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Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh: Best Martial Arts Movie Team Ever!!
Chan and Yeoh are the Astair and Rogers of martial arts movies and I just thought it was worth mentioning. Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged 90s films, acting, Critical essay, film, Jackie Chan, James Bond, Martial Arts, Michelle Yeoh, movie review, Movies, Supercop
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CGI + Traditional Animation = The Future of Cartoons?
Because CGI makes for very crisp, slick-looking backgrounds and hand-drawn pictures make for very rich, varied, and often diaphanous backgrounds, the combination of the two made for a visually stunning movie. Continue reading
Favorite Versions of A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol has been adapted as a film so many times, it seems almost impossible to count. Everyone has a few of them they like more than the others. Here are three of my favorites: Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis, List
Tagged acting, Alastair Sim, British, Christmas, Critical Analysis, Dickens, Holiday, movie review, Movies, muppets, Screenwriting, Scrooge, television, TV
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Film Noir: The Mother of the Psychological Thriller
I believe it is possible that psychological thrillers such as Rope (1948), The Shining (1980), Jaws (1975); and the genre of psychological thrillers as a whole are natural extensions of film noir. Continue reading
Posted in Comparative Analysis
Tagged Critical Analysis, Critical essay, film, film noir, film student, Film Theory, Hitchcock, Jaws, Kubrick, movie review, Movies, Spielberg, Thriller
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Boom Times for Film and Video Makers
Web video has become very profitable and there will be huge increases in motion picture / video related job markets. In other words, now is a good time to be a filmmaker. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged film, Film schools, film student, industry, Job market, Movies, Screenwriting, television, TV, Web Video
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‘Tis the Season . . . to Apply to Film Schools (Part II)
Last time, I talked about my top three choices: USC, UCLA, and CalArts. Today, I’m going to give brief descriptions of 4 more schools, some of them unusual choices. Continue reading
‘Tis the Season . . . to Apply to Film Schools (Part I)
Yes, it’s true that some film programs let you apply for spring or winter admission, but for the most part film students everywhere will be applying for fall – usually a year in advance – just about now, in fact. Continue reading
My Top 13 Halloween Movies!
The spooky season is upon us once again! For cineastes, that means putting together a marathon of films to watch on Halloween. In keeping with the festivities, I’ve decided to start a tradition on this blog of listing my top 13 movies to watch on Halloween. This year, I’m listing my top 13 comedic Halloween movies: Continue reading
Posted in List
Tagged acting, film student, Halloween, Holiday, movie review, Movies, TV, Vampires
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Film, TV, & Modern Media as the New Mythology
In the 1988 mini-series “Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth,” one of the ideas Campbell explores is that fictional media (TV, radio, movies, etc) have taken the place of traditional mythology (religious texts/rituals/verbal histories) in the American culture. He further posits that this new mythology is insufficient to support the American psyche in the same way as ancient religions. Is this so? Continue reading
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Tagged Critical Analysis, film student, Film Theory, Movies, Mythology, Religion, television, TV
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