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Best geek movies throughout history.
After 60 Years, ‘Psycho’ Remains as Ingenious as Ever
This month, Alfred Hitchcock‘s Psycho celebrates 60 years since its release. You already know its legacy; it’s one of the most famous horror movies ever, if not the most. But, over time, horror has become filled with more gore and startling scares to continue to attract audiences; in comparison, Psycho remains fresh despite the lack of those elements, even if its content was considered very radical for the time. Why is Psycho the classic horror movie it is, and why has the success of Psycho hardly been reproduced?
By MovieBabble6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The Short History of the Long Road'
Parents and children are an area of drama that movies don’t explore enough. The rich layers of life in the parent-child relationship make for wonderful stories. Proof of that concept is the new movie The Short History of the Long Road, an award worthy drama that explores the life of a young woman dealing with the dual traumas of lost and absent parents. Nola, played by the exceptional Sabrina Carpenter, demonstrates beautifully how loss and absence adds up to so much of who she is.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Pride Month Movie Review: 'Boy Erased'
Boy Erased is a powerful, infuriating, and deeply compelling work. This 'based on a true story' drama, from writer-actor-director Joel Edgerton, tells a very effective story in a straightforward and properly dramatic fashion. The story happens to tap a deep well of disdain in me, not toward the movie, but toward the subject. As a long time supporter of the LGBTQ community, love to my non-binary friends, Boy Erased made my blood boil just as it intended to.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
45 Things You Should Know About Batman Begins (2005)
This movie was released on the 15th June, 2005 and it was the beginning of a new era in comic book movies. It was the start of Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy where we would see the likes of villains portrayed by the incredible Liam Neeson, the terrifying Cillian Murphy, the Oscar Winning Late Heath Ledger, the chilling Marion Cotillard, the violent Bane of Tom Hardy and the ambiguous villainy of Selina Kyle played by Anne Hathaway. There's so much we have to thank Christopher Nolan for.
By Annie Kapur6 years ago in Geeks
'Choked: Paisa Bolta Hai' Movie Review
Introduction How far would you go for those you love? Sarita, mother-of-one, gives up her singing dreams to allow her husband his own chance of making it and to build the home. When bills and debt arise, Sarita has no option but to take every upcoming opportunity, even fraudulent money from her kitchen sink drain.
By Debbie Bello6 years ago in Geeks
Bloodshot - Review
The nineties were a unique time for the comic book industry. Marvel and DC lost their former influence, and independent publishers, usually founded by immigrants from the same Big Two, swiftly flooded the market. Some of these companies, for example, Image or Dark Horse, have survived to this day, while others have been supplanted or absorbed. But the publisher Valiant Comics suffered a different fate: in the 90s it launched several episodes and was bent, but in 2012 it suddenly resurrected and even made a lot of noise among comic book readers. Valiant decided to create its own full-fledged universe, with crossovers and global events, just like Marvel or DC. It turned out to be a fairly large and well-developed world, but instead of the battered Batmen and Hulks, there are other, largely unique characters. Only here on the big screen, we will not see them soon, because the first adaptation of Valiant comics turned out to be at least mediocre.
By Giorgi Mikhelidze6 years ago in Geeks
What does it mean to remove Gone with the Wind?
Today Warner removed Gone with the wind from HBO MAX for streaming. What does it really mean? Is it Warner taking a stand to help reduce racial equality? Is it a media stunt to garner support and attention to their new streaming service HBO MAX? Is it a reactionary move based on a society that has become to sensitive to world around it? On the surface it could look like a combination of all of it. With multiple reports coming out that the launch of HBO MAX was less than what Warner Bros wanted, it could easily be a move to garner attention to the service. It could be that Warner Bros is actually taking a stand to reduce the amount of racial inequality by removing a movie that depicts the civil war and the use of slaves. Of course there are some that believe the world has become to sensitive. The removal of this movie could simply be a reaction to that.
By Michael Herrera6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Artemis Fowl' is Good Enough
The new Disney Plus movie Artemis Fowl was one of the theatrical releases lost to the COVID-19 shutdown of most American movie theaters. The film based on the popular young adult book series of the same title, written and created by Eoin Colfer, has spawned numerous book sequels over the years and has long been sought and awaited as a film franchise. And yet, the movie feels too small and compact to be the start of an epic franchise.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
'EuroTrip': The Odd Art Form Of Doing Stupid In A Clever Way. Top Story - June 2020.
Back in the mid '00s, one of our middle school teachers decided to show us a movie for the last class of semester. Clearly well intentioned and looking for something youth oriented and educational, she had found a movie called EuroTrip. Safe to say, that much like Scotty in the film, she didn’t know. And, as pop punk Matt Damon cameo jumped on stage to sing about what it was exactly that Scotty didn’t know about, it was kind of too late to do anything about this little romp across a highly caricatured Europe we were about to take. It was dumb, it was fun and shameless almost to a point of being strangely endearing. It was — for (or despite of) all intents and purposes — an oddly perfect moment in time.
By Art-Peeter Roosve6 years ago in Geeks
‘Tommaso’ Loses Willem Dafoe in a Swell of Self-Indulgence
I like to live by a few principles, one of them being Willem Dafoe makes every movie better. It doesn’t matter if he has a hilarious man-bun and speaks a few lines of exposition in Aquaman, he always adds a little something extra to the role. It’s no secret then why director Abel Ferrara has worked with Dafoe on so many different occasions throughout his career; when it was time for Ferrara to find an actor to play a fictionalized version of himself for Tommaso, casting Dafoe was an easy choice.
By MovieBabble6 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'The King of Staten Island' is a Mixed Bag
It’s tempting, as an observer and critic of culture, to attempt to place movies within large contexts. “What does this movie say about insert grand subject here?” That’s not a bad approach per se but when it is applied too liberally, as to ANY movie you see, it doesn’t work so well. Some movies don’t have that kind of ambition or intent. Not every movie is trying to say something important.
By Sean Patrick6 years ago in Geeks
Man, I Miss Sports: 'Cinderella Man'
Sports has been one of the many casualties of the COVID-19 pandemic. While no one would count the loss of sports among the biggest casualties, or the return of sports a top priority, its absence is definitely making the heart grow fonder. Never in my life has there been a period without sports. It’s always been the great escape for whatever is ailing the world, for myself and so many others. Which makes it odder is to not have it when a distraction is needed now more than ever. So, while there are much bigger things in the world than sports, I still have to admit…man, I miss sports. So here at MovieBabble, we are coping with this by revisiting some classic sports movies!
By MovieBabble6 years ago in Geeks
