Movie Review Essay

Movie Critique Submitted to Dr. Ashley Newell Submitted by Anuradha Adhikari Submitted on October 19, 2015 Philadelphia is a high-profile Hollywood movie which took AIDS plague seriously and was able to create a wave. The dread-disease drama seems difficult to deal within a company and the disease tends to scare even white collars. Basically the movie describes the downfall of an outstanding corporate lawyer because of his disease. (Demme, 1993) Andy Beckett, a senior associate…

film, written by Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa, produced under the direction of Gary Winick – who is well known with this kind of theme, his other movie “Bride Wars” also got a big applause since it released. 13 Going on 30 was a successful production in 2004, both on DVD rental and box office, grossed over $90 millions just after a few weeks. The movie is a story of a 13 year old girl Jenna, who desperately want to become a “Thirty, Flirty, Thriving” woman. This film is concerned as a…

Midsummer Night’s Dream Film Study - Andrew Hui The movie A Midsummer Night 's Dream directed by Michael Hoffman, was a decently made adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.The setting, the scene additions, and the ability to use the themes had its goods and flaws. The setting, was set in Monte Athena, Italy, which is a not what the original play was set in which is Athens. This creates a lot of confusion for people that have not read to play, as comments on “Athenian Garments” and references to…

it's not a lie. We're innocent enough that time to know what's with their smiles and behind those smiles. Our parents, the people who'll put into our innocent mind that life is beautiful despite of what they have experienced. "Life is Beautiful", a movie that will make you realize the real meaning of life and the importance of enjoying it. During 1930's at Arezzo, Italy , there's this young Jewish man named Guido who wants to have his own bookstore. At his way, he encountered a beautiful girl, a…

A Beautiful Mind is a movie that follows a young man named John Nash throughout his life from the time he enrolls in Princeton University until he receives the Noble Prize. Nash is determined to come up with his own original idea for his thesis which he does after a harsh rejection from a woman at a bar and inspires an idea. This allows Nash to write his paper then later leads to him teaching at MIT. Slowly and slowly throughout the movie, you can see Nash’s paranoia and mental instability arise…

I chose the movie 28 days starring Sandra Bullock. Sandra’s character Gwen was an alcoholic and addicted to Vicodin. She had gone through the cycle of addiction and was ruining her life from the drugs. She is sent to rehab after stealing the limo at her sister’s wedding and crashing it into a building since she was driving drunk. She was given the choice to do jail time or 28 days of rehab and she chose the rehab. While at rehab she had a rough time going through the withdrawal symptoms and…

the way their bus met with an accident with the car on the bridge of their village and the bus falls into the river due to which Swarnlata loses her son and her friend Vaishnavi. This movie contains multiple themes out of which the theme mainly focussed is “following the dreams the hard way” as it is shown in the movie that after 20 years from the incident Vaishnavi’s…

routes by sailing through the ocean, and they had to risk their lives for a new haven. It is estimated that half of refugees could not made their ways, and ocean was their graves. In 2008, Director Duc Nguyen released his documentary film Bolinao 52, a movie about Vietnamese refugees on a fatal boat, which reveals the plight of boat people and the ordeals they had to fight for their survival. “Bolinao 52” is the name of a group of 110 refugees who set out their voyages on a small boat in 1988.…

The video I reflected on was “Cracking Your Genetic Code”. The documentary begins talking about a flash drive that contains a person’s genetic code. There are 6 billion letters in it and we could have a chance to see genome sequence for $1,000. But there are some ups and downs about it. Some people think it’s invasive because even insurance companies could look at it. But it could predict cancer. This could affect one’s life forever. How well do you want to know yourself? Genomics is almost…

Hinton. The movie “The Outsiders” was produced by Gray Frederickson and directed by Francis Coppola. If one wants to truly understand the story of the “Outsiders”, I think they should watch the movie. The book does not give us enough detail because I think you can really see the people and the places in the movie. For instance, the book starts with when Ponyboy and Johnny get jumped by a gang called the Socs. Before they were jumped the Socs were high on drugs. Also this happened in the movie…