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Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977): A Hateful, Sensory Nightmare Masquerading as a Movie
Looking for Mr. Goodbar Directed by: Richard Brooks Written by: Richard Brooks (based on the novel by Judith Rossner) Starring: Diane Keaton, Richard Gere, Tom Berenger, William Atherton, Tuesday Weld
By Sean Patrick3 months ago in Geeks
The Wild, Reckless, and Deadly Story of New Jersey’s Infamous Action Park
Across the world, amusement parks promise safe thrills — a place where families can escape for a day of roller coasters, water slides, and sugary snacks. But one park in New Jersey became a legend for all the wrong reasons. Action Park wasn’t just a thrill-seeker’s dream — it was a lawsuit magnet, a chaos zone, and arguably the most dangerous amusement park ever built. Locals nicknamed it Class Action Park and Accident Park, and honestly, they weren’t exaggerating.
By Lawrence Lease3 months ago in Geeks
Steve (2025)
After a few weeks of watching Westerns, surreal road trips and car chases, it was nice to settle into film that felt like me:
By Rachel Robbins3 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Imagist Poetry" ed. by Peter Jones
Hopefully you and I can skim over the legacy of the poet Ezra Pound, who was basically the leader of this movement, and concentrate on what the movement itself was actually about. Imagism: a subculture of poetry focused on deliberate imagery, blossoming in the early 20th century at roughly the same time as Modernism and including a whole range of poets that we've probably heard of, and some that fell into obscurity. I was quite surprised that I became interested in this anthology but I've been waiting a whole long damn time to read it, so here we are.
By Annie Kapur3 months ago in Geeks
October 5, 1969
There are plenty of reasons to believe that we are at the end of something. I have watched plenty of the rapture videos out there, both before and after, trying to find some practical reason as to why the chosen ones were not chosen, and they can no longer work or even commute after losing their jobs and cars. There is the growing sense that the world is losing its collective sanity - for what it was worth - with wars, protests, authoritarian governments that seem to ignore what the people want (especially if they put them in power). Things are crumbling. As the poet said, The centre cannot hold. We are doomed!
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Geeks
The Future Was and Wasn't
Shatter is the first comic created entirely using a computer. It premiered around 1987 or 1988, and I remember standing in what used to be the Waldenbooks at the old North Park Mall in Marion, looking at the rough, digitized artwork with a strange, childish mixture of wonder and disgust. It captured the eye. But what could a computer possibly bring to the world of comic art, I wondered. A child operates from childish prejudices. Forty years on, the rough, low-res (yet still incredibly gripping) artwork by Mike Saenz, done on an old IBM* that utilized those humongous punch cards, still carries a wallop.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Geeks
Book Review: "Behave" by Robert Sapolsky
I read this a while ago and I decided I would give it another go. I had it on my phone and one thing I found is that I was just in a terrible mood when I read it, which means of course that because it is a nonfiction book, I was trying to find holes in everything. Well, now that I'm in a better mood, I'm going to go through this book properly and comment on the things I found particularly intriguing. And yes, I do actually find it intriguing.
By Annie Kapur4 months ago in Geeks
Watching “To Kill a Mockingbird” in 2025
This is not a review. I’ve just been to see the UK touring production of Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird”. If you have never read the book, seen the 1962 film, or been lucky enough to catch the current tour, please do one of those before you read my paltry words.
By Rachel Robbins4 months ago in Geeks
The X-Men Go to Hell
X-Men in Black and White Reading black-and-white reprints of classic Chris Claremont era X-Men while sitting on the john at three a.m. is just what fat, near-sighted comic book geeks do. It comes with the territory—like morning constipation, black coffee, and rolling up random encounters while everyone else in the building is safely asleep, having dreams they don’t get to control.
By Tom Baker4 months ago in Geeks
Korean Drama Review: Law and the City (2025)
Introduction: "Law and the City" is a 2025 Korean legal drama, set in Seoul’s bustling Seocho District, that blends courtroom intensity with emotional depth. The professional lives of 5 associate lawyers spill over into their personal lives, especially when a new team member stirs up unresolved memories from the past.
By Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner)4 months ago in Geeks
Tommy Boy (1995) Cherishes a Legacy, Comedy, and Heart
We’re going to make this sale no matter what we do. Tommy Boy is a 1995 film. After the death of his father, the underachieving man-child Tommy teams up with Richard, a snide accountant, to save the auto-parts business. Slipping up on several blunders on the road, Tommy and Richard learn more about themselves in their adventures.
By Marielle Sabbag5 months ago in Geeks
Pits, People and Players
You won’t find plush velvet seats here. Nor the genteel hum of the crush bar before curtain up. In Horden, a raw former mining town scoured by the North Sea wind, theatre exists on its own terms.
By Andy Potts5 months ago in Geeks