Bet ween the Frames

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Tuesday , July 22 , 2008

Wanted: Existentialism and Misconception of Masculinity

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Existentialism is a concept explored during 1940-50s, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir, through such themes as dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, and nothingness as fundamental to human existence. By embracing the complete absurdity and other-worldliness of a graphic novel on which the story is based, Kazakhstan director Timur Bekmambetov manages t....

Existentialism is a concept explored during 1940-50s, by Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Simone de Beauvoir, through such themes as dread, boredom, alienation, the absurd, freedom, commitment, and nothingness as fundamental to human existence. By embracing the complete absurdity and other-worldliness of a graphic novel on which the story is based, Kazakhstan director Timur Bekmambetov manages t....

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Thursday , June 19 , 2008

The Happening: Relationships of Love, Connection, and Harmony

Posted by betweentheframes , Reader : 224 , 23:08:46

After his phenomenal breakthrough success with The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan made one superb follow-up with Signs. Somehow, Shyamalan had to experience a sensational fall from critical and commercial grace, partly through his last two movies, The Village and Lady in the Water, which were downright atrocities. His twisty endings went from truly surprising to subtly shocking, and recently to co....

After his phenomenal breakthrough success with The Sixth Sense, M. Night Shyamalan made one superb follow-up with Signs. Somehow, Shyamalan had to experience a sensational fall from critical and commercial grace, partly through his last two movies, The Village and Lady in the Water, which were downright atrocities. His twisty endings went from truly surprising to subtly shocking, and recently to co....

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Friday , June 6 , 2008

The Hottie & The Nottie - Thinly Written Piece Stuffed with Flat Humor

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It is, as you may have guessed, a completely vile little film, the sort of romantic comedy that could only have been produced by cerebrally challenged film producers whose only knowledge of reality comes from tabloid magazines. This is a flick in which horrible people try to be nice to other horrible people in the hopes of having sex with other horrible people; meanwhile, many horrible people fart.W....

It is, as you may have guessed, a completely vile little film, the sort of romantic comedy that could only have been produced by cerebrally challenged film producers whose only knowledge of reality comes from tabloid magazines. This is a flick in which horrible people try to be nice to other horrible people in the hopes of having sex with other horrible people; meanwhile, many horrible people fart.W....

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Thursday , June 5 , 2008

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep - Dazzling, Hilarious, and Moving in Equal Measure

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From the author of Babe, the director of My Dog Skip and the digital wizards of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a surprise, a charming family film that skips the sugar coating to create a convincing bond between a boy and a beast. Featuring a kid who discovers the Loch Ness monster and, in caring for it, grows up a little himself, it's so pleasingly old-fashioned....

From the author of Babe, the director of My Dog Skip and the digital wizards of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a surprise, a charming family film that skips the sugar coating to create a convincing bond between a boy and a beast. Featuring a kid who discovers the Loch Ness monster and, in caring for it, grows up a little himself, it's so pleasingly old-fashioned....

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21 - Ultimately Empty and Unsatisfying

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Sometimes, when we seek for something so hard, we lose sight of who we are and what our initial impetus is, and seemingly seize upon what we're desperate for, only to lose it all and more. The story of Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) in 21 is one of searching for something, discovering a means that he thought would get it, losing it all, and gaining the world that he wanted from the very beginning. Con....

Sometimes, when we seek for something so hard, we lose sight of who we are and what our initial impetus is, and seemingly seize upon what we're desperate for, only to lose it all and more. The story of Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess) in 21 is one of searching for something, discovering a means that he thought would get it, losing it all, and gaining the world that he wanted from the very beginning. Con....

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