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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
The Best Pound I Ever Spent
Placed on the wrong shelf in my local bookshop, Miracles of Life: Shanghai to Shepperton: An Autobiography was wedged in-between cookery books. The red sticker on the front showed it to be reduced down to a mere pound as it sat on the other side of the store from the sale section where it had obviously come from. The shiny new pound coin that sat in the bottom of my purse had found its calling.
By Marianna Michael8 years ago in Geeks
Team America: World Police
As a connoisseur of stories, I can tell you that I love when one comes together and gives me a memorable experience. In some of my favorites stories, I watch or read or play over and over just to pick apart — which is what makes it a great story. I’m that person who gets starry-eyed and gushy when I find that little detail I had missed that changes EVERYTHING I ever thought about a character. Then I feel the need to tell everyone I know about this because obviously it’s important to everyone, right?
By Yumi Yamamoto8 years ago in Geeks
A True Modern Horror Masterpiece
Every now and again there is a film that easily takes us deep into a terrifying and psychologically challenging thrill ride. Stephen King has a tendency to do this with his novels so one could only hope the film adaptation of his classic horror novel It could be as terrifying as the over 1000 page novel. Expectations were set and then smashed upon viewing It.
By Kenneth Belliveau8 years ago in Geeks
Green Lantern Emerald Dawn 2
Green Lantern Emerald Dawn 2 Comic Time Period: Modern Day Comic To start, I never read any Green Lantern comic books because he's not one of my favorite characters. I simply bought this one because it was in the fifty cent bin and I wanted to learn more about Green Lantern.
By Kimberly B8 years ago in Geeks
Reed Alexander's Review of 'The Taking of Deborah Logan'
*sigh* Jesus Fucking Christ...... Look, Hollywood, we need to have a serious conversation about this shaky camera thing. A.K.A. The newest, shiniest, most polished, and overused piece of shit that's been taking over horror as a genre? It needs to stop. Not just stop, but be systematically removed from all historical records and completely neutralized. Look, it was necessary for a group of young aspiring actors making The Blare Witch Project. They needed a way to create elements of a dark and chaotic atmosphere on their sshoestringbudget and this was their only option. Hollywood does not need to do that and in fact, there are very few reason that it's even appropriate. You basically just have the camera guy wiggle around his view to create atmosphere when you're simply, A) too lazy to set the atmosphere your damn self, B) lack the imagination necessary to set up a proper atmosphere in the first place. Seriously, fucking stop it.
By Reed Alexander8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Flatliners'
Flatliners is a remarkably bad movie. I love Eliot Page, he is a very compelling and charismatic actor. Why has he been marginalized so much that he felt he needed to make this bizarrely dumb movie? What compelled him and the very talented director Niels Arden Oplev, director of the Swedish Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, to think this movie was a good idea? Why did anyone think that remaking a movie as bad as the original Flatliners was a good idea? The Joel Schumaker directed 1990 Flatliners is a terrible movie and somehow this version manages to be worse than that. I’m baffled.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Re-Review: 'Logan'
When I first saw Logan, the latest spin-off of the X-Men franchise, I was not impressed. There was so much hype, so much discussion about how the R-Rating would finally allow Wolverine to be Wolverine. Then I saw the film and found it to be as conventional as any of the other X-Men movies with a little bit of gore tacked on for fan service. So what’s changed for me since March of this year? Why was watching Logan at home on a DVD screener from the studio so different from watching the film in theaters earlier this year?
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
