Quick Note: This was written to coincide with the Season Premiere last week, but things got wonky. I will be back on schedule to post episode 3 on the day after airing. MovieDude Eric here. I can’t explain just how excited I am that GonnaGeek tasked me to write about my favorite show on…
Read MoreWarning: What you are about to read are my opinions about the hot-button topic of politics in geek entertainment. Please bear in mind that these are my opinions alone and are not those of GonnaGeek in its entirety. If you wish to voice your opinions, please contact me at ArthouseLegends@gmail.com. Thank you. It has…
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Take any episode of Mission: Impossible, TV or film, and you can break it down into 4 parts: 1) the debrief, 2) the assignments, 3) the turn and 4) the objective. For most other shows, having a repetitive formula such as this would come off as rote or predictable. The reason why it works for…
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I just realized what my first genuine geek moment was, that moment where most other people look at you a bit differently because your passion over something considered trivial by 99 percent of the population. I was 15 and I had just seen the first Mission: Impossible film. I was torn by the film, on…
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Hear Ye, Fellow Geeks. Here’s your chance to see a great many of the panels put on for the first two days of San Diego ComicCon. More to come later: Game of Thrones (2 Parts) Doctor Who (2 Parts) The Walking Dead (2 Parts) Star Wars (2 Parts) Batman v. Superman:…
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Marvel’s Joe Quesada tweeted earlier today that they have found their Elektra for the second season of Netflix’s Daredevil television show. 34-year old Elodie Yung, whose most well known parts as of today were Jink in G.I. Joe Retaliation and a pivotal role in David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo, was selected to…
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According to StarWars.com, Lucasfilm announced that yet another film is set to be made in the newly minted Star Wars Anthology series. This film will revolve around a young Han Solo’s exploits as a smuggler and scoundrel across the universe. The script has already been written by Star Wars Vet Lawrence Kasdan along with son…
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Arnold Schwarzenegger came back to the Terminator franchise after a decade-long drought (if you don’t count that CGI abomination in Salvation) and was supposed to bring the whole series back to glory, right? From most accounts, the intent missed the goal by margins, though not nearly as badly as the McG catastrophe. But this marks…
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It was November of 1995 when Walt Disney Animation and Pixar Films’ TOY STORY introduced us to an odd couple that became synonymous with friendship for the next several decades. Woody, the charismatic cowboy doll with a pull string full of oddly dark humor (seriously, who puts “Somebody poisoned the water hole!” in a doll?…
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Most geeks between 31 and 40 know where they were on the second weekend of June, 1993 (or relatively close after). Director Steven Spielberg released his most ambitious film yet about a theme park/zoo hybrid called Jurassic Park. With near unanimity, we rejoiced and declared our love for what we expected to be a glorious…
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