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DC Fandome 2021
On Saturday, October 16, DC Comics and Warner Bros. presented their second annual Fandome, showcasing new trailers for upcoming films and shows like The Batman, The Flash, and Black Adam. We also got a glance at the Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League and Gotham Knights game's plot trailers. Here's a rundown of some of the most important highlights.
By Louis Mihael4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Harder They Fall' Starring Idris Elba
The Harder they Fall stars Jonathan Majors as Nat Love, an outlaw in the old west and leader of the Nat Love Gang, a criminal outfit that robs other criminals. Joining Nat are his lady love, Mary Fields (Zazie Beetz), Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi), Jim Beckworth (R.J Cyler) and Mary’s right hand, Cuffee (Danielle Deadwyler). Together they battle other gangs and rob them to enrich themselves while Nat pursues a lifelong revenge.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain begins on such a painful note of whimsy that I thought I might gag on it. The first time we meet Benedict Cumberbatch, in the role of real life artist Louis Wain, the performance is so mannered, so broad, and so deeply affected that it feels like a Saturday Night Live parody. It doesn’t help that the early cinematography choices, handheld and bumpy, looks grainy in a way very similar to SNL shorts, those pre-taped bits SNL occasionally does.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Lamb' Starring Noomi Rapace
Lamb is a bizarre and brilliant new film from Icelandic filmmaker Valdimar Johannson. The film stars Noomi Rapace as Maria and Hilmur Snaer Guonason as Maria’s husband, Ingvar. The two lead a rather mundane life as sheep herders and farmers in a lonely but utterly gorgeous patch of land in Iceland. Their existence is serene and routine, tending to the sheep, fixing the tractor, tilling the land for planting and harvesting, and so on.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Subject' Starring Jason Biggs
The Subject is an exciting new drama about a documentarian who finds himself on the other side of the camera in the wake of a tragedy that occurred during the making of his recent award winning documentary. Jason Biggs stars in The Subject as Phil Waterhouse, an award winning documentary filmmaker who harbors guilt over the death of one of the subjects of his last documentary, for which he was lavished with awards and praise.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Black Widow Review
Wow, is this the first Marvel movie I'm reviewing on this platform? Good Lord, it's been a while. To catch you up on my experience with Marvel, even though I know a lot about how the world has developed over the last couple of years, I haven't seen a lot of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I adore the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, I thought Doctor Strange was underwhelming, and even though I overall enjoyed WandaVision (which I've reviewed on this website), I definitely didn't fall head over heels for it. In my opinion, this is my least favorite of the MCU properties I've seen so far, but it definitely still has its entertaining and satisfying moments. Let's start with talking about the positives first.
By Jamie Lammers4 years ago in Geeks
Myers’s Return for More
The crisp air of autumn gentle covers the neighborhood as brown leaves rest on the streets. Kids are dressed up for trick or treating on a night when they should remain safely at home in the “not so quiet town” of Haddonfield. Haddonfield is haunted by a dark history and the night of costumed fun is the one night when no one is safe. On this night the maleficent Michael Myers emerges from a flame engulfed house and continues on with his quest: to kill as many people as he can. But for what? Is it to finish off what he started with Laurie, the original character from the first films dating back to 1978 (played by Jamie Lee Curtis, yes even today)? To finally put an end to her? Or is there a deeper reason for his slashing spree? In Halloween Kills, we find out the motive behind Michael and learn more about the evolving history of the Halloween film saga.
By Iris Harris4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Last Duel Starring Matt Damon
The Last Duel stars Jody Comer as Marguerite, a daughter of privilege traded like property to Squire and future Knight, Jean De Carrouges (Matt Damon). She’s also the object of the affections of Carrouges' long time friend turned enemy, Jacques LeGris (Adam Driver). In the course of The Last Duel we will see the same story told from each of these three perspectives but only Marguerite’s is actually treated as ‘The Truth.’
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Yes, that's right. I'm one of those idiots that had never seen this film before. In fact, I was such an idiot about this film that I didn't even know what it was about. IN FACT, I was such an idiot about this film that I had no idea that the one and only EDGAR WRIGHT co-wrote and directed this film. That's how little I knew about what Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was except that it was some sort of heavily stylized adventure that paid tribute to classic video games. That's all I really knew about this film going in, and coming out of it, I'm just as much in love with this film as everyone else is.
By Jamie Lammers4 years ago in Geeks
The Suicide Squad Review
A couple of things before we get rolling on this review. First, this is the 1,000th piece of media that I have logged on Letterboxd! Not reviewed, but logged, just to clarify. It's insane I've logged that much stuff on here, but I've loved every minute of doing it. For two, my local theater is actually playing this film this weekend, but I just moved into my college dorm, so I didn't get to see it there. I DID get to see it with some fellow college students, though, in a gathering that my old roommate was a part of, which I really needed after the insane and rough day I've had. Finally, because of how long it took me to get to that gathering, I missed the first ten minutes of this movie and the post-credits sequence, so I went back and watched them on my own HBO Max account once I got back to my apartment. No spoilers, but turns out those first ten minutes were more crucial than I realized.
By Jamie Lammers4 years ago in Geeks
Earth to Echo Review
God, what wasted potential. There's something about the ideas of Earth to Echo that feel interesting, and the concepts behind this film could have worked so much better. Unfortunately, the film as a whole is fronted by a pretty clunky script and various inconsistencies with both the character writing and the shot structure as a whole. On top of that, this is one of the most cliched films I've seen in a long time, if not ever. I could predict pretty much everything about this film as soon as it came onto the screen, and the way that the plot points were executed didn't feel earned or original in their own way, they just felt tired.
By Jamie Lammers4 years ago in Geeks
Pig Review
I've been sitting on this score for a while. I didn't 100% know if I wanted to give this film my perfect grade because I didn't know if it actually was perfect to me. The pacing sometimes hiccups and there were times I kind of lost track of what was happening... at least, in the moment. By the time Pig ended, though, I realized just how much this film affected me and how deeply engaging and thought-provoking it was when taken as a whole. All of the little pieces in this film started to fit together for me, all of the exchanges of dialogue and character moments started to feel completely necessary, and there isn't one thing I would have changed about this film. Pig is the best film I've seen in theaters in a long time, no questions asked.
By Jamie Lammers4 years ago in Geeks
