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Movie Review: Anthony Mackie is Reason Enough to See 'Synchronic'
Synchronic is the kind of movie that could have found a niche were it not for COVID-19 destroying so much of the theatrical economy. This sci-fi, time travel flick, starring Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan, has a clever time travel conceit and a performance by Anthony Mackie that likely would have worked at the box office with a good marketing campaign. The film does have a terrific poster, but sadly, COVID-19 will likely limit it’s box office promise. That’s a shame because Synchronic is a movie that deserves a chance to be seen.
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Frame Narrative
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 Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Batman (1989)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019’s book “1001 Movies to See Before You Die” and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I won’t be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself you’ll have to buy it. But I will be covering the book’s suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldn’t doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. We’re going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but we’re also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like “Joker” will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then don’t hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Let’s get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
City Lights (1931)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019’s book “1001 Movies to See Before You Die” and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I won’t be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself you’ll have to buy it. But I will be covering the book’s suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldn’t doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. We’re going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but we’re also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like “Joker” will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then don’t hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Let’s get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Existentialism
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 Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: "Marnie" (1964)
This was a film that is not a normal Hitchcock film and yet, it has all of the emotions of tension and suspense that are constantly associated with Hitchcock. “Marnie” is a film about a woman of many personalities, dealing in theft and greed, in hope and want for something more for herself and for her mother. What Marnie does not know is that a man is watching her every move from the moment she enters her new job. Sean Connery plays the super-suave James Bond like character in the same era where he was actually playing James Bond (this was actually during the same time one of my favourite Bond films “Thunderball” (1965) was being made, believe it or not!). There’s a lot os twists and turns like a normal Hitchcock film and I would definitely liken this film in personality to “Vertigo” (1958) and in plot towards “To Catch a Thief” (1954). However, it is much more dramatic and melodramatic than the earlier Hitchcock films and possibly marks a new direction in the way in which his films were being made with the changing atmosphere towards thriller films. Remember, by the end of this decade we would have “Rosemary’s Baby” (1968) and by the start of the next we would have “The Exorcist” (1973) and so, Hitchcock knew he had to start making his own moves either into the more graphic genre or towards a more dramatic and intense thriller. Needless to say, I didn’t think he’d be able to do the latter since his older films were already super-intense. But he did it. He managed to gain intensity without losing very much.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Deus Ex Machina
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 Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Metal under the shirt: Movie's least inspired climax
Warning: this article contains spoilers for Netflix's Enola Holmes and A Fistful of Dollars. I watched A Fistful of Dollars with my dad in my early teens, and it was life changing. It was the movie that helped a genre get off the ground and it made me fall in love with Westerns. It also has a brilliant ending. The unnamed hero stands up alone to the corrupt villain and is shot down, only to rise again and reveal that he had protected himself with a heavy circle of iron tied under his shirt. He guns down the bad guy and rides out of town with cash in his pockets.
By Rory Hoffman5 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'Borat' is Still Overrated
There is and has long been, a culture of cool around Sasha Baron Cohen. People just want to be in on Sasha Baron Cohen's joke and explain to everyone how they are in on the joke while so many others aren't. Count me as someone who is not entirely in on the joke. Cohen’s pseudo-documentary - hidden camera prank show- Borat, about a reporter from a backwoods former Russian republic, who traveled to America to learn our culture is funny, often riotously so. But was Borat really a zeitgeist grabbing bit of innovative comedy or was it just Jackass caught in the culture of cool?
By Sean Patrick5 years ago in Geeks
