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Why Harry Potter is my Favorite Harry Potter Character
Let me preface this by saying that I am talking about the books and the books only. As an OG (and pretty hardcore) fan of the books, the movies have never been my favorite. After the first four, watching any of the movies with me is basically a test of my friends’ patience as I systematically and passionately critique every inconsistency and change in detail when compared to the flawless brilliance of the books (in my opinion of course, and keeping any JK Rowling controversies aside). But I digress; my love for the series is a whole other article, maybe even multiple ones. This one is all about the most underrated protagonist, and why he will always remain my favorite character from the books.
By Maahi Trivedi4 years ago in Geeks
Dance with the Devil: The Joker in Cinema. Top Story - February 2022.
Every few decades, something very unique happens: An audience sits down in a movie theater, the movie screen illuminates and the audience is swept away. The energy of the auditorium changes and everyone realizes they are watching something special. This happened when audiences were introduced to Darth Vader. It happened again two decades later when Clarice Starling walked into that dungeon, down the corridor, and was greeted by Dr. Hannibal Lecter. And it happened in 2008 when this masked figure robbed a bank in Gotham City. The Joker arrived. He’d been in live-action movies before but this time something was different; something we could not articulate. Cinema had changed.
By George A. Velez4 years ago in Geeks
Eternals vs GotG 2
So I watched and was disappointed by the Eternals and to be quite honest all I was thinking about through a good portion of that movie was “Guardians of the galaxy did this so much better” because like it or not we’ve already been introduced to the concept of eternals and we’ve already seen a family like dynamic when they all have different motivations and moral compasses. We’ve already seen relationships within a family like a unit develop and play out and we’ve seen it sone so much better then the underdeveloped mess that the eternals gave us.
By Alexandrea Callaghan4 years ago in Geeks
How a Girl Growing up in Mississippi in the 1980’s Became a Nerd
A radioactive spider bit Peter Parker. Melvin Junko fell into a barrel of toxic waste. Gollum found a ring. All great stories start with the origin of the hero, villain, or anti-hero. So how does a girl growing up in Mississippi during the 1980s become a nerd? I will revisit the things I enjoyed in the past to try to answer that question. Spoiler alert: there is no radioactivity involved, though my cousin and I did try to dig a hole in a hill for shelter to protect us from the Cold War.
By The Nerd Habit4 years ago in Geeks
Psycho Goreman
SPOILER ALERT! There, you’ve been warned with the all caps. For the past twenty years, there has been a dominant trend in American cinema that has gradually moved into Europe and farther east into Asia (although S. Korea and Japan are a beast of their own) that has dominated the screen. The need for blood...and more blood. More killing, more slaughter. More murder and death and calamity and chaos. Yeah, you get the point. I call this trend, the blood sacrifice effect. The saying “if it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lead,” comes to mind as we could see in Dan Gilroy’s 2014 L.A. crime drama, Nightcrawler. One almost senses that the filmmakers of today have become as desperate as Jake Gyllenhal’s, Louis Bloom, making a killing by exploiting his fellow man’s agony and death; showcasing an often excruciating exposé of the fatality on screen. Horror has always been a mainstay in cinema, yet the true essence the horror genre carries has rarely been showcased, save for a few films. Now, it is also subjective, as art is, in considering what is horror to someone and what is not. But maybe this is what I’m getting at; that through this dominant trend of the blood sacrifice effect, it has slowly, steadily, but surely sterilized it’s audience to anything that would of been truly horrific to watch on the screen in our grandparent’s era, to what the current and modern audience has grown immune to.
By Matthew Ward4 years ago in Geeks
#1Fan
If anyone has ever watched this movie Named Misery Which is a 1990 American psychological thriller film directed by Rob Reiner , based on Stephen King 's 1987 novel of the same name, starring James Caan , Kathy Bates , Lauren Bacall , Richard Farnsworth , and Frances Sternhagen about an obsessive fan who holds an author captive and forces him to write a story, I believe everyday we have these type of fans, whether on Instagram, Facebook or twitter. Sometimes on these websites we want a normal person to follow us, some just pretend to be a singer , or even a actor, and tell you that you are there number one fan. I don't know about anyone else but I just want a normal fan.
By Chantell hayes4 years ago in Geeks
Uncharted Movie Review
Nowadays, video game movies are receiving higher budgets and increased backing from the gaming titans; on occasion they also find higher recognition. For years, Uncharted has been a glistening jewel in Sony’s crown, its cinematic direction driving the medium to more mature stories. While it seemed like a no-brainer to convert the series to the silver screen, its late arrival and basic design drag it down from greatness.
By Robert Cain4 years ago in Geeks
Licorice Pizza - A Movie Review
Okay, so we’re out of gas and we’re at the top of a hill. How bad is the situation? Licorice Pizza was released to theaters in 2021. Taking place in San Fransisco in 1973, Alana Kane, a 25-year-old woman meets Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old actor. Wanting to remain as friends, they wonder if they could be more as they create their own water bed business.
By Marielle Sabbag4 years ago in Geeks
Half Time Show Shenanigans:Intro
The Greatest Super Bowl Halftime Performance was, is, and forever will be : Prince. This is not up for debate. I mean you can try to fix your face to name someone else, but I’ma just stare you down until you relent or drop your gaze in shame and /or embarrassment while pretending to reach for the nachos…and while you’re crunching and the crumbs fall onto your shirt…
By Majique MiMi4 years ago in Geeks
The Kindergarten Teacher - A Netflix Movie Review
We are going to show your talent to the world. Everybody needs to hear your poems. The Kindergarten Teacher was released to Netflix in 2018. One of Lisa’s kindergarten students has a gift to recite poems. Becoming obsessed with his talent, Lisa decides to enroll him in a poetry-speaking event.
By Marielle Sabbag4 years ago in Geeks
