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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Review: 'The Trinity Six'
For those with an interest in espionage, the Cambridge Five remain well known. Five graduates of Trinity College Cambridge, the group infiltrated high levels positions inside the British government between the 1930s and 1950s and spied for the Soviet Union. They handed over names of agents, exposed entire operations, revealed details of the Enigma code-breaking effort, and helped to tip the Soviets off on efforts to build the atomic bomb. It took decades to expose all five but imagine, for a moment, that there was a sixth Cambridge spy. One who has managed to remain hidden but is now on the verge of being exposed. That is the premise of Charles Cumming's 2011 novel which sees the past coming back to haunt the present.
By Matthew Kresal8 years ago in Geeks
Martin Scorsese's 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
Directed by Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall Street hit theatres Christmas Day 2013. Based on the best-selling memoir of the same name, The Wolf of Wall Street is the second movie that year to portray Leonardo DiCaprio as the poster-child for the American Dream gone wild. The overall excess of Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby distracted us from the message at hand, regardless of Leo’s quality portrayal of Jay Gatsby.
By Marina Caitlin Watts9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
I cannot decide which is the more difficult type of review: positive without fawning, negative without being mean-spirited or ambivalent. The last type of review is where I find myself with the new movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets:; utter and complete ambivalence. There is much to admire about the latest from director Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Leon: The Professional, among others) but there is also plenty of empty, sci-fi spectacle.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Chill Out! Wintery Movies To Forget About the Summertime Blues
It's hard to imagine that summer is nearly halfway over, and in just a few more weeks we'll be into the blissful nature of autumn. This is the point in the year when the temperature can be too hot to go outside and even thinking about the season's inherent stickiness is too much to bear. So crank up the A/C and check out any of these flicks that will help you forget about the dog days of summer.
By Rob Trench9 years ago in Geeks
Dunkirk Review
The clock didn’t stop, it just held its breath. It’s the prelude. It’s the darkest hour. It’s a beach that seems like it’s detached from the rest of civilization. It’s the grey skies or the churning murky blue-green of the sea. It’s the gargantuan landscape. The sound of German bombers and Stukas. It’s the Mole. The Sea. The Air. A week. A day. An hour. It’s at first disconnected moments, thrown out in a web of time that seeks to lock into place over separate levels. It’s brutal. Raw. Simple. It’s survival whittled down to its element. There’s no need to know the backstory, the tired exposition. The motivation. It’s all there in the action. The sound. The horror in the eyes. The emptiness.
By Nicholas Anthony9 years ago in Geeks
A Review of 'Clarissa' by Samuel Richardson
At around 1,431 pages, Clarissa or The History of a Young Lady beats out Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (826 pages), Bleak House by Charles Dickens (813 pages) and War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (955 pages) for the title of longest book I have ever read. Such a tome seems like an overwhelming task to get through but fortunately they are often divided up into a number of sections, each a mini book in themselves. How I got through War and Peace was that I would read a section and then take a break for a few week and repeat until the book was finished. I am going to do the same for Clarissa.
By Rachel Lesch9 years ago in Geeks
Why Spider-Man is the Youthful Comic Book Film of the Summer
Spider-Man: Homecoming was a joy. Right from the start, you could tell that this film was something different, not just with the opening callback to Captain America: Civil War, but also with the dealing of Spider-Man’s—in a single line at the top of a scene to sum it all up: “The spider’s now dead.” Rebooting (or side-booting?) the character into the nine-year-old MCU (or Marvel Cinematic Universe for those needing to fill up a word count) gives us a fresh take on the character unlike that seen on screen before; here, Peter Parker’s idols and inspirations are superheroes. In a world where being an Avenger is the near-impossible goal, in the same league as chart-topping pop stars, Peter sees joining Tony Stark’s crew as his way out from the disaster that is the American education system. It’s an agency akin to Tony’s from Iron Man 2, but handled far more prominently and successfully. Like Tony back then, Peter has to grow up first.
By Jae Calcutt9 years ago in Geeks
When Good and Bad Film Making Ends... Mediocrity Begins
“What are you afraid of?” Fear is a huge part of our lives, it shapes us into the people that we become. From heights to spiders to crowds and darkness, it is the age old emotion that is unique for each person. Fear is built into our psyche. It forms over the centuries, growing with each new experience. It is our response to danger, giving us that rush of adrenaline to either flee or fight. The horror genre is described as films that give us the fear of the unknown. This “unknown” can include everything that anyone has ever thought of. It’s not hard to describe our fears, but it’s hard to describe why do we fear one thing over another?
By Christopher Kliewer9 years ago in Geeks
Three Must-Read Webcomics!
Recently I've acquired a new guilty pleasure and that is webcomics! There are other names for them as well such as manhua, manhwa, webtoons —you get the picture, yes? So, with that said, I present to you three amazing webcomics that are definitely worth the read for both beginners and veteran webcomic readers like myself. First on the list is the webcomic ReLife by Yayoi Sou. It's a romantic, slice of life comedy that centers around the so-called 27-year-old NEET, Kaizaki Arata. After quitting his job at the company his graduate school placed him while only being there for three months, Kaizaki is out interviewing at different corporate companies for the same job.
By Anecia Lewis9 years ago in Geeks
