Posts in 2021
EDITORIAL: What To Give Someone Who Loves Movies?

We all know someone who loves to watch different kinds of movies, right? Well, I think watching a movie has become one of the primary sources of entertainment that we all do during this time of the pandemic. We love to binge-watch our favorite films all day and little by little, transforming ourselves to become fanatics of the movie. To help you decide between a variety of choices, here are some examples of the best gifts to give if you know someone who loves to watch movies.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Water Man

That’s a sample of the welcome, sympathetic depth of The Water Man. So few fantasy films nowadays handle difficult questions like that one. Escapism for this demographic sells, no doubt, but internal odysseys will always have their place and merit. The Water Man, while destroying far fewer warehouses of Kleenex to reach its pinnacle, joins A Monster Calls and I Kill Giants as a trilogy of valuable discourses for bridging teens and adults together to engage with current and impending despair they may feel in their lives.

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COLUMN: Take Movie Night to the Next Level: Home Theater Pro Tips

Whether or not this is the case, there has been a massive spike in home theater investments as people spend less time and money going out and more time watching TV at home. If you’re ready to invest in an entirely new visual or sound system, that’s great, but most of us would probably like to upgrade our home theater setup without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars. The home theatre experts at Selby in Australia shared with us their professional insights on how to optimize your experience. And most of us are in luck -- there are many ways to boost your home theater quality without investing in loads of new equipment:

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EDITORIAL: How to start a movie blog and make money in 2021

Movies have the power of transforming us into a world that’s not ours. This past year and a half all of us have looked at ways that distract us from what was happening around us and movies were one of the biggest ways for us to achieve that. As the world shut down, many of us who were confined to the bounds of our house have spent days binge watching tv series and movies.

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ESSAY: Using Color Theory To Develop Your Composition and Style With Examples From Wes Anderson

by Andrew Adams

Visual art, which is composed of shapes and colors, is used to share ideas. Colors, which we see every day but often ignore, evoke emotion. Although you may not notice it at first, film directors and other visual storytellers use color theory to enhance stories. Color can heighten the emotions and characterizations for the audience, setting the story’s mood. Color signifies periods; it can be used in foreshadowing and symbolism and may remind the audience of events or experiences in their own lives. Therefore, colors and compositions affect how you may perceive or feel about a film.

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GUEST COLUMN: 2021 Summer Films To Get Excited About

by Kevin Faber

Summer is one of Hollywood’s busiest seasons, and 2021 promises to be more lucrative to the industry and entertaining to audiences. Horror, action and animation are dominant genres of the upcoming films, and producers are hopeful that the movie’s themes persuade more customers to purchase tickets after a dismal 2020 summer. Unlike previous years, some of the summer blockbusters will be shown in theaters and streaming services. You can take a look at the newest summertime offerings in the following sections.

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GUEST COLUMN: Five Movies That Will Make You Rethink Your Habits Behind the Wheel

by Susan Melony

What kind of bad habits do you have behind the wheel? We all have at least one habit that we would probably be better off leaving behind. For example, road rage in the Bronx contributes to plenty of accidents. In the first half of 2021, 227 accidents occurred because someone was following too closely, which is a type of accident that is easy to avoid!

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MOVIE REVIEW: Here Today

Within the movie, the themes all surround help that comes from lifted spirits found in many walks of life, both personal and professional. On the performance side, the material is solid enough to matter more than mere bits, yet light enough to spread its wealth of charm. No one is scene-stealing because no one has to, and that’s quite a tall order with the presence of Tiffany Haddish sharing the billing. Everyone is making the same music, so to speak, with Billy conducting every measure.

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MOVIE REVIEW: The Outside Story

The sliding scale severity of the answers to those questions creates the embarrassing memory and the “have I got a story for you” yarn we tell your friends and family later of the past predicament. This simple premise can have any number of interesting connective circumstances, from nightmarish to adventurous. With a sunny glow of lifted spirits and healed flaws, the batch of life’s little inconveniences dealt to Brian Tyree Henry’s Charles Young enchant a bevy of wry smiles in The Outside Story.

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MOVIE REVIEW: Without Remorse

That gamer friend of yours won’t be wrong. They will be steering you in the right direction with the arrival of the red-blooded Michael B. Jordan’s John Kelly, the man who would become the notorious John Clark. Frankly, we’ve had enough nerds, professors, and analysts, even if Jack Ryan was a former Marine. Talk first and postulate a strategy? Hell no. Without Remorse calls in the asskicker with more shades of gray than all the paint samples at The Home Depot.

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