Everybody's Got A Movie Blind Spot!
The character that is most interesting to me in THE BLUE ANGEL is the clown. The silence the character brings to the story stands out to me as seeing the downfall of the first clown we can see the downfall of the second coming and we can't do anything to stop it. The clown may... Continue Reading →
Solve a murder mystery together! They are screaming it at you! It is a gimmick but you are solving this mystery with Phillip Marlowe, who is played by Robert Montgomery this time around. We don't get to see much of him due to the subjective nature in which the movie was filmed, which is in... Continue Reading →
The Searchers, directed by John Ford and released in 1956 seems to have a clear message, but like most movies its message can be more complicated than originally received. It is considered one of the greatest movies of all-time, landing in the top ten of the American Film Institute’s greatest hundred movies list year after... Continue Reading →
During the period of time in which Seven Samurai takes place, in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history, when Japan was coming to the end of a more than 200 years of civil war with factions fighting all over the country. The deaths of many leaders known as Diamyo, left the samurai class with no master... Continue Reading →
Metallic sounds are a prominent feature in I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Rattling, clanking, clanging, and drilling sounds fill the soundtrack from almost beginning to end. The message coming from a social realism perspective seems clear, these are the daily sounds that fill the ears of the working class. The working class... Continue Reading →
Eraserhead is a truly ambiguous and almost unsolvable film. Attempting to decipher is message proves to be difficult at best. Is this entire thing a dream or reality? Are we watching events that are actually taking place or is this all in the mind of a character, or more importantly, in the mind of... Continue Reading →
On October 30th, Disney announced that they had acquired Lucasfilm from owner and creator of Star Wars George Lucas. If “breaking the internet” was a thing yet, this might have been called that. Fans collectively either felt joy or sadness but something was felt. A disturbance in the force. Have you felt it? Shortly after... Continue Reading →
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