The Geeks OUT Blog
Enjoy our extensive catalogue of geeky media coverage with an eye towards the LGBTQ+ community. Our editors strive to provide a diverse range of topics, genres, figures, and perspectives just for you.
Review: Pet Sematary
Church the cat Pet Sematary is probably Stephen King’s most notorious novel, famed for its dark and disturbing subject matter—especially child death— and its power to scare. The 1989 film, scripted by King and directed by Mary Lambert, was fairly trashy but...
Review: Shazam! sparks with youthful, infectious electricity
Although the DC film universe still has a lot of developing to do, its latest entry, Shazam!, does mostly illicit those feelings of childhood joy that many of us have probably not felt from a comic book film in a long time.
Us – Review
Lupita Nyong'o, Evan Alex, Shahadi Wright Joseph, and Winston Duke in Us Us opened last weekend to a mammoth $70.2 million, becoming the highest opening original horror movie and biggest ever opening for a film with a black female lead. What’s more, Us,...
Kickstarter We’re Into: Masked Prejudice
"You'd be a better superhero if only you smiled more." How many of us cringed when Captain Marvel was told by that biker to smile more in her titular film? (And how many of us cheered when she got back at that biker?) Prejudice and hate take all kinds of forms, from...
Monster-Mania Con 42 report
The author and Rachel True “I’m just saying if you’re gonna have three out of the witches, you need four, don’tcha?” actress Rachel True asked, referring to the controversy that erupted when she went public about an unnamed convention inviting all three female leads...
Someone Tell JK Rowling to Stop
The weird ‘facts’ JK Rowling has shared has turned into a fairly hilarious meme describing all of the ‘new information’ JK Rowling has bestowed about Harry Potter characters as well as other fandoms. It’s inception has come from the Harry Potter author divulging...
Interview: Eliza Dushku and Nate Dushku
Eliza and Nate Dushku are like a lot of siblings-their words overlap, and they're obviously close-except both happen to be very good-looking (seriously, what is with their family's genes?) and have spent a lifetime acting and now producing in film and television....
Review: Mapplethorpe
Biopics are a tricky beast. They can be vivid, galvanizing depictions of real life figures that bring their subjects to life with vigor and relevance: i.e. Milk. They can also be hackneyed, cliché messes that turn complicated lives into a series of familiar,...
They Were Robbed! Geeky Snubs of the 2019 Oscars
Queer geeks have a lot to celebrate with this year’s Oscar nominations: Black Panther is the first superhero movie ever nominated for Best Picture and a boon for representation, The Favourite is a delicious lesbian love triangle nominated for seemingly every aspect of...
Review: Fags in the Fast Lane
With a title like Fags in the Fast Lane, you expect a certain type of movie: politically incorrect. Exploitation throwback. Very, very silly. Australian production company Zombie Zoo Productions delivers on all of these counts, though my take is that...