Essays on Movie Review

“Maleficent may be known as a wicked villainess but she didn’t start off that way.” The story starts with meeting Maleficent as a child living alone in a tree, orphaned. In these early stages, Maleficent is confident and gentle. Then the story follows Maleficent’s encounter...

The movie “The greatest showman” directed by Michael Gracey is based on a real-life circus known as Barnum and Bailey’s Circus. The movie starts when the young Phineas who saw himself being a ringmaster in the mirror. Because of his father’s work as a tailor...

Growing up means growing up with stereotypes and gender roles following behind like an annoying friend. They mature, starting from being expected to playing with and nursing dolls, or destroying toys and playing in the mud, and from there never seem to end. As a...

“Zootopia” is the endearing story of the first-ever bunny police officer, Judy Hopps, and her journey through solving a missing persons – or, animals – case in the metropolitan city of Zootopia. Along the way, she runs into animals in power with less than pure...

“Man of Steel” by director Zack Snyder is a Hollywood blockbuster released in 2013 that tells a story of one of the most famous superheroes ever: Superman. This movie was filmed as a re-launch of the DC Comics franchise, and since it was Christopher Nolan...

Based on the movie named, “Wonder,” it can be said that there are many themes to be noticed and also discussed such as: The choice between becoming popular by lying about one’s life, over a few friends who accepts the truth about you. It was...

Film Critique: Breakfast At Tiffany’s Blake Edwards’ Breakfast At Tiffany’s left a lasting impact on film and pop culture with its release in 1961, from the immediately recognizable ballad, “Moon River,” to the leading lady and now fashion icon, Holly Golightly, played by doe-eyed Audrey...

The movie I have chosen to talk about is titled “The Wizard of Oz”. Over going each genre and carefully selecting which genre this movie falls under, I picked the Fantasy Genre. One scene in the film that sticks out to me in specific is...

As The Red Scare infiltrated American culture and consciousness in the 1940’s and 50’s, few prominent players within the Hollywood film industry dared to challenge the accusations of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC); the fear of losing credibility and being blacklisted even ruffled...

This 2011 documentary observes the ways in which the current mainstream media has contributed to the diminishment of women in powerful and/or public positions. It includes in-depth interviews with Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Condoleezza Rice, and Gloria Steinem. More importantly, in my opinion, it also...

Mise-en-Scene Essay Twilight is a contemporary love story between a human and a vampire. They are madly in love but cannot be together. According to the movie, Bella Swan moved to a small city Forks, Washington to live with her dad that she did not...

This movie starts out in England in a little suburb. You see a little cat and it turns into a witch named Professor McGonagall she meets with a wizard named Professor Dumbledore at the doorsteps of a man named Dursley. The party is greeted by...

Movies have been introduced to the world in many genres and in different years. Somehave made a huge impact on this world whilst some have been depicted as the worst ones.Each and every movie gives a message either complex or simple. Various websites haverated the...

I saw the “Phantom of the Opera” in New York, which was staged at the Majestic Theatre. In the subway of New York, it is hard to to see the mysterious and empty poster of the theater hanging for years. Although this story originated from...

This movie is based on the late 80s and beginning of the 90s, time when Edinburgh was the capital of Europe AIDS through heroin usage, as said by Andrew Macdonald. By that time (80s-90s) in Britain was full of heroin addicts and these years are...

The film Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle is about an 18 year old Indian boy called Jamal Malik, he is from the slums of Juhu, Mumbai. The whole film focuses on his whole life journey as he appears on the Indian version of ‘Who...

I recently watched the sequel to Shrek the other day for the first time called Shrek 2. This movie is about how Shrek saved Princess Fiona from the Dragon’s Castle and then they go off and end up marrying each other. Which bring us to...

The film Bad Boys II, starring two cops named Marcus and Mike (Martin Lawrence and Will Smith), is set in Miami where both partners are assigned to look for clues and evidence for an international drug dealer’s arrest. As they start with the investigation and...

This piece was a moving one called “The Barrio” that tells of an outcasted neighborhood coming to life. Robert Ramirez tells the story of the place he once called home. He breaks down everything from the layout of the neighborhood to the sounds you could...