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I Watched the Worst Movie Ever Made And I thoroughly Enjoyed It
Awhile ago, I heard about a movie called “The Banker,” so I thought I would check it out since I don’t have anything else to do until Wrestlemania comes on.
Digital_FootPrintPublished 2 days ago in GeeksThe Search for the MacGuffin
"The MacGuffin is the thing that the spies are after, but the audience doesn't care." (Alfred Hitchcock). Here I am again, sitting in front of my typewriter. I have a sharp suit and seamed stockings. I have a cigarette permanently at one side of my mouth and I drink whisky with my black coffee for lunch. I’ve got to keep up with the boys in the writing room.
Rachel RobbinsPublished 3 days ago in GeeksI'm Going Back to the 1980's: Anyone Care to Join Me?!
Sometimes, I wish that I could go back in time and just enjoy my childhood once more and I’m pretty sure that I'm not the only one who feels that way either.
Digital_FootPrintPublished 10 days ago in GeeksCitizen Kane (1941)
I have this (perfectly normal) ambition to be a 1940s Hollywood screenwriter. Therefore, it might surprise you that I hadn’t seen Citizen Kane until recently.
Rachel RobbinsPublished 10 days ago in GeeksRipley: Non-Traditional Review
I’m teaching media literacy this semester and a couple of weeks ago we were discussing how useful it is to know that any entertainment content has a potential to work for us, consumers, at four different (albeit often overlapping) dimensions: cognitive, affective, aesthetic, and moral.
Lana V LynxPublished 13 days ago in GeeksCasablanca (1943)
In 1942, Janis Wilson was working on her first film – Now Voyager, playing the young Tina, a neglected child to be adopted by Bette Davis’s Charlotte Vale. And in breaks from her filming she would sneak onto an adjourning lot and watch the movie that some of her co-stars were filming in overlapping schedules.
Rachel RobbinsPublished 20 days ago in GeeksCharity shop chronicles: Discovering the unexpected in charity shop treasures
A few days ago, Owen /Crazy Sheep wrote an article about a rather interesting vintage book he found when browsing in a charity shop. He found an almost 100-year-old French cookbook! Of course, the French book was written in French, as you can guess.
Susan FourtanéPublished 21 days ago in GeeksQuasi at the Quackadero
Someone once asked someone else (who shall remain nameless) if they thought they lived in "Lollipop Land." (Wherever the hell that's supposed to be.)
Gene Tierney (1920 - 1991)
Every few years a newspaper publishes an opinion piece by a woman writing about how she struggles to make friends, but is still successful because of her ‘pretty’ privilege. The comments section suggests that most people do not, in fact, find her attractive and that she is kidding herself. Because even though we know that there is a privilege to prettiness (to the extent that we don’t want to face the world with a pimple, or a ‘bad-hair' day), we don’t want to hear about it. It feels like bad taste to suggest you are a person benefitting from looking good.
Rachel RobbinsPublished 27 days ago in Geeks- Top Story - March 2024
Marlene Dietrich (1901 -1992)
In the introduction to her memoirs, Dietrich says: “I have no interest in talking about my life… Facts are unimportant.”
Rachel RobbinsPublished about a month ago in Geeks "Living Room Violence"
Comic book reviews seem pointless, as you'll most likely never get right out to gobble up the issue I'm writing about (graphic novels, on the other hand, are a pretty popular commodity). Regardless, even though my comic book videos get so few views comparatively, I still feel compelled to write about comics. Mainly because they appeal to me, and they are there. (I mean, in abundance.)
- Top Story - February 2024
Storm Warning (1951)
*Spoiler Alert* It is rare to talk about Doris Day coupled with threat and menace. Storm Warning is a dark melodrama from 1951 which features the story of sisters Marsha (Ginger Rogers) and Lucy (Doris Day).
Rachel RobbinsPublished 2 months ago in Geeks