Bryan Mead

Groundhog Day, Harold Ramis' 1993 film, puts Bill Murray into a world of repetition in order to teach him a few lessons about life. The fact that it takes him so long to figure these lessons out tells...

For most of the movie-going public, Will Ferrell is the wild and crazy funny-man that tends to shed his clothing and act as a moron for laughs. However, not understanding the range of Will Ferrell's ...

Spencer Tracy plays John J. Macreedy, a man from California that takes a train to the small town of Black Rock in 1945. No one has stopped at Black Rock in years. The stranger looks for a hotel room ...

Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez are two of the most original voices in film working today. In 1996 they teamed up to make From Dusk Till Dawn, a wildly inconsistent, but mostly entertaining va...

World renowned film director Werner Herzog is one of the most unique voices in the history of film. His work mainly focuses on obsessed characters with a bit of madness inside of them (some claim tha...

Movies about high school kids are known for being about sex, causing trouble, and drinking beer at parties. Cameron Crowe achieved something with Say Anything... that throws all of those stereotypes ...

I don't think I ever smile more during movies than I do during Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. There is something about them that radiates joy and warmth.

This could have been something worth while, but Hollywood has made yet another error in judgment.

From the opening frame of A Hard Day's Night, the screen pulsates with energy. The Beatle's first foray into the medium of film is exciting, original, and simply takes your breath away.

Does the plot make any sense? Absolutely not, but I'm guessing Ritchie doesn't care to make sense.

Open Your Eyes was directed by Alejandro Amenabar and stars Eduardo Noriega as Cesar and Penelope Cruz as Sofia. It was remade as Vanilla Sky by Cameron Crowe with Tom Cruise.

(Warning: This review may get repetitive, but it will only take a few minutes to read. Take the time to read it, because the movie will get repetitive and it won't be over so quickly.)

This essay will look at a few different "peplum" films and show how they fit along side the other "body genres" by dissecting the structures of perversion and fantasy apparent throughout the genre.

Teresa may actually seem to help the doctor out of his hard situations, including debt, three female callers, and the struggle for a decent job, but it is the doctor who ultimately ends both of their ...

For the first six years, which brought about ten films, Bergman struggled to find both critical praise and an audience that would cement him as one of the world's best directors.

The films of Buster Keaton seem to be very similar on the surface. He starts off with a boy wanted the attention of a girl, only to have an obstacle appear that forces the boy to overcome the problem...

Although born over forty years after Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Sidney Lumet, and Paul Mazursky, Braff's film deals with some similar Jewish motifs.

The planet Neopolitan has been around for seventy five billion years and has never once been involved with war.

Marcus Neverhart, formerly of the great 60s band Toga Titan's, was a mysterious man while living and never really told his side of the much publicized breakup of the band.

After many years of service to the community, animals breathe their last and ascend into animal heaven. I, Bartleby, am the gatekeeper at the animal heaven and get to hear the many fascinating storie...

William Harris and George Burkowitz were born on the same day, in the same hospital, and at the same time. Remarkably, the same doctor delivered them.

Do you ever walk downstairs in the morning to find your favorite cereal box in the pantry, only to realize that crumbs remain? This happens to me often.

There are very few movies that can successfully keep an audiences attention strictly with dialog and even fewer directors who can consistently do it. Paul Thomas Anderson is certainly a director who ...

Within certain jobs there is a line that needs to be tip-toed in order to keep things running smoothly. Broadcast News is about straddling that line.

Unlike most directors who use violence frequently, Scorsese keeps a realistic approach, never allowing the violence to overshadow the meanings and consequences that come with it

Clint Eastwood becomes a savior figure for the town of San Miguel, ridding the town of evil.

Sydney Pollack's film The Way We Were uses similar elements of social justice as films by Sidney Lumet. This justice can also be seen as particularly Jewish.

How Ingmar Bergman's film Winter Light tries to depict God's silence, but ends up depicting Man's inability to see God.

Through the use of parody, Brooks is able to comment on genre films while staying within the limits of the genre. The films also adds other elements of Jewish humor such as show business, the "outsid...

Neorealist films seem to focus mainly on lack and try to show that no matter what, substance and fulfillment are never achieved.

Sofia Coppola's second feature film, Lost in Translation, uses the objects in the frame to bring a certain connection that transcends words, and show that the words would only get lost in translation.

How Jimmy Stewart is Immasculated in the Hitchcock Classic

Studying both the "drifter" character and the town he enters will show the ideological differences between Western films of America and Italy.

From the first time we meet Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, we know that he is full of innocence man who would do anything for his country.