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.

TFF 2019 Review: You Don’t Nomi

TFF 2019 Review: You Don’t Nomi

Elizabeth Berkley as Nomi in Showgirls For camp movie fans, the existence of a documentary about the Showgirls cult is both remarkable and unsurprising.  It’s unlikely subject matter in some ways, but if you saw Paul Verhoeven’s notorious 1995 flop for the first...

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Tribeca Film Festival Preview

Tribeca Film Festival Preview

The Tribeca Film Festival returns this week for its eighteenth edition.  Always inclusive, this year’s fest (running now through May 5) boasts films largely directed by women (40%), people of color (29%), and/or LGBTQIA folks (13%).  Here are some titles to...

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Review: Hellboy never stood a chance in hell

Review: Hellboy never stood a chance in hell

Before I started writing this review, I tried to convince myself not to spend the whole time talking about how far superior Guillermo del Toro’s Hellboy run was, but the more I think about it, the less I can keep that promise.

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Review: Pet Sematary

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...

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Us – Review

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,...

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Kickstarter We’re Into: Masked Prejudice

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...

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