Let’s be clear upfront: Death Note is a terrible film, no qualifications necessary. While I’m going to compare it to the original manga a lot in this review, being a fan insulted by the changes and liberties this film takes with the source material is not required to see the flaws in this telling of … Continue reading
When I was a wee little lad watching the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man flicks in theaters, never did I think that I would live to see two – let alone three – cinematic incarnations of the character in my lifetime. Yet as is the case with superhero films these days, the most iconic ones are the … Continue reading
More than any film this year, I was crazy excited for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. While I was initially skeptical of the anthology film concept when it was first announced, I’ve been on the Rogue One hype train since the first trailer dropped. It was a mesmerizing piece of advertising that promised a … Continue reading
The science fiction genre has had its fair share of good standalone films in recent years. Ones like Ex Machina, Under the Skin, Moon and even the effects-heavy blockbuster Interstellar have told more intimate, character-driven stories. Following in this trend is Arrival, the new alien-invasion movie from the brilliant director Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario). Arrival … Continue reading
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