Feature Movie Reviews Samples For Students

2013 was the year that saw F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel, “The Great Gatsby”, brought into cinema, for the second time. Whenever a great novel is adapted for the screen, many pedants will try to scrutinize the film to see if there is any nonconformity to the original. The book is often regarded and sacred as consequently; many films often fail to reach the pedestal set by the book. If the audience deems the film to be an effective adaption of the book, the movie will more often than not be successful. The Great Gatsby (2013) is the perfect ...

Directed by the famous Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai, whose films have entered the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival numerous times, Kadosh is a 1999 feature fiction film depicting the Haredi society lifestyle and its traditions, as well as the tragedies its members may sometimes face in their observant lives. Kadosh takes it to the extremes, submerging the viewer into the vital problems of men and women, who live in the Mea Shearim district of Jerusalem and choose or are forced to choose the path of the ultra-Orthodox Judaism. The plot develops around the lives of two sisters, ...

What is the title of the film? What is it about?

The title of the film is Food, Inc. The film features agricultural content in the United States. If highlights the agribusiness across the United States. The paper relates corporate affairs and agriculture. It also provides an insight on the negativity of production on the society. The film comes with a conclusion that production of food via the agribusiness leads to the production of unhealthy foods. Additionally, the food is environmental friendly to both humans and animals. The film uses interviews from people to justify its objectives and claims.

Why did you choose this documentary to view? What did you expect to learn or experience from this film?

The reason for choosing this documentary is the fact that it addresses ...

The global economic crisis affected the global economy adversely with various leading economies adopting various economic measures and tools to revive their economies. Quantitative easing has been seen as one of the measure adopted by the global leading economies in dealing with the financial crisis. Quantitative easing has been defined as a measure through which the government increases the money supply in the economy. This government implements these monetary policies through printing of new currency as a measure to stimulate the economy. Quantitative easing has been adopted in various economies such as America, UK and Japan among others with the primary ...

Ang Lee’s Films

The history of Taiwanese cinema has more than a hundred years and reflects a long history of culture, along with Japan and China, the colonization of the island. In general, the film in Taiwan until 1949, mostly had only a form of renting movies imported from the mainland, from Hong Kong and the western countries. But during the 60-80-ties, along with the economic development of Taiwan, he began to blossom "island" film, which the director sought out their way to other continents. Along with the emergence phenomenon of Chinese cinema on the international stage, outstanding representatives of which are ...

The Film a thousand words is a comedy-drama that stars Eddie Murphy and was directed by Brian Robbins. Eddie Murphy as Jack McCall in the movie is a literary agent who is not afraid to stretch the truth to get various book deals. He tries to deceive a guru, Dr. Sinja, who sees through his deceit, but agrees to the deal. However, a tree magically appears in Jack McCall’s backyard which falls a leaf for every word he says. When the tree shades all the leaves, Jack will breathe his last and the tree too will die. Jack tries to cut it but instead a ...

The movie is Hollywood’s biopic at its near worst. It represents a formless assortment of historical occurrences and lip-synched musical numbers. How possible can it be for a movie to capture all the multitudes, reinventions as well as contradictions of James Brown singly? Only one movie has been able to do that after many years. Indeed Get on Up is a one of a kind film. The movie has been able to make an excellent, fitfully successful shot of the life of the brilliant and volatile soul icon.
Even though several people might fault about the movie, one distinct feature is ...

Compare and contrast the physical and mental asceticism required during his respective journeys?

Pete has to push himself to the limit physically, mentally and spiritually in all his journeys. He does this in a bid to understand the different religions. He has to show a great amount of spiritual, physical, and emotional endurance all through the pilgrimages (Michael, 2006). He shows a great deal of endurance through all the exhaustion and strain that he undergoes. In china, he has to train in martial arts. It is a very physical activity. In china, they attain spirituality through the practice of article arts. The religion in china is very physical. They express their religion through the physical. He ...

Movie Review

Review on Pulp Fiction movie by Quentin Tarantino.
Pulp Fiction is a movie directed by a Quentin Tarantino who is famous for his non-standard approach that can be hardly confused with any other movies. Pulp Fiction was released in 1994 and, undoubtedly, it is the best incarnation of all Tarantino’s unusual ideas; this is the movie which brought a fresh air into the world of cinema and led to appearance of such movies as “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels”, “Snatch” and many other great movies which were shot in the same manner under its influence.
So, the first ...

The study of self and society and in particular social influence is made complex by the fact that the tenets of this area and the relationships are complex. This paper presents a review of the classical movie Twelve Angry Men by Director Sidney Lumet (1957) in the context of the theory above. A succinct overview of the film is presented, followed by an evaluation of some of the concepts in the title above that feature in the film and finally a conclusion.

Brief description of the film

The film, Lumet (1957), tells a story of a jury consisting of 12 white men who deliberate the guilt or acquittal ...

Pocahontas is a Disney animated feature that follows the story of a Native American Motoaka. She is the daughter of the Powhatan Confederacy chief in the early 17th century. It is the 33rd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classic series following known hits like Beauty and the Beast, Alladin and The Lion King. It was released in theaters in 1995 and is the first film based on a known historical character. However, it did not follow the actual historical account of the Native American’s encounter with the British settler John Smith who had sailed in search of gold in the “ ...

Geographical and cultural settings say a lot about a film. The geographical setting of a film is usually in line with the theme and plot of the film. Geographical settings are used to make the audience relate more with the film. In addition, it gives the audience an idea of time setting of the film, the location of the film, the cultural setting on which the film is based upon and the influence of the geographical setting in that particular culture. The setting of a film is the first feature to be achieved in coming up with a film.

In the film the fast ...

Introduction

A great script full with twists and unpredictability influences the success of a film to a great extent. The 2003 award-winning film adaptation, a comedy drama written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonze exemplifies creativity in filmmaking. It is wickedly playful in construction and records the torments of a screenwriter who is not adept at writing a movie about orchids. Ironically, the film manages to have the story effectively told in a captivating and exceptionally creative manner by incorporating two lines of stories into one. The film narrates the true story of Charlie Kaufman and his struggles to adapt the book The Orchid ...

The first evidence is given where the film featured the production of different categories of meat, pork, chicken and beef by many food companies. This showed how these companies destroy the food by adding different preservatives and how the food is processed using different chemicals, which are very harmful environmentally and to humans. The second evidence is given where the film focused on the production of vegetables and grains. It gave a specific example of production of soya beans and primary corn. It also labeled this as environmentally and economically unsustainable.
The other evidence used in the film is ...