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about Sylvester Stallone's return to serious acting in Copland. It's an entirely different matter, however, to watch the action superstar in this new role than it is to read and hear about it. In Copland, Stallone plays Freddy Heflin, the shy, overweight…

last time that when a film's credits started rolling, you just stared at the screen, in silence? Seconds, minutes later, you were still in silence. The grin on your face seems to be placed there naturally, and won't go away. You can't move a muscle,…

Greenway is an astounding tale of sex, deceit, corruption, and abuse. This movie is partial about a woman named Georgina and the relationship she holds between her and the two men in her life, Michael and Albert. Michael is her lover and Albert,…

“When he speaks, he co-articulates with frenetic gestures as if explaining something to a deaf person with ADD…Though not a native English speaker, he can fit three words where others fit one, just as he can throw three kicks before the bad…

end of World War I “the problem of finance … encouraged filmmakers to create a kind of movie that would no longer be dependent on fiction and on invented themes … but would draw on the reality of everyday life” (Beaver 256). - Victorio De Sica …

to the audience. The first is an explicit meaning, of which is clearly presented through the various images on the cover. The second meaning, the implicit meaning, is subtlety suggested amongst the images and requires some thought to grasp. Through…

was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee, as the son of a half cherokee, half hillbilly mother named Connie Tarantino. She named him after Burt Reynolds’ charakter, Quint from the movie “Gunsmoke”. When Quentin reached the age of two years, the Tarantino…

movies and television shows that have dealt with the issue of conflict between machines and humans. Some examples that come to mind are Terminator, and Star Trek (the Borg Collective) but one movie that stands out in my mind is Matrix. The Matrix is…

to recount the horror of war and reach out to the collective social conscious of today?s society. The majority of society have not experienced war and through the historical recollection, the medium of film and the characters of the story, Speilberg…

and critiques alike in awe. His film, Natural Born Killers, was released to theatres all over America. The story, originally written by Quentin Tarantino, was one of two mass-murders who go on a killing spree across the country. At a glance,…