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Category Archives: Review
Weekly Mini-Review: Diagnosis Murder (1993-2001 + some TV movies)
Story: A doctor solves mysteries with the help of his son (a policeman) and usually two other doctors, a female coroner and a male surgeon/intern. Review: This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. In bumbling … Continue reading
Weekly Mini-Review: Sabrina (1954 & 1995)
Two for one today, since I’m reviewing the remake as well. Sabrina (1954) Story: The naive and sentimental daughter of a chauffeur who is smitten with one of the boss’s sons is sent to France to study at Le cordon … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, Review
Tagged acting, Critical Analysis, movie, movie review, Movies, Screenwriting
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Weekly Mini-Review: The Color of Magic (2008)
Story: A failed wizard is forced to guide a guileless tourist through a magical land, during which time they meet ridiculous versions of familiar fairytale characters/creatures, save the world(s), and come out as better people. Review: Judging this as a … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, Critical Analysis, movie review, Movies, Mythology, Screenwriting, television, TV
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Weekly Mini-Review: Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Story: A poor immigrant woman that is slowly going blind tries to earn enough money for her son’s operation (to keep him from going blind) in a lowly factory job. Obsessed with musicals, she imagines song/dance routines interspersed in her dreary … Continue reading
Posted in Review
Tagged acting, Bjork, Critical Analysis, Indie, movie, movie review, Movies, Screenwriting
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Weekly Mini-Review: Alice’s Restaurant (1969)
Story:(The whole Movie) The year or so of Arlo Guthrie’s life during which his friend Alice and her husband buy a church open/close a restaurant, and during which his father and one of his friends dies. (The good part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Analysis, movie, movie review, Movies, Screenwriting
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What is Feminist Media?
There seem to be several different definitions for the term “feminist cinema,” (or TV, as the case may be). To some, unfortunately, it means films with self-proclaimed “bitches” who spend an hour-and-a-half man-bashing, complaining about cosmetics/shaving and other methods of hair removal/magazine … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, Review, Trend-Spotting, Uncategorized
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, feminism, film, Film Theory, industry, movie, movie review, Movies, Semantics
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All Reruns All the Time, and Other Recent TV Maladies
For the most past few years, I’ve pretty much entirely been watching “TV” on the internet by streaming from places like Hulu or Netflix. Starting a month or so ago, I began watching actual TV again and found that some … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, Review, Trend-Spotting
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, FCC, film, industry, News, Screenwriting, television, TV
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Lost in Translation: Are Insufficient Subtitles Robbing Unilingual Viewers of Potential Enjoyment?
Last year, when I took my first semester of Spanish, I began to notice that I could tell what Spanish-speaking characters were saying some of the time in the movies and television shows I was watching. Unfortunately, I was able … Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, Review, Uncategorized
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, Film Theory, Foreign films, industry, International films, movie, Movies, Subtitles, television, TV
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Date Night Should Have Been Titled “Two Sketch Comedians On The Town”
The 2010 movie Date Night was an interesting attempt at portraying a boring, middle aged, suburban couple caught in a comedic maelstrom of intrigue and adventure. Unfortunately, it’s pretty clear that the writer (whose only other credits are a horror … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, Film Theory, movie, movie review, Movies, Screenwriting, Steve Carell, Tina Fey
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