The Osbournes Vs. The White Race “The Osbournes” is a reality based television show that is aired on the Music Television (MTV) channel. It follows the unusual family of Ozzy Osbourne, along with his wife Sharon, daughter Kelly, and son Jack. They have another daughter, Aimee, but she doesn’t partake in the show. As her mom, Sharon says, “She can't handle being around us lunatics all day

The Perfect Storm The Perfect Storm In October of 1991, some 200 miles off the coast of Gloucester, Massachusetts, a collision of three monstrous storms left a sword fishing boat, the Andrea Gail, stranded in the high seas. This boat was defenseless against what meteorologists would call, The Perfect Storm. Not only does this sound like the perfect movie script, but it is based on a

Coldplay Coldplay’s Parachutes: The Brits are Back Once in a great while, an incredible album is released, and you cannot seem to understand what makes it so memorable. The perfectly chosen lyrics along with simple melodies express the emotions that one could only feel, not speak. An album that will not get old, and boring as time passes, but one that will help you grow. This is P

Citizen Kane Citizen Kane scene analysis The Picnic Scene and the Rise of Susan In an era in which the movie studio was king, in a business where it was prudent to tread lightly about the powerful, Orson Welles took RKO Radio Pictures for the publicity ride of the century in 1941 with project number 281, the now venerable, but then volatile, epic Citizen Kane. A not-so-subtle

The Origins Of “Sopranospeak“ The Origins of “Sopranospeak” By now, most people are familiar with the HBO series The Sopranos. The critics’ praise of the groundbreaking drama has been overwhelming. The show, which concerns a fictional Mafia family, revels in the use of Italian dialect. The dialect is commonly referred to as “mobspeak”, a street lingo that uses brutalized Italian-Am

12 Angry Men Twelve Angry Men The film Twelve Angry Men, staring Henry Fonda, was based on a jury deciding if an 18-year-old boy was guilty of murdering his own father. The twelve men dispute for hours in a hot jury room, sweating from the frustration of all the debating. Each of them believed the boy was guilty but Davis, played by Henry Fonda, who disputes against all of them to pro

The Power of One “The Power of One” is the story of P.K., an English boy born is South Africa during Apartheid and World War II. Raised as an orphan in a German boarding school, P.K. finds life tougher than he imagined with other children tormenting him by urinating on him and physically and emotionally torturing him as well. As World War II breaks out life at the boarding school become

The Relationships In Tootsie Michael Dorsey has many relationships in his life. Many of them are put into serious jeopardy when he decides to dress like a woman to get a part on a TV show. He then makes new relationships with his new persona and puts those relationships in jeopardy when he reveals, he is really a man dressed as a woman. The first of these relationships is with one of h

Matrix Movie Review Imagine all your life is a lie. From the moment you were born until the present time. Everything you believe in is false. This is the idea behind The Matrix, directed by Andy and Larry Wachowski. This movie was released in 1999 but still has better computer graphics than movies of today. This movie was thoroughly interesting and had my mind always asking questions

The Raisin In Sun Movie And Book Compare And Contrast The adaptation of A Raisin In the Sun from the book to the movie was quite good. The plot of the movie stuck to the plot of a book. To me it still wasn’t exactly like the book. The actors in the movie were not well cast in my opinion because Benetha and Asagai looked nothing like a college student to me. A college student is arou

The Princess Bride The Princess Bride In the film, "The Princess Bride," directed by Rob Reiner, it all begins with a Grandfather telling the story to his less than enthusiastic Grandson. The story opens in the country of Florin with Buttercup treating her "Farm Boy" not so well, “his name was Wesley, but she never called him that.”Very soon she realizes he loves her and she loves him i

Field Of Dreams Field of Dreams Was Ray Kinsella a successful hero, who dared to live his dreams, or merely an insane person who blindly followed voices that could only be heard within the confines of his mind' Either of these theories could be argued successfully. He builds a baseball field for Shoeless Joe Jackson. Between the movie and the book there are many events that take pl

The Sandlot In the beginning of the movie, The Sandlot, Smalls is viewed as the little kid who knows nothing about the game of baseball. He could not throw or catch the ball. All the kids were in disagreement about allowing him to play, except for Benny. Benny was the one who invited Smalls to play with the team. When Smalls’ glove breaks, Benny gives him a new glove, along with a ba

Television Violence: A Dilemma Television Violence: A Dilemma This is our society – the American society – where freedom of press is guaranteed, where you are free to express your opinion – but we should regret that the liberty granted does not care for the hue and cry raised by social organization which go unheard, especially with respect to the violence shown on our television

Final Destination 2 The scariest movie I have ever watched On this topic I will have to lean towards a new release titled “Final Destination 2”. The plot introduced to the viewer in this particular movie is by no means ground-breaking or innovative, but it does portray a new direction in which the movies are taking moviegoers: blood, gore, and extremely graphical depiction, present

The Red Violin An analysis of The Red Violin A man by the name of Vusoti is a very famous violin maker in Italy. He demands the highest quality in every instrument bearing his name. He demands nothing less than perfection from all his workers, yet of course, he is the most skilled. His wife is pregnant carrying their first child. To ease her wariness, he shows her his masterpiece that

The Third Man The Third Man was directed by Carol Reed in 1949. In the beginning of the movie, Holly Martins arrives in Vienna to see his friend Harry Lime who has offered him a job. Holly soon discovers that Lime has been hit by a car and has died. He tries to gather pieces of information about what had actually happened to his friend. All still a shock, he then learns of allegation

The Usual Suspects THE USUAL SUSPECTS By: Ashley Fox-Castillo “The Usual Suspects” is a murder mystery that has a full script filled with layers of flashbacks, stories within stories packed with cloudy clues. The audience is forced to be a participant in the elaborate story of mystery, director Bryan Singer made the film in such a way that the audience has to fill in their own clues

The Watermelon Man. The Watermelon Man. Movie Report George is, a stuck-up white insurance agent who is married to Parsons and fathers two children, Garrett and Moran. The family's life is pretty normal and uneventful in other words typical white suburban family with all the usual suburbia problems. One morning George wakes up and realizes that due to some crazy phenomenon with hi

Adaptation Final Draft The True Meaning/ Adaptation The movie Adaptation is meant to grab the attention of viewers on many levels. The basic feel of the movie is basically, what you think it is it isn’t, and what it is its really not. This is done with such things as reoccurring images and hidden meanings scattered throughout the film. For example there is a lot of hidden meaning in

Road To Perdtion Essay Road to Perdition essay The film ‘Road to Perdition’ is a film like no other. From the title, the academically minded may gather that the movie may involve or end with tragedy as Perdition means eternal damnation. So “How does the title ‘Road to Perdition’ relate to the characters and themes in the movie'” The text is set in the late 1920’s, early thirti

The Unlimited Truth “There is no choice but to navigate, sink or swim,” according to Todd Gitlin, author of Media Unlimited. Sounds vaguely like a threat. It’s a strange and somewhat unnerving experience to hardly recollect how you spent an evening, yet there seems to be something about our contemporary media that defies long term memory. What we are experiencing, much like globalization

Theme Of Training Day Theme of Training Day Since its inception in the 1900s, film has used underlying themes, issues hidden underneath what the movie is actually about, to try to get certain points across to viewers. These themes may cause us to evaluate the lives that we lead and in what way exactly we can change our lives so that we can become better people. Training Day is one su

Bowling For Columbine Is Effective Bowling for Columbine is Effective The movie Bowling for Columbine brought back a lot of memories for me. I have had a lot of different experiences with people I know getting shot. I have lost two brothers to guns. One was by a sixteen year old boy that shot my brother Richard with a sixteen gauge shotgun and my brother Bruce was a suicide by a small

Breaking News Breaking News “There is much to criticize about the press, but not before recognizing a ringing truth: the best of the American press is an extraordinary daily example of industry, honesty, conscience, and courage, driven by a desire to inform and interest readers”.  Ben Bradlee ( 1996) The mediated approach that I chose was the news, which includes radio, newspa

Masculinity As A Commodity With analysis of any film of your choice, analyse the representation of masculinity as a commodity. “Shocking, positively shocking”. As the opening credits of the third James Bond film, Guy Hamilton’s Goldfinger (1964), begin to roll and the vibrant tones of Shirley Bassey rise, the audience is left with Bond’s wry comment almost hanging in the air. After s

October Sky The film “October Sky” is a story based on true events that presents many important themes. One of the main themes, and perhaps the most obvious, is the inspiring idea of chasing one’s dreams and never giving up until success is found. In the story, we find Homer Hickam, an average small-town boy, infatuated by the idea of a newly launched rocket, Sputnik. Homer becomes inspi

Auteurism In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, b

Cool Hand Luke There are some times in a person's life when they must stop following the rules and start challenging authority. In the film Cool Hand Luke, LUke challenges the Captain by continuously running away for the chain gang. In my case I challenged authority by disobeying my mother in every way possible. In September of last year I decided I didn't want to live by the rule

Alfred Hitchcock: The Master Of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Psychological Suspense Alfred Hitchcock has earned the title of 'Master of Suspense' by creating films conveying on screen some of his own personal phobias. As child, Alfred Hitchcock had a run in with the police in which changed his prospective on author and, the law. At the age of 5, his fathe