Movie Review

Marie Antoinette Movie Review

Luxury or decadence? Is there a difference? When the choices for more become overbearing, how is an aristocratic woman supposed to respond? When it is possible to be self-contained in an isolated world, beyond the wood shoed touches on cobblestone which have constant needs for feeding, there is danger lurking. So then it

‘Mutiny on the Bounty’ Film Review

In what is an otherwise wonderful historical period piece, the hot contest for right action or rightful conduct among men ignites with a sea voyage of moral turmoil in Mutiny on the Bounty. It is in the requirement of obeying commands, to maintain order, to persist with lawful conduct which has graced the Oceans with

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Dreams’ Movie Review

In a stunning meditation on the idea of Natural Piety to human desires, Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams reveals to us the idea of cinema, as that which is sufficiently informed by a higher-moving power than mere playhouses. The mythical reality sternly imposed upon the Japanese soul through this anthropological masterpiece catapults us towards a higher view

‘Dark Crystal’ (1982) Film Review

Mr. Jim Henson portrays a terrifically fantastical storyline which echoes in a way which is accessible to pre-adolescence yet reverberates with the story of the Exodus – the idea of the physical liberation of people from unjust affliction. The necrosis of a world bent towards a social order of dominion, of absolute power over others,

‘Lost in Translation’ (2003) Film Review

In a world which is more than foreign, Bob Harris played by Bill Murray engulfs himself in the idiosyncratic culture of the Japanese which has been percolating the Earth for centuries. It is in the resignation of being lost on an island for a time and a season which opens the idea of being found.

‘The Fugitive’ Movie Review

It is better to suffer injustice than to commit it. This is the Moral expression of Socrates’ death so ingeniously portrayed with the film The Fugitive. That there is indeed a higher law than what men construct is wonderfully facilitated with the realization of the Liar in cinema. That a false plan for the

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