Elizabeth “Liz” Lemon (Tina Fey) is the executive show runner for a late night sketch comedy show called “The Girlie Show”, that stars her close friend and major drama queen Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski). When GE hires a new executive vice president for NBC named Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), he decides to take Liz under […]
Archives for November 2017
Suspenseful Movies in Cinema Therapy
Here is my updated list of the 10 most suspenseful movies of all time. While the term “suspenseful movie” is somewhat subjective, I focused on three main criteria: Is the movie so suspenseful that it could change someone’s behavior? Does the movie produce pleasurable excitement and anticipation regarding an outcome? Does the movie produce the […]
Seven
Seven is the most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal-maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs. The film is based on an idea that’s both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer (Kevin Spacey) forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully […]
Cinema as Therapy: Grief and Transformational Film
Loss is an inescapable reality of life, and individuals need to develop a capacity to grieve in order to mature and live life to the full. Yet most western movie audiences live in cultures that do not value this necessary process and filmgoers finding themselves deeply moved by a particular film are often left wondering […]