Articles tagged "christina ricci"

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

Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Mar.09] :. Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.

Decade-Dense: The 60 Most Memorable Films of 1999

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

The New Classics - The 30 Best Films of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[16.Jan.09] :. Unlike previous years, where classics came crawling out of the celluloid woodwork with regular reckless abandon, 2008 was more calm… and considered. That's not to say that choosing 30 top titles was hard. The difficulty in placing them in some manner of rank order suggests the actual depth of quality involved.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

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Penelope

by B.J. Carter

[19.Sep.08] :. Penelope’s Otherness marginalizes her at the same time that it makes her a more exotic possession.

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Speed Racer

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.May.08] :. Inspired by the mostly beloved late '60s Japanese cartoon, Speed Racer is loud, large, and proudly crass.

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The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview Feature

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: May 2008

by Bill Gibron

[28.Apr.08] :. In the first act of this four-part production, Tinsel Town decides to do some unbelievable front loading. Will there be room for independent offerings, or former HBO carnal comedy divas? Who knows? Without a doubt, it's an interesting way to start the season.

The PopMatters Summer 2008 Movie Preview

Penelope

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Mar.08] :. Lemon's disillusionment and efforts to reclaim his reporter's cred grant Penelope something like a topical theme.

Christina 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...

‘Penelope’ star Christina Ricci feels like she’s finally grown up

by 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...

Black Snake Moan (2007)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[2.Mar.07] :. Samuel L. Jackson's new Southern-fried movie is all about the blues.

The PopMatters ‘Short Ends & Leader’ Spring Film Preview

by Bill Gibron

[2.Mar.07] :. In order to separate the worthy from the worthless, PopMatters' "Short Ends & Leader" editor is highlighting 10 new films he's looking forward to this spring.

Blues at heart of ‘Black Snake Moan’

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.Mar.07] :. BIRMINGHAM, Mich. - “Have you ever been publicly called a racist and misogynist?” asks film writer and director Craig Brewer. “It’s hurtful because you think the work speaks...

Home of the Brave (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Dec.06] :. You pretty much know what's about to happen in Irwin Winkler's utterly sincere and poorly executed look at veterans' troubles readjusting to the World.

Cursed: 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.

Cursed (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.

Pumpkin (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[27.Jun.02] :. PULL.

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

by P. Nelson Reinsch

When 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.

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.

Bless the Child (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

Cody'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.

All Over the Guy (2001)

by Stephen Tropiano

If '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.