Jack Warner

The box art for the critically acclaimed fighting video game Injustice: Gods Among Us reveals a dark and grim tone that plagues the entire game. The violent images depicted parallels the main themes and gameplay. Rather than promote the games beautiful story or massive roster of characters, the art glorifies the violence and death that occurs in-game. The game tells a tale following the death of a alternate reality superman’s wife and unborn daughter, the Superman has become a oppressive…

Casablanca is an American Romantic film that was produced in 1942 whose setting is during the Second World War. The film centers on an American soldier who is at crossroads of choosing between the love he has for a lady and assisting the husband to the lady who is a leader of the Czech Resistance to escape from Casablanca, a city in Morocco controlled by the Vichy in order for him to persist in fighting the Nazis. The film begins with the image of a globe that is spinning and the French…

In the early to mid-20th century, the studio system of the movie industry was a powerful and very profitable business; the vertical integrated structure had proved to be successful. The nine or ten major studios made big profits from both the production of movies and the distribution and screening of their own movies. This was possible because most of these studios owned a chain of theaters in the major cities. With the independent theater owners, they made money by a system called “block…

Casablanca is a movie that sets place in 1941. This is a significance date during World War 2. During this period Casablanca in Morocco that was French ruled. In 1940, France had surrendered and signed a peace treaty with Germany. In this treaty, Germany would occupy northern regions of France, including Paris and the French territories of North Africa. During this time in World War 2; many people wanted to Europe and seek refuge elsewhere. Casablanca, which is located in Morocco, was under the…

If you don’t have a favorite show you should watch this show to change your mind. The Flintstones is the best show scene 1966. First off, The Flintstones first aired in April 1, 1966 and ever scene it came out it was on fire and might be the greatest show till this day. Also, it has it’s own park, movie, and is on covers of cereals to other things. This show has won awards from 1966 all the way up to 2006. Secondly, The Flintstones kids choice award winner. It has also been the most…

from their jobs and struggled to live a decent life. The Great Depression hit people hard which resulted in people turning to movie theaters to dream of a better life and forget about their problems outside of the movie theater. Studios such as MGM, Warner Bros, Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, and RKO created movies, shorts, and B-movies to distract everyday people from their tough life at home. The movies, actors, and directors that were presented in 1939 are what made the year so remarkable.…

Most people would agree that Steven Spielberg is a talented film director who has made some of the greatest,influential, and most iconic films of the past few decades. While all that may be true, I have much more to say about him. To me, he is much more than just the average film director, he is like a close friend. Even if I have never met the man in real life, I still feel a strange fondness for him whenever his name gets mentioned in conversation. I love him for reasons like his empathetic…

My familiarity with The Golden Age comes primarily from a film made ca. 1986 by a British company, if I remember correctly. It aired not long after on A&E, back in the days when Stacy Keach hosted its weekly performing arts program, and my homemade VHS tape subsequently got a lot of use. (Well, parts of it, anyway. Mostly the bits with Gediminas Taranda.) By then the ballet’s original Compere, Vladimir Derevianko, had left the USSR, so that part was played by Mikhail Tsivin, but otherwise the…

Within the 1920’s there were new forms of entertainment being created as well as existing forms of entertainment being greatly expanded upon and reinvented which quickly became the norm of entertainment for the public. Movies were being produced very early in the 20’s but had no audio and instead played a song over the film. Movies were helping in educating teens as they provided a whole new way to teach, being a visual aid with moving pictures as opposed to text or audible learning. Due to the…

When I was 8 years old I had asked my dad what some of his favorite movies were. Instead of telling me he handed me a box of movies he had purchased over the years and said I should look through it. After looking through it for a few minutes I had stumbled upon a movie with 2 men standing and staring at the camera, one was holding a gun and they were in a bowling alley. That was the first time I had came in contact with the Big Lebowski. The Big lebowski's comedy and great Characters make it…