… argued for decades over which is this biggest, meanest, and coolest monster of all time. Given the choice of Godzilla or Mechagodzilla: most people would choose the radioactive lizard over the space robot, because Godzilla won against Mechagodzilla.…

… story about breaking up and getting back together again. Only, thanks to director Stephen Frears’ narrative technique, we don’t realize this until the credits start to roll. He plunges into the life of Rob Gordon, played by John Cusack, on the night…

… is the most authentic historical drama of the sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic in 1912. Researching countless journals of the survivors and examining images of the actual ship, Cameron realistically recreated the doomed passenger ship’s voyage and…

… the mysterious tone of the film with his overuse of lighting, camera angles, and shadows. The uncertainty Benjamin Braddock feels can be seen right from the start as he stands on the moving sidewalk at the airport. He is positioned at the right…

… season as a show in its own right. It was created by Matt Groening as shorts for the Tracy Ullman Show and was bought by the Fox Network, which began screening it as half-hour shows in 1989. Initially its success was restricted to the 9-16 year old…

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… Kline in A Fish Called Wanda The film A Fish Called Wanda is on the AFI’s (American Film Institute) Greatest 100 Comedies list. Although this film features talented actors like John Cleese and Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline easily steals…

… first hand accounts of the competitive race in science that led to the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule. The DNA research Watson and his colleagues took part in demanded knowledge in many areas of expertise, but the most important…

… tell us stories and present us with values and messages about our society and what needs to be changed. In the film “Girl, Interrupted,” Susanna’s struggle with self-discovery and her fight to find a…

… lives, there are many factors that affect how much and what they view. In the essay “Teaching as an Amusing Activity” (1987), Neil Postman argues television conditions us to tolerate visually entertaining material measured out in chunks at a time.…