Category Archive: A-Z

Jun 18

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Y is for Yentl

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Jun 04

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: X is for the X-Files: Fight The Future

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Sometimes, successful television shows make the leap to the bigger screen of the movie theatre. Usually, of course, it’s well after the original show is off the air. Or at the very least after the show has ended. I can honestly only think of two movies that were released while the show they originated from …

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May 14

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: W is for Watchmen

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Let’s get this out of the way right now: I loved this movie when it was first released. It’s one of my favorite graphic novel/comic stories, and I’d been heavily anticipating it since the first trailer was put out with The Dark Knight. I saw 3 times in the theatre, and for an almost 3 …

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May 07

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: V is for Vanilla Sky

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Pop culture is a funny thing. It invades almost every moment of our lives, to the point that now we compare our real lives to the fictional ones we’ve read/seen/heard. How many times a day do you quote The Simpsons, use a song lyric as a way to get across an idea, say something like …

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Apr 30

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: U is for Unbreakable

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An exercise in stillness, but within the genre of the superhero action film, M. Night Shymalan’s 2000 film Unbreakable is a strange amalgam of his own stylistic quirks with the demands of the chosen genre. Made right before Shymalan descended into his own massive ego black hole, it shows a director confident in his abilities, …

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Apr 16

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: T is for Tron: Legacy

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All the pretty lights and amazing music in the world won’t be able to overcome a lackluster plot and awful dialogue. Tron: Legacy is the poster child for this. With wonderful production design, very well-done 3D, a built-in audience nostalgic for the original, and a fantastic score by Daft Punk, the sequel to 1982′s Tron …

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Mar 26

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: S is for Scott Pilgrim Vs The World

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I love Edgar Wright. I love Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim comic series. So it’s fairly obvious that I would be very much in the bag for an adaptation of said series by aforementioned British director. I eagerly followed all casting and production news for it, devoured all the trailers and music videos, put the …

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Mar 19

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: R is for Road To Perdition

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The look and feel of a film is vastly important. Different directors and cinematographers can look at the same scene as written and create completely different tableaus, with different narrative choices and focuses. Sam Mendes’ film from 2002, Road To Perdition, with cinematography done by the Academy Award winning Conrad Hall, is one such film …

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Mar 12

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Q is for the Quiet Man

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John Wayne versus Victor McLaglen in a fist fight which ranges over a good chunk of landscape and has an intermission for a drink built-in. This is The Quiet Man, an American version of an Irish film if ever there was one. Full of drinking and fighting and discussions of Irish marriage customs(?), it’s a …

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Mar 06

The A-Z of Geek Cinema: P is for Prometheus

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Anticipation can be a killer. On one hand, your excitement can be built up so much for something, can be hyped up so high, that there is no way your expectations will be met. And in the same vein, maybe what you were expecting is completely counter to what you get. Your idea of how …

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