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Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November - December 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[27.Mar.09] :. On this final day of PopMatters' 1999 overview, awards season hype gives way to pure acting prowess and definitive directorial flair.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

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The Edwardians

by Lara Killian

[3.Feb.09] :. From Rolls to Royce, a famous detective fiction writer, and Anthony Hopkins as you've never seen him, this series showcases colorful and influential individuals of early 20th century Britain.

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Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition

by Bill Gibron

[22.Oct.08] :. Robert Downey Jr. is a significant reason why this 1993 effort is worth revisiting.

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Chaplin: 15th Anniversary Edition

by Bill Gibron

[17.Oct.08] :. Some legends are impossible to capture on film. When an icon inexplicably becomes something to everyone, no matter the era, that personal pliability and universal appeal is as elusive to illustrate...

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The Anton Chekhov Collection

by Jennifer Kelly

[25.Sep.08] :. A superbly acted, exhaustively complete summary of the great Russian’s dramas that provides real depth of insight into the plays and their possibilities.

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Beowulf (2007)

by Jarrett Berman

[3.Mar.08] :. Crawling with mermaids and monsters, irony, and gore, Beowulf delivers the goods, without betraying its core narrative.

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‘Beowulf’ screenwriter says don’t expect `300’ in Viking horns

by Colin Covert [Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)]

[16.Nov.07] :. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—Fantasy author Neil Gaiman automatically turns down offers to rewrite others’ work for the screen, but in the case of “Beowulf,” whose 8th-century author...

Beowulf

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.07] :. Beowulf is the model man, outrageous and arrogant, and so admired far and wide.

Q&A with ‘Slipstream’ director-star Anthony Hopkins

by 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...

Bram Stokers Dracula

by 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.

Ryan’s reel life: In his quietness, Gosling makes noise

by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)]

[26.Apr.07] :. Ryan Gosling has his first Oscar nomination under his belt (for “Half Nelson”), and a very hot thriller now in theaters. But there was a time, long before “Fracture,” before...

Fracture (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.

Anthony 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."

‘Fracture’: Cunning, Arrogant, Sinister

by 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."

Bobby (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Nov.06] :. With Kennedy serving as a symbol for what might have been, Bobby illustrates the problems he identifies.

All The Kings Men (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[22.Sep.06] :. As the designated observer of his friend's decline, not to mention a reporter by vocation, Jack's lack of insight or anticipation also looks a bit silly.

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.

Bad Company (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

Titus (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Here’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...

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

by Lucas Hilderbrand

The 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...

Hannibal (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

As 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.

Hearts in Atlantis (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

The nostalgia infusing 'Hearts in Atlantis' often makes the film infuriating, as well as just plain dopey.