Category Archives: Anna Mullen

Review 1: Auteur Approach Ang Lee can be considered an incredibly versatile director—from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to The Hulk  to Brokeback Mountain to Sense and Sensibility. Life of Pi,  after being turned down by director M. Night Shyamalan, became Lee’s twelfth feature film. The versatility of cinematic … Continue reading →

Before watching Dances with Wolves, I read three reviews from Roger Ebert, Peter Travers (Rolling Stone) and Vincent Canby (The New York Times). The links are below. Here are three of my expectations for this film (made in 1990) based … Continue reading →

I hadn’t seen Anne Hathaway in many of her other films, but felt like my impression of her as an actress and as a person was really influenced by the opinions of other people (from friends to critics). Most of … Continue reading →

Instead of going to the theatre this week for our 6th blog assignment, I’m going to talk about one of my all-time favorite epic films, The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise. While most of the protagonist’s journey is not … Continue reading →

Step Outline: Journey to the Center of the Earth 132 minutes    I provide a brief step outline of  a climactic scene towards the conclusion of the 1959 epic film Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on the … Continue reading →

Discussions of realism, classicism, and formalism become a little tricky when we’re talking about fantasy films, or, for that matter, films that switch between fantastic worlds (Skull Island) and our own reality (1920s New York City), as they do in … Continue reading →

It is an interesting choice to set the battle sequence in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe in broad daylight. This pathetic fallacy in a way foreshadows the Narnian victory against the forces of the White Witch. … Continue reading →