50/50 When we first saw the trailer for the film 50/50 starring Joseph Gordon Levitt and Seth Rogan‚ we knew this was a must-see. The film’s rough story of a 20-something year old battling with “stage five back cancer” taught us that life is too short to sweat the small stuff. People go through tragic battles like disease and the possibility of dying when all we do is find ourselves complaining about small‚ narrow problems in life. Adam demonstrated true optimism and showed the audience that
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Assignment: _Write a review of the 1995 Pride and Prejudice film‚ (seen in class) comment on the cast‚ music‚ setting‚ wardrobe etc._ Generally speaking film adaptations of classic novels rarely ever prove superior or a match for the books on which they are based. This may be attributed to the fact that the written word allows for more nuances than the camera. In many cases the book is severely compromised in order to make the story more cinematic‚ key parts are altered or omitted entirely and the
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Enter the Void is unlike any movie one has seen or probably will see in the future. Written and directed by the Frenchman Gaspar Noé‚ Enter the Void is a complex film that constantly experiments with the director’s unique visual style. Enter the Void follows the tragic story of a young American drug dealer‚ Oscar‚ as he struggles to survive in the neon-lit and chaotic streets of Tokyo. Early in the film‚ Oscar is shot and killed in a drug bust gone wrong. The rest of the film is captured from the perspective
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takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team‚ the school and the community‚ Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement... | | | * | * Coach Carter. Lessons from the Movie: * Do you have your partners blessing. Do they know what you stand for and support you? Get behind you when you aren’t getting behind you? * Preparation before you enter the field * Know your opponents & your team (Strengths & Limitations)
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The Twilight Saga The Twilight books is a series of four vampire-themed romance novels by Stephenie Meyer. The protagonist Bella Swan is a teenage girl who moves to Forks‚ Washington to stay with her dad and ends up falling in love with a 104-year old vampire named Edward. Edward lives with his “adoptive parents” Esme and Carlisle who are also vampires. Twilight became an instant bestseller and when first published‚ gained many mixed reviews. There are many weak women in Twilight such as Bella‚
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Film review: East is East The film “East is East” is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din‚ directed by Damien O’Donnell and released in 1999. The story is set in a British household with a pious Muslim father and an English mother in Salford in 1971. George Khan‚ the father‚ forces his family to follow the Pakistani lifestyle‚ but his seven children‚ who were born in Britain‚ see themselves as British and reject the traditions. This results in many tensions and conflicts
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Movie Review of “INSIDE JOB” “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man ’s needs‚ but not every man ’s greed‚” said Mahatma Gandhi and this is somewhat the crux of this movie. Inside Job is directed by Charles Ferguson‚ and it highlights the reasons and the consequences of the global financial crisis of 2008. This movie is basically related to recession that was caused by the inefficiency of the industry and the unfavourable banking practices. The director has conducted several interviews and
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A few of the critics seemed to have enjoyed this film. Critic David Nusair states Jamie Foxx delivered a phenonmenal performance‚ although on the other hand he thinks the film wasn’t elevated to the highest level of the viewers of his crime. The film is careful not to incriminate Stan “Tookie” Williams for any wrong doing‚ he is seen punching out assorted folk but we’re not given any clue as to his guilt in the crime for which he is imprisoned states Vondie Curtis-Hall. The word redemption can
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Lapis Lazuli -An International Literary Journal (LLILJ) Vol.3/ NO.2/Autumn 2013 Theorizing the Absurd: Waiting for Godot Sixty Years After Vijay Kumar Rai Abstract The term Absurd is essentially impregnated with various human conditions and situations arousing absurdity and is necessarily present in the post world war generation. Life has become bitter sweet or „life in death and death in life‟ to the coming generation. This human predicament sprouted its spears during 1920s‚ developed
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House Bunny In the film House Bunny‚ a 27-year-old girl‚ Shelley Darlingson‚ played by Anna Farris‚ finds herself tricked out of the Playboy Mansion by another bunny for being too old. Shelley winds up at the University of Southern California and becomes the house mother in a very poorly kept sorority house‚ Zeta Tau Alpha‚ consisting of six socially awkward girls. After gaining the girls’ trust by showing them she is nice and can attract boys‚ she does her best to turn the ZTA girls around to
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