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When Stephen Chow Called You God and Feng Xiaogang Called You Garbage: The Real Problem With Chinese Cinema’s Director-Versus-Audience Wars
I. One Market, Two Radically Different Postures In 2026, as Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Women's Football swept the box office, the director—once notorious for his exacting standards—faced the cameras and said: "Every record is broken by the audience. You are the greatest! The box office wasn't created by me—it was created by every single viewer who bought a ticket and walked into the theater."
By Jin3 months ago in Geeks
The Beauty of the Kardashians
Kim, Kourtney, Khloe, Kylie, Kris, Caitlyn and Kendall… It seems like we have always lived with the Kardashians, or even attempted to keep up with them (a little joke for those who know), and it seems like they are now an institution that we all love and enjoy.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Geeks
The Rose That Outlived the Gilded Age: Benjamin Guggenheim's Final Performance on the Titanic
The steward held out the lifebelt. Benjamin Guggenheim pushed the hand away. The deck was tilting. He could feel it. The slope of the wood beneath his feet was slowly, stubbornly sending everything toward the bow: an overturned chair, a stepped‑off high heel, an unclaimed leather suitcase. Screams drifted up from below, flattened into something that no longer sounded human. He turned and walked back toward his stateroom. Someone called his name from behind. He raised a hand without looking back.
By Jin3 months ago in Geeks
Eleven Ships. Three Minutes. No CGI.
The first stone left the cliff edge while the sea was still green. Over two meters in diameter, limestone, its surface crusted with dried barnacles. It took roughly four seconds to punch through the deck of the first ship. The wood split from the center, cracks racing toward bow and stern like an invisible blade had sliced it clean down the middle. There were seventeen oarsmen aboard. They were furling the sail when the stone landed. No one looked up.
By Jin3 months ago in Geeks
Getting Started at Fantasia…Again…
It was good to be back. I did not know that I would really enjoy my return to the Fantasia Film Festival (July 16th to August 2nd) in Montreal. I realized that my money would last beyond the end of the college semester earlier in the year, and the private contracts that would run out over the summer…but things are not perfect. And I knew that another summer of scrounging for jobs and sending out too many applications for too little would be nothing but a sad way to enjoy it. There was the festival, and it was my fifth (?) year as a volunteer…if I decided to jump back in.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Geeks
The Feather That Never Came Home: Why We've Been Sanitizing Odysseus for Centuries
After the Landing: What Odyssey Adaptations Are Afraid to Sink Into the Sea The film’s final scene has Odysseus in the bedchamber, speaking to Penelope. The gist: war destroyed the common order, and he has brought deception and cruelty back home.
By Jin3 months ago in Geeks
Streaming Killed the Television Star
Has anyone else noticed that television has gotten… worse? So many shows are released as miniseries. They’ll be one season and then years later there will finally be another. Well, if there’s ever another season. So many fantastic shows get canceled after a single season like Moon Knight, I Am Not Okay With This, and Julie and the Phantoms. I mourn these shows more than you’ll ever know (especially Moon Knight, there was so much that could have come from that show).
By caitodoesstuff3 months ago in Geeks
Fallout-Too Sweet
The whistle came from beyond the dunes, sporadic and ragged, like a dying iron beast wheezing its last. Cooper Howard crouched beneath the remains of a wind-scoured billboard, wiping the lenses of his binoculars with his sleeve. In the distance lay the Legion’s camp, the forward position, to be precise. Torches lined the sand in two columns, and in the open space between them, a man was tied to a post. From the uniform, he was NCR.
By Jin3 months ago in Geeks
The Matrix is really about (a) Trinity. Top Story - July 2026.
I re-watched The Matrix recently for the first time in many years. And here is my 27-year-old hot take: The most important character journey in this movie IS NOT NEO'S.
By Katherine Arcus3 months ago in Geeks
WWE SNME Predictions and Four Matches That Set the Table for SummerSlam by NWO Sparrow
Who Wins at Saturday Night Main Event ? Full MSG Card Predictions and Analysis by NWO Sparrow Cody Rhodes and CM Punk step into the same ring as allies ... but for how long?
By NWO SPARROW3 months ago in Geeks
Doctor Who Is A Lie!. Top Story - July 2026.
How dare they! I have been following this series since I was a young GenXer in the early 80s (the sweet spot for true fans of the shows), and discovered the adventures of the Time Lord and his companions stopping at various sites and spots, solving disasters and rescuing people, aliens and civilizations that often deserved their uninterrupted fate. That might sound cynical, but it does not take a genius to understand that there is an obvious pattern of the shows that no longer really works.
By Kendall Defoe 3 months ago in Geeks
Disclosure Day Movie Review
For more than fifty years, Steven Spielberg has been one of the biggest names in the movie-making business. The director has also maintained his fascination with extra-terrestrial life, putting out E.T, Close Encounters and War of the Worlds through the decades. He returns to the subject of alien visitors with Disclosure Day, an intriguing but ultimately ineffective outing.
By Robert Cain3 months ago in Geeks