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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

 

Film DVD Review

We All Fall Down

by Sarah Hentges

[11.Jan.09] :. This story is largely propped up by the marginal characters that inhabit Michael’s landscape.

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News

Hollywood, race and the Age of Obama

by Christopher Kelly [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Dec.08] :. Gook. Dragon lady. Swamp rats. These are but a few of the cringe-inducing racial epithets spewed by Clint Eastwood’s Walt Kowalski in “Gran Torino,” the cringe-inducing new drama...

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Film Review

Seven Pounds

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.08] :. Equally afflicted by an old-school weepies affect and new-agey self-righteousness, Seven Pounds is by turns clumsy and overbearing.

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Column: The Screener

Exquisite Agony

by Chris Barsanti

[18.Dec.08] :. This holiday season, Mickey Rourke (in The Wrestler) and Will Smith (Seven Pounds) suffer for all us sinners.

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Short Ends and Leader

Tearjerker Given a Post-Modern Make-Over in ‘Pounds’

by Bill Gibron

[18.Dec.08] :. If there is one genre that’s in desperate need of a post-modern make-over, it’s the tearjerker. Comedy gets retrofitted every few years, while the action film scours the globe for as much...

Short Ends and Leader

 

Talk, Talk, Talk: December 2008

by Bill Gibron

[12.Sep.08] :. Just like the end of an inspiring speech that may or may not succeed in making its point, these final four weeks before 2009 tend to define or defeat the entire awards season purpose.

 

Unknown (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Nov.06] :. One or two resist their designations: Bound Man doesn't want to be bound, Broken Nose resents that mishap.

 

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Oct.06] :. War, the film argues, depends on lies, on myths and beliefs that could never be sustained were the experience represented or remembered explicitly.

 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jun.06] :. 'If you read the script,' Tommy Lee Jones tells his two actors, 'really, it doesn't look like anyone is saying anything that actually matters.'"

 

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Feb.06] :. The American West, in the new Tommy Lee Jones-directed film, resembles that memorialized in movies by John Ford, John Huston, and Sam Peckinpah.

 

The 25th Hour (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Dec.02] :. The 25th Hour opens with huge, hard-hitting shots of the March 2002 tribute to the Twin Towers, the towers of light.

 

We Were Soldiers (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[28.Feb.02] :. 'We Were Soldiers' is, above all, an earnest film, working overtime not to be a standard U.S. war movie where the good (white) boys fight against diabolical 'others'.

 

The Green Mile (1999)

by Cynthia Fuchs

ound dogs baying, wildflowers bending to the wind, angry white men in shirt-sleeves carrying shotguns, a swatch of cloth clinging to a tree branch. The details are all a little too familiar. You know you're looking at yet another recreation of the scary Old American South, specifically, you're looking at the set up for a lynching. This first scene of Frank Darabont's The Green Mile...

 

The Green Mile (1999)

by Mark Reiter

It's not news to anyone that Steven King screen adaptations get tossed into two categories: absolute crap (Maximum Overdrive, Cujo, Pet Cemetery, et. al.) and important American cinema (Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Frank Darabont's previous King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption).

 

Battlefield Earth (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

As one of four producers for the film, Travolta helped to secure the $100 million independent financing, most of which seems to have gone into the Psychlos' elaborate dreadlocked wigs and the enormous platform boots that make the big meanies look eight feet tall and terribly slow on their feet.