Movie Review Essay

fixed games today. The movie "Eight Men Out" opened my eyes on how players fixed games. Viewers will watch an interesting film that shows us why the Chicago White Sox will always be known as the Black Sox. "Eight Men Out" is a film that was written and directed by John Sayles in 1988. The film is based on Eliot Asinof’s 1963 book “Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series.” The setting of the movie is in Chicago, Illinois in 1919. In the beginning of the movie, a young boy runs…

This movie is about serial killer who want’s revenge from someone, because they took something important from his life. Wade Winston life was serial killer after he finish his mission he faint and was rush to the ER. The doctor told him he has terminal Cancer in his lungs and kidney, two thing he can't live without. He never knew this day would happen to him. He was think of plan to A to Z but can’t think. This movies for people who like action and blood. This movies is not serious to take.…

did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.” Is a quote that is from author Raymond Carver that is shown in the opening scene of the Oscar winning movie Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.) Birdman: Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a story that follows Riggan Thomson (portrayed tremendously by Michael Keaton), a faded Hollywood actor best known for playing the superhero…

In this animated motion picture from DreamWorks, the movie opens with spectacular visuals, and proceeds into an interesting story. The hero, Hiccup (Jay Baruchel), the son of the islands chieftan, is an inept, bumbling dreamer. He manages to trap one of the most dreaded dragons that attacks his home. The relationship between Hiccup and the trapped dragon, Toothless, is central to the story; the sequences shown as hiccup nurses Toothless back to health are so cute and fantastic. Toothless, a very…

The movie I chose to watch for the film review was 12 years of slave, directed by Steve McQueen. The movie is based off of a real story that depicts the life of an African-American man named Solomon Northup. Solomon was a free black man from upstate New York who made his livings off of playing the violin. Being as good as he is, it must have felt believable to him when two white male strangers presented him with an “opportune” chance to perform in an out of town gig in which high pay was…

A true and historical movie about a free black man, Solomon Northup, tricked into slavery called “12 Years A Slave” hit movie theaters on October 18, 2013 and was directed by Steve McQueen. The book the movie was based on was written by Northrup himself (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) and the screenplay was written by John Ridley. The movie was a success and received an Academy Award for Best Picture. The story takes place during the times of abolition and after the civil war, but if you were a…

story that outlines the struggles that people with autism are faced with. It can be quite hard to grasp exactly what these individuals go through, but the acting done by Sean Penn (Sam Dawson) in this movie is phenomenal and portrays an individual with autism very accurately. The purpose of this movie was to show that with enough love and support, raising a child while mentally challenged is possible. The intended audience of this film is quite honestly anyone who would like to view a touching…

Spellbound (1945) takes place at the Green Manor’s asylum, the head psychiatrist, Dr.Murchison is retiring and being replaced by Dr. Edwardes. When Dr. Edwardes arrives he immediately falls in love with Dr. Constance Peterson. As the film progresses, Dr. Constance Peterson realizes that Dr. Edwardes is an amnesiac imposter. The film is about their journey on figuring out the identity of the imposter as well as finding out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes. The film was the first film to use…

Forrest Gump is a well-known movie starring Tom Hanks that was made in 1994. The movie revolves around a mentally slow man named Forrest Gump who told people who sat next to him on a bus stop bench about his life in which most of the stories followed historical events. One of the reasons why this movie resonates so well with me is because of the way Forrest never gives up. He continuously tries to be the best version of himself that he can. In one scene, Forrest is getting chased by the school…

The movie, “The House I Live In”, opened my mind to stuff that I never knew before that has been going around in the United States for decades. Before this video I always had my mind set that, everyone who was involved in selling or consuming drugs should be locked up for a lot of years. Also, that they are all criminals. However, this movie changed my view towards them. Something that they mentioned in the movie that had me thinking since is, that before when people first started using drugs…