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The Time for Robin Has Come
A little while ago Gotham’s Bruce Wayne – David Mazouz submitted the idea he would love to play Robin in the DCEU. More specifically he’d like to play the Damian Wayne incarnation of Robin. It is an interesting concept to have an actor from another DC property play another character, especially when that character is playing the young, in-training, future Batman and wants to try out for the character’s son. Regardless of the actor, I would argue it may be time for Robin to come back.
By Skyler8 years ago in Geeks
A Prison of Solitude Part 2
The knocking I described in the first part of my story came suddenly upon my senses. I have already described my emotional state at this moment, and as a result, the noise came as an absolute relief from this lonely silence.
By Jack Mellor8 years ago in Geeks
Culture Vulture: 'Seat In Shadow'
For his debut feature-length production, Scottish artist and filmmaker Henry Coombes has collaborated with performance artist David Sillars to create Seat In Shadow.
By Gareth Johnson8 years ago in Geeks
Skip Casting JonBeńet on Netflix
Greetings Internet, It's Candice. I’m fascinated by true crime stories, so when Netflix announced Casting JonBenét in January, I was interested to see how they would perceive one of the most infamous crimes in American history.
By Candice Ortiz8 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: Deny the Moon
Harley Rayne, an extraordinarily ordinary and forgotten young woman, wants two simple things: For her family to acknowledge her existence, and to be important to someone.
By Amora Jones8 years ago in Geeks
The Guardian Brothers
I wasn't sure what to make of The Guardian Brothers when I sat down and put it on. It's been nearly two years since it was released in China and it recently made its way to Netflix. I had no idea of the cast of voice actors that were going to be present until the opening credits began rolling. Names like Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Mel Brooks, Dan Fogler, and a personal favorite, Mike Birbiglia.
By Spencer Barrett8 years ago in Geeks
Harry Potter Fanfiction: Headcannon Vs. Fannon.
Harry Potter is a great series, with an epic-sized fanbase. Of course, with any fandom, there are fans that want to extend the stories through materials such as fan art and fanfiction. With most things, there is a bunch of shorthand that seems to be a language of its own. Some examples are 'head cannon' and 'fanon.' Head cannon is something that you as the reader make up as you read a book. Stuff like coming up with little backstories of secondary characters that don't get much 'screen time' in the book, and explanations for plot holes in the stories that just never get resolved. On the other hand, fanon is something akin to what fans establish in fanfiction that repeats in other stories. Harry Potter is so accessible to fans that everything from fan art, fan fiction, and heck even things like Wizard Rock bands have cropped up during the height of the popularity of Harry Potter. I am going to focus on aspects of fanfiction for Harry Potter.
By Erik Mickle8 years ago in Geeks
'Center of My World' – A Film that Navigates First Love, Family, and Unanswered Questions
With Centre of My World (Die Mitte der Welt) writer/director Jakob M. Erwa has adapted the 1998 novel of the same name by by Andreas Steinhöfel.
By Gareth Johnson8 years ago in Geeks
The Paywall Will Be the Death of Streaming As We Know It
Paywalls will kill your favorite streaming service. Everyone thinks that the streaming services are killing cable and that’s the whole story. They’re wrong. Streaming services are also killing themselves. Sure, Netflix has been doing well from a content standpoint, they are putting out great stuff and they’re putting out a lot of it, but they are in debt and eventually just like in every other tech industry, someone else will come along and take them out. We still win; all of those Marvel shows, all of those comedy specials, House of Cards, Stranger Things, and everything else is already made it’ll still exist and somehow someway it’ll be available.
By Christopher Sarda8 years ago in Geeks
TV Throws Down the Gauntlet, Again
The night of September 17 was a cracked bellwether in the world of entertainment. The Emmy Awards, the television industry’s homage to its movers and shakers (and by extension itself) stepped off at the Microsoft Theater in Hollywood, and marked what would become a night of historic firsts, firing broadsides on the complacency of the Emmys' own past:
By Michael Eric Ross8 years ago in Geeks
A Haunting Slice of Life by Jeff Lemire
In the back matter of the first issue of Royal City, Jeff Lemire says he fears people would call his new ongoing series a“slice of life” comic. He associates that phrase with being boring to retailers and readers. But it is what it is. Royal City is a slice of life comic by the general accepted definition of what the phrase “slice of life” means in anime, manga, comics and pop culture.
By Christopher Sarda8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Kingsman: The Golden Circle'
Kingsman: The Secret Service was a not particularly inventive rehash of Mark Millar’s previously adapted work, Kick-Ass. The derivative spy take on the same tropes of the super-hero send-up bored me endlessly with its nihilistic approach to James Bond minus the strange wit of Kick-Ass, which shared not just creator Millar but also director Matthew Vaughn, who couldn’t help but seem to rip off his own work in a lazy rehash.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks