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Author :: Sam Vaknin  |
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| Article Title :: Titanic, or A Moral Deliberation |
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| The film "Titanic" is riddled with moral dilemmas. In one of the scenes, the owner of Star Line, the shipping company that owned the now-sinking Unsinkable, leaps into a lowered life-boat. The tortured expression on his face demonstrates that even he experiences more than unease at his own conduct: prior to the disaster, he instructed the captain to break the trans-Atlantic speed record. His hubris proves fatal to the vessel. Moreover, only women and children were allowed by the officers in charge into the lifeboats.
But the ship's owner was not the only one to breach common decency and ethics.
The boats could accommodate only to half the number of those on board a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Ryan Fyfe |
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| Article Title :: Vertigo - a masterpiece? |
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| Vertigo, a 1958 suspense film, was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Many people beleive that this film is Hitchcock's masterpiece.
The movie tells the story of a detective in San Francisco. The detectives name is Scottie who is played by James Stewart. Scottie leaves the police force after a fellow policeman falls and dies while the two were chasing a criminal across rooftops in downtown San Francisco. Unemployed at the time an old friend hires Scottie for his services to his wife Madeleine who is played by Kim Novak. His friend, Gavin Elster, claims that Madeleine often is found staring off into space and will even occasionally drive to an unkown point and than later have no memor (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Mitchell Medford |
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| Article Title :: Understanding Surround Sound Systems |
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| Surround sound is the concept of expanding the spatial imaging of audio playback from 1 dimension (mono/Left-Right) to two or three dimensions. It is often employed for a more realistic audio environment, actively implemented in cinema sound systems, technical theatre, home entertainment, video arcades, computer gaming, and a growing number of other applications. Many popular surround sound formats have evolved over the years. They include ambisonics, quadraphonic, Dolby 5.1 Surround sound, DTS, and MP3 Surround.
Surround sound can be created using several methods. The simplest to understand uses several speakers around the listener to play audio coming from different directions (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Amy White |
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| Article Title :: MOVIE REVIEW – THE BIG BLIND |
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| The writer/director of this film would only be noticed by the public is he went broke and knocked over a liquor store. The cast is the “Blacksheep squadron” of the movie world. An A list of nobodies. The most notable actress in this effort also appeared in obscure reality television show, “Joe Schmo”. If you were only given this information about the film, a logical conclusion is that the movie should only be aired on “Mystery Science Theater 3000” or late at night when nobody is awake, or sober. Oddly enough though, this film works.
What most people do not know about writer/director, David James, is that he is, in the truest sense of the word, a real rou (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Sam Vaknin |
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| Article Title :: The Truman Show |
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| "The Truman Show" is a profoundly disturbing movie. On the surface, it deals with the worn out issue of the intermingling of life and the media.
Examples for such incestuous relationships abound:
Ronald Reagan, the cinematic president was also a presidential movie star. In another movie ("The Philadelphia Experiment") a defrosted Rip Van Winkle exclaims upon seeing Reagan on television (40 years after his forced hibernation started): "I know this guy, he used to play Cowboys in the movies".
Candid cameras monitor the lives of webmasters (website owners) almost 24 hours a day. The resulting images are continuously posted on the Web and are available to a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Mitchell Medford |
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| Article Title :: TiVo: A Revolution in Digital Video Recording |
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| The latest advancement in the recording technology has transcended all boundaries and has brought convenience to your doorstep. The top American channels can be accessed and viewed at your leisure with the TIVO or the Digital Video Recorder.
A common term that is synonymous with TIVO is “personal video recorder” (PVR). The latter is a consumer video device which has the ability to capture television programming and store it on an internal hard drive to be viewed at anytime in the future.
No longer do you have to schedule your plans around your favorite television program. Let your favorite shows and programs be watched anytime and watched over and over again (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Sciencebase |
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| Article Title :: Molecular Models at the Movies |
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| Models at the Movies
Indigo® Instruments isn't only about supplying scientific kit to schools technicians, homeschoolers and students doing their science fair project. No! A fair few molecular models and countless other items have made their way to Hollywood, got themselves on the small screen and featured in some offbeat web experiments.
VP Stephan Logan explains how Rob Cohen's 2005 movie "Stealth" is described on the Internet Movie Database as "Surprisingly enjoyable". Why? Because a plot line based on three pilots deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program struggling to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates WWIII so (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Jack Palone |
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| Article Title :: They Shoot Horses - Horses In Motion Pictures |
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| Notwithstanding Rin Can Tin can and The Thin Man series' Asta, the positron emission tomography film achieved its canine calvary in the Lassie movies. Its feline apotheosis came in That Darn Computerized tomography. (1965) and its porcine pinnacle in Babe (1995). The finest PET film of wholly, meanwhile, is Ken Loach's Kes (1969), the story of a working-class English youth whose miserable existence is briefly illuminated when he heals and trains a wounded falcon. The movie theater's about enduring pets, though, ar neither flesh and blood nor animatronic. In the Hanna-Barbera cartoons executive-produced by Fred Quimby at MGM 'tween 1940 and 1957, the brutal domestic skirmishes of Turkey cock (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Alice Flegel - |
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| Article Title :: Hostel Movie Review |
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| Two American backpackers in Amsterdam, Josh (Derek Richardson) and Paxton (Jay Hernandez), along with their Icelandic friend, Oli are lured into a hostel Slovakia where they are told the woman are eagar to pleasure American men. They're travelling Europe for a last trip before they graduate from college, so there are no holds barred when it comes to sex, drugs and anything else that comes their way. Once they reach Slovaki, Josh and "Pax" hook up with 2 very accommodating and very beautiful women, Natalya and Svetlana, and things go a bit weird.
This was definitely a whirlwind 1 hour and 35 minutes. Any longer and things may have gone very, very wrong and very, very long. I went (read full article) |
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| Category :: Movies Articles |
Author :: Pedro Pellicola |
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| Article Title :: Download Movies From The Internet |
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| No matter what type of movie you enjoy - comedy, drama,
horror, romance, science fiction, or independent film -
movies are a great source of entertainment for you and
your family. A great movie can bring out all types of
emotions - laughter, sorrow, thoughtfulness - and can
even make us think about our own lives.There are a lot of people who rate watching movies as one
of their favorite activities, especially if their favorite
actor is featured in the film. In fact, with the advent of
video and DVD, many people watch their favorite films over
and over again. For many, a favorite movie can be a great
source of comfort and joy and something they can share with
friends and family. (read full article) |
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