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Oscar Nominations 2021 — Thoughts, Snubs, & Predictions. Top Story - March 2021.
After an unprecedented year for film, the 93rd Academy Awards are around the corner. Everything from the year 2020 (which wasn’t that much) to the first two months of 2021 were eligible for consideration, and the Oscar nominees are finally out.
By Jonathan Sim5 years ago in Geeks
Gina Carano Stans Trying to Destroy the Oscars?
So there I was on YouTube, looking at the recommended videos for me, and I see a video called "MINARI | Scene at the Oscars." Well, that's perfect because I just recently saw Minari and liked it, so I'd love to see what Oscar promotional material they are putting out. I click on the video, and I'm about thirty seconds into the lush images southern farm life when I notice something odd: The like-to-dislike ratio on the video is 237 to 138.
By Sam Pinnelas5 years ago in Geeks
Reflex Media and the Strange Content Phenomenon
If you and I grew up around the same time you might remember when Finn the Human found a pair of magic glasses and learned everything about the universe. Finn’s following words, “Everything small is just a small version of everything big,” is just one example of the number of truth bombs sprinkled throughout the wildly popular series, Adventure Time. The fact that my wife and I still watch this show and that it has become the favorite bedtime ritual of our 4-year-old son speaks to key pieces of what defines Reflex Media, this tidal wave of brand-new genres of content that are being devoured by masses of millennials and Gen Z-ers.
By Dillon Brady5 years ago in Geeks
How to Fall Down the Black Hole of Streaming Services
Though streaming services have created algorithms to match us with shows and movies we might enjoy, there exists a fairy, whose recommendations never fail (unlike the streaming services). The 98% match is not always a match Netflix..., but thank you for trying.
By Carissa Sato5 years ago in Geeks
Little Ivory Black Book
Little Ivory Black Book Lenora sits in a room with no windows. They wouldn’t know this because the room is pitch black and she is perfectly silent, but she is there. They wouldn’t know she is there at all because They’re still tucked in bed, but here she is, in perfect darkness, in pitch-less silence, sitting ever so still. She does this every morning she wakes up here. She… sits. Legs crossed, palm cupped over her eyes creating darkness in the dark. She is art, and she knows it, which is why she feels her way to this pedestal every morning she wakes up here, in a dark silent room where so much lonely art lives. Pages flutter open, eager to find light, and Lenora, just as eager, takes them to it. She knows her way through the Auction House just as well as she knows the dark itself, and soon her favorite book is presented to the light of the restoration room.
By Nicole Honore5 years ago in Geeks
Goths aren’t necessarily THAT scary
You must’ve met one, right? Or heard of one maybe? Or at least seen one... at school, your local library, lurking or slinking around a space inhabited by humans... and thought, “WTH? Why all the black? What’s up with them? Are they weird? Mean?”
By Melissa Ingoldsby5 years ago in Geeks
Black Dinners and Red Weddings
Remember Game of Thrones? What a show that was, wasn’t it? The twists and the turns, the sex and violence, the amazing set pieces. Dragons! Zombies! Magic! Some of the most amazing TV of all time, spread over 7 seasons (season 8 doesn’t exist and if you disagree with me then I will fight you).
By Shaun O'Neill5 years ago in Geeks
Brick by Brick
I bought a green dinosaur: 174 bricks. Since when do they have 3-in-1 sets? T. Rex, Pterodactyl, and Triceratops all in one box. Back in my day, you would have had to buy each dinosaur and use miscellaneous green flat sheets from your Star Wars sets to foster their vegetive habitat. Asher talks about dinosaurs all the time; I’m sure he’ll like it. Of course, I shouldn’t pretend my donation isn’t soaked with selfishness and—I’m a little ashamed to say—envy.
By Mark Perkins5 years ago in Geeks
