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50 Films Every Dork Should Watch
In our last Nerds on the Rocks podcast, a startling discovery was made: Sam Neal, the baby of our podcast group, didn’t understand half the references we were making. Unfortunately,…
Underrated Horror: Trick ‘r Treat
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Well, at least it is in my mind and with all others that celebrate the Gaelic festival of Samhain (actually pronounced “sah-win”).…
Underrated Horror: Tell (short film)
I’m not going to lie, I have a soft spot for independent film. There’s something so very earnest in a personally funded and produced feature. The men and women of…
Underrated Horror: Halloween III: Season of the Witch
The Halloween series is a hard beast to talk about. Perhaps one of the most unbalanced horror franchises to come out of the 80s, it was originally intended to serve…
Ask a Dork: Why Has This Summer Sucked?
“What do you think of the recent Hollywood bombs like Pacific Rim, White House Down and After Earth? Is Hollywood doing something wrong or are fans just not receptive to…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Z is for Zodiac
Zodiac is an interesting thing, on multiple levels. David Fincher's 2007 film about the Zodiac killer who terrorized California in the late 60s and early 70s is a crossroads of…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: X is for the X-Files: Fight The Future
Sometimes, successful television shows make the leap to the bigger screen of the movie theatre. Usually, of course, it's well after the original show is off the air. Or at…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: W is for Watchmen
Let’s get this out of the way right now: I loved this movie when it was first released. It’s one of my favorite graphic novel/comic stories, and I’d been heavily…
Ask a Dork: Adaptations
When it comes to adaptations, do you think the producers involved should assume more than a baseline knowledge of the original material? If the Paul W.S. Anderson Resident Evil feature…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: V is for Vanilla Sky
Pop culture is a funny thing. It invades almost every moment of our lives, to the point that now we compare our real lives to the fictional ones we've read/seen/heard.…