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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Top 5 Movie Cowboys
TOP 5 MOVIE COWBOYS (these are all in my opinion) 5) Mr.Gruder from Bone Tomahawk Not many movies feature a Pinkerton as a character. They were known as the badasses of law enforcement back in the day, and John Gruder played by Matthew Fox is a Pinkerton through and through. No nonsense, strategic minded, and cold blooded. The most emotion shown from him is for his horse. Almost every character in Bone Tomahawk is likeable but Gruder's well-mannered ways and smugness are what set him apart from the pack and you begin wondering what western featuring only Gruder would be like. Probably bloody as hell.
By Paper Starship9 years ago in Geeks
Spider-Man: Homecoming Is Extremely Okay
Title:Spider-Man: HomecomingCountry: USAYear: 2017Director:Jon WattsScript:Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts, Christopher Ford, Chris McKenna, Erik SommersStarring:Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.
By Escape From Earth / Jonas Pettersson9 years ago in Geeks
Review: The Fifth Element
I love the way Luc Besson views the universe. Besson sees the universe in bright bold colors. It’s the way I would like to view the universe. While my mind is often clouded by the often sad and tragic state of humanity, and especially man’s inhumanity to man, Besson manages to look beyond and see the beauty beyond our planet and into the stars.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
La Bamba Turns 30
Somehow, despite having seen the movie La Bamba more than a dozen times in my life, watching the movie on its 30th Anniversary felt brand new. La Bamba was a film of my youth; I was 11 years old when the film hit theaters in 1987. I watched it repeatedly when it was on pay cable and free TV in the later 80’s and 90’s and then the film fell from my memory. You might be wondering how I could have allowed something I must’ve treasured to leave my memories. The answer is more complicated than I had imagined.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game is a 2014 historical thriller directed by Morten Tydum and written by Graham Moore. Benedict Cumberbatch plays a real life historical figure, Alan Turing, who had a crucial role during World War II deciphering German codes for the British. His costars also include Kiera Knightley, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, Matthew Good, and Mark Strong.
By Kaylee Chaffin9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review Dunkirk
With The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception, director Christopher Nolan has ascended to that rarefied air of directors who can sell a movie with his name alone. Nolan now stands shoulder to shoulder with fellow relative newcomers J.J. Abrams and Joss Whedon and the original superstar director, Steven Speilberg.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
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 Kresal9 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
