Articles tagged "adrian lester"![]() Short Ends and LeaderDoomsday: Unrated (2008)by Bill Gibron[26.Jul.08] :. Some films commit the cardinal cinematic sin of being too smart for their own good. They smugly announce their importance, challenging you to hate them if only to expose your own lack of... ![]() Film DVD ReviewStarting Out in the Eveningby Kate Williams[19.May.08] :. A smart film that is ultimately undone by the director’s preening and self-conscious style. ![]() Film ReviewDoomsdayby Cynthia Fuchs[17.Mar.08] :. If there's a single image worth contemplating in Doomsday, it's Eden's strapping lats and shoulders. ![]() Film ReviewStarting Out in the Eveningby Cynthia Fuchs[27.Nov.07] :. It's an unusual, vaguely intellectual premise for a film, lacing emotional ambitions and betrayals through a literary framework. ![]() Film DVD ReviewThe Day After Tomorrow (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Oct.04] :. Even as it lays down a scary geopolitical scenario and a few partisan gauntlets, The Day After Tomorrow aims to please. ![]() Film ReviewDay After Tomorrow (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.May.04] :. As the 'eye of the storm' speeds across the screen, instantly freezing everything in its path, Jack looks up to see a flag, turned spastically solid in a second. Here it is, the money shot: the emblematic United States, stuck in time, blind to consequences, fixated on its own reckless self-love. Maybe Baby (2000)by Nikki TranterMaybe Baby's sight gags are sometimes hilarious and the story is often engrossing. But the execution falls flat. Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)by Ben VarkentineIn the hands of able actors, Shakespeare's 'taffeta phrases, silken terms, precise, three-piled hyperboles, and spruce affections' are a passport to the land of milk and honey. |
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