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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
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
Movie Review: 'A Boy Called Po'
I must be getting soft as I get older because movies like A Boy Called Po never used to get passed my ironic armor. As a younger critic, a movie like A Boy Called Po with a premise that reads like a Lifetime Movie and a cast lacking star power would have been one I would dismiss without a glance. Admittedly, I used to be kind of arrogant and quite snobbish. It could be I have become more evolved and mature or it could be that director John Asher’s inspired by true events movie is actually so good that I had no need for my emotional armor.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Garbage Pail Kids
Oh the 1980s, what a time to be alive. Now granted I was born in 1985, so I missed half of it (only because I can't remember most of it). The movies that came out during this decade were classic. Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Empire Strikes Back, the list goes on and on. But you know which movie never gets mentioned on this list: The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, and you know why? Because this movie is the worst piece of crap that's ever been put on film. I never heard of this movie until a couple of years ago when I saw a couple of my favorite reviewers talk about this so I figured now works before I do Lifetime Movie month (yes I'm bringing it back!) to see how bad this movie is.
By Christine Clossey8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'I Do Until I Don't'
Lake Bell is quickly proving herself as a jack of all trades. She started her career in the role of the slightly less gorgeous best friend in movies before taking a major U-turn from pursuing movie stardom. When her What Happens in Vegas co-star Rob Corddry pitched the idea of the then web series Children's Hospital, it was an unlikely choice, one I’m sure her agent wasn’t exactly excited about. Then the series became a cult hit, earning a place on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup it showed Hollywood that Lake Bell was more than just the pretty face.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
30 Years of 'Amazon Women on the Moon'
One of the first movies I ever reviewed on my podcast, when it was still called I Hate Critics, now Everyone’s a Critic, was a disconcerting sketch comedy movie called Movie 43. The film was a series of appalling short films strung together with no narrative under a title that one could imagine it having been randomly assigned by a movie studio for storage purposes, not intended for theatrical release. That this series of short films starred such actors as Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslet, Richard Gere, Liev Schreiber, and Naomi Watts are the only reason Movie 43 ever saw the light of day.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
