Serial killing is serious business. If you’re going to be successful at it, you need an eye for detail, a serious work ethic and absolutely nothing resembling a conscience. If you’re going to be great at it, maybe even the greatest, you need even more — style, wit and charm…
April is here and it’s brought a bounty of great geek events — no fooling. From zombie conventions to classic action movies, the month is peppered with fantastic ways to live the geek life in Denver. Here are ten of the month’s best, presented in chronological order. 10. The Kepler…
There are few joys in life simpler or more pure than the cocktail of adrenaline, testosterone and cordite that makes up the American action movie. It is a not a nuanced genre. It is not a deep genre. But in the same way an ice-cold Pabst Blue Ribbon goes down…
There’s a lot more to comics than men in tights, but you’d never know it at most comic cons. If you want to dig deeper into what comics can be, regardless of what kind of story they’re telling, then DINK: The Denver Independent Comic and Art Expo is your kind…
So, cold enough for you? Okay, that’s a stupid question. Unless you’re a goddamned penguin, polar bear or ice troll, it is way too cold for you. Thanks to the fact that spring announced its arrival this year with a foot and a half of snow, we’re all stuck in…
This weekend you can catch the obscure, drug-scare horror film Blue Sunshine — with the director in-person, no less! — at the Alamo Drafthouse, a great theater that happens to be just one of Denver’s many options for repertory, arthouse and independent film. If you don’t want to leave the…
Geek culture is big, but even in the vast, loosely defined ocean of “geek” there are a few universal touchstones. That’s not to say that everyone agrees on them — hell, if you can get five geeks together in a room who agree on more than two separate geek-related things,…
Spring is almost here, but even before that (theoretically) nicer weather arrives, we’re going to see a slew of great geek events. Regardless of whether we get sun, rain or even snow, Denver’s geeks will be so busy indoors, the weather won’t matter. From three different conventions to a visit…
I love to read. Love it. How much do I love reading? One year, when I was of college age but not in college and only intermittently employed, I read almost 400 books, averaging just a hair over one a day, all year. That’s a lot of love. Yet somehow, despite…
Arcade. There’s no single word that can trigger more nostalgia for people of a certain age — my age, as it turns out. For those of us who grew up in the era, arcades (and arcade games) are our analog to Proust’s madeleines: Running into a favorite machine from the…
Denver Comic Con has brought in some big names in its short history, but for year five it’s going straight for the top shelf. Comics legend Stan Lee was already on the roster for the June event when the announcement came late last week of the addition of a member…
Valentine’s Day, that date night to end all date nights, is almost here! Finding the right way to spend Valentine’s Day is never easy, but it can be especially hard on us geeks. It’s not that we mean to be snobs, but another viewing of When Harry Met Sally just isn’t…
Once again the Super Bowl is right around the corner — and once again the Denver Broncos are in it to win it. That’s great news for football fans, but it’s not-so-great if football isn’t your thing and everyone around you cannot shut up about the big game for fifteen…
February is here, which means a societally obligated focus on all things love for the next two weeks! Don’t worry, though — apart from a couple of carefully curated selections, this month’s list of geek events will barely register the existence of Valentine’s Day. Instead, our focus — as always…
Last year was pretty good to science fiction film fans. We got, among other things, a new Star Wars movie, a bunch of new comic book movies and even a handful of original, non-franchise films. To cap it all off, two science fiction films were nominated for Best Picture Oscars…
Almost fifteen years after its television swan song, and a solid five since the last film, The X-Files is about to return. As a hardcore fan of the show back in the day, I’m pretty excited. Of course, as a fan who made it all the way to the end…
I don’t often write about music for this column, but it’s not often that a musical icon steeped in science fiction dies days before I write Geek Speak. I’m talking, of course, about David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust himself, a man whose first hit was about an astronaut who was never…
When it comes to alternate history, there’s no vein so thoroughly mined as World War II. Is it because of that war’s relatively recent vintage? The fact that it was America’s last “good war” — a war that we not only won, but fought from a perceived moral high ground…
Goodbye 2015! Hello 2016! The turning of the calendar marks time for reflection (did that last week) and looking forward — resolution time, in other words. I skipped my resolutions last year, in part because I was still working on my 2014 resolutions, but the time has come for a…
Happy new year! 2015 was a great year to be a geek, but there’s every reason to think 2016 will be just as good, if not better. To get your year started off right, we’ve rounded up ten of Denver’s best opportunities to get your geek on and listed them,…
The Star Wars films are known for their incredible space battles, bizarre aliens and other crazy sci-fi visuals. But underneath all that, the films also tell a classic story, a near-perfect example of what Joseph Campbell called The Hero’s Journey. That iconic story structure is part of what makes a…
It’s the time of year for eggnog, present wrapping and terrible, awful, no-good bullshit Christmas movies. Seriously, is there any holiday more beleaguered by cheesy garbage than Christmas? While yes, there are gems that balance the sentiment with a good story, a little edge and maybe some laughs, most fall…
