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… the early 1930’s, with such movies as Scarface, Little Caesar, and White Heat. These movies are considered classics of the gangster genre for several reasons. They were each made during an era where real gangsters were making daily headlines. Hollywoo…

… Penn and Robert Duvall, assigned to C.R.A.S.H., which stands for Community Resource Against Street Hoodlums, and is the Los Angeles task force on gangs. Hodges, played by Duvall, is the older of the two who is a battle-toughened vet in his last year…

… Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment, the first regular army regiment of black soldiers commissioned during the Civil War. At the beginning of the war, most people believed that blacks could not be disciplined to make good soldiers…

… Ken Kesey, United States FIRST YEAR OF PUBLICATION: First published in 1962 NUMBER OF PAGES: 310 MAINCHARACTERS: Randall Patrick McMurphy: A manual laborer, gambler and a con man, who is admitted to the ward from Pendelton…

… 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. Spawn was…

… X-Men Persuade an Audience to View the film? These two films are now Box Office Hits- but why? Somehow the film companies have persuaded an audience to pay £4.00 of their hard-earned cash to go into a cinema and see the film. The film companies…

… a man, Randle Patrick McMurphy, who is committed into a mental ward in Oregon after faking insanity to get, out of a work camp. Once committed McMurphy challenges the authority of a nurse named Ms. Ratched. Throughout the story the insubordin…

… by and about Mexican-Americans in all our diversity. This is a chronicle of one family over three generations, from its origins in Mexico and parts of the U.S. that earlier belonged to Mexico, through the immigrant experience and that of first and…

… first and most positive representations of real Mexican-American life. Director, Gregory Nava, created such a true to life chronicle of the Mexican-American experience through three generations (1920’s, 1950’s, and 1980’s). I still remember the pride…

… that family values do not resemble the “traditional family” of yesterday. Firstly, in the film, we can see that each of the families involved are dysfunctional. Lester, (the father) is obviously suffering from a mid-life crisis and…