Articles tagged "children of men"

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The end is here: 9-11 attacks and the new millennium revive apocalyptic movies

by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MCT)]

[1.Oct.08] :. Flooded cities. A plague of blindness. Humanity huddled in bunkers. It’s just another night at the movies. The Katrina documentary “Trouble the Water,” the viral-outbreak drama...

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Film Feature

Future Shock: The Death of Serious Science Fiction

by Bill Gibron

[29.May.07] :. The serious Science Fiction film genre is dead or at least on cinematic life support. As the new millennial marches forward, and an omnipresent production paradigm that substitutes spectacle for smarts, futurist filmmaking is definitely gasping for breath.

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News

Alfonso Cuaron: ‘The present, projected into the future’

by Joshua Klein [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Mar.07] :. Cuaron talks about Children of Men, his powerful film with explicit references to the political present.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006 Feature

The Pay Off: The Best Film of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[11.Jan.07] :. For many of the movies on PopMatters' 2006 list of the year's best films, it is clear that a heavy personal and professional stake was riding on the final product.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2006

 

Film Review

Children of Men (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jan.07] :. Even with so much attention paid to her body and to her child, Kee's story is secondary to Theo's, as his loss of hope must be undone and his past redressed.

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