Sentences with phrase «for film geeks»

Lots of Easter eggs for film geeks!

A lot of benevolent, hardworking, film - savvy people bust their humps to make Fantastic Fest the best 8 days of the year for us film geeks.

The «road show» features are bonuses for us film geeks, and will have no impact on whether one enjoys the film or not.

Not exact matches

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I'm tempted to write off the entire documentary as being solely of interest to nut - and - bolts geeks, except for the segment devoted to Oliver Reed, who died of a heart attack three weeks before principal filming wrapped, necessitating some CGI trickery to insert him into a crucial final scene of the film.

With Beatriz at Dinner, the prolific duo confirm their talent for social commentary and incisive wit after more than a decade of close collaborations, including indie films (Star Maps, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl) and TV series (Freaks and Geeks and HBO's Enlightened).

As it turns out, «'' Amy»» entrepreneur Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) has sold the film rights for his «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» comic book — which is loosely based on Jay and Silent Bob — to Miramax, and the studio greenlit a big - budget production.Before it even begins, though, the pending «'' Bluntman & Chronic»» film provides more than enough fodder for a new wave of hate - mongers who prowl the Internet, namely pimple - faced geeks who slam anything they can type about on a series of movie gossip websites.

Because the film is intended to be fun for computer - illiterates as well as techno - geeks, it's more successful than other recent efforts to bring some digital - age updating to the familiar thriller formula.

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».

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.

For me any and all films can be a «geek» movie, a film that inspires passion when it is discussed.

Much like how GrindHouse from directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez was a loving tribute to movie geeks, Scott Pilgrim is a film for computer geeks.

The U.S. trailer for Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)- Alejandro González Iñárritu's upcoming film starring Michael Keaton as a washed - up actor once famous for playing a superhero - definitely put the showbiz dramedy / satire on the map for a number of movie geeks.

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.

Neighbors, a new comedy from the director of Forgetting Sarah Marshall, may be the first film of its subgenre to acknowledge how old the freaks of Freaks And Geeks have actually gotten, and to express nostalgia for the days when they could still believably play overgrown adolescents.

On of the most direct influences on my becoming a film geek (not unusual for geeks of my generation), it made me want to go out and watch everything that influenced Tarantino.

Critically acclaimed for his comedic television ventures along with an enormously successful list of film credits, Apatow has produced such films as: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Funny People, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Superbad, Pineapple Express, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, The Cable Guy; and television series: Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, The Larry Sanders Show and The Ben Stiller Show, among others.

This is a film by geeks about geeks for geeks.

Welcome to a new podcast that's film geek group therapy for bad films.

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).

But yeesh, how much happier will I be when someday Michael Cera ceases to be the go - to geek avatar for this type of film.

This oddly named but inestimable DVD outfit deserves a shout - out for its industrious and often wondrous efforts as a quality clearinghouse for niche titles that might otherwise fall through the cracks, from music docs (The Great Rock»n' Roll Swindle) to classic television (Freaks and Geeks, SCTV, priceless Dick Cavett collections devoted to film, rock music, and comedy), and definitive comedy compilations (Steve Martin, Mel Brooks, Richard Pryor).

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.

I can only imagine how exhilarating this must be for them by imagining one of the few short - lived modern TV shows I care about («Freaks and Geeks», «Undeclared») getting passionately resurrected as a film with all personnel onboard.

«It may not have done well at the box office but it broke the all - time record for the number of film geeks insisting it's genius.»

As the writer and director of the feature films Knocked Up and The 40 - Year - Old Virgin, the producer of the blockbuster comedies Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, and the creator of the acclaimed television series «Freaks and Geeks» and «Undeclared,» Apatow has developed a reputation for stories that are equal measures sentimental and unrefined.

The winter of 2015 will receive a lot of attention for big franchise additions like Avengers: Age of Ultron, SPECTRE, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two, and the crown jewel of geek anticipation, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but the film I have circled on my calendar is Midnight Special.

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.

Two of my favourite film geeks, Blake Howard (@blakeisbatman) and Maria Lewis (@moviemazz), who write for www.graffitiwithpunctuation.net are recording special episodes of their podcast, Pod Save Our Screen, at sessions of the current season of Dendy Cult Classics at Dendy Newtown, Sydney.

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.

He also writes about film, pop and geek culture, gaming, books and the arts for The New York Times, BoingBoing, wired.com, Salon.com, PsychologyToday.com, WBUR's «Cognoscenti,» and GeekDad, and has also contributed to Playboy, National Geographic Traveler, Christian Science Monitor, Psychology Today, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, and Washington Post, Time Out and Fodor's, among dozens of other magazines, newspapers, websites and guidebooks worldwide.

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.

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.

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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.

For the uber - geeks, The Avengers is the biggest film of the decade — manna from Heaven, ambrosia from the gods.

And if you're a film geek who goes in for framing and slowly paced editing, then this is the film for you.

Yet the book and the film rebuff the notion that stats geeks can't love the game like the purists, so when the A's enjoy their underdog triumph, it's consistent for the audience to enjoy it, too.

Thank you for giving us film geeks something to be nerdy over lol Speak to u soon.

The film foretells the age of the geek hero by at least ten years and sparked a fire for an entire genre of meta madness, my films included.

Comparing the international and U.S. trailers offers some insight into the changes wrought on the version that washed up on Yankee shores; an extensive and vaguely repetitive posters and still gallery reminds that the film's original title was Kiss & Kill; a long essay on the life and times of Sax Rohmer offers sustenance for the pulp geek (and who ain't); and extensive biographies of Lee and Franco illuminate not only their subjects, but the strong connection behind the scenes between Blue Underground and Anchor Bay.

As he's proven time and time again from geek favorites like Firefly and Con Man, to films like Death At a Funeral (one of my favorite movies for absolutely no reason), not to mention his facility with rooster voices, Alan Tudyk is very much at home with nerdy comedy.

7:00 p.m., Room 6BCF — «Blade Runner» 30th Anniversary Celebration For geeks keen on a bit of film history, this should be one of the highlights of the weekend: a panel, hosted by Paul M. Sammon, who wrote the seminal book on «Blade Runner,» and was on - set throughout, on the making of Ridley Scott «s sci - fi classic, with a number of cast and crew members on stage with him.

Too Late — Filmed on 35 mm in five 20 + minute takes and presented theatrically exclusively on 35, Too Late is filled with the kind of camerawork and technical wizardry that film geeks / purists live for.

Aside from the anticlimactic «Ricci nude scene» that Internet geeks were clamoring over for years (and falsely blaming for the indefinite holdback), the film really is not half bad.