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Articles tagged "ashley judd" Film DVD ReviewBugby Jake Meaney[25.Oct.07] :. Bug does what it sets out to do, which is to burrow under your skin and fester there, goading you to dig it out with something sharp.  Film ReviewBug (2006) (2006)by Cynthia Fuchs[25.May.07] :. What goes on in Aggie's head is the point of departure for Bug, which is not, as early trailers suggested, anything like a conventional horror film.  Film DVD ReviewDe-Lovely (2004)by Jesse Hassenger[26.Jan.05] :. As legendary songwriter Porter, Kevin Kline's deft, unshowy performance contributes to the film's charm.  Film DVD ReviewTwisted: Special Collector’s Edition (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Aug.04] :. 'I'd been wanting to make a film noir in San Francisco for many years,' says Philip Kaufman, 'And the closest I'd come was Invasion of the Body Snatchers.'" Film ReviewDe-Lovely (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Jul.04] :. At times, Irwin Winkler's movie achieves a strange grace, complicated and cunning as Porter's own art and experience. Film ReviewTwisted (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Feb.04] :. Jess identifies with her dead mother but also takes up her father's professional aggression, not so much to right wrongs as discover them. High Crimes (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Apr.02] :. 'High Crimes' is a movie starring Ashley Judd whom someone has determined is the ideal Flinty Woman in Danger. Where the Heart Is (2000)by Cynthia FuchsThank god for Joan Cusack. As the sole truly cynical character in TV producer Matt (Roseanne, A Different World) Williams’s feature film directing debut, she is desperately... Someone Like You (2001)by Cynthia FuchsInstead, 'Someone Like You' follows formula, which means that Jane will realize her folly and realize that Eddie is really the guy for her (this is telegraphed when the pretty couple shares their feelings and eats Chinese food while seated on the kitchen counter and dressed in their fashionable underwear). Someone Like You (2001)by Mike Ward'Someone Like You''s press kit describes Eddie and Jane as a 'Hepburn and Tracy of the modern era', but its undercurrent of painful loss and compulsive grief avoidance is precisely missing from movies like 'Desk Set' and 'Adam's Rib'. Eye of the Beholder (2000)by Cynthia FuchsWigs. Ideally, they can change everything: your appearance, your self-image, your imagined possibilities, your identity. In the movies, wigs can also effect change, but at the same time, they carry moral meanings, they can suggest artifice and disguise, dashed dreams and pathologies. Double Jeopardy (1999)by Cynthia FuchsThere's something satisfying about watching a beleaguered woman get revenge on a lowdown-scumsucker of a husband. True, there's also something satisfying about substantive characters and plots without whopping big holes in them. But you can't have everything. |
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