Occasionally it becomes impossible to separate the world of a good book from its scenery and the grand back story of history. When I first visited Marseille some years ago I could not get my mind off the Count of Monte Cristo. The searing Mediterranean sun, the scent of fish and spices, the sailing ships ...
V For Vendetta is a movie loaded to the top with messages, symbolism, underlying themes and inspiration placed through imagery. To mention every message in the film would require discussing the film in its entirety, as the plot is completely driven through hundreds of these elements. However, there are a number of messages that can ...
Whether they deal with the consequences of a life gone wrong or the brutality of life in prison, movies about prison life are somehow deeply moving. Maybe it is because we can often relate to the protagonist as in the Shawshank Redemption or because we want to see him or her beat the odds as ...
I started writing a short history for each of the Top 100 films on the American Film Institutes list, and then I realized that the AFI list is problematic for a few different reasons. It only represents the opinions of film critics, it stays within the boundaries of Hollywood and American born films, and it ...
