The summer movie season is officially underway, and 2013 is shaping up to be quite a year for comic book movies and the film industry in general. Marvel Studios is already blazing a wide trail, shattering both franchise and industry records with its release of Iron Man 3, whose worldwide earnings have already exceeded the…
Video game movies have a reputation for being poorly adapted, poorly made and poorly cast abominations that solely exist to empty the pockets of avid gaming fans. Fellow Geek Insider writer Mohseen Lala highlighted the seedy underworld of video game movie adaptations in his article “The Absolute Worst Video Game Movies Ever Made”. But there…
Have you finished mourning the end of “The Dark Knight” trilogy yet? It hasn’t even been a year, but the prominent rumors related to the franchise that we’ve been receiving for the better parts of the decade are definitely missed. Director Christopher Nolan is keeping busy post-Batman. He co-wrote and produced this summer’s Superman film,…
It may be hard for some to believe that there was a time when movie directors didn’t have celebrity status alongside the actors that appear on screen. Now we have more successful and unique directors than we can even count. We can often identify a director by the look and feel of a film. If…
The eighth episode of this third season of Game of Thrones saw the writers take a step back. Sure we got somewhere story wise, but in the process we left out a number of our characters to focus on a handful. No Bran, Jaime, Jon, Robb or Theon, but I’m not complaining about that. Frankly…
In 2012 an odd thing happened. After “The Avengers” was released and every movie-going person in the world saw the film, its box-office receipts ballooned to a ridiculous amount. That wasn’t the odd part though. Even with Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk carrying the screen time, a group of devoted fans clung to…
When reading the books in George RR Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” or watching Game of Thrones, there is always a subtlety with how the story advances. You could watch a whole episode or read 100 pages and it seems like nothing happened, but invariably the story moves along. Well this isn’t one…
I’m not entirely sure if Dwayne Johnson is a household name at this point. But if you plant “The Rock” in between the first and last names that changes thing. The wrestler/ movie star has come up with an incredible year combining WWE success with four large films in successive months. With the last of…
Sit-coms, while being fun and entertaining, tend to be filled with predictable character archetypes. There’s usually a cool guy, a cute girl, a dumb person, a geek. Well in “The Office” the large cast fills that quota and then some. Now I’m talking about the American version of “The Office” because the original British series…
Can you recall the world before social media? It was a strange time. News traveled slower and no one knew what you ate for lunch. In terms of entertainment news, we fans dealt with being in the dark much more. I personally remember tuning in to “Entertainment Tonight” every night one week because they had…
“The Climb” sounds pretty epic. Well you have no idea. “Game of Thrones” season three, episode six sees multiple conflicts come to a head. Daenerys is absent from the chapter, but for the rest of our characters, quite a bit happens. For the first time this season, the show doesn’t feel rushed and we’re rewarded…
It seems the phrase of the year so far in entertainment circles is “binge-watching.” It has gained some traction since Netflix released the whole first season of their original drama series “House of Cards” all at once. The show starring Kevin Spacey is a big hit, but the real question is how did everyone watch…
Tony Stark’s Iron Man is among the most likeable superheroes. Like Bruce Wayne’s Batman, Iron Man has the money, and he has the gadgets. But Tony Stark also happens to have a personality which pleases everybody. With Robert Downey delivering the goods, it’s a pleasure to watch the billionaire – with all his extravagance and…
Can we talk about how awesome this season of “Game of Thrones” is? I don’t want to count my dragons before they’re hatched, but episode 5 “Kissed By Fire” had a very healthy amount of action and plot development in it. Plus the pace is crazy. I stand by my point that there are too…
Big budget film reboots are a tricky business. Fans have expectations and, let’s be honest, we’re not always the most accepting when some Hollywood hotshot changes our precious characters. In 2009, JJ Abrams did just that with “Star Trek,” but he was praised for it. With the sequel, “Star Trek Into Darkness” right around the…