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Geoff Henao lives in Chicago. He is into coming-of-age films, dark comedies, and animation. Non-film interests include indie graphic novels, Sonic the Hedgehog, cute girls, and the Chicago Bulls.
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Trailer: LICKS

Directed by newcomer Jonathan Singer-Vine, LICKS debuted at this year's SXSW. While Hubert, Matt, and I didn't get a chance to catch it, the film received some good acclaim. LICKS is about a young Oakland resi...   more

Trailer: LICKS  photo

Latest Nymphomanic production photo is sexy

Nymphomaniac is shaping up to be one sexy ride (hurr hurr hurr). Following the first still from the film showcasing Charlotte Gainbourg about to ride the trike with her two friends and the film's first promotional p...   more

Latest Nymphomanic production photo is sexy photo

Box Office Numbers: The Great Catsby

The Great Gatsby had a moderately decent opening weekend, pulling $51m+ in ticket sales. However, that wasn't enough to take down the superhero-filled Iron Man 3. Maybe if Baz Luhrmann tapped into his feline alter-ego, Baz Purrman, and created The Great Catsby. No yarn or mice would ever be safe again! The rest of the weekend's box office numbers are below. [via Rentrak]   more

Box Office Numbers: The Great Catsby photo

The Great Gatsby soundtrack is available to stream

The Great Gatsby is shaping up to be one of the more polarizing films of the year. With Baz Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge!) at the helm, it's no surprise that his take on the great American novel of the same name has been met w...   more

The Great Gatsby soundtrack is available to stream photo

Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One

Concept art from the scrapped Darren Aronofsky-led Batman: Year One adaptation were recently unearthed by the Comic Book Movie guys. The images (which are in the gallery below) show a much more realistic, down-to-ea...   more

Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo


Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo
Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo
Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo
Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo
Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo
Concept art for Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One photo



Box Office Numbers: Iron Man Excercises

Somehow, the third installment of a series of exercises known as "Iron Man" topped this weekend's box office. I didn't even know exercise videos were screened in theaters, let alone suitable places for people to even exercise...   more

Box Office Numbers: Iron Man Excercises photo

Flix for Short: Hybrids

Hybrids, written and directed by Patrick Kalyn, is a science-fiction/action short about an ex-soldier, Dakota (Daniella Evangelista), seeking vengeance for the death of her young daughter. In this short teaser for a longer f...   more

Flix for Short: Hybrids photo

Box Office Numbers: NOT Iron Man 3 Week

I'll keep the festivities short for this week. C2E2 was this past weekend, and my body still hasn't recovered from the sensation overload of art, comics, cosplayers, geeks, and nerds. My other self definitely had a busy weeke...   more

Box Office Numbers: NOT Iron Man 3 Week photo

Live-action Kiki's Delivery Service film confirmed

A few weeks ago, we brought news of a potential live-action adaptation of Kiki's Delivery Service to be directed by The Grudge series creator Takashi Shimizu. Today, Twitch has confirmed the film's production, as well as...   more

Live-action Kiki's Delivery Service film confirmed photo

Netflix Now: Belated Birthday Edition

Last week, I had a birthday that brings me uncomfortably closer to 30. Since I'm a dainty lad, I won't say the number, but let's just say my life is going downhill from this point on. Luckily, Netflix Instant delivered some a...   more

Netflix Now: Belated Birthday Edition photo

Flix for Short: Dead Space: Chase to Death

Last month, my cousin and I played through Dead Space expecting a cerebral, ridiculously scary game. Instead, we just shot through hundreds of Necromorphs and combat rolled everywhere. What a shame, too, since we both h...   more

Flix for Short: Dead Space: Chase to Death photo

Box Office Numbers: Tom Cruise sends sales to Oblivion

It just occurred to me that last week's special Nick Valdez-flavored Box Office Numbers lacked any actual box office numbers. Thanks, Nick; I still love you. This weekend, Tom Cruise did Tom Cruise things to help Oblivion&nbs...   more

Box Office Numbers: Tom Cruise sends sales to Oblivion photo

Thoughts on twohundredfiftysixcolors

twohundredfiftysixcolors is hard to discuss without any outside exposition. It's not a "film" so much as it is a collection of thousands of GIFs played back to back in a somewhat loose progression with no sound, no ...   more

Thoughts on twohundredfiftysixcolors photo

Chicagoans: Check out twohundredfiftysixcolors this week

twohundredfiftysixcolors is an ambitious film comprised of thousands of GIFs to invoke a conversation about the art form and how GIFs can relate to the early processes of cinema. Considering just how popular animated GIF...   more

Chicagoans: Check out twohundredfiftysixcolors this week photo

First official poster for Spike Lee's Oldboy is sketchy

As we get closer to Oldboy's October release date, more and more information will begin to trickle across our monitors, like official production images, trailers, posters, and what Spike Lee was thinking when he thought it'd ...   more

First official poster for Spike Lee's Oldboy is sketchy photo

Box Office Numbers: Evil Bread

Somehow, a film about satanic, possessed slices of bread topped the box office this weekend. Seriously guys, how are you falling for these kinds of things? Oh, wait... Evil Dead. That makes more sense. The reboot/remake/rebir...   more

Box Office Numbers: Evil Bread photo

Review: Evil Dead

[This review was originally posted as part of our South by Southwest 2013 coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the theatrical release of Evil Dead.] Evil Dead was going to be the shining gem of this year's SXSW jus...   more

Review: Evil Dead photo

Interview: Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead)

[This interview was originally posted as part of our South by Southwest 2013 coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the theatrical release of Evil Dead.] Finally, the last of my SXSW Evil Dead roundtable interviews s...   more

Interview: Fede Alvarez and Rodo Sayagues (Evil Dead) photo

R.I.P. Roger Ebert (6/6/1942 - 4/4/2013)

Hushed silences and whispers would fill the theater. Every person in the audience would ask the person next to them, "Hey... is that Roger Ebert?" Time and time again, especially since I began writing for Flixist in 2010, I w...   more

R.I.P. Roger Ebert (6/6/1942 - 4/4/2013) photo

Interview: Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert (Evil Dead)

[This interview was originally posted as part of our South by Southwest 2013 coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the theatrical release of Evil Dead.] Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert: Two of the three masterminds be...   more

Interview: Bruce Campbell and Rob Tapert (Evil Dead) photo

Interview: Shiloh Fernandez and Jane Levy (Evil Dead)

[This interview was originally posted as part of our South by Southwest 2013 coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the theatrical release of Evil Dead.] Last weekend, I sat down with Jane Levy (Nobody Walks) an...   more

Interview: Shiloh Fernandez and Jane Levy (Evil Dead) photo

Interview: The supporting cast of Evil Dead

[This interview was originally posted as part of our South by Southwest 2013 coverage. It has been reposted to coincide with the theatrical release of Evil Dead.] Evil Dead was highly anticipated at this year's SXSW. Who...   more

Interview: The supporting cast of Evil Dead photo