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In this essay I’m going to compare two movies; original and its remake and focus on how visual effects were made for each movie. Firstly I’m going to write about the origina…
Gattaca is a film regarding not only the troubling implications of excessive gene therapy, but also how it could be used in a sort of dystopian society where your genetic profile divides you into di…
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The quintessential ideal of the femme fatale was a woman who was mysterious, manipulative, and desperate with a male protagonist that in following the dangerous, yet desirable wishes of…
Lorenzo’s oil touches the hearts of most as you watch the story of a young boy battling adrenoleukodystrophy or ALD. The story is based off a true story as the parents, Augusto and Michaela Od…
The film that I chose to watch for this writing assignment was One True Thing. The story began with introducing a young woman with a busy life in New York. Ellen had a writing career that was beginn…
The film Extraordinary Measures is based on a true story which follows the journey of a father who is determined to save his young children’s lives. John and Aileen Crowley have three kids, tw…
A Beautiful Mind is a beautiful and enlightening depiction of a terrible and mind boggling journey of a struggling schizophrenic genius. This movie, first aired in 2001, takes the viewer through the…
Urban fairy tales is a supernaturalism mirror which reflects aspects of our inner world. For those who infiltrate themselves in what the fairy tale should combine, it becomes natural depression and …
In this paper, I will discuss how Coppola used cinematic tools strategically in his film Apocalypse Now to show warfare for what it truly is and the effect on soldiers that combat had in order to inspire society to re-evaluate and change its attitude towards war….
Django Unchained (Tarantino, 2012) set in Texas in 1858, deals with a variety of issues such as race, slavery, revenge and violence. The film sparked controversy worldwide and amongst critics. Filmm…
“THE OTHERS” FILM REVIEW: Make Sure You all Double Check You’re Alive.
By DYLAN B. TO
Published March 6, 2017
Nicole Kidman as Grace in 2001’s “The Others”
Over …
DANGAL
Dangal, “a wrestling competition” is an Indian Hindi-language biographical sports drama film directed by Nitesh Tiwari and produced by Aamir Khan and Sidharth Roy Kapur with th…
Step Brothers (2008), directed by Adam McKay, is a raunchy, funny film for comedy audiences. It stars Will Ferrell and Jon C. Reilly as Brenan and Dale….
Two films from the neorealism movement are Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D (1952) both directed by Vittorio De Sica. Both films in their own way show the real-life hardships that were faced dur…
The film Shutter Island is an extremely complex mental thriller that you must watch multiple times to fully understand the movie. Teddy, believes he is a government Marshall looking for a missing pa…
In Time starring Justin Timberlake as Will Salas, is what I believe to be an eye-catching action thriller with every right to be on your must watch list. Breaking onto the scene just as the occupy w…
Writing a movie review is a great way of expressing your opinion of a movie. The purpose of most movie reviews is to help readers in determining whether they want to watch, rent, or buy the movie. T…
The highly influential bleak dystopian view on the future in the film Blade Runner was realised in 1982 it became one of the most popular dystopian science fiction films. Blade Runner displays a post-apocalyptic setting after a nuclear war with its focus on the dystopian urban environment….
Introduction
In this essay I will compare the visual effects of two movies – an older movie and It´s prequel. As a fan of sci-fi movies, for this writing I decided to compare Alien (1979) and…
Utopia is an ideal world state where everything which happens is perfect and there are no negative emotions like sadness, anger or jealousy to exist in it. The world is perfect and has every situati…
