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.
Beetlejuice’s Big Bi Broadway Energy
Queer coded villains are out of date because we don’t need code anymore – what we need is more unapologetic queer monsters, breaking the 4th wall and howling from the beyond.
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...
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.
Stoopid Hooman by Alexa Cassaro
With Easter right around the corner, Geeks OUT contributor Alexa Cassaro brings us some bunny realness with their latest web comic!
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...