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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.

Classic Movie Review: 'Death Wish 4: The Crackdown'
How in the world did the Death Wish franchise last for four movies? How did anyone with a brain figure that the story of vigilante Paul Kersey could simply linger for over a decade? It’s a bafflement and yet, in the first weekend of November, 1987, Cannon Films managed to release Death Wish 4: The Crackdown and it somehow wasn’t the last of this limping, moronic, gun crazy, alpha male fantasy franchise.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
'Son in Law': Giving Thanks with the Weasel
Hello, and welcome back to Second Chances where I give the maligned and forgotten another shot. Okay, I'm about to do something so heinous and nonsensical that I think it warrants the death penalty in several states. It's something that some may consider to be the ultimate act of evil.
By Adam Wallace8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'A Bad Moms Christmas'
A Bad Moms Christmas is quite funny. The gags delivered by these very funny ladies work most of the time to great effect. So why don’t I love the movie? As much as I laughed at A Bad Mom’s Christmas, I was rolling my eyes during scenes that weren’t centered on off-color gags. For all the uproarious laughs brought on by the brilliant Kathryn Hahn, the non-gag scenes, the ones centered on moving forward the supposed plot of A Bad Moms Christmas, simply don’t hold up.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Review: 'Murder on the Orient Express'
As it's been years since I've seen the Albert Finney version and having seen so many films since, I have pretty much forgotten the outcome of this Agatha Christie classic.
By David Grice8 years ago in Geeks
Review: 'The Killing Of A Sacred Deer'
Ever since The Lobster, director Yorgos Lanthimos has been seen as the best thing to happen to independent cinema. He is probably the most original director working today, and there is a crowd for his work that is slowly growing.
By David Grice8 years ago in Geeks
A Truly Heart Stopping Comparison
If given the chance to decide who lives and who dies, would you be able to take another’s life? In the manga, Death Note, Light Yagami is given the power to kill through the form of the Death Note notebook given to him by Ryuk the Shinigami; with the notebook, he seeks to get rid of the rotten in the world and he is willing to go to any length to do so, while Light Turner in the film is much more hesitant to deal out such punishment and has to be convinced on many occasions, and has his limits. The film adaptation of the manga seems to have more loose essence of the source material. The reasons for this lies in the portrayal of Light, justice and Ryuk in the film.
By maz gg8 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: 'The Lost Wife of Robert Durst'
The Lifetime movie has become synonymous with low-budget, high-camp, gossipy trash. Though the network has worked to try and buy back some respectability with more ambitious, true life stories and slightly bigger budgets, that gossipy, trashy style of storytelling remains the network’s bread and butter. I sound like I am complaining and I probably should be, but the fact is, the gossipy, high-camp trash that is The Lost Wife of Robert Durst is insanely watchable; the definition of a pleasure to feel guilty about.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Marshall Review
Thurgood Marshall, the late supreme court justice, influenced the tides of history. In Marshall, Chadwick Boseman steps into these impossibly large shoes, taking the role of Marshall in the eponymous film. Marshall presents Connecticut v. Joseph Spell, a case in which New York lawyer and NAACP heavy hitter Thurgood Marshall is sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut to defend a man accused of murder. Not being legally permitted to practice law in Connecticut, Marshall is forced to team up with Sam Friedman — an insurance claims lawyer who was roped into the case against his will. Not only is the case a fight in the battle for racial equality with the life of a man in the balance but the very future of the NAACP, who are running low on funds and in desperate need of a public win is also in jeopardy.
By MoCo Lopez8 years ago in Geeks
Everything I Thought About: 'Everything, Everything'
I, being in college for most of my young adulthood, have barely enough time to go to movie theaters and watch current movies. But I just so happened to be able to watch Everything, Everything because a beloved friend bought the movie. She loved it so much it was hard for me to pry the movie from her hands so that I could finally see what the fuss was about. I can rightly say that I was pleasantly surprised and an emotional wreck while watching this at 3 AM because someone would not call and I was having a major insomnia moment.
By Briana Booker8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Less than Zero'
I am rather obsessed with the title Less than Zero. I can’t seem to figure out exactly what it signifies. I know that the title of the 1987 movie comes from the title of Elvis Costello’s debut single of the same title but neither the movie or the book by Bret Easton Ellis has anything to do with the song. The song isn’t even included in the movie or on its bestselling soundtrack record. Costello gives few contextual clues as to what he means when he says Less than Zero and thus the title remains mysterious and elusive. It exists in the realm of sounding ‘cool.’
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Review: The Square
Being crowned the winner of the Palme D'Or at Cannes gives it such a hype that expect it to be a possible Oscar front-runner or contender at the very least.
By David Grice8 years ago in Geeks
'In the Blink of an Eye'
“Why do cuts work?” is the main question in Walter Murch’s book In the Blink of an Eye, and it’s a very intriguing question. In the book, Murch explains how at first glance the way film is cut today just shouldn’t work. It’s simply not how we perceive things in everyday life, jumping around from place to place in a discontinuous way. So, how come the way we edit films actually works? His answer is equally intriguing.
By Mitch Davis8 years ago in Geeks