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Movie article Stories can start negatively, but here are some decent examples of turning story negatives to positives, because of character. That follows. Screenwriters always ask: how should a story end? To find their ending, they ask: from the choices the main character could possibly make, how would the story end? Or, how would a…

DVD movie review Watching movies is like looking in a mirror. You remember what you look like and when you look at someone or watch a movie, you perceive them or that movie as different to you. Deadpool (2016, USA) was one of those times for me. Though there may be relatable elements, there a…

First there was Alice in Wonderland (2010, USA). Then, Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016, USA). The story of Alice in Wonderland is, from a point of view, a search for true happiness. Alice is promised the hand of marriage to Hamish, who is a lord, but the nineteen-year old can’t make up her mind…

The X-Men is a film series, based on Marvel characters, about the emergence of mutants. There are two trilogies and we are currently at the end of the second trilogy with the X-Men Apocalypse (2016, USA). Though the actors in the trilogies are different, the characters are the same, as younger versions in the second…

DVD movie review Spotlight (2015, USA) is eye opening because it illuminates issues in the Catholic Church. If you have lived in the United States in the last fifteen years you probably would have heard, read or seen stories about the sex abuse scandals there. Spotlight is the story of a newspaper investigation into the abuse…

2001 : A Space Odyssey and 2010: The Year We Make Contact are science fiction films with distinction, for not only their technical achievements, but for their sense of the inner quest and a spiritual hunger for more. For tackling such subject matter makes these rare films.     The movies Based on the Arthur…

With the release of X-Men Apocalypse next week, why not go down memory lane first. Since 20o9, the X-Men franchise has released origins films, but the franchise set up the characters and X-Men story-line nine years earlier.     Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), Cyclops (James…

DVD movie review     The 5th Wave (2016, USA) gets straight into the story– Biblical-like plagues sweep through America caused by a mysterious alien force in the skies. It sucks dry power sources, causes earthquakes, spreads a bird virus, and brings alien visitors to live among the humans to wipe the humans out. Then…

    As I watch Hollywood movies, I have noticed patterns of themes and issues across films. Thematically, even family films cross over to dramas. Norm of the North (2016, USA) is a family animation so you may expect fun, which it does have, but it is also about serious issues that have propped up…

In My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010, France), Germain is warm hearted, but he is dismissed by his pub friends in almost every sentence they speak. He is thought of as the “village idiot”. But he is warm hearted. His mother criticized the boy’s intelligence and ability to fulfill everyday tasks. Germain, as an older man,…
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