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Articles tagged "barry levinson" Film DVD ReviewThe Natural (1984)by Matt Mazur[18.May.07] :. What could have been a magnificent comment on this patriotic pastime unfortunately turns in to an emotionally manipulative barrage of iconic imagery.  TV DVD ReviewHomicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Oct.04] :. It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike.  TV DVD ReviewHomicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Jul.04] :. Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes.  Film ReviewEnvy (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[29.Apr.04] :. Scheduled to open a year ago, Envy is as dopey, uninventive, and smug as you'd expect from a movie that's 'all from shit'.  TV DVD ReviewHomicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third Seasonby Cynthia Fuchs[22.Mar.04] :. Homicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries.  TV DVD ReviewHomicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2by Cynthia Fuchs[15.Mar.04] :. Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise. Ozby Michael Abernethy[10.Feb.03] :. No other fiction show has offered such a frighteningly realistic look inside our nation's prisons or so openly debated their moral and social obligations. Liberty Heights (1999)by Cynthia FuchsThis sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the film's focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle. An Everlasting Piece (2000)by Renee Scolaro RathkeJust in case there is an audience member who hasn't seen the news since, like, 1970, the film uses this conversation and some supposedly comic comparisons between the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods to illustrate Colm's inferior position in society (and by extension, the position of Belfast's Catholics generally). Bandits (2001)by Cynthia FuchsThough it looks like it might have been fun to make, 'Bandits' never becomes subversive or screwball. |
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