Film Review: Bhaji on the Beach

Ah, The Sandlot. A movie full of fifth and sixth grade boys playing baseball in the Summer. If you think it sounds boring, you're wrong. This is an excellent movie. It starts with a boy, named Scotty (Tom Guiry) who needs friends. He needed friends so bad that his mom was even concerned about him being cooped up in the house for a quarter of the summer. One day, he wanders to a baseball field and his want to have friends and be a part of something comes true. He even got a nickname, "Smalls". The boys did everything together, even got into and out of trouble together. But the number one important thing all nine of the boys did, was meet at the baseball field every single day.

Jesminder Bhamra, like the director, is British-Asian. Just like Director Chadha had refused to take traditional Punjabi dancing lessons and watch Bollywood films as a child, Jesminder unintentionally rebels when trying to integrate cultures. Jesminder’s traditional Sikh parents want her to be ‘good’ by completing university and marrying an Indian man. However, due to local

The movie I choose was Teen Beach Movie. The four main characters are Brady (Ross Lynch), MacKenzie (Mia Mitchell), Lela (Grace Phipps) and Tanner (Garrett Clayton) who is the funniest character in the movie. Brady and McKenzie were surfing, and then a storm appeared out of nowhere. A massive wave magically transported them to inside a classic 1960s beach party, on the set of a movie musical called Wet Side Story where surfers and bikers are rivals. They all find romance when they help put the movie back on track.

“Hollywood usually ends up swallowing people and eating them alive”, are some of the beginning words in the National Geographic docu-series Drugs Inc... The documentary is rightly names “Hollywood high” because of its raw footage. This film is a chilling depiction of drugs and Hollywood. Its uncut material shows the reality of how drugs can affect people of every walk of life. A person doesn’t have to be rich or poor to become drug dependent. The film goes on to say how “fame hungry wannabes” and the “panhandling homeless” are two of the main populations to be affected by Hollywood’s thriving drug trade. Some of the other populations affected by Hollywood’s thriving drug trade are those who want to “stay up” and “be thin”. This film is not only about the populations affected by the thriving Hollywood drug trade but also the drug dealers and doctors who provide the drugs to that population.

“To this day,” said Howard Garrett an Orcinus orca researcher in the film Blackfish directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, “there has been no record of any orca doing any harm to a human in the wild.” Many Orcinus orcas also known as orcas, have been in captivity for more than twenty years, according to Blackfish, and there have been at least seventy incidents where trainers have been attacked. The investigation of orcas in captivity did not begin until one of the orcas, named Tilikum, killed a trainer. Although orcas in captivity may receive veterinary care, living in a confined space affects their health, and defies their right to freedom. This issue has grown and soon will be addressed because of Congressman Adam Schiff who will introduce a bill to save orcas from captivity. SeaWorld should discontinue having orcas in captivity because not only are they dangerous to the people working with them, but also being in captivity can cause them health issues, and takes away their natural given freedom.

In the second chapter of his book, Childhood Indians: Television, film and sustaining the White (sub)conscience, Raul Chavez describes the common notion of modern racism in America as something that is invisible and overlooked. Chavez discusses the effects of racist thinking as perpetuated by a collective denial of its existence in present society. The continuations of racism in modern America is, unfortunately, upheld by ignoring that it is still happening. The film The Exiles by Kent Mackenzie offers a way to counteract the denial and ignorance of continued racial thinking in modern society in a way that escapes common racial stereotypes.

Curiosity is a form of bravery. Rikki Tikki was a great fighting mongoose with much curiosity and bravery. With the help of his friends, he fights away ferocious predators. Rikki Tikki Tavi is written by Rudyard Kipling. The Rikki Tikki Tavi story is about how one little mongoose saves a whole family and their house. In addition, both of these story’s characters, settings, and details are different and alike. The short story and video are being compared, as they have many similarities and differences. Also, the story and video had many similarities, and not as much difference. The movie was kept very similar to the book. The Rikki Tikki Tavi story and movie had many similarities and differences such as the characters, settings, and details about the story itself.

To this day,” said Howard Garrett an Orcinus orca researcher in the film Blackfish directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, “there has been no record of any orca doing any harm to a human in the wild.” Many Orcinus orcas also known as orcas, have been in captivity for more than twenty years, according to Blackfish, and there have been at least seventy incidents where trainers have been attacked since. The investigation of orcas in captivity did not begin until one of the orcas killed a trainer. Although orcas in captivity may receive veterinarian care, living in captivity affects their health, and defies their right to freedom. Soon, orcas will no longer have to worry about life in captivity because in California, Congressman Adam Schiff will introduce a bill to save orcas from captivity. SeaWorld should be shut down because not only are the Orcinus orcas who are held captive dangerous to the people working with them, but being in captivity can cause them poor health, and it defies them of their freedom.

In this book and the movie Jumanji the tone is gleeful. Because in the end they were safe. In the end the dangers went away and they were happy.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a story about a fight between the most feared snake in the garden- a King Cobra, and a mongoose who will not stand for his cruelty in a bungalow in India to protect the freedom of all the animals. An animated movie about the story was filmed and a novella was written to tell the story. There were many differences and similarities between the two stories, such as the food Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ate in the movie versus the novella, him having a war cry and a motto in the book, however, not a war cry, but a motto in the movie, and what Rikki-Tikki did while exploring the house in the book versus in the movie.

Jesminder Bhamra, like the director, is British-Asian. Just like Director Chadha had refused to take traditional Punjabi dancing lessons and watch Bollywood films as a child, Jesminder unintentionally rebels when trying to integrate cultures. Jesminder’s traditional Sikh parents want her to be ‘good’ by completing university and marrying an Indian man. However, due to local

Movies today don’t show a lot of religion elements they are mostly focused on action, sex, romance, or adventurous. Before movies would talk about religions and how they work and also have a story to them. One movie in particular does a great job in portraying Buddhism. This movie is Little Buddha. This movie is both great for teaching and entertainment. Little Buddha doesn’t just entertain but also uplifts people’s spirits and leaves them with positive feelings. The movies does a good job in expressing the religion, it is not related to me because of the different beliefs, but it’s more related to Hindu people, the movie does have a message for the viewers, and it does have a purpose.

This photograph was taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. It was taken during sunset and as the tide had gone out, revealing a wider coastline. The world-famous beach is manmade and since 1951, over 80,000 cubic meters of sand has been imported to replace sand lost through erosion from heavy rainfall, sea swells, wind and tropical storms.

I walked along the beach. As I was walking I could feel the fresh smell of the beach like it was an air freshener but it also smelled that gave me a tingle in my nose. As I kept walking along the beach I could feel the light breeze coming against me. This fresh air felt warm as I felt like I was sleeping in a comfortable bed. I kept walking in the beach, as I did it felt like an escape to all my problems and also my stress. Beach felt like a solution to all my problems and could be open with anything.

The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever, and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload. This place is the ocean.