Canada Movie Reviews Samples For Students

This title of the film is “How to Make Kimchi: according to my Kun Umma”. It is a short documentary directed by Samuel Kiehoon Lee. It was shown at the UIC multi-cultural film festival. The film was shot with the help of The Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council and NFB Filmmaker Assistance Program. The main character in the film is the director’s aunt Bong Ja Lee.
The film was shot in 2003 and it won the Jury Award for the Best Documentary Short at the San Diego Asian Film Festival in 2003. The film was ...

Death by Moonlight:Bomber Command is a documentary directed by Brian Mckenna and released in 1992. It is about Canadian bombers who were sent to Britain to help the British Forces, RAF in their fight against Hitler and Nazis in the World War 2. At first they were targeting industrial and military targets but eventually they also bombed households and civilians. Not all of them were aware of the targets.
Some 50.000 Canadians came to bomb Germany. They had a base in Yorkshire, where people can still see the house where they wrote graffiti, such as their names, for remembrance. Most ...

Roger Spottiswoode’s film And the Band Played On, based on the book of the same name by Randy Shilts, is a tremendous drama that touches on many distinct issues that were present at the time of the discovery of the AIDS virus, as well as the curious resistance medical and disease experts experienced from affected populations, the government and even other medical professionals. Chiefly following a team of researchers at the CDC, led by Don Francis (Matthew Modine) and William Darrow (Richard Masur), the film follows the attempts of this organization and others to track the spread of the disease, ...

Waiting for “Superman”

Waiting for “Superman” is a documentary film produced by Lesley Chilcott and directed by Davis Guggenheim. This documentary produced in 2010 analyzes the shortcomings of the American public school system by following the struggles of several students and their families to gain access into a charter school (Guggenheim, 2012). It features students from across America that has been negatively affected by the public school system. These students together with their families have numerous hardships to overcome yet show a strong determination to succeed and an attitude of never giving up (Spina, 2011). The producer says that the problem lies with the public schools ...

The point of many movies lies in the fact of illustrating social problems. Global and domestic issues, issues of consciousness and symbolism – all of those aspects are shown in the three movies, which will be discussed in this paper. Avant-garde filmmakers have produced tons of works and it is essential to reveal at least some of them.
Powerful experiments with theatrical forms are introduced by Robert Lepage in his masterpiece, called “Le Confessionnal”. He is known as a director of game cinema and released four pictures during eight years in different countries of the world. His unique film "Confessional" ...

Movie Review – Argo

Ben Affleck’s 2012 film Argo tells the tale of a CIA operation to extract a group of American diplomats from war-torn Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979, using the guise of a fake science-fiction film to sneak them out as part of a film crew. In the film, Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) works with Hollywood producer Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and makeup artist John Chambers (John Goodman) to set up a fake sci-fi film called Argo as an excuse to escort the six diplomats in Iran, who have been in hiding at the Canadian embassy after the US embassy was ...

The American sugar market has many types of sweeteners but sugar is the most commonly used. Sugarcane and sugar beets are the plants that produce the amounts of sugar that can meet the demands of the economy. The Farm Bill is a sugar policy that seeks to give sugar producers economic support via domestic market controls, tariff-rate quotas and preferential loan agreements. This means that the government has a say in the sugar industry pricing mechanisms.
Through the Farm Bill the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) guarantees sugar producers a minimum price despite the prevailing market conditions. This is the ...

The film is about the relationship between Andrew and Margaret .Margaret is the boss to Andrew in the organization. She was very strict in her position of management in the organization. Margaret could not entertain any nonsense at the place of job. She was very harsh in relation to the issues of leadership. The employees feared her in the organization. Margaret used her position of power to convince and push the young assistant called Andrew to marry. Margaret left her visa to expire risking her chances of deportation back to Canada. She used her position and influence in the ...

System of Justice

The “system of justice” that was shown in the film “In the Name of the Father” was tainted with corruption and dishonesty. The movie starts with the false conviction of four individuals for the bombing in Guildford causing the death of one civilian and four British soldiers. These four innocent people were later known as the “Guildford Four”. The movie showed the injustices done to innocent citizens by the present British court system.
The movie depicted the corrupt police investigation after the lawyer in the person of Gareth Peirce accidentally discovered important police files that were being kept ...

“Waiting For Superman”

About the Film
Waiting for Superman is an award winning documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim. The documentary film is about the current state of the United States public school system and the realities that both families and their children are facing amidst the failing standards of the country’s education system. The film follows the educational ambition of five children in which four are studying in a public school while the other one is enrolled in a parochial school. All of the five children share the same dream of going to college. However, that goal is far from being ...

I think that the film provides a well-detailed and comprehensive analysis of the causes of the global financial crisis. Ferguson says that at a figure of $20 trillion, the financial crisis almost lead to another great depression akin to the 1929 depression. There is a global connection to the crisis that spans geography. The crisis extends from the United States, China, France, Singapore, Iceland and England. Ferguson uses research from politicians, journalists, scholars and financial insiders to present a mind-blowing assessment of the financial crisis. Ferguson’s documentary the Inside Job is an accurate depiction of the causes of the financial meltdown that ...

Movie Review of Incident at Oglala

Interesting drum beat, like the beating of a heart. Multiple people telling the story

leading up to the shootings. “The agents committed suicide when they went in there after

Jimmy Eagle.” Indians are saying they do not understand why the Fed agents would

surround a place where there were families, children, homes, and start firing. Some say

they were fired upon first by the agents, some say the agents came into the Jumping Bull

compound and were immediately fired upon. FBI spokes person said that Agent

Williams put up his hand in front of his face and was shot through his ...

The movie tells the story of the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Oglala in 1975. It focuses on the trial of the three main suspects. Two of them were acquitted on trial while one was convicted of murder. The main focus of the movie is the trial of Leonard Peltier extradited from Canada to face the murder trial and subsequently convicted of the charge. The movie highlights several controversial issues. The primary issue is the race question and the secondary issue is the trial of what the producers believe is an innocent man. These two ...