Miss Representation is the most provocative and inspiring movie I’ve ever seen. This documentary film directed, written, and produced by Jennifer Siebel Newson, explores how media misrepresents and degrades women. Short clips from movies and from advertisements are spliced into interviews and slides of fascinating statistics, creating a riveting film. The movie features both male
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A Review of The Endurance
A group of men stand on the deck of a ship looking out over the frozen, desolate landscape of the Antarctic continent. The men are Ernest Shackleton and his crew. They are trapped in a prison of ice, hundreds of miles away from any civilization with little hope of rescue. The Endurance is an incredible
- April 22, 2013
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A Review: Goliath by Tom Gauld
Now the Philistines gathered; the armies of Israel stood on a mountain on the other side. And there was a valley between them. With these words, Tom Gauld sets the scene for Goliath. We can only imagine the drama that will ensue, the bloodshed, the pandemonium. In fact, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. Within
- March 4, 2013
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The Alchemist: Spirituality, Religion, and Life Experience
The genius of Paulo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist, lies in its deceptive simplicity. At first glance, the reader might assume that it is merely a fable: the story of the shepherd boy Santiago and his quest for treasure. And it is, to a degree. But when one looks closer, The Alchemist is filled with metaphors
- January 22, 2013
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- The God Issue
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Belief and the Beast: A Review of Life of Pi
Ang Lee’s filmic interpretation of Yann Martel’s wildly successful book Life of Pi is unapologetically fanciful, visually stunning, intellectually valuable, and it is undeniably a great work of art. The movie opens with a series of tableaus of a beautiful Indian zoo, these opening images already give us a sense of the aesthetic playfulness and
- December 3, 2012
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A Review of The Corporation
Child labor, extreme pollution, absence of human rights, starvation wages, no guilt — is this the apocalypse? No, it is the modern day corporation as portrayed by directors Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott along with writer Joel Bakan in the two-and-a-half-hour documentary The Corporation, released in 2003. Bakan and Achbar met at a funeral and discovered
- October 16, 2012
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An Invisible Thread: A Story of Fate and Friendship
Laura Schroff’s memoir, An Invisible Thread, tells the story of her unlikely friendship with Maurice Mazyck, an 11-year-old New York City panhandler whose life intersects hers one day in the mid-1980s on a Manhattan street corner. Mazyck tells Schroff he’s hungry and asks if she can spare some change, but instead of giving him money
- September 10, 2012
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Hugo: A Mystery Within a Mystery
The movie Hugo, directed by Martin Scorsese, is based on the award-winning book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick. Hugo is a charming movie that explores ideas ranging from the essence of time and memory to the history of movies. In addition to all of the fantastic human characters portrayed by a wonderful
- August 22, 2012
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- Exploring Time
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What Is Time? A Review of The Fabric of the Cosmos
Time is a concept that has perplexed mankind for history. What is time? We see time all around us, from the ticking of clocks, to the vibrations of a quartz crystal. However, these devices only measure time, whether in hours, minutes, seconds, or even milliseconds. They don’t answer the question of what time really is.
- August 6, 2012
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- Exploring Time
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: A Meditation on Life
When I had first heard of the Curious Case of Benjamin Button from a friend, I was given the impression that it was nothing more than a romantic fantasy drama. Looking back, I now see that what at first seems like fantastical story about a man aging backwards through time holds intricacies that no classification
- June 4, 2012
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