Coty Geek

I know what you are thinking. “But Wii keeps you active!” True, but the Wii’s list of compelling games with compelling stories and compelling gameplay isn’t exactly the length of Santa’s list. And Xbox Fanboys are probably saying “But we have the bigger selection, and we’ve got Halo!” Yeah, that may very well be the [...]

I’m a huge, huge, HUGE fan of Asian movies. Especially Asian Horror/Sci-Fi movies. The Korean film The Host is no exception.
The film follows a family as they try to recover a little girl who has been taken by a river monster.
Sounds simple enough, right? Well, no. First of all, this family is disfunctional at best. [...]

We all know Christopher Nolan’s name by now. He’s the man who brought us the hit films Batman Begins, The Prestige, and the Dark Knight. He has become a major player in the filmmaking game, as he has not yet made a bad film. So for today’s DVD Spotlight (where I will be highlighting films [...]

2009 has been a big drag in terms of entertainment. It seems like there hasn’t been a genuinely good movie come out that audiences could get truly excited about. Well, now we have Zombieland, and it is AWESOME.
Zombieland, as the name implies, takes place in a time when the world has become over run with [...]

I have just recently watched the first Clerks film, the debut of director Kevin Smith. It’s kind of a miniature right of passage for an aspiring filmmaker, slacker, or popculture junkie to see the film, and I happen to fall into all three of those categories. I had felt that cutting off the View Askewniverse [...]

Mark Borchardt is a man whose reputation is very murky. Some people consider him to be a talented and driven man whose ambitions are hindered by lack of money. Other people consider him to be a walking joke, with dreams that he does not have the talent or knowledge to fulfill. The film American Movie [...]

Okay, as mentioned in a previous entry, I’m a huge fan of the team of Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, and director Edgar Wright. I think Pegg and Frost are today’s equivalent of Laurel and Hardy. Shaun of the Dead is one of my favorite movies, and if you liked Shaun of the Dead, then you’ll [...]

I am almost ashamed to say that I was a late bloomer when it came to Half-Life. I didn’t have a good enough PC to play the game, and I was just never able to play it, so I didn’t bother. So when a friend of mine lent me his copy of the Orange Box, [...]