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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
H'ween Horrorthon: Poltergeist
Hello and... boo! The latest in my horrorthon is a classic ghost story from the mind and imagination of director Steven Spielberg, but the reigns of the direction were handed to director Tobe Hooper, the man who scared generations of roving hitchhikers and weed-obsessed youths with one man—Leatherface, in his seminal 1974 cheapie-chiller The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Rememory'
Rememory wants desperately to be a deep meditation on memory, grief and loss, and a sci-fi mystery. The film achieves some of that goal thanks to the performances from the stellar cast headed by Peter Dinklage and Julia Ormond. That said, the deep meditation part only skims the surface and the sci-fi mystery movie is achieved only through the use of a Deus Xx Machina, a magic memory machine.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
'AHS: Cult' Podcast Discussion
With a new season of American Horror Story, comes new challenges. It seems that every season I start off with this defensive wall up that I'm actively daring Ryan Murphy to knock down over the course of the season's episodes. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it doesn't. The frustrating part of this, aside from the fact that this is one of the only shows I watch that I do this with, is that it's taken me several seasons to relinquish that defensive mindset and just go along with whatever story Murphy chooses to tell at that time. I know I cannot be the only one that goes through this each season, but I understand how strange my approach to watching a show I claim to love can be compared to others' blind devotion to anything that is created under the American Horror Story banner.
By Critics w/o Credentials8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Killer Klowns from Outer Space'
The latest adaptation of Stephen King’s IT hits theaters this weekend and with that the Everyone is a Critic podcast needed a clown movie for our classic. Only one movie could fit the bill as a classic movie about clowns: Killer Klowns from Outer Space. This bizarre 1988 horror comedy about murderous, alien Klowns and starring John Allen Nelson and John Vernon both baffles and entertains.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
It Comes At Night
Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I had heard such good things about this film, such good things, and the trailer looked so gooooooood—I thought I was onto something here... But nope. Nope, nope and a big fat nope. "Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge."
By Megan Davis8 years ago in Geeks
Annabelle
I was reminded, (because I need reminding), recently by my close friend that I still needed to see Annabelle when we started talking about the new one, so, with an evening to myself I took the plunge. My friend, may I add, did wish me luck before too, but I really didn't need it... "A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists."
By Megan Davis8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Tulip Fever'
Tulip Fever tells the story of an orphan girl named Sophia who is plucked from a Dutch orphanage to become the wife/concubine of a rich trader named Cornelis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz). Sophia’s life is a relatively dull routine but nothing she really notices as, aside from the orphanage, it’s all she’s ever known. Sophia’s worldview changes when the outside world comes crashing into her secluded domesticity in the form of a lusty painter named Jan Van Loos (Dane Dehaan) who awakens the kind of desire within Sophia that her arranged marriage could never possibly create.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Lust for Life
Our classic this week on the Everyone is a Critic movie review podcast is Kirk Douglas and director Vincent Minnelli’s portrayal of the life of troubled artist Vincent Van Gogh, Lust for Life. If the film illustrates one thing more than anything else it is that acting has changed a great deal since 1956. While Douglas and co-star Anthony Quinn, as fellow painting legend Paul Gaugin rage at each other, it’s not hard to see why the directors of the next generation began to strive for something more natural and genuine from their actors. Lust for Life seems to me to be among the last films for which theatrically trained actors were the vanguard of the cinema.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Kevin J. Anderson's 'Captain Nemo'
There are few authors whose works have stood the test of time more than Jules Verne. With a handful of classic novels and characters, he created timeless tales of adventure and science fiction. Suppose though that those tales and some of his most iconic characters had a basis in fact?
By Matthew Kresal8 years ago in Geeks
'To The Bone' Review
Netflix released a new movie titled To the Bone, exploring the journey of 20-year-old Ellen that has been hospitalised four times for her anorexia nervosa. It's been a while since someone has actively explored the idea of eating disorders within a setting that gives you an idea of how different eating disorders interact with others; the only film that really comes to mind is God Help the Girl in 2013 (which was a really good film if you haven't seen) and that used the main character's eating disorder as a weird parallel to the story rather than the main plot.
By Charlemagne Griffin - Anker8 years ago in Geeks
"Ready Player One" Review
In one sense, I'm not one of those people who takes excessive pride in the labels "geek" and "nerd." They are, or were, juvenile insults, and efforts to reclaim them and make them positive, while well-meaning, often come off as corporate, fake, forced, and cheesy. It also seemed to me that, while I don't mind celebrating my hobbies, it's important to me that I remain humble. That is, a lot of people give "geek" culture a bad rap because they're out there being just as bad as the people who bullied them, belittling other people as dumb or common for not liking the same things as them, or having tastes more aligned with mainstream popularity.
By Tron Kurosawa8 years ago in Geeks
Review: 'Castlevania'
Title: Castlevania Network: NetflixStarring: Richard Armitage, James Callis, Alejandra ReynosoEpisodes: 4 After the murder of his wife by the Catholic Church in a village in Wallachia, Vlad "Dracula" Tepes (Graham MacTavish) seeks vengeance for the death of his wife at the hands of the Archbishop of Wallachia. He gives the residents one year to clear out or he will wreak his revenge upon all of the humanity still left in Wallachia. One year passes and all of Wallachia is being devastated by the hell beasts being summoned by Dracula. Meanwhile, Trevor, of the vampire hunting clan Belmont (Armitage), is here and he's in search of Dracula.
By FilmSnob Reviews.com8 years ago in Geeks
