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Articles tagged "brendan gleeson"![]() DVD Film ReviewBeowulf (2007)by Jarrett Berman[3.Mar.08] :. Crawling with mermaids and monsters, irony, and gore, Beowulf delivers the goods, without betraying its core narrative. ![]() Film ReviewIn Brugesby Cynthia Fuchs[8.Feb.08] :. For all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges. ![]() DVD Film ReviewtHarrisons Flowersby Boyd Williamson[7.Aug.07] :. If there were an award given to actors for retaining their dignity in undignified movies, Andie MacDowell would surely win for her performance in Harrison’s Flowers. ![]() Film ReviewBreakfast on Pluto (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[16.Dec.05] :. As tends to happen in Neil Jordan's films about spirited outsiders, Kitten's sense of limbo doesn't limit him as much it inspires him to resist expectations. ![]() Film ReviewKingdom of Heaven (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.May.05] :. As history, it is mightily revisionist -- a blacksmith named turns inadvertent defender of Jerusalem, devoted to the notion that Muslims and Christians can get along. ![]() Film ReviewIn My Country (2005)by Cynthia Fuchs[11.Mar.05] :. In the midst of this outrage, the film negotiates the intricacies of ubuntu by offering instances where a desire for revenge seems impossible to resist. The Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[10.Jan.05] :. 'I have to keep doing things that scare me, and this certainly scares me,' says M. Night Shyamalan. The Village (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[5.Aug.04] :. Noah is so wrapped up in his own emotions that he seems, at first, the most literal embodiment of the film's critique of a post-9/11 American isolationism. Cold Mountain: Collector’s Edition (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[12.Jul.04] :. Anthony Minghella's image of the birds in snow articulates Cold Mountain's aesthetic and themes, its interest in collision and reverie, in nostalgia and resistance. Cold Mountain (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[23.Dec.03] :. The first scene in Cold Mountain is sensational and sickening, an apt introduction to what will be a Civil War saga. 28 Days Later (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[21.Oct.03] :. In time for Halloween, Fox has released the DVD of 28 Days Later, a frankly brilliant and scary scary movie. 28 Days Later (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[26.Jun.03] :. Restless, irksome, strange: there's not much downtime in Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. Dark Blue (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[20.Feb.03] :. This is a scary city, where scary figures hang out on scary corners and slouch with scary insouciance. No wonder the cops are tense. Gangs of New York (2002)by Cynthia Fuchs[19.Dec.02] :. Daniel Day-Lewis wears a tall stovepipe hat in Martin Scorsese's long-awaited Gangs of New York. Harrison’s Flowers (2002)by Cynthia FuchsGoes at both war and romance from a decidedly oblique angle. Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)by Lucas HilderbrandThe first Mission: Impossible film was an elaborately nonsensical piece of eye candy, little more than an excuse to outfit Tom Cruise in tight black clothes. For the much-delayed and big... The Tailor of Panama (2001)by Cynthia Fuchs'The Tailor of Panama' [is] an international spy movie with a little more on its mind than the usual Bondian gizmos and girls -- yes, please note the cute nod, in Brosnan's casting as a chic and arrogant operative, to his most famous role, and it's not Remington Steele. |
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