Like a Geek God
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Like a Geek God #18: Geeking Out on True Detective
Like a Geek God #18 by Mark Pursell Geeking Out on True Detective WARNING: contains mild spoilers through the end of Episode 7. Here’s a facet of my geekdom that I haven’t really addressed yet on this blog: crime fiction. Crime stories don’t usually come to mind when someone says the word “geek”, but there’s Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #17: Agents of SHIELD Mid-Season Report Card
Like a Geek God #17 by Mark Pursell Agents of SHIELD Mid-Season Report Card The thing you need to know before we starting talking about Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is this: I love Joss Whedon. No, listen. I’m a hardcore Whedonite. I first fell in love with Joss Whedon’s storytelling vision because of his short-lived Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #16: That Old Disney Magic
Like a Geek God #16 by Mark Pursell That Old Disney Magic I had no intention of ever seeing Frozen. Now, please understand. I’m a Disneyphile. I have a deep, permanent affection for the fairy-tale musicals of the Disney Renaissance, not to mention the Golden Age classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #15: The Legend of Korra Season Two (A Post Mortem)
Like a Geek God #15 by Mark Pursell The Legend of Korra Season Two: A Post Mortem Sequels can be tricky. Many times, the attempt to preserve the spirit of the original object while also striking out in a new direction leads to one of two extemes: transcendance, or catastrophic failure. Aliens, The Godfather: Part Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #14: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Like a Geek God #14 by Mark Pursell Geeking Out About Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale A large part of our shared cultural experience every December centers on holiday-themed movies. From A Miracle on 34th Street to A Muppet Christmas Carol, Christmas has provided filmmakers with both material and motivation for decades. Generally speaking, though, Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #13: Geeking Out: Orphan Black
Like a Geek God #13 by Mark Pursell Geeking Out: Orphan Black I’m a sucker for well-done serialized storytelling, i.e. TV shows that have a continuous, over-arching story rather than successive stand-alone episodes. It’s the cinematic equivalent of reading a novel, with everything broken into chapters, and much more running time to delve into the Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #12: Geek Bulletin (Star Wars Episode VII)
Like a Geek God #12 by Mark Pursell Geek Bulletin: Star Wars Episode VII Pertinent details regarding the development of Star Wars Episode VII have been thin on the ground. Academy Award-winner and Star Wars scholar and lecturer Michael Arndt was announced as the screenwriter early in the process, as his treatment for a new Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #11: Finding Our Footage
Like a Geek God #11 by Mark Pursell Finding Our Footage Part of what makes movies so delightful, so transporting, is the fantasy of it all. Even darkly-realistic, psychologically-complex movies are constructed, and no matter how engaged we are by them, there is always, at some level, the slight, smiling recognition that everything playing out before Continue reading
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Like a Geek God #10: A Dreadful Double Feature Triple Threat
Like a Geek God #10 by Mark Pursell A Dreadful Double Feature Triple Threat Halloween in the Information Age always sees a glut of “favorite scary movie” lists clogging up your feeds and repeating the same recommendations over and over again. The thing is, if you’re a horror geek or a fan of scary movies Continue reading
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