HOOSIERS A film review Hoosiers is a film about second chances. Redemption is given to a short tempered coach‚ who was issued a lifetime suspension by the NCAA for physically assaulting a player‚ and a former star player- turned town drunk. These two defeat their odds by taking a small town high school basketball team from being just 15 and 10‚ all the way to the state championship. In my review‚ I’ll attempt to explain how this coach matches up against Kouzes and Posner’s “Five Practices of
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Jaws Film Review ‘Jaws’ is one of Spielberg’s most easily recognisable movies. It is unique in a way that is rarely seen in cinema. He set a new standard for horror films. In this movie‚ the small northern town of Amity is ‘haunted’ by a great white shark which kills its first victim in the abandoned night. It is an attack which‚ when later discovered‚ causes police chief Brody‚ against his will‚ to let the beach stay open for the fourth of July due to the fact that it was the main source of
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Film Review: Mindwalk If a good movie is one that makes you think‚ Mindwalk must be superb. However‚ I haven’t even read the book it was based on and I can say that the book must have been better. The actors are laughable‚ and the physicists’ accent changes with each new scene. Furthermore‚ the transitions to each scene are as smooth as sandpaper. The purpose of this movie wasn’t‚ and with good reason‚ to be glamorous though. As many of our "Hollywood" movies are. The fast action‚ sex‚ blood
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CASABLANCA FILM REVIEW 1. How did the practical constraints imposed by World War II affect this movie? (Give 2 examples.) Hollywood shifted from an outspoken denial of any overt promotion of the U.S. involvement in the war to an active on-screen support of that involvement. The cast was very international‚ of all the principle and supporting actors in the film came from Europe‚ only Humphrey Bogart and Dooley Wilson were born and raised in America. The rest of the actors either cam to U
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Rocio Rodriguez Platoon: The Film on the Vietnam War “Somebody once wrote: ‘Hell is the impossibility of reason.’ That’s what this place feels like. Hell” (Platoon). The controversial issues concerning Platoon were not on the film itself‚ but about how this film portrayed the war in Vietnam and the affects the war had on the soldiers morally‚ physically‚ mentally‚ and emotionally. Oliver Stone directed and wrote the screenplay‚ using his own experiences as a reference. Oliver Stone chose to
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Willow (1988) FILM REVIEW Created by the creators of Star Wars‚ Willow is an American fantasy genre movie released in 1988. Starring stars such as Warwick Davis‚ Val Kilmer‚ Joanne Whalley‚ Jean Marsh and Billy Barty‚ the story takes place in Nockmaar. Together Ron Howard‚ the director of this movie‚ and George Lucas‚ who is the producer‚ set out to create this wonderful adventurous family movie for all of us to watch and enjoy. The movie follows the story with the birth of a baby‚ named Elora
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country’s life completely as well as the lives of people generations from him. This paper will discuss and evaluate the 1982 film Gandhi. Through exploring both the film and the autobiography of Mohandas Gandhi‚ this paper will attempt to compare and contrast the depiction of our great hero. In addition‚ this paper will discuss how the information in the film represents Gandhi distinctive to how Gandhi portrays himself within his autobiography. Furthermore‚ this paper will subjectively illustrate
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Chinatown Introduction Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film‚ directed by Roman Polanski. The film features many elements of the film noir genre‚ particularly a multi-layered story that is part mystery and part psychological drama. The story‚ set in Los Angeles in 1937‚ was inspired by the California Water Wars‚ the historical disputes over land and water rights that had raged in southern California during the 1910s and 1920s‚ in which William Mulholland acted on behalf of Los Angeles interests
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Actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson gives a powerful performance in the action drama Snitch opening in theaters this weekend. The film‚ based on true accounts‚ takes you on a suspense filled ride under the fine direction of famous stuntman Ric Roman Waugh. Although the film does provide insight about how the justice system works‚ the hard knocks story does add a lot of ‘Hollywood’. As the movie opens‚ we find 18-year-old Jason Collins (Rafi Gavron) talking to his best buddy on Skype about
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