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Best geek movies throughout history.
Movie Review: 'Jungle Cruise'
Jungle Cruise is a movie that exists. I should probably end this review right there as that is the only thing that needs to be acknowledged regarding Jungle Cruise. It’s a movie that people made and now it exists within the world. There is nothing remotely special about this fact or anything remotely negative about this fact. Jungle Cruise exists within the benign, a condition of existence that is at once harmless and but not exactly pleasant.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Twist'
Few movies scream ‘How do you do fellow kids’ louder than the new action comedy Twist. Twist takes pieces of Charles Dickens’ literary legend and crosses it with parkour and a pop soundtrack, along with several nods to Banksy, to hip up the Dickens classic. Because of course, the last thing kids want is to read a book that has stood the test of time as a classic work of literature for more than a century.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Lady in the Water'
With the release of Old, a strong success for M. Night Shyamalan, now seems like a good time to look back at his career. Thus, here's a reflection on Lady in the Water, Shyamalan's 2006 supernatural drama based on a bedtime story he told to his children. The film starred Bryce Dallas Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and M. Night Shyamalan himself.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
In Defence of "Twilight"
Late last year, I watched the 10th Aniversary of Twilight for a friend’s birthday. I’m not normally a fan, but when you’ve been friends for 20+ years, you make sacrifices. While sacrificing myself on the alter of boredom and trying desperately not to listen to the self-proclaimed ‘Twimoms’ behind me cooing over Robert Patterson and a pre-legal Tyler Launtner, I realised something.
By Natasja Rose5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'G.I Joe Origins: Snake Eyes'
I respect the people who put in the effort to make movies. I recognize the Herculean task of trying to form words, actions, captured in image, into a fashion that is coherent and satisfyingly entertaining for mass consumption. What these people do is nothing short of a miracle. That said, when images fail to cohere and my time is spent enduring the incoherent, I get frustrated, and I feel the need to write about that frustration.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: M Night Shyamalan's 'Old' (Spoiler Review)
Old stars Vicky Krieps and Gael Garcia Bernal as Prisca and Guy Capps, a married couple on the rocks. Prisca and Guy are approaching a separation just as Prisca is dealing with a a potentially cancerous tumor and the potential of an early death. The two have won an all expenses paid trip to an island paradise via a contest they weren’t even aware they were part of. So, they pack up themselves and their two kids, daughter Maddox 11, and son Trent 6.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Fairy Tales – The Ultimate Critic Proof Medium?
People often criticize fairy tales for promoting a dated, reactionary view of the world, but still maintain their status as defining cultural touchstones, with children continuing to read classic fairytales, watch fairytale films, and buy all sorts of Disney merchandise. Adults also love fairytales, with fairytale adaptations becoming a major YA subgenre, and fairytale films supposedly aimed at children gaining a vast millennial fanbase. In light of the continued perseverance of fairy tales, his article aims to examine whether or not they can be considered “Critic Proof”. To what extent do they evade the negative aspects of criticism, and how have responses to criticism allowed the genre to evolve? Due to Disney’s disproportionate dominance of the genre, much of this article will emphasize their movies, but it will also acknowledge the fairy tales they adapted, and some of the countless adaptations of these we have seen over the years.
By Fairy Tale Fanboy5 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Midnight in the Switchgrass'
Midnight in the Switchgrass stars Emile Hirsch as Detective Crawford, an investigator for the Florida Department of Criminal Investigation. Crawford is convinced that a serial killer is operating on the outskirts of Pensacola but he can’t prove it. The local cops aren’t interested because the victims are sex workers. Also, the killer’s M.O. is inconsistent, thus proving one man was behind each of the murders proves difficult.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
Black Widow Script Doctor
Spoilers ahead. I spent a lot of time on tumblr yelling about how there ought to be a Black Widow movie. I shouted about how the character had an established fan base who wanted to see her in a starring role. I screamed about how Scarlet Johansson was a proven box office draw. I bemoaned about how studio executives were stuck in outdated beliefs about how female superhero movies didn’t work.
By Buck Hardcastle5 years ago in Geeks
