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Reviews of the top geek movies, tv, and books in the industry.
East, as Part of a Season of Bangla Drama
Where: Rich Mix When: November 10th of 2017 at 7:30 PM. About the Makers: East is a group of storytellers in East London. Their purpose is to create a space for telling stories in different ways and including people that do not have experience with storytelling in public. All their stories can be found here which is the place where they store all the information and stories of the collaboration between Daedalus Theatre Company and Bishwo Shahitto Kendro (BSK). People are invited to get involved into this project, becoming a part of this community.
By Laura Jaramillo Duque8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Last Flag Flying'
Last Flag Flying is a rare movie. It’s a daring depiction of the aftermath of death in a modern war. It’s an exploration of the hearts and minds of the people left behind. It’s also a movie that feels at times as if it isn’t going particularly anywhere and manages past fits and starts to reach a deeply affecting end. It’s the kind of mainstream drama that you expect Richard Linklater’s idiosyncratic style might render inert in the same neutered manner of his mainstream take on The Bad News Bears.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Good Time'
Why don’t I love Good Time? So many of my critical colleagues adore the film and yet I can’t see the full appeal. I love the look of the film, a grimy, color saturated chase through the underbelly of small-time Brooklyn crime, but the story just leaves me cold. Scene after scene I keep waiting for the film to find another gear and kick into the movie that so many of my colleagues have raved about and it just never comes. What I am left with is a fine looking movie with a terrific score that relies far too heavily on a contrivance-filled plot to get from one scene to the next.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Book Review: 'Eliza and Her Monsters' by Francesca Zappia
Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappa is the story of 18 year old, loner high school student Eliza Mirk. By day Eliza is known to her school as the weird kid that keeps to herself and has no friends but by night Eliza is LadyConstellation, creator of the extremely popular web series, Monstrous Sea. Eliza keeps her two worlds separate, the only people that know of her secret identity are her family and her two online best friends that help her run her website. When Eliza is given the task of showing around the new kid her world becomes increasingly more complicated as she discovers that he is a Monstrous Sea fan.
By Liana Hewitt8 years ago in Geeks
The Tale of an Unsung Confidant of Queen Victoria
Abdul Karim was more than happy to travel to England to hand over a special valued coin brought out in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations, as instructed by his boss in British India. The film, Victoria and Abdul, starts telling its story from there and how a stay of one year had been extended to more than a decade. If someone is destined to become a servile, beat the best out of it. Perhaps, Abdul Karim, the character well played by Ali Fazal, might have no bad intentions at the outset to grab a special position in Queen Victoria's mind or life. Maybe he was not aware of the gravity of the protocol breach caused by him and that led to the intimidations at the realm of executive affairs. The relationship between the monarch and the servant hit so badly on an empire preserved by the biggest martinets the world has ever seen. Despite the warnings given by the sticklers of propriety at the royal household, the queen utilized her monarchic immunity to promote Ali to the position of Munshi and a close confidant. Abdul, a Hafiz who knows the 114 Suras of Quran by heart, as he claims, teaches the queen a few Hindi/Urdu words and that ignites the intense feelings on Indian things in her. Inspired by the explained taste of mango, the 'queen of all fruits' and chutney made out of it, she even asks the royal household to have someone sent to India to bring it over. Imagine the plight change of an introvert queen that frequently dozes off at the dining table to an active persona and a vibrant party lover. The temperamental peculiarity of a monarch 'disagreeably attached to power,' as she claims, has been portrayed brilliantly by Judi Dench, who is no stranger to acting in this role. She had her trials in this role earlier in 1997 for the film, Mrs. Brown and in 1998 for Shakespeare in Love.
By Suresh Nellikode8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Dawson City: Frozen Time'
The awards season is an extraordinarily busy time for film critics. With hundreds of films big and small jockeying for our attention, it can be nearly impossible to get to everything. When you’re a critic who also has a day job, that task becomes even more daunting. That’s why I love year-end Top 10 lists. I follow as many as I can find from every place around the world so I can try to get to anything that deeply touched a fellow critic.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
The Millennial’s ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ **Spoiler Alert**
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the beloved and adored Spike Lee released his second coming, in the form of a mini series, of the 80’s film She’s Gotta Have It. As an Afro-wearing, black art loving, African American, feminist, millennial, I felt it my duty to tune in; and tune in I did, to all ten episodes...in one night. Here are my findings, and let me be real, this will not be your Refinery29, IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 kind of review. I’m a black girl, a black artist, a black feminist, a black—everything, so I won’t insult anyone by pretending to be unbiased; nor will I create this falsehood where that doesn’t matter. I am honest, though, if that counts for something. So let’s jump right in!
By Inae'e Aidoo8 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: 'Ferdinand'
Blue Sky Animation is the home of the truly mediocre in modern animation. The house that the awful Ice Age movies built is back again and apparently attempting to hide their latest bit of sub-par animation by opening Ferdinand opposite Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Smart move, Blue Sky. Burying Ferdinand is definitely the right call. No, the movie isn’t terrible, it’s just mediocre. And in a world where Pixar still rules, it’s not a bad idea to drop your more modestly ambitious products where few audiences will see it.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Visaranai : A Visceral treatment on cops, the system and everybody else caught in between
The first few montages of the yet-to-dawn nocturnal life are enough to invite the film festival community to engage in the story. Visaranai is the big screen transformation of Chandra Kumar's documented novel Lock Up; a true story about how police brutality and inhuman interrogation techniques go into tormenting innocents to admit false crimes. A group of migrants from Tamil Nadu working in Andhra Pradesh are taken into illegal custody by local police . What follows is a gruesome police drill involving batons, boots and banana stems. All they want is a confession; a fake confession. 'Attakathi Dinesh' as Pandi is the stand-up guy unwilling to surrender fearing a larger force at play and more importantly, he wants to do a great many things in life. 'Aadukalam' Murugadoss as Murugan can be easily tricked, Afsal is innocent to the core and Kumar is severally battered at an early stage.
By Mohammed Hidhayat8 years ago in Geeks
Scarface (1983) Review
The masterful director Brian De Palma strongly believes that when you start a movie, you want to give the lead character a very impressive entrance. In 1983, he introduced one of the most iconic characters in the simplest of ways, a close-up, sitting in a chair. As the camera rolled around him 360 degrees, a face was introduced to modern audiences. Tony Montana, a political prisoner from Cuba, brought to life in an iconic fashion by the talented Al Pacino.
By Jael Castillo8 years ago in Geeks
