Dead Poets Society instantly reminds me of Scent of a Woman. The two films are very different, of course, but they both touch upon some common ground: the adolescent struggle against authority and conformity, seeking one’s true self during coming-of-age, and of course an adult character that is wise and unorthodox. However, whereas in Scent of a Woman, Al Pacino’s blind colonel takes center stage, in Dead Poets Society it is the adolescents who are the real stars.
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Mad World
Gary Jules
All around me are familiar faces
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If there ever are films where no introduction is necessary, then Transformers would surely be one of them. Regardless of your age, gender and nationality, you’ve probably heard of it in some way or another. Now, some twenty-odd years after the original sensation took the world by storm, comes the big screen version from who else but Michael Bay.
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Letters From Iwo Jima, together with Flags of Our Fathers, form director Clint Eastwood’s view on one of the most famous battles in the last stages of World War II. While Flags of Our Fathers narrates from the American perspective, and is centrally a dissertation of heroism, Letters From Iwo Jima tells the Japanese defenders’ story, and is an examination of loyalty and courage when facing impossible odds.
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I’ve been lazy lately with my 007 film reviews. I’ve been watching a lot of them, but just haven’t gotten around to sitting down and writing the comments. That does mean the chronological order is sort of broken, with this License to Kill review. Well, whatever.
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