The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Z is for Zardoz
How does one even put Zardoz into words? I mean this quite seriously. The "arc words" of the film (to borrow a phrase from TV Tropes) is "The gun is…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: Y is for Yellow Submarine
POP QUIZ: what Beatles movie doesn't even feature the Beatles for more than a handful of minutes? ANSWER: Yellow Submarine, the 1968 animated musical fantasmagoria based on the Lennon/McCartney song…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: X is for X2: X-Men United
The opening scene of a film is super-important. Like the opening paragraph of a book, or the cold open of a television show, its purpose is two-fold: to grab the…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: W is for the Wrestler
Let us now sit in praise of Darren Aronofsky. One of my favorite directors working today, Â and one whose (still growing) film oeuvre is extremely varied, while showing a remarkable…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: V is for Videodrome
David Cronenberg's scifi/horror film Videodrome plays in the fields he often did early in his career: body horror, flesh mechanics, the external reflecting the internal. But in Videodrome, he did…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: U is for the Untouchables
This is a manly goddamn movie. Brian de Palma's film of David Mamet's script is, and I don't use this word often, epic. The operatic sweep of the cinematography and…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: T is for the Third Man
Music in film is important. It can define a mood. It can provide counterpoint. It can even, in the case of musicals, provide plot. At its best, a film's score…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: S is for Speed Racer
Let us speak now in praise of Speed Racer. No, I'm serious. 2008's Speed Racer, written and directed by the Wachowskis. Fresh off the Matrix films, the (then) brothers took…
The A-Z of Geek Cinema: R is for the Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson creates worlds. Most films of his belong to their own environment, with little to no connection to the reality we all belong to. This is true, even more…
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The A-Z of Geek Cinema: G is for Gangs Of New York
What responsibility do we have to history? Should it be something held up as sacrosanct, or is it as malleable an object as the truth appears to be? History is…