Category Archives: Film

RIP Alan Rickman: A Geek Icon

Yesterday nerds everywhere felt the full impact of Cinderella’s words, “You don’t know what you got till it’s gone.” Veteran of stage and screen Alan Rickman has passed away from cancer at the age of 69. And as I reflected on this (so soon after

Twitter Erupts: Is ‘Force Awakens” Rey a Mary Sue?

Twitter, with its 140-character limit and many large personalities, is often a nexus of controversy. This weekend’s dust-up took place, probably unsurprisingly, over Star Wars.   What Is A Mary Sue It seems to have all started with Max Landis, writer of the movie Chronicle

Cape Talk: Everyone v Everyone

  On Batman v Superman Man of Steel is not a very good movie, as I’ve mentioned before. However, it did one thing very, very right: it gave Superman a proper Biblical knock-down struggle against an equally godlike opponent (finally washing from our mouths the

Bond Review Headline Pun-Off

A new Bond movie is out, and we all know what that means: lots and lots of crass, colorful Bond puns in the headlines! I made it my responsibility to seek these out and rate them on a scale of one to five completely arbitrary

Hasbro Studios Confirms Apocalypse: Four More Transformers Films Coming

At a recent MIP Junior, an annual trade show held in Cannes that focuses specifically on children’s television, Hasbro Studios President Stephen J. Davis announced that Satan himself would be returning to Earth accompanied by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Transformers films  5, 6,

Third Superhero Movies: A History of Badness

  Superman III. Batman Forever. Blade Trinity. X-Men 3. Spider-Man 3. What do these movies all have in common? That’s right: they’re terrible. Something seems to happen when a superhero movie series hits its third installment. Maybe they just run out of gas. Maybe that’s just when

A.I. Artificial Intelligence: “Throw Me Over The Propeller”

I always heard this movie was Steven Spielberg trying to be Stanley Kubrick and falling flat on his face, so I admit I had some low expectations. I was anticipating something like Bicentennial Man, and at the movie’s very beginning (after all those fucking weird

Fantastic Four Is Mostly Four-Getable

This review contains spoilers. Against my better judgement, I saw the Fantastic Four last night. My fiance and I needed an excuse to check out Tulsa’s new Warren Theatre, which if you’re not familiar is one of those swanky-ass places where a waiter brings food