Articles tagged "alan tudyk"

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Death at a Funeral

by Erik Hinton

[13.Mar.08] :. An everyman nucleus surrounded by idiosyncratic grotesques, grounded in a simple plot of the everyman reconciling the irrationality surrounding him, tangential and irrelevant comedic asides.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 3 - The New Networks

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Oct.07] :. It would never work... no one challenged the reigning broadcast junta and survived. No surprise then that the upstarts snuck in and changed the face of TV forever.

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Film Review

Death at a Funeral

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Aug.07] :. Bodies show up everywhere they shouldn't, making public what usually remains repressed: death, defecation, desire.

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Film DVD Review

Serenity (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Feb.06] :. 'He's homemade,' Joss Whedon says of Mal. 'And he's kind of a schmo a lot of the time.'"

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Film Review

Serenity (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Sep.05] :. It's not hard to tell where Serenity's moral druthers lie: much like Whedon's Scoobies, the crew here is an enthusiastic, energetic, and sometimes ornery bunch.

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TV Review

Firefly

by Todd R. Ramlow

[23.Sep.02] :. Firefly is more complicated in its framing story and moral dimensions than the usual sci-fi or Western fare.

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A Knight’s Tale (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

They hold this discussion against the backdrop of a couple of dead bodies, one hanged and still dangling, the other in a cage suspended from the same scaffolding. The meaning is clear: life (and death) in this time and place kind of sucks if you're not of 'noble birth.'"