Film Review Essay

The internet movie review of Django Unchained by Roger Ebert creates thoughts of curiosity, query, and resolution amongst readers while maintaining an impersonal, constructive tone that allows the audience to come to their own conclusion about the film and directing style. “… deus ex machina. I apologize to my many readers who already know it. A "deus," for those few who may not, is a person or device in a story that appears from out of the blue and has a solution to offer.” (Roger Ebert). The…

Review about the movie:- The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an amazing and impressive piece of film-making from director Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth. It is a film of hope, where director explains it beautifully how “Hope is a good thing”. Movie shows the ugly realities on life of Prison and its day to day life. There is a lot of scope of learning during free time in prison whether it is art or literature. The film portrays the story of Andy…

When books are translated into a film some hit the mark and some do not even come close. Young Adult Literature is usually a prime market for Hollywood, they spot out a popular series and then decide that they can profit from it. One of these series would be the Wardstone Chronicles, the very first book to be exact. In 2015, Universal Studios came out with the Seventh Son, a film adaptation of the book The Last Apprentice: The Witch’s Revenge. People who are interested in reading the book or…

Shawshank Redemption was premiered in the United States on September 23, 1994. This is the best movie that has the highest rating among other best films so it is worthy of inclusion in the Top 250 version IMDb Your new director Frank Darabont-, low box office that year and the premiere of Forrest Gump were imposed on "The Shawshank Redemption", the film starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman. Now, twenty years after its release, the scenario has been saved from collapse that seemed doomed and…

media and look for what to change in order to make the movie better. Every producer wants the audience to react positively to their films. However, this is not always the case; a recent movie that had one of the largest negative reactions from the audience was Suicide Squad. Many fans were disappointed in the plot, character development, and the overall quality of the film. It appeared as if more “hardcore” fans of DC critiqued the movie harsher than just the typical movie watcher. Perhaps the…

Question #1: Although I have not read many critic reviews, the few I have read always shine light on topics I have not noticed in the film. These new discoveries help me to have a greater appreciation for that film and the work that was put in to perfect every scene. After reading a critic review, I discovered that Alfred Hitchcock’s, “Vertigo”, was based on a French Novel, “D’entre les Morts,”. The novel translates into Among the Dead, and is a 1954 crime novel by Pierre Boileau and Pierre…

Film adaptations have been popular since the time film production began, but film will never compare to the power of the imagination throughout the pages of a book. Hundreds of pieces of literature have been adapted into movies and no matter what, there is always somebody that is disappointed with the movie. The power of imagination is widely distinct among people. An ordinary reader will read a book and imagine the contents entirely different from the way the author intended. That is the same…

Delicatessen is black-comedy set in around the 1950’s. The French film was written and produced by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro in 1991. This film show cases a range of themes from comedy, romance and horror. The use of different camera angles such as chanted or Dutch. Jean-Pierre Jeunets use of multi narratives to slow the viewer to full understand each character important to the story told in throughout the film. The film opens to a fog consumed rundown apartment building, on the ground…

criticism. I will provide examples of why I feel these types of criticism are used in each of these movies. In the first video, the movie Halloween is reviewed by Siskel & Ebert. There are different types of Criticism used by the critics in this review. The first type is Feminist Criticism. Mays mentions that “feminist criticism derives from a critique of a history of oppression, in this case the history of women’s inequality” (Mays 2347). An example of this type of criticism comes to mind…

“A film is made up of a hundred or more hidden things,” Vincente Minnelli once said in an interview. The quote seems to sum up Minnelli’s layered film making style. In this essay I will be exploring the themes of feminism, one of the hundred or more hidden things in Minnelli’s work. The essay will move through the life of Minnelli, analysing films from both the beginning and end of his career in the context of the time in which they were made. Vincente Minnelli was born Lester Anthony Minnelli…