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Best geek movies throughout history.
A Filmmaker's Simple Guide to Creating Hauntings and Possessions
(This article is intended to teach and advise. If you would like to get the most out of this reading, please watch the films The Exorcist (1973) and The Woman in Black (2012) in order to get the best experience. They will feature as examples prominently throughout the article.
By Annie Kapur8 years ago in Geeks
'Death Note' on Netflix
The hubby and I finally sat down to watch the new Death Note movie on Netflix. We had our doubts, but had planned on watching it the moment we realized it was released. It seemed like it could be a good movie. It really did. After all, I had been eyeing the anime for months. So, a movie had potential.
By Jessie White8 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: 'The Pick-Up Artist'
The Pick Up Artist is a bizarrely bad movie of the kind only James Toback seems capable of. This mess of a romantic comedy and a gangster movie attempts to be both conventional and unconventional. Toback’s thing has always been arthouse style talky existentialism with a healthy dose of New York. Watching him try to cram that unusual sensibility into a mainstream movie would be unwatchable were it not for Robert Downey Jr. and Molly Ringwald who, at the very least, remain likable even as they struggle against a director lost in his attempt to serve the commercial and the arty.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
Armageddon: The Best Worst Movie Ever Made
“Miss Stamper? Colonel Willie Sharp, United States Air Force, ma’am. Requesting permission to shake the hand of the daughter...of the bravest man l've ever met,” William Fichtner delivers the gasp worthy line to Liv Tyler in Armageddon. Obviously not in a good way, the straight faces abound makes one wonder what kind of internal calisthenics the cast and crew had to exercise to keep from cringing. They had probably built up quite a resistance by this final indignity, but the Bruce Willis blockbuster actually does a marginal job rescuing itself. So if you do decide to drill down with these makeshift astronauts, coming out the other side actually feels ok.
By Rich Monetti8 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to Monsters
A monster is always scarier when they look human. This is the main point underlying films such as: Psycho, Interview with the Vampire, Dorian Gray and Red Eye. There's something about familiarity that disassociates us from guessing that they'd do any harm. But has this become overused? Have we forgotten the basic notion of being a monster is to look scary? Or are we moving away from Freddy vs. Jason and into The People vs. OJ Simpson?
By Annie Kapur8 years ago in Geeks
Original vs. Remake
Stephen King's killer clown movie, IT, has had the remake treatment. Starring Bill Skarsgard as the malicious entity, the movie is closer to the source material than the original 1990 miniseries, but how does it compare to the three hour epic that gave a generation a severe case of coulrophobia?
By S. K. Gregory8 years ago in Geeks
Making the Case for 'Get Out' at the Academy Awards
Every year there is a movie that audiences and critics take to in a big way and that the Academy dismisses for whatever reason. Movies like Gone Girl, The Dark Knight, or 10 Cloverfield Lane that audiences and critics seem to believe in concert are among the best movies of their given year get ignored by the Academy for being too much of a genre piece, too much of an audience favorite or some other similar nonsense.
By Sean Patrick8 years ago in Geeks
When 'Jaws' Meets 'Cast Away'
Ron Howard’s movie In the Heart of the Sea, depicts a chain of catastrophic events from 1820 that inspired the tale of Moby-Dick. Essentially, it is a story about a story, which only makes me wonder: Have Hollywood filmmakers truly exhausted all the great tales, and now have to contend with secondary resources in order to come up with new ideas?
By Little Blue Rucksack8 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Happy Birthday to Me
"Go shawty - it's yo' berf-day" — 50 Cent (2003) Okay, it WAS my birthday in August and one of my many guilty pleasures is this absolutely shitty 1981 slasher pic that if anything was known for its iconic movie graphic art (with graphic being the operative word). A young, wide-eyed, terrified teenage male is about to be orally skewered by a shish kebab...how very Artemisia Gentileschi! It's held up by a glove; above the image, the tagline: "John will never eat shish kebab again."
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
H'ween Horrorthon: Beetlejuice
Hello out there. So...my second entry is a comedy (as was promised). Horror and comedy have been two genres that have been mixed together since the days of Abbott & Costello when they went up against all the monsters from The Universal backlot. The success of Ivan Reitman's 80s horror/comedy Ghostbusters paved the way for other horror spec scripts to undergo a more comedic transformation — and no surprise, Beetlejuice was one of the horror/comedy hybrids that got greenlit — and it actually worked.
By Carlos Gonzalez8 years ago in Geeks
