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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Y: The Last Man Series - Review
After receiving critical acclaim and multiple awards, Brian K Vaughan and Pia Guerra’s sixty-issue Vertigo Comics series, Y: The Last Man, spent years in film development under New Line Cinema, one of Vertigo’s sister companies, until the project dissolved in 2014. Now, almost twenty years after its comic debut, FX Productions and Color Force have released the first five episodes of their television adaptation of the post-apocalyptic story. So continues the strange tale of Yorick Brown and his Capuchin monkey Ampersand who together struggle anew to survive through a global mass-androcide event, albeit in an updated medium. It is laudable and fitting to note that FX contracted a largely female writing staff to adapt the comic series along with its creators, and that the showrunner is Eliza Clark, a woman with heavy writing and production credits behind her name. While remaining largely true (thus far) to the structure of the original comic series, Y: The Last Man promises to be as shocking and enthralling in its tv series format as it was on comic pages.
By Philip Canterbury5 years ago in Geeks
"Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation" middle-aged vampire love at second sight
The quality of the Sony animation department’s recent animation works is gradually declining. Almost the current production level and market response are almost mixed, including the Emoji Movie (the Emoji Movie), which is quite satisfactory, and the trilogy of Peter Rabbit and The Smurfs, the final product. A fairly impressive god came to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Now, "Hotel Transylvania", which has been produced at a small cost and has mixed reviews, has come to the third part Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. I was worried that "Hotel Transylvania" will be included in the third part of "The Smurfs". The song's footsteps has become a children's comedy with very vulgar jokes, but based on the charm of Adam Sandler and other monster characters, the final result of "Summer Vacation" is still not enough. Qualified.
By Ansel Lamontagne5 years ago in Geeks
Christopher Robin: We don’t want to grow up, we don’t want to be complicated. Top Story - October 2021.
In recent years, Disney plans to change many animations into live-action movies, and Winnie the Pooh’s live-action version of "Christopher Robin" was released recently. To be honest, I am not very interested in most of Disney's animations or live-action movies, but watching After the story preview and introduction of "Christopher Robin", it seemed that there was a kind of magic that attracted me, so even though I was under pressure these days, I chose to watch it today.
By Avare Ansel5 years ago in Geeks
‘No Time to Die’ Review — A Thrilling Farewell
Nearly two years after its initial planned release date and a surplus of “well, I guess there’s PLENTY of time to die!” jokes later, we have No Time to Die, an action spy film directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga. This film serves as the 25th installment in Eon’s long-running James Bond franchise.
By Jonathan Sim5 years ago in Geeks
Review of 'Iron Widow'
The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
By Cyn's Workshop5 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "Sex Education: Season 3"
Sex Education: Season 3 has come out recently and I couldn't wait for this season to begin. There's so much that's been happening to our beloved characters of this show. I needed to hear what happened to them. With the last season having me up in arms with so many crazy cliffhangers, this season seemed like it was going to take forever to come out.
By Brian Anonymous5 years ago in Geeks
Review: "Midnight Mass"
SPOILER WARNING Mike Flanagan burst on to the streaming scene with Netflix back in 2018 when his horror drama, The Haunting of Hill House dropped. It featured beautifully written fully realized characters and while the scares weren't horribly scary, they were seeped in reality making it much more relatable to it's viewers. Since then Flanagan has seen success with his follow up to Hill House in Bly Manor, then he also went on to the big screen adapting Doctor Sleep, the sequel to The Shining. Flanagan takes a lot of inspiration from Stephen King so it is no surprise to hear that he has adapted two stories from the beloved writer and many of his original stories still have a bit of that King flavor to them. The same can once again be said about his newest creation, and his biggest passion project to date in Midnight Mass. Flanagan is a great writer when it comes to humanistic horror and that is on full display in this incredibly intimate tale that delves heavily into themes of addiction and religion. Flanagan, himself, admits this has been his long time passion project due to struggles he has had with alcoholism and growing up as a pastor boy in Salem. The passion and attention to detail radiates through every episode and every long winded dialogue of this intriguing horror drama.
By Nick Cavuoti5 years ago in Geeks
The Crucible
The Crucible (Book and Movie) The key similarity between the Crucible book and the Crucible movie is that they both follow the same storyline with some imponderable differences. For instance, both the book and the movie highlight the drastic change in the beliefs of John Proctor when he gets caught up in the lies of Abigail. It is worth noting that both the movie and the play indicate that John Proctor did not have anything to do with the witch trials of Salem at the start. Additionally, both the movie and the play follow a similar storyline and indicate that Proctor had a relationship with Abigail and believed he had nothing to do with her anymore. A similar storyline adopted by both the Crucible movie and the Crucible book facilitates effective understanding of the intended idea brought about by the book’s author and the playwright. The utilization of a similar storyline also enables readers of the book version to understand the story better when watching the movie, where characters make the story seem more realistic.
By Kerry Goodwin5 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "Mortal Kombat (2021)"
Mortal Kombat (2021) is a recent remake and revision of the Mortal Kombat franchise. Those that are old enough will forever remember the 1995 movie. That old movie was somewhat accurate to the story of the arcade game that had come out around that time. It was definitely a cult classic because a lot of people still swear by that movie. This version is a way darker experience with some nods to old school Mortal Kombat fans.
By Brian Anonymous5 years ago in Geeks
Rethinking the Representation Debate in Literature
There is a pervasive argument today that writers should not represent other races, classes, genders, sexualities, disabilities, ideologies or religious persuasions in their fiction unless they have ‘authentic lived experience’ from which to draw. The argument is driven by a concern for social justice and a fear that institutions with power will continue, as they have in the past, to misrepresent people with less or no power to speak for themselves. It is a laudable agenda and a reasonable concern in the face of continued racial oppression, sexism and a litany of societal failures.
By Derek B. Miller5 years ago in Geeks
