Yearly Archive:: 2026
Jun 10 2026
“Backrooms” Takes the Box Office with Vibes, Character, and Intrigue
Fluorescent lights, carpeted floors, generic wallpaper, windowless rooms with nooks and crannies, and endless hallways with flickering lights. No, I’m not describing my grandparents’ basement—it’s the setting for the psychological horror film Backrooms, recently released by A24.
The film’s…
Jun 08 2026
“The Girls Will Be Okay” Is a Minnesota Slice-of-Life Queer Romance
The Girls Will Be Okay by Minnesota writer (and former Twin Cities Geek editor and contributor) Linnea Peterson is a debut novel with elements inspired by their own life as “a Scandinavian American writer, a Jewish conversion student, and the attentive oldest child of a Lutheran feminist theologian.”…
Jun 07 2026
This Week in Geek (6/8/2026–6/14/2026)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 8, to Sunday, June 14.
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Jun 04 2026
“For All Mankind” Goes Full Science Fiction in Its Fifth Season
Ronald D. Moore is one of Star Trek’s most prolific writers. He worked on more than 90 episodes across Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager, as well as the screenplays for Generations and First Contact. Then he cemented his status as one of the genre’s most important voices when he created the…
Jun 03 2026
Enter to Win a “Disclosure Day” Prize Pack!
Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day is coming to theaters on June 12, 2026, and you could see it for free with your family or friends! We’re giving away 2 prize packs that each include:2 reserved seats at an advance IMAX screening of Disclosure Day at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, June 8, at the Southdale…
Jun 03 2026
“LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight” Takes the Caped Crusader to New Heights
While Traveller’s Tales may have built its LEGO games on the backbone of Star Wars, its LEGO Batman series is arguably just as large. Across three mainline games and a villain-based spin-off, the studio has taken players on a wonderful journey through the DC Universe, with each game bigger than…
May 31 2026
This Week in Geek (6/1/2026–6/7/2026)
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Welcome to This Week in Geek, your guide to events of interest to the Minnesota geek community for the week of Monday, June 1, to Sunday, June 7.
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May 30 2026
A Sci-Fi Bar Crawl Through “Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book”
The Mass Effect video games are some of my favorite sci-fi content and one of my partner’s favorite video game series (we named our cat Tali!), so when we learned about Mass Effect: The Official Cocktail Book, we were pretty excited. There are a number of bars in the games that serve as backdrops…
May 29 2026
“The Hobbit” at Theatre in the Round Understands the Heart of LARPing
Greg Banks’s adaptation of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit is not quite a straight book-to-stage translation. The story is told through a framing device: that of a group of survivors 30 years in the future, following an apocalyptic event (the exact nature of which remains vague). When the actors scheduled…
May 28 2026
Keke Palmer Shines Bright in the Fresh, Reality-Bending “I Love Boosters”
American rapper and filmmaker Boots Riley‘s 2018 dark comedy Sorry to Bother You felt very original, with a hypersurreal world and hints of science fiction supporting the overall comedic tone. I Love Boosters, Riley’s second film, continues to expand and evolve his surrealist style of filmmaking.…