2024•42 min•Season 3Ep. 133
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to spooky Week 2 - In today's Episode I look at the 1986 Horny Teen Horror Chopping Mall, Where a strike of lighting has turned the security robots of the mall into a psychotic rampage where all intruders are marked for slaughter! I had a fantastic time with this movie, A classic of the Horror B-Movie Genre, it has everything you want and more! so I think that's enough reading for one episode time to get into today's Spooky Season Episode for week 2! Chopping Mall Lets ...
Oct 12, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 132
Howdy Ghouls It's finally October so you know what that means Spooky Season is finally here, which means I can let loose and talk about my favourite genre of Horror the 80s Cheesy B-Movie and it doesn't get any better than Critters! And after watching the first film last year and absolutely loving it, I had to start this Spooky Season watching it's sequel Critters 2 - The Main Course. So sit back and relax and if you hear a bump in the night, be careful there are critters about and they are out ...
Oct 05, 2024•47 min•Season 3Ep. 131
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to the podcast! thank you for joining me once again. And in todays episode I am going to wrap September up with another Retro blast this time with my £5 Bargain or bin series, with a game that is known as a cult classic but its remake has a legendary history of bugs and unfaithful remastery! So follow me while I trek through this world of XIII and to see if it was worth the £5 Entry or is not worth throwing into the bin and forgetting forever? let's see shall we!...
Sep 28, 2024•36 min•Season 3Ep. 130
Howdy Beans! In todays Episode I celebrate the release of Transformers One (2024) by finally going back and watching the first Transformers movie ever made from (1986) and the one that absolutely destroyed a generation by doing the unthinkable for a children's movie of the time! I hope you enjoy this episode as I take you all on a nostalgia trip of my childhood with this franchise and my overall feelings of this epicly metal animated movie!
Sep 21, 2024•53 min•Season 3Ep. 129
Howdy Beans! Welcome to another episode of The Nerdstalgic Podcast! In todays episode, I will be continuing my deep dive looking into the animated world of the former Blue Sky Studios, by watching each movie chronologically from there very first movie release with Ice Age to there last film Spies in Disguise. And today I wanted to carry on that journey by watching the next movie in line with the (2015) underrated gem "The Peanuts movie" that is so nostalgic and charming, I am hoping to turn peop...
Sep 14, 2024•50 min•Season 3Ep. 128
Howdy Beans! In today's episode we carry on my £5 Bargain or Bin Series where I take video games that I find for £5 or less and try to work out if I have bagged myself a Bargain or have a I found a game that's worthy of the bin? So Today I am going to be looking at the (2013) Remaster of DuckTales! I grew up a fan of this show and it's characters, and this game has been on my list since it was announced but I never got around to it! well finally I saw it on sale and knew it was time to give it a...
Sep 07, 2024•41 min•Season 3Ep. 127
Howdy Beans! And welcome back to the final episode of my deep dive into the world of Mass Effect. After looking into all the prior games and breaking down all the books, even the terrible one and watching the animated movie. It all leads up to and ends here with my review of Mass Effect 3! it has honestly been an absolute pleasure playing these games again and talking about them with all you wonderful people so thank you very much for all the love and support on all platforms! I appreciate you a...
Aug 31, 2024•1 hr 31 min•Season 3Ep. 126
Howdy Beans! Honestly the biggest deception the devil ever played was making this book and calling it Mass Effect! We are really close to the end of Mass Effect, but just before we finish the original series with ME3. First we must wade through crap to get our prize! and that crap being this book. Now I know that I am known as the positive guy of podcasting, but this book really broke me so if you have ever wanted to see me negative on a topic then today your day!
Aug 28, 2024•51 min•Season 3Ep. 125
Howdy Beans! Welcome back to the podcast! today I am going to be carrying on my journey through the world of Studio Ghibli by watching and reviewing the movie that started it all for me, and was the reason why I became fascinated with the studio in the first place! the movie being the 1992 MasterPiece "In my opinion" Porco Rosso! "Movie Synopsis" - In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the ...
Aug 24, 2024•52 min•Season 3Ep. 125
Howdy Beans! It's me Im back, But I'm different somehow, its almost as if i've changed. Like I've regenerated since the last time I did this all the way back in Series 1 of the Podcast when I was still young, dumb and had no idea what I was doing. But look at me now! in Series 3 and i'm like a new bean right off the beanstalk! This special episode has been a very long time coming, from reading all of the books and slowly making my way through the series as if i was a child again in 2006 watching...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 49 min•Season 3Ep. 124
Howdy Beans! It's time for another bonus episode Side-Quest, as we continue our journey through the world of Mass Effect. This time we are doing something different and looking into ME: Paragon Lost the animated movie from Production I.G the studio that gave you "Ghost in the Shell" decided to dip their toes into the Mass Effect universe in 2012 with Paragon lost! A film I have only watched once before, lets see how I feel about it now all these years later now im looking at it more clinically t...
Aug 13, 2024•58 min•Season 3Ep. 123
Howdy Beans! I have another game review for you this time I am talking about the little known Xbox 360 arcade game, Escape Dead Island! this is part of my £5 Bargain or bin series where I get a game and I try to find out if I have found myself a £5 bargain or does it belong in the bin? who is to say until I play it! but if you would like to find out well then you will have to listen to the episode to find out.
Aug 10, 2024•35 min•Season 3Ep. 123
Howdy Beans! and welcome back to another bonus side-quest episode! In todays Ep, I will be continuing my journey through the world, Nay universe of Mass effect with this book review Mass Effect Retribution! in this episode you will find out why this is one of the best and how it's a fantastic farewell to the Author Drew Karpyshyn as this was the last ME book he ever wrote. And as im currently reading the final book "Deception" lets just say it really really should of ended here! but without furt...
Aug 07, 2024•32 min•Season 3Ep. 121
