THE WORLDS OF DCTHE WORLDS OF DC
An opinion piece about The Worlds of DC – will it bring about brand confusion?
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GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – HANA | THEY WHO ARE NOT SEENGEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – HANA | THEY WHO ARE NOT SEEN
On the final night of the inaugural Scream Asia Film Festival, horror fans were treated to the melancholy aspects of supernatural tropes with the short film Hana and feature They Who Are Not Seen.
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – TOKYO LIVING DEAD IDOLGEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – TOKYO LIVING DEAD IDOL
Director Yuki Kumagai combined his love for pop idols, quirky detectives and zombies to come up with his delightful horror-comedy Tokyo Living Dead Idol.
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILTGEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT
One is never sure about a Lars Von Trier film as the auteur is able to deliver genius and self-indulgence (are they mutually exclusive?), sometimes in the same movie. This certainly applies to Von Trier’s latest opus – the psychological horror that is The House That Jack Built.
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – ZOMBIEPURA | OVERLORDGEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL – ZOMBIEPURA | OVERLORD
The inaugural Scream Asia Film Festival got off to a rollicking good start with the premieres of Zombiepura (world) and Overlord (Asian).
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – HANAGEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – HANA
We are a week away from the opening film of Scream Asia Film Festival. Here’s one I omitted from my must-see list – Hana.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : AQUAMAN EXTENDED TRAILER – GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : AQUAMAN EXTENDED TRAILER – GIVING THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!
Warner Bros have released a 5-minute extended trailer for the upcoming Aquaman movie. And it rocks!!!
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM – X-MEN : DARK PHOENIXGEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM – X-MEN : DARK PHOENIX
Oh dear.
Just when I thought I might have been spared from yet another lame adaptation of one of the best superhero comic book stories of all time.
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – PART 2GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018 – PART 2
Continuing my rundown of the movies I am looking forward to at the upcoming Scream Asia Film Festival. Read Part 1.
GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018GEEK OUT!!! HORROR : SCREAM ASIA FILM FESTIVAL 2018
Finally! A genre film festival in Singapore, we can call our very own!
Curated by local filmmaker Eric Khoo with South Korean film programmer Jongsuk Thomas Nam and organised by mm2 Entertainment, Scream Asia Film Festival promises to be exciting, ground-breaking and of course, terrifying!
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : CAPTAIN MARVEL (FIRST LOOK)GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : CAPTAIN MARVEL (FIRST LOOK)
It’s finally here! Entertainment Weekly‘s exclusive first look at the upcoming highly anticipated Captain Marvel movie!
GEEK OUT!!! THE PREDATOR (FINAL TRAILER)GEEK OUT!!! THE PREDATOR (FINAL TRAILER)
By and large, reboots of scifi movie franchises that began in the 80s, have not had a great track record.
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI TV : ASIMOV’S FOUNDATION SERIES TO BE RELEASED BY APPLEGEEK OUT!!! SCIFI TV : ASIMOV’S FOUNDATION SERIES TO BE RELEASED BY APPLE
According to Deadline, Apple has ordered a 10-episode series from Skydance Media adapting Issac Asimov’s classic Foundation series.
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI TV : IMPULSE SEASON ONEGEEK OUT!!! SCIFI TV : IMPULSE SEASON ONE
Remember Jumper from a decade ago?
The Doug Liman-helmed scifi adaptation of Steven Gould’s novel starred Hayden Christiansen and Jamie Bell, but wasted a promising premise with bad plot and characterisation.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO COMICS | COMIC BOOK LEGEND STEVE DITKOGEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO COMICS | COMIC BOOK LEGEND STEVE DITKO
Comic book artist Steve Ditko was found dead in his New York home this week. Ditko was 90.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : ANT-MAN AND THE WASP [NO SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : ANT-MAN AND THE WASP [NO SPOILERS]
Marvel Studios ANT-MAN AND THE WASP..L to R: The Wasp/Hope van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly) and Ant-Man/Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) ..Photo: Ben Rothstein..©Marvel Studios 2018
After the dark and heavy Infinity War, Ant-Man and the Wasp delivers light-hearted comedic superhero action to MCU fans.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO COMICS | MARVEL UNIVERSE – MAGNETO ARCGEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO COMICS | MARVEL UNIVERSE – MAGNETO ARC
The media juggernaut that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) had humble beginnings in a 1961 comic book created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby – the first issue of Fantastic Four.
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI HORROR : A QUIET PLACE [SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI HORROR : A QUIET PLACE [SPOILERS]
As always, I place great important on well-crafted plot and characterisation when reviewing movies. While A Quiet Place has an intriguing premise, the story, unfortunately is illogical.
GEEK OUT!!! | SUPERHERO FILM : GLASSGEEK OUT!!! | SUPERHERO FILM : GLASS
M. Night Shyamalan’s unlikely sequel to his classic 2000 superhuman film Unbreakable arrives in cinemas in January 2019.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : INCREDIBLES 2 IS WELL WORTH THE WAIT! (NO SPOILERS)GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : INCREDIBLES 2 IS WELL WORTH THE WAIT! (NO SPOILERS)
Fourteen years! That’s how long it took director Brad Bird to put together the sequel to Pixar’s animated foray into the superhero genre, The Incredibles.
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILM – JURASSIC WORLD : FALLEN KINGDOMGEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILM – JURASSIC WORLD : FALLEN KINGDOM
I must confess that I was pleasantly surprised by this sequel to the billion dollar hit Jurassic World (2015), which I found to be chronically underwhelming. Read my review here.
GEEK OUT!!! THE FRANCHISE MOVIE AS BOX OFFICE GOLDGEEK OUT!!! THE FRANCHISE MOVIE AS BOX OFFICE GOLD
Before the release of Star Wars (never “A New Hope”) in 1977, there had only been a couple of successful movie franchises viz. James Bond and Planet of the Apes.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : DEADPOOL 2 [NO SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : DEADPOOL 2 [NO SPOILERS]
After surprising most observers with a worldwide box office of $783 million (against a $58 million budget), it was inevitable that a Deadpool sequel would be produced and fast – within two years!
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : WHY INFINITY WAR IS THE BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATION THUS FAR [SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : WHY INFINITY WAR IS THE BEST COMIC BOOK MOVIE ADAPTATION THUS FAR [SPOILERS]
Ironically, the groundwork for the enormous success of Avengers : Infinity War was laid almost EIGHTY years ago by Marvel’s main comic book rival DC Comics in Justice Society of America.
GEEK OUT!!! AVENGERS : INFINITY WAR [NO SPOILERS]GEEK OUT!!! AVENGERS : INFINITY WAR [NO SPOILERS]
To be honest I had reservations about Infinity War.