Written by: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Directed by: Ivan Reitman
Starring; Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, Rick Moranis
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: Three odd-ball scientists go into business for themselves as paranormal exterminators.
Recommended: Hell Yes!
VENKMAN: He slimed me.
Ghostbusters has always had a special place in my heart and, I was obsessive about everything Ghostbusters from a very young age. I would watch Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II (we don’t need to talk about the second one) most weekends and I even went to the dentist via public transport dressed …

Written by: Ron Clements, John Musker, Barry Johnson
Directed by: Ron Clements, John Musker
Starring: [Voices of] Tate Donovan, Danny Devito, James Woods, Susan Egan
In Short: Hercules challenges himself to become a true hero and claim his place among the Greek gods.
Recommended: Hell yes!
PHIL: I trained all those would-be heroes. Odysseus, Perseus, Theseus. A lot of “yeuseus.” And every one of those bums let me down flatter than a discus.
Disney is known for retelling (and entirely reimagining) a variety of classic stories and fairytales, and in 1997, they tackled Greek mythology with …

AKA Q: The Winged Serpent
Written by: Larry Cohen
Directed by: Larry Cohen
Starring: Michael Moriarty, Candy Clark, David Carradine, Richard Roundtree
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: New York police receive a spate of reports saying a giant flying lizard that has been spotted around the rooftops of the city, which they assume to be bogus… until the lizard starts to eat people.
Recommended: Hell yes!
KAHEA: I am the plumed serpent, I fly, and I crawl… I have fallen, but I shall rise again!
In 1982, Larry Cohen gave the world something it had been missing …

Based on The Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Written by: William Wisher, Warren Lewis
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Vladimir Kulich
Movie Marathon: Gods
In Short: Some Norsemen. An Arab. A bunch of crazy folk who eat the dead. Hijinks ensue.
Recommended: Yes.
HERGER: When they come, we form a circle in the center of the room, backs to one another.
IBN: I am not a warrior.
HERGER: Very soon, you will be.
I’m probably going to sound mildly disturbed when I say that The 13th Warrior is a very enjoyable movie. Sure, sure, it can get …

Written by: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon, Æneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson
In Short: The Exodus story. Shirtless.
Recommended: Of course! (Our usual “Hell, yes!” seems inappropriate in a movie about God).
MOSES: Let my people go!
I am going to go ahead and talk about the whole movie here, spoilers bedam… er, I mean spoilers bedarned. Because, not only is it on ABC every Easter Weekend, but it is also the “Exodus” story. …

Based on The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov and The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Written by: Nicholas Kazan
Directed by: Chris Columbus
Starring: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill
Movie Marathon: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: A robot strives to become human.
Recommended: Not really.
ANDREW MARTIN: I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
Robin William stars in this slightly sappy romantic comedy about a robot who wants to become human. …

Written by: John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon
Directed by: John Carpenter
Starring: Dan O’Bannon, Brian Narelle, Cal Kuniholm, Dre Pahich
Movie Marathon: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: Occasionally funny but generally pretty dull sci-fi odyssey.
Recommended: Yes and no.
PINBACK: Hey, Doolittle, think we’ll ever find real intelligent life out there?
DOOLITTLE: Out where?
PINBACK: Veil nebula.
DOOLITTLE: Who cares?
Way back in 2010, in only our second issue, Geek Speak’s own Kate Nagy put together the truly excellent Top 13… Genre-Themed Songs. You know, “Space Oddity,” “Mr. Roboto,” “Puff the Magic Dragon,” that kind of thing. In her entry on …

Written by: Thea von Harbou
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Starring: Brigette Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Movie Marathon: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Recommended: Yep Yep.
MARIA: Having conceived Babel, yet unable to build it themselves, they had thousands to build it for them. But those who toiled knew nothing of the dreams of those …

Written by: Nathan Parker, Duncan Jones
Directed by: Duncan Jones
Starring: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey (voice)
Movie Marathon: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: The man in the moon is more than one man.
Recommended: Hell, yes.
SAM: You’ve been up here too long man. You’ve lost your marbles.
From HAL to the Terminator to the Sentinels in the Matrix trilogy, it seems that A.I.s have made a bad name for themselves on the silver screen. No matter what cinematic circumstances lead to A.I.s getting too big for their boots, it is almost inevitable that they turn on their …

Based on Transformers toys, created by Hasbro
Story by: John Rogers, Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Written by: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman
Directed by: Michael Bay
Starring: Shia LeBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel
Movie Marathon: Artificial Intelligence
In Short: Way to ruin my childhood, movie!
Recommended: No.
OPTIMUS PRIME: Are you Samuel James Witwicky, descendant of Archibald Witwicky?
MIKAELA: They know your name!
SAM: Yeah.
OPTIMUS PRIME: My name is Optimus Prime. We are Autonomous Robotic Organisms from the planet Cybertron.
RATCHET: But you can call us “Autobots” for short.
SAM: Autobots.
JAZZ: What’s crackin’, lil’ bitches?
As a kid, one of the many cartoons I …