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ECLIPSE REVIEW: Wait… Matt… LIKED it?

Geeks — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 21:51:07 +0000

As a film and as an adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s bestselling tween romance novels, Eclipse’s director, David Slade, most certainly out-did either of his predecessors. While the love story remains intact to satisfy Nat’s need for any angsty werewolf/vampire/human love triangle, Matt appreciated the clear effort taken to attract a male audience by adding a dark and more violent visual style, that was clearly riffing on actual horror elements for the first time in the series.

Coming up next are Reviews of The Last Airbender, Predators and Inception!

~Matt + Nat

ECLIPSE PREVIEW: a REAL Vampire Film Director on Twilight?

Geeks — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:41:12 +0000

After two movies of angsty interspecies romance, Jacob and Edward are forced to join together to protect Bella from the dangers of Victoria’s vampire army and the Vulturi. Watch what Kristen, Robert, Taylor, plus new cast members Bryce and Xavier have to say about their characters in Eclipse, and what director David Slade thinks about his contribution to the Twilight Saga!

~Matt + Nat

DAYBREAKERS REVIEW: What $20M SHOULD Look Like.

Geeks — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:04:04 +0000

When young filmmakers with $20 million dollars decide to take on the vampire AND the science fiction genres at the same time, you really shouldn’t expect much. Which is why Daybreakers blew us away. Well conceived, imaginative, original and above all well done, this kind of film would have cost millions more if Hollywood decided to do something similar, and probably wouldn’t have turned out to be nearly as enjoyable!

~Matt + Nat

NEW MOON REVIEW: Twilight Kicked Up a Notch

Geeks — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:51 +0000

We were both impressed with what this sequel was able accomplish over the first film in the Twilight franchise. With better action, better acting, and better direction all around, New Moon gave both Nat as a Twilight veteran, and Matt as a noob, much more than we were expecting.

PLUS – Click here to take a look at our review of Twilight from last year!

~Matt + Nat

NEW MOON PREVIEW: Bella? Check. Edward? Check. Jake? Uh-oh.

Geeks — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:13:43 +0000

After Nat got us both hooked on Bella and Edward’s story in 2008, we’ve been looking forward to a high-octane director’s take on the Werewolf curveball in New Moon, so check out what Kristen, Taylor and director Chris Weitz say we’re in store for!

~Matt + Nat

THIRST REVIEW: Korean Vampires, Old Boy Style

Geeks — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:56:49 +0000

If you have a chance to track down a theatre playing this award winning Korean Vampire film from the Director of Old Boy, you will not be disappointed. Graphic and visceral in every way, Thirst, or Bakjwi, blew our minds with the realism that the story was grounded in, and the depths to which the characters could sink.

~Matt + Nat

UNDERWORLD RISE OF THE LYCANS: Review + Preview

Geeks — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:01:45 +0000

Since we got all the goodies from Sony so late, we weren’t able to make a proper preview for Underworld, so we’ve incorporated a few words of wisdom from the cast and crew into our regular review style.

What did we think? Well, we knew what we were getting, not only because it’s a prequel and the story was already given away back in 2003, but because we know what to expect from an Underworld movie: Vampires and Werewolves taken deadly serious no matter how absurd the story. And we love it that way. Sure the second film in the series was an ungodly piece of crap, but hey, not everything is Lord of the Rings or Star Wars.

~Matt + Nat

UNDERWORLD RISE OF THE LYCANS SNEAK PEEK

Geeks — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:12:56 +0000

The behind the scenes goodies for “Underworld: Rise of the Lycans” were JUST released this morning, so we’re really under the gun to put together a preview in time for it to be worth watching. Instead, we’ll make a YourGeekNews.com exclusive sneak-peak video with two scenes from the movie included, and then we’ll make a more in-depth review next week!

~Matt + Nat

TWILIGHT REVIEW: By a Twilighter and a Twi-Hard

Geeks — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 06:53:58 +0000

A review that is split down the middle as Nat is a card carrying Twilighter who’s in love with the books and invested in the characters but Matt had no preconceptions of Twilight before the movie was released… and in fact had set the bar pretty low based on the ad campaign and our own preview of it. The movie had more than a few surprises in store in both cases!

~Matt + Nat

TWILIGHT PREVIEW: Angsty Teenage Vampire Goodness

Geeks — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:11:38 +0000

Exclusive scenes, cast and crew interviews for the film adaptation of Sarah Meyer’s bestselling novel, Twilight. Nat is a huge Twilight fan and Matt knows a bit about it, but we’re both excited to see how this one turns out!

~Matt + Nat