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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Team America: World Police
As a connoisseur of stories, I can tell you that I love when one comes together and gives me a memorable experience. In some of my favorites stories, I watch or read or play over and over just to pick apart — which is what makes it a great story. I’m that person who gets starry-eyed and gushy when I find that little detail I had missed that changes EVERYTHING I ever thought about a character. Then I feel the need to tell everyone I know about this because obviously it’s important to everyone, right?
By Yumi Yamamoto8 years ago in Geeks
A True Modern Horror Masterpiece
Every now and again there is a film that easily takes us deep into a terrifying and psychologically challenging thrill ride. Stephen King has a tendency to do this with his novels so one could only hope the film adaptation of his classic horror novel It could be as terrifying as the over 1000 page novel. Expectations were set and then smashed upon viewing It.
By Kenneth Belliveau8 years ago in Geeks
Green Lantern Emerald Dawn 2
Green Lantern Emerald Dawn 2 Comic Time Period: Modern Day Comic To start, I never read any Green Lantern comic books because he's not one of my favorite characters. I simply bought this one because it was in the fifty cent bin and I wanted to learn more about Green Lantern.
By Kimberly B8 years ago in Geeks
Reed Alexander's Review of 'The Taking of Deborah Logan'
*sigh* Jesus Fucking Christ...... Look, Hollywood, we need to have a serious conversation about this shaky camera thing. A.K.A. The newest, shiniest, most polished, and overused piece of shit that's been taking over horror as a genre? It needs to stop. Not just stop, but be systematically removed from all historical records and completely neutralized. Look, it was necessary for a group of young aspiring actors making The Blare Witch Project. They needed a way to create elements of a dark and chaotic atmosphere on their sshoestringbudget and this was their only option. Hollywood does not need to do that and in fact, there are very few reason that it's even appropriate. You basically just have the camera guy wiggle around his view to create atmosphere when you're simply, A) too lazy to set the atmosphere your damn self, B) lack the imagination necessary to set up a proper atmosphere in the first place. Seriously, fucking stop it.
By Reed Alexander8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Flatliners'
Flatliners is a remarkably bad movie. I love Eliot Page, he is a very compelling and charismatic actor. Why has he been marginalized so much that he felt he needed to make this bizarrely dumb movie? What compelled him and the very talented director Niels Arden Oplev, director of the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to think this movie was a good idea? Why did anyone think that remaking a movie as bad as the original Flatliners was a good idea? The Joel Schumaker directed 1990 Flatliners is a terrible movie and somehow this version manages to be worse than that. I’m baffled.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Re-Review: 'Logan'
When I first saw Logan, the latest spin-off of the X-Men franchise, I was not impressed. There was so much hype, so much discussion about how the R-Rating would finally allow Wolverine to be Wolverine. Then I saw the film and found it to be as conventional as any of the other X-Men movies with a little bit of gore tacked on for fan service. So what’s changed for me since March of this year? Why was watching Logan at home on a DVD screener from the studio so different from watching the film in theaters earlier this year?
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'American Made'
American Made stars Tom Cruise as Barry Seal, a real life character who was at the center of the drug, guns, and South American contras controversies of the late 70s and 80s. Barry was just an airline pilot for TWA until the CIA caught wind of his trafficking in Cuban cigars. Sensing that Barry has just the kind of moral flexibility that the CIA needs, Agent Shaffer (Domnhall Gleeson) recruits him to run reconnaissance missions in South America, spying on supposed communist outposts.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: IT 2017
Andy Muschietti's adaptation of the terrifying mini-series got several jumps and screams out of the audience. The summer of 1989 in Derry, Maine becomes a nightmare for the Losers Club. The kids in the Losers Club, including Bill Denbrough (Jaeden Lieberher), Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor), Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis), Richie Tozier (Finn Wolfhard), Mike Hanlon (Chosen Jacobs), Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer), and Stanley Uris (Wyatt Oleff), have to find a way to fight off Pennywise the Dancing Clown who comes out of hibernation every 27 years. This movie was a blend of suspense and horror, but there were definitely some very funny parts from a few characters in the Losers Club. Since IT has been out, it has even earned the top grossing horror movie in history, passing The Exorcist. The blend of the many genres was a smart move, so the audience could scream, laugh, and be on the tip of their toes.
By Will Siegling8 years ago in Geeks
