Marvin C. Pittman - Forces of Geek

Columns/Features

Chris Brown Has Too Much “ish” To Be On ‘Black-ish’

If you’ve read my column or followed my Facebook for any decent duration of time, then you know my general fandom for the sitcom...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 7, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Iron Fist’ Could Use Less Defense in Handling Viewers’ Diversity Offense

Well, here we are. The latest row about pop culture diversity continues with Iron Fist. It wasn’t enough that a vocal group of people...

Marvin C. PittmanMarch 24, 2017

Columns/Features

Jordan Peele Makes The Leap In ‘Get Out’

Have you ever seen a movie that made you wanna shout, “Strangle that white bitch!” at the screen? I sure as hell didn’t, until...

Marvin C. PittmanMarch 10, 2017

Columns/Features

Lando, Gambino, Simba. When Does Donald Glover Sleep?

Donald Glover is on one hell of a roll. Not only did he release the wonderful TV series Atlanta, which did so well that...

Marvin C. PittmanFebruary 24, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Westworld,’ ‘The Good Place,’ And How Prestige TV Twists Us Into Knots

It was a Sunday night at Christmastime, as I lay under the tree watching the season finale of Westworld. After a while, I start...

Marvin C. PittmanFebruary 10, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Supergirl’ Melissa Benoist’s Protest Sign Mirrors TV Show’s Own Steely Resolve

Last Saturday, an estimated one in 100 people in the USA marched and rallied for pluralistic solidarity and in objection to our new president....

Marvin C. PittmanJanuary 27, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Hidden Figures’ Inspires Pride, Rage, and So Much More

Happy 2017, everyone. I don’t quite know how happy the year will be, really. But with the arrival of December and January we find...

Marvin C. PittmanJanuary 13, 2017

Columns/Features

‘Insecure’ Surpasses Expectations, Especially When Its Characters Don’t (Or Throw Them Off)

It’s been weeks now since Insecure (HBO) finished up its first season, and I still have its contents moving around in my mind. The...

Marvin C. PittmanDecember 16, 2016

Columns/Features

How ‘Moonlight’ Heals The Melancholic Soul

I won’t lie. It’s been difficult to want to write about pop culture right now. Not after Donald Trump was elected president. That election...

Marvin C. PittmanNovember 18, 2016

Columns/Features

After ‘Rocky Horror’ Fizzles, Where Is Camp Now?

As the season of Halloween 2016 leaves us, first we must be thankful that the so-called trend of scary clowns died down quickly. Second,...

Marvin C. PittmanNovember 4, 2016

Columns/Features

Donald Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ Plots, Plans, and Represents

Rap, fame, education, drugs, guns, murder,the dirty South, and Donald Glover. That’s the mix we find in the new show Atlanta (FX), already positioning...

Marvin C. PittmanOctober 21, 2016

Columns/Features

Watching ‘Luke Cage’: Liberation Struggle, and Marvel’s Bulletproof Black Man

Goodness gracious! There was no getting through this past week as a black nerd without seeing Marvel’s Luke Cage series on Netflix. Unfortunately, I...

Marvin C. PittmanOctober 7, 2016

Columns/Features

I’m a Thor Cosplayer Now. Gods Help Me.

As the fall begins, we have entered fair season. Fried food, animals, hay bales, face-painted kids! Jousting, turkey legs, faux-Shakespearean talk, and cleavage! Faire...

Marvin C. PittmanSeptember 23, 2016

Columns/Features

‘Blerd Vision’ Takes a Look at the Worst of the Worst, ‘Suicide Squad’

It’s been quite the summer for yours truly. Well, likely a lack of summer is more like it. I had to cram it all...

Marvin C. PittmanSeptember 9, 2016

Columns/Features

Go Patty! One Way the New ‘Ghostbusters’ Improves on the Original

After the bad trailer, the nerd world hue and cry, the girl power signs and all, I finally got to see the new Ghostbusters...

Marvin C. PittmanAugust 10, 2016

Columns/Features

The Fire Keeps Rising, The Music Keeps Saving

Where is my mind? These days, often not in the best place. Not after America’s week from hell, in which black men Alton Sterling...

Marvin C. PittmanJuly 15, 2016

Columns/Features

‘Ghostbusters’’ Leslie Jones Is Coming Home With Me

This nerd did something he hadn’t done in a long time recently. I bought myself some toys! Sure, I still buy toys now and...

Marvin C. PittmanJuly 1, 2016

Movies

‘Destination: Project Negro’ Flies As Cheesy Spoof, Veers Off-Course As Satire (review)

Produced by Grant Fitch, J.S. Hampton, Kevin Willmott Written and Directed by Kevin Willmott Starring Trai Byers, Tosin Morohunfola, Kevin Willmott, Danielle Cooper, Wes...

Marvin C. PittmanJune 29, 2016

Columns/Features

To Be Seen

Recently, I’ve been thinking about the public self, and the nerdery cornerstone of social awkwardness. I know I’ve had my share of not fitting...

Marvin C. PittmanJune 17, 2016

Columns/Features

KEANU Talks About Masculinity Through The Cutest Kitty Cat

Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele ended their Comedy Central show last year, but they haven’t much gone anywhere. The duo’s first feature film, Keanu,...

Marvin C. PittmanMay 13, 2016

Columns/Features

R.I.P. to PRINCE, and to BATMAN Movie Soundtrack Hits

How can it be a week without Prince alive on this planet? Maybe he’s still alive on some other planet, gone to some purple...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 29, 2016

General

BLACK PANTHER Packs New Surprises in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Series

Y’know, sometimes real life really sucks for a geek. Such as, when you can’t ever get to the comic book shop for new comics...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 15, 2016

General

Praise the Goddess! WONDER WOMAN Is Here!

So, that movie came out. After all the hype and mixed reviews, all the Zack Snyder hand-wringing, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is...

Marvin C. PittmanApril 1, 2016

General

The New GHOSTBUSTERS Are Here. Really, It’s Fine.

After all the speculation and debate, on March 3 we finally got our first trailer of the new Ghostbusters movie. Is it a sequel,...

Marvin C. PittmanMarch 18, 2016