Geek Overture

The beautiful game has inspired some beautiful movies in its time. Here are some of the best, and more unusual football films that can be enjoyed even by non-football fans and jaded Rangers supporters. Escape to Victory The most well known of the films in this list, Escape to Victory was released in 1980 and [...]

I’m going got take a leaf out of Dredd’s book and get right to the point, I liked this movie. It’s action-packed, it’s stylized, it’s true to the original source material, it’s direct and it’s thoroughly entertaining. Be warned though, Dredd will certainly not be everyone’s cup of tea; the movie is extremely violent and [...]

Since JJ Abrams rebooted the Star Trek franchise back in 2009, everyone has been speculating what he would name his first sequel. Well not everyone. Some people. Okay only a few people have been speculating. And even then only when they were on their own. Calling his first movie, Star Trek, the eleventh in the [...]

We’ve searched the web to bring you a selection of some of the best film projects raising money through crowd-funding sites such as Kickstarter or Indiegogo.   Tea with Honey directed by Krish Shrikumar Tea with Honey is a short romantic comedy telling a story of Tom who is determined to meet Ania once again and make [...]

Popular Hollywood Director Tony Scott has died on the 19th August 2012. Currently the death is being investigated as a suicide and it has not been reported as suspicious. According to news reports Tony Scott jumped to his death from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles. Source: geektyrant.com via Joseph on Pinterest   Lt [...]

The Expendables are back and they are expendableing more that ever before…or something. I’m not really sure what they do. I think it involves explosions. The stars (of the eighties)  are back and this time are joined by Chuck Norris, Jean Claude Van Damme and ehhhh, Liam Hemsworth. It’s exciting and probably critic proof but [...]

Stephen Spielberg’s 1975 classic Jaws wil be making it’s Blu-ray debut next week as part of Universal Studio’s 100th anniversary celebration. Also to be released in August is Michael Curtiz’s Western, Santa Fe Trail (1940) and Raoul Walsh’s noir-like Western, Pursued (1947), which stars Robert Mitchum as a former Civil War hero forced to face [...]

Fox and Marvel could be set to make a deal that would see the Fantastic Four rights return to the comic books studio and become part of The Avengers universe. With the creation of a shared universe, Marvel has changed the superhero-movie landscape forever. Beginning with Iron Man, all the characters from various Marvel properties were able [...]

Well this has been a very busy week for geek news so here are the headlines for you for this week: Taken Trailer First they tried to take his daughter, now they are back for him! His wife is taken and his daughter is chased by bad guys in an attempt to capture Liam Neeson’s [...]

It’s been a good few weeks for news from the Marvel cinematic universe! So here’s what you need to know to get up to speed: Christopher Eccleston (aka the slightly northern Doctor Who) is replacing Mads Mikkelsen as Malekith the Accursed in Thor: The Dark World. We’re anticipating a whole bundle of crossover fanart. We’re [...]