Author: Sylvia Maixner

This summer has been a good one for lady-led franchises. We had a first in the modern comic book film era – Wonder Woman, the first female-led superhero solo film. Jodie Whittaker is the next Doctor. Sure, we’ve had some excellent women characters take key roles in team flicks, like Black Widow in The Avengers, and Jessica Jones remains one of the best comic TV shows ever produced. But while Iron Man, Batman, and even Ant-Man have gotten their spotlight, we’ve all been waiting for that same treatment to come to lady heroes for quite some time now. Ah, yes,…

Net neutrality is the concept that all sites on the internet are considered equal, as far as access and speed to connection goes. So, from your cat videos, to your scientific journals, and to your weirdest porn, all sites are available for you to browse and enjoy. So, basically, business as usual. The latest proceeding in regards to internet usage is presented by the FCC, and its current Chairman and former Verizon executive Ajit Pai, is called “Restoring Internet Freedom.” It is bad news bears, everyone. Why? Because companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T would like to put up…

Now that Wonder Woman is finally out, we here at Screen Geek found ourselves hungry for other awesome badass female lead films. Upon initial discussion, we brought up some obvious choices: Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise, Furiosa from Mad Max, and Sarah Conner from Terminator. But, we decided to dig a little deeper and put together a list of other wonder women out there. You may not have heard of all of these, or, alternatively, considered them to be kick-ass women of action, but allow us to try and expand your mind. Oh, and a few of these character…

So, the new Spider-Man: Homecoming movie looks pretty legit, right? The trailers have been a good combination of exciting and funny. The plot seems to be an innovative take on the origin story of our favorite neighborhood arachnid dude. And, who doesn’t want to see Micheal Keaton playing another crazy guy in a flying animal costume? The answer to that is that everyone wants to see that, hence the mounds and mounds of positive buzz the film has been getting. Tom Holland seems like a great addition to the comic superhero family, and Zendaya coming on the scene for a…

Ready to feel like the oldest person in the world? Alien, the first in the iconic sci-fi horror franchise, was released in 1979. That means that people born a decade after Alien came out are having children and getting mortgages and complaining about interest rates on their retirement accounts. Being as old and as established as it is in nerd culture, there aren’t many people who need to be introduced to this classic film. So, instead of talking about its impact on the industry or gushing about how it’s still one of the best science fiction films of all time…

To start off this retro review, I would like to note that this is not a piece about the current Ghost in the Shell, and in turn, not a commentary on the casting of Scarlett Johansen as Major Kusinagi. You wanna read about that, you have a ton of options all over the Internet; for this, we’re focusing on the original, animated, freaking awesome 1995 Mamoru Oshii film. So, just sit back, stop stressing about Hollywood, and enjoy. Based on the comic book Mobile Armored Riot Police: Ghost in the Shell written by Masamune Shirow, Ghost in the Shell remains…

Awards season is upon us, dear readers. All of the hard work Hollywood did, creating beautiful movies, hiring talented people, and kissing many a butt of an Academy Award voting member, will come to a culmination on February 26th. When the evening is through, naked golden men will be in the hands of some deserving people, and you know what? Good for them. However, this discussion is not for those shiny, chosen few. We present to you a bold claim – like foreign language films back in 1947 or animated films more recently in 2001, horror movies deserve to have…

Next up on our Kickstarter spotlight series: For The Road, a horror short film based off of a story of the master of horror himself, Stephen King. Shifting away from gloomy Maine to gloomy Oregon, the film focuses on two old friends going to a doomed town to rescue a stranded family. For The Road is an endeavor of love and art, and, if funded, will be toured through the country, one film festival at a time. The team has permission from Mr. King to adapt his short story (One For The Road, for the readers amongst you), with a single…

One of the greatest gifts given to us by this new age of technology is the ability for artists to breakthrough and provide content that would have otherwise been left as figments of imagination. Cameras, sound equipment, and video editing software isn’t just hidden behind the walls of established production studios; money is no longer the barrier to entry it once was. Except it kind of is, because even if you can get a hold of that cheaper equipment and software, you still might want to have money to, I don’t know, eat food and live in a place with…

“There’s Sagittarius, Libra…Ooooh, and the constellation for the new Ford Fusion!” And there’s our childhoods, ripped apart and commodified for use for the Ford Motor Company. In a series of 8 increasingly bizarre, yet strangely mesmerizing commercials, Ford dubs over famous touchstone series Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z, Metal Gear Solid, and Captain Planet – changing original dialogue away from saving the world from certain doom to convincing the public in buying a new car. If you’re in the mood for some weird marketing, or maybe in the market for a new car, I guess, take a look at these videos below: Just keep a bandaid…