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...movie is ultimately a celebration of its subject and her choices. Unlike the female leads in Disney’s earlier features, Mulan’s physical being is expressed through training and battle, not in low cut tops and thigh-baring miniskirts. Though some will grumble that the film??s conclusion undercuts its empowering message (the triumphant heroine returns home for marriage and traditional filial piety), Mulan nevertheless represents a clear break from the Snow White archetype of a helpless, male-dependent maiden in distress...
...subtle film. It is, instead, melodrama at its glorious and exuberant best: When the screen isn’t drenched with the torrential rain of monsoon season, it is saturated in a kaleidoscopic array of color. Characters are often familiar stock players of the wedding film genre and the film??s frenetic energy levels are maintained by a joyfully upbeat score that intrudes upon even the most intimate and contemplative of scenes...
Although I haven’t seen the new movie Queen of the Damned yet, I do know that the aforementioned scene has got to happen. After all, it is a vampire movie, isn’t it? Even more telling though, is the film??s soundtrack—you can tell that this film is a hip horror flick, simply by listening to the soundtrack’s first song. Overall, there is nothing listed on the quieter side of nu-metal, so if you are not a fan, then skip this album...
Indeed, the film??s script, the rookie effort of Brandon Camp and Mike Thompson, was not only praised by the critics for its similarities to Shalaman’s script—Variety called it “the best unmade script in Hollywood”—but it also has a similar structure. Dragonfly slowly builds a supernatural mystery, injects moments of suspense and finally provides a twist ending. But everything that Dragonfly does, The Sixth Sense did better, although the former film does have several genuinely suspenseful moments...
...racial issues discussed in Hart’s War represent another of the film??s strong points. In a poignant monologue, one of the accused soldiers discusses how German POWs were allowed in Georgian movie theaters and diners, whereas he himself was not allowed to enter, even while in uniform. The discrepancy between the American quest to end the Nazi racial program and its own discriminatory racial policy in America’s mainland is a harrowing concept that is nicely illustrated in the film...