Articles tagged "brendan fraser"

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999 Feature

Part 1: The Thin Red Line to Star Wars Episode I (January - May 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[23.Mar.09] :. The first part of PopMatters' look back at the films of 1999 is bookended by the long awaited return of two cinematic auteurs of wildly different styles, Terrence Malick and George Lucas.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

Film DVD Review

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

by Christel Loar

[1.Feb.09] :. I've never been so eager to skip past the story to get to the special features.

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Inkheart

by Lesley Smith

[26.Jan.09] :. The screenplay follows a listless episodic structure, in which one barely connected segment follows another without cumulatively charging the overarching story.

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Brendan Fraser hopes good fortune rains on him again with the fantasy ‘Inkheart’

by John Anderson [Newsday (MCT)]

[20.Jan.09] :. SANTA MONICA, Calif. - The fantasy-adventure “Inkheart” features creatures and castles. Medieval hallucinations. Flying monkeys. Ominous, sky-filling specters. Helen Mirren on a...

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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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Short Ends and Leader

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

by Bill Gibron

[13.Dec.08] :. If aspirations and ambitions were all it took to make a good movie (or at the very least, a merely entertaining one), there’d be no reason for critics. We lowly members of a dying print and...

Short Ends and Leader

The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.08] :. Amid all the poorly edited, atrociously written tumult, the silly CGI and the tragic misuse of Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh, Rick remains an appealing throwback hero.

Corpse Grinding

by Bill Gibron

[31.Jul.08] :. It’s never pleasant when something that was lightweight (albeit cheesy) and fun is forced into profit sharing mode. Put another way, when a franchise has to jerryrig its purpose in order to...

Digital technology rescues filmgoers in new 3-D film

by Robert Philpot [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[24.Jul.08] :. Although they get a lot of hype, movies shot in 3-D have historically been a bit of a headache. You’d put on a pair of flimsy cardboard glasses with red-and-blue gel lenses that looked like...

Yes, you are seeing things: 3-D movies are back, and better than ever

by Stephen Becker [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)]

[11.Jul.08] :. DALLAS - 3-D is having a moment. Of course, it’s had other moments, from the golden age of the early 1950s to one-off sensations such as 1983’s “Jaws 3-D.” But 2008 has...

Journey 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.

This ‘Journey’ is Generic, But Fun

by 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...

Hollywood returns to the center of the Earth with a new dimension

by 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...

Make-believe is the real thing for ‘Journey’ star Brendan Fraser

by 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...

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 Return of the Popcorn Circus: July 2008

by Bill Gibron

[30.Apr.08] :. And it just doesn't stop. If part two in this three-ring play was packed with well hyped product, July just keeps the receipt treats coming.

Crash (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.

Looney 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).

Monkeybone (2001)

by Todd R. Ramlow

In 'Monkeybone', we are given visual representation of (presumably) every man's internal struggle, between his social conscience and his unbridled testosterone frenzy.

The Mummy Returns (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Everything 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.

Bedazzled (2000)

by F.L. Carr

The 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.