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Films Under Pressure
Sylvia Plath once said, “I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want." For me, there are still so many films I have yet to watch.
By Marianna Michael8 years ago in Geeks
Comedy Open Mic Formats & Etiquette
When you are new to comedy it can be a lot of information to take in and a ton of absolute hot garbage advice will be given so freely. I'm writing these articles in an attempt to help a new aspiring comedian to hopefully be able to navigate the beginning a little bit easier. A sort of comedy for dummies type guide starting from the ground up.
By Sarah Martin8 years ago in Geeks
The 'Love Actually' Cast is One Big Festive Fandom Crossover, Actually
Before 2016’s Me Before You united most of the major pop culture fandoms, there was the delightfully British Christmas romcom Love Actually, which had a perfect ensemble cast and — dare I say it — some cross-fandom pairings that are the stuff of steamy fan fiction. Spanning Harry Potter, Pirates of the Caribbean, Bridget Jones, Narnia, and Doctor Who, below is the great big fanfiction-ish cast of 2003's LoveActually.
By Karina Thyra8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Last Flag Flying'
Last Flag Flying is a rare movie. It’s a daring depiction of the aftermath of death in a modern war. It’s an exploration of the hearts and minds of the people left behind. It’s also a movie that feels at times as if it isn’t going particularly anywhere and manages past fits and starts to reach a deeply affecting end. It’s the kind of mainstream drama that you expect Richard Linklater’s idiosyncratic style might render inert in the same neutered manner of his mainstream take on The Bad News Bears.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
The Best Fiction Podcasts I Listened to in 2017
I spend a lot of time with sound coming out of my phone, earbuds in or not. My Spotify year in review came out as 122.7 days of listening to music because I listen to it while I sleep and study and do just about anything. But that doesn't even begin to hit on the podcasts I listened to on the Apple Podcast app. Working all summer with people I didn't share a whole lot in common with, or doing a lot of work on my own meant I needed something to keep me from going insane. So to podcasts I turned. I had listened to Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn't Dead, and a few episodes of Serial, but beyond that, I really didn't know what to listen to.
By Glory Duda8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Good Time'
Why don’t I love Good Time? So many of my critical colleagues adore the film and yet I can’t see the full appeal. I love the look of the film, a grimy, color saturated chase through the underbelly of small-time Brooklyn crime, but the story just leaves me cold. Scene after scene I keep waiting for the film to find another gear and kick into the movie that so many of my colleagues have raved about and it just never comes. What I am left with is a fine looking movie with a terrific score that relies far too heavily on a contrivance-filled plot to get from one scene to the next.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: 'Eliza and Her Monsters' by Francesca Zappia
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappa is the story of 18 year old, loner high school student Eliza Mirk. By day Eliza is known to her school as the weird kid that keeps to herself and has no friends but by night Eliza is LadyConstellation, creator of the extremely popular web series, Monstrous Sea. Eliza keeps her two worlds separate, the only people that know of her secret identity are her family and her two online best friends that help her run her website. When Eliza is given the task of showing around the new kid her world becomes increasingly more complicated as she discovers that he is a Monstrous Sea fan.
By Liana Hewitt8 years ago in Geeks
Short Fiction You've Never Read and Probably Should
In 2,232 words, Vilma Howard tells the tale of Belle—the woman with a scar on her finger. 'Belle'—Vilma Howard It was first published in the Spring of 1955 and published in The Paris Review, just two years after she had published "After The War"—two pages of verse in the same publication.
By Marianna Michael8 years ago in Geeks
Non-Festive Films for the Festive Season
It would be far too easy to create a list of all the Christmas films to watch over the festive season. All That Heaven Allows (1955), The Apartment (1960), When Harry Met Sally (1989), Peter's Friends (1992), and Elf (2003) are five films that I will readily add to any list of #Christmas films, or any list of films regardless of season. There's something comforting about them as well as the fact that the entire film, or part of the film, is set within Christmastime. And although many of these films are great, full of nostalgia, helping to submerge any Scrooge into the festive season, or enhance a love of this time of the year, it would be a disservice to so many other films to exclude them from the holiday period.
By Marianna Michael8 years ago in Geeks
Cinematic "Vs" Comic-Book Universes
This opinion may get me in a bit of trouble, but I thoroughly believe that these details between the DC and Marvel comic-book universes and their cinematic counterparts, from the minute to the more distinct, aren't of the utmost importance when it comes to relaying a story based on the universes stated above. Now, why would somebody ever think that a "misrepresentation" of characters would be considered okay in any way?
By Mike Getty8 years ago in Geeks
The Tale of an Unsung Confidant of Queen Victoria
Abdul Karim was more than happy to travel to England to hand over a special valued coin brought out in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations, as instructed by his boss in British India. The film, Victoria and Abdul, starts telling its story from there and how a stay of one year had been extended to more than a decade. If someone is destined to become a servile, beat the best out of it. Perhaps, Abdul Karim, the character well played by Ali Fazal, might have no bad intentions at the outset to grab a special position in Queen Victoria's mind or life. Maybe he was not aware of the gravity of the protocol breach caused by him and that led to the intimidations at the realm of executive affairs. The relationship between the monarch and the servant hit so badly on an empire preserved by the biggest martinets the world has ever seen. Despite the warnings given by the sticklers of propriety at the royal household, the queen utilized her monarchic immunity to promote Ali to the position of Munshi and a close confidant. Abdul, a Hafiz who knows the 114 Suras of Quran by heart, as he claims, teaches the queen a few Hindi/Urdu words and that ignites the intense feelings on Indian things in her. Inspired by the explained taste of mango, the 'queen of all fruits' and chutney made out of it, she even asks the royal household to have someone sent to India to bring it over. Imagine the plight change of an introvert queen that frequently dozes off at the dining table to an active persona and a vibrant party lover. The temperamental peculiarity of a monarch 'disagreeably attached to power,' as she claims, has been portrayed brilliantly by Judi Dench, who is no stranger to acting in this role. She had her trials in this role earlier in 1997 for the film, Mrs. Brown and in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.
By Suresh Nellikode8 years ago in Geeks
