Fred Shahadi - Forces of Geek

Columns/Features

The Director’s Cut: The Ultimate Fan F$%k You!

Over the years I’ve been asked if I loved the original Blade Runner. I always answered the same way, I don’t know. I mean,...

Fred ShahadiApril 18, 2018

Columns/Features

Netflix’s ‘Mindhunter’ and the Casting Call for Cops, Kooks, and Killers

Ask any casting director in Hollywood and they’ll tell you the same thing. Whenever it comes to casting a new project, a sexy doctor...

Fred ShahadiJanuary 8, 2018

Columns/Features

‘Knightriders’: Why A Rare Non-Horror Movie By George A. Romero May Be One Of The Best Films You’ve Never Heard Of

After the monster success (pun intended) of Dawn of the Dead (1978), George A. Romero could pretty much direct anything he wanted. He had...

Fred ShahadiDecember 6, 2017

Columns/Features

‘More American Graffiti’, Or Why a Forgotten Sequel is The Best Vietnam War Movie Ever Made

More American Graffiti is an uneven, needlessly slapstick, overly sentimental, preachy, shameless attempt to sell a soundtrack all the while riding the George Lucas...

Fred ShahadiNovember 13, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Outland’: A Sci-Fi Western That Proves Men and Women Can Be “Just Friends” in Space.

If you’ve never seen the 1981 Sean Connery Space Western Outland, you should. Peter Hyams, coming off the success of the mother of all...

Fred ShahadiOctober 2, 2017

Columns/Features

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Heartbreak Ridge’: The Most HOMOPHOBIC/HOMOEROTIC Film of All Time?

Some movies age poorly and not necessarily because they’re bad. History and hindsight can turn the deepest drama into a comedy and vice/versa. It’s...

Fred ShahadiSeptember 13, 2017

General

‘Corvette Summer’: A Look Back at Mark Hamill’s ‘Star Wars’ Follow Up Film

Much has been written over the years about the three main actors in Star Wars who helped define an entire generation of science fiction...

Fred ShahadiJuly 14, 2017