Movies can have profound effects on the world. They can delight, terrify, excite, and, above all, change minds. Recently, my Media Writing class watched the 2001 award-winning film A Beautiful Mind starring Russell Crowe as part of our movie review unit. During the course of our viewing, I realized how important this movie still is,
Inspired by August Wilson’s 1983 play, the Academy Award-winning Fences is an extremely powerful film. With a box office gross of $58.3 million, the phenomenal one-set movie is definitely not one to miss. In this historical drama, routine and tradition are key. Fences is set in 1950s Pittsburgh, and stars Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson
The last two weeks, anywhere you went on the internet there would be people talking about ‘Get Out’. What’s so special about this thriller? Well the director, Jordan Peele, is a black man. ‘Get Out’ is like no other ‘horror’ film, because well it isn’t one in the traditional sense. Peele’s thrilled is based on