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Best geek movies throughout history.

The painful truths about motherhood exposed
"He'll bulldoze your life, destroy your relationships, and when he's got you completely to himself: he'll destroy you. It's what he does," says a wizened older lady to another woman, who, in a strange series of events, has had a baby literally drop into her arms.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
Frenzy at 50: The most violent film Hitchcock ever made
child of the Victorian age, Alfred Hitchcock was always fascinated by stories of the elusive Jack the Ripper and other supposedly "gentlemanly" murderers who lived in plain sight but stalked their victims from the shadows.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
How the Arab Spring changed cinema
It is the story of a reversal of fortune: a camel rider previously recruited by the associates of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak to attack protesters at the peak of Egypt’s 2011 mass protests finds his own revolutionary spirit in an October protest of the same year. He does so in a peaceful demonstration – staged by a group of Coptic Christians – against the demolition of a church in the southern part of the country. However the situation spirals out of control; violence erupts, and the rider gets shot by an invisible attacker.
By Mejra3 years ago in Geeks
Will Hollywood ever show us the ‘real India’?
In a minor scene in the new film The White Tiger, released today on Netflix, rich-kid businessman Ashok (Rajkummar Rao) exclaims to his driver, Balram Halwai (Adarsh Gourav), "you know the real India". The two of them are at a Delhi dhaba – a local quick-stop restaurant, one of hundreds spread over north India – tucking into what looks like a simple meal. Balram possibly eats an even sparser version of this food every day. But Ashok is just back from the US, American-Indian wife in tow, and giddy at the promise of what this market of over a billion people holds for his new business ideas. To him, this meal is one more step towards understanding the puzzle that is his home country.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
The timeless appeal of one-man-and-his-dog stories
In the 1991 film adaptation of Jack London’s classic novel White Fang, there's a scene where Ethan Hawke's Jack Conroy, a city boy trying to strike it rich in the Klondike Gold Rush of 1896, inadvertently causes the sled being pulled by the dogs of his guides to topple over. He's brought too many books with him on the journey to Yukon Valley and the weight has offset the balance of the transport.
By Cindy Dory3 years ago in Geeks
Malcolm & Marie is a 'vibrant, perceptive film'
n one long night in the relationship of a film director and his girlfriend, John David Washington and Zendaya talk, shout, argue, insult, attack, counter-attack, kiss, make-up, then argue all over again. The ghosts of many other bad-relationship dramas hover over Malcolm & Marie, including Scenes From a Marriage, Marriage Story and especially Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, whose black-and-white look and one-night time frame are echoed in this new film. But writer and director Sam Levinson, who also created the audacious and enthralling HBO series Euphoria, gives the familiar story a makeover with dynamic, sensitive performances from its hugely talented stars, and a story that broadens to include race and the new Hollywood. The two-character film was devised and made during the pandemic, but needs no special pleading for its circumstances. Levinson turns his small-scale approach into an asset that only enhances the film's intensity.
By Mejra3 years ago in Geeks
The buried ship found on an English estate
They began at first light. The strongest of the king's guard, sinews straining, rough ropes chafing, hauled the heavy oak ship from the river on to the shore. And then, with the rising sun slowly burning off the chill morning mist, they heaved the vessel over the plain and to the foot of the hill. The crowds on the slope watched silently as they inched it up to the summit and the graveyard reserved for royal descendants of the one-eyed god. When the craft had been manoeuvred into the trench prepared for it, mourners laid the grave goods in the burial chamber in its centre. Then a mound was raised over it. And there the ship lay, moored fast in the East Anglian earth but journeying through time until, 13 centuries later on the eve of World War Two, a man called Basil Brown discovered it.
By Cindy Dory3 years ago in Geeks
Luca is 'personal and charming'
If you don't live in Italy, and you don't have a holiday booked there, then watching Luca might be the next best thing. The new Disney-Pixar film is set in and around an idealised Riviera village, a rustic paradise of trattorias, vineyards, and crumbling town squares with fountains in the middle. In fact, celebrating the Italian dolce vita could well be the cartoon's main purpose. A gelato-sweet coming-of-age fantasy, Luca is inspired in part by The Little Mermaid, but mostly by the childhood of its director, Enrico Casarosa, an animation veteran who makes his debut as a feature director here. Instead of aiming for the metaphysical profundity of Pixar's last offering, Soul, or the mythological sprawl of Disney's recent action-epic, Raya and the Last Dragon, Casarosa has crafted a modest and gentle yarn about a few good-natured people in a small area, and their enviably simple way of life. His cartoon is aimed at the heart – and the tastebuds – rather than the brain. And it's no less of a delight for that.
By Sue Torres3 years ago in Geeks
Sitting chess with death? Bergman's in-depth explanation of death coming
The issue of life and death has always been a subject that many creators like to touch, and the influence of this subject is also very high among the audience. Because the subject matter can provoke thoughts, creators can always find too many core points whenever they create related creations. Some creators are fond of expressing the steadfastness of life, while others are good at reflecting the calmness of death.
By Phoenix3 years ago in Geeks
Terminally ill, she became a millionaire
Everyone likes to spend their lives searching for the true meaning of life, but life often has no obvious true meaning. When you think everything is terrible, maybe the next moment it will be better, and vice versa will fall into the abyss. But life is life, life never changes. Many people are accustomed to the same life, like the occasional outbursts and seek excitement, but eventually will return, after such changes, what is life?
By Phoenix3 years ago in Geeks
In this way, the detective was cheated by women over and over again
The movie we recommend to you today seems to have a lot of attributes. The film "Beyond the Vortex" is a film noir, it tells the story of a private detective, whose boss is a gambling stick called White, Jeff was once ordered to investigate White's mistress Kathy, but the results are contrary to expectations, due to Kathy's charm, Jeff did not hesitate to betray White and Kathy far away. But things always go wrong, due to various conflicts, Jeff and Kathy parted ways, and then Jeff anonymously opened a gas station in the town to earn a living and has a lovely girlfriend Ann. But not for long, White found Jeff, Jeff wants to say goodbye to everything, but he can do it?
By Phoenix3 years ago in Geeks
If, the whole country suffers from PTSD ......
This is a historical background, and in this context, today we recommend the film "Aboulela". This is an Algerian film, but also a response to the Algerian people after the tragic civil war, the soul of certain injuries, these injuries, where will the Algerians be tomorrow?
By Phoenix3 years ago in Geeks