The logic and fictional science behind Donnie Darko is a lot, to say the least. The interesting thing about this movie to me lies in the fact that the movie contains such a lofty and arcane idea in it and applies it to a movie about a seemingly normal teenage boy. The...

Donnie Darko is a very strange movie. The sound effects were very loud and piercing. Donnie makes a friend named Frank who is a very bad person dressed as a bunny. Frank makes Donnie do bad things but he gets away with it all. In one universe Donnie survives a freak...

Donnie Darko was a very in depth movie. With the ideas of time travel and a tangent universe makes it hard at first to wrap your mind around these concepts. This is the type of movie that should be watched more than once so you can understand the ideas they had. In...

Donnie Darko is a sci-fi thriller. It shows time travel and Donnie Darko being a paranoid schizophrenic. The movie shows all the things that Donnie is seeing in his dreams which are things that will happen if he doesn't die from the jet engine falling through his...

The art of anticipation is what allows The Shining to be classified as a horror film. Though laced with typical scary themes such as murder associated with the hotel, ghost twins, and special powers that foreshadow events, The Shining elevates its fear factor level by...

12 Years a Slave shines light on the horrors of slavery in a more realistic way than ever produced before. As the camera focuses for multiple seconds on the boat sailing away in the early middle of the story, the audience is forced to feel the disaster cast upon the...

Extras- essentially human set pieces, used to create a crowd or landscape Nonprofessional performers- amateurs who are chosen for their look rather than their talent Trained professionals- the bulk of professional actors whose training allows them to portray a variety...

1. Identify 4 categories of film acting and their purposes within film. ~extras- actors who are used to provide a sense of crowd in film ~non-professional- actors who are not chosen to be in the film because of their acting skills, but are chosen for their appearance....

I love this movie! It is creepy and gets into your head. Johnny is at the point where he is starting to go crazy, while his son can see the dead and all of the bad things that have happened at the hotel.

12 Years a slave was a very serious film and I thought the camera angles used were a good way of portraying the emotion and hardships of the slaves. A lot of the scenes were very still and quiet, but a lot happened within them. I recall one scene when they just showed...