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Film Review

Crossing Over

by Renee Scolaro Mora

[6.Mar.09] :. In its stories of immigration, Crossing Over raises questions: how far are we willing to bend the rules to get what we desire? What will we risk to uphold our own values?

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Film DVD Review

I Am Legend: Ultimate Collector’s Edition

by Andrew Winistorfer

[9.Dec.08] :. This is as special as “special edition” gets, but it’s a set for a movie not worthy of the adoration.

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Film Review

Blindness

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Oct.08] :. If its political metaphor is plain, the aesthetic allusions are more intriguing, as Blindness works to show what can't be shown, to find a visual language for what's not visual.

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Column: The Screener

In the Land of the Blind

by Chris Barsanti

[3.Oct.08] :. Fernando Meirelles’ adaptation of Jose Saramago’s Blindness fails because the source material doesn’t easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth.

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Short Ends and Leader

Fable Feels ‘Blind’ to its Own Illogic

by Bill Gibron

[2.Oct.08] :. Before Star Wars, serious science fiction survived on the allegorical. Take a typical situation, instill it with some sort of out of this world premise, and watch as humanity races toward its...

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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: September 2008

by Bill Gibron

[9.Sep.08] :. From wars both past and present to a number of nail-biting thrillers, September is sizing up as a potentially profitable one.

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Redbelt

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. In Redbelt, as ever in David Mamet's universe, the fight is the issue.

 

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

 

I Am Obama: The American Imagination and the New Black Hero

by Derik Smith

[25.Feb.08] :. If Americans are willing to believe that the former Fresh Prince of West Philly can save the world all by himself, then there is a possibility that a black man may be the next president of the United States.

 

He may no longer be fresh, but Will Smith remains a prince

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[17.Dec.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Back in the early 1990s, just as Will Smith was making the transition from rapper to television star with “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” he presented his...

 

I Am Legend

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Dec.07] :. The clash with Alpha Male upturns the film's preceding focus on a Neville-only present.