Adam Karabel
I'm a recently graduated film student who has been writing about film his entire life. Strong interest in pursuing written work regarding film.
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AK's Movie Reviews: Gran TorinoIf Gran Torino is indeed Clint Eastwood's last film as he claims it is, then it is a simultaneously fitting yet disappointing to his great career. -
Academy Award Nominee ReactionsReactions to the nominees of the 6 major categories in the 2006 Academy Awards...
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Academy Award Nominee PredictionsPredictions of who will be nominated for the Academy Awards....
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AK's Movie Reviews: DreamgirlsA review of Hollywood's new musical Blockbuster...
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2007 Golden Globe Nominee Reactions (Part II)Completing my rundown of the 2007 Golden Globe Award nominees...
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2007 Golden Globe Nominee Reactions (Part I)Reactions to the first half of the 2007 Golden Globe nominees in the Motion Picture category...
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The 2007 Academy Awards Part 5: Best Supporting Actor HopefulsA rundown of the top contenders to be nominated for best supporting actor at the 2007 Academy Awards....
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2007 Academy Awards Column Part IV: Best Actress HopefulsA rundown of the top 10 contenders for Best Actress Oscar nominations this year....
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Robert Altman: In MemoriamA tribute to the late, great director Robert Altman who passed away at age 81 this week.....
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The 2007 Academy Awards Part 3: Best Actor HopefulsHere are my top 10 candidates for Best Actor for 2006:
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Night of the Living Dead: It's Not Like Just a Wind That's Passing ThroughIn his article Night of the Living Dead: It's Not like Just a Wind that's Passing Through" R.H.W. Dillard talks about the film Night of the Living Dead
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The Incredible Shrinking Man: Genre Vs Iconography in Classic FilmAnalysis of the use of Iconography in cult classic film The Incredible Shrinking Man....
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Tithecott's Serial Killer Vs Henry: Portrait of a Serial KillerComparison of journalist Richard Tithecott's description of serial killers to the cult film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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Citizen Vince McMahonA comparison of the life of wrestling promoter Vince McMahon to the legendary film Citizen Kane....
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The 2007 Academy Awards Part 2: Best Director HopefulsThe second part of my series on the 2007 Oscars details the top candidates to be nominated for Best Director.....
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The 2007 Academy Awards Part 1: Best Picture HopefulsMy goal here is to produce a series of columns giving thoughts, predictions, commentary and information on the movie awards season leading up to the Academy Awards
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Something's Gotta Give: Jack Nicholson and Diane KeatonIt must be a very difficult task to make a romantic comedy with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton in the leading roles.....
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Influences of Citizen Kane in Velvet GoldmineDetails the influences of the famous film Citizen Kane in Todd Hayne's Indie Cult classic Velvet Goldmine...
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The Writings of the Hagakure and How They Relate to the Films The Last Samurai and The Seven SamuraiIn Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai it states, "No Matter if the enemy has thousands of men, there is fulfillment in simply standing them off and being determined to cut them all down."
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Mean Streets to Goodfellas: An Auteurs Vision of the MafiaMartin Scorsese's mafia films Mean Streets and Goodfellas show a distinct change in style for a director who made similar films in different eras of his life.
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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer: Documentary on Famous Female Serial KillerThe film Aileen Wuornos: the Selling of a Serial Killer tries to take the position that while Wuornos was indeed a killer she was wronged in many ways throughout her life
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Reflections in Art: From Agee to ChaplinThe work of Charlie Chaplin, particularly in regards to his character "The Tramp" is highly reflective of the work of James Agee.
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Jean Luc Godard's Breathless: Defining the French New WaveThe French New Wave (FNW) style of filmmaking that reached its height during the late 1950's and early 1960's
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AK's Movie Reviews: The Matrix RevolutionsThe Matrix Revolutions is first and foremost an amazing action film and a visual spectacular the likes of which I haven't seen before.
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The Most Despicable Movie Character Ever: Ruminations on American Pie's Steve StifflerI had the misfortune of going to see the third and (allegedly) last installment of the American Pie films this evening.
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AK's Movie Reviews: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the KingA startling realization struck me about halfway through The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King; there was only one character in the film whose fate I cared about.
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AK's Movie Reviews: SyrianaI quote another critic to begin my review of Syriana because I found myself thinking about these words as I watched the film. Initially, this is a very confusing movie.
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AK's Movie Reviews: The Lion, the Witch and the WardrobeYou know what this film lacks? Awe. Wonder. Grandeur. The sense that the characters are amazed or even amused by the fact that they have entered a fantasy world.
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AK's Movie Reviews: James Mangold's Walk the Line Chronicles the Life of Johnny CashJames Mangold's Walk the Line contains some truly wonderful music in it, and some really wonderful performances behind that music.
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Samurai in American Camp CinemaThe Samurai film has existed as a successful and marketable genre for the last fifty years.
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Feminine Masculinity: The Rise of Women in Action FilmsIt has become a trend in cinema for female actresses to take on roles that used to be typically suited for men.
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Sister Souljah as a Prophet: The Backstory of the Writer of The Coldest WinterTo understand the impact of Sister Souljah's novel The Coldest Winter Ever it helps to understand the back story of Sister Souljah herself.
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Gothic Isolationism in The ShiningIn his essay "Inconsolable Darkness" John Gianvito writes: "It (Gothic) a venturing into a world created by ones own fears and desires, in a state of enthrallment both seductive and destructive (47)"
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Garden State: A Review of the Indy/Cult FavoriteZach Braff's Garden State uses quirkiness as a way to disguise shallowness. The film is SO quirky and strives so hard to be quirky that it almost succeeds in distracting you from how dry and shallow it really is.
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Nightmare Aesthetics in David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Murder in a Small Town:The television series, Twin Peaks, creates a sense of nightmare by introducing a quaint, small, American town and then stuffing it with a seedy underbelly of sex, drugs, murder, greed and corruption.