If you long to see something on the big screen that isn’t just another sequel, adaptation or remake these days your best, if not only, option is film festivals. We are lucky here in the northwest to have a strong and diverse group of festivals every year. This week we talk to the organizers of two upcoming festivals that will be of interest to the geek set, the Bonebat Comedy of Horrors and the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival.

We also have the weekly geek news and Shannon watches her worst dared movie yet!

Our Geek Week

• Re-connected with the XBox 360, including a round of Left 4 Dead 2 with Seattle Geekly listener McPierce.
  • Look for us on XBox Live! Our gamer tags are Shankay and Yakboy23
• Played in the semi-regular D&D game
• Read Air by G Willow Wilson
• Read NYX by Marjorie M. Liu
• Read The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman

Film Festivals

Maelstrom International Film Festival
Tickets through SIFF

Dare Shannon to Watch a Bad Movie

This week’s movie was Die You Zombie Bastards! (2005)

Shannon was unable to find even ONE good thing about this movie, thus making Josh the second ever winner of the Seattle Geekly Bag of Sand! Congratulations! (acutal bag of sand may not match photo)

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.

Contest!

Win a Pair of Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival Passes!

We have TWO PAIRS of full weekend passes to the Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival to give away. The festival runs from Friday September 17 through Sunday September 19 at the SIFF Cinema, 321 Mercer Street in Seattle. You and a friend will be able to watch every short, feature film and documentary at the festival!

This contest will run through September 9 and we will pick the two winners during Episode #76 of the Seattle Geekly podcast.

“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!

News

• This Saturday is International Read Comics in Public Day
  • Official International Read Comics in Public Day site and Flckr pool
• Avalon Hill has announced the updated and revamped Betrayal at House on the Hill will be released in October of this year
  Unboxing video
  
• Atari Announces Collection of Legendary, Gaming Classics With Atari’s Greatest Hits: Volume 1 on the DS

Music

Music this week was ‘I Feel Fantastic’ by Jonathan Coulton and ‘Opening Band’ by Paul & Storm. You can catch all three of them live at the PAX Saturday night concert along with MC Frontalot!

Next week’s show: Episode #75 – We’ll be talking to Seattle Author Harry Connelly about his new book Game of Cages, and we’ve got a couple other things in the works.

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