Film Review Essay

Sicario, a thriller starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin, opened in theaters nationwide this week to warm reviews, as well as controversy. Sicario finds Kate Macer (Blunt), a straight-laced F.B.I. agent thrown into a world of high-intensity, life-or-death scenarions, as she ahs been recruited into a cartel-busting task force led by Matt Graver (Brolin), and associate Alejandro (Del Toro), who are at the opposite end of the personality spectrum from Macer; they are unorthodox…

Film director Kathy Bigelow has directed many films throughout the years, and most of which we know the names. Films such as: "Point Break", "Hurt Locker", and "Zero Dark Thirty". Bigelow was the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director in the film "Hurt Locker", but her astonishing directing abilities did not stop there. Bigelow was born on November 27, 1951, in San Carlos, California and is known for her incredible action films with amazing visual effects, and action…

Wording, clothing, and sex were some of the most reoccurring problems the Production Code Administration had with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 film Rear Window. Throughout their communications, the PCA and the filmmakers discuss scenes that have subtle sexual undertones, risqué costumes, and wordings that the PCA found to be unacceptable. The correspondence between the filmmakers and the PCA begin around November 1953 and go on until around April 1954. Most of the letters are between Paramount…

could have lengthened the review by presenting a few ending details a bit better. Roeper’s explanation of the plot is something that prompts…

tried in include “Billy Madison” (1995), “Happy Gilmore” (1996), “The Wedding Singer” (1998), and “Punch Drunk Love” (2002) (Hickey). Billy Madison, “Goofy comedy with immature humor, profanity, and sex jokes”. (Common Sense Media). “Despite bad reviews Billy Madison is a cult classic that off of a 10 million dollar budget made 26.4 million at the box office. Second only to Billy Madison Happy Gilmore stands out as one of Sandler’s best works. “The movie pokes fun at the rather “stiff” golf…

Horror films have dramatically increased in popularity each year. Producers come out with a new horror film in theaters at least every two months, and the results are satisfying to the audience. Almost every horror film tries to come up with something more intense and dreadful. The Babadook was released in 2014 and is still quite mindboggling. Many people do not understand that not all horror films are full of murders and blood. The Babadook is a movie that tests the classifications of being a…

any other film. He filmed in Morocco sets standing in for the Middle East. So yes, atypical for Herzog, a letdown, not one of his high marks. Others fret in comments about Herzog not getting the trivia right, right to left writing and such. What's really the trouble for me is that it dulls the edge of dangerous discovery that set him apart. We're in the Lawrence of Arabia timeline anyway and the film is cut from that Hollywood cloth. We're always more or less safely ensconced. The film has…

life nor do I have any weird sexual fantasies about Samara and her actions. This just leave Noel Carroll and his theory. Just like A Nightmare on Elm Street, I believe that Noel’s theory fits perfectly with why I enjoyed The Ring. The concept of the film is very fascinating. I mean who would not be captivated with a video that is rumored to kill those who watch it after seven days. With the technology of today, we have all been guilty of looking up and viewing some pretty weird videos so it is…

24 October 2014 Trimester Essay “Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.” The film is composed of five different acts, each portraying different concepts and meanings. Act IV: “Odessa Steps Sequence” is one of the most admired scenes of the film. “It has been described as one of the most influential scenes in the history of cinema because the concepts of film editing and montage were introduced to cinema.” Sergei Eisenstein…

is a movie that asks the audience to think about how social media influences our decision making. I wanted to review it because of the message that is presented to the audience and the question that is asked by the makers. Are the choices that we make individual or collective choices online? If you succeed than you get paid and if you fail or snitch you will lose money. The ethos of the film is that the users and the watchers are always online. The camera establishes the image and ethos heavily…