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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
The Chinks in 'Game of Thrones'' Armour
(SPOILER WARNING FOR ALL SEVEN SEASONS OF GAME OF THRONES) No franchise is infallible. There have been several stories that have been told through the course of books, movies, TV shows, and even video games that have touched both the heights of glory and the depths of monotony and boredom. However, every once in a while, there emerges that story that seems like it can do no wrong. For many years, the series that, in my opinion, occupied this position was J.K Rowling’s masterful Harry Potter. As of late, though, one series has risen to take on the mantle that everyone’s favourite boy wizard left, and that series is none other than George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, or, as it is more popularly known, Game of Thrones. And while it is no exaggeration to say that the show has become one of the icons of the entertainment world in recent years, I say that it suffers from key problems that, while not reducing the quality of the show, definitely takes it down from what it used to be back when it first came on the air.
By Arvind Pennathur8 years ago in Geeks
Harry Potter: Books vs. Movies
Okay, so I live in a very traditional, conservative area where saying you like Harry Potter is almost an equivalent to saying you worship Satan for some people. I, contrary to popular belief, do not worship Satan despite my love for the Harry Potter franchise. I think that conservative/traditional/religious people who hate Harry Potter are just looking for things to consider "evil" at this point. I mean, yes, there is witchcraft in the series (obviously). Is witchcraft considered evil in the Bible? Yes. There are also snakes. Are snakes evil in the Bible? Yes. But do you know what else has snakes and witchcraft in it? The Bible.
By Neta Wiebe8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The My Little Pony Movie'
Having seen the unique and oddly fascinating documentary Bronies a few years back, I have been trying to come to terms with the adult fans of My Little Pony. Is this simply large scale trolling or are these grown men for real in their pony based fandom? Oddly, I don’t feel like either of the Brony documentaries that have been released in the past couple of years have answered my question. I still don’t get what it is that grown men see in My Little Pony.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Girls Trip'
The trailer for Girls Trip made the film look like a nightmare. With a heavy focus on raunchy, gross-out body humor and the most simplistic gloss of #GirlPower, the trailer makes the movie look like a borderline minstrel show of black women. Before you get mad at my glib deconstruction of the trailer and my incendiary language, please try to understand that I am setting the stage to turn around and tell you how much I genuinely enjoyed the movie Girls Trip.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Reed Alexander's Review of '+1' (2013)
SPOILERS!!! You know it's going to be bad when I basically have to start off with the spoiler alert. So yeah, I am basically encouraging you to never watch this! If you feel like you absolutely must know what happens, continue reading, cause I'm about to detail everything wrong with it in a play by play.
By Reed Alexander8 years ago in Geeks
The Room
I remember being in college, where I took a film class as part of my required communication elective. As much as I loved this class, I had an overwhelming amount of movies to watch that my professor thought were masterpieces. It was for the most part a great learning experience, but I need an ounce of stupid in my life. Around this time, I was into Troll 2, a movie that I will definitely talk about another time, but after my film class I needed something new. I read online about this movie called The Room, which came out in 2003. I never hear of this movie before, but it was being called "The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies" (funny, that's one of the movies I had to watch in my film class). I found a copy of this, and what I saw changed me.
By Christine Clossey8 years ago in Geeks
Review: 'The Lost City of DeMille' . Top Story - October 2017.
The Lost City of DeMille is a pure delight for cinema historians. This tiny, low budget documentary was thirty plus years in the making and yet captures more than 90 years of film history in its remarkably fun 87 minutes. The history captured in The Lost City of DeMille is that of the director who defined the early days of film and was both progenitor and savior of the art form in its infancy and pubescence. For that alone, The Lost City of DeMille deserves our praise.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Three O'Clock High
Three O’Clock High is a movie about toxic masculinity. It may not have been seen that way in 1987 when the film arrived in theaters, but today there is no denying it. Toxic Masculinity is defined in modern social science as traditionally male behaviors in relation to the expression of dominance. Such behaviors are detrimental to mental health and often times are expressed in actions or behaviors that are sexist, misogynistic, racist, or homophobic. Three O’Clock High ticks almost all of those hateful behaviors in just over 90 minutes of screen time.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
'Injection Volume One' Review
Injection is Warren Ellis' love letter to England, or perhaps Britain in the geographical rather than political sense, is the first thing that springs to mind when I think of Injection. Taking place in the here and now, the series is based on an almost deadly whim and a fundamental mistake. A team of unique individuals came together to create something that would ensure humanity would never stagnate, their creation would drive change, and ensure strangeness remained in the world. The problem is that it worked too well, and the fallout of their success has far-reaching repercussions.
By Steve Cotterill8 years ago in Geeks
'Trees Volume 2' Review
The second volume of Ellis’ Wyndham-inspired Science Fiction epic presents a widening gyre as the story picks up from the close of the first volume, starting with Joanne Creasy as she recovers from the events of the first volume and is sent to investigate the Orkney Tree by the British Government. Dividing much of its focus between this sortie into the far north of Scotland, and the machinations of the Mayor Elect in New York, Volume Two is far more focused than the first book of this series. This provides a strong benefit, effectively allowing Ellis to dive deep into the two characters. We do catch up with two more characters at the end of the book, which I assume is setting up the next book.
By Steve Cotterill8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Blade Runner 2049'
“Sometimes, to love someone, you have to be a stranger.” Out of context, the above line of dialogue from Blade Runner 2049 doesn’t seem so profound. But when it lands in the context of the story being told by director Denis Villeneuve, the line plays as remarkably poignant. I won’t spoil the context in this review. Indeed, I will venture to avoid any spoilers whatsoever. What I can tell you about Blade Runner 2049 is that it has all of the atmosphere of cool that the 1982, Ridley Scott-helmed original had but with even better characters and deeper meanings, and yes, genuinely poignant moments.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
