Knee Jerk Racism When Casting Movie Roles
This is a delicate post for me to write. I live in a country (USA) where the issue of racism is probably more prevalent in the media than it’s been in twenty years.… Continue reading
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Batman and Superman Don’t Kill People….Except When They Do
There’s a lot of animosity towards the upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice film. It extends back not just to the casting of Ben Affleck (which I’m glad that bitch-fest has died down,… Continue reading
WTF Hollywood??? Stop Splitting Movies Up Unnecessarily!
Some stories, especially ones based on novels, need more than one movie. The content is just so vast and expansive that collapsing the material into one 2 1/2 movie just wouldn’t work. An… Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Creed’
Plot: Adonis “Donnie” Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) never knew his famous father, heavyweight champion Apollo Creed. The offspring of an affair between Creed and Adonis’ mother, Johnson grows up amidst foster homes and… Continue reading
Why Cisco Ramon is the Best Character on ‘The Flash’
As superheroes go, the Flash never really did it for me growing up. I was always more of a Batman/Superman kind of guy. Forgive the horrible pun but a guy who could run… Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘SPECTRE’
Plot: Picking up shortly after the events of Skyfall, SPECTRE finds the indomitable MI-6 agent James Bond (Daniel Craig) on a mission to kill a man at the request of the recently deceased M (Judi… Continue reading
Timey Wimey Talk: Doctor Who: Series 9: Episode 7: The Zygon Invasion
It’s just a generally accepted fact that almost every Doctor Who episode since the moment BBC restarted the series has been strong. In over 100 episodes I’ve yet to see an episode that rated less… Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Beasts of No Nation’
Plot: When civil war approaches a small West African village, many of the townspeople are forced to flee to the capital for sanctuary. Among those is the family of a adolescent boy… Continue reading
Casting Call: ‘Ready Player One’
****ALERT! SOME PLOT SPOILERS BELOW**** If you’ve followed me regularly on House of Geekery, you already know my unmitigated love for Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. While I always thought it would… Continue reading
Timey Wimey Talk: ‘Doctor Who’ Series 9 Episode 6 “The Woman Who Lived”
Occasionally in Doctor Who there’s an episode (not counting the Christmas specials) where the Companion is either absent or shows up towards the end of the show. Such is the case with “The Woman Who… Continue reading
