"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 a package he will
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The film Dharm directed by Bhavna Talwar stars Pankaj Kapoor and Supriya Pathak . Set in the ancient city of Banares‚ it follows the life of a learned and respected Hindu Brahmin priest Pandit Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapoor) and hsi wife Parvati (Supriya Pathak) .An abandoned boy comes into Pandit Chaturvedi’s life and home. He adopts the child and names him Kartikey.Bringing up Kartikey as a good Brahmin fills the Pandit’s life with joy and laughter‚ till the day Pandit Chaturvedi is forced by religion
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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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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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smc 51294 In time critical Analysis In time‚ written‚ produced and directed by Andrew Niccol‚ released October 28‚ 2011‚ is a science fiction film. It opens up the mind’s eye to the term “time is money”. The stars‚ Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried‚ brings this across showing two different sides to life. Time zones separate the rich ‚who have time to burn and can live for centuries and the poor ‚who scramble around day-to-day‚ trying to find enough time to stay alive. The rich hike up
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Wadjda The feature film Wadjda draws a picture of gender inequality in Saudi Arabia through the eyes of a young girl‚ who grew up in the Arab culture. This film portrays how religious tradition contributes to women’s stance in society through dressing‚ body language and the women’s role in the family. Granted‚ this film discusses men privilege‚ which is the inherent right of a man to do more things than a woman can. The movie was made in 2013 by the first Saudi female director named Haifaa Al-Mansour
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Bridesmaids is a terrifically funny‚ smart‚ and emotional ensemble comedy. Some may say it’s the female version of The Hangover‚ while others may think it’s quite similar to Bride Wars. This movie pulls off the amazingly uncanny trick of being both brutal and gentle at the same time. I highly recommend this movie to all audiences over the age of 17. The unexpected truth of being a bridesmaid is revealed‚ but in the end‚ Kristen Wigg (Annie) persuades you that there is a greater light at the end of the
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The movie Burn! is a 1969 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. The main characters are Marlon Brando starting as Sir William Walker and Evaristo Marquez starting as Jose Dolores (The Internet Movie Databases). The movie takes place during the mid-19th century on the island of Queimada‚ a Portuguese colony located in Antilles(Burn!). The British send Sir William Walker to Queimada‚ an English secret agent‚ to start a rebellion against the Portuguese regiment‚ to benefit the British Sugar traders. In
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"Philadelphia" is a movie that enables the audience to visualize an alternative perspective of discrimination against HIV positive homosexual man. Throughout the movie‚ one can get an understanding of how a HIV positive homosexual is treated in society and the portrayal of him. "Philadelphia" stars Tom Hanks as Andrew Beckett‚ an intelligent and sharp lawyer working for a large firm in Philadelphia. Andrew is diagnosed with AIDS and does not tell his supervisors in the firm of his sickness and
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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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