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Episodes
Thursday May 13, 2021
Thursday May 13, 2021
Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he reviews two films on streaming services. First we have Mortal Kombat, inspired by the classic video game. Can this new outing at bringing this game to the silver screen work?
Then we have The Girl with All the Gifts. A new twist on the zombie genre. Is it possible to provide something fresh when it comes to those nasty flesh eaters?
And finally we will compare the excellent film The Martian to the source book by Andy Weir. Which one do you think is better?
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Friday Apr 30, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants we dive into horror and crime. Join Carlos as he reviews the brand new Prime anthology series, Them: Covenant. This show combines the horror of 1950s racism with a supernatural twist. Then we take a turn to the show that made Pedro Pascal a star (aside from Game of Thrones) in the crime genre with Narcos. Here they chronicle the Colombian drug wars from the 70s to the 90s.
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Sunday Apr 18, 2021
Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he reviews the virtual tour of the Ray Harryhausen - Titan of Cinema Virtual Exhibition Experience. This is a virtual version of the current exhibit taking place in Scotland chronicling the late, life and works of stop motion genius Ray Harryhausen.
This includes classics like Jason and the Argonauts, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger, Clash of the Titans, and many more. Then Carlos profiles collector Shamim Dana, a fellow toy and autograph collector.
Can your collection match up to Shamim's?
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants Carlos will review Zack Snyder's Justice League. How does it stand up against Joss Whedon's Justice League. What about sequels? What about the aspect ratio? We'll cover it all.
Then we dig a little deeper into the status of two of the biggest and best Repro/Customs Star Wars action figure makers out there, Stan Solo and The Fans Strike Back.
Can these two leaders of the Star Wars Kenner style figure maker movement continue to succeed without destroying each other in the process? I sure hope so.
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants we'll take a deep dive into the Star Wars: The Mandalorian star Gina Carano's firing controversy.
We will look at the social media posts that let to this event. But, we will take an even closer look at how the Toxic Star Wars fan community, particularly Rebel Force Radio, is defending her posts and welcoming her with open arms to the dark side of fandom.
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants we have a video presentation. Join Carlos as he takes a look at Star Trek future ships. Some are time travel related, some are not. But all of them are also represented by Eaglemoss reproductions.
We'll explore their role on the episode they appeared on, their conceptual design, and their Eaglemoss recreations.
Make Sure To Tell A Friend! That's the number one way to grow a podcast!
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants we have action figures and posters. On the figure side Carlos will talk about the new Mezco, The Warriors 5 action figure set. Then on the poster side we look at the Michael Crichton sci-fi/western classic, Westworld drawn by Neal Adams.
Plus, the new Grogu Read library poster inspired by the classic Yoda Read poster from the 80's.
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
Today, join Carlos on GeekFest Rants as we finally get around going over the overwhelming announcements from last month's Disney Investor Day.
We include primarily Marvel and Star Wars properties. This includes over three years worth of media, movies and television.
Among our selections are Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, Andor, The Bad Batch, Lando, The Book of Boba Fett, Rogue Squadron, Loki, What If…?, Ms. Marvel; Hawkeye, She-Hulk, Moon Knight, Thor: Love and Thunder, and many many more.
If you like what you see, it might be time to sign up for Disney+.
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
As we continue to put 2020 behind us, and 2021 is off to a stubborn start, we have found some Hidden Gems out there in the entertainment world that you might have missed.
From movies like Crawl, The Invisible Man, tv shows like The Wilds, The Liberator, to documentaires like The Bee Gees: How Do You Mend A Broken Heart and Eli Roth's History of Horror.
Join Carlos today on GeekFest Rants as he digs deep into 2020's media selections including some disappointments.
Friday Jan 08, 2021
Friday Jan 08, 2021
We already know how influential Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was to filmmakers. However, did you know how influential it was to Ridley Scott himself?
Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he digs into two lesser known Scott films, Someone to Watch Over Me and Black Rain.
Here you will easily find Blade Runner fingerprints all over these 80's back to back crime films.
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Thursday Dec 24, 2020
Join us today on GeekFest Rants as Carlos attempts to review the latest Christopher Nolan film, Tenet. This is Nolan's most ambitious yet confusing film to date.
Then we take a look at the history of Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru. From Wrath of Khan, to books, to the gorgeous Eaglemoss replica.
Kirk does not believe in the no win scenario.
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Friday Dec 18, 2020
Is it a drama, a supernatural thriller, is it time travel, is it horror, or is it a combination of some of these? Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he reviews the new controversial film Antebellum.
This very critically polarizing film blends together modern themes of racism along with an older civil war/slavery setting. Similar to a film like The Sixth Sense, this movie will keep you guessing what is going on until the shocking twist comes along.
Friday Dec 04, 2020
Friday Dec 04, 2020
It's time to go behind the scenes of Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back with the Director of Fan Relations Craig Miller's book, Star Wars Memories.
Join Carlos at GeekFest Rants as he reviews and highlights some of the best unknown stories from both the films and the many branches of the Lucasfilm companies from that exciting time.
Then for our poster of the month we will gush over the 1981 Clash of the Titans movie poster painted by Dan Gozee.
Friday Nov 20, 2020
Friday Nov 20, 2020
What happens when you sometimes rewatch a comedy 30 or 40 years later? Perhaps with a younger audience. Do the jokes still hold up? Can some of those jokes now be considered offensive or insensitive?
Do social and/or moral norms change through the years? Or do we, as the audience, mature emotionally with time.
Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as we look back at some of our favorite 70's, 80's, and 90's comedies and see if they are now considered outdated.
Friday Nov 06, 2020
Friday Nov 06, 2020
It's time to break out the X-Acto knife, the Dremel, the Crazy Glue, the Testor paints, and the Milliput.
Join us today at GeekFest Rants as Carlos discusses his attempts at custom Kenner Star Wars figures creating.
We'll cover some of the easiest figures to customize like X-Wing Luke(without helmet), Hoth Han(without hood), to more difficult ones like Battle Damage Vader, Mon Cal Officer, and many more.
If Kenner never made the figure, chancer are you can make it yourself.
Friday Oct 30, 2020
Friday Oct 30, 2020
As we near the 2020 Presidential election, join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he recommends a number of films(and a TV show) to prep you for the issues that dominate this historic election.
The films included are, All the President's Men, The Manchurian Candidate, The Handmaid's Tale(TV show), The Birth of a Nation, Jonestown the Life and Death of Peoples Temple, and Judgement at Nuremberg. Plus he recaps the films he suggested back in the 2016 election.
WARNING: This is a very heavily opinionated political themed episode and the views expressed are solely the ones of Carlos. In other words, if you feel politics are a bad subject to discuss, you might want to skip this episode and return next week.
Friday Oct 23, 2020
Friday Oct 23, 2020
If you love trippy sci-fi shows, this is your lucky day. Today on GeekFest Rants join Carlos as he reviews two fantastic new sci-fi show that just concluded on streaming services. One is Devs, from the mind of Ex Machina's Alex Garland. This one is about determinism vs. free will and it stars Nick Offerman, from Parks and Recreation, and Sonoya Mizuno, form Ex Machina and Annihilation.
The other is Raised By Wolves, produced by Ridley Scott. Here Scott returns to the themes of the ravages of war caused by believers and non-believers, with a dose of androids and Alien aesthetics.
Let's make sure not to anger Mother.
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Are you a Star Wars poster collector? Today on GeekFest Rants we have some Star Wars poster you might not have see before.
Join Carlos on this video presentation as he searches for the strangest international original trilogy Star Wars posters. From the easily recognizable ones to the outright bizarre ones.
Friday Aug 28, 2020
Friday Aug 28, 2020
If you like weird, mind-bending films, this is your lucky day. Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he discusses the films Vivarium and Color Out of Space. Both films seem to be flying under the radar but you can find them on Amazon Prime and/or Netflix DVDs.
They are somewhat artsy, sci-fi-ish, scary, and funny....what else could you ask for? Oh, and did I mention Nick Cage is in one of them giving one of his best Nick Cagey performances. If you are looking for strange and unsettling, you found it
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Monday Aug 17, 2020
Time to go down the Kenner Star Wars action figure collecting rabbit hole. If you are a hardcore Kenner Star Wars action figure collector, sooner or later you will encounter the Repro battle lines being drawn.
Join Carlos today on GeekFest Rants as he chronicles the latest skirmish in the Kenner Star Wars action figure collecting circles.
All of it stemming from the upcoming production of a Kickstarter funded Kenner Star Wars Photography book by Kim Simmons. But now involving such YouTube personalities like Michael French from Retroblasting and Michael Havens from The Imperial Commissary.
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Saturday Aug 08, 2020
Do you enjoy behind the scenes making-of movie books? Well, we have a fantastic one here for you. Join Carlos today on GeekFest Rants as he reviews J. W. Rinzler's The Making of Planet of the Apes. This could very well be the definitive Apes making-of book. He'll also go over some of Rinzler's past and future book projects.
Then it's time, once again, for posters of the month. Today's posters are the teaser one sheet for Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the theatrical release of TV's Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
What happens when an artist branches out to a different medium? Sometimes it's fantastic and sometimes you get a celebrity music album. Today on GeekFest Rants Carlos will explore the phenomenon of the Celebrity Album. From the train wrecks , to the hits, to the personal guilty pleasure favorites.
Have a listen maybe some of your favorites made the list like Don Johnson, Joe Pesci, Clint Eastwood, Eddie Murphy, William Shatner, Sylvester Stallone, and many many more.
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Monday Jul 06, 2020
Have you ever seen the classic Disney film, Song of the South? Probably not. What made Disney pull this film from rotation and bury it in their vault? What makes this film so offensive today? Or was it always offensive?
Then we take a look at the racially explosive masterpiece, Do the Right Thing. A prophetic film whose themes seem to keep repeating themselves over and over again.
Today we'll try to explain the ambiguous ending of this timely film. Join Carlos at GeekFest Rants, but be warned, if politics and racial issues make you uncomfortable, this is not the episode for you.
Friday Jun 26, 2020
Friday Jun 26, 2020
In 1983 William Peter Blatty wrote Legion, his sequel to the Exorcist, but not until 1990 did we get to see his film version of that book. But was it truly his version of the book? Join Carlos on GeekFest Rants as he examines the book, and Director's Cut.
We'll cover topics like Brad Dourif's tremendous performance, to the recasting of Jason Miller, to the differences between the book and the film, and to the behind the scenes struggle between Blatty and the studio, Morgan Creek.
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Will the real director please stand up. Did Steven Spielberg or Tobe Hooper direct Poltergeist? Sometimes it's not as easy as looking at the credits to see who directed a movie.
Today on GeekFest Rants, Carlos will sift through Ghost Directors and the infamous Alan Smithee directing credit.
Then on posters of the month, we'll look at the Star Wars One Year Birthday poster and one of Boris Vallejo's The Empire Strikes Back Coca-Cola posters.