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Film Review, Fifth Element

This film review offers a comprehensive overview of "Fifth Element" (1997) that discusses editing, mise-en-scene, sound, cinematog...

An Overview of A Beautiful Mind

who works with Nash sees him doing essentially crazy things and putting documents in drop boxes. He reports him to the superiors a...

An Overview of Imitation of Life

talk, and Lora says that she wishes she had someone to look after Susie while shes working, auditioning and trying to get her big ...

Film Review of Robert Zemeckis' Forrest Gump

is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...

An Address of Specific Questions Concerning Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind

commands the attention of the other students because he is so gifted. He doesnt really seem to be part of the group-Nash was a no...

Seabiscuit Film Historical Review

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Crash, A Cinematic Parable

his motivation for stealing Jean and Ricks car. However, in committing grand theft auto, Anthony objectifies Jean and Rick just as...

12 Angry Men

as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

American Religion and the 2003 Film Bruce Almighty

how dependent upon technology the average citizen has become in everyday life. The fact that God initially contacted Bruce via hi...

Review of Sydney Pollack's 2005 Movie The Interpreter

notes that this is the first film crew to be given permission to film extensively at the UN and this gives the movie a feeling of ...

Yousry Nasrallah's Film On Boys, Girls and the Veil

accurately termed "head scarf." In allowing the Egyptian men and women who are featured in the film to speak for themselves, the d...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

Hitchcock's Rebecca

Danvers seems almost supernatural in her ability to simply appear, starling the current Mrs. De Winter, who is played by Joan Font...

Review of Pontecorvo's Burn! (1969)

Portugal, which makes more sense from a historical perspective, as Spains colonial possession are the most prominent, Brazil being...

Coach Carter/Hoosier, film comparison

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

Gang-Rape on Screen

(Ebert, 1988). As Ebert says in his review, "`The Accused demonstrates that rape victims often are suspects in their own cases. .....

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...

Three Israeli Films

the veneer of cultural, ideological and linguistic differences is also reflects in Kazablan (1974, directed by Menahem Golan). Thi...

Themes in The Blind Side

son, S.J., talking to him outside of school. S.J., which is short for "Sean Jr.," is a talkative youngster who is irrepressibly f...

La Haine

the focus on multicultural individuals. In the United States multicultural conditions appear far more accepting than those in Pari...

Marley and Me/True meaning

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

The Village/Directed by M. Night Shymalan

funeral, which is for seven-year-old Daniel Nicholson. Edward Walker, played by William Hurt, the apparent leader of this colony, ...