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Throughout the 1920’s cinema became established as the most popular and profitable mass media, and this continued until the 1960s. Historian A.J.P Taylor famously described it as “the essential social habit of the age”. People went to the movies as their main leisure activity. The social experience of cinema going was often an escape from what could be very difficult social conditions and the rise in cinema attendances during and just following World War Two were up to 31m per week in the UK…

Parched means being “extremely thirsty” or one can say that something is bereft of moisture or water that it needs, and that is exactly what the film, Parched, is about. Parched is directed by Leena Yadav and Russell Carpenter is the cinematographer (Sharma). The film is about having a desperate desire for love, freedom, and sex, but being not permitted to have such thoughts because it is against the “custom” or the “norm”. Parched is a bittersweet tale about four women living undesired lives,…

prices; I would rather watch movies at my house than watch them at the movie theaters. Distractions, or lack thereof, can greatly affect a movie-watching experience. At the movie theaters, people are often told to turn their cell phones on silent and refrain from talking. Despite this, there are many rebels who feel that the silence rule does not apply to them. There have been many times when I cannot fully enjoy a movie I am watching because a rude person keeps talking on the phone…

go out. The decision is based on many different factors. Do I feel like driving to the theatre? Am I in the mood? Do I want to tolerate an annoying stranger’s chatter? Even though a movie theatres experience is one that is unexplainable, nothing beats the comfort of your own home. I want to enjoy a good quality movie but I don’t want to spend too much money. When attending a theatre you have to take into consideration both ticket prices and concession. Depending on if you are planning on…

JEAN-JAQUES BEINEIX: Beineix started his career as a assistant director on fifteen adverts before releasing his first feature in 1981 ‘Diva’, which attracted the attention of key post-modernism theorist Frederic Jameson, who identified it as the first French postmodern film. Despite ‘Diva’ becoming a cult film for the youth of the time, the French film critic establishment did not appreciate the superficial aspects of its postmodern aesthetics. It was simply considered an irrational attachment…

childhood classic. From the cute little alien creatures that have come down to Earth, and the realistic big sister-little sister relationship, “Lilo and Stitch” is a viewing for all people of all ages. The movie teaches young children about the fundamentals of how family really works. The movie depicts a family that is made up of all different types of people, coming from all different walks of life. And despite the negative outlook many seemed to have with the family, they always seemed to pull…

throughout the 1950s era. Both industries had many discoveries and major trends throughout the 1950’s era. The film industry had become fiercely challenged by a new mass medium of entertainment, called the “television”. Movie makers used all types of gimmicks to pull back movie-goers, but it was all short-lived. By then, television had already dispersed a huge impact of competition on…

The Flick is Pulitzer Prize winning play written by Annie Baker. It is set in an old movie theater, appropriately called “The Flick”. The movie theater is currently being upgraded from using an old 35 millimeter projector to a digital one. Just like the theater is undergoing changes, so are the lives of the play’s three characters, Avery, Sam, and Rose as they learn more about each other in the time they share at The Flick. The play begins by introducing to Sam and Avery, both of whom are seen…

Sicario, a thriller starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, and Josh Brolin, opened in theaters nationwide this week to warm reviews, as well as controversy. Sicario finds Kate Macer (Blunt), a straight-laced F.B.I. agent thrown into a world of high-intensity, life-or-death scenarions, as she ahs been recruited into a cartel-busting task force led by Matt Graver (Brolin), and associate Alejandro (Del Toro), who are at the opposite end of the personality spectrum from Macer; they are unorthodox…

and flight to watch. Reviewing a movie is not easy; sometimes it requires you to watch the film multiple times before you can fully understand the story line and being a college student those are luxuries time permits us not to have. To give a full in-depth review of Arrival for the Embry-Riddle community I decided to base my review on 4 criteria: Does Arrival relate to any of the Aerospace Genre, film quality, Plot structure, and was the movie worth it? The movie starts off with the main…