Cindy Dory
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When you think, act like a wise man; but when you speak, act like a common man.
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House of the Dragon review: It's 'pure Game of Thrones'
It is a remarkable twist of fate that Game of Thrones – the biggest TV phenomenon of recent times, and perhaps the most influential show of the 2010s – has spent its afterlife being considered something of a failure. This is not true, of course: just take the array of desperate attempts to make "the next Game of Thrones". But the show's final season – criticised by many for feeling rushed and truncated – does hang heavy over its first spin-off series, House of the Dragon. After all, a prequel set more than 100 years before the main story, being released in a time of diminished good will, has a relatively tough task in overcoming cynicism and indifference. And yet, as it turns out: the best way to make "the next Game of Thrones" is simply to make more Game of Thrones.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
The end of the solar system may be coming?
Has the solar system been carefully crafted by anyone? Its solid planetary system and leathery shell make it possible for the solar system to nurture civilization. However, nothing lasts forever, and our solar system cannot always be this solid. According to scientists' observations, the Terminator, which will bring great changes to the solar system, will come to the solar system, and then, human beings will see a rare and wonderful landscape, comets and asteroids flying all over the sky, and the eight planets may also be subject to misfortune, perhaps, then the Earth may become less habitable, and some planets may be thrown out of the solar system and become wandering planets.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Futurism
Why are we so fascinated by identical twins?
o re twins are being born now than ever before. The number has soared in the past 20 years, according to the Twins Trust, a UK organisation which supports twins and their families, with two of the suggested factors for this being the rising use of IVF and the fact more people are starting their families later in life: multiple embryos are often implanted in IVF and older mothers tend to have elevated follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels, both things which make the chance of having twins more likely. However the number of identical twin births has not climbed so dramatically. The likelihood of having identical twins is about one in 250 (or 0.5%). Their relative rarity is just one of the reasons why identical twins have fascinated writers through history.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
Film review:Green Book
Tony Vallelonga is a hot-tempered Italian-American nightclub bouncer. Don Shirley is a highly educated black pianist. Dr Shirley, as he’s known, can play Chopin – a name that comes out of Tony’s mouth sounding like ‘Joe Pan’. In 1962, the decorous, tightly-wound Shirley hires the brash Tony to drive and give him some thuggish protection on a concert tour through the segregated American South. Only someone who has never viewed a movie before – not just Driving Miss Daisy, but any movie at all – will fail to see where this odd-couple, buddy-comedy road movie is going.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
The Jurassic Park film that was never made
The structure is so ancient that it feels almost prehistoric. Some people take a trip to a remote island, they see some dinosaurs, and then the dinosaurs try to have them for lunch. It’s what happened in Jurassic Park in 1993, and by the time the first sequel came out in 1997, the screenplay was already poking fun at how formulaic it was. “‘Ooh, aah’, that’s how it always starts,” says Jeff Goldblum’s Dr Ian Malcolm in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. “Then later there’s running and screaming.” How right he was. But this self-knowledge didn’t stop the makers of Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World (2015) sticking to the formula, and it wasn’t until the second half of this year’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that the series found somewhere else to go.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
Film review: Destroyer
Karyn Kusama’s moody Los Angeles cop thriller, Destroyer, is destined to be remembered as the film in which one of Hollywood’s most famously glamorous and elegant superstars, Nicole Kidman, demonstrated just how unglamorous and inelegant she could be. Kidman plays LAPD detective Erin Bell, a name which makes her sound like a Disney character, when she is actually the exact opposite. A gaunt, alcoholic wreck who tends to sleep either in a bar or in her car, Erin has papery, liver-spotted skin; cracked lips; bags over as well as under her eyes; and a mop of greying hair that would probably digest any comb that went near it. Whenever she trudges towards her colleagues, they swear under their breath and back away, mainly because she has become such an embarrassing liability, but partly, you assume, because of the stench that clings to her black leather jacket.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
Five stars for ‘important and humane film’ Girl
Lara, the 15-year-old heroine of Girl, has just enrolled in a prestigious ballet school, an environment where everything that’s challenging about being a teenager becomes 10 times more difficult: the awareness that your body is developing in ways you might not like; the sense that there is an in-crowd that you can’t quite penetrate; the fear that you aren’t good enough, however hard you try; the irritation with well-meaning family members who don’t understand you. What magnifies these insecurities further is that Lara is a transitioning transgender girl, counting the days until she can have gender reassignment surgery, so she is even more self-conscious about her physique than her classmates are.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
Berlin Film Festival review: The Souvenir
Honor Swinton Byrne has set herself a high standard with her first film; delivering unforgettability in her debut, Joanna Hogg’s The Souvenir. But 21-year-old Swinton Byrne (yes, she’s the daughter of Tilda Swinton) did not spend years working up to the moment; she hasn’t trained as an actress.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
The Aftermath: ‘A mildly engaging trifle’
The characters in The Aftermath face intriguing dilemmas. Four months after the end of World War Two, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in Hamburg to join her husband, Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British military officer. How will they deal with the Germans, the vanquished enemy whose bombing of London killed their young son? Will they repair their marriage, now as chilly as the snowy landscape in which her train arrives? Will she fall into bed with the handsome German widower, Stefan Lubert (Alexander Skarsgård), an architect whose grand house the British have requisitioned for the Morgans’ use?
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
Lois Weber: the trailblazing director who shocked the world
A nude scene! Abortion; birth control; prostitution! In the silent-movie era, Lois Weber’s films were shockingly ahead of their time – and also immensely popular. She wrote, directed, produced and sometimes starred in her films, and in 1916 was the highest paid studio director in the US, man or woman. She pioneered techniques including split screen and double exposure, for a time ran her own studio, and along with Alice Guy-Blaché was one of the two women who contributed the most to cinema at its start. But she died alone, broke and nearly forgotten in 1939. What happened?
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks
How Pretty Woman erased sex from its story
A middle-aged businessman pays a much-younger prostitute to be his live-in lover for a week. It’s a sordid premise for a feel-good romantic comedy, but that didn’t stop Pretty Woman being one of the biggest hits of 1990. And now, 30 years later, the film is still so cherished that a musical adaptation opened in London’s West End, after a successful run on Broadway (now closed due to the Coronavirus crisis). How did the film’s director, Garry Marshall, get away with it? How did he make such a tasteless exploitation fantasy seem almost wholesome? Well, casting a star with the incandescent beauty and charm of Julia Roberts was undoubtedly a factor. But another factor was casting a co-star, Richard Gere, who behaved as if that beauty and charm meant nothing to him.
By Cindy Dory2 years ago in Geeks