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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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The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview Feature

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

The PopMatters Fall 2008 Movie Preview

 

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

 

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Film DVD Review

Bug

by 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.

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News

William Friedkin: A master storyteller returns with Bug

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

[29.May.07] :. “What a director’s doing at all times in a film is creating an atmosphere where the actors feel free not only to perform,” William Friedkin explained, “but to expose...

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Bug (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.

 

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.

 

De-Lovely (2004)

by Jesse Hassenger

[26.Jan.05] :. As legendary songwriter Porter, Kevin Kline's deft, unshowy performance contributes to the film's charm.

 

Twisted: 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.'"

 

De-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.

 

Twisted (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.

 

Frida (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

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

 

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[6.Jun.02] :. PULL.

 

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 Fuchs

Thank 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 Fuchs

Instead, '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 Fuchs

Wigs. 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 Fuchs

There'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.