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Movie Review: The Color Purple

The movie "The Color Purple," directed by Steven Speilberg, was, in general, a satisfactory film. It was enjoyable, if you don't consider accuracy towards the novel it is portraying important. Speilberg obviously had little, if any, respect toward the original story, by Alice Walker. He ...

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Crooklyn: A Review

Crooklyn is the story of how one family (The Carmichael’s) struggles to survive and stay together, as they experience one very special summer in their crowded, but cozy Brooklyn neighborhood nickname “Crooklyn” for the magical, crazy, remarkable experiences in their hometown. Told from the ...

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Shakespeare In Love - Movie Review

Shakespeare in Love is a romantic comedy film directed by John Madden. It film brought us back in time – particularly Shakespeare’s time, where there is a rich symbolism of love. It has the right mix of comedy, drama, and also tragedy. However, there are excessive steamy scenes and partial nudity ...

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Ghandi Movie Review

Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film Gandhi presents a realistic and mostly chronological account of the Indian political activist’s life. The film “Gandhi” begins at the end, however, and shows Gandhi being shot by an assassin at a public event. This is followed by a scene with thousands of ...

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Review Of Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane was written and directed by Orson Welles. This classic masterpiece was completed in the 1940’s. It uses film as an art form to energetically communicate and display a non-static view of life - its components include unconventional lighting, inventive use of shadows, deep-focus shots ...

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Website Review

After visiting and examining the PBS Web site, I was able to conclude that it is an extremely successful entertainment and educational site. The Web site has won many substantial awards, including the prestigious "Webbie Award" in 1998 and 1999. According to a recent survey, fifty-six percent of ...

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A Review Of The Movie: The Usual Suspects

I do not feel I am overstating my case when I say that The Usual Suspects is a cinematic masterpiece. It is the amazing combination of an intriguing plot, colorful characters, and superb cinematography that make this easily one of the most memorable movies in recent memory. But regardless of ...

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The Matrix-critique And Review

The movie, "The Matrix" is a complex, yet easy watching movie. It involves many things to think about, but is easy to understand. "The Matrix" combines love and action into one great movie. The story is as follows: Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves) is a dull and lifeless employee for a ...

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Trigger Effect (movie Review)

Kyle MacLachlan, Elizabeth Shue, and Dermot Mulroney star in this West Coast power-outage thriller. Telephones, broadcast signals, and all things electric flicker out in seven US states, but all 50 states become targets of writer/director David Koepp’s social themes. Koepp, author of scripts for ...

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Book Review- Little Girl Lost

Little Girl Lost is an autobiography of Drew Barrymore co-written with PEOPLE magazine's Todd Gold. Drew Barrymore, a twenty-five year old actress (ET, Never Been Kissed, to-be-released Charlie's Angels) has overcome an addiction, proven herself to be a competent, intelligent woman, and is a major ...

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Review Of Amistad

In April of 1839, a group of militant Portuguese abducted a group of 53 Africans, and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. In June of 1839, the Africans were purchased as slaves by four Spaniards and put on the schooner La Amistad (Spanish for “the friendship”) for a voyage to Principe, an ...

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As Good As It Gets: A Review

In As Good As It Gets, the main character Melvin Eudoll (played by Jack Nicholson) definitely suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder DMS code 300.30. He also may very well be suffering from oppositional defiant disorder, DSM code 313.81. On a scale of one to ten, I would surely give a ten to ...

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Film Review (The Money Pit)

The Money Pit is a love comedy directed by Richard Benjamin in 1986. This movie was performed humorously by Tom Hanks who usually perform comedy. The movies he has performed before were The Man with One Red Shoe, Splash, Bachlor and etc. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long play Anna and Walter, a young ...

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David Selznick And Since You Went Away

"I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men, and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer, I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn't have as a director. I consider myself ...

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Life of the Famous J.K. Rowling

Joanne "Jo" Rowling, OBE[1] (born 31 July 1965),[2] better known as J. K. Rowling (pronounced /'ro?l??/, ROH-ling),[3] is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was conceived on a train trip from Manchester to London in 1990. The Potter ...

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Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise

If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...

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Rhetorical Genders: Performances Of A Lifetime In Thelma And Louise

If the 1991 box office success of Thelma and Louise was unexpected, more surprising was the heated debate that followed its release, a debate over the film’s political status and social implications. While Joan Smith of The Guardian argued that the film’s “effect is perversely to reinforce the ...

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Natural Born Killers 2

Natural Born Killers is a story by Quentin Tarantino who sold the screenplay to a friend who latter sold it to Oliver Stone. Stone and his fellow screenwriters rewrote the original script. This doing horrified Tarantino, so with a private meeting they both met and resolved the conflict to the ...

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Disruptive Technology

The term "disruptive technology" as coined by Christensen (1997) refers to a new technology having lower cost and performance measured by traditional criteria, but having higher ancillary performance. Christensen finds that disruptive technologies may enter and expand emerging market niches, ...

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Leadership In Movie

Review any two movies of the following list. Identify and describe the main characters, their method of controlling and inspiring others, the major personality attributes, the situations and how or why the characters were motivated. Braveheart, Wallstreet, One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest, Elizabeth, ...

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