Space Movie Reviews Samples For Students

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 ...

Movie review of “2001: A Space Odyssey”

Majestic “Space Odyssey” (the genre precisely defined already in the name of the movie) directed by the then only 39-year-old Kubrick acquires over time even larger importance. None of the experienced fans of cinema has got doubt that this film – is not just an outstanding creation, but also a genuine milestone in the science fiction genre, and in the history of world cinema. Kubrick's achievement is unique because he managed in one theatrical film to capture considerable number of key problems of human civilization – ranging from the distant past up to the XXI century, which seemed to be so fantastic ...

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris

Analysis of Science Fiction Movie Solaris
Solaris is a Russian science fiction art film adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem’s novel Solaris (1961) shot in 1972, directed and co-written by Andrei Tarkovsky. It represents a meditative drama of psychological character set mostly on a space station that is orbiting around the fictional Solaris planet. The station had a scientific mission that was stalled as the three scientists in the crew fell into the emotional crises. This paper is dedicated to the analysis of the problems brought out by the film and the way the director managed to convey the ideas of Lem, ...

Solar System was not discovered for many thousand years, and humans believed that Earth was motionless at the center of the Universe. The third episode in the sixth season of the Universe video reports the Solar System was formed 4.6 billion years ago from a thin cloud of dust and gas. This means that planet formation is a natural part of star formation and most stars have planets (Seeds, 418). The solar system was shaken by a close by supernova, gravity pull and the regular rotation twisted it into a horizontal disc that merged the Sun and the planets. The 4 planets in ...

The Universe Season 6 Episode 3: How the Solar System was made is video that shows and examines the origin of the solar system. The solar system came into being about 4,6 billion years ago. It is now a solid and secure home for all the inhabitants of the universe. Nevertheless, critical issues need to be examined about it. For instance, hoe did it come to be? In the third episode of the universe season 6, the system’s birth is traced from what it used to be, a thin cloud of dust and gas.
The clip shows that ...

The movie entitled Einstein’s Big Idea, produced by the PBS series Nova analyzes the implications of the theory of relativity, which came to a conclusion that mass and energy are the same thing, related by the formula E=mc2 . The two- hour program traces the 300 years of key developments culminating to Einstein’s revolutionary formula, featuring an easy to understand flow chart of the core concepts, and portraits of main participants. Starting from Michael Faraday to Einstein, Big Idea demonstrates systematically how these visionaries, piece by piece came up with a new theory about how the universe operates.
Adapted ...

MOVIE REVIEW ON INTERIOR DESIGN

MOVIE REVIEW ON INTERIOR DESIGN
Since the beginning of keen consideration of interior design in any piece of art, many sectors of art experienced dramatic changes in scene concentration or emphasis. This was very evident in the early 20th century movies where different interiors were used to depict different lifestyles. A sample of two different movies is analyzed below to depict what aspects of interior design were being emphasized on.
In the movie ‘our dancing daughters, the background is set on a number of interior which depict different lifestyles. The most evident scene in the movie that makes ...

The following analysis of Persona and Solaris reveals how movies from unlike countries and of different genres portray the development of opposite human personalities while losing or gaining humanity under the external influences and internal self-recognition. The attempts to create a fine movie about internal and external of human life do not often impress much, especially nowadays when we experience an endless flow of visual images. Probably, it inspires people to look back at the classic works that not only represent the unusual transformations in the forms of self but also produce extraordinary rhythms in the scenes (Tarkovsky 113). ...

Before Sunset

A city is a natural habitation for people in the 21st century. People are born, they study, work and die in cities. A place, wherein people spend most of their time should be both multi-functional and convenient. Thus, city planning is of outmost importance for people to live in a comfortable and friendly environment. There have been numerous attempts to improve urban planning and to create a dream city. Some of such attempts remained to be theoretical developments only, while others were realized, for example, such utopian projects as Howard’s Garden Cities of Tomorrow or Le Corbusier’s ...

William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary that follows the life of a radical-leftist attorney. However, the captivating and incendiary film is also based on the tragic form of liberal guilt. The movie revolves around the numerous cases that Kunstler was involved with until his demise. The film depicts William Kunstler as the passionate defender of the American people’s civil rights, earning him the reputation through defending a majority of the controversial defendants during the 20th Century. In Kunstler’s profession, he defended the American Indian Movement, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the Freedom Riders, and ...

“Psycho” is one of the most horrifying movies by Alfred Hitchcock. Although there were no grandiose shots, Hitchcock was able to invoke horror and thrill among the audience because of how he presented the crime scene and how he provided close ups of the victims. The black and white screen adds more horrifying effect and delivers an eerie atmosphere. Hitchcock introduces the viewers to the film’s characters and invites them to enter their world through consistent close up shots. By doing so, the audience establishes a much closer contact with the character and they seem to observe his/her experience ...

ABSTRACT

During the last decade, Asian horror cinema has seen a surge in popularity throughout the world, especially in western countries. Traditionally, Japan has dominated the Asian horror cinema, but recently Hong Kong and South Korea have emerged as major powerhouses in the genre. Majority of these movies have enjoyed international success. Moreover, many of these movies have been adapted and remade by Hollywood. As the genre continues to grow, there is a need to understand the social conditions, cultural values, and cinematic traditions which influence the horror movies from Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. In particular, ...

For André Bazin, the famous film critic and theorist from France, cinemas were a realist medium. This is why majority of film theorists would perhaps argue that that if he got a look at the computer-animated film WALL·E (2008) by Disney/Pixar, he would turn over in his grave. His theories revolved around the notion that there is always a mummy complex underlying the origin of any form of art, including cinema. Bazin’s notion suggests that art struggles to immortalize the mortal, to preserve the physical existence on screen. According to Bazin, the medium that eliminates most of the distance between ...

The earth as we see it is composed of different components that make up the earth we know day. These components vary from the physical elements that are seen by the human eye to strange and unexplained forces that are in the visible elements of the earth. This has triggered the scientists to devise ways in which they will understand fully what happens on earth and why it is in the shape it is today. The scientists through governments have sent into space different space satellites that are able to help them get the desired knowledge of the different ...

Film Studies

Films have been something that has been part of man’s society ever since they were created. In this course there have been many films that were watched and assessed. Some stood out more than other and some were even worse or better than other. Many things were learned such as the art that goes into these movies and not to mention other elements such the dialogue, cinematography and sound. Of course, the actors cannot be overlooked because without them, there is not movie. With that said, the researches have picked three films to raise questions, trace motifs, and ...

The advent and growth of the technological sector have been instrumental in the dynamic changes that have been realized in the media sector. The sharing of information and ideas has been revolutionized with the advent of the internet. The speed and rate of information flow have also been enhanced significantly. This essay focuses on analyzing the capacity of new media to cope with the propaganda models as defined and explained by Noam Chomsky. It seeks to expound on the dynamics of new media and the depth to which propaganda models can be applied or fail to work.
In the ...

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 new city will be carbon neutral because it will use Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) which is powered using solar batteries unlike in the old or conventional cities where cars are powered using oil. The streets of the new city will also be narrow and shaded by modern buildings unlike in the traditional case where streets are wide and not energy efficient.
In addition, the new city’s water needs will be met using 80% of recycled water unlike in the old settings where cities obtain clean water supplies from conventional sources such as rivers.
The new city, can ...

In the early 1960s, a lot of people had no doubt that soon a third world war would start. It was supposed to be a nuclear conflict between the US and the Soviet Union, which would lead to the destruction of humanity, or at least to the collapse of modern civilization. Regularly occurring conflicts like the Korean War of 1950-1953 and the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 intensified the tensions and cultivated the fear in society. Sooner or later, with malicious intent or by mistake, the Cold War could turn into a "Hot War". Everyone understood it, and there ...

Introduction

Science fiction and disaster films often must take dramatic liberties with science and truth in order to serve a greater narrative purpose; events are compressed, effects are exaggerated, and realism and physics are thrown out the window in order to provide greater drama and spectacle (Revkin, 2004). In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich in 2004, the world is subjected to global disasters brought about by climate change. The effects are myriad; global cooling sets New York in a coating of ice and freezing temperatures, glaciers crack and separate, and a “superstorm” is said to cause rapid climate ...

While watching the play “Our Lady of 121st Street” , I could not stop laughing, the events in this play were staged or rather developed in a way that exemplify amusement and mirth. Though the instigating event of the missing corpses was rather a sad event, other events that unfolded subsequently were in essence funny and amusing. Apparently, the theatre space of this play was rather appropriate owing the fact that all the audience and the actors could achieve maximum contentment form the play.
Apparently, the writer of this play developed the characters of the play in such a way that they ...

The film is a great expose about the story behind the supermarket foods. It educates the viewers about the misconception and sometimes deception being employed by the supermarket giants. It tells the story of the very few big retailers that controlled the supermarket business and the control they have at the farmers and price. Aside from the animal welfare issues that are raised by the film, labor practices are also questionable because the workers’ right and safety are also put in danger.
Most chicken farms are being subsidized by giant food companies. These farmhouses chickens in a tightly cramped space ...

In the past years, movies marked as “based on real events” appear more often. Moreover, some of the researchers, as well as ordinary viewers claim that almost every movie is based on real events. The point is that sometimes directors as well as screen play writers tend to exaggerate the importance and cruelty of some events. In the most cases, it happens in horror movies or some documentaries. The point is that the main idea of every documentary is to convince people in something. This essay is devoted to the issue of veracity of the events in three movies: ...

1. The most important man of the twentieth century, according to Charles Kaiser was Martin Luther King Junior. He was important for spearheading the civil rights movements that were advocating for social justice between the blacks and the whites.
2. The Diggers were a group of radical activists where were considered as left wings and operated from Haight-Ashbury within the proximity of San Francisco, in additional they were also improvisational actors who had guerrilla kind of a group that was referred to as San Francisco Mime Troupe. The original founding member was Peter Coyote (Perry 284).
3. At Monterey ...

The Personals

The movie was shot in 1998 by Chen Kou-Fu. The next year the movie was presented at the Cannes Festival. The story described in the movie, in my opinion, is rather banal. There is a woman who is rather busy and does not have time for her personal life. However, she is at that very age when everybody around her has a family. She decided to solve the problem with a partner by simply posting an ad in a newspaper. Soon she gets more than a hundred calls. The “potential” partners are rather strange: beginning with a restaurant manager who adores shoes and ending with a ...

I watched a clip called “Is there a Bomb?” from the film Man on a Ledge. The director is Asger Leth. The production designer is Alec Hammond. The art director is David Swayze.

Directors turn the script into the action on screen (“Film Director”). Directors are responsible for “casting, script editing, shot composition, shot selection, and editing” (“Film Director”). Directors must have creative vision regarding bringing the story to life. Casting the right actors to bring characters to life is crucial. Actors must be believable in their role. Editing the script to make the story flow better helps audiences understand the message ...