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Articles tagged "brendan fraser" Film ReviewJourney to the Center of the Earth (2008)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Jul.08] :. Brendan Fraser is stuck inside Journey to the Center of the Earth, a movie with precious little new to say about journeys, centers, or -- amazingly -- action.  Short Ends and LeaderThis ‘Journey’ is Generic, But Funby Bill Gibron[11.Jul.08] :. There is nothing wrong with being generic. There is no crime in staying standard and formulaic. Sure, it signals a kind of creative malaise on the part of the product being discussed, but when it...  NewsHollywood returns to the center of the Earth with a new dimensionby John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)][10.Jul.08] :. We might be digging for an analogy here, but compare the Earth to a golf ball (and the Big Bang as tee time!): Both have a dense inner core, a lighter but rigid middle interior, and a relatively... NewsMake-believe is the real thing for ‘Journey’ star Brendan Fraserby Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][7.Jul.08] :. If anybody knows the secret to how one acts when starring in big-screen, big-effects summer movie spectacles, it’s Brendan Fraser. The guy’s done two Mummy movies, with a third in...  Film ReviewCrash (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.May.05] :. The lesson seems geared toward those viewers who were surprised by the Rodney King video, that is, people who don't regularly deal with cultural collisions.  Film ReviewLooney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)by Jesse Hassenger[20.Nov.03] :. I doubt there are many other youngish actors who could keep up with Daffy Duck as skillfully as Brendan Fraser. The Quiet American (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[13.Feb.03] :. That the U.S. imagines itself in the position to take unilateral decisions that affect the rest of the world is as much a function of the nation's founding myths (all that 'city on a hill' business, represented in Pyle's notion that he can save Phuong) as it is its economic might (Pyle's knowledge that he can support Phuong). Bedazzled (2000)by F.L. CarrThe fact that all of Elliot's hopes and dreams are pinned on winning Allison supplies the film's most provocative gender twist -- a man refashioning himself to please a woman. The Mummy Returns (2001)by Cynthia FuchsEverything in 'The Mummy Returns' is bigger and more expensive, from its impressively enormous matte shots and massive armies composed of thousands of digitized soldiers, to its great swirling sand effects and outsized characters. Monkeybone (2001)by Todd R. RamlowIn 'Monkeybone', we are given visual representation of (presumably) every man's internal struggle, between his social conscience and his unbridled testosterone frenzy. |
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