Americans visit the movies everyday in search of a couple hours filled with mind blowing entertainment. Is it the digitally re-mastered sound, the out-of-this-world special effects, or tear jerker dramas? New movies are released every week, but what movies are the top grossing movies of all ti...

This Is Your Brain On Bondage. The entertainment industry has come a long way since the invention of movies and television. It opened the door to a vast new world. If it's comedy you want, it will deliver. If it's action you crave, it can give that to you too. It also has romances, thrillers, ho...

Violence in the media and in the movies today is more gratuitous than it ever has been. Many experts have pointed out that society should take appropriate ethical actions to minimize violence by adolescents. Many believe that this violence was caused by the increased brutality in movies today. I ...

In 1938, at the mere age of 23, Orson Welles' radio adaptation and performance of H.G. Well's classic science fiction thriller The War of the Worlds established him as a household name and a master of dramatic production. His previous experience, in both directing and acting, in theater had ta...

The Birds, and Event Horizon: Two movies of the same "horror" genre, but they both scare you in completely different ways. The Birds is a thriller released in 1963, which uses little or no special effects to horr you to a sinister stupor. Event Horizon is a film made in the Twentieth century that us...

Box office hits are all the rage for the month of September. It's all about what's hot and what's not! The Forgotten, Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow, Mr. 3000, First Daughter, and Resident Evil: Apocalypse is the top five movies for the week of September 10-24th. You're l...

\"Auter\" is a French term for the film director who places a personal style on his or her films. It was first coined by Francois Truffaut to describe the mark of a film director on his films. A director can be considered an auteur if about five of his films depict a certain style that is definite...

"Top Gun"Elevates You To New Altitudes Top Gun is a 1980's action packed military aerial thriller and romance starring Tom Cruise as an underdog, crackerjack, F-14 pilot named Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. This film is a celebration of military heroics with a lone ...

\"Double Indemnity\" is a classic example of the film noir style and also set some standards for movies to come. This paper will provide examples and show that the following film realized the success of this flick. Film noir is not necessarily a type of genre but rather a tone that branched of from ...

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in London on August 13, 1899. His father, William Hitchcock, a grocer, and his mother, Emma Whelan Hitchcock, brought him up. As a young boy he loved to travel, and by the time he was eight he had ridden every bus line in London and explored all of its docks and sh...

"The Butterfly Effect is an engrossing unpredictable and original thriller..."- Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons. It's one of several reviews by critics around the world. The cinematography, editing techniques, and sound direction help provide vision to an oddly shaped motion picture. Most tec...

"Mulholland Drive is a place where dreams and nightmares meet." David Lynch What do an aspiring actress, a beautiful stranger, a frustrated film director, a sinister cowboy, a gritty assassin, and a scary sorcerer all have in common? They are all the key characters in master cult dir...

With the presumption that "whatever you view becomes you", and my father's constant admonishing that everything I do has to eventually lead me to heaven, my criteria for choosing a film to watch has been stricter than most. To illustrate what I mean, most films last between an hour an...

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...

Different Types of Movies Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. Whether it is drama, comedy, or suspense, it seems like they are all equally preferred. The three best movies of the year were the comedy, Meet T...

Movies are a favorite pastime throughout America. There are many different types of movies, and people prefer different ones. Whether it is drama, comedy, or suspense, it seems like they are all equally preferred. The three best movies of the year were the comedy, Meet The Parents, the drama, Ghost...

Dead Again, directed by Kenneth Branagh, is a film full of mystery, fascinating puzzles, romance, wit, with plenty of twists and turns. The film starts with headlines screaming \"Murder!\" Roman Strauss is on death row for the conviction of the murder of his wife, Margaret. Forty-five years later ...

These three articles were all about the relation of criminology to popular culture. I believe that a lot of the scenarios and perceptions towards certain violent movies are true. By using certain characters (heroic father or hard bodies) they can allow the viewer to perceive that character as part ...

'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...

Alfred Hitchcock: The Greatest Director Ever! Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art filmmaking with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than they could bask for. The consistency of quality plot lines a...

For the past several decades the media has impacted and naturally changed our life immeasurably. Television and movies in particular have had a destructive and irreversible influence towards children. In everyday life, a typical American child will spend up to 4 hours engulfed in an imaginary world ...

One of my biggest problems with watching a movie is that most movies are too predictable. I sat down to watch this movie with just that type of attitude particularly because this movie carried the same story line as "A Perfect Murder" which was an extremely predictable movie. At first I...

Alfred Hitchcock was the master of horror thrillers- a genre that he single- handedly created and developed. Hitchcock's films were meant to evoke a blood-curling response from the viewers and the two films that managed to achieve that completely were Psycho and The Birds. The Birds was released ...

Strangers on a Train Motifs Alfred Hitchcock's, Strangers on a Train reinforces the duality of human nature and effectively transforms a highly improbable situation into a series of logical events, which lead to murder. Hitchcock has constructed most of the events in this particular movie ...

"An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time being forget our cares and worries; it interrupts our conscious thoughts and habits, rests our nerves and mind, though it may incidentally exhaust our bodies. Art, on the oth...