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!!! 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!
STEVE DITKOSTEVE DITKO
Steve Ditko, the legendary comic book artist, was found dead in his New York home this week. Ditko was 90.
(more…)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!!! | 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.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : WILL INFINITY WAR LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILM : WILL INFINITY WAR LIVE UP TO THE HYPE?
Just booked my tickets for Infinity War, IMAX 3D no less. But my expectations are at an absolute low for superhero films, especially with recent disappointments.
GEEK OUT!!! PROVIDENCE BY ALAN MOORE & JACEN BURROWS [REVIEW]GEEK OUT!!! PROVIDENCE BY ALAN MOORE & JACEN BURROWS [REVIEW]
A bit late to this graphic novel but considering the responses to recent geek movies The Shape of Water and Annihilation, the moment seemed appropriate for quick thoughts about Providence.
GEEK OUT!!! DC COMICS’ SIDEWAYS : CLICHÉD SUPERHERO CHARACTER SAVED BY PROMISING ARTWORKGEEK OUT!!! DC COMICS’ SIDEWAYS : CLICHÉD SUPERHERO CHARACTER SAVED BY PROMISING ARTWORK
Sideways is basically your high school superhero comic – the Spider-Man trope.
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILM : ANNIHILATION [REVIEW]GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILM : ANNIHILATION [REVIEW]
Thanks to the idiocy of Paramount Pictures, Alex Garland’s Annihilation adaptation was only released in Singapore today via Netflix! Thus, geeks in Singapore are denied the opportunity of watching this imaginative scifi horror movie in all its visual glory. Well, fuck you Paramount!
GEEK OUT!!! JESSICA JONES – SEASON 2 [REVIEW]GEEK OUT!!! JESSICA JONES – SEASON 2 [REVIEW]
A third of the way into the 2nd season of the Marvel-Netflix series Jessica Jones, one conclusion becomes unavoidable. The reason that Season 1 worked was down solely to David Tennant’s star turn as Killgrave.
GEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILMS | NO WAY BACK FOR THE DC EXTENDED UNIVERSEGEEK OUT!!! SUPERHERO FILMS | NO WAY BACK FOR THE DC EXTENDED UNIVERSE
Black Panther‘s astonishing domestic box office numbers for its opening 4-days is $245 million, which actually betters Justice League‘s lifetime US box office of $228 million!
GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILMS | MUTE [REVIEW]GEEK OUT!!! SCIFI FILMS | MUTE [REVIEW]
The knives are out for Netflix original films, as far as the critics are concerned. Bright was panned and now Duncan Jones’ Mute suffers the same fate. We demur.
GEEK OUT!!! | SCIFI FILMS : UPCOMING MOVIES – REPLICAS, THE TITAN & THE CURED [TRAILERS]GEEK OUT!!! | SCIFI FILMS : UPCOMING MOVIES – REPLICAS, THE TITAN & THE CURED [TRAILERS]
Some scifi movies to consider in the months ahead.