Ian Holm

The first act promptly begins with Lear’s surprising announcement about relinquishing his power to his three daughters. He pledges “our largest bounty may extend” (1.1.57) to whomever loves him the most. Beginning with Lear’s major discourse throughout the play, we get the sense that power is the dominant force that's at the centre of this family. Lear states first “to shake all cares and business from our [Lear’s] age”(1.1.41) and then taking that boundless power to his children, where he can…

In the inquest of Ian Tomlinson’s death the police officer claimed that his actions were in self-defence and he genuinely believed that the victim, who was walking away with his hands in pockets, was posing “risk or unknown risk” (IPCC, 2010, p. 104), by displaying hostility…

follows. It sets up not only Hamlet’s anguish, but the real lure between his mother and his uncle. The cast has at least three actors who have played Hamlet before: Alan Bates, as Claudius; Paul Scofield, as the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and Ian Holm, as Polonius. Holm is particularly active in the "to thine own self be true" speech, and I enjoyed Bates' strength of bluster and lust, as a man of feat who will have what he needs and not bother himself with the types of questions that torture…

Alien is an original, extraordinary visual film that has the ability to terrorized moviegoing audiences by rather what they don’t see, combining the dread and fear of the unknown, and the idea that something is lurking just around the corner, waiting in the darkness made of pure evil. The film’s own tagline reads, “In space no one can hear you scream.” Is hauntingly fitting as the doomed space travelers are trapped aboard their own spaceship in uncharted space with a hostile alien stalking them.…

Ratatouille Review Ratatouille is an extremely unique movie, with the story coming out of two writer’s minds instead of being based on a fairytale. Of course, Pixar is known for their creative minds, but this movie is a complete deviation from the norm. Rats are usually seen as disgusting and unlikable, but this movie is both a fan favorite and very well reviewed, with the characters being memorable and the tone of the movie being perfectly French. Ratatouille is a modern classic that has…

The Borrowers by Mary Norton is a classic novel that does not get dated with time. “Marcus Crouch comments that, ‘of all the winners of the Carnegie Medal [awarded annually by the British Library Association to the best children's novel of the preceding year], it is the one book of unquestioned, timeless genius’” (Stott). The Borrowers was published in 1952 has continued to be read throughout the following years. This book is still in print and is still being read even sixty years after it was…

Film & Character Garden State is coming-of-age comedic drama that attempts to capture the multifaceted transitions often experienced by young adults. This film, released in 2004, was directed by Zach Braff, who also stars in the movie as the main character and focus of this paper, Andrew Largeman. This paper will attempt to more deeply explore Andrew’s development using the postulates of Object Relations and Psychosocial theories (Braff, Sher, Shamberg, & DeVito, 2004). This film portrays…