Cinema Therapy Review

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Gratuitous Violence in Film

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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

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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 […]

Homeland: The Series

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Claire Danes’s performance as an off-the-rails federal agent may be the best thing about Homeland, but it’s certainly not the only thing to admire about a show that’s the visual equivalent of a page-turner. The focus here is on the specter of domestic terrorism. When Marine Sgt. Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), missing and presumed dead […]

Obsession

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This is a long overlooked movie with a young John Lithgow and Genvieve Bujold and Cliff Robertson. The music is chilling and the scenes of Italy and New Orleans add to the suspense. In 1959, Michael Courtland (Robertson), a New Orleans real estate developer, has his life shattered when his wife Elizabeth (Bujold) and young […]