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Articles tagged "brian robbins" Film ReviewMeet Daveby Cynthia Fuchs[11.Jul.08] :. Meet Dave is "Eddie Murphy in Eddie Murphy," literally, metaphorically, exhaustively. Film DVD ReviewThe Show (1995)by Cynthia Fuchs[6.Jul.04] :. 'Hip-hop to me,' says Dr. Dre, 'is a way out.'"  Film DVD ReviewThe Perfect Score (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[28.Jun.04] :. As Kyle's nightmare indicates, The Perfect Score includes a rudimentary political critique of the U.S. educational and testing system. Film ReviewThe Perfect Score (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[30.Jan.04] :. The Perfect Score includes a rudimentary political critique of the U.S. educational and testing system.  TV ReviewSmallvilleby Mary Colgan[4.Nov.03] :. It works because it plays like a comic book come to life: it's grand, mythical, and action-packed.  TV ReviewBirds of Preyby Todd R. Ramlow[15.Oct.02] :. Follows neither the super-crip model of disability perception, where an individual's 'triumph' over disability is celebrated through public tokenism, nor the common perception of disability merely as an object of pity. Ready to Rumble (2000)by P. Nelson ReinschReady to Rumble is ostensibly a simple comedy of bumbling bumpkins - in this case lovers of professional wrestling - along the lines of Farrelly brothers' films like Dumb and Dumber and Kingpin. Hardball (2001)by Cynthia FuchsThe fact that Hardball's Conor is white means nothing, of course, except that he's one in a long line of white characters who become 'better people' because they meet adorable, courageous, noble, and/or doomed minority characters. |
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