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Best geek movies throughout history.
Movies that Make the Indoors Look Appealing!
We’ve all spent lots of time indoors over the last couple of years… It was unbelievably bizarre, in unprecedented ways! Blockbusters were depressingly pushed back, sport halted, and holidays outlawed. So, to make previous proceedings seem somewhat less desolate and disheartening, here are 8 movies which remind us that, mercifully, you can’t get ambushed by a bear, mangled into permanent disfigurement by a plummeting boulder or hunted by bloodthirsty wolves from the safety of your home! Maybe, we didn’t miss going anyway?
By Will Milligan4 years ago in Geeks
Fictional Leaders You May Or May Not Want in Charge!
Leading is not straightforward. With politics a more estranging and toxic subject than ever, pummelling actual figureheads can become increasingly tedious, even if momentarily satisfying. So, let’s consider which fictional personas we’d like our own commanders to duplicate! After all, some fabricated leaders have to deal with the most atrocious and chilling tribulations imaginable – assassination attempts, impending destruction and political infidelity and deceit. How they deal with these incidents could well show our own people in power a thing or two, or perhaps more plausibly, demonstrate exactly how not to do it!
By Will Milligan4 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide: "Winter Light" (1963)
In this chapter of ‘the filmmaker’s guide’ we’re actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the ‘filmmaker’s guide’ - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how you’re doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmaker’s guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur4 years ago in Geeks
The Princess Switch 3 - Romancing the Star - review (Netflix)
Brief synopsis: When a priceless jewelled attract gets stolen, a queen and princess decide to recruit the criminal doppelgänger cousin of the queen to help retrieve it. The artefact needs returning before the cardinal, who lent the artefact, finds out, causing an international incident.
By Q-ell Betton4 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ghostbusters Afterlife' Does Nostalgia Right
I have, in the past, been the first to call out Hollywood studios for churning out nostalgia like so much microwaved, reheated, dinners, the kinds you forgot in the back of the fridge until its stench was impossible to deny. Coming 2 America is a great example of a bankrupt, desperate cash grab that plays like 3 day old leftovers. Now, I am no less susceptible to nostalgia than you are dear reader, but given that I am subjected to far more of Hollywood’s laziest rehashing than the average movie-goer, I’m in a position to be more judgmental than most.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
Documentary Review: The Life of Kurt Vonnegut 'Unstuck in Time'
Kurt Vonnegut was famous for many reasons but one of the highlights of his work was when he would write himself into his stories. A famous instance of this can be found in his bestseller, Breakfast of Champions, where Vonnegut revealed himself to the character, Kilgore Trout and explained that he was Trout’s creator, the author of the book where Trout was a character. It’s a wonderfully off-beat bit of meta and it was part of Vonnegut’s charm. Director, documentarian, and friend of Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Weide was undoubtedly influenced by his friend when he decided to write himself into his documentary on the famed author, Unstuck in Time.
By Sean Patrick4 years ago in Geeks
‘Wicked: The Musical’ Film Announces Their Lead Actresses
Years ago, when Wicked the musical came out and was an instant sensation, the musical world promised fans a movie rendition of the epic show. However, it wasn’t until recently that that promise came to fruition. When Universal Studios officially greenlit the movie a couple of years ago, many fans were still skeptical because it had taken so long to get it going. However, with the recent announcement of casting, particularly the leading roles, that disbelief that the movie version is coming out is gone from people’s heads. The Wicked movie is coming, and fans couldn’t be more excited about it.
By Culture Slate4 years ago in Geeks
