Every summer moviegoers flock to the theaters to see what Hollywood has punched out as their big summer hits. Some do well and become successful blockbuster, while the others fail to stand up to their potential hype. Yet in the past few years it\'s seem as though movies themselves have become less e...

A Movie That Makes You Think Movies make up a large part of every person's life. They act out events people can only imagine but are afraid to do. They also affect the lives of the people who see them. One movie, which dramatically affected my life, was Grosse Pointe Blank. This movie...

Name of Movie: Blue Streak Stars: Martin Laurence Directed: Les Mayfield Master jewel theif Miles Logan (Martain Laurence) has a problem! A $20 million problem! Recently realeased from prison after a 2-year bust, he's anxious to retrieve the huge diamond that he hid in a construction site ...

Thomas Kim The film, "Charlie's Angels" was a visually motivated movie. This film fit under the genre of action/comedy. The action and camera work moved the story forward while keeping the audience attentive. The primary characters were Dylan, a rebellious tomboy, Nata...

Movie Review: White Heat The film White Heat (1949) is a story about a gangster named Cody Jarrett who goes to prison after confessing for a hotel robbery to avoid the death penalty for leading a train robbery stealing $300,000. Cody is played by the actor James Cagney and is portrayed as a rut...

In the past, directors have been plagued with the task of creating a classic teen movie. The idea of a classic teen movie would have to include drama, comedy, action, friendship, and most importantly a life lesson. However, today's directors seem to make carbon copies of each other work in the ...

TITLE OF MOVIE: Scarface Studio: Universal Studios Producer: Martin Bregman Director: Brian De Palma Stars: Al Picino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia Year of the Movie's Release: 1983 A basic summary of the Plot: Al Pacino gives an unforgettable p...

The movie "A Nightmare on Elm Street" is a crazy horror movie. It's about the teenaged children of Elm Street and how they all start to die, one-by-one, apparently being killed off by something when they sleep. Something in their dreams was murdering the children. A girl named Nancy T...

One of the most important scenes in the play Hamlet, is the scene in which Hamlet orchestrates a scheme to prove the guilt of his uncle Claudius through mimicking his crime in front of him. The scene is important in the play to expose certain aspects of the plot, as well as led a hand to character...

Pulp Fiction is a great movie with one of the best young directors Quentin Tarantino, and great actors such as John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, and Bruce Willis. This movie keeps you on the edge of your seat at all times with the killing and drugs always in the shot but at times you...

A Civil Action The movie A Civil Action brings up an interesting idea that many people in the public don't see or hear about very often. The idea that the big corporations often don't take into account the safety of the people that work for them or the people that live around the factorie...

THE COMPARING AND CONTRASTING OF FRAILTY AND KIERKEGAARD. According to Kierkegaard in the Philosophy book, despair is sickness until death And is the central problem in philosophy. Kierkegaard poses the question, "Is there anything in this world or outside it to which the individual can ...

Visitors at the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor often sense a feeling of deep sorrow, an almost instantaneous mourning for thousands of men who perished there on December 7, 1941. Now because of Randall Wallace and Michael Bay's film, Pearl Harbor, all people can come close to experiencing th...

The name of the movie I critiqued is called Bridge on the River Kwai. It was a film created in 1957, which won 7 academy awards in that year. This movie was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel. The three main stars of this film are William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins. I wa...

Intense car chases, extraordinary fight scenes, and a great storyline are all components of a good movie. Warner Brothers executes these elements with pizzazz in the movie \"The Matrix: Reloaded\" by director Josh Oreck. The Matrix is a science fiction movie and thus appeals to a very critical audi...

"Leadership Is an Action Not Position" Leadership can be shown through any person in any type of situation. In a classroom discussion, on the playing field, or in public a sign of a leader is evident. A person is born a leader. Certain humans know what to do when the time calls for it....

When Oliver Stone created JFK in 1991 he produced a historical drama that works as a mystery and a thriller. Not only did he create a movie that crossed multiple genres he did well. How does a movie that runs over three hours long find success? It realizes that the world is filled with conspiracy...

\"Memento\" directed by Christopher Nolan, is an interesting and complex film. The concepts and ideas the film conveys are a welcome, fresh change from the recent stagnation that American film has endured. Mr. Nolan built this film from a concept that had nothing in common with the all too familiar ...

I was impressed with the special effects, which were awesome, however I came away from this movie even more impressed by the emotions it stirred, influenced by the bravery and heroism of what I would consider everyday men and women...city employees. Tommy Lee Jones is magnificent as is Anne Heche,...

What makes two things similar? Some similarities are obscure, while others are obvious. Many movies share similar objectives, but no two movies have more in common than Emma and Clueless. These two movies have many common factors of which character comparison and plot are included. The character...

Zaza, the lobby card I have chosen, was a film based on a 1904 French play by Francois Berton and Charles Simon. Zaza was a successful film played by nearly every major actress of the day. To quote Paramount, It is a story of \'sawdust and tears, backstage rivalries, dramas and heartbreaks\'. F...

The Matrix has found many fans since the release of the movie on March 31, 1999. The Matrix is based on a scientific theory that we are being run by computer programs. The computer program allows people inside the matrix to do anything they would like to do. In the opening sequence of the movi...

MOVIE ONE: "Spawn" Ideology: The ideology issues within this film are quite subtle as the main charater is accentually evil. Like most action films it follows the ideology that one man can make a difference against all odds. In this case, he has to go up against the devil himself....

Neither the novel nor film version of To Kill A Mockingbird is superior to the other, just different. In the book you delve more into the separate characters while in the film you see the relationships in action. The book gives you a broader view of everything, but at the same time the movie point...

Gone in 60 Seconds In the film Gone in 60 Seconds, Nicolas Cage stars as Randall "Memphis" Raines, a former car thief who was once the best in the business. When Memphis's younger brother, Kip (Giovanni Ribisi), gets into trouble with dangerous car smuggler Raymond Calitri (Christop...