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Best geek movies throughout history.
'How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World' Is an Unusually Well-Executed Trilogy Capper
The Godfather Part III,Spider-Man 3, Alien 3, The Matrix Revolutions. ... These are just a few examples of third installments in trilogies that have ended up being considered worse than the first two.
By Jonathan Sim8 years ago in Geeks
The Ridgefield Playhouse Screens Blazing Saddles, and ‘Oh Dah Do Dah Day,’ There Was Plenty to Rejoice with Burton Gilliam
“Comedy has to walk a thin line, take risks. Comedy is the lecherous little elf whispering into the king’s ear, always telling the truth about human behavior,” Mel Brooks told Maane Khatchatourian of Variety in 2017. The American icon also lamented that our “stupidly politically correct” culture is the death of comedy, and that Blazing Saddles could never be made today. Even so, it’s pretty hard to find anyone online who doesn’t get the joke. A packed audience at the Ridgefield Playhouse seconded the sentiment on the February 22 screening of Blazing Saddles. But the showing wasn’t the only thing that made the audience want to jig it up with some Camp Town Lady.
By Rich Monetti8 years ago in Geeks
The Ever-Changing Face of Documentary Film
As the case with many other genres of film, there is some debate around the first example of documentary. Some credit Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) as the first example—known today as “the earliest surviving motion picture in the world.” Captured by French inventor Louis Le Prince, the film features Joseph, Sarah and Annie Whitley along with Le Prince’s son Adolphe in their home in Roundhay, Leeds. Captured on Eastman Kodak paper-based film, through a single-lens combi camera-projector, the short film simply captures the family walking around the garden and laughing. A completely groundbreaking technological development, evidence can be put forward to suggest that this is, in fact, the earliest form of documentary. Acclaimed film director Martin Scorsese (2010) proposes the earliest representatives of film are photographed examples of daily life, meaning the early recordings give us a factual and observational report of culture at this time. Even though we have had time since, to refine the genre and definition, Scorses' proposition could surely be used as a description to explain what we expect from the documentary genre 131 years later.
By Connor Luke Simpson8 years ago in Geeks
Fractured Yet Whole: How 'Running Scared' Perfected the Thriller Genre
Analysing movies can be a funny thing. For example, when one says that 2006's Running Scared is one of the best thrillers of all time, it might be difficult to back this statement up by more conventional parameters. It's editing is frantic, acting often over the top, and the plot somehow manages to be simple and all over the place at the same time. Yet, it ended up achieving what should be any thriller's ultimate goal: It completely immersed you into its world and never let up.
By Art-Peeter Roosve8 years ago in Geeks
The New Wave of Sapphic Cinema
It was in a showing of Disobedience (Dir Sebastián Lelio, 2018), in December last year when I noticed the amount of queer female films being released in 2018/2019, through the sheer amount of trailers for sapphic films. It appears that the times are thankfully changing, with queer representation in film.
By Katie Haines8 years ago in Geeks
What Needs to Happen in the DCU
I enjoy reading comic books and graphic novels. I’ll admit, when I was younger, I thought that reading them was a bit nerdy, but with me being a visual person and an artist, my curiosity got the better of me. I just wished I would’ve made the time to read more of the comics and graphic novels instead of worry about my self-image around friends and family.
By Rand Einfeldt8 years ago in Geeks
Reviewing the MCU: 'The Incredible Hulk'
The Incredible Hulk is a film that of sits in a bit of a weird place within the MCU. Released in 2008 after Marvel re-acquired the rights to the character following 2003's Hulk (which I personally loved by the way), this acts as a kind of loose sequel/reboot of the character that's just... kind of odd. Before Mark Ruffalo became the most perfect Bruce Banner in existence, Edward Norton took on the role.
By The One True Geekology8 years ago in Geeks
Ten Things Disney Want You to Forget
In case you missed it, Disney has recently been celebrating 90 years of magic; it's the company that has become so ingrained with the idea of childhood nostalgia that the mere mention of possibly re-releasing some of their greatest classic hits becomes terrifying—after all, what if they ruined our childhoods? The house of mouse has created an empire that now stands atop of Hollywood and the world—it's a company that prides itself on delivering family-friendly entertainment, this is an image that won't be compromised. But what about behind the scenes, the mouse hasn’t always been so "squeaky" clean over the years and this list will count down ten moments from Disney's past that they don’t want you to remember.
By Connor Luke Simpson8 years ago in Geeks
The Week in Film: February 8-14, 2019
Hello and welcome to "The Week In Film," where I give you a recap on everything that happened in the world of film in the past week. I'm gonna give you some box office stats as well as some news and general updates for the week of February 8-14, 2019.
By Jonathan Sim8 years ago in Geeks
