Once in a while, you’ll be asked to do a movie review essay. This task is a great training tool for enhancing critical thinking skills. Essays on movie review aim at presenting a film from the most important scenes, special effects, to exciting moments and may be accompanied by criticism....From an advertising perspective, such a paper is aimed at convincing readers to watch the movie in question. Your writing should let a reader draw a conclusion, i.e, whether the film is worth their time or if they should try something else. Most importantly, your opinion must be independent and accurate. But how can you create a perfect introduction if you don’t have the experience in this type of writing? Relax. A good online writer can do it for you. If you have an idea but need some guidance, simply ask for a professional outline or use samples for more insights.
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...
The 1995 classic, Clueless, directed by Amy Heckerling a classic that’s been the inspiration to movies like Mean Girls and other teenage comedies. Little do people know that it’s actually inspired by Jane Austen’s book Emma. The movie follows Cher and her adventures in attempting...
Keywords: Predation,Criminology,Sociology,Prey drive “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...
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...
The Disney film Aladdin is a classic. There is no doubt that it is a film the vast majority of the population has seen. No matter what age you are, you have encountered something to do with this film at one point of your life....
Keywords: Spongebob Squarepants,great personality,fictional character,Spongebob’s personality,SpongeBob,Krusty Krab,Spongebob’s side,Patrick,resilient personality Spongebob Squarepants If I could pick to be one person for a day, I’d choose Spongebob Squarepants. That may sound silly, but he has hidden qualities that I would like to possess. He has a great...
‘What’s interesting to me is how the story keeps changing, and the reality of what’s happening keeps changing, and how, up until the very final scene, it’s all about how the truth is perceived.’ – Martin Scorsese, director of Shutter Island. Scorsese’s film achieves this...
This movie in its best part has many characters with many dilemmas encountered, and this is the intense part where I am always excited to watch and to know how these characters will solve the ongoing problems concerning about their faith to God. If it...
As a society we are less likely to change when given a mirror image of ourselves in a text. In A Single Man directed by Tom Ford, 1960s society provides a modern audience with events and people that are not in the contemporary world, but...
Voice, specifically one in first-person perspective, often reveals a character’s connection to his/her experiences in a text- but it is the variations in a voice that determines the character’s identity in these texts. Literary texts that discuss violence in childhood often involve exploration of these...
“I’ll tell you one thing, Fred, darling. I’d marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?” Holly Golightly (played by the delightful Audrey Hepburn) drawls to Paul Varjack (George Peppard) as they banter in the tiny kitchen of...
Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Feminism, Holly Golightly, Marx's theory of alienation, Marxism, Movie Review, Sex industry, Sex worker, Social class
Sunset Boulevard: A Fresh Avenue for a Familiar Genre In Billy Wilder’s 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard, an unwitting male protagonist, played by William Holden, falls into the grips of (and is eventually murdered by) a dangerous and scheming former actress portrayed by the great Gloria...
Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Alfred Hitchcock, American film actors, American film directors, Billy Wilder, California, Cecil B. DeMille, Charles Brackett, Erich von Stroheim
From the beginning of Metropolis, there is a stark divide between the upper class and the working people. We see working people walk like soldier into huge elevators, heads hanging in clear misery, descending into what we can only assume is their version of hell,...
Years before Black Swan, writer/director Darren Aronofsky exploded across the film universe with his surprisingly low-budget motion picture, Pi. The film is a violently pensive study of the fine line between madness and genius, as well as a warning of the consequences of disregarding human...
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...
Cinema of the United States, Communism, Dogma, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Film, Film industry, Joseph McCarthy, Movie Review, Patriotism, Red Scare
Unlike the spectacle and indiscriminate destruction of early disaster films, modern disaster films take a more personal and internalized look at disaster. Films from the golden age of disaster, like Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno, set the standards for the extravagance of disaster films, as a...
Pearl Harbor is a film detailing the events of the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese triggering the United States’ involvement in World War Two. This film follows closely two navy pilots, starred by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett, before and during the attack...
The movie, Back to the Future, directed by Robert Zemeckis, is known as a classic to many movie buffs. Created in the year 1985, Robert Zemeckis makes full use of his creative tools and the budget of 19 million USD, to create a magnificent story...
Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, Back to the Future Part III, Blade Runner, Christopher Lloyd, Computer-generated imagery, Contact, Emmett Brown, Fiction, Film
The film I chose to write about is “The Blind Side”. The reason I chose this movie is because it deals with various sociological concepts, such as, being a non-traditional family, being an upper-class family taking in someone who was considered lower-class, and being a...
“May the odds be ever in your favor,” a smiling Effie Trinket declares to a crowd of grim faces; the pink-haired administrator is about to draw the names of the next two tributes who will represent District 12 at the 74th Hunger Games. Along with...
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Brave New World, Dystopia, Dystopian fiction, Fahrenheit 451, Fat Man, Fiction, Future, George Orwell, H. G. Wells
“Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” is a film by Stanley Kubrick released in 1964 that details the end of the world at the height of the cold war. The film follows a number of characters as they...
Aerial refueling, Doomsday device, Dr. Strangelove, First strike, George C. Scott, Herman Kahn, Movie Review, Mutual assured destruction, Peter Sellers, Slim Pickens
Throughout the movie Crimes and Misdemeanors by Woody Allen, the characters of Judah and Lester have similarities and differences that reflect Alan Watts’ main theme of morality and insecurity in his book, The Wisdom of Insecurity. Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors intertwines two stories. The...
Film Review- My American Girls: A Dominican Story The documentary takes place in the 1970s in Brooklyn New York. It is about a Dominican household and tells the story of 1st generation Dominican immigrants and the process of acculturation that the children are going through...
The interactionism view of crime theory in The Wolf of Wall Street According to theorist of the interactions view, they define crime using the opinions of people who hold social power in a specific legal jurisdiction. The interactionism views of crime, those people holding social...
Summary of The Wolf of Wall Street The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film) is a film featuring the career story of Jordan Belfort, who start his career as a stockbroker in New York City in 1987. Jordan Belmont, an adult, the son of the...
Tomb Raider has been a sensation since its first release in 1996 and still continues to rule the world with her bone chilling adventures and her death defying escapes. Her thrilling exploits have kept many of us glued to our screens for many years, be...
SpongeBob Squarepants created by Marine Biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg is an animated TV series about a yellow sea sponge that lives underwater in a pineapple in this town called Bikini Bottom. He is energetic and has a pet snail named Gary. His best friend,...
Movie Review, Patrick, Rocko's Modern Life, Sailor Mouth, SpongeBob SquarePants, Stephen Hillenburg, The Fairly OddParents, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, Tom Kenny
Kenneth Anger’s Kustom Kar Kommandos asks us to feel with our ears, to hear with our eyes, to taste with our bodies. Charged with a tickling eroticism and hyperbolically fetishistic aura, this lascivious work of high camp and low culture is infused with an alternately...
The mental cracks of an unstable mind loom large over Michelangelo Antonioni’s first color film. But although main character Giuliana (Monica Vitti) is parallel to the film, it isn’t her student. Red Desert is too unresolved, too contingent, too woolly to reduce to a purely...
Recast as a fair-weather Hollywood rebel with Terry Gilliam’s 12 Monkeys – breaking the rules only just enough to accrue a superficial glaze of strangeness – Chris Marker’s La Jetee is the real deal. It’s as aesthetically radical as any film this side of, well,...
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