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In the near future of 2019, technology has advanced to the point of creating replicants, synthetic humans which are intelligent androids lacking emotion. Designed by the Tyrell Corporation, Replicants are mainly used off-world for manual labor too dangerous for humans as they have been outlawed on Earth. Blade Runners are special police units tasked with detecting and hunting down Replicants that come to Earth. Holden, a Blade Runner, uses a test designed for detecting Replicants on a new…

Selena The movie “Selena” is based on a true story about Selena Quintanilla- Perez, a Texas born Tejano singer, who was on the rise of her career when tragedy struck and she was shot and killed by a close family friend and president of her fan club. The movie was written and directed by Gregory Nava in 1997. Selena was born on April 16, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena started her career at the age of 10, as lead singer in her family’s band, Selena y Los Dinos. Her father Abraham, produced…

of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it.” - Roger Ebert. Each and everyone of us love movies, whether it’s romantic or thriller. We have been touched by movies or relate to movies, which is why we hold them close to us. But for a movie to catch our attention, it has to have the type of qualities we…

general feelings of the soldiers, unlike most brave-hearted war depictions. “one of the most harrowing combat sequences ever filmed and it’s the most overwhelming and agonising half-hour I have ever spent in a theatre.” says film critic Rex Reed. In Roger Ebert’s review of the movie he wrote about how Spielberg stated that he wanted to honour those who fought by showing the real horrors of combat not a stylised Hollywood version of bravery. Spielberg did not storyboard the camera shots…

“Eisenstein’s Theroy of Montages: 22 Jump Street (Lord & Miller, 2014).” The film 22 Jump Street is a comedy and a sequel from 21 Jump Street (Chitwood, 2013) that follows the story of two officers named Schmidt and Jenko that are after drug dealers once again (Seitz, 2014). There is a lot to say about the movie and the way it developed. In general, this is really fast-paced film which creates such a dynamic tendecy in the plot. This movie also showcases Sergei Eisenstein’s theory of 5 montages…

to preserve his Jews in an increasingly desperate Third Reich, a simple paperwork error throws all of his women out of the frying pan, directly into the fires of Auschwitz. Only a timely intervention by Schindler saves them as he, according to Roger Ebert, “walks into the death camp himself, and brazenly talks the authorities out of their victims.” The egocentric Schindler who saved Stern would never have put his life on the line as the changed Schindler does. Then, once Schindler has the women…

Horror movies are not the movies that are going to win awards. They 're not the movies that are going to get big budgets. Most important, however, they 're not the movies that will garner the most fans. It 's a genre of films that constantly finds itself trying to be legitimate in the eyes of critics and academics, yet the majority continue to dismiss the films as nothing more than an easy way to make money at the box office. It 's not often that a horror movie is released that is undeniably…

The Central Park Five: Background and Bias The 2012 documentary, The Central Park Five, revisits the 1989 Central Park jogger case. Five teenagers were coerced into confessing to a rape of which they were innocent, which was not discovered until over ten years later. The filmmakers and producers of this film are Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon. Ken Burns, who has directed or co-directed 27 films, is often named the best-known documentary filmmaker in America.…

from the likable cast and production value of the film. One critic in particular gave it a 3 out of 4 stars stating it gave the real history of the greatest golf match with a strong human element while showing the golf play in a "gripping story"(Ebert, Roger). The film was nominated for three awards, ESPY award for the best sports movie, and Satellites award for Best Youth DVD, and Young Actress Award for Best performance in a feature film (Movie Index). Overall this family friendly film was…

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