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Best geek movies throughout history.
The Legacy of Robbie Coltrane
Dearly departed great actor Robbie Coltrane died at age 72. The sad actor died it's unclear if he was sick or not. I will deeply saddened by this because I loved Rubeus Hagrid. He was the most gentle giant, the best casting in the Harry Potter series was when they casted Robbie Coltrane.
By Emily Curry (Rising Phoenix)3 years ago in Geeks
The Son review: 'A flawed film with a kind heart'
What does it mean to be a good father? It's a question many who find themselves responsible for caring for a child will ask themselves at one point or another. Is it a case of not repeating the same mistakes as your own parents? Is it about listening to and believing in your child when they're at their most emotionally vulnerable? Or is it obeying what authority figures say is best, even if you risk feeling cruel for siding with a stranger over your own flesh and blood? Parenthood – with all its various obstacles that require careful moral unknotting – is the subject of Florian Zeller's The Son, a well-meaning but hokey drama based on his own stage play Le Fils.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
Why are we so fascinated by identical twins?
o re twins are being born now than ever before. The number has soared in the past 20 years, according to the Twins Trust, a UK organisation which supports twins and their families, with two of the suggested factors for this being the rising use of IVF and the fact more people are starting their families later in life: multiple embryos are often implanted in IVF and older mothers tend to have elevated follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) levels, both things which make the chance of having twins more likely. However the number of identical twin births has not climbed so dramatically. The likelihood of having identical twins is about one in 250 (or 0.5%). Their relative rarity is just one of the reasons why identical twins have fascinated writers through history.
By Cindy Dory3 years ago in Geeks
Film review: At Eternity’s Gate
There may never have been a painter as sure of his artistic vision, yet as emotionally needy, psychologically troubled and socially isolated as Vincent van Gogh. Willem Dafoe’s magnificent performance captures every bit of the artist’s complexity in Julian Schnabel’s At Eternity’s Gate. With stunning visuals and a judicious balance of poetry and drama, Schnabel draws us into both Van Gogh’s genius and his tortured life.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
White Noise is 'thrillingly original'
t seems like no time at all since Adam Driver was playing the embodiment of cocky youth in Noah Baumbach's While We're Young (2014). But one of the great things about Baumbach's films is that as he gets older, his angst-ridden characters get older, too: with each new project he shines a light on the worries of another age bracket. In his brutal 2019 divorce drama, Marriage Story, Driver played a director who wasn't a hip young flavour-of-the-month any more. And now, in Baumbach's latest brilliant comedy, which opened the Venice Film Festival, Driver is middle-age incarnate: a university professor with thinning hair, a thickening waistband, and a looming awareness that he might be closer to death than birth. The role suits him so beautifully that awards nominations should be heading his way.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
Film review:Green Book
Tony Vallelonga is a hot-tempered Italian-American nightclub bouncer. Don Shirley is a highly educated black pianist. Dr Shirley, as he’s known, can play Chopin – a name that comes out of Tony’s mouth sounding like ‘Joe Pan’. In 1962, the decorous, tightly-wound Shirley hires the brash Tony to drive and give him some thuggish protection on a concert tour through the segregated American South. Only someone who has never viewed a movie before – not just Driving Miss Daisy, but any movie at all – will fail to see where this odd-couple, buddy-comedy road movie is going.
By Cindy Dory3 years ago in Geeks
Film review: Mary Poppins Returns
How do you make a sequel to one of the most beloved live-action children’s films ever? For several decades, the answer was: you don’t. Mary Poppins was released in 1964, but even though the source novel’s author PL Travers wrote seven further books about the Banks family’s magical nanny, no one attempted to follow a film that was, to use Mary’s own phrase, practically perfect in every way.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
The Jurassic Park film that was never made
The structure is so ancient that it feels almost prehistoric. Some people take a trip to a remote island, they see some dinosaurs, and then the dinosaurs try to have them for lunch. It’s what happened in Jurassic Park in 1993, and by the time the first sequel came out in 1997, the screenplay was already poking fun at how formulaic it was. “‘Ooh, aah’, that’s how it always starts,” says Jeff Goldblum’s Dr Ian Malcolm in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. “Then later there’s running and screaming.” How right he was. But this self-knowledge didn’t stop the makers of Jurassic Park III (2001) and Jurassic World (2015) sticking to the formula, and it wasn’t until the second half of this year’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom that the series found somewhere else to go.
By Cindy Dory3 years ago in Geeks
'Is Anybody There' with Michael Caine Jerks Tears Across Intergenerational Relationships and Into the Afterlife
This past Sunday director John Crowley, Sir Michael Caine and his 14 year old co-star Bill Milner appeared at Jacob Burns Film Center with a screening of their new independent film, Is Anybody There? Wanting to do something seen through the eyes of a child, Mr. Crowley knew he had his idea when discussing the intergenerational upbringing friend and screenwriter Peter Harness.
By Rich Monetti3 years ago in Geeks
