Roger Ebert

The year is 1974. America is introduced to the F-16 Fighting Falcon, People Magazine, and India’s first nuclear bomb. The Universal Product Code is first scanned for the purchase of Wrigley’s gum. Ronald DeFeo Jr murders his family in what would become the inspiration for The Amityville Horror, the introduction of the Rubik’s cube and the world gets to meet “Lucy”. How could such an interesting year get better? With the release of what could arguably be called the most offensive movie ever…

The Wizard of Awes Dozens of advancements in movie producing technology occurred between the late 1920’s and the early 1960’s, this time period is often referred to as the Golden Age of Hollywood due to its unique style (Goldberg, “Classical Hollywood Cinema”). Many of America’s most revolutionary and memorable movies have unique qualities that set them apart from others due to the developing technology that was created in this forty year period. The Wizard of Oz, a movie about a girl’s trip to…

Throughout Hollywood’s years they have come up with several war films, some of them very good and some of them very bad. What makes them good and bad depends on the group or individual watching it. Some people like to watch to see how we have evolved as a country and others look to see people die. Though some Hollywood producers provide an accurate depiction of war in an unbiased manner, several glorify war to the extent of romanticizing what should be a serious topic. From movies like Black…

The artistry captivates the audience from the opening credits with oriental scenery and music that astounds the senses. Even Roger Ebert agrees when he comments, “...in the depiction of nature, there's an echo of the master artist Hiroshige.” Animators adopted oriental techniques to seamlessly translate the beauty of the culture into detailed buildings and mesmerizing landscapes…

In 1976, Sidney Lumet directed the film Network that was about a news anchorman named Howard Beale, who had been in the same industry for eleven years working at The Union Broadcasting System (UBS). Beale was known for being “the mandarin of television” throughout the 1960s with outstanding ratings. However, his career soon came to a downfall in the late 1960s. In 1969, Beale’s ratings began to drop. Soon after that, he lost his wife and fell into a deep depression and started to drink…

S.H.I.E.L.D (Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, and Law- Enforcement Division) is an agency that internationally keeps the world safe. S.H.E.I.L.D uses the best super heroes they can find. With the help of Iron Man (Tony Stark), Thor, The Incredible Hulk (Bruce Banner), Black Widow, Hawkeye, and Captain America they protect New York City and the rest of the world against Loki, brother of Thor, and his army. Nick Furry, being the director of S.H.I.E.L.D, assembles the Avengers team…

childhood friends;Ice Cube staring as Doughboy and Doughboy’s brother Morris Chestnut starring as Ricky. Throughout the movie, the three experience police brutality, racial discrimination, and black on black crime while growing up in the hood. Critic Roger Ebert emphasizes that the three, including many other…

one’s talents and able to understand oneself as different. According to Maslow (1954), self-actualizing are people with very healthy characters, shows growth as an individual toward realization of the highest needs and finding journey in life. Carl Rogers (2014,) also created a theory relating a growth potential whose goal was to include similarly between real and the ideal self whereby growth makes a person a fully functioning person. Though, Erikson focuses on stages where an individual…

In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…

SPRINGFIELD: Jessie Levine grins and shakes her head when she hears the active voice message on her iPhone. "I sound youthful! What's more, quick!" she wonders. "That individual never, ever anticipated that would talk this way." The message was recorded before Levine was determined to have Lou Gehrig's sickness, or ALS, in mid 2015, and before the dynamic engine neuron malady brought about her discourse to end up moderate and slurred. However, as her capacity to talk falls apart, she's…