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Acting legend Julie Andrews returns in Shrek the Third

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[18.May.07] :. LOS ANGELES—PUBLICIST: “You’re not going to write that you watched the Kentucky Derby in Julie Andrews’ bedroom, are you?” JOURNALIST: “I wouldn’t do...

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Film Review

Shrek the Third (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[18.May.07] :. Nothing looks to be ongoing so much as Shrek, except maybe the other sequel machines huffing and puffing this summer.

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The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview Feature

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.07] :. Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

The PopMatters Summer 2007 Movie Preview

 

Film Review

Take the Lead (2006)

by Lesley Trites

[7.Apr.06] :. There's something disturbing about the recent proliferation of films with this 'save the inner city kids' motif.

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Film Review

The Legend of Zorro (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Oct.05] :. This opening action is acrobatic, the explosions thrilling, and the sword-fighting is sensationally swooshy.

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Film Review

Shrek 2 (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.May.04] :. Cute, confident, and utterly stylish in his feathered hat, Puss confronts Shrek and Donkey in the woods: 'Ha ha!'"

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Feb.04] :. If ever there was a filmmaker made for DVD commentaries, it is Robert Rodriguez.

 

Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Sep.03] :. 'Are you a Mexican or a Mexi-cant!?'.

 

Femme Fatale (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Nov.02] :. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos' central function is looking great and so, confounding various men around her.

 

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[31.Oct.02] :. Julie Taymor's Frida pulses with color.

 

Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Sep.02] :. Sever grabs the big old gun inside and shoots in exquisite slo-mo. She even works in a hairflip.

 

Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Aug.02] :. Juni and Carmen's perspective, part convincingly ingenuous and part movie-kid calculated, organizes the film's general view of things.

 

Spy Kids (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Spy Kids' is all fun, sometimes obnoxious, and incessantly cheerful -- having your parents kidnapped is a minor inconvenience, leading to the chance to ride in a submarine that looks like a blowfish. How neat is that!"

 

Spy Kids (2001)

by Tracy McLoone

In the Disney universe, it's normal to be special, and that's exactly the case with the Cortez family, kids and parents alike.

 

Play it To The Bone (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Two grown men, best friends and romantic rivals, beat the shit out of each other for money. It doesn’t sound like much of a plot. But narrative intricacies have never much interested...

 

Original Sin (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

... expensive, tacky melodrama.

 

Crazy in Alabama (1999)

by Anne Daugherty, rating: 5.0

Crazy in Alabama concerns two concurrent stories, which take place in small town Alabama in the mid '60s. One centers on the inhumanity and injustice of segregation, while the other tells of a woman following her dream, even though it means killing her husband and deserting her children to do so.

 

The Body (2001)

by Kim Ayer

... examines the threat science poses to organized religion.