Any geek can proclaim “Live Long and Prosper.” An even lesser geek will require you to “Use the force.” A truly hardened, experienced, and involved geek however will tell you “Never give up, and never surrender.” Director Dean Parisot and writer David Howard are those types of geeks, crafting a comedy based around classic TV [...]

There’s a concept in Vantage Point that works. The contrived scripting and completely implausible action can’t take advantage of that though, leaving a fun, hollow thriller that could have been so much more. A loaded cast, including Sigourney Weaver in one of her worst efforts as a monotone news director, catches a different glimpse of [...]

Say someone gets their hands on the device that could change fairy tales forever. Instead of happy endings, bad things happen to those beloved characters. Jack gets stomped on the beanstalk, Sleeping Beauty doesn’t wake up, Red Riding Hood sits in the digestive track of a wolf, and the entire fairy tale kingdoms goes awry. [...]