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Best geek movies throughout history.
Dreams Within Dreams in Bunuel's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Dreams within dreams within dreams, that’s Luis Bunuel’s 1972 feature film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Normally, when a filmmaker uses the trope of ‘it was all a dream’ I get annoyed. But the elegant and deconstuctionist way that Bunuel employs the trope makes it work. The dream within a dream within a dream structure in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie enhances the storytelling while taking the trope and turning it into a charming running gag.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review The Naked Honesty of 'Good Luck to You Leo Grande'
Good Luck to You Leo Grande is the kind of movie that causes you to evaluate yourself, where you are in life, and how you feel about yourself. It’s also a delightful comedy about an older woman and the sex worker she hires to try and break out of her shell. Myself, I was drawn to the more introspective side of things but if you watch this movie just for the delight of Emma Thompson and her magnetic chemistry with newcomer Daryl McCormack, that works just as well.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Illusion Versus Reality in Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Top Story - June 2022.
The central conflict of Martin Scorsese’s 1974 drama, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, is a conflict between illusion and reality. The film is about the fictional life we create for ourselves as a protective case against harsh reality. It’s not just Alice who does this, we all do it to some extent. Life can be hard and re-framing negatives to positives can be helpful even as a self-deception. For Alice, the self-deceptions multiply in order to justify the choices she made in her life.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Lightyear
Toy Story is arguably one of the best animated films of all time, and for many of us it holds a special place in our hearts. So when the news that there was to be a movie centered around Buzz Lightyear, I was ecstatic. I am someone who has been anxiously anticipating this film and to finally see it on the big screen was fantastic.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
Jurassic World: Dominion - A Movie Review
Who said living with dinosaurs would be easy. Jurassic World: Dominion is a 2022 film. Four years after the last film's events, humans and dinosaurs struggled to live together in peace. This balance will only determine how humans and predators can share the planet in this new era.
By Marielle Sabbag4 years ago in Geeks
Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death - A Movie Review
We have to get this bread delivered before it gets cold. Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 short film. The duo are now bakers. Wallace is in love with Piella Bakewell, the Bake-o-Lite girl from the commercials. When a murder case is brought to their attention, Gromit surges into protection mode when he finds out who it is.
By Marielle Sabbag4 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Welcome to the Dollhouse' Be Nice to Dawn Weiner
Junior High and High School Suck! That’s the theses of director Todd Solondz via his second feature film effort, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Solondz set out to make a darker version of the kind of High School movie that had been around for years but always felt a little fake or a little too sunny and optimistic. Solondz’s vision of Junior High, via main character Dawn Wiener, played by Heather Mattarazzo, was one in which the dangers of High School could be literal dangers as threats and taunts can turn to actual, potential, violence.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
So You've Invited the Main Character from a Romantic Comedy to your Wedding. Top Story - June 2022.
Chekhov once said of guns in movies "You can't introduce a gun in the first act without having it go off in the third." The same could be said of wedding dresses. You can't introduce a wedding dress in the first act of a movie without the dress being worn at a wedding in the third act. And when that wedding dress in question isn’t worn by the main character in the movie, that wedding dress 'going off' often means an embarrassing catastrophe followed by an emotional redemption.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Acid Test' is a Terrific Coming of Age Riot Grrl Tale
Acid Test is a coming of age drama set in 1992. It’s about a teenager on the brink of a future that includes Harvard, a good job, and a career. Of course, she begins to question this path and that question provides the plot of the movie. It’s a journey of self discovery that will take the main character, Jenny, played by Juliana Destefano, from straight A student to Riot Grrrl feminist willing to experiment with psychedelics as an escape from her troubles.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
