Ask a Dork: The Video Game to Film Transition
With video game movies being notoriously bad, do you think there is a game that would make a good adaptation? Once upon a time I would had said that the…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: U is for Unbreakable
An exercise in stillness, but within the genre of the superhero action film, M. Night Shymalan's 2000 film Unbreakable is a strange amalgam of his own stylistic quirks with the…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: T is for Tron: Legacy
All the pretty lights and amazing music in the world won't be able to overcome a lackluster plot and awful dialogue. Tron: Legacy is the poster child for this. With…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: S is for Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
I love Edgar Wright. I love Bryan Lee O'Malley's Scott Pilgrim comic series. So it's fairly obvious that I would be very much in the bag for an adaptation of…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: R is for Road To Perdition
The look and feel of a film is vastly important. Different directors and cinematographers can look at the same scene as written and create completely different tableaus, with different narrative…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Q is for the Quiet Man
John Wayne versus Victor McLaglen in a fist fight which ranges over a good chunk of landscape and has an intermission for a drink built-in. This is The Quiet Man,…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: P is for Prometheus
Anticipation can be a killer. On one hand, your excitement can be built up so much for something, can be hyped up so high, that there is no way your…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: O is for Once
The beauty of Once is not necessarily in the music. The music is there. It is beautiful. What became The Swell Season perform song after song (sometimes Markéta Irglová and…
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The A-Z of Geek Cinema: N is for No Country For Old Men
The silence surrounds you, the stillness unnerving. It's only when music rarely comes in that you notice how often it's not there. Everything is on edge for the duration, moments…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: M is for Memento
“We all need mirrors to remind ourselves who we are.” You’ve heard of this movie. Haven't you? It’s the one that goes backwards, made by the guy who did The Dark…