Here we are at the end of Thanksgiving week, and as we hurtle forward toward the end of the year, film studios are offering up their biggest and most exciting movies, and the list of video games and TV shows I need to catch up on reaches its absolute breaking point. We’re truly spoiled for choice … Continue reading
In a year that’s been a surprisingly good one for the horror genre, Don’t Breathe is another genuinely scary and well-executed film. Just when viewers thought that the idea of a group of helpless young people trapped inside a psychopath’s house was overdone, director Fede Alvarez has outdone even some of the best modern horror … Continue reading
Simple stories get a bad rap these days. In an era of big blockbusters that constantly crossover with one another, telling increasingly complex stories, films that instead choose to focus on a straightforward, familiar narrative structure sometimes get ignored for not doing enough to shake things up. On some level, I understand the sentiment; it’s … Continue reading
A few weeks ago I began to make a list of my favorite movie moments, which was inspired by Patton Oswalt’s book Silver Screen Fiend: Learning About Life from an Addiction to Film. And while I had originally intended to finish it that week, a little event called San Diego Comic-Con kind of got in … Continue reading
Sometimes, movie trailers just speak to you. Regardless of if you’re the demographic a film is going for, or if it’s even the sort of movie you don’t normally go for, a good trailer can tick all the right boxes to get you interested in a film. Such was the case with Nerve, a film … Continue reading
Here at The Joy of Geek, we love everything from the latest superhero movie to the most obscure sci-fi cult classic. And while the subject of this article isn’t exactly the most obscure, it is a movie with a devoted fanbase that never made it into the mainstream market. To kickoff this new series “Cult … Continue reading
Well, Suicide Squad has finally been released upon the world, and while you can check out Kevin’s written review or our podcast roundtable for our thoughts, I think it goes without saying that the response is, at best, mixed. However, whatever else there is to say about the movie, there’s no denying that it goes … Continue reading
Suicide Squad is no doubt a messy movie, albeit a really fun messy movie. The first act is bogged down in uneven exposition, it takes a while for the supporting characters to do anything noteworthy, and it doesn’t help that the trailers already showed some of its best moments; yet despite its faults, I thoroughly … Continue reading
Expanding a short film into a full-length feature is a tricky proposition. What works over the course of a few minutes can just as easily fall apart when given an hour-and-a-half runtime. As such, I remained cautiously optimistic about David F. Sandberg’s Lights Out, despite how much I enjoyed his 2013 short film of the … Continue reading
The graphic novel Batman: The Killing Joke contains one of the most controversial moments in comics history, so controversial that even writer Alan Moore has disavowed this story. For those of you who don’t know, the infamous scene features the Joker shooting Barbara Gordon in her home, paralyzing her, and then raping her before kidnapping … Continue reading