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THE AVENGERS: In This Together Now… Some More Than Others

Geeks — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:24:19 +0000

How awesome is this!? The creator of such cancelled gems as Firefly (Fox) Dollhouse (Fox) and Angel (Fox) now has the big screen bravado of Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark and Sam Jackson’s Nick Fury speaking his sarcastically delicious dialogue in the biggest superhero movie of all time. A helluva step up if you ask us.

Sure, it looks more like Iron Man 3 with some Chrises Evans and Hemsworth cameos, but you can’t help but love the way Tony admires Dr. Banner’s work.

Plus, Tony keeps wearing a Black Sabbath shirt, which is pure Iron Man.

~Matt + Nat

GREEN LANTERN REVIEW: Ring Capacity About 50-50…

Geeks — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:01:04 +0000

One of Matt’s all-time favourite super heroes comes to the big screen with a huge ad campaign and word of a sequel already greenlit by a Warner Brothers and DC who couldn’t be greener with envy over Marvel’s box office streak and impending Avengers movie… but before sequel and Justice League talk gets out of hand, was “Green Lantern” actually any good as a movie of its own or as an adaptation? Well, Matt’s nickname for the film was “Green Lanturd” if that’s any hint… but what did you think?

~Matt + Nat

X-MEN REVIEW: First Class is All Class

Geeks — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:00:08 +0000

Certainly overdue, but with Nat on vacation during an X-Men film release, it’s tough to keep up! How does free love and mutually assured distruction get along with a prequel/reboot of the X-Men franchise? Well, the killer casting and promise of a cameo or two made First Class have some initial excitement to off-set the fear of making this movie in a short 10-months… Doesn’t seem like very long until you consider that’s how long we have to wait for another episode of Game of Thrones!

~Matt + Nat

THOR REVIEW: Best Marvel Cast to Date

Geeks — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:24:36 +0000

With THOR, summer comicbook movies are open for business. From Hopkins to Portman the cast was phenomenal, and Chris Hemsworth is officially perfect casting as the God of Thunder. But the big surprise was just how expertly Kenneth Branagh managed to direct a film that spans an Ice Kingdom, Asgard and New Mexico! What did you think?

~Matt + Nat

NEW GREEEN LANTERN TRAILER: Ok, so it finally looks good.

Geeks — Thu, 05 May 2011 15:41:18 +0000

We’ve been worried about this one for a while… the first trailer looked like one quarter Dark Knight, one quarter Ironman and one quarter Van Wilder. Yep just three quarters. But now we get 100% epic intergalactic battle.

What do you think?

~Matt + Nat

WALKING DEAD REVIEW: Mini-Series/Season 1

Geeks — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:21:06 +0000

It’s not a movie per se, but with six episodes in Darabont’s mini-series based on Robert Kirkman’s comics, AMC’s Walking Dead is definitely geeky enough to warrant a thread for us all to chat about it!

And once the DVD comes out in the Spring, we’ll be giving it a Matt + Nat review just like we would for any geeky/genre/comicbook movie!

~Matt + Nat

RED REVIEW: If the Expendables Could Act

Geeks — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:08:15 +0000

The cast of RED could have all phoned in their performances, and it still would have been some of the finest acting that the action genre has ever seen. Toss in Helen Mirren firing an artillery canon, and this baby is worth catching in the theatre for sure! Just don’t go in expecting to see the Warren Ellis comics on the big screen.

~Matt + Nat

RED PREVIEW: At Last! A Warren Ellis Comicbook Movie!

Geeks — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:37:34 +0000

With a cast like Bruce WIllis, Morgan Freeman, Richard Dreyfus, John Malkovich, Ernest Borgnine and Helen Mirren, there’s really no other reason needed to go see this one immediately. But the fact that it’s based on a comicbook from the mind of the iconic Warren Ellis just puts this baby over the top!

~Matt + Nat

You can click the [HD] button in the videoframe to watch this episode in 720pHD!

SCOTT PILGRIM REVIEW: Way Better Than You Think

Geeks — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:42:40 +0000

You’d never know it from the opening weekend at the Box Office, but Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is one seriously ingenious film. Ingenious from the pacing, to the visuals, to the meta-data, which is to say nothing for the fact that Edgar Wright made an incredible adaptation of the source material at the same time! Whatever you do today, make sure that it includes checking this movie out!

~Matt + Nat

SCOTT PILGRIM PREVIEW: Comicbook to Film Done Perfectly?

Geeks — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:37:12 +0000

Edgar Wright is the kind of director that has gotten a fan following all his own, but when his film gets the concept from a graphic novel as popular as Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim series, you just know something special is going to happen! Watch him and his cast take you into the world of Scot Pilgrim, along with some exclusive snippets of the movie, and some wild remixes of scenes!

~Matt + Nat