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Movie Review Masters of the Universe 30 Years Later
The legendary John Waters once defined camp, on an episode of The Simpsons, as “The tragically ludicrous, the ludicrously tragic.” The 1987 movie Masters of the Universe pre-dates that definition of camp by more than a decade but nevertheless defines it perfectly. Masters of the Universe is a tragically ludicrous idea undermined by greed, hubris and the outright silly notion that just because something catches on with child audiences it can be translated to film in anything other than a pathetic attempt at pandering.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Spider-Man: Homecoming Review
After the mild disappointment of The Dark Knight Rises (2012), I hopped the pond over to Marvel. An interesting story is wrapped in the events of this film, and no, I won’t be going into the details of them. All I want to focus on right now is the film itself. It’s released and out now, so it’s time to talk about Spider-Man: Homecoming. This is one of the few superhero series that I’ve kept up to date with, the other being Batman’s stellar The Dark Knight trilogy. Still, this film needed to do one thing for me. Prove that Tom Holland can be better than Tobey Maguire. Did it succeed? Read on and find out.
By Ewan Gleadow8 years ago in Geeks
The Corndog Man
Independent films, for quite some time, have been seen as an alternative film genre that tells off kilter and taboo stories you don't normally see in wide release movies. Unfortunately, indie films have also earned a bad reputation for being vapid art that is offensive for offensiveness' sake, and it's on this side of the genre hemisphere we find The Corndog Man.
By Paper Starship8 years ago in Geeks
Disney's 'Weird' Period
Disney has been bringing animated and live action films to our screens for years and whilst I am a huge Disney fan I find that most of these films fall into the same cookie cutter category. Disney found a formula that worked and stuck to it, nobody can blame them for that when it makes them billions of dollars. However, when Mulan was released in 1998, we were suddenly given a new era of Disney film.
By Grace Lynch8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Legend of Ben Hall
We have a tendency in America to believe that our pop culture is the only culture to embrace our anti-heroes, those rugged criminals whose lives we romanticize into fantasy for reasons we can’t quite rationalize with what these men did. But rhapsodizing about the criminal as pseudo-hero is a truly worldwide phenomenon. The latest example of the worldwide nature of the celebration of anti-heroes comes from Australia with the story of criminal icon Ben Hall, the subject of the Bushranger epic The Legend of Ben Hall which is now available on DVD and On-Demand services in America.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Remembering Dunkirk
The miracle evacuation of Dunkirk in the Second World War has been brought to life again by actors who played the roles of the soldiers who died that day, trying to come home but left vulnerable on open lands of the beaches and the sea. Director Christopher Nolan has turned to the evacuation of Dunkirk for his latest acclaimed film bringing back the stunning great escape that helped Britain avoid defeat in the Second World War, showing that we had risked everything while working to save the British army.
By Lizzy Arrow8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Opening Night
Opening Night has the kind of scrappy charm that you want out of a musical. It’s shaggy and flawed but it’s also fun-loving and freewheeling. The story of a Broadway stage manager struggling with personal demons from his own seemingly failed Broadway career, the movie may not have the polish of a Hollywood production but it makes up for it with moxie and the can-do spirit of an underdog production with nothing to lose.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
A Closer Look at The Road to El Dorado
If you were to make a list of the greatest animated movies of all time, I highly doubt that The Road to El Dorado would be on your list. Many people group The Road to El Dorado with other DreamWorks failures and assume that since it was a box office bomb it was a bad movie. However, if you sit down and rewatch the film you'll see how well it has aged and how baffling it is that this movie wasn't a success. So let's take a look at what makes The Road to El Dorado awesome and why that went unnoticed.
By Jason Schwartz8 years ago in Geeks
Jon Kent; The True Tragic Hero of 'Man of Steel'
There are a few problems with the Man of Steel movie. Many that have been hashed and rehashed at ad nauseam. There is one that I feel needs to be looked at a little more closely. That is the adaptation of Jon Kent as a character. Jon is Clark’s adoptive human father and the pillar of morals in Clark’s life. Jon Kent was nothing more than a normal, red blooded, average American man, trying to raise his alien son and help him to become the hero that we all know and love.
By Kimberly Messer8 years ago in Geeks
The Living Daylights Turns 30
Okay, you might be wondering what kind of BS I am trying to pull here by not writing my own review of The Living Daylights. After all, I reviewed The Lost Boys, Adventures in Babysitting and La Bamba, so why not celebrate 30 years of Timothy Dalton's version of 007? The answer is simple and oddly controversial; I am not, nor have I ever been, a fan of the James Bond movies.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
