One of the questions about Cinema Therapy is whether there is any therapeutic value in violence. The Urban Dictionary defines gratuitous violence as violence for the sake of being violent, usually associated with low budget movies and cult videogames. It is also often without need, and often unrealistic. It seems that almost any genre of […]
2012 Top 10 Cinema Therapy Films
1. Beasts of the Southern Wild – Beasts of the Southern Wild is a fantasy drama film directed by Benh Zeitlin and written by Zeitlin and Lucy Alibar from Alibar’s one-act play Juicy and Delicious. Faced with her hot-tempered father’s fading health and flooding in her ramshackled bayou community, a six-year-old girl struggles to be […]
The Pelican Brief
After two Supreme Court justices are assassinated by a professional assassin (Stanley Tucci), law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) suspects the real motive might be greed, not politics. Based on this belief, she writes a legal brief and shows it to her law professor and lover Thomas Callahan (Sam Shepard). He passes a copy of […]
The Closer: The Series
An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country’s leading investigators: These are just a few of the traits exhibited by Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective […]
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