The big screen adventures of Marvel Comics’ webslinging superhero have been rebooted back to the beginning with a fresh cast and director, and the end result is a solidly entertaining film with a few inspired moments. After being bitten by a genetically modified spider, geeky high school student Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) begins to develop… Read More Review: The Amazing Spider-Man
Ridley Scott returns to the science fiction genre for the first time in three decades with a film that’s partly a companion piece to his 1979 classic, Alien, and partly something quite different. The result is his best film in a very long time. Archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and Charlie Holloway (Logan Marshall-Green) believe… Read More Review: Prometheus
This film is made of so much win that no winometer can even measure it. These iconic Marvel Comics characters finally come together as a team, and it lives up to all of the expectations and hype. SHIELD Director Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) brings together Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor… Read More Review: The Avengers
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!! Ok, I’m calm. Ahem. So, speaking of Superheroes, the Geek Room-mate What Rules took me and the Geek Husband What Rules to see The Avengers for my birthday this weekend. Now, I realize that there are a few people out there who are not so pleased with the movie, but let me clarify what… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #211 – Review: The Avengers!!!!!
Ok, so there is one problem with not having cable and watching all your television on Netflix, and that’s that you spend a lot of time being woefully behind the times. But, I’m enthusiastic enough about this show that I really don’t care. Weapon Masters is hosted by Chad (an engineer/mad scientist) and Mike who… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #205 – Weapon Masters
GO BUY THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!!!!! Ahem. Allow me to collect myself. Ok, Seanan McGuire is one of the very few authors that I will go out of my way to buy the first week their books come out. I can often be heard to lament that she doesn’t constantly have more books coming out… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #203 – Review: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
The fifth book in Seanan McGuire’s October Daye series, One Salt Sea is every bit as incredible as the first four books. And, as with the other four books, I should have taken my own advice and not read the last three or four chapters on the bus. As usual, I wound up trying to… Read More Geek Girls Rule! #189 – One Salt Sea Review
SPOILER WARNING! BEYOND THIS POINT, THERE ARE SPOILERS! READER BEWARE! Action Comics #1 – Grant Morrison reboots Superman back to his roots as a rough and tumble Champion of the Oppressed. I approve. Superman, in reference to the corrupt billionaire in his grasp: “Sure, officer, I’ll put him down…just as soon as he makes a… Read More DCnU – Week 2 Mini-Reviews
SPOILER WARNING! BEYOND THIS POINT, THERE ARE MAJOR SPOILERS! READER BEWARE! Flashpoint #5 It all ends here. The DC Universe as we know it. The DC characters as we know them. As finales go, this is a big one, and writer Geoff Johns delivers a game-winning grand slam, concluding with our first glimpse of the… Read More Reviews: Flashpoint #5/Justice League #1
Fright Night is a remake of a 1985 film of the same name, and can be summed up thusly: solid cast, lifeless remake. After teenager Charley Brewster (Anton Yelchin) discovers his new neighbor Jerry Dandridge (Colin Farrell) is a vampire, he recruits stage magician Peter Vincent (David Tennant) to help him put a stake in… Read More Review: Fright Night
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