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Articles tagged "alan rickman" DVD Film ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Jack Patrick Rodgers[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years.  DVD Film Review FeatureThe Perfect Lean, Mean, Macho Machineby Marco Lanzagorta[26.Mar.08] :. The Die Hard series is a true rollercoaster of visual excesses guaranteed to raise the viewer’s adrenaline levels – while invoking intriguing ideological and cultural subtexts that deal with race, gender, masculinity, and social anxieties.  NewsAlan Rickman can be a saint, but sometimes evil becomes himby Robert W. Butler [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][4.Jan.08] :. Alan Rickman isn’t a bad guy. He just often plays one. Bad guys like Gruber in “Die Hard,” Marston in “Quigly Down Under” and the Sheriff of Nottingham in “Robin... PopMatters Pick Film ReviewSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetby Cynthia Fuchs[21.Dec.07] :. Sweeney Todd is delirious with blood and violence: bright red spurting from the barber's expert slashes, necks snapping and bodies crumpling.  Film ReviewSnow Cake (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.May.07] :. Alex first appears in Snow Cake aboard a plane, embodying an obvious contradiction, in motion and still at the same time.  DVD Film ReviewThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Oct.05] :. For all its possibilities -- and its crazily pleasant animations --the movie takes a more or less conventional narrative shape. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.05] :. Ford Prefect (Mos Def) wanders into the film of Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a little late, and in no hurry. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[3.Jun.04] :. Director Alfonso Cuarón brings to the franchise a newly inventive sensibility, and, most important, an appreciation for smart cuts and brevity, especially the requisite Quidditch scene, mercifully short, dark, and stormy. Love Actually (2003)by Mary Colgan[13.Nov.03] :. On occasion, the film allows a jaded sensibility to worm its way into this otherwise picturesque world. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Nov.02] :. The cruelest of Malfoy's bigotries is directed against lovely, diligent Hermoine. Blow Dry (2001)by Todd R. RamlowThe marketing for Blow Dry makes much of the fact that the film is based on a script by the same writer who brought us The Full Monty. Undoubtedly, this strategy hopes to cash in on the... Galaxy Quest (1999)by Mike WardRobert Zemeckis's Contact (1997) is without a doubt the finest movie in recent memory to deal with the question of what might be happening to all those rays of media dreck - TV shows, radio programs, and the like - we've been beaming higgledy-piggledy through the cosmos for the last century. Galaxy Quest is almost as certainly the second-finest such recent film, but come to think of it, I can't really recall a third, offhand, so I suppose this might constitute a less-than-ringing endorsement. Galaxy Quest (1999)by Jonathan BellerIn the guise of a spoof of Star Trek, Dean Parisot's cheesy and pleasurable Galaxy Quest delves deeply into the social relation known as fandom. What, the film seems to ask, is a fan?" |
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