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Articles tagged "christina ricci"Featured Article Film DVD ReviewThe Ice Stormby Matt Mazur[4.Apr.08] :. The general fuzzed-out sense of malaise that Lee is able to tap into while exploring the Nixon-era sexual revolution (and repression and adventure), creates a point of view that both ruthlessly observes and empathizes with these alien suburbanites.  Film ReviewPenelopeby Cynthia Fuchs[3.Mar.08] :. Lemon's disillusionment and efforts to reclaim his reporter's cred grant Penelope something like a topical theme.  NewsChristina Ricci lightens up a bit in ‘Penelope’by Roger Moore [The Orlando Sentinel (MCT)][28.Feb.08] :. Christina Ricci can be forgiven a little trepidation for wondering when her latest movie, the adult fairy tale “Penelope,” would hit theaters. It was at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. It... News‘Penelope’ star Christina Ricci feels like she’s finally grown upby Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)][25.Feb.08] :. Though she’s been acting since she was 7, Christina Ricci is convinced she’s a late bloomer. “I feel like it took me a really long time to get to where other people are when...  Film DVD ReviewCursed: Unrated Version (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[22.Jun.05] :. 'I guess there's no such thing as safe sex with a werewolf,' whines one victim.  Film ReviewCursed (2004)by Cynthia Fuchs[4.Mar.05] :. Jimmy's golden retriever Zipper bites him and is turned into a spazzy, poorly CGI-ed wolf-dog, capable of ripping their house to pieces. Monster (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[7.Jun.04] :. Aileen's changed self takes shape most immediately and vehemently in response to a psychotic-seeming john who declares his loathing of all 'hookers nowadays'. Monster (2003)by Cynthia Fuchs[8.Jan.04] :. Aileen is a terrifying specter, precisely because she's neither only a victim nor only monstrous. As Theron plays her, she swaggers and rationalizes, trusts and fumes. Anything Else (2003)by Jesse Hassenger[25.Sep.03] :. The idea of Woody Allen teaching high school English is a funny idea, and Anything Else leaves it at that: a funny idea. All Over the Guy (2001)by Stephen TropianoIf 'All Over the Guy' is any indication of what Hollywood has in store for gay relationships, it looks like gay men and lesbians will be receiving the same shallow treatment as their heterosexual counterparts. Bless the Child (2000)by Cynthia FuchsCody's special in a very particular way -- in a second-coming kind of way -- which, in movie-logic, makes her the prime target for a slew of Satan's minions. The Man Who Cried (2001)by Todd R. Ramlow...a sprawling affair, filled with bad accents (Cate Blanchett's tortured 'Russian'), tired cliches about studly horsemen and young girls' sexual awakenings, and really bad lip-syncing to Italian opera. Sleepy Hollow (1999)by P. Nelson ReinschWhen the Burgomaster (played by still great Horror film legend Christopher Lee) sends Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) to Sleepy Hollow, you may suspect that Ichabod is being sent to the land of Hammer Horror, or perhaps the woods of Horror Movies Past. |
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