Yearly Archive:: 2021
Nov 03 2021
Last Night in Soho Is a Stylish and Terrifying Tale of Nostalgia
Last Night in Soho is easily director Edgar Wright’s darkest and least absurd picture, a mixture of supernatural horror and psychological mystery that is brimming with darkness and surrealness. It’s also sure to be his most polarizing picture for not just its divergence but a surprising twist (which…
Nov 01 2021
A New Minnesota Star Wars Podcast Is Born: Detention Block AA-23
A crackling intercom echoes out into the room: “What happened?”
A young, low voice responds, a bit flustered, “Uh, had a slight weapons malfunction. But, uh, everything’s perfectly all right now. We’re fine. We’re all fine here, now, thank you. How are you?” Han Solo ends the scene by blasting the control…
Oct 31 2021
This Week in Geek (11/1/21–11/7/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, November 1, to Sunday, November 7.
Virtual Events
GalaxyCon Live
What: Community, Conventions
When: Monday, November 1, through Sunday, November 7
Where: Virtual via video chat
GalaxyCon,…
Oct 27 2021
We Light Up the Sky Tackles Both Alien and Human Horrors in a YA Story
Life beyond Earth has been a mystery for centuries, and Hollywood has no shortage of interpretations of what kinds of beings could be living in space. These run the gamut of friendly and cute to terrifying and deadly, and a common theme that recurs is how aliens might compare to humans on an emotional level:…
Oct 24 2021
This Week in Geek (10/25/21–10/31/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 25, to Sunday, October 31.
Virtual Events
Great International Scavenger Hunt Presents: Halloweird
What: Arts, Community, Family
When: Tuesday, October 19, through Sunday,…
Oct 22 2021
Enter to See Dune for FREE!
Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is here, and we have your chance to see it for free!
We’re giving away 25 pairs of Fandango gift codes so that 25 winners can each see Dune in theaters with a friend. For your chance to win, just submit your information through the form below before 11:59 p.m. Central…
Oct 19 2021
Denis Villeneuve Does Dune Right
Frank Herbert’s Dune is a notoriously dense book and certainly not the easiest story to transfer to the big screen. There have been two previous attempts to do so: The first try was in the 1970s and was never completed—experimental filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a whack at it with some ambitious…
Oct 17 2021
This Week in Geek (10/18/21–10/24/21)
Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, October 18, to Sunday, October 24.
Virtual Events
SocietyX: Making a Home for Houseplants
What: Educational
When: Monday, October 18, at 10:30 a.m.
Where: Virtual event
Learn best practices…
Oct 16 2021
5 Tips for Overcoming Gymtimidation
One of the biggest barriers for a lot people in getting active is just getting to the gym, period. Personally, I avoided the gym for years because I couldn’t get past my anxiety and convinced myself that I didn’t belong there. If this sounds familiar to you, then don’t worry—you’re not alone! Let’s…
Oct 13 2021
Twin Cities Con Starts Small with Room to Grow
While the Minneapolis–St. Paul area has a wealth of nonprofit conventions celebrating geeky interests—including anime, comics, sci-fi and fantasy, and gaming—an expo-style convention has yet to create a permanent annual presence here. In previous years, Wizard World, GalaxyCon, and Fan Fusion…