Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. ... The success following the book's release, is credited for its recent move into Disney script; as a very popular, child orientated movie. ... His skill also lies in "the special mix of comedy, mystery and sense of purpose" which Holes' embodies. ... This issue is one of the fundamental aspects which creates the power in Holes'. ... Nevertheless, as an adult read, Holes' reminds the reader of the pleasure to be found in books. ...

• Word Count: 1946
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Holes' was written by Louis Sachar in 1998, introducing a new, more contemporary children's book. ... The success following the book's release, is credited for its recent move into Disney script; as a very popular, child orientated movie. ... His skill also lies in "the special mix of comedy, mystery and sense of purpose" which Holes' embodies. ... This issue is one of the fundamental aspects which creates the power in Holes'. ... Nevertheless, as an adult read, Holes' reminds the reader of the pleasure to be found in books. ...

• Word Count: 1943
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some people might argue that Donnie's ability to see "worm holes" and potentially see into the future is a trait of a conventional super hero but this ability comes around only as random effect of the time tangent that the characters experience during the course of the film. ... All of these qualities make Donnie a rather uncouth youth and hardly a candidate for the title of "hero" but he is a hero and these alternative attributes add to the movie viewer's perception of him being an anti-hero and an outsider. ...

• Word Count: 487
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

" Well that's just one of this movie's many flaws. ... This movie couldn't even consistently decide whether or not Murphy was a robot or a cyborg throughout. ... Overall this movie was terrible. ... The plot is stale, bland, and predictable throughout the movie, lacking any suspense or tension. ... It manages to keep you thinking, it at least tries to crack a few jokes here and there (they won't make you laugh, but they tried), it has multiple sub plots (that led to many lose ends, and plot holes), and you could tell there was actually effort put into making it a good ...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Andy, looking lost and void of all hope, worries his friends with the notion that he might commit suicide but as the next day came, the guards discovered his cell empty with a hole hidden behind a poster; Andy had escaped and was on the way to the authorities with proof of the warden's graven misdeeds and towards a remote island to live a life of freedom and innocence. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Andy, looking lost and void of all hope, worries his friends with the notion that he might commit suicide but as the next day came, the guards discovered his cell empty with a hole hidden behind a poster; Andy had escaped and was on the way to the authorities with proof of the warden's graven misdeeds and towards a remote island to live a life of freedom and innocence. ...

• Word Count: 616
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" has excellent examples of the issues of corruption and brutality of the prison system. ... When Young is released out of the hole and returned to the general population of the prison, he "snaps" and plunges a spoon into the artery in the neck of another prisoner (Tommy Lee Jones). ... After Henry Young is released out of his cell, an exceptional camera shot is used; you start to see some of the movie out of Henry Young's eyes and when you do the images are blurred and confusing which gives an indication of how Henry Young had mentally changed. ...

• Word Count: 1228
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

(Taylor, Communication 56, 59) The subliminal advertisements took place in a movie theater located in Fort Lee, New Jersey where the phrases, "Drink Coca-Cola" and "Eat Popcorn" flashed on the screen while the movie was playing. ... Following these incidents, the National Association of Broadcasters prohibited subliminal messages to occur while a movie was in session. ... The research and the results from the movie theater were never reproduced or documented following the experiment. ... This was the second incident following the movie advertisements causing widespread concern about subli...

• Word Count: 3661
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In order to intensify the audience's involvement as voyeurs and to invoke a stronger sense of realism in their witnessing events, it is said that Hitchcock insisted on the use of 50-millimeter lenses through the shooting of the entire movie. ... Graphic editing of the drainage hole to Marion's large, soulless, unblinking eye again brings forth a sense of watching, this time, from the dead. ...

• Word Count: 1889
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At movie houses, we can savor all the hot intensities that blast a decorous English visitor the moment she steps ashore after A Passage to India, to be engulfed in a whirlwind of mendicants, elephants, snake charmers and crowds. ...

• Word Count: 5127
• Approx Pages: 21
• Grade Level: Undergraduate