Thursday, November 21, 2024

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Graphic made by: Austin Keith     Introduction The relationship between an actor and their director is a very interesting one. It is a relationship that can only go as far as both sides are willing to take it. In many ways the relationship relays on both to give everything they got, in order to succeed. An actor can act only as good...
"We're not computers, we're physical. I think, therefore I am." These words are spoken in the famous movie Blade Runner by a Replicant, a synthetically created humanoid designed to replicate human behavior, thought, and action. Those words, rooted in philosophical thought on human life and its characteristics, pose a fundamental question in Blade Runner: what does it mean to be human? Blade Runner...
INTRO With stunning cinematography, complex character development, and themes of moral ambiguity, Better Call Saul, the spin-off prequel to the popular TV show Breaking Bad, has been hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. The show follows Jimmy McGill, masterfully played by Bob Odenkirk, as the show tracks his descent from struggling lawyer to criminal lawyer and con-man Saul Goodman,...
We all love to go to the movie theater to see the latest flick from the Marvel Universe or perhaps Steven Spielberg’s newest period drama. We all love to binge watch episodes of our favorite TV shows on Netflix. The characters on the screen, whether on the 50-foot-wide screen at the theater or the 13 inch screen of your...
WARNING: The links to film clips are graphic in nature. Viewer discretion is advised.  As the white shower curtains are drawn back, and the awaiting outline of the shady attacker wields his knife aloft, the iconic shriek of violins paired with the scream of sheer terror of has encapsulated cinema fanatics and casual movie watchers alike for decades. Everyone has...
Around two weeks ago, I semi-re-watched the film In the Mood For Love by legendary Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kai-war. I started watching the movie a few months ago, sometime in September. Still, I only got halfway through the film before stopping and never really got back to finishing it. I eventually gave up on finishing it and decided it...
In no other place can racism project itself across so many people’s minds. Movies captivate young and old, man and woman, black and white. Viewed by millions upon millions and telling a wide variety of stories, movies have passed on the ideologies of their makers or the stereotypes of peoples, inadvertently or not, throughout history. In this way, movies...
Drunk driving is responsible for the deaths of over 10,000 people a year. Despite corny television ads and the flashing road signs informing drivers that “buzzed driving is drunk driving” on their daily commute, the statistics for drunk driving remain staggeringly high, so much so that it’s almost unfathomable to think that those numbers are more than half of...

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