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Best geek movies throughout history.
H'ween Horrorthon: Misery
Hello, and welcome. My name is Carlos G. Hard manual-laborer by day. Pop culture blogger, all around freak by night. Every year since 2013, I have a mini-horror movie marathon to celebrate Halloween, the ONLY holiday on the calendar worth celebrating.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Hamburger Hill
There are those who claim that Hamburger Hill is the least remembered of 80s Vietnam movies, a niche genre all its own in that decade, because it was a right wing, reactionary movie intended to defend soldiers. Time has a way of changing perceptions and now that Hamburger Hill is turning 30 years old, it’s interesting to look back on the film and talk about the perceptions of the film and how they’ve evolved over the years and the ways in which guilt, shame and history have altered the way many view Vietnam.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
My Ten Unpopular Opinions About Film
As you know, there are common "popular beliefs" about film and then there are popular beliefs that are challenged and, like religion, wannabe-film-buffs run to the aid and scream down your throat about how you're wrong and can't possibly think that. They tell you that you know nothing about true filmmaking and the art behind it all—even though you (and not them) have been studying it for most of your life. For example: I once made a short horror/experimental film and showed it at a small showing at a bar with a group. Personally, I thought it was utter shite but it was somewhere to start—when someone asked me what I thought, I said "it was pretty crap to be fair." The other person then went for me, telling me it expressed new art and was a brilliant example of how the world is changing with metaphor-this and conceit-for-that. I told them that I made the film and then they shut up. This should show people that you can have any opinion about film you want and not care about what anyone else says to you. If you don't like something, you don't like it. It's your opinion—there's no film-bible. It's not a dictatorship run by James Cameron or Steven Spielberg—it's art and is supposed to be free-thought.
By Annie Kapur8 years ago in Geeks
Welcome to the Mihmiverse!
What on Earth is the Mihmiverse? Well, first of all, it's not necessarily on Earth, but before I explain, let's harken back to the 1950s, when drive-in movie theaters were just becoming popular, especially with teenagers. It was traditional to run a double feature: the "A" movie, followed by the "B" movie.
By Michael Cook8 years ago in Geeks
The Irrelevance of Birdman
I watched the film Birdman last night. Two years late and after two previous attempts to get past the first ten, very pretentious minutes. I would never have watched it at all, except that in the last two weeks I have seen Michael Keaton, an actor who might as well have been dead to me, turn up in two good films: Spiderman: Homecoming and The Founder. And so, I felt I should give Birdman another chance.
By Alexis D. Smolensk8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review 'Birth of the Dragon'
Birth of the Dragon has been marketed as the story of Bruce Lee learning to grow and become more disciplined, humble, and dedicated to his craft after being confronted by a famed Shaolin Master named Wong Jack Man. Instead, Birth of the Dragon is a ludicrously misguided combination of faux-history and one of the worst conceived Bruce Lee movies in history. It's as bad as the films that inserted old Bruce Lee footage after his death into different movies that were then marketed as Bruce Lee movies.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Cupid's Proxy
Cupid’s Proxy imagines a world in which newspapers still employ advice columnists like the Landers’ sisters and paid them well enough to live in toney suburbs. The advice columnist here is Olive aka Cupid (Jackee Harry) whose advice column has grown stale and out of touch, much like the newspaper that still employs an advice columnist. To spice up her column Olive turns to the actual star of Cupid’s Proxy, 12 year old Disney star Jet Jurgensmeyer as 12 year old Justin Murphy.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Horror Film: Soundtracks of the Modern Age
As we in the filmmaking/film student sector have known for a while, there are many ways to make a film stand out. For example: Wes Anderson's great use of palette and colour scheme in the film The Grand Budapest Hotel is one way to make your work pull the attention of the audience, another would be Kubrick's use of madness and those very, very slow camera pans that we are so accustomed to from The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. But, in horror film, we tend to get the same violin-stricken music every single time. Whether it be the orchestra masterpiece from Nosferatu or whether it be the scratchy violins in The Exorcist to the Tiny Tim song "Tiptoe through the Tulips" (which gives every kid nightmares) in the film Insidious Chapter 2 - it is always pretty much the same violin style. Today, I'm going to show you some strange songs you could use in your horror film - or even simply sample, providing examples of similar sounds from other horror films and how effective being different actually is in this collection of striking modern horror (which is making its resurgence).
By Annie Kapur8 years ago in Geeks
"Mr. H. Potter, The Cupboard Under the Stairs..."
I was five years old when my mother brought home a new book that she announced we would be reading as a family. As she handed it to me, I glanced at the front cover of the book as I struggled to hold it in my tiny hands. Without even reading its title, I looked up at my mother and asked, in a small and inquisitive voice: “Does it have any pictures?”
By Kai Pedersen9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Blue Velvet (1986). Top Story - August 2017.
This is essentially what we all worry suburban America will be like to visit, even now; slightly odd, over-the-top and addictive. The narrative is staunch and absurd, but regardless to our pre-conceptions and hearsay about this famous flick, it only reinforces the opinion that Lynch is a master of film.
By GrandMovTarkin .9 years ago in Geeks
First Glimpse of Christian Bale in 'Hostiles'
Christian Bale never seems to slow down his movie schedule. The former Batman actor is back again this time alongside his Out of the Furnace Director Scott Cooper for a new action adventure called Hostiles, the first photo from which you can see at the top. Cooper, for those who don’t know, made his name as the director of Jeff Bridges’ Academy Award winning performance in Crazy Heart as well having directed Bale in Out of the Furnace and Johnny Depp’s exceptional true life gangster story Black Mass.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
