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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Movie Review: 'Traffik'
Traffik stars Paula Patton and Omar Epps as Brea and John, a couple on the cusp of an engagement. As they head off for a romantic weekend at a far off mansion owned by their friend Darren (Laz Alonso) and his girlfriend Malia (Roselyn Sanchez), it appears quite certain that John will be popping the question, especially after he gifts the birthday girl, Brea, a 1969 Charger that he built himself.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Super Troopers 2'
Super Troopers 2 is about as good as the mediocre Broken Lizard comedy group could make it. Seventeen years after the original Super Troopers achieved a modest cult following for the shenanigans of the Vermont Highway Patrol, the group has reformed for a sequel filled with the same Bro-ey, self-satisfied mediocrity that made up the first film and somehow made Broken Lizard a commodity.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Miracle Season'
Caroline "Line" Found was a young force of nature in her too short 17 years. When she was killed in an accident, it left her small community in Iowa City, Iowa, devastated, especially the members of her championship volleyball team. Nineteen-year-old Danika Yarosh gives us a wonderful sense of this inspiring young lady in a very brief amount of screen time. So good is Yarosh that I never minded the pushy emotionalism of The Miracle Season.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Isle of Dogs'
There is an unsuspecting smugness to just about everything Wes Anderson directs. I say unsuspecting as a way of giving benefit of doubt to the Isle of Dogs director, that perhaps the smugness is not a function of genuinely being an overly self-satisfied prat. It’s hard to say for sure though because everything Anderson directs has a similarly self-congratulatory quality; as if their very existence were a form of higher art than others.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
How 'Rampage' Broke the Video Game Movie Curse
Source Material For starters, Rampage recognizes that it is an adaptation. It honors the spirit of the original video game, without being so beholden to it that there’s no room for necessary improvement. Some video games deliver an amazing narrative and complex plot—that doesn’t necessarily translate to the big screen well. If that were the case, the Warcraft movie would have been a lot better received. The climactic scene of George, Ralph, and Lizzie tearing through Chicago was very true to the video games. But, apart from that? Definitely different. And that worked for it.
By Nicholas Knight8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: God's Not Dead: Let There Be Light
Thus far, the God’s Not Dead franchise has been defined by its vengeful hatred toward anyone who was not a hard right Christian. Characters in the first God’s Not Dead were punished with Cancer diagnoses and hit and run death, because they didn’t believe in God in the way the pious characters did. In Gods Not Dead 2, Ray Wise basically played the devil, persecuting a Christian teacher played by Melissa Joan Hart.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Ready Player One
Ready Player One is a giddy sensory overload. Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel packs an eye blasting amount of pop cult ephemera into its 2 hours and 20 minutes run time and yet still finds time to craft an adventure worthy of his directorial canon. Everything from Monty Python to Gundam, from Minecraft to Stanley Kubrick finds a place in Ready Player One without any of them stepping on the others too much.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Salome' & 'Wilde Salome'
The mercurial Al Pacino decades ago passed into self-parody. It was a sad passing, watching one of the most powerful and fascinating actors in movie history begin to rely on bellowing, over-the-top nonsense rather than investing in his actual talent. Perhaps he thought that the bellowing nonsense was always his performative style, perhaps he feels that we changed and he didn’t, but the bottom line is, it’s all been downhill since one of Pacino’s worst performances, Scent of a Woman, was awarded an Academy Award.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
