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… quite enjoyable. It featured a roster of many delightful actors, which was made possible because the entire movie took place in one room so they did not have to spend so much money on the set, special effects, etc. Over the course of the movie, many…

… as Ideology, Jane Feuer presents the idea of liveness in television. Television as an institution identifies all messages emanating from the apparatus as live. However in the technological advances, the meaning of live has greatly changed. Computerize…

… numerous great reviews; will it live up two it? The Boston Globe gives it three and a half out of four stars and says it’s lively, edgy, full of zigs and zags, juicy performances and off beat fun. The Chicago Sun Times gives it three out of 4 stars,…

… in the study of the cinema of the past? Cinema as an art form has stood the test of time for over one hundred years, since the Lumiere Brothers exhibited a series of moving images to the public in 1895. What started off as a documentary-tableau…

… hospital bed, leg totally mutilated. Barely conscious, the man over heard the surgeon say he could not amputate this mans leg as tired as he was. Dunbar didn’t like what he heard, so when the surgeons left, he grabbed his boat, and he slowly slid the…

… depth of the seas, Seem little or nothing when you smile at me. The way your eyes twinkle, like the stars in the night, Whenever we're together, fills me with delight. The sight of your face with your rosy cheeks, Stays in my mind for weeks upon…

… the end of the movie Carl is put in a position were he must decide weather or not he should just leave like has been told to do, or do something to help young Frank. Carl has many options which he must think about including: leaving Frank and his mother…

… the relationship between aging Chinese culinary master Tao Chu and his three daughters in modern Taiwan. The eldest, Jia-Jen, is an unmarried schoolteacher in her late-twenties. The middle daughter, Jia-Chen, is a corporate airline executive whose…

… of my fellow students nearly panicked when given the task of finding a movie with many of the technical elements that our Film Arts class had covered so far this semester. I for one, found this task to be enjoyable and my subject for this assignment…

… in the Shawshank Redemption Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is a wrongly convicted lawyer, serving time in the hell known as Shawshank Prison for the murder of his adulterous wife. Andy’s life in prison starts off miserably. He finds maggots in his food,…