This is one of my favorite misspellings recently:
"While this quaint little monster movie doesn't quite manage to eek its potential out for its whole duration..."
What the reviewer meant was eke (although he may have said eek! during the film).
Dictionary.com defines eke as a verb (used with an object): "to increase; enlarge; lengthen."
The verb phrase eke out means to make a living or support laboriously or to supplement, add to, or stretch - "to eke out an income with odd jobs."
The reviewer also would have done better not to break up the verb phrase: that is, "doesn't quite manage to eke out its potential" rather than "eke its potential out."
