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Lorien Green: Geeky Mom And Documentary Filmmaker is “Going Cardboard”
Lorien Green is a GeekMom: she’s got two young kids and her geek credentials include meeting her husband through Magic: the Gathering and her love of “geekumentaries” like “King of Kong.” Plus, she’s a...
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The Beatles Go On Record in New History Channel Special
The Beatles On Record premieres November 25th on the History Channel. Yes, it's another Beatles Documentary, but even that can be so much more. Read the GeekDad review.
View ArticleRobot Pioneers: A Documentary
Jennero Rossi, an intern at Trossen Robotics has produced a short video to give a first hand look into the world of robotics. The goal is to inspire more people to check out robotics and show that you...
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Chiptune Documentary Reformat the Planet Now Available on DVD
Reformat the Planet, the documentary film examining both the annual Blip Festival and the community that it celebrates, has just been released as a 2 DVD set. With improved audio, supplementary footage...
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Watch Star Wars Begins, An Awesome Fan-Made Documentary
Fans can be obsessive, Star Wars fans may be the most obsessive and Jambe Davdar may well be the most obsessive of them all. He has just released his third feature-length documentary/commentary...
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GeekDad Chats With Jamie Benning, The Man Behind Star Wars Begins
It’s a safe bet YouTube’s servers have taken a battering over the last week or so, what with the release of Jamie Benning’s Star Wars Begins documentary. This release marks the final part of his own...
View ArticleExplore the Wonders of the Universe
Almost exactly one year ago, a new documentary series made its debut on BBC Two. Wonders of the Solar System, presented by the then relatively unknown Professor Brian Cox with whom I share a hometown,...
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First, There Was Star Wars Begins, Now There’s Building Empire
Actually, this article’s title is misleading: Star Wars Fan Jamie Benning (a.k.a. Jambe Davdar) actually completed his fan filmumentary trilogy with the film that started George Lucas’ original one....
View ArticleDungeons & Dragons Documentary Scheduled for 2013
Over at examiner.com they have announced that production has started on a new “definitive documentary on Dungeons & Dragons.” The writer, Michael Tresca, (who also seems to be involved, along with...
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Soylent Green, and Gaming, Is People: Final Thoughts From Gen Con
The booths have been dismantled, the games put away, the green goblin face paint washed off, and the last of the trolls, pirates and grognards have been swept from the halls of the Indiana Convention...
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MythBusters Duo Present iGenius: How Steve Jobs Changed the World This Sunday...
In the wake of the (early) death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs last week, Simon & Schuster have brought forward the publication date of Walter Isaacson’s official biography “Steve Jobs“ to the...
View ArticlePunk Rock Parents and Other Oxymorons: GeekDad Reviews The Other F Word
I’m a big fan of documentaries, and music docs doubly so. Still, Andrea Blaugrund Nevins’s The Other F Word isn’t quite a music documentary in the traditional sense. Sure, latter-day punk anthems like...
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GeekDad Exclusive: 17 Minutes of Jamie Benning’s Raiding The Lost Ark
Our friend Jamie Benning has been at it again, not content with making his “filmumentaries” of the original Star Wars trilogy, he has now turned his editing skills to the first part of George Lucas’...
View ArticleJamie Benning Releases Raiding The Lost Ark
Undeterred by the recent removal of his previous “Filmumentaries” from YouTube by 20th Century Fox, Jamie Benning has embarked upon a new adventure. This time turning his attention to the first film in...
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Disneynature’s Chimpanzee Tells a Wonderfully Human Tale
Just in time for Earth Day, Disneynature's fourth film made its debut on Friday; Chimpanzee follows a band of chimps in their daily life, with particular focus on a baby named Oscar, and the surprising...
View ArticleDear Mr. Watterson Explains Why Geeks Love Calvin and Hobbes
Exploring Calvin’s inner life with his pet stuffed tiger, Hobbes, is a foundational experience for geeks. Director Joel Schroeder spent five years trying to discover how a comic strip could have this...
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Game on! | D&D Documentary to Explore ‘the Most Influential Game in History’
How did its shock waves roll into the realm of video games, influencing a generation of computer programmers who would come to rule Silicon Valley? How did the game, which has now earned the praises of...
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Kickstarter Alert | Cities in the Sky: A Documentary About Sci-Fi’s Unknown...
Cities in the Sky: Science-Fiction's Forgotten Visionaries is a planned documentary about some of the unknown figures who wrote about things like space travel, evil robots, equal rights, cryogenics,...
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