Category: Cinema

Many young adults grow up in rough neighborhoods where they have to be physically capable of defending themselves. Examples of these people are illustrated in the movie Creed and the book The Contender. Both share many similarities, such as the common theme of perseverance and the main characters with complex backgrounds. Nevertheless, the film and…

I was the most impressed by the moment when the Shenandoah Valley tilted the election to Lincoln and, therefore, changed the course of history in Episode 7. What was especially remarkable to me is the role that the geography of the Shenandoah Valley played in the military actions. Apparently, the valley gave almost equal advantages…

Introduction The movie, Joy Luck Club, demonstrates the various aspects of Chinese women and their struggles to improve the perceptions of Americanized Chinese women. The movie commences when the mother of Suyan, who is a young Chinese woman, June, dies. The journey that June embarks on after she knows that her twin sisters are alive…

From action movies to tragedies, violence is an essential plot point, a cliffhanger, a shock value tool, and it is deeply rooted in stories because it was and is so prevalent in real life. Even when it isn’t something you see every day, it is ongoing and in varying levels of brutality and horror. And…

Art is the phenomenon that helps human beings reflect the real world, and also differentiates between human beings and other animal species on the Earth. The art of filmmaking, or cinematography, is one of the most modern and, at the same time, the most fascinating art forms. However, sometimes it is difficult for the cinematography…

The filmmaking is multi-billion dollar industry, and the average budget of a Hollywood movie nowadays exceeds $100 million. When discussing a film, viewer mostly considers its plot, actors, and special effects, almost never thinking about advertisement and public relations. These components have crucial importance in modern industry, where hundreds of millions are at stake. Public…

One of the interview series that I enjoy is BBC Radio 1 film interviews with Ali Plumb. One of my favorites is the interview with Martin Scorsese, filmed as a part of a promotion for Scorsese’s film The Irishman (BBC Radio 1, 2019). What I like most about this interview is that as a film…

Introduction Sherwood Schwartz and Betty Thomas have been in existence for the past fifty-eight years, and in a brief overview of the various films he has produced in his life, two prominent films get taken to the banks for that. The fiction films “Criminal Minds” and the “Brady Bunch” are the two most influential and…

Table of Contents The Great Hack (2019) Whether I Can Recommend the Movie What I Liked and Disliked Reference The Great Hack (2019) The Great Hack is a 2019 fictitious movie that revolves around a breach of human data in the US electioneering period of 2016 and the UK’s Brexit. The company involved in the…

What Did You Learn? I enjoyed watching the video What Darwin Never Knew, as it profoundly explains and accounts for the relationship between the various animal and plant species. It is well organized and explains the history of Charles Darwin chronologically, stating how he gained his interest in knowing the nature of different world species.…