Movie Review Essays

Big Fish is a story about a man, Edward Bloom, who is a magnificent story teller, and his son—William Bloom—who has a grudge against these stories. The movie was directed by Tim Burton in 2003, which he based off the Big Fish book written in 1988 by Daniel Wallace. Throughout …

Easily the most anticipated movie of the year and perhaps even the team superhero movie of all time, “The Avengers”, directed by Joss Whedon and starring big names like Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, and Scarlett Johansson, is a movie adaptation of the Marvel comic book of the same title. …

When watching the movie trailer to the movie Crash, I was fascinated to see such a movie. Crash is a 2004 crime drama film, co-written, produced, and directed by Paul Higgins. The film is about racial and social tensions in Los Angeles, California. I chose this movie because it shows …

The documentary, Caravans of Gold focuses on how the economic values of gold and how it influenced the trade in the early days of Africa. In many areas of Africa such as Mali, Niger River, Ghana (Ashanti) gold was the primary means of trade and camel caravans were the means …

Imagine a near perfect functional state where virtually everything knew your personal information, the streets are filled with laughter, smiles and murder is known to be non-existent. Minority Report, one of Steven Spielberg’s most popular films shows the viewers a near perfect utopian state where all crime has been eliminated. …

When someone has stabbed you in the back the only logical thing at the time is to stab them back but in all reality this will accomplish nothing. Everyone knows misery loves company and revenge is the perfect partner. Most of the time it takes others to show you the …

Homeless to Harvard, written by Ronni Kern, directed by Peter Levin, and released in 2003, tells the compelling story of one woman’s struggle to overcome tremendous personal obstacles. Golden Globe nominee Thora Birch stars in not only this motion picture but also many others, which include Ghost World and American …

One of the movies I chose to write about was called “Pay It Forward”. The movie was based on the concept of “The Simplest Idea Can Make the Biggest Difference”. This is achieved by doing good things for other people with three steps. The first is, it has to be …