Film Review—The King’s speech The King’s speech is a historical based biopic about King George VI; the Duke of York (known as Bertie in his family) who went on to assume the throne of England in 1936. The movie was mainly descripting the journey of him to overcome his painful struggle among public speech‚ and how he gains help from Australian therapist—Lionel Logue. George conquered his stammer and found his voice to lead his people to face the most devastating war humanity has ever
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Movie Review: UP (2009): Starring Edward Asner‚ Christopher Plummer and Jordan Nagai Every so often‚ a movie comes along that really inspires the audience to live a better way‚ to take risks‚ and stop making excuses. I was truly stunned that this inspirational‚ physics defying film actually came in the form of a kid’s movie. An animated wonderment about an old man wracked with grief‚ a yellow dog‚ a chubby little boy and a huge flightless bird‚ in a floating house. The film was particularly
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2008 Indonesian film adapted from the popular Indonesian novel by Andrea Hirata. The movie follows a group of 10 schoolboys and their two inspirational teachers as they struggle with poverty and develop hopes for the future in Gantong Village on the farming and tin mining island of Belitung off the east coast of Sumatra. The film is the highest grossing in Indonesian box office history[1] and won a number of local and international awards. The Rainbow Troops was a 2008 Indonesian film adapted from the
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In a better world‚ Beautiful Creatures may have been the next Twilight. Ok‚ so it’s not about teenage girl who falls long and hard for a vampire. It’s about a teenage boy who falls long and hard for a witch. A boy named Ethan Wate has a strange recurring dream that haunts his sleep‚ but he prefers anything to his waking life‚ stuck in a small‚ conservative Southern town with his with his withdrawn father. To me‚ that kind of sounds a lot like To Kill a Mocking Bird. An unwilling new arrival in
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(“Sisters”). In this movie‚ two sisters discover that their parents are selling their childhood home and try to convince them and to keep it. Kate Ellis (Tina Fey) is a hotheaded hairdresser who cannot keep a job‚ house‚ or her daughter. Maura Ellis (Amy Poehler) is a responsible aunt who takes care of Kate’s daughter behind her back to provide a steady environment for her to grow up in. Kate convinces Maura to help her throw one last house party before the house is sold. The movie Sisters is a raunchy
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Death of a Salesman Movie Review An American Tragedy or Real World Reality? Arthur Miller successfully portrays themes of disaster in his play Death of a Salesman. This play turned film in 1884 during its Broadway debut‚ majorly produced by Volker Schlondroff. Not only directed by the best‚ Willy Loman’s original black and white personality was brought to colors by Dustin Hoffman. Accompanying; John Malkovich played the leading protagonist/antagonist personality of Biff Loman. While Willy Loman
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of Literature 1 April 2012 Review of The Hunger Games Movie I thought that The Hunger Games movie was overall an “ok” film with just the right amount of special affects and action sequences to complement a decent story. The director and producers stuck very close to the book as far as the story goes. This explains why the movie runs for over two hours. Although the events were very accurate‚ there were certain things that were not explained properly in the movie whichmovie‚ which changed its
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Film review. Martin Scorsese knows something about surprise endings which twist meisters like M. Night Shyamalan seem to have forgotten. The twist doesn’t matter if you haven’t already told a good story. By the time Shutter Island gets to its twist‚ it has already told such a tale. You’re invested in these characters and no matter how it turns out you’re going to walk away happy. The twist‚ when it happens‚ only serves to make a deeper connection. It makes sense of the madness‚ brings order to
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period Historical Movie Review: Troy The film Troy was directed by Wolfgang Peterson and produced in 2004. The film was adapted by Homers great epic poem‚ The Iliad. The characters from The Iliad were portrayed by many well-known actors including‚ Brad Pitt‚ Orlando Bloom‚ and Eric Bana. Overall the movie was very entertaining but also contained many small errors and some historical inaccuracies. Troy retells the story of a war started by the Greek gods. Although the movie focuses more on the
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Derek Dauel Hist 111 Movie Review Cinderella Man October 29‚ 1929‚ some may know it as Black Tuesday‚ others know it as an important date in history but those who lived it know it as the day that changed their lives for many years to come. Black Tuesday marked the beginning of a new life style for the people of the 30’s. The stock market crashed and although its investors lost all they had‚ margin buyers were completely wiped out. This essay will examine the changes that followed the event
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