Movie Review - Lagaan The movie Lagaan ( English: Land Tax) is a 2001 Indian epic musical sports drama film written and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. The film set is in the Victorian period of India’s colonial British raj and revolves around the peasants from barren village who are oppressed by high taxes imposed by their rulers. They attempt to persuade the British officers to reduce the taxes because of poor agricultural production due to drought season. Instead‚ a wager is offered: If their
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`Lesson 5 Review Comparison Activity The research database National Newspaper Core‚ hosting a detailed index of five widely-read newspapers nationwide‚ was used to locate a review of the movie‚ “The Boss.” Film critic and writer Peter Ranier of The Christian Science Monitor‚ indicates a tone of disappointment in his review of the movie. In the title alone‚ Ranier states the movie is “not worthy of star Melissa McCarthy‚” implying the content of the movie does not reflect the talents of Ms. McCarthy
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Cullan Mary McClean American History 2 September 2016 Movie Review: The Patriot On September 2‚ 2016 I watched “The Patriot” on my computer via DVD I borrowed from my grandmother. I sat down at twelve o’clock and finished at two o’clock. This is my opinion and account of this movie featuring the American Revolution. The movie begins with a post man delivering the mail to a plantation where Benjamin Martin lives with his family Benjamin was a veteran of the French and Indian war where he regarded
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Psychology 100 – Movie Review Assignment (100 points) Instructions: Each student is to watch a movie of their choosing and write a review that addresses at least 10 psychological principles throughout the text‚ including chapters that have not yet been covered. The assignment involves three parts: Expectation Points Possible Earned Points 1. A summary brief of the movie. 10 2. A LIST of the principles‚ definitions‚ and the application to the movie. (4/concept and definition)(4/application)
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For most of his childhood‚ 17-year-old Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) has been in foster care with different families throughout Memphis‚ Tennessee. Every time he is placed in a new home‚ he runs away. His friend’s father‚ whose couch Mike had been sleeping on‚ asks Burt Cotton (Ray McKinnon)‚ the coach of Wingate Christian school‚ to help enroll his son and Mike. Impressed by Mike’s size and athleticism‚ Cotton gets him admitted despite his abysmal academic record. At his new school‚ Michael is befriended
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The Beaver: A Depiction of Depression September 22‚ 2012 Perpetuates Stigma Films rarely broach the subject of mental illness‚ as it relates to families‚ due to its somber nature. This film‚ The Beaver (2011) provides the viewer with insight into the topic of mental illness as it identifies the various areas of life affected and the depth of the life altering changes. There has long been a stigma regarding depression. The general public often believes the person suffering from depression
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Augusta‚ Georgia suffering from multiple personality disorder (MPD) also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). You will find that I refer to it both ways in this review. In the movie‚ Woodward plays a conservative southern housewife Eve White who‚ at times‚ transforms into a bold and bawdy woman named Eve Black. The movie is supposedly based on events that really happened in true life. Although at times it is almost difficult to accept and believe the rapid transformations portrayed from
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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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Superstars don’t last forever. The dominant forces in the NBA aren’t far off from showing their first signs of deterioration. LeBron James is 31 years old‚ while Kevin Durant and Stephen Curry are 27 and 28 years old‚ respectively. As amazing as NBA superstars are‚ they don’t age like wine. Within the next five or so years‚ the next generation of superstars will be ready to take the stage and accept the proverbial passed torch. Of the teams in the NBA‚ the franchises that look the deadliest‚ in
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Would you be able to cope? That is the unspoken challenge laid down by “The Black Balloon‚” a harrowing‚ unsentimental portrait of a middle-class Australian family whose oldest son has severe autism compounded by attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Would you find in yourself the seemingly infinite reserves of love and patience possessed by the Mollisons‚ the movie’s itinerant‚ highly stressed army family who have just moved to the suburbs of Sydney? Maybe not. “The Black Balloon‚” directed
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