Monthly Archive:: February 2018
Feb 16 2018
Minnesota-Developed Game Newt One Wants to Make You Happy
Ari Carrillo, who works as “President of Visuals and Playtime” as one-half of DevNAri, describes the developer duo’s game Newt One as a 3D musical platformer, but that’s just the elevator pitch. What the Minnesota developers are working to prove in their first title goes…
Feb 15 2018
Black Panther Is a Different Kind of Civil War
This is the hardest review I’ve ever had to write.
When you write a review, you want it to be cohesive. You don’t want to ramble on too much, and you certainly don’t want to, oh, I dunno, scream at the top of your lungs about how incredible a movie is. So you can understand the bind I’m in when it comes to the latest…
Feb 12 2018
Get Ready for the Black Panther Movie with Black Panther: A Nation under Our Feet
Being the comic-book geek that a lot of my Marvel Cinematic Universe fan friends know, I often get asked questions along these lines: “Okay, so the new film? Is there something I should read?”
For Black Panther, the answer has been easy: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Hugo-nominated Black …
Feb 12 2018
In Fearless Five: Conspiracies, They Are Out to Get You—to Laugh
As soon as I walked in out of the frigid February night and saw the vintage Simplex film projector in the lobby of the Mounds Theatre, casually aimed at a signboard displaying a poster for A Klingon Christmas Carol, I thought I was in a pretty nifty theater. When I moved into the auditorium itself and saw…
Feb 11 2018
This Week in Geek (2/12/18–2/18/18)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, February 12th to Sunday, February 18th.
Creative Night
What: Arts, Community
When: Monday, February 12th at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Event Horizon at the Waterbury Building
Let your creativity…
Feb 10 2018
The Dream of the Butterfly Is a Ghibli-esque Adventure Tale
Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man…
Feb 08 2018
Peter Rabbit Is a Rotten Adaptation of a Revered Book
Not all classic storybook characters can receive as faithful and charming an adaptation as Paddington Bear. Some of them receive warped and contorted translations, reworked to be more hip and happening with today’s kids. This is sadly the case with Peter Rabbit, a film that establishes early on that…
Feb 08 2018
4 Winter-Sports Romances to Kick Off the Olympic Games
Now that that sporting event is over and the eagleBOLTbar can go back to its usual crowd of Bears fans (credit for that joke goes to Jana Shortal, who is more clever than I am), we can concentrate on what is a much, much geekier sporting event: the Winter Olympics. With such events as curling, skeleton, and…
Feb 07 2018
The Fifth Season Explores Nature, Race, and Sexuality in a Postapocalyptic World
At the risk of having my geekdom revoked, I should admit something right up front: I don’t read very much sci fi. I thought, for a long time, that I didn’t like sci fi, which is an even more egregious offense. It turns out, though, that what I don’t like is the overarching white maleness…
Feb 06 2018
Going Back through the Wormhole with 25 Years of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
When we meet the charming and beautiful Lieutenant Jadzia Dax in the pilot episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, we learn two things—she’s impossibly old, and she has a slug inside her body.
Dax’s species, the Trill, was a compelling creation, first introduced to fans in Star Trek: The …