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...

Lights, Camera, maybe Action? While not a motivating or inspiring film, Robert Altman's "The Player" is creative and amusingly satirical. The cinematography and editing tricks grabs the audience attention and throws them into the midst of Hollywood back-lot. "The Player's&q...

'The Crucible'; underestimated and underratedBy JonState High Student I must be honest in that I had never heard of the movie 'The Crucible' until a few weeks ago when my English teacher had us watch it for a unit we were currently doing on witchcraft. Figuring it was some teacher's educational vi...

U-571The piece that I selected is the opening sequence of U-571. This film is a newer film made in the classic Hollywood style and can fit reasonably well in the suspense genre. This scene takes place inside U-571 and provides the basis for the plot of the whole movie. Just to make sure everyone ...

When presenting movies based on historical facts, the writers, directors and studio executives that comprise Hollywood should be held accountable for its revisions to history within historical films. When presenting motion pictures based on historical facts, Hollywood should step up to the plate, ex...

On a sad day of loss, the entertainment world continues to reel in the aftermath of the worst terrorist act in recorded history. Last Wednesday, studios and TV networks reopened, but Hollywood still struggled to cope with the traumatic attacks on New York and Washington, D.C. All the movie studios t...

In a Hollywood movie the hero has great importance because he is the one who will capture the audience. When writing the script directors have always been preoccupied to paint a very attractive character with distinct qualities, almost perfect. Andre Bazin was a very important French film theorist ...

Would you rather pay twenty to twenty-five dollars for one DVD or less than forty bucks for a computer program which copies any DVD and stores it onto your computer? If you were a smart shopper it comes to you as common sense. There are such programs on the market that you can buy, but there are a f...

Day of the LocustThe Book and film The Day of the Locust are both similar yet create different pictures. Even though the film is almost word for word with the book the slight differences between them show us different parts of Nathanael West vision of Hollywood. The book shows Hollywood as the place...

Youth in Television have been portrayed in many different lights, anywhere from the criminal to the young at heart. With their resistance to the dominant culture, many studies have been done concerning the meaning of the political challenges to the social formation involving investigating cultural ...

Youth in Television have been portrayed in many different lights, anywhere from the criminal to the young at heart. With their resistance to the dominant culture, many studies have been done concerning the meaning of the political challenges to the social formation involving investigating cultural ...

Youth in Television have been portrayed in many different lights, anywhere from the criminal to the young at heart. With their resistance to the dominant culture, many studies have been done concerning the meaning of the political challenges to the social formation involving investigating cultural ...