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A Review Of Courage Under Fire

In 1991, millions of people tuned in to CNN to observe a real life and death drama played out in the cities and deserts of Iraq. For the United States, the war was more or less a display of power and a preservation of economic interest. Nobody was to ever hear of the mishaps and foul-ups of the ...

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Review Of A Time To Kill

A courtroom drama, full of conversation and debate, can achieve gripping effects and touch the heart of the audiences. Each and every character grabs a hold of the law and throttles it. Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) helps Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) to defend his accusation of murder ...

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Sankofa: A Movie Review

Sankofa is a movie that I have been waiting to see for about one year. I heard about the movie through my cousin. She really did not tell me what the movie was about, but she told me enough to keep my interest in it. When I first heard the title of the movie, in class, it sounded familiar to ...

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Cloverfield Review

Cloverfield I saw it! It’s alive! It’s Huge! I just got home from a screening of Cloverfield, the JJ Abrams Produced monster film which has hogged the online hype when it was first released. It's a story about a monster, new york and some people trying to survive. It's done in a very Blair ...

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Movie Review: Into The West

The film, Into the West - script by Jim Sheridan, directed by Mike Newell, direction of photography by Tom Sigel, produced by John Cavendish and Tim Palmer, and starring Gabriel Byrne, Ellen Barkin, Ruaidtri Conroy and Ciaran Fitzgerald - contains several themes, each dealing with a prominent ...

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Movie Review: Yentl

Everyone at one time or another has felt out of place. Feeling unsure of one's place in society is an experience that every young adult faces but deals with differently. Some rebel while others comply with whatever has been set out for them by society or their parents, or both. The role of the ...

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Casablanca Movie Review

One of the world's best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can feel both caught up and detached from the plot at the same time. The Plot and ...

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Review Of The Red Lantern

There are some movies about lifestyles in China and then there is “Raise the Red Lantern.” The film parallels “The Last Emperor” in how a master controls his subjects within his domain. Out of all the Chinese movies that I have extensively viewed, this was the only one ...

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Casablanca Movie Review

One of the world's best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can feel both caught up and detached from the plot at the same time. The Plot and ...

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To Kill A Mockingbird: A Movie Review

The film To Kill A Mockingbird is produced in 1964. The main actors in the film are as follows: Gregory Peck, Atticus Finch; Ms. Maudie Atkinson, Rosemary Murphy; Jean Louise ‘Scout' Finch, Mary Badham; Jeremy ‘Jem' Finch, Philip Afford; Arthur ‘Boo' Radley, Robert Duvall and Heck Tate, ...

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow: Review

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Robots have been sent, around the world, by a mysterious Dr. Totenkopf in an effort to bring about world domination. The fate of the world is in the hands of Joe "Sky Captain" Sullivan, played by Jude Law, and Polly Perkins, played by Gwyneth Paltrow. The ...

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Stand By Me: Review

Stand By Me, is a film written in 1986, that focuses on the two day journey of four best friends. The music in the film is one that is mostly song scoring. The music in this film was chosen very well. It was even pop song scoring. This movie has two main examples of music that I would like to ...

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Movie Review: Sense And Sensibility

Ang Lee, who directed, and Emma Thompson, who adapted the screenplay, have done an excellent job of bringing Jane Austen's Victorian novel, Sense and Sensibility, to the movie screen. The movie's collection of actors are a joy to watch as they bring out the emotions of an otherwise polite and ...

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"In Cold Blood" Review

"In Cold Blood" is a tragic story of two men, Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward, who murder an entire family in search of money and then find themselves running from the law. While writing the book, Truman Capote used only facts to create a novel out of an actual event. He had thousands of notes ...

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Movie Review Of It’s A Wonderful Life

This was an extraordinary movie that showed the homely small-town moral values through glossy studio production. I really enjoyed this movie. It has very quickly become one of my favorite movies of all times. The characters were very good. I thought this movie to be beautifully told and acted, ...

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Movie Review: Introducing Dorothy Dandridge

The troubled life of Dorothy Dandridge, the first African-American woman to garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (for CARMEN JONES) is dramatized in this fine made-for-HBO film from director Coolidge (RAMBLING ROSE). Gorgeous Berry shines as Dandridge in a role she seems born to ...

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Ridicule Movie Review

Through the movie Ridicule, one gets a trip back into 18th century France during a most critical time in history, the outskirts of the French Revolution. The movie portrays the culture and society of the time through its events and characters, while it also goes in depth depicting what life could ...

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Deadpool Review

Deadpool” is the story of two like-minded individuals who fall in love amidst calamitous hardships – and physiology-altering mutant abilities with disfiguring side effects. Former Special Forces soldier Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds) works as a mercenary-for-hire out of Sister Margaret’s School ...

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Review Of Musical Singin In The Rain

Regarded by many as the best movie musical, “Singin' in the Rain” is an extraordinary mixture of dancing, humour and sharp observation as Hollywood takes a good look at itself. The setting is during the Twenties when films were just making the progression to sound, a time of skepticism for many ...

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Movie Review: A Time To Kill

I never read A Time To Kill by John Grisham because the book bored me. But I wonder why it did bore me because the movie was engrossing and entertaining. Maybe it is because Akiva Goldsman took out most of the boring parts. I usually love Grisham, but this book was just too slow. However, another ...

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