Sentences with phrase «film geek in»

Not only was the British import one of the best movies of the year, but it also grabbed the attention of every film geek in the business.

Not exact matches

Luke Wilson will star this fall in The Middle Men, a film about the pioneering geeks who made it possible to buy porn online.

The A / V Geeks» Skip Elsheimer will guide a fun night of trivia and tongue - in - cheek commentary on popular science - themed movies as well as samples from his vault of 24,000 + short films.

How could he leave out the wonderful Alec Guinness film The Man in the White Suit (about a chemist who invents a fabric that never gets dirty, never needs ironing, never wears out — and nearly causes a revolution because it is too perfect) Fortunately, Perkowitz does include The Day the Earth Stood Still (the film in which Patricia Neal delivers one of cinema's most famous geek catchphrases: «Gort!

«It's become more fashionable to be a geek in the past five or six years,» says Gough, citing the popularity of TV shows like The Big Bang Theory and the mainstream interest in the upcoming Star Trek film.

About Blog Renegade Cinema is a website created by longtime film critic Shawn S. Lealos by movie geeks for movie geeks, with the best in news, reviews and interviews.

In this supposedly final episode, Jim proposes to his band - geek girlfriend Michelle, and not surprisingly the rest of the film explores awkward, sexual, and gross - out situations that arise on the way to the wedding.

I think it would be a great idea to have more diversity of content in this site (an early review of Beloved was a pleasant surprise some weeks ago) but right now the balance is definitely in favor of sci - fi, fantasy, horror, action, and some crime films created for a demographic probably best described as «geek».

Well Russ continued in his exploitive areas becoming a gigantic cult filmmaker, beloved by «geeks» everywhere, and Roger went into the film criticism arena.

The catty competition between Annie and Lilly is the driving force behind Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig's film, and a sturdy one at that, allowing for a blend of sappiness and insanity that's similar to, and yet in at least one crucial area distinct from, The 40 - Year - Old Virgin and Knocked Up.

It's a teaser poster, and it doesn't even feature the film's title but any film geek will know what's going on and it's certain to get people talking when it appears in cinema lobbies.

Indeed, he's matured into such a terrible actor that it's actually disturbing to watch him in scenes with Firth (solid here), as though he's some theatre geek who's cut himself into the film with iMovie.

«Murder on the Orient Express» is geared more towards technical film geeks who enjoy richness in their production design, more than they do in the script or the acting.

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), after trying and failing to match Ebony in wisecracks and firepower, gets sucked into the ship, and it's up to Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) to rescue him, with an assist from Spider - Man (Tom Holland), a pop - culture geek who wonders if he's in the middle of an «Alien» film, and who Tony outfits with anti-gravity armor.

Studio marketing, perhaps sensitive to, or even altogether unaware of, the perils of thrusting an abusive, vengeful nerd before a cadre of white male geeks, sidelines Stan in the promotional material for the film:

2018 has already proved to be a big year in film, as there has seemingly been something for everyone whether you're the comic book geek or the horror aficionado.

Steve Carrell is a sweet, shy middle - aged geek and the last American virgin in The 40 - Year - Old Virgin (2005), the feature debut of director Judd Apatow (who wrote the film with Carrell), an oddly sweet mix of romantic comedy and adolescent shenanigans, albeit with a slightly older cast.

As usual in the genre of the Tarrantino, Django is based upon the excellent characterisation of quirky characters and their snappy, ultra-cool dialogue — and the massive film geek doesn't disappoint.

Beach Boys fans will suffer uncontrollable geek - outs during the Pet Sounds studio session reenactments, but the real value of the film lies in the respectfully unkempt and fraught depiction of Wilson's legacy as both a musician and a man.

I don't pretend to be the biggest Star Wars geek in the galaxy, but I do know a good Star Wars film when I see one, and «Rogue One» is exactly that.

After brief appearances in his father's films as a child, he made his first foray into helming with 1998's Zero Effect, before spending time in television on teen cult efforts Freaks And Geeks, Grosse Pointe and Undeclared.

Also on board is an audio commentary from» 09 — Disney, alas, has dropped the picture - in - picture option that made this a full - blown «Cine - Explore feature» on the PE — teaming Leonard Maltin with Disney animator («and unashamed animation geek») Eric Goldberg and film historian J.B. Kaufman, who at the time was writing a book about the making of Pinocchio that finally got published in 2015.

The stars of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's comedy tell Xan Brooks why geeks perform a vital service in making sci - fi films better

I also bonded with my fellow film geek roommates at an apartment in Venice near Piazza San Marco: Rory O'Connor (@RorySeanOC - who writes for The Film Stage), Paul O'Callaghan (@PaulOCallaghan - who writes for ExBerliner magazine in Berlin), David Mouriquand (who also writes for ExBerliner magazine in Berlin), and Tom Humphrey (who writes for Screen Anarchy from London).

With a little help of our in - house geek, a bunch of the YAMMag team dusted off their lists to rank our favorite Marvel Cinematic Universe films from 2008's Iron Man all the way to Black Panther, in celebration of the decade - long MCU and the release for Avengers: Infinity War.

In 2009, director Duncan Jones gave gaggles of geeks flaming nerdboners with his debut feature «Moon,» a film that dragged science fiction kicking and screaming back into the -LSB-...]

The first film tracked the development of their friendship as their own high school experience was flipped upside down: Schmidt, the lonely geek, found himself in favor, while Jenko, the popular jock, found himself on the outside looking in.

What's left is this appreciation of a film that is delighted with cinema and experimental without being a jerk about it (very much like Lars Von Trier's Zentropa, specifically in a black - and - white rear - process cab ride with none of that feeling that Tarantino's trying to make a point as opposed to recognizing something that looks cool and feels right)-- a film that is Tarantino in all his gawky, hyperactive, movie - geeking, idioglossic splendour, fully - formed and trying only a bit too hard.

«He's not exactly Mr. Popular,» one of the geek's fathers states early in the film about his son.

Despite serving as the film's helmsman, Donner tends to be shunted to the side in favor of Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, and Shane Black whenever the subject of Lethal Weapon is broached among movie geeks.

(While some have speculated that Ferris Bueller is Hughes through the looking glass, the speech from that eponymous film in which a secretary canonizes Ferris — «The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads... they all adore him: they think he's a righteous dude» — suggests that Ferris is nothing less than the personification of Hughes's cottage industry.)

Middleditch will play a film geek for whom landing in a classic horror flick is a dream come true, until it turns into a nightmare.

It's been a minute since we last heard any rumblings on a sequel to 2009's surprise undead apocalypse comedy, «Zombieland,» but in an interview during AMC's «Geeking Out,» screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reece — the duo also responsible for «Deadpool» — revealed, among other things, that they are currently hard at work on a script for the next film.

So Rachel now has seven days to solve her own murder, and I couldn't help thinking of Edmond O'Brien getting quite a bit less than that to figure out who poisoned him in the great 1950 film D.O.A. Because she needs the help, she shows the tape to her ex, a video geek named Noah (Martin Henderson).

As an expert on the arts and geek culture, Gilsdorf frequently appears on TV, radio and Internet media, including PBS Off Book, WGBH, The Discovery Channel, the French TV network Arte, and several nationally - syndicated National Public Radio programs and in documentary films.

If you consider yourself a film geek and you still haven't seen John Landis» seminal An American Werewolf in London, please report to the nearest Alamo Drafthouse location and turn in your film geek credentials.

Thousands of film geeks, genre - film enthusiasts, and weirdoes have descended upon the Alamo Drafthouse's South Lamar location for a week - long celebration of the weirdest cinema in the world: Fantastic Fest 2011.

This year's Fantastic Fest is just hours away from kicking off here in Austin, TX, and anticipation is running high: some of the year's highest - profile genre films are screening or debuting at this year's Fantastic Fest, and film geeks all...

It's hard to imagine a film geek whose pulse doesn't quicken after reading the list of names in the credits.

Find a handy film geek to tell you all about how Ghost in the Shell was a massive influence on The Matrix.

There's an inevitable excitement that comes with meeting a new face in film, all the more so when that same person happens to be a film geek responsible for the following tweet: «If ever I was to meet Werner Herzog I would politely ask him to hypnotize me.»

If you enjoy seeing film - geek Twitter erupt in spasms of collective rage, you should be rooting for Ansel Elgort to win this award for his Sphinx - like performance in the title role of Baby Driver.

Thanks to the premiere of a shiny official trailer last week, Ruben Fleischer's third go in the director's seat (after Zombieland and 30: Minutes or Less) now ranks high on many film geeks» lists of most anticipated titles for the last third of 2012.

He began his career on Freaks and Geeks and received a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the biographical film James Dean.

Stare through the peephole at terror that can't be scrubbed away, in the fascinating company of such hardcore geeks as directors Guillermo del Toro, Peter Bogdanovich and Eli Roth, film editor Walter Murch, American Psycho author Brett Easton Ellis, Leigh's scream - queen daughter Jamie Lee Curtis, Anthony Perkins» son Osgood Perkins and Hitch's granddaughter Tere Carrubba.

But whenever the laughs come, they come big, and the movie never bores, thanks to three stellar performances: Streep, mostly known for her dramatic work, proves to be an adept comedienne; Willis, famous for macho action roles, makes a surprisingly convincing geek; and Hawn continues to prove whe's one of the finest comic actresses in film today.

Released in China in 2002, the visually captivating «Hero» was gathering dust in the Miramax vaults (MiramAxe for those savvy to film - geek slang) for two years thanks to the Weinstein brothers, who are notorious for purchasing the rights to sensational international films and then cutting them to pieces in the editing room.

It's too bad that the film reviewer world — dominanted by male geeks unable to communicate in the real world — feels compelled to criticize the AWFJ.

Check out our POP List Release Dates Calendar to learn when pop - culture and comic book films are hitting theaters, keep up - to - date on the latest geek TV shows, and see what pop - culture inspired video games you can look forward to playing in the coming months!

Rife with priceless archival concert footage as well as recent wistful remembrances by friends and family, the film opens with an examination of Phil's early years as a band geek in high school, followed by his matriculating at Ohio State where he picked up the guitar.