Today was a big day for upcoming Marvel Comics movies! Thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we got our first glimpse of Chris Evans (The Fantastic Four, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) in-costume for his starring role in Captain America: The First Avenger set to drop later this year. I really like the realistic design of this superhero […]
With the penultimate Harry Potter film looming just around the corner, I am yet again reminded of the degrees of fandom in our community. While I’d like to say that geeks are entirely welcoming to all stripes of fans, over the years I’ve detected certain fandom hierarchies within geekery. And perhaps no fandom has stirred […]
London is lobbying to bring the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) to their town in 2014. As part of the plan, this video shows the city invaded by aliens, terrorized by monsters, and generally falling victim to any and all science fiction villains. How many of these films do you recognize? [via Nag on the […]
Have you ever considered trying to get your friends and family into the films that you love? It may seem like a daunting task, but the truth is, there are many possibilities for geeky initiation in the film world. I’d like to think that even though everyone might not identify themselves as geeks, everyone has […]
What is it about remakes that gets geeks so hot under the collar? Sure, there are a lot of terrible remakes that cannot be unseen, and the 2000s seems to be particularly rife with them, to boot. According to Slashfilm, only two of the top 30 films of the decade are original (the two films, […]
By Mark O’Neill For those who have been waiting patiently for the upcoming X-Files movie trailer to come out, wait no more – it’s finally out. It doesn’t show that much but you do get to see some revealing scenes – including a gorgeous Gillian Anderson. Plus my girlfriend found David Duchovny quite delicious too apparently. […]
By Mark O’Neill Gizmodo is reporting that a MacGyver movie is in the works and I have to admit that at first my attitude was “so what?”. But when I told my girlfriend and her mother, they started shrieking with pleasure “MACGYVER!!!” (think of Homer’s sisters in “The Simpsons) and so I just had to […]
By Mark O’Neill The new poster for Batman “The Dark Knight” which is due out in the cinema in July :