This year promises to be a pretty good one for movies and we plan on trying to keep you up to date on films with geek appeal throughout 2010. We kick of that effort this week with our Winter Movie Preview. We’ll tell you what’s coming up and give you our take on whether it’s worth seeing in the theater or a “wait for DVD” kind of movie. We also talk to EMP|SFM curator Brooks Peck about the upcoming Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival that will be at the Cinerama later this month.
All that plus the weekly geek news and Seattle area geek events.
Our Geek Week
- Listened to Lucifer’s Hammer on audiobook
- Watched The Hangover (2009), Terminator Salvation (2009) and The Final Destination (2009) on DVD
- Reading The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
- Visited Kirby Krackle in the studio
Winter Movie Madness
- January
- The Book of Eli
- The Lovely Bones
- Sundance Film Festival
- Legion
- Frozen
- January 29 – February 4 only Zombies of Mass Destruction showing at AMC Southcenter 16. Call theater for showtimes
- January 30 Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival 2010. Advance tickets available through SIFF
- February
- March
Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie
This week’s movie was Tokyo Zombie (2005)
If you want to dare Shannon to watch a bad movie, e-mail us at seattlegeekly@gmail.com or call us at (206)201-2352
Check our Dared Movies Page to see what is on the list and what Shannon has already watched.
Next week’s bad movie will be Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
Happy Birthday Matt!
Thanks so much to everyone who called or wrote e-mails for Shannon’s secret birthday project for me. I’m really touched that people would take the time. I don’t usually make a big deal out of my birthday but this year has been made quite special.
News
- Seattle Geekly T-Shirt Sale! From today until February 15th our t-shirts will be on sale for $15 (down from $20) with free shipping to U.S. addresses!
- Golden Globes airing Sunday January 17th 5pm pacific, hosted by Ricky Gervais.
- Keep yourself amused during the show with the Seattle Geekly Awards Show Drinking Game
- Peter Sarsgaard To Play Green Lantern’s Heady Foe, Hector Hammond
- Rainn Wilson’s Super Gets A Bona Fide Superhero: Nathan Fillion!
- ‘G.I. Joe’ Back For Seconds
- Hubble 3D IMAX Trailer Released
Events
January 15, 2010 8 – 10pm Neptune Coffee 8415 Greenwood Ave N Seattle – Where No Trivia Night Has Gone Before with Seattle Geekly! Join us as we host a night of trivia covering Star Trek in all its incarnations. Test your knowledge and win some prizes!
January 17, 2009 1 – 5pm Green Lake Games 7509 Aurora Ave N Seattle – Game Night with Seattle Geekly! Wind up your weekend with some boardgames and prizes!
- Conventions
- January 15 – 17, 2010 – ConQuest NW – Sea-Tac, WA
- January 15 – 17, 2010 – RustyCon – Sea-Tac, WA
- January 15 – 17, 2010 – GameCon Spokane – Spokane, WA
- Events
- January 15, 2010 7pm University Book Store 4326 University Way NE, Seattle – Fantastic Fiction Salon with Kij Johnson. Fantasy writer Kij Johnson will read some of her award-winning fiction. A longtime writer and editor in the science fiction and fantasy community, Johnson is well known, and well respected. In 2009, she won the World Fantasy Award for the story “26 Monkeys, Also The Abyss.” Sponsored by NWMedia Arts.
- January 15 – 21, 2010 The Grand Illusion 1403 NE 50th St, Seattle – Until the Light Takes Us (2008). Until the Light Takes Us tells the story of black metal. Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to world-wide notoriety in the mid nineties when a rash of suicides, murders and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine heavy metal. The film goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of “Satanists running amok in Europe” to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that lead to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture. To capture this, directors Aaron Aites and Audry Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building relationships that allowed them to create a surprisingly intimate portrait of this violent, but ultimately misunderstood movement. The result is a poignant, strangely moving story about a music scene that blazed a path of murder and arson across the northern sky. Plays at 7 and 9pm Sunday – Thursday and 8 pm Friday and Saturday.
- January 16, 2010 6:30pm Third Place Books 17171 Bothell Way NE, Lake Forest Park – Matthew Flaming signing. Portland author Matthew Flaming’s original, intelligent debut novel Kingdom of Ohio is a love story that begins in modern LA, then leaps backwards to 1901 New York City and the dawn of the mechanical age, featuring Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, and J. P. Morgan.
- January 16, 2010 Kitsap County Fairgrounds 1200 NW Fairgrounds Rd, Bremerton WA – Roller Derby Bout 1 with the Slaughter County Roller Vixins
- January 16, 2010 Games Workshop 10031 Holman Rd Northwest Suite B, Seattle – Tyranid Invasion! Get down to your local Hobby Center today and take part in the Tyranid Invasion. That’s right – another wave of them is arriving with a brand new Codex. On top of being able to purchase all the cool new models and the book itself, the staff will be helping you build your new models, and showing you some fast ways to get them painted. Look out for a battle at 3pm on this day featuring some of the new monstrosities, like the huge Trygon or the vicious Venomthrope. The staff will show you how to get the most out of these new Tyranid Units. If you just like killing bugs, bring down one of your 40K armies and join in the fun.
For more northwest geek events and conventions see our Events Page and our Conventions Page
Contest!
As we mentioned it before, Torchlight was one of our favorite games in 2009 and the great folks at Runic Games here in Seattle gave us a code for a free download of Torchlight that we’ll be giving away to 1 lucky listener!
Torchlight is an amazing action-RPG (think Diablo and Diablo II) with a very cool fantasy/steampunk aesthetic. The graphics are beautiful on higher end systems but the games scales amazingly well and is still extremely enjoyable even on older machines. It even has settings to run on a netbook! It is currently only available on the PC but a Mac version is due out later this year.
This contest runs from now until Sunday, January 17 and the winner will be picked Monday, January 18
“How do I enter?”
Please register / log in to our website, and leave a comment on THIS POST. You can just say “hi” or whatever! One entry per person please, we’ll delete any multiple or offensive posts. Make sure you use a valid e-mail address when you register so we can contact you if you win!
“How will you randomly pick someone?”
We have D&D dice of all shapes and sizes, even a 100 sider! We’ll roll and see who wins!
We will e-mail the code to the winner so make double sure you use a valid address when you enter!
Music
Music this week was Tom Cruise Crazy by Jonathan Coulton. He and Paul & Storm will be coming to Seattle to the Moore February 26th, at 8pm. Tickets are only $23 each and still available!
Next week’s show will be our 2010 Geek Preview. We’ll have interviews and information about many of the cool conventions and festivals happening in the northwest this year!
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