Ooooooh Doctor!: Pictorial History of Classic Nurse Paperback Cover
Daniel Herman and Mitch Itkowitz
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The 1960s and 1970s witnessed upheavals in American culture, an explosion of new ideas in cinema; a...
Pleasing Everyone: Mass Entertainment in Renaissance London and Golden-Age Hollywood
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Shakespeare's plays were immensely popular in their own day - so why do we refuse to think of them...
The Story of Looking
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Looking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the...
The Thrill of Repulsion: Excursions into Horror Culture
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This collection of carefully curated lists, articles, and interviews celebrates the beleaguered...
Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art
Gabrielle Jennings and Kate Mondloch
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Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators,...
Brief Encounter
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Brief Encounter (1945), adapted from Noel Coward's play Still Life, is a classic of British cinema -...
Coppola's Monster Film: The Making of Apocalypse Now
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In 1975, after his two Godfather epics, Francis Ford Coppola went to the Philippines to film...
Film Art: An Introduction
Jeff Smith, David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
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Film is an art form with a language and an aesthetic all its own. Since 1979, David Bordwell,...
Sarah (7798 KP) rated The Gift (2015) in Movies
Jul 12, 2020
This has a good cast, I always love Jason Bateman and it's nice to see Joel Edgerton directing and acting and I think he does a good job in both. The plot itself seems very similar to other stalker/obsessive/revenge films but it's still quite entertaining and fortunately not overly long. The problem is I wouldnt say this is particularly thrilling or tense. The ending is a little surprising but it feels rather lacklustre in general as a psychological thriller. I also found character motivations and actions to be a little unusual and unexplainable, to the point it makes the film even more unbelievable than it is to begin with.
Overall it's an average watchable psychological drama which is sadly ultimately forgettable.
Gendering History on Screen: Women Filmmakers and Historical Films
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Movies about significant historical personalities or landmark events like war seem to be governed by...