Family Programming at the 2018 Florida Film Festival

Though focused primarily on movies for adults, in keeping with its annual tradition, the Florida Film Festival also offers a family programming sidebar with unique new independently produced movies appropriate for youngsters. In addition, the Spotlight Films category contains another film that children will enjoy - a documentary about Fred Rogers and his long-running television series, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. ...

Importance of Maintaining Viewing Distance While Watching TV

Whenever we plan to watch a movie in the theatres, most of us will definitely prefer seats somewhere in the middle, rather than sitting right at the front or way back at the end of the theatre. While it is not exactly the same when it comes to watching TV, we will still search for that prime place which will make watching TV a good experience. What we exactly want to feel is the essence of a horror movie or an action movie, without straining our eyes or suffering a headache. ...

Top 10 Bollywood Movies in 2018 Not To Miss

Padmaavat: Set in 1303 AD medieval India, Padmaavat is the narrative of respect, valor and fixation. Ruler Padmavati is known for her remarkable excellence alongside a solid feeling of equity and is the spouse of Maharawal Ratan Singh and pride of the Kingdom of Chittor, a prosperous kingdom in the north west of India. The legend of her magnificence achieves the authoritative sultan of Hindustan - Allaudin Khilji. ...

A Titanic Love Affair - Marxist Criticism Approach

This is my view regarding with the movie "Titanic". "There is no danger that Titanic will sink. The boat is unsinkable and nothing but inconvenience will be suffered by the passengers" (Philip Franklin), these were words that had gone down in the history. Titanic dubbed as the "UNSINKABLE" was ironically foundered in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It was known as the ship of dreams. Surely, it was. ...

A Lamentable Truth: A Titanic Film Review

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic. A love story doomed by the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. Rose Calvert, now 101 reminiscences her experience of the Titanic, to American oceanic explorers, and her emotional connection with another passenger, Jack. Jack was an American starving artist who won a trip home on the Ship of Dreams to a lucky hand in poker. ...

Titanic: A Tragedy Of Uncertainty - A Marxist Approach

A movie review for the film Titanic. A movie which was full of unsolved conundrums but soon expressed hidden answers towards its whole fundamentals. A Marxist Approach was used to classify the relevance of this movie to the societal circumstances present in our real life world. ...

Five Classic Family Movies Even Adults Will Love

Adults are an interesting bunch in that you're never quite sure what you will get from one to another, and considering they seem so similar, that can really mess with your head. One of the more perplexing "adultisms" that can really mess with your head is when you have parents that are all about family movies, but when having to go check one out with the kids, they're just not into it. What?!? You want family togetherness and a way for everyone in the family to find a common thing to do for fun, but for some reason, you're just taken aback by a family movie that just isn't your cup of tea. ...

Seven New Movie Releases We're Looking Forward To This Summer

Remember when you were still in school, and no matter how crummy you thought the school year was, you knew that you could look forward to the greatest time of your life - summer vacation? The same still applies, in some ways, to movie lovers, as the summer usually brings with it a massive crop of new movie releases that are sure to please the movie fan in all of us. Well, at the very least, those who are big fans of the summer blockbuster are sure to be excited. ...

The Best Cinema Near Me Is The One That Serves Food

I'm a pretty lucky guy in that I really don't have a whole lot to complain about. Nearly everything I could ever want is only a click away, and with such ease in having all I need close at hand, I'm going to be bold in proclaiming that the best cinema near me is one that serves food. This is why I really like dine-in theaters. ...

Five 20th Century Action Movies You Should See In the 21st Century

For many people, the idea of getting older can be a rather big downer simply because it makes them think about all of the things they haven't done. Though maybe not on par with the complexity of life, getting older also means we've missed out simple things like checking out action movies. ...

A Revelation of Social Injustice

"All of our humanity is dependent upon the humanity in others." -Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance-disaster film directed, written, co-produced and co-edited by James Cameron. A fictionalized account of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship during its ill-fated maiden voyage. The setting was on the ship, from a sunny day to a cold, breezing night. This film review aims to reveal such social injustice depicted in the movie, Titanic. Wherein the authorities prioritized and patronized the high-class citizens, leaving the poor behind. As a result, only few survived the tragedy. ...

RMS Titanic: The Unsinkable Love

Just how far can love take you? How deep can it penetrate one's heart in order for you to commit and do anything for that loved one? Tackling about the poetic and emotional importance of the so called 'Titanic: The Unsinkable Ship' that housed thousands of people will surely make one's heart and mind realize the depth of the event that had happened in the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912. ...

Titanic: The Unsinkable Tale

Titanic is hailed the immortal bitter-sweet tale that will forever hook viewers in its plot, as unsinkable as the ship seemed to be. This movie is the highest grossing ultimately predictable movie that made millions or even billions wipe their tears because of the typical inter social class story of a rich young woman and a poor young man that fell in love with each other as their fates crossed in boarding Titanic, but it was not good for a wealthy girl to fall in love to an impoverished boy in 1912, where in upper class has its absolute dominion on the lower class. This movie is truly immortal, beloved of all ages. ...

Sinking the Unsinkable: A Titanic Film Review

I decided to look for the heart of the ocean in watching the movie. I never thought I would find it in just three hours fourteen minutes. ...

Why On Earth Should I Moan - Still Nothing To Complain About in 'A Hard Day's Night'

The Beatles were never so vivacious, engaging or exuberant as in their debut film 'A Hard Day's Night.' Before Beatlemania had developed a dark side they are still enamoured with the journey they are on and each other. This new look at the movie finds there is much to carry on being enthralled by. ...

Gentlemen of Titanic

"Women and children only!" shouts the ship's authority during the evacuation from the sinking Titanic. The ship, labeled before the incident in the Atlantic to be unsinkable, became so proud from the praises people gave her (the Titanic; sailors consider ships as feminine), and so tried to defy an iceberg but was put to demise. ...

Sitcom Characters Who Wrestle With Their Consciences After Finding Money

Usually the only money I ever find is a piece of small change, mostly pennies. Yesterday afternoon, however, I happened upon a crisp twenty dollar bill in the restroom of a convenience store down the street. Probably I should have pocketed it just like I do with the coins I occasionally find, but instead I handed it to the clerk working behind the counter. ...

Titanic: A Women Empowerment Movie (A Feminist Film Review)

"What? You think a first-class girl can't drink?" In the movie Titanic that was written and produced James Cameron in 1997, depicts the situation of women during 1912. The movie showcases a dynamic love story between a Caucasian - poor artist lad and a wealthy-independent lass. It also showcased the story of one of the most remembered disaster in the history. ...

How Hearts Go On - Titanic, a Film Review

Titanic is a phenomenal, timeless classics that would tell you how each hearts go on. This is my own views and opinions on the movie Titanic, Marxist criticism. ...

"I Can Only Imagine" Movie Review

The song, "I Can Only Imagine", written by Bart Millard of Mercy Me has been made into a movie sharing the personal story that inspired it. It tackles the issue of child abuse and restoring broken relationships later in life. ...

Salim-Javed and the Angry Young Man

Amitabh Bachchan created the persona of angry young man in 1970s with the screenplay and dialogue written by Salim-Javed. Here is something about the noir period of Indian cinema. ...

Titanic, a Great Tragedy: Marxist Criticism

Being judged would never be fair. Being discriminated would never be fair. Being treated differently would never fair. ...

Gaps Between Two Classes Shown in the Titanic Movie by James Cameron: A Marxist Criticism Approach

Titanic became one of the all-time favorite movies since its release in 1997. It evidently depicted different social issues that includes poverty and social classes. The movie showed how a fancy voyage ship was divided into classes leading to an unfair ending. ...

Titanic: A Floating City of Social Classes

Do you fancy an elegant dinner with the elite? How about a cheap party with the hoi polloi? The 1997 film Titanic is written, directed, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. The RMS Titanic is a floating city; and along with a city is a social ranking: the bourgeoisie, or the upper class, and the proletariat, the lower class. This entire review points out the display of contrast between the social classes in the movie. ...

Titanic, the Ship of Dreams: A Marxist Criticism Approach

Have you ever had a dream of being aboard? Or do your dreams had the chance to go aboard? Well, that's quite confusing, like how confusing the life of the people in Titanic. Many people's life has been wrecked like how the ship descended on the ocean floor together with the dreams of thousands of people including the upper class, bourgeoisie, and the proletariats. The setting of the movie revolves obviously in the ship - the R.M.S Titanic. It sank after it collided with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. This review focuses on the gap between social classes that was noticeably seen in one of the highest-grossing movies of all time written and directed by the multi-awarded James Cameron, the Titanic. ...

A Nightmare in the Ship of Dreams: A Titanic Movie Review (Marxism)

"I'll never let go, I promise", almost every person who got to watch the movie "Titanic" experienced on how it is to be Rose because no one seemed to be able to let go of this very wonderful movie. "Titanic" is made in the year 1997 by the golden hands of James Cameron, which has shown the real-life story behind the sinking of the Titanic, a beautiful Olympic-class passenger line. The maiden is divided into 3 parts based on the class, where 1500 people died on its first voyage in 1912, the movie magnificently showed a great love story that rose... ...

Titanic, the Unsinkable Ship of Dreams Built on Class: A Marxist Criticism

Based on the doomed vessel of 1912 comes the highest grossing film of all time, Titanic written and directed by James Cameron. It follows the epic love story of an elite young woman who fell in love with a drifter young man while aboard the largest ship in history. Generally, this article talks about the discrepancy and inequality between the upper and lower class present on the film. ...

The Ship of Dead Dreams: A Marxist Review of Titanic

Titanic, a 1997 film based on a 1912 tragedy, is a film depicting social stratification and exposed the effects of that system. The viewers follow the romance of Rose DeWitt Bukater and Jack Dawson, who are varying in social class, as the tragedy is narrated. ...

Cameron's Genius: A Formalist Approach to Titanic (1997)

This article aims to review and critique what made Titanic a great film by inspecting its elements along with its creators' methods and strategies. As well as, seeing how it all came together in one three-hour long blockbuster masterpiece. ...

Titanic: A Cruise of Classes

This article provides a personal view of the film Titanic. It judged and criticized by means of using Marxism as the main purpose of writing the review. ...

Titanic, a Cry for a Classless Society: Marxist Criticism

"First class passengers only!" A sentence enough to describe the social injustice between the two classes, the exploiting and the exploited, in the 1997 film by James Cameron, Titanic. Titanic is a film generally seen for its iconic touch of romanticism from the love of two passengers of different social classes. Little did this creative narrative of social class struggle is too loud and too similar of the inequality happening in reality it can easily be bypassed by viewers for its normality. This review is here to face the inequality that happened between first class passengers and third class passengers in the said film. ...

Titanic, Social Injustices Go On and On: A Marxist Criticism Approach

It was said to be the ship of dreams. Would you gamble and leave everything behind just to set foot on the ship but asked only to stay on the lower decks and be humiliated by the upper classes? Or, would you go aboard with a heavy heart knowing that this ship ensembles a slave ship taking you back to America in chains while being engaged into someone you barely want just to keep your family's legacy? ...

Social Prejudice Exists: Marxism Review

"What made you think you could put your hands on my fiancee?! Look at me, you filth! What do you think are you doing?" In the movie Titanic written and directed by James Cameron in 1997, depicts the struggles between social classes that shows how great is the gap between the upper class and the lower class. ...

Voyage Beyond Affection: Titanic (A Marxist Criticism)

Whole life savings, pennies, dimes and quarters? Would you bet everything you have in exchange for a ride on one of the most luxurious ship at the moment? If you were given a chance to ride the "Unsinkable Ship," would you give everything up? ...

The Fall of the Unsinkable: A Marxist Criticism Approach to the Movie "Titanic"

The untold secrets of a sunken ship in the Atlantic revealed by one of the survivors of the tragedy. This is the story of "The Titanic", a story of love and tragedy alongside happiness and sadness in one film. The purpose of this movie review is not just to give the summary of the movie but to view the movie from different perspectives and approaches. ...

The Essence of Distinction - Titanic Movie Review - Marxist Criticism Approach

This article is about a marxist criticism approach of the movie Titanic. this article will show how the two different social classes will react when they are being tested. ...

The Lost Heart of the Ocean: Marxist Criticism

"Near, far wherever you are" it is a song sang by Celine Dion that many people cried and reminiscence the death of Jack and many passengers of Titanic. This line vividly depicts how far or wherever is Jack is and the people who died on the Titanic they will still be remembered. Titanic is a movie written and directed by James Cameron it talks about the heart wrenching story of the sinking of Titanic. It was release in the year 1997 and still famous nowadays. Unfair treatment distance among the "mighty ones" and the poor, and how your social class affects how you live your life are some issues asserted in the film. ...

Titanic: The Ship of Dreams and Nightmares

Titanic was first released in US theatres of December 19th 1997, before being released in UK cinemas a month later on 23rd January 1998. $200 million was the budget of the film, which at the time was the most expensive film ever made. Titanic earned over $1 billion worldwide during its first run before reaching $2 billion during its re-release. It once held the record for being the highest-grossing film of all time until it was surpassed by Avatar in 2009- a film that was also directed by James Cameron. The film has received positive reviews from critics and fans alike, with praise coming from its story, visuals, acting and historical facts. ...

Serious Impressions of Stupid Movies

Widely accepted form of entertainment, movies are not just that. They have wide influence over our society and play great part in social reforms. They are a form of art as could not be taken lightly. ...

Look In The Mirror For The Real Winners

A few weeks ago I finally got to see the O.J. Simpson miniseries starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. as O.J. Simpson. You know, this article is a spin on the words "O.J., look in the mirror for the real killers". If we really want to get anywhere in life, we must look in the mirror for the real winners. This is exactly where I am right now. ...

Suicide in Modern Entertainment

To kick off the new year, YouTube star, Logan Paul, released a video in which the dead body of a suicide victim is shown. This video kick started many feelings including a re-occurring argument, The encouragement of suicide in modern entertainment. Some parents are of the belief that modern media glamorizes suicide. ...

Controversy of History

"Well begun is half done". Yes, it is somehow true. In today's scenario where there are thousands of issues to work on, where hot potatoes are boiling overhead. ...

Lessons Learned: Women Wow in Marvel's Black Panther

"Wow" is the best word for me to describe Marvel's Black Panther. It really requires no introduction but in case you weren't aware, it has quickly become a top-grossing movie directed by Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Creed). ...

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Is Teaching Us How to Match the Colors of Outfits

It is reported that the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel took home the Best Television Series and the heroine Rachel Brosnahan took home the Best Actress of the Musical or Comedy prizes in the 2018 Golden Globes. All of these honors have shown that the crew of this TV series has done a great job! In the TV series, Mrs. Maisel is such a beautiful lady and she also has a perfect taste in dressing. Her outfits are full of classic and vintage flavor, such as A shape coat, X shape dress, and neck bow-knot. And she is just so good at matching the colors of her outfits and creating many fashionable and coordinated looks. If we learn these tricks from the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, we can match the wool coat and vintage dresses in winter and spring amazingly. ...