Spielberg has done it again! He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler’s List. In fact, this movie nabbed 7 Oscars and 3 Golden Globe Awards.  I watched in awe as he created a film that not only realistically depicted the events involving the Jews but also delivered a vivid picture of the brutal […]

Having watched Gandhi, I have gained a better insight to the history of India’s independence as well as I got to know more about Gandhi. For instance, I never knew he was a qualified lawyer. I only knew him as the man in the white loincloth. To me, his principles in life are reflected in […]

Departures tell the story of an undertaker whose job is to prepare the dead for encoffinment. What intrigued me was that the filmmakers took a bold step in picking a rather distinctive subject for the movie; enconffinment. Despite doing so, this movie won 16 awards including the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at […]

The movie Sybil, based on a book, portrays a powerful and rather accurate picture of a woman suffering from dissociative identity disorder (DID). The book by Flora Rheta Schreiber was actually made into two movies, one in 1976 (the one I’ll be discussing) and another in 2007, which was remade into a docudrama. This movie […]

  Parenthood is a bittersweet comedy that focuses on the relationship between parents and their children and the struggles of parenthood. This movie focused on the lives of four siblings and their families; Gil and Karen, Susan and Nathan, Helen, and Larry. Four different parenting styles were explored in this movie; authoritarian, authoritative, uninvolved, and […]

The Fisher King tells the story of two men suffering from a psychological disorder; Jack Lucas suffering from depression and Parry suffering from schizophrenia and post traumatic stress disorder.  It’s a movie about redemption. This movie infused elements of the famous Fisher King myth. There are plenty of versions of this myth. One of it […]

The Castle is a movie about the Kerrigan family who are forced by the Government to vacate their home. Although it was a low budget movie, there’s nothing low budget about the value that is passed on; it’s not a house, it’s a home. To me, this movie passes on the message of the importance […]

Sixth sense also known as extrasensory perception is one’s ability to perceive dimensions of ghosts. In The Sixth Sense by M. Night Shyamalan, the fear of having a sixth sense, fear of the unknown was a central theme in this movie. The film focused on learning how to communicate those fears, as seen in the […]

Mississippi Burning is a movie based on the true story of how three civil rights workers were murdered on June 21, 1964, during the American Civil Rights Movement. This film was strong in showing us how violent and pointless racism can be. The movie starts off by depicting racial segregation of whites and blacks in the […]

“I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle in your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend day with you, I […]