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foggy, forlorn Xanadu, a palatial estate off the Florida coast, where Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), one of the world's wealthiest and most powerful men, dies whispering the word "Rosebud." Fade-out, then a flat cut to a "March of Time"-like documen…

That's the mistake three American buddies make in Malaysia, on the very day that two of them, Sheriff (Vince Vaughn) and Tony (David Conrad) head back to the States. It started out as a vacation to paradise, Malaysia. Three buddies thought this to…

Sense, both written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan, with its amazing final twist, is one of the best thrillers ever made. Bruce Willis and 10-year-old Haley Joel Osment make an incredible connection that is rarely seen in other movies. It is to…

subside in a world that thrives on community, society, and relationships. Within each of these categories people function together, believe in the same morals and values, and create their own divisions within these groups. Through excluding…

which, in the first half of the 19th century, was, during the decade of its independence war against the Mexican dictator Santa Ana, an independent republic - with the Lone Star as its symbol in the flag. In the 1950s, Sheriff Charlie Wade (Kris Krist…

sixty minutes, when the clock strikes the hour, the cuckoo bird of a cuckoo clock will come out of its hiding place and herald the time with it?s chirping of ?cuckoo! cuckoo!? In the film, Nurse Ratched and her assistant, like clockwork, call the…

“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm” (qtd. In Elibron). These are the words spoken by world-renowned author Aldous Huxley, whose words have made a lasting impression…

in 1967 by Embassy Films. Directed by Mike Nichols with the help of cinematographer Robert Surtees, and co-producer (with Nichols) Lawrence Turman, 'The Graduate' was a number one hit of 1968. From the novel by Charles Webb, Calden Willingham and Buck…

considered to be a true masterpiece of American filmmaking. Filled with beautiful images of Monument Valley, its secluded open spaces capture the beauty and the isolating danger of the frontier. This movie tells the emotionally compelling story of…

Sweet Hereafter’ is a gripping tale of a small U.S town and the people who dwell in it. A saga of four vivid, sensitive souls linked in a school bus tragedy: the bus driver, the widowed Vietnam Veteran, the lawyer who tries to shape the heartaches…