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“Ghostbusters” (2016) manages to remain afloat, mostly because it has a lot of heart, despite its conspicuous problems. You may argue that McCarthy, Wiig, and Hemsworth are enough of star power; plus, McKinnon, but she still remains more a TV power in lieu of movie power. It is understandable that the film attempts to prove that women can carry an entire film on their own, we have seen it happen more often, particularly during the past five years with films such as, “Frozen” (2013) toping as…

The performing arts hold a historic grip on the American entertainment industry. With its initial burst of popularity in 1917, Hollywood cinema paved its way to becoming a dominant force in the entertainment industry. Most Americans take personal interest in performing arts, whether it be in film or live theatre. Despite this, a rift had formed with some critics of theatre expressing their concern for the shift in demand toward cinema. This raises an issue in examining the difference between…

In the article “Hollywood Warms to Asian Movies, American-Style,” by Renee Graham, she discusses Hollywood’s trend of remaking Asian movies into English. She informs readers that movies such as The Grudge and Shall We Dance? were both based on Japanese originals. Major studios are continuing to snap up the rights to films from South Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong with the intention of remaking them with American actors (Graham 229). Throughout the article, Graham outlines the pros and cons of…

My friend Cheyenne Clements, she is my best friend and me and her do lots together. To me we seem to not do a lot, but really we do. We go to the movies together all of the time. The two favorite movies that we have seen to gather is Star wars the force awakens and Jurassic world the first one that came out and we made a pact that we would go see the second one that came out. We did that the day that we went and saw the first one. We had found out that they were making a second one and we were…

art and technology, movies have always been considered to be the core part of a nation’s culture and the whole country itself. “So it is no surprise if past leaders like Hitler, Mao and Mussolini had always wanted to be in charge of their country’s movie industry” (Chang). Moreover, there is no doubt that there has been a great rise in the competition of film industry recently. Making…

life of love and war, there are subjects of her work that are also very important but they may be difficult for the screenwriter to address, for example her work on the exhibition “Congo/Women”(Addario, 191). It is important, when adapting it into a movie that the screenwriter, Peter Craig understand the power of Addario’s work and not undermine the significance of the lives she has touched with that work. Adapting both Addario’s experiences and her photography together as a whole would greatly…

as the critics also called the movie among the director's best and heaped admiration on the performance of Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars. The Martian marks the second best launch of Ridley Scott's career - behind only by $3 million compared to the $58 million debut of the 2001 American crime thriller film -…

movies, unique use of special effects, and a new rating system. Several of the movies that were released in 1984 “set a template for sequels”(Truitt 1) and created “the franchises of today”(Truitt 1). The Ghostbusters franchise took off after the movie turned out to be a massive success. Spawning spin-offs (and knock-offs), cartoons, comics, tv shows, and of course, sequels, Ghostbusters proved to be incredibly lucrative, despite how bizarre its premise was. People were having their “mind blown…

GoPro Hero 5 Black vs. GoPro Hero 5 Session Battle: Which One is Better? The GoPro Hero 5 Black and the GoPro Hero 5 Session are now released in the market. Shutterbugs are now comparing the two gadgets. Why are people crazy with the GoPro? Why is it different from conventional digital cameras? People love the GoPro camera because of its versatility. First, it can be mounted anywhere. It can take shots from a first person’s perspective and from their vantage points. GoPros are perfect for…

What made matters worse was the fact that the government was making claim that the Big 5 movie studios violated anti-trust acts buy monopolizing there films, preventing independent film company to get going. This was something the government tried to push before the war, but their efforts fell short. The big push came with the case against Paramount…