[LIST] APRIL STAFF PICKS
This month the Geek’d Out staff has a bunch of movie recommendations, as well as a video game rec! Check them out.
[REVIEW] ‘NO SUDDEN MOVE’ IS A FUN THROWBACK THAT DOESN’T WASTE ITS STACKED CAST
‘No Sudden Move’ is a solid Steven Soderbergh film with a stellar cast delivering a perfectly fine adaptation of a mid-series crime book that doesn’t exist.
[REVIEW] CHURCH AND STATE COLLIDE IN ‘THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME DO IT’
Dream team Ed and Lorraine Warren tackle another horrific case in the latest film in The Conjuring Universe franchise.
[REVIEW] ‘ALLEN V. FARROW’: A DOCUSERIES FOR THE AGE OF #METOO
I grew up watching Woody Allen’s films and studied them in film school, but never understood his appeal. Now, I’m glad I never did.
[REVIEW] ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE IS FINALLY A VISION COMPLETED
Zack Snyder’s Justice League is a huge improvement. If you dislike the filmmaker, this probably won’t change your mind.
[REVIEW] ‘WONDER WOMAN 1984’ FAILS TO REACH NEW HEIGHTS
Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman (2017) was a breathe of fresh air for Warner Brothers’s struggling DC Comics film universe. The film took the hype from the character’s introduction in Batman v. Superman (2016), really the best part of that movie, and flawlessly built on it in the standalone film.
[NEWS] MACKENZIE DAVIS AND HIMESH PATEL TO STAR IN ‘STATION ELEVEN’ SERIES
WarnerMedia has just announced the two stars of their upcoming exclusive TV series, Station Eleven (2020), according to Deadline. Mackenzie Davis and Himesh Patel have been chosen as the leads for the show based on the acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of the same name by Canadian author Emily St. John Mandel. The show is slated as part of the launch line-up for their new streaming service, HBO Max.
[NEWS] HBO MAX CONJURES A TV PILOT FOR THE ‘PRACTICAL MAGIC’ PREQUEL SERIES ‘RULES OF MAGIC’
Fulfilling all of my ’90s-girl dreams, HBO Max ordered a pilot for a one-hour drama called Rules of Magic, a prequel to the witchy classic Practical Magic.