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'The Magicians' S3:E9
If you haven’t seen this episode yet, then here is your spoiler alert! Alice, Quentin and Kady read chapter 5 and it is medieval magic music. Kady plays it and they are taken to a the cabin where they are but now it is full of people partying. The rules are party or get out.
By Amanda Black9 years ago in Geeks
'Transformers: The Last Knight'
Transformers 5 had an odd whole to fill. Age of Extinction was arguably the worst movie by far (but still good). Last Knight is just as long I think and features tons of locations and, of course, special effects. Mark Walberg returns for a main human role as Craig Yaeger, but he’s far more important to the story this time.
By Matthew Sullivan9 years ago in Geeks
Things Get Weird in 'Voltron's' Fifth Season
I can still remember the first time I saw Voltron. We had just gotten cable and I finally had access to Cartoon Network. This was a big deal to a 7-year-old. It was the first channel I put on after my dad told me the cable was working. It was one of the more influential moments of my childhood as I turned it on just as Toonami was starting. Children of the 90s will remember the cartoon block that dominated afterschool programming and I was no different. Voltron came on after Thundercats, another great animated show that might work well with a reboot (i know this was tried once before but maybe Netflix can do it right). Voltron was great. Five lions came together to fight giant alien robots. It made zero sense, but I was hooked. Also, when I was seven I didn’t notice that every episode was pretty much the same.
By Matthew Donnellon9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Gringo'
Harold (David Oyelowo) hasn’t had things easy in his relatively young life. Despite his pretty wife and his mid-level corporate stooge job, he’s been stepped on every step of the way for being the kind of nice guy chump that people take advantage of. He’s the perfect best friend for Richard (Joel Edgerton), a cocky, sleazy corporate raider in need of a yes man like Harold who’s easily manipulated.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'A Wrinkle in Time'
A Wrinkle in Time is a genuine delight. Wonderful characters, genuine laughs, and gorgeous visuals make for one of the best family adventures in a very long time. Director Ava DuVernay has taken the beloved bestselling book by Madeleine L’Engle and crafted a genuine blockbuster that retains the inspiring heart of its beloved source material. DuVernay has also discovered a brand new movie star in young Storm Reid.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
TV Review: 'Atlanta' Robbin Season Episode 2
Paper Boi experiences Robbin Season up close and personal while Earn comes into some money in Season 2 Episode 2 of the FX hit series Atlanta. Fresh off of his house arrest, Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry) is eager to find some good weed. Unfortunately, his new found fame means that even his long time dealer assumes he has a lot of money and thus we get the theme of this season of Atlanta, Robbin’ Season as Paper Boi is robbed at gunpoint and doesn’t even come away with something to smoke for his trouble.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Just Grubbin Series: 'Black Panther' Review
I've re-written this review about three times because I'm having so much trouble reviewing the movie while highlighting the socio-cultural context it takes place in. Let me just get this out of the way though; watching Black Panther was the happiest I've ever been watching a movie. As a black man in America, this movie shared with us a view of pan-African futurism I didn't even know I wanted. Black folk living their best lives, unencumbered by the history of oppression and systemic racism and classism the rest of the world has to deal with, Black Panther offers up a post-scarcity techno-utopia that I think is very much within our actual grasp if we could find it within ourselves to actually try for it. It's not without flaws. It's not the best film I've seen. But what it made me feel and let black and brown people the world over experience is something extraordinary.
By Just Grubbin9 years ago in Geeks
'I,Tonya' Review
Plot Summary: A manic twist on the life of shamed figure skater Tonya Harding. "There’s no such thing as truth.” Those are the words of Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) as she sits in a run-down kitchen. With a wry smile on her face and a cigarette in her hand, the disgraced figure skater reiterates the forewarning of Craig Gillespie’s twisted biopic to a vintage camcorder. Some of this is real. A lot of it isn’t. But what does it matter? Adopting this nihilistic view of truth as a mantra, what follows is a frenzied, unbelievable story that deliberately blurs fact and fiction.
By Christopher Rigby9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Death Wish'
I went into Eli Roth’s remake of Charles Bronson’s Death Wish expecting to come out angry and ready for a fight. I was expecting to be offended and spend some time writing about the poor timing of a film release that deifies the gun industry just days after the deaths of high school students in Parkland, Florida. I do have some of that righteous indignation built up in my mind but the reality of Death Wish is so boring I can barely stir up the outrage to pan it.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
