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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
I, Tonya
October 9 saw the US premiere of Craig Gillepsie's latest film I, Tonya at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Starring Margot Robbie as the titular role and Sebastian Stan as her manipulative husband Jeff Gillooly, the film is a dramatized documentary about the figure skater Tonya Harding. As she rises among figure skaters in the US Championships leading to the Olympics, her husband intervenes in an unorthodox way. I, Tonya focuses on the Nancy Kerrigan (portrayed by Caitlin Carver) incident where she was struck in the knee by two men hired by Harding's husband and her ex-body guard.
By Marina Caitlin Watts8 years ago in Geeks
Baby Driver (2017) Review
From the director that brought you Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Shaun of the Dead, brings you one of the most high-octane movies of 2017, Baby Driver. This movie is a breath of fresh air in a world of high budget CGI laden blockbusters. With a budget of $34 million, this movie has done more than any other in a long time. It kept me invested until the end.
By Erik Mickle8 years ago in Geeks
My Boyfriend Makes Me Watch Ridiculous Movies: Bloodsport
Rico has a list on his phone of movies we are required to watch together. I’m feeling pretty satisfied that I can accept whatever he throws at me after watching Team America: World Police. I don’t know what any of these movies are about, but we’re here to watch them and I’m here to judge.
By Yumi Yamamoto8 years ago in Geeks
Ray Milland Dials M for Murder Without Messing His Suit or Moving a Hair out of Place
There was a time when murder and infidelity was civilized and didn’t require a lot of blood splatter to get the point across. Alfred Hitchcock can definitely remind if you choose in Dial M for Murder.
By Rich Monetti8 years ago in Geeks
The Chinks in 'Game of Thrones'' Armour
(SPOILER WARNING FOR ALL SEVEN SEASONS OF GAME OF THRONES) No franchise is infallible. There have been several stories that have been told through the course of books, movies, TV shows, and even video games that have touched both the heights of glory and the depths of monotony and boredom. However, every once in a while, there emerges that story that seems like it can do no wrong. For many years, the series that, in my opinion, occupied this position was J.K Rowling’s masterful Harry Potter. As of late, though, one series has risen to take on the mantle that everyone’s favourite boy wizard left, and that series is none other than George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, or, as it is more popularly known, Game of Thrones. And while it is no exaggeration to say that the show has become one of the icons of the entertainment world in recent years, I say that it suffers from key problems that, while not reducing the quality of the show, definitely takes it down from what it used to be back when it first came on the air.
By Arvind Pennathur8 years ago in Geeks
Harry Potter: Books vs. Movies
Okay, so I live in a very traditional, conservative area where saying you like Harry Potter is almost an equivalent to saying you worship Satan for some people. I, contrary to popular belief, do not worship Satan despite my love for the Harry Potter franchise. I think that conservative/traditional/religious people who hate Harry Potter are just looking for things to consider "evil" at this point. I mean, yes, there is witchcraft in the series (obviously). Is witchcraft considered evil in the Bible? Yes. There are also snakes. Are snakes evil in the Bible? Yes. But do you know what else has snakes and witchcraft in it? The Bible.
By Neta Wiebe8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The My Little Pony Movie'
Having seen the unique and oddly fascinating documentary Bronies a few years back, I have been trying to come to terms with the adult fans of My Little Pony. Is this simply large scale trolling or are these grown men for real in their pony based fandom? Oddly, I don’t feel like either of the Brony documentaries that have been released in the past couple of years have answered my question. I still don’t get what it is that grown men see in My Little Pony.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Girls Trip'
The trailer for Girls Trip made the film look like a nightmare. With a heavy focus on raunchy, gross-out body humor and the most simplistic gloss of #GirlPower, the trailer makes the movie look like a borderline minstrel show of black women. Before you get mad at my glib deconstruction of the trailer and my incendiary language, please try to understand that I am setting the stage to turn around and tell you how much I genuinely enjoyed the movie Girls Trip.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Reed Alexander's Review of '+1' (2013)
SPOILERS!!! You know it's going to be bad when I basically have to start off with the spoiler alert. So yeah, I am basically encouraging you to never watch this! If you feel like you absolutely must know what happens, continue reading, cause I'm about to detail everything wrong with it in a play by play.
By Reed Alexander8 years ago in Geeks
The Room
I remember being in college, where I took a film class as part of my required communication elective. As much as I loved this class, I had an overwhelming amount of movies to watch that my professor thought were masterpieces. It was for the most part a great learning experience, but I need an ounce of stupid in my life. Around this time, I was into Troll 2, a movie that I will definitely talk about another time, but after my film class I needed something new. I read online about this movie called The Room, which came out in 2003. I never hear of this movie before, but it was being called "The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies" (funny, that's one of the movies I had to watch in my film class). I found a copy of this, and what I saw changed me.
By Christine Clossey8 years ago in Geeks
