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Best geek movies throughout history.
Classic Movie Review: Pathfinder
While watching a Criterion Film on an app on your phone is something akin to listening to Beethoven’s Fifth on a blown out Walkman, I must say that my purchase of the FilmStruck app has been a pretty great investment thus far. This week alone I watched Joan Crawford and Henry Fonda in Daisy Kenyon, my 10th viewing of Bogart in In a Lonely Place and this evening I indulged my taste for obscure foreign adventure films by watching the 1987 Norwegian hunting thriller Pathfinder.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
No Country for Old Men
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 neo-western/thriller directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin. This bleak, nihilistic tale tells a story of morality, causality, and the inevitability of death. One day while hunting, Llewelyn Moss finds the aftermath of a drug deal gone wrong: most of the gang members dead and a briefcase containing 2 Million dollars. The only survivor begs Llewelyn for water, but he ignores him and leaves with the money. That night, haunted by guilt, he returns to the scene to deliver water to the dying man, only to find out that he's already dead. This simple act of consciousness leads to his downfall, as it alerts the ruthless assassin Anton Chigurh (who is looking for the money) of his existence and things start to spiral into chaos. In the middle of all this is Sheriff Ed Tom Bell, who is trying to make sense of all the mess and come to terms with the world changing around him.
By Camilo Caballero9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: The Big Easy Turns 30
This week in 1987 The Big Easy starring Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin and directed by Jim McBride was released nationwide following a brief run on the awards circuit in late 1986. The film tells the story of a corrupt New Orleans Police Detective named Remy McSwain, played by Quaid, who’s about to learn that corruption doesn’t really pay. Ellen Barkin is a District Attorney tasked with investigating Remy’s corruption and that of his fellow New Orleans brothers in Blue.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Examining Isabelle Corey in 'Bob Le Flambeur'
In 1956, model Isabelle Corey got her big break in the movies when legendary director Jean Pierre Melville discovered her in the Latin Quarter of Paris. Melville cast Corey as Anne in his classic noir Bob Le Flambeur. Corey would go on from there to star in Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman, alongside the legendary Brigitte Bardot before moving to Italy to work with some of that country’s legends including Franco Rossi, Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Corey made 16 films in 15 years before quitting the business in 1961.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Popular Movie Review Podcast 'I Hate Critics' Changes Name
For those that are only still becoming familiar with my work as a critic, you may not know that I am also a podcaster. I know very original, a movie critic with a podcast. It's hosted by music critic Bob Zerull, film fanatic Josh Adams and myself, offering three unique perspectives on movies, new and old. The show has become relatively popular and recently, Bob, Josh and I, made an important decision to change our name. We were called I Hate Critics: A Movie Review Podcast. We are now calling ourselves Everyone's A Critic and below is my explanation why. At the bottom of the article, you will find links so that you can listen to the show and let us know what you think of the show, the new name and anything else you might be interested in commenting on.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Classic Movie Review: Bob Le Flambeur 1956
The classic on this week’s Everyone’s a Critic Movie Review Podcast is, arguably, the very first film of the French New Wave, Bob Le Flambeur, translated as Bob the Gambler. Bob Le Flambeur is a classic American style heist film seen through the lens of a French admirer of American movies, Jean Pierre Melville. It is Melville’s French sensibility, the way he focuses not on the heist but on the atmosphere of a heist that separates Bob Le Flambeur from American heist movies which had and have turned safe-cracking and men smoking in back rooms leaning over complex drawings into classic film tropes.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
Reed Alexander's Review of "The Bay"
The Bay, round two, FIGHT! The first time I attempted to watch this festering pile of red hot bloody diarrhea, it didn't pass my 30 minute rule... actually it didn't pass 5 minutes... okay, to be honest, I watched for about 1 minute and 30 seconds and had to hold back the urge to plant my fist through the screen of my TV. I just turned it off. After about a ten-second clip of some pretty neat media scrambles, this lady's face pops onto the screen and just completely kills the mood.
By Reed Alexander9 years ago in Geeks
'Fifty Shades Darker' Review
Could it be, I found a worse movie than Fifty Shades of Grey? Yes I did, the sequel, Fifty Shades Darker. I know I'm late as they say on this review because this came out in the beginning of 2017, but I was still trying to recover from the original movie and let's be honest, I really tried as long as possible to not see this (call it my procrastination or just call it me trying not to lose brain cells for as long as possible). In case you couldn't tell, I'm not a fan of this "franchise." I couldn't finish the first book because I thought it was the worst writing since I wrote a story in second grade about a blob named SOOOOO who liked to go fishing (yes I did write that, and maybe it's better than these books). Fifty Shades of Grey the movie I thought was dull, not sexy and full of red flags of an abusive relationship. Nearly the thought of the sequel really got me in the fetal position. Telling my boyfriend that I was going to watch this, he gave me my sympathy (being a good girlfriend I would never let him watch this with me). Well here it goes, finally, I'm sure you wanted me to suffer. This is my review of Fifty Shades Darker.
By Christine Clossey9 years ago in Geeks
Movie Review: Celebrating 30 Years of Dirty Dancing
“It’s nothing, Marjorie, go back to sleep.” As I watched Dirty Dancing for the first time in several years, this seemingly throwaway line from Jerry Orbach to Kelly Bishop, as the parents of Jennifer Grey’s Frances “Baby” Houseman, struck me. Orbach's Jake, a wealthy doctor, has just returned to his bungalow at this Catskills Hotel after having given treatment to Cynthia Rhodes’ Penny who has just undergone what at the time was referred to as a back-alley abortion. This was after she’d been knocked up by Robbie, a selfish snob doing time to raise money he doesn’t need for his Ivy League education.
By Sean Patrick9 years ago in Geeks
