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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Legion of the Moon by Peter Jackson - A Review
Picture by Odinrules on DeviantArt Lately, I’ve found myself reading more and more mystery novels. I’ve grown to enjoy the suspense and mountain of questions that arises as the story unfolds, before the final revelation has you reeling in your seat. I also have been a longtime fan of sword and sandal tales, so finding and reading Legion of the Moon was a fantastic experience. With so many twists, turns, and whodunnits, woven expertly into a classical Roman setting, the book reads as if Agatha Christie wrote the script for the film Gladiator.
By Warren Johnson5 years ago in Geeks
Outside The Wire
Brief synopsis: In a war-torn future, a drone pilot is sent into the field after he disobeys an order, resulting in the death of two soldiers. He finds himself under the command of a top-secret sentient robot chasing after a warlord intent on destroying the world. Or so he is led to believe.
By Q-ell Betton5 years ago in Geeks
Columbus - A Movie Review
Friends make a difference in our lives. Never take friendship for granted. Columbus was released to the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Two people who are going through similar issues become friends. Both are stuck in Columbus, Indiana. For different reasons. In a short time, Jin and Casey form a friendship analyzing their paths in life.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Geeks
Yummy Mummies
Unlike most young women my age, I am absolutely obsessed with babies. I have no clue if this stems from my lack of own children or my great desire to one day have children but I love any reality show that revolves around babies. I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, A Baby Story, etc. So when I saw that Netflix had a show called Yummy Mummies, a show about these glamorous, very posh, very sassy mommies-to-be in Australia, I knew I absolutely had to see what it was about.
By L. M. Williams5 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "Godmothered"
Godmothered was a late 2020 entry for Disney Plus. It was released around the Christmas holidays but I never got around to watching it until now. It fits a lot of Disney tropes that you're familiar with but with a modern twist. I'm seeing more and more of this from the company. This gives the giant company new ways of telling similar tales from the past.
By Brian Anonymous5 years ago in Geeks
A League of Their Own - A Movie Review
There is no crying allowed in baseball! Based on true events, A League of Their Own was released to theaters in 1992. The first-ever women’s professional baseball league is created. Coming across struggles and stereotypical insults, the team has to work together to succeed.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Geeks
"A Journey in the Dark"
I was not a ‘normal’ little girl. Where most girls my age spent their youth wanting to be princesses, vets or mermaids, I wanted to be a pirate. I am, of course, talking about the ‘romantic’ swashbuckling, earring and eyepatch wearing pirate, not the machine-gun toting Captain Phillips type. I mean frock coats and peglegs at dawn, Bristolian accents and gold teeth. To me, even at that young age, I wanted the freedom that seemed to come from a rum-soaked life aboard the Seven Seas. I wanted to look for buried treasure, sing sea shanties and find ‘glory’. I now know much more about pirates than I did then, about how hard life could be and how dangerous that life was, and I no longer desire to live such a life, but I have nonetheless carried that love of pirates with me into adulthood.
By Millie Hardy-Sims5 years ago in Geeks
The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson
Roxy was upset, hurt, and disgusted with the way Tom Driscroll Jr. treated her, but why? She switched him and the original Tom at birth, leaving her son to be raised in a home that she was a slave in. This fear of separation fueled her decisions to alter the lives of the two boys drastically. When trying to better her son's life, she gave him an opportunity to not only succeed but detach himself from her. She became Driscoll Jr's (her actual son) mammy. Roxy’s son grew up as a white man. He would frequently bark at her, "N**** wench," which birthed disdain in Roxy. She loved her son enough to ruin another child's life, only to have him socially acclimated into hating her. Driscoll Jr. is an example of how hate is taught and never inherent. As well as an example of the limits to his whiteness. Is Roxy justified in her actions? In her eyes, she is getting back at the Whites for the treatment of their slaves, but the magnitude of how awful slavery was will not be corrected by Roxy; however, I would argue it is a start. Roxy forced the boundaries of Race to open. A white reader during the Reconstruction Era would have fell out their chair, or at least did laughed off the idea of a black man living as a white man and reaping that privilege. Its weird because critics of Twain’s time focused more o n how “messy” his plot was. It was almost like a calculated attack to discredit his book and the ideas in it. Honestly, though, the storyline is busy, but with what the books does, it requires a busy storyline. It shows how Twain decides to portray his view on Race. When I read this book, I could not stop thinking about how he was raised by whites but acted out. The society of the time was trying to figure out how to integrate newly freed slaves into society, this novel is telling us that the United States society decided to cast blackness as innately criminal. The reconstruction era society never really “reconstructed” itself into something new. Instead, it repaired the previous social norm- blacks are not equal -, painted over that with -blacks are criminal. Our society never left that thought process. And that strategy was used to marginalize many other groups of people in the united states: The Mexicans, The Japanese, The Filipinos, all The Native Americans. It is strange how much of the past has rippled forward.
By Senor Jinxlier5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
An amazingly funny film and possibly one of the funniest dark comedies I have ever seen stars Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey, Priscilla Lane and Jack Carson in "Arsenic and Old Lace" in which a family filled with murderers and insanity plans and plots against each other whilst all living in the same house. From getting the police involved, to planning a murder against another family member, this sure as hell should not be funny but sure as hell is definitely funny. There is something really hilarious in not only the jokes that are told, but the way in which people act which shows us that script has been brilliantly written to reflect the genre it is based within. A very difficult genre to actually get correct, the dark comedy type has shown to be one of the things that this film does perfectly and yet, at two hours long, it is a constantly brilliance from start to finish.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
