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Articles tagged "bob hoskins" Film ReviewDoomsdayby Cynthia Fuchs[17.Mar.08] :. If there's a single image worth contemplating in Doomsday, it's Eden's strapping lats and shoulders.  Film ReviewStay (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Oct.05] :. Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.  Film ReviewUnleashed (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.May.05] :. At once ferocious and delicate, brilliantly choreographed by Yuen Wo-Ping, the fights are like dance numbers.  Film ReviewSon of the Mask (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[18.Feb.05] :. The baby is endowed with awesome powers to shape-shift and abuse every living creature that comes within reach of his chubby little hands.  Film ReviewBeyond the Sea (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Dec.04] :. Kevin Spacey looks alternately fatigued and awkward as Bobby Darin.  Film ReviewVanity Fair (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Sep.04] :. Ah, to be young, bright, and scheming in 19th-century Britain!" Hook (1991)by Jesse Hassenger[15.Sep.03] :. Hook is thoroughly watchable, often amusing, fitfully entertaining. Maid in Manhattan (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[2.Apr.03] :. Jennifer Lopez has made a lucrative habit of reprising her story in most of her fictional incarnations. Maid in Manhattan (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Dec.02] :. This 'ethnic' modification of 'Pretty Woman'-meets-'Working Girl' uses the 'iconic' Lopez strategically. Enemy at the Gates (2001)by Mike WardThis is Enemy at the Gates's most elegant theme, one that its often heavy-handed melodrama almost but not quite diminishes: that to be observed is to die, but to be invisible and quiet as the dead may allow you to survive. Felicia’s Journey (1999)by Cynthia FuchsThe Canadian-based filmmaker Atom Egoyan has taken a different approach to the serial killer in his new film, Felicia's Journey. There's not much here that you would call sensational, no decapitated corpses, no flayed flesh, no nymphets taking ominous phone calls. Rather, the movie follows two characters, neither particularly introspective or self-aware, and both feeling nostalgia for what never was. Felicia’s Journey (1999)by Mike Ward“Don’t let it go too far,” the Felicia of this film’s title is advised, as she searches for the father of her unborn child in an Irish pub. “Enough to say... Last Orders (2002)by Kirsten MarksonLast Orders, based on the Graham Swift novel of the same name, is a sentimental film that traces the friendships of four elderly Londoners. The title refers both to the final call for drinks... Last Orders (2002)by Cynthia FuchsAll this reminiscing might easily turn melodramatic, but for the most part, 'Last Orders' avoids tear-jerking and grand emotional revelations. |
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