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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
8 of the Best Feel-Good Books To Warm Your Heart This Winter
Well, it's been…quite a year. Maybe, like me, you're feeling exhausted, fragile, and in need of comfort? If so, perhaps you'll enjoy curling up with one of these feel-good books in the cold winter months.
By Claire Amy Handscombe5 years ago in Geeks
The Isle of Bones
God, I can’t believe that I am here again, was my thought as I stepped out of my plane. Which is true, I never thought I would step foot in Key West after what happened to my Grandmother. You see when I was sixteen years old my Grandmother whom I knew as Mimi took me to Key West for the summer.
By Isabella Klos5 years ago in Geeks
Review of ‘The PAN’
Since her parents were killed, Vivienne has always felt ungrounded, shuffled through the foster care system. Just when liberation finally seems possible-days before her eighteenth birthday-Vivienne is hospitalized with symptoms no one can explain. The doctors may be puzzled, but Deacon, her mysterious new friend, claims she has an active Nevergene. His far-fetched diagnosis comes with a warning: she is about to become an involuntary test subject for Humanitarian Organization for Order and Knowledge-or H.O.O.K. Vivienne can either escape to Neverland's Kensington Academy and learn to fly (Did he really just say fly?) or risk sticking around to become a human lab rat. But accepting a place among The P.A.N. means Vivienne must abandon her life and foster family to safeguard their secrets and hide in Neverland's shadows ... forever.
By Cyn's Workshop5 years ago in Geeks
Happiest Season - A Hulu Movie Review
It’s for five days. How bad could the holiday season be? Happiest Season is a 2020 Hulu film. Abby and Harper are happily in a relationship. Upon Harper’s request to join her at her parent’s for the holidays, Abby learns that Harper has not yet come out to her parents. The family dramas ensue during the craziest holiday ever.
By Marielle Sabbag5 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: "The Mahé Circle" by Georges Simenon
The Mahé Circle is one of the lesser great books by Georges Simenon but still contains slight brilliances that we would commonly associate with him and his works. Long strings of brilliance and vibrance followed by depressing and haunting images, characters with strange pasts and major pieces of dialogue. When it comes to characterisation, Simenon is one of the greats with having the ability to start a story in the middle of a narrative whilst also giving us a whole backstory to a character that is revealed through snippets, bits and pieces and the way in which we are taught about other characters, both relative and irrelevant. It is like learning about secrets we are not supposed to know. However, this book lacks the philosophical depth that I have seen in other Simenon books such as “The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By” and “The Blue Room”. But let us have a look at some of the book’s quotations that I thought were some of the strongest in the whole narrative:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "1917"
1917 came out in 2019. A full 102 years after the events of the movie. The events that had happened in the movie were loosely based on stories that the director Sam Mendes had heard from his war veteran grandfather. I can't imagine anyone going through the situations that were described in this movie because the movie is disturbingly visceral and authentic.
By Brian Anonymous5 years ago in Geeks
Review of Christopher Nolan's Tenet Film
Tenet by Christopher Nolan, on a structural and conceptual level, is a big-budget Memento. Both stories are told both backward and forwards. In Nolan’s second feature film, he differentiates the timeline, moving forward in time as black-and-white scenes, and the reverse chronology as color. The scenes culminate in the climax and transition from black and white to color when the revelation near the end of the film’s runtime is the chronological start of the movie.
By Michael Bergonzi5 years ago in Geeks
‘Half Brothers’ Review—Somewhat Watchable
Luke Greenfield directs Half Brothers, a buddy road trip comedy-drama about Renato (Luis Gerardo Méndez), a Mexican man who is forced to go on a cross-country scavenger hunt at the request of his dying father with an American brother, Asher (Connor Del Rio), that he never knew existed.
By Jonathan Sim5 years ago in Geeks
