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Articles tagged "anthony hopkins" DVD Film ReviewBeowulf (2007)by Jarrett Berman[3.Mar.08] :. Crawling with mermaids and monsters, irony, and gore, Beowulf delivers the goods, without betraying its core narrative. NewsQ&A with ‘Slipstream’ director-star Anthony Hopkinsby Frank Lovece [Newsday (MCT)][1.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—Tony Hopkins—hey, that’s how he introduces himself—was once just one more respected British actor with more cachet than marquee. By the mid-1980s, after a...  DVD Film ReviewBram Stokers Draculaby Adam Besenyodi[5.Oct.07] :. Coppola's take on Bram Stoker's masterpiece is a visual stunning feast worth revisiting in a Collector's Edition that is more than just a time capsule.  Film ReviewFracture (2007)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Apr.07] :. Part police procedural, part courtroom hijinks, and part cunning murder plot, Gregory Hoblit's new movie brings the usual canards.  NewsAnthony Hopkins takes another villainous turn in ‘Fracture’by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)][20.Apr.07] :. Hopkins: "When I tell people that I just learn my lines and that's all there is to it, my wife thinks that I'm putting down the craft of acting."  News‘Fracture’: Cunning, Arrogant, Sinisterby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][20.Apr.07] :. Ted is all wit, charm and ruthlessness. He is Hannibal Lecter without the menu, a creep we can love. Bobby (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Apr.07] :. As reporter Warren Wilson remembers, "That would have been less of an impact on me, had I been shot [as he nearly was], than Kennedy being killed, stopped, in a moment in America's history, when we needed him and his advocacy more than ever before." Proof (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[17.Feb.06] :. As John Madden says, the film's central issue is 'validation', in emotional and familial, as well as mathematical and metaphorical, frameworks. Proof (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Sep.05] :. And yet, for all the potential nuance in this knotting, the film leaves the sisters caught up in a familiar conflict. Alexander: Director’s Cut (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Aug.05] :. Oliver Stone calls his Alexander 'a new genre, a masculine-feminine action figure,' more like Monty Clift and James Dean than Russell Crowe. The Good Father (1985)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jul.05] :. Within minutes of its start, Mike Newell's The Good Father has thus established Bill's rage. Alexander (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[24.Nov.04] :. Though Olympias is unbeatably charismatic (and plain fun amid all the drearily inclined boys), the film takes a typically Stonian approach to the evil woman. The Human Stain (2003)by Philip Booth[10.Nov.03] :. All of these circumstances amplify the irony of Silk's tragic downfall, stemming from his own Achilles' heel. The Road to Wellville (1994)by John G. Nettles[18.Oct.02] :. Contrary to Kellogg's message, self-denial is ultimately the disease, not the cure. Red Dragon (2002)by Todd R. Ramlow[3.Oct.02] :. What is most politically problematic about Red Dragon is how it furthers the relationship between physical disability and psychopathology. Hearts in Atlantis (2001)by Todd R. RamlowThe nostalgia infusing 'Hearts in Atlantis' often makes the film infuriating, as well as just plain dopey. Hannibal (2001)by Todd R. RamlowAs his immense popularity suggests, there is something about Lecter that appeals to 'us', there appears to be some level on which 'we' all wish we could be a little more like him, which is precisely what the filmmakers are banking on. And this is, in the end, the scariest thing about 'Hannibal' -- its perverse worship of the cannibalistic Doctor. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)by Lucas HilderbrandThe first Mission: Impossible film was an elaborately nonsensical piece of eye candy, little more than an excuse to outfit Tom Cruise in tight black clothes. For the much-delayed and big... Titus (1999)by Cynthia FuchsHere’s how the world might end. Close-up of a boy’s eyes. Long shot of a kitchen table, cluttered with hot dogs, paper bags, toy soldiers, french fries, milk, and ketchup he’s using... |
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