One of the major reasons that contemporary horror films so often fail to inspire dread or terror or, worst of all, horror is that so the genre adopted in almost unanimous fashion the acceptance that a kinetic approach to editing utilizing rapid editing of the short take is the key...

If a Tree Falls is documentary about the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a radical environmental group that used arson in the 1990’s after less destructive tactics failed to change public opinion or the opinions of those involved with destroying natural resources for material gain. This group is somewhat different from...

I chose the trailer for the documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth”, created by Davis Guggenheim; the trailer was posted to YouTube (Lazo, 2007, n.p.). In discussing this trailer in this assignment I have complied with U.S. Copyright Law by correctly citing and referencing the video (Librarian, 2017, n.p.). The intended...

Basketball Diaries directed by Scott Kalvert stars Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio as Jim Carroll. Basketball Diaries is a concerted but failed attempt to do justice to Carroll's book. However, the acting from DiCaprio is unforgettable. He plays Jim Carroll, a young aspiring basketball player, who also is a talented writer....

“That Which Once Was” (Takesue 2011) is a dystopian picture of the future—the year seems to be 2032—in which climate change has dramatically increased the number of refugees in the world. A newspaper headline indicates that the entire city of Jakarta is now under water. A young boy, who seems...