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Articles tagged "ali suliman" NewsAudiences turn a deaf ear to preachy Hollywood filmsby Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][31.Oct.08] :. Used to be, going to the movies was a way to escape the bustle and stress of the real world for a couple of hours. Lately, the multiplex has become a more tumultuous place. Choose the wrong picture,...  Film ReviewBody of Liesby Cynthia Fuchs[10.Oct.08] :. Body of Lies grants Ferris the usual moral rightness -- even as he's committing questionable acts, he means well.  Short Ends and LeaderDiCaprio Only Reason ‘Lies’ Succeedsby Bill Gibron[9.Oct.08] :. Ridley Scott used to make daring, original movies. No matter the subject matter - outer space alien invasion, magical sword and sorcery adventure, revisionist Roman peplum - he’d place his...  The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview FeatureTalk, Talk, Talk: October 2008by Bill Gibron[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview  NewsToday’s foreign wars are Hollywood hellby Lewis Beale [Newsday (MCT)][9.Nov.07] :. This is not your grandfather’s war. This war is unpopular and controversial, seemingly endless. But that hasn’t stopped Hollywood from releasing a series of films about Iraq and its evil...  NewsA new script for Hollywood war moviesby Carrie Rickey [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)][11.Oct.07] :. Anti-war demonstrators storm the Pentagon in the movie “Across the Universe.” A career soldier protests the Iraq conflict in “In the Valley of Elah.” The tactics of an elite... Hollywood goes to war: Mainstream movies focus on Iraq, terrorismby Cary Darling [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)][1.Oct.07] :. Writer Matthew Michael Carnahan makes a living pounding out movie scripts, where flights of fantasy and retreats from reality are the daily stock in trade. But a couple of autumns back, while... The Kingdomby Cynthia Fuchs[28.Sep.07] :. Boasting charismatic stars and a topical focus on terrorism, the film adds one more cagey detail -- a hint of moral challenge to its own thrills-and-chills violence. Paradise Now (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Mar.06] :. How might efforts to fathom suicide bombers' motives make them too much like their potential victims -- that is, everyone else -- and thus unmake the difference that defines everyone else?" Paradise Now (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Nov.05] :. At the start of the powerful Paradise Now, the bombers are quiet, even stunned at the news that their mission is set for tomorrow. |
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