September 15, 2010

BLOG ASSIGNMENT - 9-15-10

Once you have joined this blog, you must make a comment about any movie you would like. 

It could be your favorite movie, something we recently watched in class, or one you have seen recently in a theater. 

Be sure to include the title, director, summary, and why you liked it (or didn't like it).

Ms. McDonnell

September 08, 2010

New Releases - Friday September 10, 2010

The only new release this weekend is Resident Evil: Afterlife

Here is the trailer:

September 02, 2010

Welcome to Ms. McDonnell's Cinema Studies Class!

Each of you are expected to create a gmail account in order to access this blog.
In order to create a gmail account, go to Google.com, and click on the Gmail link.

You need to make four blog comments for each marking period (that means eight total for the full semester!) The comments must be about a movie you have watched recently. You will be graded on 5 items in your blog:

1. Title of film, name of director, and main actor/actress.
2. Short summary of film (no spoilers! Try not to ruin any surprise endings)
3. Your opinion, did you love it? Hate it? Waste of time? Favorite movie ever?
4. One aspect of the film that we discussed or learned in class. For example, we discuss music in films, the purpose, different ways to incorporate music, etc. Therefore, you can blog about the effect of the music in the film, "The background music added even more sadness and grief to the plot of the film."


These were the top movies last week.
1 N Takers SGem $20.5 million

2 N The Last Exorcism 20.3 million

3 1 The Expendables LGF $9 million