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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
Yummy Mummies
Unlike most young women my age, I am absolutely obsessed with babies. I have no clue if this stems from my lack of own children or my great desire to one day have children but I love any reality show that revolves around babies. I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, A Baby Story, etc. So when I saw that Netflix had a show called Yummy Mummies, a show about these glamorous, very posh, very sassy mommies-to-be in Australia, I knew I absolutely had to see what it was about.
By L. M. Williams6 years ago in Geeks
My Review of "Godmothered"
Godmothered was a late 2020 entry for Disney Plus. It was released around the Christmas holidays but I never got around to watching it until now. It fits a lot of Disney tropes that you're familiar with but with a modern twist. I'm seeing more and more of this from the company. This gives the giant company new ways of telling similar tales from the past.
By Brian Anonymous6 years ago in Geeks
A League of Their Own - A Movie Review
There is no crying allowed in baseball! Based on true events, A League of Their Own was released to theaters in 1992. The first-ever women’s professional baseball league is created. Coming across struggles and stereotypical insults, the team has to work together to succeed.
By Marielle Sabbag6 years ago in Geeks
"A Journey in the Dark"
I was not a ‘normal’ little girl. Where most girls my age spent their youth wanting to be princesses, vets or mermaids, I wanted to be a pirate. I am, of course, talking about the ‘romantic’ swashbuckling, earring and eyepatch wearing pirate, not the machine-gun toting Captain Phillips type. I mean frock coats and peglegs at dawn, Bristolian accents and gold teeth. To me, even at that young age, I wanted the freedom that seemed to come from a rum-soaked life aboard the Seven Seas. I wanted to look for buried treasure, sing sea shanties and find ‘glory’. I now know much more about pirates than I did then, about how hard life could be and how dangerous that life was, and I no longer desire to live such a life, but I have nonetheless carried that love of pirates with me into adulthood.
By Millie Hardy-Sims6 years ago in Geeks
The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson
Roxy was upset, hurt, and disgusted with the way Tom Driscroll Jr. treated her, but why? She switched him and the original Tom at birth, leaving her son to be raised in a home that she was a slave in. This fear of separation fueled her decisions to alter the lives of the two boys drastically. When trying to better her son's life, she gave him an opportunity to not only succeed but detach himself from her. She became Driscoll Jr's (her actual son) mammy. Roxy’s son grew up as a white man. He would frequently bark at her, "N**** wench," which birthed disdain in Roxy. She loved her son enough to ruin another child's life, only to have him socially acclimated into hating her. Driscoll Jr. is an example of how hate is taught and never inherent. As well as an example of the limits to his whiteness. Is Roxy justified in her actions? In her eyes, she is getting back at the Whites for the treatment of their slaves, but the magnitude of how awful slavery was will not be corrected by Roxy; however, I would argue it is a start. Roxy forced the boundaries of Race to open. A white reader during the Reconstruction Era would have fell out their chair, or at least did laughed off the idea of a black man living as a white man and reaping that privilege. Its weird because critics of Twain’s time focused more o n how “messy” his plot was. It was almost like a calculated attack to discredit his book and the ideas in it. Honestly, though, the storyline is busy, but with what the books does, it requires a busy storyline. It shows how Twain decides to portray his view on Race. When I read this book, I could not stop thinking about how he was raised by whites but acted out. The society of the time was trying to figure out how to integrate newly freed slaves into society, this novel is telling us that the United States society decided to cast blackness as innately criminal. The reconstruction era society never really “reconstructed” itself into something new. Instead, it repaired the previous social norm- blacks are not equal -, painted over that with -blacks are criminal. Our society never left that thought process. And that strategy was used to marginalize many other groups of people in the united states: The Mexicans, The Japanese, The Filipinos, all The Native Americans. It is strange how much of the past has rippled forward.
By Senor Jinxlier6 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Review: "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944)
An amazingly funny film and possibly one of the funniest dark comedies I have ever seen stars Cary Grant, Peter Lorre, Raymond Massey, Priscilla Lane and Jack Carson in "Arsenic and Old Lace" in which a family filled with murderers and insanity plans and plots against each other whilst all living in the same house. From getting the police involved, to planning a murder against another family member, this sure as hell should not be funny but sure as hell is definitely funny. There is something really hilarious in not only the jokes that are told, but the way in which people act which shows us that script has been brilliantly written to reflect the genre it is based within. A very difficult genre to actually get correct, the dark comedy type has shown to be one of the things that this film does perfectly and yet, at two hours long, it is a constantly brilliance from start to finish.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
Blanche Dubois & Dorian Gray – A Love Affair Carved From Illusion
Blanche Dubois – a ruined Antebellum with the incapability to separate realism from her fantasy world of candlelight and magic. Dorian Gray – a beautiful, yet self destructive narcissist, caught between the realities of time and the grotesque salvation of his portrait. Both consumed in the mad pursuit of maintaining their youth and beauty, both damned to fail.
By Chris Adams6 years ago in Geeks
The Effect of Self-Perception on the Conflict Between Illusion and Reality Pt.2
Dorian’s acceptance of his new self-perception is displayed through his actions and desires; because his identity is rooted within the illusions of beauty, he falls for Sybil Vane, failing to realize the truth; to him, “she was always a dream, a phantom that flitted through Shakespeare’s plays” (106-107). He loved the idea of Sybil, not the reality of her, showing how one’s self-image can cause an individual to accept an illusion as actuality. Once Sybil truly fell in love with Dorian, she was unable to uphold the very illusion her “prince charming” admired, and so Dorian, obsessed with his own self-perception as an aesthete, addressed the conflict between his ideal and the reality by breaking Sybil’s heart. This action, however, failed to resolve the tension—instead, it led to Sybil’s death by suicide, demonstrating how when identity is the factor inhibiting an individual from resolving a conflict, attempting to preserve one’s own view of themselves may cause them to act cruelly. Though Sybil’s death does cause Dorian’s self-perception to falter momentarily—when he calls her death “terrible”—Lord Henry’s sway over Dorian’s identity results in him admitting “that this thing that has happened does not affect [him] as it should” and instead it seemed “to [him] to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play” (104). Dorian’s unsympathetic response to the death of someone he once claimed to have loved reveals the dichotomy between Dorian’s perfectly tragic illusion and the heartless superficiality of his reality; through this contrariety, Wilde highlights Dorian’s increasing levels of corruption as he begins to self-identify more with the illusions of beauty and youth, going so far as to suppress the true gravity of his actions in order to perpetuate the ideals. Dorian continues to indulge in his illusions by going to “opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new”—he hungers for novel stimulus, because “curing his soul by the means of the senses” (193) would prevent the reality of his immoral actions from affecting him. Essentially, Dorian seeks reprieve from his undesirable reality by reinforcing his own fantasies, thereby embedding his self-perception entirely into his hedonistic ideals. Ironically, this serves to amplify the conflict between his illusions and reality by further dividing the two.
By Chris Adams6 years ago in Geeks
Dorian Gray
When Basil Hallward is informed that Dorian will wed Sybil, a “little actress”, he replies as such: “But think of Dorian’s birth, and position, and wealth. It would be absurd for him to marry so much beneath him.” Basil’s reply is an appeal to the reader’s logos as it was a social construct for individuals to marry another of the same social status. Basil’s response to Dorian’s engagement is logical because Dorian and Sybil’s romance is parallel to Dorian’s mother and father’s relationship. Pointedly, Dorian’s mother was high class and rich (like Dorian) while Dorian’s father was low class and poor (like Sybil). Due to this parallel, Basil’s argument is foreshadowing how society will not approve of their marriage and therefore decimate it – as was what had happened to Dorian’s parents.
By Chris Adams6 years ago in Geeks
