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uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

successes to his credit. A total of 112 sets were built, including a scale model of Paris Arc de Triomphe and an entire reproducti...

had erred so completely, even though he did so unknowingly, his only recourse was to take his own life. In Fight Club, then, th...

is a virtual prisoner in her home (Copycat). She has withdrawn from both work and her life and the only contact she has with the o...

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

light of day can become obscured in the dark just as the best and brightest intentions can be compromised by allure of corruption....

Japan should become more westernized so that it could prosper economically and protect its territorial independence. Suddenly, a ...

Cuban Missile Crisis the following year. The film implies that JFK made a deal with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in which h...

returns. If this plotline sounds familiar to modern audiences, it should. Sundiata is often referred to as the Lion King. Disneys ...

problems and the pollution of the towns water table by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E). Brockovich instinctively felt that the case ...

care center. The woman who runs this other day care center tries to foil all efforts of Charlie and his buddies. But, as would be ...

superbly able to weave entertainment into the mix of the political statements, using the elements of good literature as he does so...

mindless it can make a person who is not aware of its power. This is a powerful universal theme that transcends the fact that it i...

One is not expressly privy to the formative influences in his life, but the directors suppositions are obvious. Those that Trujill...

in 1947, started with the single incident of granting Israel a portion of land which was held by the Palestinians. Historical e...

her favorite actor in it, Tom Baxter. After the movie is over she finds herself unable to go home to face the reality of a man who...

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

Brando, the apples and pears of Cezanne...and Tracys face" (Chances 66). Throughout the film, Ike professes his belief that "It is...

finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Ba...

specifically address black independent filmmaking. Diawara (2001) highlights the tendency of the mainstream to consistently borro...

to comment on his future and to give him advice. The viewer comes to understand that Ben is expected to follow in his fathers foot...

Ulmer relied on things like voiceover and dark shots that create a very powerful sense of darkness. There are the close ups and th...

whisper sweet nothings, carry a womans purse in a store, and change a babys "poopy" diapers (and be able to say the word, "poopy" ...

any year 68% of the population will visit a cinema (BBC New, 2003). British films tend to be very well accepted, until Harry Potte...

mourn, and move on. He is a man raised by a patriarchal society and as such it is his duty, as he sees it, to do something. In thi...

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

attempt to make to the viewer sympathetic to his ideas...the film highlights the many conflicting realities which are inherent in ...

politics. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay, as well as the original Broadway play on which the movie is based. Vidal was friends wi...

they become each others other half. They protect one another because they empathize, and they are more open to the needs and condi...