When it comes to movies, the frame may very well be the most vital tool that filmmakers employ in order...
****** Nov 2, 2014
The Civil Rights Era is hugely popular in historical fiction. In film, the subgenre has produced some of the most...
Mariana Nov 1, 2014
Nostalgia tends to be a tricky feeling. We long for the past as a way to escape the realities of...
Bennett Rust Oct 24, 2014
What kind of role has the Holocaust played in American Hollywood films? This historical event has had a “touchy-feely” relationship with...
bzukovich657 Oct 21, 2014
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 thriller Rear Window encapsulates his masterful use of controlling information to create deep-seated suspense in the audience....
Greg Beamish Oct 19, 2014
Images and metaphors of bogs, swamps and other wetlands permeate British literature and its language. If we feel stressed we...
hetta Sep 25, 2014
The above excerpt from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Nature” presents an ideal that Buster Keaton’s character in Samuel Beckett’s Film (1965) cannot achieve....
Jon Lisi Sep 18, 2014
After a slew of low-budget horror films in the late 1930s, Hollywood hired writer-producer Val Lewton to re-imagine the horror...
retired account Sep 17, 2014
Spike Jonze’s Oscar winning film, Her, was a quiet, introspective ride into love. The premise, for those unfamiliar with this...
mccartyj Sep 14, 2014
For those who have seen The Guardians of the Galaxy, it is difficult to imagine Peter Quill AKA Star Lord...
Candice Evenson Sep 12, 2014
A mystery story is one where the facts central to its understanding are hidden for the majority of its telling....
Matthew Sims Sep 10, 2014
With August officially winding down, the 2014 summer movie season is just about in the books. Barring an enormous opening...
Giovanni Insignares Sep 1, 2014
